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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I'm still running Gingerbread. Not bothering putting ICS on this android, I don't think it could take it. That said, it would be nice if they would come to some kind of leveling on when and how they do these releases across the entire platform, but I guess to some degree that would throw a monkey wrench in the works that is android. I mean after all, if it was set up like Apple, it might as well become same. ::shudder::

Agree 100% on uniform rules regarding upgrades. But you'd be surprised what you phone can take.

I have an HTC Legend (release date: March 2010, running Éclair). It was updated by HTC up to Gingerbread, though that happened LONG after Android 2.3 had been out. I thought that was the end of the line and didn't bother rooting because I also thought Legend couldn't handle 4.x and in addition there were no ROMs for Legend running anything beyond Gingerbread.

Then I found out about a beta ROM running ICS and made a final try at rooting. That done, I used ICS on my 2-year-old phone for some 4 months until a Jelly Bean ROM appeared on xda-dev. I downloaded that, installed it and have been running it stably for 2 weeks. The phone is very responsive and I can use everything except WiFi tethering due to non-existent drivers.

You say you're not bothering to put ICS on you phone, which to me indicates you're not against rooting per se, or maybe you've rooted already. If that's the case, and there's a ROM available with good reviews for your phone, you may want to give ICS/JB a try

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.

You mean, like naming desktop OS versions after animals? And no, I'm not going for Apple - that'd be too easy. I'm thinking of Ubuntu and their distro version names that are not only animal-based, they're also alliterative (Hardy Heron? Jaunty Jackalope? Karmik Koala?)! The nerve of these guys...