HTC One S Won't Receive Any More Android Updates

[mmadhankumar]

HTC One S, the premium Android smartphone from the Taiwanese company, will not receive any Android updates going further.The development was first reported by French site HubFR, which spotted a comment made by HTC France on their Facebook page after a user asked about the company's plans to update the HTC One S to Android 4.2.2. The company replied that the phone won't be getting the Android 4.2 Jelly Bean or the new Sense 5 update.

Following this, HTC also officially confirmed that the phone will indeed not receive any updates. HTC One S was launched internationally in March 2012, so a little over a year old, so the development would definitely surprise the phone's owners. In fact, HTC had earlier said that the phone, along with the HTC One X, HTC One X+ and HTC Butterfly, would receive the Sense 5 update bringing software features from the HTC One, the company's premium flagship phone. Sense 5 offers camera-related features like Zoe, a refreshed UI and BlinkFeed home screen updates. This means that HTC One S owners would not get to experience any of these new features in addition to other features offered by Android 4.2 that include lock screen notifications.

Although the HTC One S (Review) sports specifications seen in mid-range smartphones, putting it below the HTC One X and One X+, it was launched at a price of Rs. 33,590, last year. For a phone that costed above Rs. 30,000 (at launch) to not get updates, being abandoned by the company after a mere 16 months of launch, explains the current state of fragmentation within the Android device ecosystem. Contrast that to Apple's iOS and you'll notice that iPhone 4, a three year old phone is slated to receive iOS 7, the next iteration of Apple's mobile operating system.

HTC One S was launched in India in June 2012, featuring an over-clocked 1.7 GHz Snapdragon S3 processor instead of S4 processor and a 4.3-inch (540×960 pixels) display, Beats Audio, 8-megapixel auto focus camera with flash 1080p HD video recording and VGA front-facing camera similar to the One X. It has 1GB RAM, 16 GB internal storage and a 1,650 mAh battery. The phone launched with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich but was updated to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and HTC Sense 4+.



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[me_saket]

This shows

HTC was knowing that its flop at launch.

Just sold for year to recover cost of end and clearing inventory.

HTC made strategy like this

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