OTA updates question

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I don't own this phone yet, but I have a question about OTA updates:
who releases them? the carrier, the phone manufacturer or google?

My problem is that I'd like to know if buying this phone (or any other android based phone) now will let me uses future versions of google android.

Originally Posted by yelo3

I don't own this phone yet, but I have a question about OTA updates:
who releases them? the carrier, the phone manufacturer or google?

My problem is that I'd like to know if buying this phone (or any other android based phone) now will let me uses future versions of google android.

OTA Updates are provided by Carrier or Google & not Manufacturer in case of HTC, HTC has said, they will be providing Updates In an different way like they provide to Other HTC Devices...

OTA updates are most likely 40-60 Mb...

Post any further Questions to be answered...

thanks for the quick answer. Now I'm starting to better understand, and I will ask you another things:

- can OTA updates move from 1.5 to 2.0 (and so on) when it will be released?
- how can I get OTA updates directly from google and not from the carrier?

(I don't think that carriers will keep releasing updates for old phones. I'd like to keep the phone for at least 3 years, while always having the latest software version)

Originally Posted by yelo3

thanks for the quick answer. Now I'm starting to better understand, and I will ask you another things:

- can OTA updates move from 1.5 to 2.0 (and so on) when it will be released?
- how can I get OTA updates directly from google and not from the carrier?

(I don't think that carriers will keep releasing updates for old phones. I'd like to keep the phone for at least 3 years, while always having the latest software version)

You can get OTA updates to any software version. When 2.0 is released, it will most likely be pushed OTA. As far as 2.0 (Donut), its release date has not been announced, but some are expecting it 2H2009, most likely 4Q.

Who you receive your OTA updates from depends on who you purchased your device from (or, which ROM you're running). Google pushes OTA updates to their developer ROMs. T-Mobile pushes updates to their retail devices. &c. Also, not all devices/carriers/updates run on the same cycle. T-Mobile UK received the 1.5 (Cupcake) update about 2 weeks before T-Mobile US did, and both of those pushed updates were after the ADP OTA update.

I'm running the Daldroid ROM (in South Africa on Vodacom (Vodafone))

Is there any way to figure out whether the ROM is configured to get OTA updates? and/or which servers it's trying to get them from?

J.

So I have to trust my carrier, and to hope that he won't stop releasing OTA updates after, say for example, 1 year.
I can't really understand why this thing works in this way: in computers updates are deployed by the program company, not the manufacturer.

So I have to trust my carrier, and to hope that he won't stop releasing OTA updates after, say for example, 1 year.
I can't really understand why this thing works in this way: in computers updates are deployed by the program company, not the manufacturer.