Sure we wont know what will come next, but an update is coming

T-Mobile Behold II will ship with Android 1.5 but eventually support 2.0

 

believe me i want it to on my phone

if there is confirmation that this phone can support it. then thats encouraging news that mines will too

 

Other good news is T-Mobile will be rolling out HSPA 7.2 soon and the Behold II supports it, though they say that may take a software update. So the word is by year's end. I wouldn't be surprised they wrap this up with Android 2.0 to just make it a simpler process.

T-Mobile Rolling Out HSPA 7.2 Before Years End | TmoNews - Unofficial T-Mobile Blog - News, Videos, Articles and more

 

wow thanks for that info.. thats great news... is there someplace i can see the list of cities that are getting it?

 

No, they tend to keep things like that a secret. It just says 250 US cities, but basically wherever they already have 3g rolled out, they will roll out HSPA. And then HSPA+ is planed for the middle of next year.

 

thats cool, like you said 2.0 would be a sweet partner for this rollout..lol

 

i too am a touchcheesewiz fan and think 2.0 plus wiz 2.0 will be a sweet thing.
but if we dont get it by the middle of january and the only 2 phones that have 2.0 are on verizon, then i will lose all faith in google's "open" preaching.

i have a worry that if we dont get 2.0 we may not see "special" roms for the beholds like you see on the G1 and mytouch because of popularity. time will tell, and in that time i will set aside some money to jump the android ship.

 

I also think that verizon worked out some deal with google for exclusivity. My problem with that is that tmobile should have worked out a similar deal first, the one thing tmobile had going for them for a while was the fact that they were the only carrier that had android,we've all seen how well exclusivity can work for a carrier(iphone). Right now they have the most android phones of any carrier, they need to hurry up and release 2.0 as soon as its available.

I would guesstimate that 90% of the issues with the behold 2 have to do with android 1.5. Once were running 2.0 we will have better battery life, google nav, and the best android camera phones available at the moment.

 

Why dident this phone which I own just come out with 2.0???Seems like another T-Mobile blunder

 

maybe they were too late or just too lazy to put it on, anyway we will get 2.0 soon

 

Yeah i know it seems that way and with tmobile who knows, but just look at the fact that 2.0 sdk has been available for a month now and still no update. When 1.6 sdk was released the update was available within a week and a half, i really think its exclusive to verizon for now, hopefully well get a xmas gift from tmobile

 

As I understand it, with the Android devices the SDK version is initially set by the manufacturer (HTC, Motorola, Samsung) as opposed to T-Mobile, and the biggest holdup seems to be upgrading the manufacturer-specific customizations to Android 2.0. I read somewhere that the Sense UI, Motoblur, and TouchWiz were not immediately compatible with Android 2.0 become of some coding choices that were made which apparently are not forward-compatible with 2.0. So once Samsung releases a version of TouchWiz that is happy with Android 2.0, then perhaps they will work with T-Mobile to push out an update.

I may be making all this up, doesn't seem to explain the G1 or MyTouch though, if those are running vanilla Android then there should be no reason why they wouldn't already have been updated to 2.0.

Just a couple of thoughts.

 

So back to the topic how long does the T-Mobile customer have to wait???They came out with the first Google phone and they are dropping the ball on this .. Thats why they are like the Chrysler of phone carriers

 

i believe we will get it soon, they wouldn't let us down

 

We're talking about T-Mobile here right lol

 

i wouldn't doubt that samsung is holding it up so they can get their crappy UI setup on it. personally i cant wait for a custom ROM and get rid of the samsung crap for good. Cube is the most worthless thing i have ever seen.

 

cant argue that, its gimmicky but after a few days i ended up using it to free up home screen real estate (press the cube and use the shorts @ the bottom).

the cube button and the use of the UltimateFavs app i now only use one home screen. the other two are just wallpaper pics of my son.

 

Frankly I don't think he knew what he was talking about, but I was on the phone Saturday with customer support regarding a voicemail problem and I asked if he knew when 2.0 was coming out. He said he didn't know but said that 1.6 was already being sent out to the phones and that I should get a message about it soon (when I tried to do an upgrade through the upgrade option in the menu, it didn't see anything new available). The fact that I haven't heard about this from anyone else or anywhere else makes me believe he was confused... but it would be nice if just for us getting Google navigation.

 

If you were talking to a T-Mobile rep you can assume he was thinking generic Android and assumed since the other phones were getting 1.6 that Behold II should get 1.6 as well. I would hope they would skip 1.6 since it would delay 2.0.