so-called 18 month upgrade process<\/a> Google outlined last year obviously isn\u2019t being fulfilled. Manufacturers need to step up and update their phones to the latest version of Android at least once in the upgrade cycle. This recurring issue needs to be solved before it becomes even more endemic within Android. Samsung asserted that its Galaxy S line of smartphones did not have the capability to run Ice Cream Sandwich when the Samsung Nexus S, which has the same specifications, received an upgrade. This provoked an outcry, as should this list by Verizon. Consumers need to step up and tell OEMs that they will not buy products without a promise of an upgrade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier this week, Verizon Wireless announced a list of handsets that would be upgrade to Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich. Without providing specific dates, Verizon goes on to outline by manufacturer which smartphones will receive the update. HTC: HTC ThunderBolt DROID Incredible 2 by HTC HTC Rhyme HTC Rezound Motorola: Motorola XOOM DROID BIONIC DROID […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1921,31,1917,38],"tags":[74,6,1175,75,439,1056,61,1051,67],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9216"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9220,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9216\/revisions\/9220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}