New Phones Still Sold With Old Versions of Android | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

New Phones Still Sold With Old Versions of Android | Gadget Lab | Wired.com: “Two weeks ago when Buddy Roark bought a brand-new HTC Eris smartphone from Verizon, his first Android device, it was a big step up from his feature phone. But it wasn’t until a few days later that he realized part of his new phone wasn’t so new after all. The Eris was running a version of Android that came out almost a year ago, which means many of the newer apps available in the Android Market won’t work on Roark’s phone.”

I’ve been hearing people complain about a lack of update for their Android 1.5 or 1.6 devices around the blogosphere and twittersphere for a while now.

Multiple OS versions going around, hardware with completely different specs, “customized” software and even different app markets or devices that can’t even use the regular android market (tough that device now seems dead now).

Complete Android fragmentation. No wonder Microsoft is taking android as an example of what not to do with WP7 in every way. I really wonder what the state of android will be in one year.

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