The phone is just a touch over two years old. Even though my contract has expired, and the phone company has offered an upgrade, its only on the proviso that I change plans, which would see me losing roaming (a big deal in a country where mobile coverage it pretty ratshit out of the big cities). Upgrading the phone would also see me putting the old phone back in the drawer, not to be used again, as the SIM has changed format, for the first time in my mobile phone history.
My experience has been so far that every phone upgrade has seen the loss of as much functionality as new functionality gained. At each generation, its a different set of functionality I have to do without, or find alternative ways of meeting the need. As I said - my phone does everything I need of it right now. At some point upgrading will become compelling - hopefully that happens before the phone dies physically. Cheers On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 09:48:53PM -0700, Douglas Roberts wrote: > Android 1.6? > > Let me guess: you're also one of those running an ASCII email client, as > well. I believe I see a pattern. > > (Message sent from my rooted, cyanogen modded Android 4.2.2 > work-in-progress gorilla glass excuse for a phone). > On Feb 16, 2013 9:35 PM, "Russell Standish" <r.stand...@unsw.edu.au> wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 10:34:39AM -0700, Owen Densmore wrote: > > > I don't want to be flame bait (oh well, maybe i do) .. I posted this on > > > your blog post: > > > > > > I'm surprised anyone buys android phones at all. They're stuck between a > > > rock and a hard place: If they buy from Google they have your well > > > articulated problems. > > > > > > But if they get another handset mfgrs phone, they get no updates .. as > > far > > > as I know most give you the vanilla android+their device's drivers with > > > little to no upgrades over time. > > > > > > cyanogenmod? Er.. sorta proves the point! > > > > > > > > > > Updates is not the only reason to buy a phone. I went Android > > (upgrading from Symbian), precisely because of the iOS lockdown > > prevents me from using a couple of critical features on iPhone (namely > > USB Mass store, and USB modem - aka tethering). > > > > Yes, it would be nice to have had some updates to Android (I'm on 1.6 > > (donut?)), but its not the end of the world, as the phone basically > > does everything I need of it. > > > > Cheers > > > > -- > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) > > Principal, High Performance Coders > > Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au > > University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > ============================================================ > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
