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Originally Posted by Sirchuk
Wow, thats hot. I would pick it up as well if I could, but I'm stuck on a Hero for now.
If HTC was to upgrade the Hero 2.1 I take it that it still wouldn't work since it's not yet working on the Nexus One running 2.1 as well?
I see now how the iPhone has the leg up on Android. They don't have to program games/apps for a plethora of slightly different devices. If screen sizes and processors and available memory etc. are all a significant factor in how a game is made, Android is going to have a really hard time in the gaming department.
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Google introduced the NDK to developers (Native Development Kit) for phone with support for OS 1.6 and 2.x only(if you want to use openGL native), that is "our" real segmentation indeed (if you want to talk about "gaming" on android).
For a developer, OS 1.5 means JAVA pure only application, no way to have native code running. Native code is necessary to release the full power of your device like shown in ExZeus arcade or LoveCatch (which runs fine on a HTC hero with 1.6 OS).
Normally OS update should be released by now but it seems that a lot of phone just cannot access their 1.6 or 2.x update and that is very sad as those phone owners cannot enjoy new generation game.
We hope android phone maker will realize the importance to release OS update for their customers and we hope also that we won't see new android phone shipped with the OS 1.5 as this is really a step back reducing the possible gaming experience, well, if you want games for your phone because for everyday use 1.5 is doing the job well
It may be that we are into a transition period and that soon.. all android will be running 2.x, the segmentation would, then, slowly vanish and the market would be more homogeneous
PS: regarding HTC hero, while our upcoming Nexus 1 version should run on it technically, it will have poor performance and poor framerate because there is no decent GPU and no FPU processor.