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To: sylvester80 who wrote (6405)	6/10/2014 2:00:45 PM
From: Eric L	1 Recommendation Recommended By sylvester80 of 6432

Syl: Last week you posted an article by JR Raphael for ComputerWorld's 'Android Power' titled ' *2 big points critics always miss about Android upgrades' which discusses "the annual 'Android upgrades are awful' flare-up brought to us by Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference.... It's a pretty good article and worth a read. JR states "I'm not going to sit here and tell you that Android upgrades are a great experience across the board. They aren't. Quite frankly, for a lot of users, they leave something to be desired." He then mkes this point: "If you want timely OS upgrades on Android, you can have 'em; you just have to choose a phone that provides that experience.*" JR also states "Samsung tends to be poky and uncommunicative about its upgrade progress" about the leading manufacturer of mobile phones, smartphones and Android powered devices." The fact of the matter is that Samsung prioritizes updates and upgrades for its flagship devices and does a reasonably good job of testing and qualifying those upgrades in conjunction with a broad spectrum of global carriers. Case in point: As I noted prior I just purchased and activated a mint condition used (Sprint) Samsung Galaxy S III (SGH-L710) for a very modest cost. Sprint released that specific US specific model to shelves almost over 2 years ago running Google Android 4.0.4 with TouchWiz UI. My S III was delivered running Sprint's implementation of Android 4.3 Jelly Bean and within the next week I'll upgrade it to Sprint's implementation of Android 4.4 KitKat OS which runs on the S III (US version) hardware every bit as well as 4.0.4 did. This is the Sprint upgrade/update history for it ... This is the hardware spec for the Sprint Galaxy S III (SGH-L710) device ... Cheers, - Eric L. -

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