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how's it going guys debut here from phone book calm and in this video we're talking about a question or more or less frustration that a lot of you guys have I certainly have it which is why do android phones take so long to get updated to the next version of the West you know why is it that the iphone iOS get updated pretty much as soon as apple announces it why is it that Windows Phone which this HT 7 over here which is a year in a poll gets updated to the latest version of the west which is mango 7.5 yet a phone does more recently released in either these guys like the Galaxy Note just barely got the update to ice cream sandwich which the latest version on Android which is seven months after the Galaxy Nexus was launched with I shouldn't say I went back in November you know why is that this guy just barely get updated and this is the international unlocked version this time and talked about the carrier branded version on AT&T for that matter any carrier branded phone whether it's HTC LG motorola or Samsung I mean pretty much most phones out there don't have ICS or Android 4.8 percent do and a big portion of that is due to HTC One series sales and new phones are coming out with ice cream sandwich course a lot of phones are being updated just now but it's still seven months down the line which to me is way too long but you know this is turning into a rant but let me tell you guys you know let's go back to the question why is it that way so I'm not going to answer that question my theories because everybody has their own theories but I'll go to you know somebody in the know which is an executive from Motorola her name is Christie Wyatt and basically what she says is when Google releases a new version of the software for example Ice Cream Sandwich they do a version that's made specifically for that phone that they work on so for example the Galaxy Nexus so the rest of the Android ecosystem out there doesn't get to see the new software and tell pretty much we see it so basically that's part of the delay because they don't get it you know as soon as you would think and you know that's a issue that at least apple doesn't have and anyway um she goes on to say that hardware is the biggest issue when it comes to updating the phone because there's multiple chipsets there's multiple radio bands for multiple countries on these phones and that's really what takes a big portion time to adjust all the firmware to work for that and then you have the custom UI of course which does one of my major you know things that you know I always thought that was a custom UI that took all the time for the updates but yet it seems to be a small portion or any way it does add on to the amount of time to update your phone and then lastly these phones have to get approved by manufacturers it has a whole bunch of many are I'm sorry carriers because it has a limit of carrier bloatware on there so they have to make sure their apps work and all these things end up adding on to the amount of time that it takes for you to get update that's why it's seven months down the line and we still haven't seen updates for your phone and you know maybe jellybean five points will be coming up soon and yet your phone still gonna be stuck on gingerbread hoping to get ice cream sandwich others kind of really ridiculous but anyway this is the way it is that's the reason so that's why you know you could get a phone like the Nexus you're not going to have to wait for the carrier to approve it because it's the unlocked hspa+ word and of course the verizon version will take a little bit longer to get updated this is the phone that Google built the soft one builds the software on until they release the next Nexus so that's another you know step out of the process which makes it get updates a little bit faster and of course you know the same hardware is on here so anyway that's why the Nexus gets updated faster on Windows Phone they've really require stop really restricts the hardware that can be used by manufactures a lot of are the same processors the same three button layout the same resolution on the screen where on Android you know it's all over the map the phones are all different which is you know a great thing about android but it comes at a cost and of course the iphone and I was um Apple knows you know the software is gonna be going on this guy from the very beginning there's only one phone or at least one recent phone which is you know the for s1 processor to work with and it doesn't have any carrier blower on here so they don't have to worry about that either so that's why this gets updated so fast too so anyway this one make a quick video about this to let you guys you don't know what's going on and hopefully you know with the new Nexus initiative that Google looks to be rolling out which I made a video about on the channel hopefully it means manufacturers get the software in their hands a little bit earlier and hope you can see up his litter but anyway the super me in this video thank you for watching