[funkyp56]

What's stopping RIM from doing this? Hardware?

[TroyDBrown]

Originally Posted by funkyp56

What's stopping RIM from doing this? Hardware?

5.0 is stopping it.

[jsconyers]

It's rumored that the next OS release for the 8300 serious will be 5.0.

[funkyp56]

Well hurry the heck up RIM! I'm sick of looking all outdated on these 8XXX devices!

[usblues1965]

Here I got all excited about a new OS....

[raja_3012]

It is expected that OS 5.0 should be out for 8XXX devices either by end of Q3'09 or early Q4'09. Thatz a long wait.. isn't it?

[pshift]

4.6 may not be necessarily better than 4.5. It's for a different class of devices with different processors and hardware.

[raja_3012]

Originally Posted by pshift

4.6 may not be necessarily better than 4.5. It's for a different class of devices with different processors and hardware.

Correct !! Moreover the 8320 and 8310 have very limited set of memory. I guess 4.6.x.yyy have more memory requirements which cannot be accommodated in the 8xxx devices.

OS 5.0 is obviously a complete redesign of the OS architecture but what is important is that it should be memory efficient.

[dankarlinski]

DUDE... What the hell... i was excited there was a update... lol

[raja_3012]

Originally Posted by dankarlinski

DUDE... What the hell... i was excited there was a update... lol

Same here.. the thread Title is so tantalizing but got dispirited after reading through it.

[TroyDBrown]

Updated thread title

[takeshi]

Originally Posted by funkyp56

Well hurry the heck up RIM! I'm sick of looking all outdated on these 8XXX devices!

I suspect you're expecting too much from 4.6. An OS update can only really do so much. It certainly won't add any hardware features.

[fnineone]

It doesn't, but it will may add Japanese input, which is what some of us are looking for.

[vietnam73]

Sprint will get it 6 months after the last wireless provider upgrades their OS. Ugh...