Last updated on November 21st, 2015
HTC Desire S – Software Update
HTC Desire S - quietly steals your software
Last night, my mobile decided to upgrade itself. Both Android and HTC Sense got “upgraded”. It’s now:
- Android 2.3.5
- HTC Sense 3.0
- Software Number 2.10.401.5
It’s now got very pretty icons and even more scary fog sounds on the weather app.!!
It’s a bit slicker and has a ring-pull on the start screen!
Most of the icons and text (like SMS, say) have had a spruce up and are neater.
It forced a swathe of updates from other apps like Google Maps, Adobe Reader, Flash etc.
Not so Good.
But wait! What happened to navigation in the HTC Locations app?
HTC Desire S at Amazon - still 300 quid!
Granted, the app is slicker and uses the same Route 66 software, but now I have to pay a minimum of six quid a month to use the very useful “Get Directions” facility which is one of the reasons that I bought the phone for in the first place!!!
And if I do pay, it only works for car, not for pedestrian mapping as it used to!
My Software
The point is that it’s my software.
- I paid for a license to use it, but I didn’t agree to have it removed and replaced by an inferior version of software that asks for more money.
- I agreed for the software to be updated, but it was updated without saying what the update would do!
- In effect, HTC have stolen my software from me.
- HTC have dishonoured the original contract when I purchased the phone and software.
HTC are crooks. Bizarrely, the late Steve Jobs is right.
Well, I got another HTC core update a few days ago! Guess what?
Funnily enough, HTC Sense and HTC Hub has also started working – too well in fact, so I’ve turned them off.