If you have an HTC Desire, bad news, buddy. The high-end of the Taiwanese house for 2010 will not be able to be updated to the latest version of the operating system, Android 2.3 Gingerbread. During yesterday morning, HTC made this setback public through its Facebook page, complaining to users, to whom it apologized for contravening what everyone expected after the announcement of the company itself that the HTC Desire would be one of those who catch up with the Android platform.
To understand the reasons that have led the Asian firm to stop the update process, it would be necessary to attend to the excuses made by the company. These focus on problems with the management of the RAM memory of the HTC Desire and the user experience that HTC Sense should provide (the interface or icon environment of the firm), something that would not be guaranteed after the update. Said in more traditional ways: from HTC they doubt that the HTC Desire pulls as it should if Android 2.3 Gingerbread is installed. However, that reason does not quite fit.
According to HTC, the RAM of the HTC Desire (576 MB) is not enough to guarantee the good performance of HTC Sense on Android 2.3 Gingerbread. Not even the one GHz processor installed by the manufacturer's most popular mobile phone in 2010 serves to invite optimism: the company assures that the engineers have broken a sweat with unsuccessful results.
But that is not logical, and we explain why. To begin with, we could accept that HTC imposes a very high quality standard on the performance of HTC Sense, something that they would not want to compromise (although without the need to install version 3.0 of the interface, the HTC Desire could go without problems).
But this would be in contradiction with the fact that another terminal in the company's catalog, the HTC Wildfire S, less powerful than the HTC Desire, does install Android 2.3 Gingerbread. And that despite the fact that it has less RAM (512 MB) and a processor that does not reach the HTC Desire (600 MHz) in speed .
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