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Google says Nexus One too old for Android 4.0

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Re: Google says Nexus One too old for Android 4.0

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Post by masklinn »

nickpp wrote: post #27
jonursenbach wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except HTC doesn't control the software on the Nexus One. Google handles all Google-experience devices like the Nexus One, Nexus S, Xoom and the new Nexus Galaxy.

I do suppose the HTC hardware is the issue here, otherwise why would google not support n1? They'd have nothing to lose.

> otherwise why would google not support n1?

Google has never really cared about support.

> They'd have nothing to lose.

They'd have to spend time porting and validating it.

Re: Google says Nexus One too old for Android 4.0

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Post by melling »

tejaswiy wrote: post #39
robterrell wrote: post #16

Great. I guess I can stop hitting the "Update" thing every day in the hope that 4.0 will appear. I can't help but note that the iPhone 3GS and iPod Touch purchased the same month are already running iOS 5.0 and I haven't noticed any speed issues.

My 3GS is almost unusably slow on iOS5.

Mine too. I'm upgrading to the 4S because of this. Can't wait for the 5. I also have a Nexus One for development. I find it hard to believe it was $600 in Jan 2010 and now it's obsolete.

Re: Google says Nexus One too old for Android 4.0

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Post by vondur »

tejaswiy wrote: post #39
robterrell wrote: post #16

Great. I guess I can stop hitting the "Update" thing every day in the hope that 4.0 will appear. I can't help but note that the iPhone 3GS and iPod Touch purchased the same month are already running iOS 5.0 and I haven't noticed any speed issues.

My 3GS is almost unusably slow on iOS5.

Mine works just fine, but sometimes hardware issues will cause the slowness. I'm guessing some of the flash memory may be bad.

Re: Google says Nexus One too old for Android 4.0

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Post by jinushaun »

Sad panda... I was really expecting Google to support at least two more version of Android post Gingerbread for the Nexus One. Guess I'll keep the N1 around as my device for testing apps on Gingerbread/old hardware.

Apple handled this a lot better with iOS 4 and the old iPhone 3G. They simply took out features that the 3G couldn't handle. My N1 handles Gingerbread perfectly without any hiccups. Incredibly, every version of Android seemed to make my N1 faster. You couldn't say the same for iOS 3/4 on the 3G, which got worse, and any reasonable person wouldn't expect Apple to support the 3G beyond iOS 4. The N1, on the other hand, seemed like it could support at least two more versions of Android.

Re: Google says Nexus One too old for Android 4.0

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Post by masklinn »

phuff wrote: post #34
citricsquid wrote: post #14

I've got both the Nexus One and an iPhone 4 and I can never understand why anyone would choose the Nexus One over an iPhone, it's such an inferior product both hardware and software wise. The comparatively poor quality as put me off anything but iPhones.

I started with an N1 and later got an iPad 2. I found I had to turn off all push notifications and was surprised that apple would put out something that had such inferior usability when the notification dropdown thing that Android has is so clearly better. Maybe they didn't want to copy the people they despised? Or maybe they just couldn't find the engineering time until 5.0? I dunno. It was unbearable. I had to turn…

> I found I had to turn off all push notifications and was surprised that apple would put out something that had such inferior usability when the notification dropdown thing that Android has is so clearly better.

You may want to note that iOS was released more than a year before Android. The notifications have been essentially untouched between iPhoneOS 1 and iOS 5.

> The other thing that really stinks on the iPad compared to the N1 is the non-multi-tasking of apps. Everytime I switch to a different app it starts all over again... Really? Really.

Not really no, you might want to update your iPad at least to the OS released 16 months ago.

Re: Google says Nexus One too old for Android 4.0

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Post by anigbrowl »

brudgers wrote: post #10

There's no incentive for Google to provide backward compatibility for Android, hence they don't.

Well, it would make people feel more confident about buying Android devices. I am not happy to discover that I am going to be stuck with a browser that chokes on most newspaper webpages (a lot of them keep reloading some 3rd party widget that renders the page unusuable after about 30-40 seconds).

Re: Google says Nexus One too old for Android 4.0

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Post by nuclear_eclipse »

melling wrote: post #42
tejaswiy wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My 3GS is almost unusably slow on iOS5.

Mine too. I'm upgrading to the 4S because of this. Can't wait for the 5. I also have a Nexus One for development. I find it hard to believe it was $600 in Jan 2010 and now it's obsolete.

I wouldn't consider the Nexus One obsolete. The whole point of the N1 is that it has an unlocked bootloader, so you don't need Google's blessing to run custom roms or newer versions on your hardware.

There are already ongoing efforts to port the 4.0 SDK images to run on the Nexus One and the Nexus S, and I guarantee there will be even better options once the source code is released.

Use the freedom you paid $600 for to run ICS on your phone anyways.

Re: Google says Nexus One too old for Android 4.0

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Post by masklinn »

tejaswiy wrote: post #39
robterrell wrote: post #16

Great. I guess I can stop hitting the "Update" thing every day in the hope that 4.0 will appear. I can't help but note that the iPhone 3GS and iPod Touch purchased the same month are already running iOS 5.0 and I haven't noticed any speed issues.

My 3GS is almost unusably slow on iOS5.

Check your logs/system diagnostic, if there's nothing strange try a complete reinstall (without restoring from a backup), this is abnormal, most reports are that the 3GS is as fast under iOS5 than it was under iOS4, if not faster.

Re: Google says Nexus One too old for Android 4.0

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Post by chugger »

tejaswiy wrote: post #39
robterrell wrote: post #16

Great. I guess I can stop hitting the "Update" thing every day in the hope that 4.0 will appear. I can't help but note that the iPhone 3GS and iPod Touch purchased the same month are already running iOS 5.0 and I haven't noticed any speed issues.

My 3GS is almost unusably slow on iOS5.

You're full of it. iOS 5 runs fine on the 3GS.
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