{"id":191,"date":"2012-05-18T17:17:51","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T22:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.p14nd4.com\/blog\/?p=191"},"modified":"2016-04-20T15:20:13","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T20:20:13","slug":"no-ics-for-motorola-admiral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.p14nd4.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/18\/no-ics-for-motorola-admiral\/","title":{"rendered":"No ICS for Motorola Admiral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was very disappointed to see today that Motorola <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.motorola.com\/pages\/00add97d6c\">announced<\/a> it&#8217;s effectively decided to abandon the Admiral and its user-base less than seven months after releasing the product (though, I&#8217;d imagine the decision was actually made long ago). I hope that by not not even providing an upgrade to the version of Android (4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich) that was released<a href=\"#ics1\" style=\"vertical-align: super; font-size: smaller;\">[1]<\/a> prior to the Admiral&#8217;s retail availability<a href=\"#ics2\" style=\"vertical-align: super; font-size: smaller;\">[2]<\/a>, Motorola&#8217;s message to current and potential customers is heard loud and clear: the relationship ends once your credit card clears from buying the phone.<\/p>\n<p>While the Admiral had the potential to be a great phone, this should pretty much condemn it to failure, since anyone who knows anything will know better than to buy it now. And <em>I<\/em>, at least, now know not to ever buy another Motorola phone and expect anything more than whatever software it ships with.<\/p>\n<p>(Mostly a copy of my post on <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.motorola.com\/posts\/4b42f1a11d?start=1&#038;stop=15#605849\">Motorola&#8217;s forums<\/a>, but I&#8217;m not sure if they&#8217;ll leave the comment up or delete it.)<\/p>\n<h3>Citations<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li id=\"ics1\">[1] <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Android_version_history#Ice_Cream_Sandwich_4.0.x\">Android 4.0 released October 19, 2011<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"ics2\">[2] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/motorola-admiral\">Motorola Admiral released October 23, 2011<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was very disappointed to see today that Motorola announced it&#8217;s effectively decided to abandon the Admiral and its user-base less than seven months after releasing the product (though, I&#8217;d imagine the decision was actually made long ago). I hope that by not not even providing an upgrade to the version of Android (4.0, Ice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,25,26,20],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical","tag-android","tag-ice-cream-sandwich","tag-ics","tag-motorola-admiral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.p14nd4.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.p14nd4.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.p14nd4.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.p14nd4.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.p14nd4.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.p14nd4.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275,"href":"https:\/\/www.p14nd4.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.p14nd4.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.p14nd4.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.p14nd4.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}