HTC Desire HD
A few weeks ago there was a lot of talk on whether HTC will bring Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich to the aging Desire HD. After a lot of uncertainty, we got the final statement which says that the Desire HD will not get updated to ICS.
Read more: viaWe’ve heard your feedback on our decision not to update the HTC Desire HD to Android 4.0. We completely understand that this is a controversial decision.
For more background, due to how storage on the HTC Desire HD is partitioned – and the larger size of Android 4.0 – it would require re-partitioning device storage and overwriting user data in order to install this update. While technically advanced users might find this solution acceptable, the majority of customers would not. We also considered ways to reduce the overall size of the software package, but this would impact features and functionality that customers are currently using. Even after installing the update, there were other technical limitations which we felt negatively impacted the user experience.
We believe an update should always improve the user experience and carefully evaluate each update based on this criteria. While we are very aware of the disappointment from this decision, we believe the impact to user experience was too great. We recognize this is a change from our previous statement and for that we’re truly sorry.
Like this post? Like us on Facebook to see when a new post is published.
