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Oh the glory and the smell of a new phone. As I posted a few weeks ago, the HTC S420 is coming. This is the follow on to the StarTrek and I must say, with some nice feature upgrades. We know, there is NO WiFi, but I am willing to sacrifice sleekness for a few things. Did we already mention that it will have WM6, 400Mhz CPU, GPS Receiver, Quad-Band, FM Radio, UMTS, and a 2.0 mega-pixel camera. Oh yea!!
So gentlemen and ladies, get your Credit Cards warmed up because supposedly we have a RTS/Release date of May 16th, 2007.
Here are some sites that are taking pre-orders. Click here to see some Froogle ads. (I in no way endorse these sites) Matter of fact I prefer the good ol' eBay way or MobilePlanet myself.
And yes...The initial sticker price is high but just give it a few weeks and your carriers should have them in stock.
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Oh the glory and the smell of a new phone. As I posted a few weeks ago, the HTC S420 is coming. This is the follow on to the StarTrek and I must say, with some nice feature upgrades. We know, there is NO WiFi, but I am willing to sacrifice sleekness for a few things. Did we already mention that it will have WM6, 400Mhz CPU, GPS Receiver, Quad-Band, FM Radio, UMTS, and a 2.0 mega-pixel camera. Oh yea!!
So gentlemen and ladies, get your Credit Cards warmed up because supposedly we have a RTS/Release date of May 16th, 2007.
Here are some sites that are taking pre-orders. Click here to see some Froogle ads. (I in no way endorse these sites) Matter of fact I prefer the good ol' eBay way or MobilePlanet myself.
And yes...The initial sticker price is high but just give it a few weeks and your carriers should have them in stock.
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Correction on Date - Received new word that it will be May 18th, 2007.
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Thanks for the info. This is the first time I read something about a release date of this little beauty.
In Denmark??
Hi.. Do you think that this phone is gonna be on the marked in may, in Denmark to??
Would be great
hmm ive only seen a mock up CGI type pic of the unit not an actual live photo,any around?
Today it's the 18th. No news on it so far on the Net. I hope it will be released soon, though I do not excpect it before june. We'll see.
I hoping we at least see it in June. No one has yet seen a pre-production/release model yet which usually crops up first. I checked with Haider at SMG and he has no word. There are a couple of folks who have the pre-production S630s so we will probably see that released first. Dopod has also announced their version of. As of yet, I have seen no official announcements on the erato.
I need it the HTC S420
if there not even an in the wild tru pic knocking around the net ,then i doubt we are anywere near getting it myself
jaceuk said:
if there not even an in the wild tru pic knocking around the net ,then i doubt we are anywere near getting it myself
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I agree. Let's hope their just looking for better battery life before releasing this little baby.
I was hoping it would be out...and that the Bluetooth to Uconnect would sound better (my main complaint about the StarTrek)
Steve
Arrrggg...
Damm, i hope they release it soon it´s difficult to wait...
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Damm, i hope they release it soon it´s difficult to wait...
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this happens everytime we get specs we are always disappointed with release time. but i for one will be getting raped buying the import for cingular becuase i wont wait love how its 3g ready for cings band.
HTC S420 (also known as Erato) has been canceled.
HTC announced it on 29. May. They cancel releasing and doesnt start to produce the smartphone.
That sucks but would not be totally unexpected.
Can you give us the link to the press release since it's not (yet) on one of the HTC sites?
This message appeared here: http://obchod.sunnysoft.cz/scripts/shop_NF.asp
It's Czech, not English. But I am sure you understand what does mean the cross on the picture.
HTC S420 Still on Track
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HTC S420 (also known as Erato) has been canceled.
HTC announced it on 29. May. They cancel releasing and doesnt start to produce the smartphone.
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I find that weird that they are canceling a great phone but you never know. I did call the HTC Bellevue office and they knew nothing of a cancellation. I will email the Taiwanese location and see if there have been any developments. You never know.
Just do clarify, Froogle and PDAdb.net has the phone still coming in July now.
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This message appeared here: http://obchod.sunnysoft.cz/scripts/shop_NF.asp
It's Czech, not English. But I am sure you understand what does mean the cross on the picture.
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Well, that's just what sunnysoft said. And after all the crap they posted (i.e. Qtek 8500 has miniUSB, selling extUSB>JACK as microUSB>JACK,............), who will believe to what they said? They also said that Treo 750 will never be shipped to Europe
Another info from simon211175 at modaco (his post)
Last week I emailed HTC europe to find out if the StrTrk/Qtek 8500 was going to be given the WM6 facelift. When they said (in vague terms) "no", I asked when its successor (S420/Erato) will be out.
The reply was "The release date for the HTC 420 is expected to be in July 2007"
I know this probably means September at the earliest, but it's a start.
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Now I am a bit confused but this message may be few days older...
Well, so far the Czech Sunnysoft site is the only one claiming the Erato is cancelled. No other site confirming it or confirmation from HTC. So, let's cross fingers for a July release
New Response From [ Pete (UK - Ireland Support (Tech)) ]
Hi Hywel, thanks for your email.
I understand this may be frustrating, but the 16th was never the release date. there were some 'leaks' on the internet, but those were incorrect, It was never planned for today at all.
The update will be available for everyone from the end of the month as planned. it will be phased out over a week or so to spread out the download demand, but it was certainly never going to appear today.
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Hi Where is the hero 2.1 upgrade for me to download?? It’s the 16th of April the day the upgrade is scheduled for release. If it’s not released today then when? If this is so then I can’t believe this delay as its been promised again and again !!!!!
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They never said that ROM 2.1 will be released on 16th. I don't know where you get that.
1st they said they will release 2.1 ROM upgrades in March. When March came they said that due to some technical issues we have to wait till mid April for release.
So now it is mid April and some tech guy says it will be released at the end of the month. Guess what, at the end of month they will say that it will be released in mid May.
Did you get the game rules now ? They want as to buy their new Incredible phone!
The 16th was on a schedule that was leaked a moth or so ago.
But it should never have been believed anyway.
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The 16th was on a schedule that was leaked a moth or so ago.
But it should never have been believed anyway.
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mainly because of... where did that "leak" come from? i mean it is as easy as this:
leaked from HTC Customer Care:
Release Date of HTC Hero Android 2.1 Upgrade: 17. April 2010
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see? it is not gonna happen tomorrow because i claim it. as long as it isn't a *ruu*.exe file i don't believe anything anymore...
edit: lol, now wait for the five threads that will be created quoting the above
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luvgirl12345 said:
Hey guys yo no wat?? 2.1 update iz supozed to be relesed tomorow!!! OMFG im so hapy xD...
lol that was fun.
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Nice misleading thread title bro.
I wonder if I'm the only one getting sick and tired of reading these threads about official 2.1...
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Hi Where is the hero 2.1 upgrade for me to download?? It’s the 16th of April the day the upgrade is scheduled for release. If it’s not released today then when? If this is so then I can’t believe this delay as its been promised again and again !!!!!
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I think you didn't put enough exclamation marks in your original enquiry for them to take you seriously. And if I were you, I'd sue that guy who promised you update on April 16th again and again. Uh wait. Nobody promised that. Nevermind then.
Imagine having to man the email response section at HTC for the Hero with all the plums emailing you asking every 10 mins when the 2.1 update will be out!
I wonder how high the internal window jumper rate is... or forced handset in throat related deaths in the HTC office..
I also emailed them and they said the android 2.1 updates will be coming out starting at the end of april including for your HTC hero
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Did you get the game rules now ? They want as to buy their new Incredible phone!
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I don't buy that as it makes little sense. It would hardly increase sales figures for the new devices at all. Most cellphone owners are locked into a contract which means if they want to upgrade before it's renewal time they have two choices.....wait, or pay over the odds to do so.....almost everyone (except die hard early adopters who are an extremely small percentage of owners) chooses the first option.
Then you have the fact that the newer handsets have better hardware and software, and all the ROM upgrades in the world won't change the hardware, so who in their right mind is going to choose an older phone knowing they'll have to mess about and upgrade it when they can just go get the shiny new model for free on another contract?
For all we (I) know, the delays could be due to more tweaks needed to make the ROM run at an acceptable level on handsets that have an inferior hardware spec than those that it was originally designed for.
the delays are mostly due because the htc servers couldnt possibly support all desire, hero and legend updates at the same time, thats why they are rolling ou the updates slowly, starting with the desire network providers, then the legend probably and finally the hero
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I don't buy that as it makes little sense. It would hardly increase sales figures for the new devices at all. Most cellphone owners are locked into a contract which means if they want to upgrade before it's renewal time they have two choices.....wait, or pay over the odds to do so.....almost everyone (except die hard early adopters who are an extremely small percentage of owners) chooses the first option.
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I know this is not true as I and many of my friends are not on contracts (actually can only think of 1 who is) and prefer to buy outright as to upgrade as we see fit, and change service provider too. But I do agree with your point, it would not be a way to increase sales, more likely just internal bureaucracy is the cause for the set back.
Seriously people, there's a little thing called patience. My mother always told me that good things come to those who wait.
I know that this question has been asked a hundred times but when somebody gets concrete evidence please post here . As my upgrade date is feb 10 so if its the 14th that would be pretty sick! Oh yeah, and if I hear another "this is just a EVO comment " im going to throw you off a bridge lol. Last time ill say this. It has the new gen. Snapdragon(1st generation were awesome, I think my dinc is faster than my x, or fascinate.) Vastly improved GPU that is about on the same level as the galaxy s phones. Ands let's not forget it has 768mb of RAM either. Look forward to seeing the development thread in this grow to be as good as the EVO or dinc!
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I know that this question has been asked a hundred times but when somebody gets concrete evidence please post here . As my upgrade date is feb 10 so if its the 14th that would be pretty sick! Oh yeah, and if I hear another "this is just a EVO comment " im going to throw you off a bridge lol. Last time ill say this. It has the new gen. Snapdragon(1st generation were awesome, I think my dinc is faster than my x, or fascinate.) Vastly improved GPU that is about on the same level as the galaxy s phones. Ands let's not forget it has 768mb of RAM either. Look forward to seeing the development thread in this grow to be as good as the EVO or dinc!
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Great post! I agree with everything you just said.
Mods, feel free sticky this thread so we can get a release date asap
The [RUMOR] is february 14th and I pray that's true as my upgrade is due so can't wait. Cone on thunderbolt. I am lucky enough to be in one of the up and coming LTE areas. This phonebwill def. Do me til I can get bionic. Only if the bootmoadef is unlo led tho. And that's the only way I will get it
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The [RUMOR] is february 14th and I pray that's true as my upgrade is due so can't wait. Cone on thunderbolt. I am lucky enough to be in one of the up and coming LTE areas. This phonebwill def. Do me til I can get bionic. Only if the bootmoadef is unlo led tho. And that's the only way I will get it
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I sure hope it's the 14th.
From Me
I watold they are going go drop it before the iPhone. I sure hope so.
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Somebody lease tell me this comes out the feb. 14th date. My wife wants me to use my upgrade to get her an iPhone and if this phone cones out around the same time this would give me the perfect reason not to buy it!!!
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I am hoping for February as well
I have emailed Orange (UK) asking if they will stock it and if so then when. Awaiting a reply will post back here if I get one.
As everyday passes I can't wait fothis phone. While not dual cor it has the beat single core processor that one can ask for and as well sense ui. Not to mention 768mb of RAM, I can live without dual core. Just release this ***** already u mutha truckers!!!
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I have seen several people say that it will lain h on the 14th. Holding my breath that this ia true. Can't wait to dump this lo led bootloader on my x, and I would use my dinc but screen to small im 6'5 250 and the battery life sucks.
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Droid life has just confirmed a Feb 24th launch of this phone so that should be the day we are expecting a release. I have to say I was hoping for sooner since my upgrade date is the 10th and my wifee is begging me tobget her the iPhone. Suck.
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Looks like I'll be shelling out $600. I won't have an upgrade available and I'd rather not extend my contract even if I did. They said the price point is going to be $249 for a 2-year contract, $349 for a 1-year contract and $599 full retail.
Here's an interesting article I read from Android Central. States that Best Buy might possibly have the TB on Feb 14th.
http://www.androidcentral.com/scree...-point-feb-14-best-buy-launch-htc-thunderbolt
Wait.......did anyone read this?
From AndroidCentral Forums:
My local Verizon Wireless store said tonight, 1/22/11, that the HTC Thunderbolt was going on sale Feb. 11th; one day after the iPhone for Verizon! The staff (all 5 of the people working who have never mislead my in the past 4 years) said that just this morning they had a meeting in which they received this information! A new excitement is inside me once again
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Though take it with a grain of salt too, a lot more has come out since the 22nd.
Hmm, interesting. 2 people on my line are upgrading to the Iphone and they both recieved offers to "reserve" their Iphones on Feb 3rd. I guess they can release the Tbolt on that day too because there are barely going to be any Iphones in the stores, since most will be sold out...
Not seeing how the Thunderbolt will release within two weeks of the iPhone. The Thunder will mainly get missed by the media and a lot of consumers, due to the media's iPhone feevah'. Seems Thunder needs space for its own limelight.
Also needs an ad campaign with ACDCs Thunderstuck
Rushless, agreed with your comment. But, the iPhone and android phones are for two different types of people. The iPhone will sell primarily to the people who already have them or have been waiting on them, the people who like android will get the bolt. The people who no nothing, about either, will go with the bolt, because its bigger and prettier, and has "the neat windshield wipers when it rains" I've heard it stated this way when I sold my dinc to a lady a couple of weeks back.
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Agreed, ksiz, but the media and their coverage helps sales too. To soon release around iPhone means minimal media coverage of an Android device. Sad but true.
You have to put into consideration that the iPhone 4 isn't new either. Nothing groundbreaking here than merely another carrier picking up the same model already offered on AT&T. The iPhone publicity horse has been beat to death for years now. I overheard a 63 year old lady at the mall the other night talking about the iPhone coming to Verizon, and how she was picking one up for her granddaughter. The reason I know she's 63 is because she's my neighbor and I was carefully trying to avoid her at all cost, when you get her going she can't stop talking.
OK i have a question will i have to pay anything if its my upgrade time?
Are they even a credible site for mobile news?
Could that be the reason for the "delay" if there even was a delay..
Don't cry about putting this another thread or whine about another bootloader thread being made I'm not gonna dig up a old thread to post this.
If this is old new let it die with the multiple duplicate threads by not commenting or posting.
http://www.mobilestorm.co.uk/news/2...nokia-boss-dismisses-microsoft-takeover-talk/
HTC also sends phone specs and documents to the FCC
Looks like a sail is on the horizon where saved!
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It's.the.first I heard of it actually happening..it eludes that HTC had to backtrack..seems to be the reason for the.delay good find
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It's.the.first I heard of it actually happening..it eludes that HTC had to backtrack..seems to be the reason for the.delay good find
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Yeah I checked before posting but since this was posted today I figured it would be worth its own thread
And yeah first time I herd the word "backtrack" on the evo 3d
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"Back tracking" to remove the lock on the bootloader was my suspicion the whole time. Begs the question, why not provide an OTA update to unlock it? This is going to be the longest 3 weeks ever
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"Back tracking" to remove the lock on the bootloader was my suspicion the whole time. Begs the question, why not provide an OTA update to unlock it? This is going to be the longest 3 weeks ever
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I was thinking it would be a OTA updated but I guess they literally unboxed hundreds of thousands of phones to do what we wanted them to do...
We win the bootloader battle but lose to the waiting game ..
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Idk, I have a hard time believing they unboxed every phone to update its bootloader, but I guess we will know when our phones arrive if that had been the case, I think they'll be locked when we get them... we're talking millions of phones here.
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Idk, I have a hard time believing they unboxed every phone to update its bootloader, but I guess we will know when our phones arrive if that had been the case, I think they'll be locked when we get them... we're talking millions of phones here.
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Not millions they only make so many at first...
Then after there stock runs low they just order more to be made
I had 3 g2x's in a weeks time all with manufactured dates no later than a week old...
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Not millions they only make so many at first...
Then after there stock runs low they just order more to be made
I had 3 g2x's in a weeks time all with manufactured dates no later than a week old...
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hmm, well its a lot of phones... its not like its just a 5,000 phones (which is a lot all in itself)
and as far as dates go, that **** can get silly, the galaxy s vibrant was a bit screwed up for some people, volume rocker wasn't helping us get to recovery like it was supposed too.. and there was a whole big date time of frame where people thought it was the issue, and the dates were really odd.. def more than a week or two old before they were received.
Yeah I'm not saying the manufactured dates are all correct I also remember the vibrant button recovery problem
But if it was suppose to launch the 4th of June and now the 24th its not that unreasonably for them to do it...
When I worked at a plastic factory and a company sent back " bad or faulty" parts we would rework them in days where talking millions of parts...
They have the unlock codes and thousands of employees to do it... honestly in a 12 hour shift a single person could do a few thousand phones alone. Now times that by a thousand employees and a few weeks its done in no time
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I would highly doubt that is the reason for the delay and to be honest, no one said the EVO 3d was delayed except for people posting bogus dates on this site.
It is not like Sprint said the EVO 3d is getting released on June 4th. It was all speculation that it was being released the same day as the original EVO and I have yet to see anything from Sprint that says otherwise.
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I would highly doubt that is the reason for the delay and to be honest, no one said the EVO 3d was delayed except for people posting bogus dates on this site.
It is not like Sprint said the EVO 3d is getting released on June 4th. It was all speculation that it was being released the same day as the original EVO and I have yet to see anything from Sprint that says otherwise.
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That's why I said IF there was ever a delay...
But the phone is coming soon
HTC just released the phone to the FCC
http://m.pocketnow.com/android/htc-evo-3d-drops-a-boatload-of-fcc-docs
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The word "backtracked" meant they back tracked on policy. Before open bootloaders, then locked bootloaders, backtracked to open It will be locked when released, a OTA will fix it OR a "leak". Perhaps it may be unlocked when released, due to the real release date, when ever that is. It was never coming on June 4th like everyone hoped/dreamed. I mean it is just now getting sent to the FCC, you think they delayed sending off to the FCC for a bootloader? lol
Reality Sucks!
Just because they "back tracked" on the e3d DOESN'T MEAN THEY ARE UNBOXING ALL THOSE PHONES. It very well could mean they backtracked their thought process and it'll still be OTA. because it also states the "back tracking effect future phones. So I doubt for fun they are going to lock those bootloaders, package them and then un box them. just to unlock the boot loader. It didn't say that was the cause of the phone not being out or even a delay.
Folks this phone is coming when it's coming. I doubt there has even been so much as a delay. people really need to settle down. Its coming. HTC said so Sprint said so, and the FCC has paper work.
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Just because they "back tracked" on the e3d DOESN'T MEAN THEY ARE UNBOXING ALL THOSE PHONES. It very well could mean they backtracked their thought process and it'll still be OTA. because it also states the "back tracking effect future phones. So I doubt for fun they are going to lock those bootloaders, package them and then un box them. just to unlock the boot loader. It didn't say that was the cause of the phone not being out or even a delay.
Folks this phone is coming when it's coming. I doubt there has even been so much as a delay. people really need to settle down. Its coming. HTC said so Sprint said so, and the FCC has paper work.
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how do we know these phones were all boxed to begin with? more more speculation. Everywhere here just assumes they were. I doubt they box them up 5 weeks ahead of time just to sit around. HTC Sprint want this out as soon as possible (hopefully while making sure its a finished product) so they can start to pay for the R&D
God,i can't wait for the dev section. So I dont have to read this garbage anymore.
R.I.P hd2 hello Evo 3d
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how do we know these phones were all boxed to begin with? more more speculation. Everywhere here just assumes they were. I doubt they box them up 5 weeks ahead of time just to sit around. HTC Sprint want this out as soon as possible (hopefully while making sure its a finished product) so they can start to pay for the R&D
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thats pretty much my point. WE KNOW NOTHING. but a lot of people around here assumes that they are 4 months delayed boxed and shrink wrapped with their names on it.
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God,i can't wait for the dev section. So I dont have to read this garbage anymore.
R.I.P hd2 hello Evo 3d
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Heck yes, with my epic i never go in the general section, now i remember why.
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God,i can't wait for the dev section. So I dont have to read this garbage anymore.
R.I.P hd2 hello Evo 3d
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Werd....
For a mobile blog they sure are behind with the news cycle...
Like others have said, there is NOTHING in this article that hasn't already been previously stated. The cost to HTC to fully backtrack the hardware already in the channel and NOT issue the update via OTA would be a joke.
Everybody just needs to chill out, be cool. We're all gonna be a bunch of Fonzies here.
BTW, the HTC EVO 3D is in the suitcase. Ringo gets greedy like some of us on this board, doesn't know how to be cool. Then we get into these stalemates.
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thats pretty much my point. WE KNOW NOTHING. but a lot of people around here assumes that they are 4 months delayed boxed and shrink wrapped with their names on it.
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Like I said before I know phones are not boxed 3 months before ... i just picked up a brand new white evo with a manufactured date of 1/17/11
A year old phone and the assumption that is was boxed for 3 months and sat on the shelf for another 3 months makes since.
But i also had 3 g2x's on launch day 4/15-4/25 all with dates close to a week before that.
I know Everything is speculation up until Sprint releases a real date.
A lot of us are sick of pointless triple posted threads with the same info.
This is some what "new ****" so before getting up on that high horse and telling people to stop posted crap you don't wanna read. And you can't wait for the Dev. Section.
why don't you point the finger back at your self and ask, why the **** you keep lurking the general section of a phone that doesn't have a official release date.
Just trying to bring the top new to you without you having to do the latest and greatest Google search...
Consider me Ron burgundy...
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My theory is Sprint is **** blocking HTC from pushing it forward. The reason behind this is simple. I believe that they are trying to Push the Nexus Prime with ICS for a month or two then we will get it. Specs to a layman shopper these phones are close to one another (dual core, ram, ect) I know for us here they are not but the average Joe they are. Sprint pays a lot for new phones and the Evo 3D is near EOL so they'd rather have people looking at the new shiny then an old one. Just my humble two cents for what it's worth....
No i am not trolling and I own a 3D . I also don't know when EOL is but this June they'll have had it for a year so it's closer now then the PRIME is by almost a year.
You would actually think sprint would want to sell more of the 3d's right now, since they have a lot of inventory left. And if they don't sell them now at 150 or 200 bucks, they will have to discount them to 99 bucks or lower to get rid of remaining stock.
They did that to the EVO lol gave it gingerbread and few months later it went out the window. I don't think Sprint is the problem think HTC is tryin to make it flawless maybe
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True sitlet but they have more money right now tied up in the nexus prime order then they do the remaining Evo's so if they want to recoup that fast they'd hold any phones getting ICS and have just the Prime for a month or two ... then update the other stock as well as introduce new phones. .... Again just my two cents. Thanks for you input though :
True Reaper that may be but HTC normally is pretty good at pushing updates or at least they were for the Hero for the first year as well as the og Evo. I'd rather blame Sprint cause HTC really is trying to get it's s**t together for it's user base and they've had ICS to play with now for what... 5 or 6 months? Cause the developers get it before they push it to phones or release the source....
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$50 at Target, still big sellers here
I agree, given Sprint's track record with Eclair on the Hero and GB on the EVO and Shift, its gonna be a long spring for us here
HTC told us we would have ICS in the beginning of the year. I asked on Facebook why the ICS update has been posponed to "later in the year" instead of having it at "the beginning of the year", the response I got was that "nothing has been delayed" and then a link to their note on Facebook.
Here they said "beginning of the year"
http://www.facebook.com/notes/htc-u...d-40-updates-for-htc-handsets/300698153293006
Here they say "later this year"
http://www.facebook.com/notes/htc/update-on-android-ice-cream-sandwich-upgrades/10150762287733084
Like I said, the response by HTC to my wall post was that "nothing has been delayed", so either we will get it before June, or we were lied to.
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HTC told us we would have ICS in the beginning of the year. I asked on Facebook why the ICS update has been posponed to "later in the year" instead of having it at "the beginning of the year", the response I got was that "nothing has been delayed" and then a link to their note on Facebook.
Here they said "beginning of the year"
http://www.facebook.com/notes/htc-u...d-40-updates-for-htc-handsets/300698153293006
Here they say "later this year"
http://www.facebook.com/notes/htc/update-on-android-ice-cream-sandwich-upgrades/10150762287733084
Like I said, the response by HTC to my wall post was that "nothing has been delayed", so either we will get it before June, or we were lied to.
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Actually, if it isn't before the end of March, we were lied to. To me, "early" implies within the first three months of the year, but rest assured my friend, you guys with the GSM 3d will most certainly receive your ISC update LONG before we CDMA/Sprint users get ours.
Yeah, radioshack sold me mine for $100. That $200 pricing is already out the window.
I am betting they are looking for a way to force HBOOT 1.5 in order to use ICS. They probably have a release already ready... but they are hoping to add that hook. If too much time goes by, the public pressure will force them to release sooner than they want.
My prediction about the original HBOOT unlock delay was spot on, even though people called me crazy. So... don't doubt me this time.
edufur said:
I am betting they are looking for a way to force HBOOT 1.5 in order to use ICS. They probably have a release already ready... but they are hoping to add that hook. If too much time goes by, the public pressure will force them to release sooner than they want.
My prediction about the original HBOOT unlock delay was spot on, even though people called me crazy. So... don't doubt me this time.
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public pressure?!?! HA
like "they" give a crap about "you".
There's no contract written here, no obligation, no reason at all to update us any faster than "they" like.
You bought what you bought, and thats the end of "their" obligation.
aweskelo said:
public pressure?!?! HA
like "they" give a crap about "you".
There's no contract written here, no obligation, no reason at all to update us any faster than "they" like.
You bought what you bought, and thats the end of "their" obligation.
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Actually, Google requires manufacturers to keep phones up to date with Android versions for 2 years so HTC's obligation to "us" has not ended for another year.
troyboytn said:
Actually, Google requires manufacturers to keep phones up to date with Android versions for 2 years so HTC's obligation to "us" has not ended for another year.
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Yes, but in the same regard, that's their only time frame. It doesn't have to be this month or the next, or the one after that, as long as it's within the year.
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troyboytn said:
Actually, Google requires manufacturers to keep phones up to date with Android versions for 2 years so HTC's obligation to "us" has not ended for another year.
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I believe its 18 months..But still,jellybean will be out by the time month 18 comes for us 3D users.
I don't think we will see ICS until August-September. But it wont matter to me because I'm using my wife's upgrade in July for what ever is out or I just may leave Sprint because I'm tired of a sub par network.
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Please.
Hows those up-to-date updates working out for ya?
http://androidandme.com/2011/08/news/updates-or-lack-thereof-on-the-android-update-alliance/
Where or what is the alleged hammer when one of these manufacturers gives Goog the finger on updates? Don't forget, they are pumping these things out of China.
It's not HTC fault guys. It's the fat kid he ran off with our ICS Sorry I couldn't help it.
I believe we will see it soon. Whip some nice roms up from it ...
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HTC said that evo 3d will come out later this year and the sensation series will be by the end of march, so we will not have been lied to.
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I'm telling you guys. June or later. I've been calling it for a while.
knowledge561 said:
I'm telling you guys. June or later. I've been calling it for a while.
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If your right, then we as a community need to voice the opinion to Sprint directly about their poor choice in holding this back for us....
In all honesty the more I think about it a new phone coming out should not delay an update to an older one. Even if they were updating the 3D to Sense 4.0 the pure hardware alone of the new HTC device will be leaps ahead of ours and really an update to our device wouldn't delay or deter anyone from buying the new device anymore than if it wasn't out. If anything the publicity of Sprint pushing manufacturers to roll out OTA's faster would benefit them more...
Anonamoose said:
My theory is Sprint is **** blocking HTC from pushing it forward. The reason behind this is simple. I believe that they are trying to Push the Nexus Prime with ICS for a month or two then we will get it. Specs to a layman shopper these phones are close to one another (dual core, ram, ect) I know for us here they are not but the average Joe they are. Sprint pays a lot for new phones and the Evo 3D is near EOL so they'd rather have people looking at the new shiny then an old one. Just my humble two cents for what it's worth....
No i am not trolling and I own a 3D . I also don't know when EOL is but this June they'll have had it for a year so it's closer now then the PRIME is by almost a year.
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I don't think the Nexus has anything to do with it. I believe it's all Sprint and what phone they consider their flagship device. When the Evo 4g came out it got babyed with a lot of software upgrades while the Epic 4g just sat and rot. Now you have the Epic 4G Touch as the flagship this time around and its been receiving quite a few updates. This includes some leaked ics builds. So I have reason to believe whatever is Sprints flagship device is the device Sprint will push manufacturers to develop for..
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