Will mobile firmware glitches ever end?
30 November, 2011 Leave a Comment
It seems all that’s in the news at the moment is all the latest about patches to iOS and Android Ice Cream Sandwich.
They’ve both got inherent flaws that are still do a resolution by their creators.
iOS 5 for example when released deteriorated battery life for iPhone and iPod Touch users. I myself have noticed on my 4th gen iPod that the battery life isn’t too brilliant if constantly using the processor, eg web browsing, games and video usage. Other things like listening to music or basic web browsing without downloading too much data seems to let the battery last.
Then there’s Android. The Samsung Galaxy Nexus, or whatever it’s name is, has a volume fault and a strange one at that. The volume will turn itself down for no apparent reason!
Both Apple and Samsung/Google believe they have fixed these problems. Yet it can only the proof of it when they roll out these fixes and they do indeed work.
Years ago phones never had updates to their software. You’d purchase a phone and it would just work. People say to me all the time,, “but my old phone never needed an update?”. I always answer that the same, newer phones have more functionality and therefore are more complex.
In development it is sometimes difficult to miss out something when in testing, I know, I’ve tested my own programs before and there are things you sometimes miss. But the matter is software updates for phones will never go away! Phone manufacturers and OS developers will always want the best possible software, so that they don’t loose a customer to a competitor.
