Exactly my point, so what is Gingerbread going to do for my N1? Nothing that would help with its biggest problems IMO.
Gingerbread thread. ONLY GINGERBREAD THREAD FOR NOW!
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Someone wanted to know how does the NexusS sales look like.
Here it is, 0.4% of the total active android devices so far:
http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-versions.html
Let's try to estimate those 0.4% in units. gartner tells us something about 20mln android units sold worldwide in Q310. Q210 was 10mln units, Q1 5mln. Q4 data is not available yet, but I suppose it will be better than Q3, so let's assume some 25mln.
This would sum up as 5+10+20+25=some 60mln devices sold worldwide in 2010.
Plus another ~7mln of "vintage" pre 2010 devices, since most of them running <2.x (except droid) which are just slightly above 10%.
(Edit: just found at the http://mobilephonedevelopment.com/archives/987 : Total 2009 android sales were 6.7mln devices)
Which brings us to the total market of 67000000 units comprising the 100%.
And 0.4% would be something like 268000 units.
This is A LOT, even if I miscalculated somewhere. Honestly, I expected something around 10 times less. It is scary.
Here it is, 0.4% of the total active android devices so far:
http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-versions.html
Let's try to estimate those 0.4% in units. gartner tells us something about 20mln android units sold worldwide in Q310. Q210 was 10mln units, Q1 5mln. Q4 data is not available yet, but I suppose it will be better than Q3, so let's assume some 25mln.
This would sum up as 5+10+20+25=some 60mln devices sold worldwide in 2010.
Plus another ~7mln of "vintage" pre 2010 devices, since most of them running <2.x (except droid) which are just slightly above 10%.
(Edit: just found at the http://mobilephonedevelopment.com/archives/987 : Total 2009 android sales were 6.7mln devices)
Which brings us to the total market of 67000000 units comprising the 100%.
And 0.4% would be something like 268000 units.
This is A LOT, even if I miscalculated somewhere. Honestly, I expected something around 10 times less. It is scary.
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This is of course assuming 100% of this Android ecosystem accessed the market in the past 2 weeks.
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I'd say alot of those gingerbread devices are actually ports for other devices and not just nexus s.
I've come to accept that google is trying their best to abandon the n1.they are hoping that we all either break our phones or just buy new ones. I wouldn't be surprised if they waited til after the warranty expires for the bulk of us that bought in january last year before releasing gingerbread.
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At this rate, they'll probably skip 2.3 and go straight to 2.4(not honeycomb).
Gingerbread should bring a number of improvements, but you can't fix hardware with software. You can improve upon already good software, though, and that is what Gingerbread will do. That's what ANY OS update should do. If you're expecting an OS update to give you a new phone.... you should probably just go buy a new phone.
Really dude? You think that it's a conspiracy on Google's part to force us to abandon our N1s for a plastic phone with a curved screen?
All, can we please tone down the whiny drama? At least until some other phone gets an OTA ahead of us? Until then, the N1 has not been forgotten. It should still be at the head of the line to receive the 2.3 OTA.
I wouldn't say conspiracy as opposed to smart business. Many tech blogs called it a failure, and google is trying to distance itself from that.
Don't be surprised if multiple platforms get the ota around the same time. I mean a mt3g is already running 2.2.1 same as nexus 1.
I'm on my 3rd N1 and this one has wifi issues.
Basically, google fought the networks, and lost.
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Smart business? That sounds like something that is almost entirely unlike smart business. The N1 didn't sell well but it was widely considered to be a very good phone. Do you really think while they are trying to sell a new Nexus phone it would be a good idea to make it look like the phone will be abandoned after only a year? The regular updates of the N1 have been one of its biggest benefits.
It's certainly possible that the N1 gingerbread update has been delayed for marketing reasons. Or it's also possible that gingerbread for the NS was rushed out the door before Christmas. What is not likely is that it has been abandoned and that some carrier phone will get an update first.
It's certainly possible that the N1 gingerbread update has been delayed for marketing reasons. Or it's also possible that gingerbread for the NS was rushed out the door before Christmas. What is not likely is that it has been abandoned and that some carrier phone will get an update first.
I still think it has to be delayed because of last minute software issues. I don't see how not updating the current dev phone (sold as such on Google's website) makes any sense. You could argue that since the Nexus S has an unlockable bootloader it could also be used as a dev phone, but as long as Google keeps the N1 as the current dev phone on their website, they still need to, and are going to update it asap.
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just think of all the google engineers who still have a nexus one because they are on ATT. no way is every google employee on tmobile. so i'm positive a lot of them still use the n1 and will support it.
Many blogs in general called the N1 a failure; most of the smarter tech blogs called it a great success. The N1 accomplished its goal of encouraging other manufacturers to step up to the plate and push out some bad-ass Android phones. Sure, the phone has its flaws - but what phone on the market doesn't? Even the NS is riddled with Gingerbread-related bugs - which (crazy thought) could be a contributing factor for why we haven't gotten an official update yet.
And isn't the MT3G running Sense? I know that at least my fiancee's MT3G came that way, before we loaded CM up on there. Which means the update via HTC will be delayed behind the Google update. There were a lot of phones running the same version of 2.1 before we got the Froyo OTA before anyone else. I don't see how that's relevent.
It had vanilla android upon launch (released after G1 and no manufacturers would skin android), but I am sure that it got updated to get sense.
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Usually big companies like google use 1 company for their wireless. I would make an educated guess that it is tmobile
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MT3G doesn't use sense at all, however the slide does.
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