LG paying attention to Eve conncerns

GreatBigDog has spoken and LG is listening...... couldn't resist saying that ;-)
I just received a response back to an email that I had sent to LG.  I had sent the email out yesterday and I have to say that they are quick to respond to serious inquiries about their product. LG seems like they are in the mood to listen to concerns that the users of the LG EVE have regarding the status of the current Android 1.5 operating system on the device
The have taken the issue of Android 1.5 on the LG EVE to their engineering department and are currently investigating their options. They are actively seeking feedback from bloggers around the world and are now seeking input from Bloggers in Canada.
Here is the response that I received.

Don,
Thanks for your note. LG has been listening to the conversations online about Android based mobile phones including the LG Eve and is currently addressing this feedback in an engineer evaluation of upgrade. Our engineers and development teams have been reviewing the feasibility of providing an upgrade both from a development, deployment and a cost perspective and will be making a decision shortly. As we speak bloggers from around the world are participating in these discussions in Korea.
We are now inviting bloggers from Canada to participate as well. As the evaluation is currently underway, your comments couldn't be more timely and we will be sharing your feedback directly with our engineering and development team. I encourage you to continue to send me your recommendations on the subject to myself and/or Sheryl Davey from our communications agency. Once we have had a chance to fully evaluated all the feedback, you will be hearing from us with our official plans in the next couple of weeks.
Best regards,
Paul Pike

This is looking good. We should see some sort of official position from LG within the next few weeks, I'll keep you all informed as I learn anything new. In the meantime if you could post any comment that want passed onto LG here on my blog or over at iwantmyonepointsix.com or in the LG Update thread at Android Forms, I will do my best to get them to the folks over at LG as soon as possible.
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Rogers replacing Dreams with a little Magic

Great news. @RogersMary has just posted to our thread on Android forums that Rogers had deceided to replace the Dreams with Magic's. This will be a limited time offer and we don't have the details yet but it is good news indeed.
Here is the text of Mary's post.

Hi Folks. As promised, I'm here to provide you with some more information 
It's great to hear that everyone is pleased by HTC's agreement to upgrade Magic to 2.1. We pushed hard on your behalf and are pleased with that part. When it comes to Dream, we share in your frustration that the device does not have the required on-board memory for an upgrade. We've reviewed this internally and believe that Dream users should be able to have the same HTC Android experience as those who purchased the Magic. So, we are offering our HTC Dream customers a limited time opportunity to upgrade from their current HTC Dream device to the HTC Magic.
We're working on finalizing the details of that promotion now but wanted to let you know the great news as soon as possible. Please be patient as this is not yet available in-store, online or through customer care. I will be back next week to provide you with more information. ‬
Stay tuned!
@RogersMary

I'll be sure to post back with the details as the become available.

The 1.5 Blues

I'm wondering if the built in Google applications that are included with the HTC Dream are not the same ones that are included with the T-Mobile G1. Google had to do some work to shoehorn 1.6 onto the G1 and MyTouch 3G and maybe it's HTC's add ons and custom applications that are pushing it over the ROM capability on the Dream.

The HTC Magic has no worries because is actually has better specs then the MyTouch 3G. The MyTouch 3G has the same specs as the G1 and our HTC Dream but the HTC Magic has the same specs as the HTC Hero, that's why the Magic is getting Sense UI and 2.1. If it can fit on the Hero it can fit on the Magic, only difference would be the drivers. I can bet that 2.1 will be the last update that you will see for either of these devices as well.

I guess that the more adventurous Dream owners can just wait for Cyanogen or one of the other custom rom builders to get a hold of the 2.1 release for the Magic. You can bet that once they get their hands on 2.1 with the drivers needed for the camera and such, there will be a custom 2.1 ROM available for the Dream shortly afterwards. It might actually be if the drivers surface prior to the release of 2.1 on the Magic that the custom Roms would be available first.

Myself, I don't know what I'm going to do. I've only had my Dream for about 1.5 months on the 3 year contract and I can't afford to go out and pay the full price for a replacement, Not like there is anything to choose from right now, even with the Magic getting the 2.1 update.

Don't get me wrong here, I love my Dream but I just wish I could have had the information that I have today when I purchased the phone, I would either of purchased the Magic instead or most likely I would have waited for a better Android offering to come along. I just wish I had the guts to go the rooting method, but as I said, I can't afford to go out and buy a replacement if I ended up bricking the phone.

So fellow dream owners what are your plans.

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Exciting day yesterday

Yesterday started out with an announcement from Sony Ericsson that Rogers Wireless would be the Exclusive Canadian Provider for the upcoming X10. The X10 is running Android 1.6 and looks to be the first device available to Rogers that is running a version of Android past 1.5. Sony Ericsson has stated that they do eventually plan on updating the X10 to android 2.X.

Next we had G-Day and the release of the Nexus One, I watched the presentation online and it looks like one sweet phone. Only problems that I can see with it is that their is no multitouch and it's not available in Canada (yet?)

Finally HTC sent an email to Mike Schmidt of iwantmyonepointsix.com and posted to the 1.6 thread at Android Forms stating that the the Magic and Dream would be getting an update in the next few weeks, In the case of the Magic this would include HTC's Sense UI but still be on Android 1.5. In around the middle of 2010 HTC also has commited to bringing Android 2.1 to the Magic, the Dream however is going to fade into history and remain stuck at Android 1.5.

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Today is G-Day

It's G-Day, I'm looking forward to hear what Google has to say on it's Nexus One smartphone. You can read my full post on it here.

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Welcome to 2010

Finally have the holidays out of the way and I'm looking forward to getting back on some sort of routine. The messy job of taking the tree down and dragging it outside is done at home but I still have to pack up and drag all of the other decorations back to the basement for another year. That will keep me busy the rest of the week ;-)

Since Mike has everything under control with Rogers over at iwantmyonepointsix.com, I'm going to apply my efforts to communicating with HTC to see if I can get any sort of commitment out of them for Android 2.x for our devices (yes 2.x, IMHO 1.6 is a dead horse and I'm not going to flog it). I've sent an email to HTC via their website and we'll see what they have to say on the issue of 2.x. The tweets that I sent out to them before Christmas have gone unanswered but I'll try those accounts again to see how I make out there as well. You can try tweeting them at @HTC or @htcromsupport.

Here is what I emailed them.

Now that HTC has determined that they will not be supporting Android 1.6 for the Rogers Dream or Magic phones, or I believe any of HTC branded devices, I'm wondering.

Is there any possibility of a 2.x version being made available for them?

I know that HTC us currently working on a 2.x version for the HTC HERO on Telus network and I'm hopping that your company doesn't forget your earliest Android adopters in Canada.

Looking forward to a positive answer.

Android 1.5 user.

Don Rayner

We shall see that they have to say
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