First Posted: December 29, 2013 4:30 PM EST
Samsung Galaxy GS3 (Photo: Flickr / Stephane <3)
class=”c3″> The Samsung GS3 and Note 2 are ancient in the smartphone world.
class=”c3″> Their wildly popular offspring, the GS4 and Note 3 are lighting the tech world on fire. Bloggers have gone gaga over the Note 3′s best in class display. The GS4 is overpriced a surefire hit thanks to its small footprint, but gigantic screen. However both of the older handsets originally ran on an older version of Android – 4.2 – rather than 4.3 Jelly Bean. A previous update to Android 4.2.2 was ditched in favor of making the jump to 4.3. Whereas 4.2.2 was only a minor upgrade in terms of features and enhancements, Jellybean is a vastly superior OS thanks to a new dialer, OpenGL 3.0 and improved Bluetooth.
A vast Majority of GS3 and Note 2 owners have updated Their devices to Jelly Bean. But for owners of the 4G variants of the GS3 and Note 2 the agonizing wait Continues. Well now hold on a second, why is that? The update has been delayed till sometimes in January thanks to a carrier issue. Samsung most not be too happy about the delay. Consumers will undoubtedly think Samsung were the ones who held up the software update. The not-to-be-named cellular provider found issues with During, Jellybean During a network testing process. Luckily These issues seem to be mostly Affecting European carriers.
Samsung Announced its update plane back in October and expected to have the rollout begin and end in November. This delay further fragment the Android world. Many people still have devices running on Ice Cream Sandwich, very few are on the latest update, Kit Kat, and others are of course using the Jelly Bean. iPhone users on the other hand get access to timely, once a year updates. Back in October the iOS 7 first week adoption rate numbers were released and They were stunning to say the very least.
More than 73% of all devices compatible with iOS 7 had installed the software. When Compared to a September 2013 chartered from the Android developers site this is especially Concerning. Nearly half of devices ran Jellybean, 2 percent of devices still used 2.2 Froyo, a third of devices used 2.3 Gingerbread, and one fifth used 4.3 Ice Cream Sandwich. How are developers supposed to make amazing Android apps When many phones will not be powerful enough to run the software?
Are you discouraged with the fragmentation in the Android world? Let us know what version you are running in the comment’s section below.
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