Is there any news about the upgrade? I’ve been planning on buying the Viewpad 10 but the fact that it’s only running Android 1.6 keeps holding me back. Is there really so much difference between the 1.6 and the newer versions of Android?

Marks out of 10, it gets a 6.
NOTE To Elone; do away with the touch screen and just give us good old buttons that work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP9-InoXqOM

In the high-tech rumor mill, HTC supposedly has its own dual-core smartphone, running on a new Qualcomm processor, called the HTC Glacier.

Just on the off chance, called to ask if any update. Got told that they were on the shelves and going fast, asked about the list they said that head office had just said ignore it and put on shelves

When I went to shop to get one, asked the Manager why no phone calls. He stated that the list did not guarantee one and head office said to just put on shelf. I asked why he as a manager could not take the decision to call people. He stated that head office told him to do it and the list did not guarantee one.

I re-iterated that Toys R Us is a reputable shop, they guy took my name in good faith and whether the list guaranteed an item or not is immaterial, I can accept that, but what about everyone else that put their trust in Toys R Us and they just ignored it and basically said sod you and your kids Christmas. After all chances are that this will be for a kids prezzie and because paretns don’t know it is back, they go without.

Manger did not seem to care about moral decency to meet his end of a verbal agreement and treat customers with respect.

Thank you for your inquiry through our website to au E-mail Support Desk.
We will answer your inquiry as follows.
My name is Tsutsumi.

We are very sorry to say that we could not provide upgrade service for OS version of “IS01″.

Regarding upgrading OS version, we have come up with the conclusion that it is not possible to conduct it
after so many testings and verifications with manufacturer for 5 months.

The uprading OS version was under consideration when releasing “IS01″ at first time.

We are sorry for disappointing loyal customers as you with this matter.

We address the full support of “IS01″ thoroughly, such as minor upgrade and modifications.

Regarding “Skype”, we provide “Skype au” service for Android OS smartphone including “IS01″.

We provide various secured applications on “au one Market”.
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We truly apologize again for any inconvenience this may have caused you.
We will report your opinion to section in charge of technical improvement.

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With same pricing tag, you can looking for Samsung Galaxy S with know as some other name such as Vibrant, Epic 4G … in some different carrier network.