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May-July at worst.
I've been thinking about this a lot today, and tonight I feel like I've had a change of heart.
When the D4 first leaked, I was ecstatic. No other device was even on my radar. Coming from the OG Droid, I knew that the D4, with its 4G and awesome keyboard and dual core processor, would basically be a more awesome version of the phone I currently own and have been so happy with.
But after reading the Motorola blog post, I was turned off. On some level I already knew this, but it hit me that the Motorola of today is not the Motorola of two years ago that produced a true, vanilla Android device. I don't consider myself a slave to consumerism, and I don't feel the need to own the newest device on the day it's released (I am still using an OG Droid, after all) but 6 months is a long time in the world of consumer technology, and if I'm spending $300 on a new device, receiving major software updates 6 months late and riddled with bloatware is unacceptable.
I've had a Droid for two years, and I had a RAZR for many years before that...but the direction Motorola is taking is not one I feel I can, or should, support. I hope that with the Google merger, Motorola will start making Google Experience Devices again...but until then, I think buying a Motorola Android product is a bad decision.
So...my thoughts are turning towards the Galaxy Nexus. The plastic and absence of a physical keyboard will take some getting used to, but I think it's a better decision at this point.
My guess is late Q3 at the earliest. With that said, I could still see it never getting ICS, should the Moto team have as much trouble building from source (like that of the CyanogenMod team). Factor in Moto blur and all of the various bloat apps (from both Verizon and Moto) and it just sounds like a mess. I sure hope I'm wrong, but you never know.
Given the unknown release date for the D4, it might get delayed long enough so that it releases with ICS out-of-the-box, as opposed to a future update.
Given the unknown release date for the D4, it might get delayed long enough so that it releases with ICS out-of-the-box, as opposed to a future update.
ROFL! The D4 was released last month.
Styrisvps is a spammer, just ignore him. His post is an exact copy of the third post in this thread.Unknown release date??? The Droid 4 was released a month ago today
Motorola made a post on its blog today about the procedure for converting Android source code into a format compatible with Motorola devices, and it's not pretty. We're looking at 4-6 months, at a minimum.
Motorola Update on Ice Cream Sandwich | The Official Motorola Blog - Motorola Mobility, Inc. USA
Motorola Details the Ice Cream Sandwich Upgrade Process for Their Phones, Are We Really 6 months Away From Seeing it? – Droid Life: A Droid Community Blog
I've never heard of an Android phone being delayed for the sole purpose of getting the latest version of Android. The Droid Bionic was an kind of an exception but the original model got scrapped. The Thunderbolt, Droid Charge, and the Revolution were all released with Android 2.2/Froyo when Android 2.3/Gingerbread was available for 3 months at the least. Carriers never have a problem releasing phones that don't have the latest update bwcause they know that they can have an upsate pushed out. The thing is that it takes like 9 months to have a phone ready for launch. They can't just hold the phones to make updates for the phones because the updates have to be approved by the carrier, and unfortunately for us, if they did we'd never see devices; look how long it to HTC, LG, and Samsung to get updates approved by Verizon.
I'm scared to root a phone with a locked bootloader. And even if I did root it, I wouldn't be able to fully enjoy root access, thus to me it isn't wort the risk. If it's released and doesn't have ICS on it within 3 months, I'm just gonna pull the trigger and suck it up.
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