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Originally Posted by John Clark
Wirelessly posted (BB 11020)
Carriers make very little money on upgrades. They just want you back in contract.
I believe ATT has already released 4.5 for most of their devices.
If you are of the "assumption" that other carrier's OS releases are less stable than your carrier's then you are sorely mistaken. They aren't "branded" in any way other than the vendor.xml file. There are many reasons for these OS updates. Many 3rd party app developers work closely with RIM and they find bugs in the OS, as well, and those are incorporated into these upgrades. So, don't make a blanket statement that your "official" version from your carrier is "best."
Oh, and your Bold has 4.6. Not 4.5.
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My apologies on the 4.5 front for AT&T - it was "officially" released 12/12/08, and in my haste to upgrade to the Bold I missed the announcement since my Curve was retired. Nonetheless, not to quibble with the voice of authority, but 4.5 from other vendors, used on the AT&T network, was quirky, and I base that on personal experience and reading dozens (if not hundreds) of pages of forum reports from this and other sites by folks having a difficult time upgrading their phones with the non-carrier brands (vendor.xml file notwithstanding). I was not denigrating other vendor's OS releases, just their applicability to AT&T's network and the workarounds users must ebdure to make them work.
Your comment about "back in contract" belies the truth of the situation - whether or not they make money on the upgrade handset, they DON'T get you back in contract with the OS upgrade, but they DO get you back with the hardware upgrade, so either way the name of the game is to slow pitch the OS upgrades and push hardware upgrades...good for both AT&T and the device manufacturer. Besides, in general, which carrier is slower than AT&T in releasing OS upgrades that so many other GSM carriers have already released to their customers?
