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**IRMartin** · 05-04-2011, 12:19 PM

Ah, I got it... Each manufacturer has to add the Android updates... I thought you could just get them as soon as the OS was updated... So, you guys think I should just go for the Droid 2 now instead of waiting for the Droid 3? D3 might have a few nice features/updates, but if dual core's likely to never be implemented, idk... Still using a 4+ year old LG VX9900 (EnV) here [rofl].

Yea, each manufacture has to update their own phones. That's mostly because each manufacture has their own interface, their own way of how things look and everything. Dual-core support is not something each manufacture can just "add". It's like windows, the OS has to support it, manufactures can't add it after the fact. We also never said dual cores will never be implemented. When google releases android with dual core support we'll start to see phones with dual cores that can fully take advantage of them. I would personally not go with the droid2 because the version of moto blur on there is horrible. The newest version isn't that bad, but the old ones were just very bad.

As for where i'm getting this info from, i'm getting it straight from the horses mouth. I'm friends with some developers that work on android for google. I've asked them just to be sure again about dual core support. We will either be seeing it in 2.4 (which will still be under the gingerbread title) or we will see it with Ice Cream when that comes out (maybe end of the year for it). The version number for that is tbd.

05-04-2011, 12:19 PM	#46
IRMartin Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 378 Senior Member	Ah, I got it... Each manufacturer has to add the Android updates... I thought you could just get them as soon as the OS was updated... So, you guys think I should just go for the Droid 2 now instead of waiting for the Droid 3? D3 might have a few nice features/updates, but if dual core's likely to never be implemented, idk... Still using a 4+ year old LG VX9900 (EnV) here [rofl]. Yea, each manufacture has to update their own phones. That's mostly because each manufacture has their own interface, their own way of how things look and everything. Dual-core support is not something each manufacture can just "add". It's like windows, the OS has to support it, manufactures can't add it after the fact. We also never said dual cores will never be implemented. When google releases android with dual core support we'll start to see phones with dual cores that can fully take advantage of them. I would personally not go with the droid2 because the version of moto blur on there is horrible. The newest version isn't that bad, but the old ones were just very bad. As for where i'm getting this info from, i'm getting it straight from the horses mouth. I'm friends with some developers that work on android for google. I've asked them just to be sure again about dual core support. We will either be seeing it in 2.4 (which will still be under the gingerbread title) or we will see it with Ice Cream when that comes out (maybe end of the year for it). The version number for that is tbd.
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