Looks like the HTC Desire HD users are out of luck! The company has confirmed and spoken out that they’d not be bringing the ICS upgrade to the Desire HD users forever!
HTC has been constantly updating their devices with ICS upgrades, but then, there’s a turn in the story. The desire HD users who were about to get the update will not get the much awaited ICS update. The company felt so sorry for setting the expectations high for the Desire HD users, and they took time to explain the real reason for not bringing the update to these devices:
“We’ve heard your feedback on our decision not to update the HTC Desire HD to Android 4.0. We completely understand that this is a controversial decision.
For more background, due to how storage on the HTC Desire HD is partitioned – and the larger size of Android 4.0 – it would require re-partitioning device storage and overwriting user data in order to install this update. While technically advanced users might find this solution acceptable, the majority of customers would not. We also considered ways to reduce the overall size of the software package, but this would impact features and functionality that customers are currently using. Even after installing the update, there were other technical limitations which we felt negatively impacted the user experience.
We believe an update should always improve the user experience and carefully evaluate each update based on this criteria. While we are very aware of the disappointment from this decision, we believe the impact to user experience was too great. We recognize this is a change from our previous statement and for that we’re truly sorry.”
While this looks like a valid reason, we’ve got one another question. Who’s to blame for this? HTC or Google?
Source: The Verge