Why is Sprint not supporting OTA updates?
T-Mobile has been doing it with Android for months. A: Everyone I spoke with mentioned the file size of updates as the limiting factor. Sprint’s OTA system is only designed to handle update files up to 10 MB and many of the Android udpates are 40-50 MB. I know this sounds crazy, but I’m just reporting what I was told. A Sprint developer explained this issue as a legal matter. He said that the OTA system Sprint is using will render a phone inoperable while it is being updated. They currently have this 10 MB cap because they don’t want the customers phone to be unusable for any longer. Q: Will Sprint customers really have to wait till 2010 to receive Android 1.6? A: A Samsung executive told me not to expect Android 1.6 until 2010. I questioned a Sprint dev on the timetable and he would not deny it. He explained that T-Mobile was able to release Android 1.6 already because they have more experience with Android and had more time to test the latest release. Q: How does Sprint expect the no
