Actually time is not worth here to upgrade Android 2.1 but it is true for Sprint Hero. Our friends from Android Central have posted an internal Best Buy document which states the Sprint Hero Android 2.1 upgrade has been delayed again until May 21st. Sprint had hoped to have their Android 2.1 upgrades completed by now, but they are still in testing.
Best Buy employees seem skeptical of the news because they voted down the article 53 times in their employee news system.
XDA already got Android 2.1 ROM, so main issue could be distributed with in very short time. We saw wire upgrade instead air (OTA) update. In case of Sprint customers, it very hard to perform wire update. The Samsung Moment recently received a wired update (which enabled OTA updates) and 90% of users have yet to install it.
Because of large file size for internal servers Sprint might not be able to perform air update. Sprint wanted to release the upgrade over the air, but the file size is too large for their internal servers. There is the option to allow Google to host the upgrade files, but Sprint has not fully tested that system in order to meet their “required launch timeframe”.
If there is a required timeframe for launch, we are not sure if that was imposed by Google or Sprint. May 21st is the day after Google I/O so maybe Google will announce something related to the fragmentation of their Android platform versions. It is not unbelievable that we could see several handsets upgraded to Android 2.1 by the end of next week.
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