HTC posted on Twitter today that there will be 2.0 for the Hero.

Hoping Samsung will have 2.0 update for Moment… by Q1 2010… I think I will be getting the Moment in about 2 weeks…

As devil’s advocate, why is this such a big deal? OTA updates would be nice, but personally I don’t care if it had to be done over USB (or over USB in a store).

Sure, some non-geeks wouldn’t get the upgrade, but if you’re the type of person who wouldn’t get the upgrade, how much would you want the upgrade?

I share this frustration when I “upgraded” my T-Mobile G1 to the Motorola Cliq. While I like the Cliq much better, it’s still at 1.5 and Motorola has no plans to update to 1.6.
It sucks even worse is that the Motorola Droid will be at 2.0 in a couple of weeks.
You would think that with the plethora of new android devices coming out in upcoming weeks, that they’d strive to keep the releases tighter and more consistent rather than letting 3 versions of android exist at the same time…

Yeah! We want OTA updates, pass it on.

Yes, I wrote a little diddy yesterday about Sprint/HTC and Cupcake/Dnout/Ecliar. My thought is this, as far as HTC is concerned, they put alot of work into their Sense UI. Updating it to 1.6, while nice, doesn’t make sense with 2.0 coming out so soon after. There are multiple reports that HTC already has 2.0 in their house, so it’s very likely HTC will skip 1.6 all together and go straight to 2.0 with their Sense powered Android phones. As far as the Moment is concerned…maybe Samsung is just behind on their own rollout or those who’ve had a chance to review it got an early build. It’s quite possible Samsung/Sprint have 1.6 waiting for the Nov 1 release to send the OTA update out. That’s my 2 cents.

Interesting on the OTA front, as Engadget’s recent review of the Sprint Moment states very clearly that the phone WILL support OTA updates.

Kind of shoots a hole in Sprint’s explanation that the Hero’s inability to do OTA updates is due to network constraints.

http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/

Software section, 2nd paragraph.

what’s wrong with sprintv now in 1.5?

The file size issue should not be a limitation for Sprint with Android because all the software updates on the Palm Pre are OTA and are 70 megs and up. They go thru without a problem so that sounds like a cop out to me.

Knowledge makes sense… sorry, had to say it. Atleast all the apps will work and not be broken.