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Should I? Should I not? Should I?

Hi,
HTC have released some awesome phones like the One X and my god it is fantastic, but the question is, shall I sell my Galaxy Nexus for the HTC?
The good points from the nexus are that I would be that I would be supporting to the next Android with no worry.
But the HTC would be more than capable for running the next Android version as its hardware is far better. Also I like the 1.5GHz Quad Core processor with nvidia tegra. But the updates that I would get will be later than the Nexus and also HTC are a pain to root with the boot loader and EXT partitions
What should I do?
Thanks Guys
Weeo
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And also, is it too early to get a QC phone and wait till they get better?
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You should get the HTC. The specs whoop the Nexus's ass!

weeo said:
But the HTC would be more than capable for running the next Android version as its hardware is far better.
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The question isn't whether it's capable, but when the manufacturer releases the update. Currently, none of them have yet released a Gingerbread -> ICS update, and it's already been 5 months.

thebobp said:
The question isn't whether it's capable, but when the manufacturer releases the update. Currently, none of them have yet released a Gingerbread -> ICS update, and it's already been 5 months.
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Yeah True, except I would do a custom rom of an aosp build. I'm gonna get the HTC then. Wow then ill have a QuadCore phone + a QuadCore tablet ill be quad cored
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for me its all about the hardware... since software can always be modified... the one x holds more potential hardware wise...

Do ittt!!!

I would wait for people to test it first...I am a bit worried with the battery stamina from One X
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With the Nexus, you do not have to wait to constructor update, you will always get the last Android's version.
But HTC phones are more powerfull and XDA community will let you have the new Android OS

Cheers people. Ill get the HTC
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[Q] When is 4.1 jelly bean being released?

You knew this question was going to come. Now that 4.1 has been announced, when are we getting ours?

This will take a longer time for sure, as HTC is still busy to release ICS

Jellybean dev kits are supposed to be released mid july. At least that's what this source says: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/06/27/google-announces-android-41-jelly-bean/
But it may be a while before we get a working ROM.

Given the time it took the CM team to release CM9 RC1, I'd say 6 months!

what about this? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1736699

Brace yourself for a long wait
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While ICS is quite nice, it is hard not to want the latest, greatest thing on our devices Still, at least the Nexus 7 is available to fulfil the JB goodness until it's available. That may end up replacing my Nook Color which hasn't been used in a month since it's ac adapter gave up the ghost.

HTC says they "don't yet have an announcement" for Jelly Bean on existing devices.
... I can't post a link because <10 posts, but there is an article on pocket-lint.com

That will only lead to an anemic SDK ROM. sure it will show us the cool new features, but I wouldn't expect much. I wonder how long it takes to hit AOSP
kjacksonmusic said:
what about this? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1736699
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Q1 or Q2 next year would be my guess
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Since i'm assuming jellybean isn't as big of a change internally as ICS was from gingerbread it'll be a shorter wait. Still I wouldn't expect anything shorter than like Oct of this year.

seangprice said:
Q1 or Q2 next year would be my guess
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I heard GSM Nexus devices are already receiving leaked OTA of 4.1 today.
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mjm128 said:
Since i'm assuming jellybean isn't as big of a change internally as ICS was from gingerbread it'll be a shorter wait. Still I wouldn't expect anything shorter than like Oct of this year.
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Actually most of the changes are internal. I think project butter is a big internal change. Although the One S is already very smooth, squeezing more performance out of the S4 is a welcomed thing

How about this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1737340

jawedzebra said:
How about this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1737340
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Pretty interesting read. Looking at the pictures it doesn't look much different. I wonder what changes it will bring along.
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Check engadget, the new additions are all pretty cool. I def wouldn't mind having an even smoother os
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jellybean just got sent ota for gsm galaxy nexus !

Google doesn't care
I remember reading recently that Google knows about fragmentation but isn't worried about it. Now that I'm tempted to buy a media device to have the latest and greatest software, I can see how fragmentation can actually work for Google because now more and more people will look to buy nexus devices.

the main reason i got a HTC phone is because unlike Samsung's strange choice in hardware it dosnt take 5 months to port a fast stable release from the MOD team unlike HTC
lets hope this takes off !

the one X got already a port
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1737736

Ds outdated? Switch or not?

My friend has samsung galaxy mini and i read on xda that mini is getting an update of android4.4 kitkat.phone ram screen internal memory etc... Mostly all feature compare to ds are much lower including price. Still getting an updates. I think htc company is just interested in selling phone one time no updates nothing. Probably next time i wont go for htc may be ds is outdated have now time to change if no updates?
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Where did you read that? Are you sure it wasn't about galaxy s4 mini / s3 mini or something? I'm fairly sure that the galaxy mini isn't getting any updates past gingerbread.

lovinaakash said:
My friend has samsung galaxy mini and i read on xda that mini is getting an update of android4.4 kitkat.phone ram screen internal memory etc... Mostly all feature compare to ds are much lower including price. Still getting an updates. I think htc company is just interested in selling phone one time no updates nothing. Probably next time i wont go for htc may be ds is outdated have now time to change if no updates?
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Hey, you are on XDA and worrying about system updates,?
just look around
Do not fear dying of hunger,sitting by the table, which is filled with food
Cheers:laugh:

Read properly sansumg update cause android4.4 kitkat does not require high ram..
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Sitting on table full of stale food
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lovinaakash said:
Read properly sansumg update cause android4.4 kitkat does not require high ram..
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I know very little of sansumgs
all i know is that because we all here
seem to be born different,
most of us, 'd rather rely on a fellow dev,
than on a manufacturer who sold you the phone...
so, when there is an update and your device meets
the requirements to run it,
you'll surely find it here,
sooner or later..
As for HTC...it is a smartphone manufacturer,
not a software company,..
their main occupation is: selling phones,
not supporting operating systems running on them...

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2438968
Link for galaxy mini update
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lovinaakash said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2438968
Link for galaxy mini update
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in the first place, how do you know that kitkat requires lesser ram and cpu usage? did Google said that? no, they didn't. unless you have a magic ball and predicted the future. otherwise give some prove that android 4.4 requires lesser ram and cpu usage
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lovinaakash said:
My friend has samsung galaxy mini and i read on xda that mini is getting an update of android4.4 kitkat.phone ram screen internal memory etc... Mostly all feature compare to ds are much lower including price. Still getting an updates. I think htc company is just interested in selling phone one time no updates nothing. Probably next time i wont go for htc may be ds is outdated have now time to change if no updates?
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I'm highly doubtful that the Galaxy Mini will be receiving KitKat. If KitKat does have support for devices with low specs then OEMs will probably just release cheaper phones that run it out of the box, rather than spending money on developing updates for outdated phones.
As for whether you should upgrade or not, I think so. I had a DS for two years and bought a discounted Nexus 4 two weeks ago. Definitely worth buying one, and you can be sure that it will be receiving the update to KitKat.

Its official announced by samsung and not by an dev. So i think m 100% correct read the details provided in link.
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lovinaakash said:
Its official announced by samsung and not by an dev. So i think m 100% correct read the details provided in link.
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Samsung hasn't announced the Galaxy Mini getting Kit Kat being official.
Knowing Samsung, your friend won't get 4.4 on Galaxy Mini. It's too old device, even if 4.4 is made to be working with low RAM devices, Galaxy Mini won't get the update.
Why? Because Samsung wants you to upgrade your device (all OEMs do).

If i can afford it by samsung my girls has samsung and a lovit
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Android Kit Kat and the Nexus 5

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/10/android-for-all-and-new-nexus-5.html
Just announced a little while ago. Almost all of the models are sold out already!
Now when do we get Kit Kat

Hope to see kitkat running on one xl soon
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Not for a long time, and never officially.

captaincanada84 said:
Not for a long time, and never officially.
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Realistic, and yet crushingly depressing. Might be time to jump ship...

captaincanada84 said:
Not for a long time, and never officially.
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I'm on the same boat. The specs inside are making my thirsty 5" palms sweat. I'll be ordering white variant next week or week afterwards.
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captaincanada84 said:
Not for a long time, and never officially.
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This isn't entirely true. Android KitKat was designed to use less power. It can technically be used on some of the oldest android devices.

Phonefanboys said:
This isn't entirely true. Android KitKat was designed to use less power. It can technically be used on some of the oldest android devices.
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I have to agree, we'll definitely see 4.4 on our device sometime in the near future. Probably not an official update from HTC, but in the form of aosp for sure.
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Phonefanboys said:
This isn't entirely true. Android KitKat was designed to use less power. It can technically be used on some of the oldest android devices.
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You know as well as I do that official support for our phone is finished. We won't see 4.3, let alone 4.4. And with all the problems 4.3 roms are having, the wait for anything 4.4 will be even worse.
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captaincanada84 said:
You know as well as I do that official support for our phone is finished. We won't see 4.3, let alone 4.4. And with all the problems 4.3 roms are having, the wait for anything 4.4 will be even worse.
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Because of the lower power usage we never know.
I agree it is probably over but we have some great developers here.

Phonefanboys said:
Because of the lower power usage we never know.
I agree it is probably over but we have some great developers here.
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I don't doubt that we'll see 4.4 custom roms eventually. But it's going to take awhile. There's basically no chance of anymore support from HTC. They won't even give us 4.3.
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There is a chance we will see 4.4 kitty katty sense 5.5

ImagioX1 said:
There is a chance we will see 4.4 kitty katty sense 5.5
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Official or unofficial
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ImagioX1 said:
There is a chance we will see 4.4 kitty katty sense 5.5
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You just made my night.
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haq.adnan said:
Official or unofficial
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Dude I don't know what HTC plans.
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ImagioX1 said:
Dude I don't know what HTC plans.
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Then on what basis u earlier said that there is a chance of kitkat and sense 5.5....is it ur intution or what
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i wish if we had some STABLE ROM for 4.3
forget sense AOSP would also do good!
:crying::crying::crying::angel:
as faar as 4.4 is concerned its optimized for Devices with lower memory (so it has to be fast) and there are a few observable changes in UI as well (no more stock HALO BLUE color) so i would really love to have it!

Sonone said:
i wish if we had some STABLE ROM for 4.3
forget sense AOSP would also do good!
:crying::crying::crying::angel:
as faar as 4.4 is concerned its optimized for Devices with lower memory (so it has to be fast) and there are a few observable changes in UI as well (no more stock HALO BLUE color) so i would really love to have it!
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Just because CM is almost unusable recently it doesn't mean other ROMs are necessarily the same. Slimbean (4.3) is perfectly stable, in fact I've been using it for weeks and I haven't encountered any issues at all. I'd actually class the ROM as being almost perfect. The only reason it loses points in my mind is because it doesn't have a screenshot tile, other than that I can't fault it at all. I'm actually seriously surprised more people aren't using it, maybe they just aren't aware it's there.
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timmaaa said:
Just because CM is almost unusable recently it doesn't mean other ROMs are necessarily the same. Slimbean (4.3) is perfectly stable, in fact I've been using it for weeks and I haven't encountered any issues at all. I'd actually class the ROM as being almost perfect. The only reason it loses points in my mind is because it doesn't have a screenshot tile, other than that I can't fault it at all. I'm actually seriously surprised more people aren't using it, maybe they just aren't aware it's there.
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i admit the fact even i was unaware of SLIMBEAN being 4.3.
in fact i was going to give Beanstalk a try cause its an OFFICIAL NIGHTLY and your signature also mentions it :good:
for the screenshot i believe there are aftermarket apps so that will be no issue for me!
secondly i had this thing in mind!?
does any AOSP rom have a battery saver option where the device goes to sleep!?
cause that really helps me!

I forgot my signature still said that, changed back to Slimbean now lol. As far as I know there's no battery saver tool built in to aosp, you can use an app like Tasker to cut data connections etc while the screen is off though.
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Well couldn't help myself this morning, looks like I'll be shuffling over to the Nexus 5 forums soon! Thanks for the good times guys, HTC One XL has been a blast.

[NEWS] Nokia's Project X Android Smartphone Specification Details Leaked.

Nokia's mysterious Project
X smartphone, which if
rumours are to be believed
will run on the Android OS
seems to be getting more
leaks.
According to the news Nokia Android
smartphone will come with
a dual-core 1Ghz
processor, 4GB of RAM and
a 5 megapixel camera.
Those specifications put the
phone at the lower end of
the market, which seems to
be supported by the claim
that it will come in a range
of colours -- usually a sure
sign of a mass market
product.
In fact, it seems very
similar in specification to
the Windows Phone based
Lumia 520.
The key being that this is
supposedly an Android
smartphone, being released
by a company about to be
bought by Microsoft.
Whether it will be able to
dual-boot into Windows
Phone as well is uncertain,
but Microsoft has been
reportedly talking to other
handset vendors about
such a system, so this could
be a technology prover for
Microsoft to show the
potential.

good for start . especialy with dual boot.
it good but not for company like NOKIA .
so. thanks for the news
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abdo jouma said:
good for start . especialy with dual boot.
it good but not for company like NOKIA .
so. thanks for the news
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Thanks next time i will do my best.

gta
abdo jouma said:
good for start . especialy with dual boot.
it good but not for company like NOKIA .
so. thanks for the news
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Thanks next time i will do my best.

just press the buton
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too much ram
4 gb ram is it correct

slogger001 said:
4 gb ram is it correct
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man no. how it will be dual core with 4 gb ram and middle phone performance.
it is 4 gb rom (the storage)
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