After Seeing the press shots for this phone and haveing been waiting since June to Use My upgrade I am almost certain that I will pick up this phone, But my Should I Buy and hope for ICS or is it best to wait for the Prime??? any opinions?
Here are the Press Shots
HTC Vigor Press Shot Found Cruising the Interwebs - Droid Life: A Droid Community Blog
The latest rumor on the Prime is supposedly a release mid-late October to early November. With that said, I seriously doubt that the Prime will release with ICS. The Sammy guy in the rumor supposedly said that the Prime in his hand didn't have it cause ICS wasn't ready. I can't image that from now until October/November would be enough ample time to test an entirely different version of the OS. You could run into a lot of software glitches and bugs that could further push the release date WAAY out. So with that said, if you are hoping that the Prime is going to launch with ICS and that is the reason for waiting for that phone, you might be waiting for something that isn't going to be there. Just my thoughts and opinion.
That rumor leak from droidguy yesterday that you are basing your argument on is completely garbage. Even if that guy is real, it must be early proto-type running gingerbread to test functions of device. There are reports that Google already delivered finished ICS to samsung, and Eric Schmidt also said Google will unveil ICS to world on late Oct. Also bestbuy emails leaks suggest mid November release of Prime. Unless they are all lying, the latest Prime test device must be running ICS now.
Assuming that Verizon allows HTC's recent bootloader policies, there will be at least an unofficial build of AOSP ICS available. An official sense version from HTC may take a while longer.
There will be ICS version no matter what. Look at the EVO 3d bootloader that was unlocked before htc officially announced it. As long as they aren't encrypted like moto it wont be that big of a deal to get it unlocked.
Even tho the bootloader maybe unlocked I should not have to Root to get the Latest Firmware, IMO
That is how it is with android.Rumors say prime won't be stock Android so maybe that degree some from waiting for the prime. Also a tester said the vigor was the better of the two phones so will be interesting to see if thats true.
As i stated B4 this will be my first HTC So I hope it impresses me others wise im Going back to the Super AMOLEDs lol
DROID (Nexus) Prime....will most likely drop with ICS!
Vigor on the other hand probably wont! And if it drops with the HTC TB2 moniker, well then forget about it, the original TB is still waiting on Gingerbread.
DROID (Nexus) Prime....will most likely drop with ICS!
Vigor on the other hand probably wont! And if it drops with the HTC TB2 moniker, well then forget about it, the original TB is still waiting on Gingerbread.
I don't know why everyone's in such a rush for ICS. I think I would be happy with Gingerbread, which is nice and stable by now. There's always breaking in issues, especially if ICS has been hustled out the door to be ready for the iPhone 5, just like there were with Gingerbread last year.
I'd rather get Gingerbread now and get ICS early next year, but maybe I'm in the wrong forum then...
Same here. I'm not anticipating ICS. There's bound to be lots of bugs with a newly released OS. So I'm probably going to get this phone. It's the first one out, I like the looks of it and the specs, I do like the Superamo+ screens except the colors are too glarish,cartoonish. ICS worries me. I can't see it being a giant leap in usefulness from the already useful GB. Not to mention with all the ROMing being done with these phones,any added useful additions can generally be found on one or the other out there. Now I'm using MIUI for my OG Droid and love it. Hurry up Oct 20th!!!!
Same here. I'm not anticipating ICS. There's bound to be lots of bugs with a newly released OS. So I'm probably going to get this phone. It's the first one out, I like the looks of it and the specs, I do like the Superamo+ screens except the colors are too glarish,cartoonish. ICS worries me. I can't see it being a giant leap in usefulness from the already useful GB. Not to mention with all the ROMing being done with these phones,any added useful additions can generally be found on one or the other out there. Now I'm using MIUI for my OG Droid and love it. Hurry up Oct 20th!!!!
I'm more leaning towards the Droid/Nexus/Galaxy Prime (or whatever) at this point. Granted, new OS' are buggy. But if ICS really DOES remove the soft buttons then I'd rather get in on a device that launches with ICS and is built around the new setup than one that will get upgraded and the buttons would be useless.
Such hard decisions!
I'm not anticipating ICS... Now I'm using MIUI... Hurry up Oct 20th!!!!
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THIS!!
I could not care less about ICS at this point. MIUI on my Dinc FTW!
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