You can read the full statement from HTC below.
We are excited about the latest update for Android, Ice Cream Sandwich, and are currently reviewing its features and functionality to determine our upgrade plans. Our goal for Android updates is to give every customer an improved user experience, which means balancing each phone's unique hardware, HTC Sense experience and the Android kernel. While our goal is to upgrade as many of our recent devices as possible, we are committed to maintaining every phone's performance and usability first. Please stay tuned for more updates on specific device upgrade plans
desire is NOT getting ICS update !
expler said:
desire is NOT getting ICS update !
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Well, no surprise there, since they had huge troubles updating it to 2.3
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You can read the full statement from HTC below.
We are excited about the latest update for Android, Ice Cream Sandwich, and are currently reviewing its features and functionality to determine our upgrade plans. Our goal for Android updates is to give every customer an improved user experience, which means balancing each phone's unique hardware, HTC Sense experience and the Android kernel. While our goal is to upgrade as many of our recent devices as possible, we are committed to maintaining every phone's performance and usability first. Please stay tuned for more updates on specific device upgrade plans
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Huh?
It will be great if Desire receives ICS but I doubt because of marketing reasons. The guys from HTC want to sell their new phones to old customers as well as new ones so the old Desire won't get an ICS update, as it didn't get an Gingerbread one (with new Sense).
Desire isn't a recent device anymore
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Yeah, but I think there's a bit of good will at stake too. Many people are on contract with months left and aren't willing to shell fora new device just yet.
If HTC nurture the customers that have had a good experience with the desire (I'm one of them) perhaps they won't be lured off to samsung, motorolla, lg, huwai, nokia etc come end of contract.
I reckon if they could do it with sense they would.
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Yeah, but I think there's a bit of good will at stake too. Many people are on contract with months left and aren't willing to shell fora new device just yet.
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Then you either spit moar dough when you buy it to get shorter contract, or you take a two year, and then don't whine every second about it. I won't even mention shelling two year contract in early 2011. and similar silly moves.
I think some of you are forgetting the Gingerbread update saga.
After several announcements and retractions from HTC only an unsupported developer build was released.
ICS will only ever be a custom build from the dev community.
Fingers crossed for CM9, hardware permitting
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Desire isn't a recent device anymore
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Desire was never a recent device in the first place.
If HTC could release ICS loaded with their sense experience, while leaving room in the rom for carrier apps they would. Perhaps it's naive of me, but there you have it.
Problem isn't the age, or the cpu, or even wanting to force you into a newer phone. It's the limited memory with which to drive a relatively high pixel count on the screen and a version of software that probably wasn't even dreamt of when the desire was getting her specs.
The development community will possibly be able to shoehorn ICS on, without sense, but htc is saying they don't have time to bother with that level of customisation for an older device. If it were simple they'd do it.
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If HTC could release ICS loaded with their sense experience, while leaving room in the rom for carrier apps they would. Perhaps it's naive of me, but there you have it.
Problem isn't the age, or the cpu, or even wanting to force you into a newer phone. It's the limited memory with which to drive a relatively high pixel count on the screen and a version of software that probably wasn't even dreamt of when the desire was getting her specs.
The development community will possibly be able to shoehorn ICS on, without sense, but htc is saying they don't have time to bother with that level of customisation for an older device. If it were simple they'd do it.
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So theoretically you are saying that phones such as Desire HD will get it as it is able to fit Sense and ICS in? Highly improbable.
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So theoretically you are saying that phones such as Desire HD will get it as it is able to fit Sense and ICS in? Highly improbable.
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Actually, the desire HD should run ics and sense really well, cuz sensation XL is just a overclocked desire HD
If im going to buy a new phone im getting Samsung anyway
Samsung do the same for galacxy S so....
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Actually, the desire HD should run ics and sense really well, cuz sensation XL is just a overclocked desire HD
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Yes it probably will. The problem remains on whether HTC will bother to update it. After all, its 15 months old.
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Desire will not get ICS update...
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Samsung do the same for galacxy S so....
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And Sony-Ericsson, and Motorola, and LG,...
Htc needs to learn something from the xda developers they look so inmature even android 2.3 was a big problem
HTC's making money out of selling phones. The End.
Not from supporting new shinny flagship os's for "Mezozoic" phones.
Look at Apple, they support almost all new os's for deprecated phones but with small feature set and performance penalty.
Is that what you want?
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http://www.mediafire.com/?ey59fxgn8xp86sc
Source for honeycomb ported to nexus one
Our devs can easily port it to desire.
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From now onwards, HTC Desire users will rely heavily on XDA Developers to bring the latest Android to the aging Android handset.
The desire is not aging. It has the top specs still.
If HTC was smart they would charge a membership fee for ASAP updates with sense. I would pay 50 bucks a year for monthly updates.
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Looking forward to Desire ported honeycomb
I am the only who doesn't want a tablet OS on my phone?
Would be Nice to toy around with this.
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I am the only who doesn't want a tablet OS on my phone?
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I want a tablet OS on a tablet if that helps?
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I am the only who doesn't want a tablet OS on my phone?
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I agree with you. I don't want a tablet OS on my phone either. There is a reason why Honeycomb was built for tablet and isn't built for a phone. It is because it was built for a tablet so it could contend witht the gay pad (iPad). Honeycomb will come to phones soon enough and it will be built properly. Currently, the port of Honeycomb is there but it is too unstable and is so not optimized for it. I think there are too many people wanting Honeycomb and want it now and devs are willing to do it. I don't see the point truthfully.
I don't think any of that made sense tbh.
So I heard Desire is officialy dead. Is it really official or just a rumor?
I heard it was a zombie sucking out the brains of other "smartphones"...
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So I heard Desire is officialy dead. Is it really official or just a rumor?
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If u mean about the official updates, that is possible, as gingerbread should be the final android version that htc gave us..maybe some minor security fix later eventually..but we will still have cm and miui that will give us the latest android version available of course
Well minor GB updates should be possible. I mean, it's not like complete overhaul like 2.2 -> 2.3 was.
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Well minor GB updates should be possible. I mean, it's not like complete overhaul like 2.2 -> 2.3 was.
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i don't know about minor updates..because they didn't release the ota for all user (and they will not do that in future), its only an ruu for devs..
I doubt any updates will come our way. That would really be too much to ask. I think that Desire will be discontinued soon enough anyway.
When i wanted to buy my Desire, Vodafone Romania was out of stock. When asked when will a new shipment arrive, they've told me that the device is listed as End Of Life and no new ones will be brought. They have since removed it from their website/on-line market.
IMO, there will be no further updates for the Desire, either OTA or RUU.
Yea sad but true. A more than 1,5 year old phone is around EOL. Htc need their customers to move on to newer more profitable phones.
edit: also just checked. Almost any store i can think of have taken it off their product list.
Yep it has been discontinued.
Its on the HTC website. I doubt they would remove it off that.
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I have also checked on several local stores near mhome, they do not provide any new Desire ...not anymore...
I guess this is it...
But how long the custom ROM will provide support/update to our Desire
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But how long the custom ROM will provide support/update to our Desire
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I have saved lots of Roms, themes, Apks, Hboots and mods so whenever the Desire Devs move on I still have plenty to play with. Sometimes nostalgia is good.
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I have saved lots of Roms, themes, Apks, Hboots and mods so whenever the Desire Devs move on I still have plenty to play with. Sometimes nostalgia is good.
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and what u will do? play with old things?
no, the solution is cm and miui...they will give us the latest android version available untill the hardware can support it..so maybe more than 1 year at least (android 2.5?)
As long as the Nexus One gets new updates, be it Ice-Cream sandwhich or even the next Android iteration that comes after it, I'm sure the dev's will continue to cook us new roms up to a point where it is no longer possible.
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As long as the Nexus One gets new updates, be it Ice-Cream sandwhich or even the next Android iteration that comes after it, I'm sure the dev's will continue to cook us new roms up to a point where it is no longer possible.
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There is no need to cook and porting when dev can build it from the source
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Yep it has been discontinued.
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think it'll drop to £89 then?
With all the custom ROMs about I think the desire will plod on for some time yet
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Does anyone know of anything that might suggest that there might be a possibility of getting the ICS update for the wildfire S for when it gets released?
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Does anyone know of anything that might suggest that there might be a possibility of getting the ICS update for the wildfire S for when it gets released?
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I don't think there are any releases yet. But I hope WFS gets Ice Cream Sandwich update in Q4 of 2011, according to this website : EnGadget - Google Ice Cream Sandwich coming in Q4 2011 to smartphones and tablets alike
it is to be released in Q4 2011.
Lol. Not before 2011. HTC is slow with updates and super slow in my country -__-
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I have always found HTC to be better when it comes to support and updates etc as compared to some other companies out there - I've seen rumors on different sites etc where people talk about how the ICS would only be supported by phones with dual core processors or the 1 gig processors etc - but i don't really trust such rumors - I remember when gingerbread was to be released, some thought that it would only be available to phones with 1 gig processors etc but then it came out and a lot of devices with lower hardware specs could upgrade to it without a hitch - Hopefully that happens for when the ICS comes out - but yea it might be some time (depending on the region etc) as to when the WFS might see an update released for it - and hopefully an update for WFS would be released -
I don't think so since ice cream won't need any hardware keys.
And won't support them.
It will be released probably in 2months and Samsungs nexus prime will be the first phone with it (haha will buy it ).
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I don't think so since ice cream won't need any hardware keys.
And won't support them.
It will be released probably in 2months and Samsungs nexus prime will be the first phone with it (haha will buy it ).
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Yea I heard the same about ICE not supporting hardware keys - but that makes me wonder about all these new phones that are out and that have these capacitive buttons like on the WFS - don't think they can be left out of the whole update process - I am not sure but I am guessing some existing phones will see the update regardless of the capacitive buttons -
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Yes the devs will figure a way out, I am sure the will.
The advantage of no hardware keys is the possibility to build a phone with a bigger screen without having to make it larger. (display gets the space which the hardware keys would have).
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I bet u there will for all... If gingerbread is supported then ics is also available for all... But not for old device like htc wildfire,tattoo, g1 unless someone ports...
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Yea I heard the same about ICE not supporting hardware keys - but that makes me wonder about all these new phones that are out and that have these capacitive buttons like on the WFS - don't think they can be left out of the whole update process - I am not sure but I am guessing some existing phones will see the update regardless of the capacitive buttons -
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This update will remove the fragmentation in android so phones made recently wont be left out. At Google I/O they said older phones will be supported too, so the buttons will still function. There's not a good chance HTC will make ics for older phones using sense. This phone could get sense 3.5, before reaching eol, like the g2.
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Sense 3.5
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Now htc should support other firmwares... Like aosp and such...
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i think it's amazing that even 2.3 was already loaded on the phone out of the box in Canada.
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i think it's amazing that even 2.3 was already loaded on the phone out of the box in Canada.
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Yeah mine too... When the salesman told me it was Froyo 2.2, I just went ahead and paid. I checked the phone and "Android version : 2.3.3".
Hey guys im using htc 2.3 gingerbread and im very happy with it ,but there are few security patches that have been released since our official update. I asked htc but no luck. Or this is final version from htc?
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Official support is over. Though there was one update for Froyo after the 2.3 release IIRC.
Yeah i could never install it. And 2.3 gives me much better battery life and app2 sd is great
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For HTC the Desire is dead....
Unfortunate, but true.
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For HTC the Desire is dead....
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reason I'm never gonna buy phones made by HTC, or any other manufacturers. My phones from now on will be pure Google devices e.g The Galaxy Nexus/Nexus Prime. Looking forward to the Samsung/Google unveiling of the upcoming Android OS and device.
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reason I'm never gonna buy phones made by HTC, or any other manufacturers. My phones from now on will be pure Google devices e.g The Galaxy Nexus/Nexus Prime. Looking forward to the Samsung/Google unveiling of the upcoming Android OS and device.
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No proprietory UI either.
Hopefully a Moto based device will come out, so we dont have to worry so much about build quality.
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reason I'm never gonna buy phones made by HTC, or any other manufacturers. My phones from now on will be pure Google devices e.g The Galaxy Nexus/Nexus Prime. Looking forward to the Samsung/Google unveiling of the upcoming Android OS and device.
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I think you might find soon that Google consider the Nexus One dead too. Which is a shame. Its still a very powerful phone. Internal specs higher then iPhone 4 as that is under clocked.
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reason I'm never gonna buy phones made by HTC, or any other manufacturers. My phones from now on will be pure Google devices e.g The Galaxy Nexus/Nexus Prime. Looking forward to the Samsung/Google unveiling of the upcoming Android OS and device.
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Get your grip ffs. No one in the sane state of mind would support device that is more than a year and a half old. I can't think one company in the IT industry that supports legacy devices, so I'm hoping you could enlighten me?
Apple do.
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Apple do.
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Because they make one phone/year, while most Android OEM's make 3-4/year so its hard to keep up updating every single one of em... Besides, Apple cuts most of the newest iOS features from the previous generations of iPhones, and thats something I havent seen happening on Android... You will either get everything from the newest Android versions, or not get it at all...
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Get your grip ffs. No one in the sane state of mind would support device that is more than a year and a half old. I can't think one company in the IT industry that supports legacy devices, so I'm hoping you could enlighten me?
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erklat is right... there so many devices with so many diferent specs to please everyone, that after some time it's unsuportable for then.
Just wondering what you guys think. Sense 5 is rumoured to launch this year. Do you think it will make it down to the one x family at all? Either officially or unofficially?
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I'll probably switch phones by then......
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Just wondering what you guys think. Sense 5 is rumoured to launch this year. Do you think it will make it down to the one x family at all? Either officially or unofficially?
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Most probably, i doubt they'll drop development of a device only released last year with such great specs, it'd be stupid. Plus even if they drop official development... we're in XDA, the possibilities are endless lmfao.
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Most probably, i doubt they'll drop development of a device only released last year with such great specs, it'd be stupid. Plus even if they drop official development... we're in XDA, the possibilities are endless lmfao.
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:thumbup:
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There are already some leaked images of Sense 5 dialer and keyboard. I don't know how valid they are, but for what it counts, I really like the looks..
Me too. Looking nice and clean.
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adicken said:
Just wondering what you guys think. Sense 5 is rumoured to launch this year. Do you think it will make it down to the one x family at all? Either officially or unofficially?
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HOX will receive updates a long time from now. at least an year, i would say 2 years, but let's be more realistic
Updates......... let's not go there, your going to start a *****ing frenzy akin to JB.
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I don't care if we get it officaly or not. We have Football, that means we can get even a Sense 6 custom rom)
Yeah, HTC metioned somewhere (cant find it) that flagship devices are ALWAYS supported for atleast 2 years from release.
If sense 5 comes before the 2 year then HOX should get it.
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Yeah, HTC metioned somewhere (cant find it) that flagship devices are ALWAYS supported for atleast 2 years from release.
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Your definition of supported might include new android releases, but I don't think "support" necessarily imply free OS upgrades...
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Most probably, i doubt they'll drop development of a device only released last year with such great specs, it'd be stupid. Plus even if they drop official development... we're in XDA, the possibilities are endless lmfao.
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That's exactly what they did to the Desire about a year after it was released. We got an update from 2.1 to 2.2 and that was the end of that. Kept being promised an update for 2.3 for a couple of months both by HTC and my provider, 3 Network and in the end they ditched it and the entire Desire platform. Which brought me to root my phone and install Cm7 on it and try out a whole host of other roms
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Yeah, HTC metioned somewhere (cant find it) that flagship devices are ALWAYS supported for atleast 2 years from release.
If sense 5 comes before the 2 year then HOX should get it.
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Your definition of supported might include new android releases, but I don't think "support" necessarily imply free OS upgrades...
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In fact, my old Desire HD has been "abandoned" by HTC after 1 year and a few months from the release date. Thanks to the XDA community no longer has android 2.3
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In fact, my old Desire HD has been "abandoned" by HTC after 1 year and a few months from the release date. Thanks to the XDA community no longer has android 2.3
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Sense 4+ come in about 18 months of sensation Launch and here we are with 3.6, no update until now.
idk
i dont even think if its coming to htc one x, i dont think so because the jellybean didnt roll out to the other one series as well, only on the one x so i really dont know
The HTC One X is a flagship device, I bet it will continue to be developed for the foreseeable future.
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Usually htc will upgrade previous flagship device with their newer os but with different sense. Just like the evo 3d and sensation that upgraded to ics but with sense 3.6 unlike one x that comes along with sense 4.0. So maybe we'll get sense 4.6 rather than sense 5?
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I fall in love with the new sense 5, but I'm thinking to buy a one x in order to wait for a lower price of the new one...
I already have htc sensation, the flagship of two years ago that don't received the sense 4 when htc one x and one s was released, and I'm pretty sure that one x won't receive the official sense 5.. maybe it will be update to android 4.2 and a light "sense 4.5", but nothing else in my opinion! I don't know if I should buy this device and use it for the next 7-8 months.. I'm so unsettled, I don't like tegra 3 cpu... Any one thinks that one x will have sense 5 rom ported from one? I know, it's too early, but I should take a decision in a short time!
I am pretty sure that the devs around here will be able to get it ported. :thumbup:
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I'm hoping that a backup of htc one image will be released soon, in order to start to have an opinion from devs... I'll decide if I should buy onex during the next week, and after that I've a short time...