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Mobile Industry Slacks On Android Updates to Users->

Submitted by wiredmikey
wiredmikey writes "Robert Vamosi chimes in with an interesting look at how the mobile industry (both carriers and manufacturers) are slacking with it comes to pushing android updates to users — essentially putting them at risk.

With more and more mobile malware being directed at Android-based phones, you’d think the carriers and manufacturers would respond quickly to security and software updates.

Google is producing updates, but it seems both the carriers and the handset manufacturers aren’t pushing new Android updates out to the end user. Android 2.3, for example, is only available on some—but not all--newer models of popular phones.

The manufacturer with the most Android 2.3 products on the market is HTC, followed by Samsung, then Sony Ericsson. If you add up the total number of phones offered, 32 of them offer Android 2.3, but 23 still run Android 2.2, and 6 still run Android 2.1. So the manufacturers are trying.

In terms of the carriers, here's where the ball gets dropped. The carriers with the most customers, Verizon and AT&T, aren't necessarily better at patching than the small guys. These two carriers still have a number of phones running Android 2.2. Smaller competitors like T-Mobile and Sprint are much better, with more of their phones running Android 2.3 than the big guys. But smaller carriers aren't necessarily the best: Boost, for example, still has phones running Android 1.5, and T-Mobile has one model that is still Android 1.6.

All the mobile parties—Google, the manufacturers, and the carriers-- need to work together at solving this problem. The real question is motivation...."
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