Google Releases Jelly Bean Updates For the Nexus S 104
dell623 writes "Google has begun updating the Google Nexus S, which was released in December 2010 to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. The update comes with all the new features of JB, including Google Now. The update makes the almost two year old phone smooth and in many ways superior to newer, more expensive Android devices that are unlikely to even be updated to Android 4.0. The update is impressive, but also exposes the problems of Android fragmentation and the failure of other Android device manufacturers to develop better software than Google, or issue timely updates."
Re:For the last F*CKING time... (Score:5, Informative)
Except what's being described in the article IS fragmentation. But keep telling yourself it's normal to get updates randomly, if at all.
Yes there is fragmentation, but it's not an Android problem, it's a douchebag carrier and phone manufacturer business plan.
The reason for the fragmentation is that the phone manufacturers and carriers don't want old phones updated. That would cut into sales of newer shinier phones.
Google is doing the right thing for the consumer by supporting older hardware that has the horsepower to run new versions of Android and the competition from Google will cause some of the phone manufacturers and carriers to offer better upgrade support.