Android's Orphaned Children

The sad but awful truth...am quite surprised he did not include the Galaxy phones and HTC Desire/Wildfire/Sensation etc line up though, they actually fair a lot better than the phones he's dug up so far, quite a number of the handsets he's included in this survey aren't popular handsets to begin with.

After reading a reader's comments, truth be told though for iOS even though they do get updated to the latest OS, it does not come updated with all the features of the latest software either so you can sorta debate that while Apple's older phones do get the latest OS, they do not get all the latest features, while Android OS updates on handsets mean the handsets tend to get the full range of features from the new OS. Android handsets that don't get the full OS upgrade are simply cause they can't fully utilize the new features of the OS. Arguable I guess.

Then again what's reflected in his chart is what everyone's been mentioning about Android fragmentation for the longest time now so it's no surprise there...I doubt you will see this change anytime soon though. (ref: Android: Frag-Tured?) With Android 4.0 out and it being a major overhaul over the Os's interface, and HTC being unsure about updating it's older handsets, you'll likely see an even bigger dip in OS updates for a lot of its current handsets.

Still, from another reader's comments, it is fair to say if you take a look at the fragmentation from 2010 to now (though not shown on the chart), the fragmentation shouldn't be as bad, with Google slowing down updates to once a year and more phones now having Gingerbread as their OS, Google seems to be cleaning up the mess it made. True? Still too soon to tell.

Personal advice if you plan to stick to Android? Go for the handset manufacturer that Google's tying up with for their Nexus line, maybe Motorola's next? =P

You can read the article off theunderstandment.

Comments from other readers can be found off Gizmodo's page on the article Here. A lot of random comments, but sift through them if you want to read the good ones.