Android: Give your smartphone a second chance
Looking at the constant evolution of the Android platform and how bad the phone manufacturers are supporting it on their older phone platforms, it is clear that a smartphone is not a "life companion". With about one or two major versions of the Android platform coming out each year, its lifetime is clearly short. At some point: It gets "stuck" in one particular Android platform release. There is no more main storage (flash) space. It is getting slow running some applications. It does not support anymore the newest market applications. It is not as "fancy" as recent phones :-) My old smartphone, an HTC Legend , reached that point; 3 years after I bought it, I am now part of one of the smallest Android platform group according to the Android "platform version" distribution : Froyo. My phone lacks storage space every day, each time an application update pops in for instance. It is impossible to update the good old Google Talk application