Oh, you lucky HTC Hero owners. As of yesterday, you can download as well as install Android 2.1 from a HTC site and suffer a little speech-to-text as well as pinch-to-zoom. But not so quick. Heed this notice from a download page:

NOTICE: Installing this software will erase your stream user interpretation. Please see instructions next for details.

Specifically, applying the refurbish will “delete all report from your device.” And it equates to all. While losing contacts as well as alternative mail sum is no big understanding (a single sign-on to Google will move them all behind, how do you whim losing all your content as well as picture messages as well as all applications?

There have been workarounds. Well, not unequivocally workarounds: More sore excuses as well as procedures to fix the damaged pattern. You can behind up content as well as design messages, “by forwarding them to an email address”. This sounds accessible until you comprehend you need to send the singular email for any as well as each summary. And applications? Easy, only “re-download a preferred applications from a Market after this refurbish completes.” Presumably you’ll need to re-input all your user and app login sum. Nice.

There is a single area which a refurbish won’t wipe, as well as that’s your microSD label. We’d cocktail that fool out during a update, yet, only in box.

This is because normal people buy iPhones. Forget “open” or “closed”. This is about palliate of use. To update an iPhone, you click a symbol when iTunes tells you as well as afterwards wait for all a glossy brand-new facilities, finish with all your aged interpretation. Here’s a single some-more terrifying dash to go home with:

NOTICE: During the upgrade routine, do not attempt to make/receive calls, press any buttons upon your device or disconnect a device from a USB wire as this will stop a refurbish as well as your device may be rendered inoperable! [exclamation symbol in strange

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