[XPERIA X10 General] iridaki:
In the heat caused by the delay, I would like to share my opinion, since this is what we do here after all.

Was I frustrated that I won't get GB this month or in July even?

YES.

However, the reason of my frustration is the same with the one you see when a child is waiting for Christmas to open its presents and you tell him that he has to wait a bit more! :D

It's purely emotional.

Why?

Because -and I know that I will get flamed for that- my phone does what I want.

I am pretty sure that GB will not change the way I use my phone, heck, not even Eclair did that. When I bought my phone 1 year ago, I used it with 1.6 and have been using it more or less the same way ever since.

The new features are adapted in my lifestyle and not the other way around.

What I mean?

I will be completely honest here:

Shoot me, kill me, flame me, but I have NEVER used dual touch.

I have only used it just to acknowledge that it was there!

Of course, I can't speak on behalf of anyone else, but I am sure that most users, if they were to think really carefully, they probably haven't used dual touch as much as they thought. It is indeed a nice feature to have, but all in all, I believe that I could live without it for a long long time! :D

Also, my screen is very nice to my eyes. Be it 65k colors, I like what I see and at the end of the day, that's all that matters to me.

Would I like to have a 16m color display?

Sure, why not?

But again, I could live without it for a long long time!

Do I feel like my phone is slow?

I will answer with a question: what is slow and what is fast?

Do I need to carry a stopwatch every time I run an application in order to measure my phone's performance? No, thanks.

Granted, I am rather busy, but sure I seem to always have 5-10 seconds to spare, so if something takes a while to load, I just sit back and let it do so.

Smartphones nowadays do things that we couldn't even begin to imagine a few years ago. "GIVE THEM A SECOND!!!!!!!!"!!! :D

I am sure SE did not build the fastest phone ever, but still it does its job,

in a not exquisite but rather decent way.

What I am trying to say here, deeply inspired by the comedian Louis CK, is that Everything's Amazing & Nobody's Happy these days.

We feel like the world owes us something that we only knew existed shortly before.

Will Google release a new Android version soon?

YES.

Does SE and any other similar company IMMEDIATELY owes it to us to adapt it in their phones, indiscriminately?

Sorry, the answer here is NO.

They don't owe us anything. We paid them to get a phone that was running on 1.6 and a further update was promised. And delivered.

That's where it ends.

Sure, I would like to get frequent updates, but I am not giving myself a headache about it. I just refuse to do so. Life's too short. ;)

And thankfully the choices and practically endless. Many companies are in the Android game with strong phones, so the minute that we feel that one company is mistreating us, we can move on to another.

And that's how the cookie crumbles.

Do we have the right to ask for features and updates?

By all means, YES.

But we don't need to obsess about it and we don't need to threaten that we will buy another phone.

We should either do it or not.

Sorry for the long post, it's just how I feel reading those threads.

A little less negativity never hurt anyone. I'm just saying...