whats up with the updates?????

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tredawg_69_69

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what's up with these updates for these phones? i have the mytouch 3g the original. all i hear is the mytouch is going to get these updates but not 1 of these updates came to my phone yet. 2.2 will be rolling out soon on the nexus one and the so called mytouch 3g that wasnt suppose to get left behind. after 1 update on the mytouch 3g its been to long not to confirm the update on the device. now another mytouch is coming out are u kidding me. time for a change this is the worst. whats going to happen when all the apps get converted to 2.0 and higher. all the old phone are no good .
 
The issue is that each carrier has to develop, test and support each update for a phone that they provide. Google updates the N1, but they don't always offer the best carrier support (such as they abandoned further research on the T-Mobile 3G issues).

It is not financially feasible for a carrier to support any phone indefinitely; generally they push out one or two updates and then EOL the phone for a newer model. The MyTouch 3G was released in June 2009- so it is already close to a year old. There may also be issues with the phone having less memory or CPU to effectively support an update.

It is possible that there may be more updates for the MyTouch 3G, but there is no way of knowing unless T-Mobile comes out and says it. I would suggest trying some of the Android homebrew ROMs for newer features- however installing may void your warranty and possibly cause other issues.

Personaly I have been using custom ROMs for many years (since WM5) and find them usually to be more 'feature rich' than official releases....
 
Look, it's not as crazy as you imagine.

Mobile phone technology is increasing at a rate around 3x faster than that of PCs. So, what you're complaining about is analogous to saying that a PC you bought 6 years isn't compatible with Windows Vista or Windows 7.

When the 1st generation Android devices came out (G1, myTouch, etc) they had a very low amount of memory. This is the biggest stumbling block to getting Android 2.X on them.

New phones have better hardware, so Google want to take advantage of that. People would also complain if they bought a PC today that came with Windows 98.

Don't worry too much about fragmentation. Google have stated that they will address the problem of apps needing to be written for different version of Android. It may even be done in 2.2.

Currently, most Android phones are running 1.6. Most apps that I know of that are written for 1.6 work in 2.0. Some apps have specific versions that work better in 2.0 and take advantage of the new features. Most of the 1.6 apps that don't work in 2.0 have a 2.0 version.

Also there are some apps that need 2.0, but tough, that's just like the fact you can't install Office 2007 on Windows 98. Time has moved on, technology has moved on, hardware has moved on, software has moved on.

Unfortunately, it's happening very quickly in the mobile phone world. While this may be disappointing for people stuck on old hardware, your phone can still do everything it could do when you bought it, so you're not losing anything. However, you're coming across as complaining that your phone isn't magically getting more memory and a faster processor every time a new version of Android comes out.
 
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