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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 5851336" data-attributes="member: 7883">Keep in mind that Google is changing how this works.  They've dictated that manufacturers must have the default themes installed.....they can install custom looks on top of the default...but they can't be *replacing* it anymore.  Thus, it reduces the incident of devices being impossible to update, and dependent upon the manufacturer.  I remember reading something about that before Christmas.As to manufacturers not honouring the agreement, at least on the tablet side, I think they're doing a pretty good job of honouring it.  If you look at the major Honeycomb tablets launched last year, pretty much all of them are slated to be upgraded.Now, I think the manufacturers are holding on, because there are a number of people who received ICS updates who have complained about things like rebooting in sleep mode etc....and it's only happening with devices upgraded from Honeycomb to ICS....not ones with ICS installed at the factory.  So I think that's causing delays as they're trying to figure out what's going on and fix the problem.But ones that we know are getting updated are the Transformer Prime (done), Xoom (done), Transformer (done), A500, A100, Galaxy Note, Galaxy Tab 10.1, Thrive, Sony tablet......all the major ones are getting the upgrade.I'm not as familiar with the phones as I've never had an Android phone.  So I can only speak for the tablets.One of the problems, as I understand it is the very fact that there are so many phones.  So, there are crappy, cheap android phones that give the OS a bad name....and then there are powerful ones like the Galaxy S II that run circles around iPhones.  But regardless of which end of the line they're on, they're all Android phones, so the bad ones drag down the rep for the entire assortment of phones.  But a customer shouldn't expect a free phone to be as good as one that costs $250.Banshee</blockquote>

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