I just spent 30 minutes with data support in regards to this question, " Why Doesn't Verizon Support The upgrade from 4.3 to 4.5? If you go to their upgrade site, there is no mention of an upgrade. As the technician explains to me, Verizon likes to review all the bugs before they hastily jump into the pool without water. Next, wether I believe this or not, I have been told that an
upgrade is easy and a
downgrade is impossible, even with the battery pulled for more than 30 seconds. So, being told this, if there were any bugs and your phone starts to act up, she was saying that there is no cure, but to get an another phone, because you wouldn't be able to roll back to the previous version. I thought all phones had a factory re-set? So, the bottom line is, Verizon is not close to offering a system upgrade right now. So, I would like to add my two cents to all this if I may.
1) It seems some upgrade because they want to enjoy reading their non
Hieroglyphics email that comes as a default with the 4.3 OS, for the free
HTML viewer given in the 4.5 OS.
2) The next reason, and I believe it's the major reason why people are
choosing to upgrade, is for a free version of Documents To Go,
which enables you to view word documents.
Other than what I stated above, I have not read about any other added advantage, and reading as much as I can, I read nothing but devices freezing up, pictures looking horrible, the constant need to pull the battery out etc......My school of thought on this is to stay with the stable 4.3 OS, and to purchase programs such as Empower, which reads my email and downloads my attachments as if I were on my computer. For word documents, there are Beamberry, RepliGo, and eWord these are just a few more programs that can be purchased. In conclusion, spending a few extra dollars and having everything working as it should, will keep me from having a coronary. Thank you.
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