LG promises at least one next-version update for each Optimus

Written by Administrator Tuesday, 01 March 2011 11:17

What you expect when you buy an android smartphone of your choice ? Well it could be anything in your concern but you may want your smartphone to upgrade after you unwrap it from the box, isn’t it ? But at that initial stage of buying that android device doesn’t assures you that if it will ever be updated or not. On the other hand, Google casts foremost new edition of Android every six months however there is no way of assuring that your device will ever obtain a newer firmware than what it came with out of the box. And this often happens that the bestseller smartphones are able to get an update in near time but failures are spotted backwards.

With these things keeping in mind, LG is committed to endow with as a minimum one next-edition revise to all of its Optimus smartphones. Apparently, LG's Director of Global Communications, Kenneth Hong made a statement that LG's "viewpoint is to be proficient to put forward at least a one-level raise for all Optimus smartphones pioneered in 2011 and ahead of"

For example if you buy an LG Optimus which runs on Froyo then your smartphone will be able to get at minimum a one-level upgrade which will make this smartphone to run on Gingerbread. Moreover, if you buy a Gingerbread operated mobile phone of LG then you will get an update for that too.

At this instant such a pledge is certainly a good move and a positive approach but it's besides a solemn obligation by the firm. LG has been dishonorable on the subject of making available after-sales software renewals to its devices and this might be the indication of a big twist in the company's values and strategies to implement in the upcoming time.

Regrettably, there aren’t any words to verify that if the update will take how much time to hit the devices, as it wasn’t a part of the conversation by Ken Hong. But what do you think that at least one software upgrade seems to be enough for your smartphone to not let itself chase behind the smartphones which are really damn hot ?

Important: Do bear this in mind that word of honor given by LG for the update is only assured for carrier-free never-locked versions of the LG phones.

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The iPad isn’t launching in India on 28th Jan, At least not for Rs 26000!

Categories: Apple, Opinion, eReaders & Tablets

Apple has sold 7.3 million iPad’s last quarter alone and there is a healthy list of people around me who own an iPad already. I resisted for months after my initial review of the iPad WiFi, but even I ended up buying my 2nd iPad (a 3G one this time) last week. A tablet sure has a huge appeal and people on the streets identify it (including the local ‘paan wala’ referring to it as ‘woh bada wala phone’). Yes, perhaps The Galaxy Tab has added some taste to the tablet market locally in India. So is the iPad finally coming to India?

Apple is known to bring all its latest releases to India, shortly after the international launch. This inclues the iPods, Macbooks and even the latest Macbook Airs. But the only exception to this has been the iPhone! It has always taken its own sweet little time to arrive in India and I wonder why has it been so? Tim Cook made it clear in the last earnings call that amongst the BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India and China) they have chosen China and invested heavily there. Its clear that they do not see a huge market for smartphones in India.

The iPhone 4 is yet to make its way to India and I am sure that the iPad is clubbed with the iPhone here and not the Macbooks. Samsung launched its Galaxy Tab last year, price Rs 38000! And given the fact that they have slashed the rates to as low as Rs 27999 now, it shows how well the market has responded to the Tab.

Another simple reason (and a very strong one) I feel that the iPad won’t make it to India is the pricing that the recent rumors carry along with it. Rs 26000 for an iPad? Thats WAY too close to the iPad’s price in US (it comes to $530 with taxes for the base model). The customs & octroi in India won’t permit that rate. Mobile phones carry a comparatively lower duty and yet the iPhone costs a hefty sum here, in all probability the iPad would be charged as a computer and not a mobile phone, shooting its price over Rs 30000.

My twitter feed and RSS feed are filled with posts on iPad launching in India on 28th January (thats 3 days from now). And I am sorry to bring the bad new to iPad lovers in India. The Apple iPad isn’t coming to India this week and if at all it does, forget owning own for Rs 26000! Sorry.

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