Journey again to October 2015, when the HTC A9 was shiny and new. Amid the controversy concerning the worth and availability — an excessive amount of and too little — or the way it was only a copy of the iPhone that was only a copy of the HTC M9, there was a small glowing nugget of sunshine. A promise of software program updates inside 15 days of Google’s official telephones.
Did you hear that? The Unlocked A9 will obtain each Google SW replace inside 15 days of Nexus units! #BeBrilliant
— HTC USA (@HTCUSA) October 20, 2015
On the time, I used to be skeptical and took this to imply month-to-month updates (which did not occur both) due to the best way Android is developed within the Google vacuum as an alternative of out within the public like a correct open-source factor. There can be too many issues to go incorrect, and once they all went improper there was no means Google was going to carry off updating a telephone as a result of HTC wanted extra time. In any case, none of it issues now.
HTC tweeted a small and generic replace schedule for the telephones they’re planning to replace to Android 7.zero, and we will be ready to see something for the HTC A9 till someday after the HTC 10 will get up to date in This fall (October, November, and December) of 2016. My math expertise could also be getting rusty, however I can rely to 15. HTC was capable of give us a press release once we requested concerning the discrepancy.
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This does not matter. Ready for an replace never hurt anyone, and even when they wait till the final day in 2016 the A9 will get up to date lengthy earlier than many different telephones. However HTC has been on this recreation lengthy sufficient to know that once they put a quantity or a date on something, the web will roast them once they miss it.
