Sony smartphones won't get Jelly Bean until next year

We may see Key Lime Pie before Sony gets even a taste of Jelly Bean.

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On a different note, why the hell are they using this food based names to move through the progression of the OS's? More rhetorical than anything else but I hate having to say something to the tune of "I have Ice Cream Sandwich as my current android OS", it just has a dopey feel to it, kinda like watching adults play with duplo bricks. Eh, maybe I'm a curmudgeon and don't realize it yet. Give me a numbered release any day over dopey names.

Google's always had a sense of fun, just look at their Google doodles, their map directions from Seattle to Honolulu ("kayak across the Pacific Ocean") or their "Oh, snap!" error messages. I find it to be pretty refreshing in the stuffed shirt world of corporate America.

 

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Google really needs to fix this. I would think through standards and modularization.

But they don't. Android's increasing global market share has proven that mass market consumers simply don't care. Commenters on tech sites do, but we're a vocal minority. Most people expect the phone to run as it did the day they bought it, and some may not even welcome updates.

Personally, I'll never buy a non-Nexus again.