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Even new hardware doesn't make your older phone stop working. Maybe us tech geeks are spoiled by the endless upgrade cycle of our PCs. Every few months you buy something to shore up the weakness. New CPU with more cores, more RAM, new video card, SSD harddrives...there's always something new you can buy to get your fix. Phones aren't like that.
Look back to a month ago. Were you happy with your phone then? Were you happy when you bought it? If no, why the hell did you buy it? Never buy something on the hopes that it'll fit your needs later when it doesn't fit now.
Phones (and soon, tablets) don't work like PCs. At all. You buy what you buy. You accept the fact that you cannot upgrade the hardware. I expect that software updates will become more of a focus for phone (and tablet) manufacturers/carriers, but until very recently, only critical flaws were patched. If that. Did anyone update their old RAZR? I never did. We're in something of a intermediary stage in regards to phone updates. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if manufacturers (or carriers) started charging to upgrade to the newest version of a phone's OS. Win 95 to 98 wasn't a free upgrade, why should your phone OS's update be free?
(Not saying I agree with that. I think the idea sucks. But I wouldn't be at all surprised if it happened.)
If you absolutely must have the latest and greatest, you're going to be shelling out non-subsidized prices, regularly. And if you choose to get a contract-based subsidy, then that's your choice. Just make sure you've got exactly what you want, and don't expect it to suddenly get better. Be prepared to be using the same hardware for two+ years. And until something changes with how carriers and manufacturers handle their OS updates, you should be prepared to receive a limited and delayed number of those as well.
And you can't complain about being on 2.2 when there's still phones that came out long after the Nexus One stuck on 2.1 or less.
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