![]() ![]() It also didn’t envisage rolling out its own updates. In its original vision of Android, Google didn’t intend to sell its own phones. Instead, it gets its upgrades from the heart of the Googleplex itself, just as the iPhones pick up their software from Apple direct. Mine is plugged into T-Mobile’s US mobile phone network, but it is not beholden to that company. Google’s Galaxy Nexus is sold outside the traditional mobile phone contract. ![]() Phones keep the operating system software they were primed with when you first bought them and that software stays with them until they break.īecause upgrades – and the software that runs on phones – used to be entirely controlled by the phone companies, it is still common for them to manage the process of rolling out new versions, which happens once in a blue moon. Most iPhone users will be getting an upgrade themselves, some time this autumn, when iOS 6 is released by the Californian company.įor the majority of Android and other smartphone users, though, updates are as rare as first-class upgrades on a flight. It’s a Galaxy Nexus, one of the few models of Android phone that Google licenses and sells directly to end-users, so when it released the new “jelly bean” version of its Android mobile operating system, the Nexus got a direct update just a few hours later.įor those who use Apple’s iPhone, such upgrades are hardly news. HALF-WAY THROUGH this afternoon, my phone updated itself up with a new look. ![]()
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