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04.07.2013, 12:26 pm clock

By Jan Johannsen

The HTC One S according to the manufacturer receives no update to Android 4.2 or later. Reason could be the use of different processors.

HTC One S: The smartphone does not receive update to Android 4.2 more .

The HTC One S shares the fate of many other Android smartphones and will receive no further software update longer half years after launch. This was confirmed by the manufacturer in a press release. Literally it means that “the HTC One S receives no further Android updates and maintains the current Android and Sense version.” When Sense is the user interface, the HTC slipped over its Android devices.

Not in every HTC One S puts the same hardware

The Android version 4.1 working, according to HTC with any hardware version of the One S stable together. This statement suggests that the different models of smartphones to blame for setting the software update are. In June 2012, the Taiwanese manufacturer HTC One S C2 brought to the market in which the older processor Snapdragon S3 stuck rather than the faster Snapdragon S4 chips as the supplier Qualcomm these could not supply sufficient quantities.
Due to lack of driver is not running Android 4.2 but on the HTC One S with the Snapdragon S3. The manufacturer has chosen not to offer an update for the smartphone with the newer processor, so that all users stay with the proven combination of Android 4.1 and Sense fourth Android and the device manufacturers are already longer because of very late or not appearing software updates in the criticism.

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