@wakeup Why the heck do mfrs not include what version of Android it's coming with??? Wouldn't that be like selling a Windows machine and failing to state whether it has XP, Vista or 7 pre-installed?
@CRA1G I think it's actually running 1.5. I remember everyone giving them crap about that in January or something. They don't say, because they don't want you to know.
@wakeup Kinda sad everyone is hoping for Android 2.x on the X10 when at the same time us Nexus One owners are waiting on Android 3.x to be released to us later this year.
@Drethis wait, so they actually plan on including updates?? That would definately help the situation, if they follow through. And if everyones complaining about the x10 now, Sony has 3 more android phones that I know of, coming out "soon". The x10 mini, x10 mini pro, and the x8. This will get interesting...
On Android 2.2, Pandora plays fine over WiFi (where it uses MP3), but the sound quality is terrible over 3G (where it uses AAC+). Google broke the AAC+ decoder with 2.2 and still hasn't released a fix. Avoid 2.2 if you like to stream Pandora or Slacker in your car.
@wakeup So Samsung gets hated on because they supposedly cannot do frequent updates, but here comes Sony with a 1.6 android phone. Samsung promises end of month 2.2 for GS phones. This phone has been out for almost a year out of state and not even 2.1 til the end of the year, and 2.2 til next year?
Because it takes time for them to skin the interface. And given how heavily skinned this interface is - I would expect it to take them a looong time to update to the newer versions, longer than Motorola and HTC
A perfect case of by-pass 2.1 and just put 2.2 on the fast track. There is no reason to even adopt 2.1 at this phase in the game.
I can have an EVO or Nexus 1 that have virtually the same hardware for more money than the X10, the at least those HTC devices have the hardware optimizations now, not 6 months from now.
Following the commercial success (and technical disappointment) of the original Wildfire -- which featured a miserly 528MHz CPU and QVGA display -- HTC has returned with the Wildfire S.
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Nice is it Android 1.6???????? If this is 2.2 this could be my next phone!
@wakeup Why the heck do mfrs not include what version of Android it's coming with??? Wouldn't that be like selling a Windows machine and failing to state whether it has XP, Vista or 7 pre-installed?
@wakeup
You don't want Android 2.2 yet! It has major problems with audio that break Slacker and Pandora!
See http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=9308
@CRA1G Pretty much
@CRA1G I think it's actually running 1.5. I remember everyone giving them crap about that in January or something. They don't say, because they don't want you to know.
@wakeup Kinda sad everyone is hoping for Android 2.x on the X10 when at the same time us Nexus One owners are waiting on Android 3.x to be released to us later this year.
@wakeup
It's 1.6, that's why they won't mention it.
Sony's Official Blog says that 2.1 will come out at the end of Q3, whereas 2.2 will be end of the year.
@MobileGeorge
I have 2.2 on my Nexus One and Pandora plays fine.
@CRA1G
Well, closer analogy is whether it is SP1 2 or 3...
@Drethis
wait, so they actually plan on including updates?? That would definately help the situation, if they follow through.
And if everyones complaining about the x10 now, Sony has 3 more android phones that I know of, coming out "soon". The x10 mini, x10 mini pro, and the x8. This will get interesting...
@Iromania
Pretty much, I think the X8 will come with 2.1 when it's released. That may be around the end of September anyway.
X10 still doesn't have multitouch (hardware doesn't support it) which is a huge downer. :/
@Drethis ffff
fragmentation
@Killafiend
On Android 2.2, Pandora plays fine over WiFi (where it uses MP3), but the sound quality is terrible over 3G (where it uses AAC+). Google broke the AAC+ decoder with 2.2 and still hasn't released a fix. Avoid 2.2 if you like to stream Pandora or Slacker in your car.
@wakeup
So Samsung gets hated on because they supposedly cannot do frequent updates, but here comes Sony with a 1.6 android phone. Samsung promises end of month 2.2 for GS phones. This phone has been out for almost a year out of state and not even 2.1 til the end of the year, and 2.2 til next year?
@CRA1G
Because it takes time for them to skin the interface. And given how heavily skinned this interface is - I would expect it to take them a looong time to update to the newer versions, longer than Motorola and HTC
@Sagisarius
No, trust me, it's 1.6, i'm in the uk and got it in april with 1.6, generic 2.1 is due in september.
@Drethis
A perfect case of by-pass 2.1 and just put 2.2 on the fast track. There is no reason to even adopt 2.1 at this phase in the game.
I can have an EVO or Nexus 1 that have virtually the same hardware for more money than the X10, the at least those HTC devices have the hardware optimizations now, not 6 months from now.