They use to be the best in the desire range days. The sensation got ICS before the GS 2, iirc kona said by a month. They just keep going down hill nowWhen they released the one series, I actually thought that would be their chance to get back to the top, but as usual they have just ****ed up in sooooo many areas, I just don't get how these companies don't see/get what the customers want, why is it so hard to understand
Yeah Samsung have definitely improved, although they are still pretty poor for all their other phones apart from the flagship devices i.e. GS 3, note II, GS 2 and note I, the Gs 1 days were pretty poor and definitely put me of their future devices (especially after having used the galaxy spica, which was a very capable smartphone but let down by Samsung badly and like many of their other phones back then it was dead as soon as it was on the market, the spica was a very popular handset in Europe too so no reason why they couldn't have kept supporting it) But with the quick and very nice updates for the GS 3 and note II recently, they have definitely proved themselves in the update/support field and do seem to be the best now.
TBF though, apart from the GS 3 normal and LTE model, note II, HTC one X+, motorola razr devices and some of the one X devices, no other phones have the jellybean update officially afaik and it does look like HTC have put a lot of work into the new sense version, it is just the fact that they have been lying since October about the update and being able to release a phone, which is exactly the same apart from storage with JB and they don't bother with the update for the S, likewise for the X and X+, granted it was the same for the GS 3 LTE model and the normal GS 3, but it took 3-4 weeks for the update to happen where as it is much longer for the X+/X and SE/S now and I just know that the S will not see this update till January at the very earliest going by all the stuff that the HTC chat team are saying, the majority of UK X devices still haven't received the update (with the last update, iirc it was a 4-5 week gap between the X and S UK devices) etc.
Still very tempted by the nexus 4 purely for the support.
, "marketing purposes, we want our new devices to have 1 more advantage over our older devices so more people will move to the newer devices, which means we make more money" 
Just wish it had a SAMOLED screen as I would really miss the blacks, saturated colours, viewing angles etc. Lol also chuckled at that when I read about it
It is funny also because it is technically wrong (I think) as the updates are rolled out depending on the CID number of your device, with Samsung etc. you don't have to worry about what CID number you have etc. Probably got that answer from some on line chat guy, they don't have a clue what goes on, just say whatever they are told to from the higher up people, always state different things, that is another problem with HTC, there seems to be no communication in their company at all.....
It sounds better to the average joes than the real reason
Nice, be sure to let me know what you think of it overall, especially the screen, and camera overall
There most definitely will be a BF + or whatever within 5 months, typical HTC strategy now
They said that they won't do that with the butterfly, however, they said that about the one series, yet they did the exact same but much worse! 6 models of the S.....
http://www.gsmarena.com/butterfly_sells_so_well_that_htc_has_to_increase_shipments-news-5194.php
Thanks, look forward to hearing what you think
Is anyone as bad as Sony for updates
Indeed stoosh!
Lol true, I actually felt sorry for people that own a Sony device when reading this:
http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_gives_an_update_on_the_jelly_bean_update_schedule-news-5227.php
If I owned a Sony device, it would be going straight into the trash! Not even worthy of selling lol.
Also had to laugh, I read that some htc guy said the rollout for the s wouldn't begin till every unbranded and branded one x had received the update, what is the point of that....
The one SE (only available in Taiwan), which is the exact same as the normal S, except 64GB internal storage and is white instead, ships with JB/sense V4+, hence my frustration XDA guys cracked the encryption and finally got it ported to the normal S a week or two ago.
