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Last Saturday, I bought a Samsung Galaxy SII thinking that an update for Android 4 should be available for Singapore since Samsung had already rolled out the update for UK. I was wrong not to check first before buying the phone. Upon reaching home with the new phone, the first thing I did was to download the Samsung KIES software and tried to do the update before I transferred my contacts. Sadly there was no update to android 4. I should have gotten Samsung Nexus and save myself the disappointment of not have a android 4 and other updates in the future. Phone vendors are most reluctant to update their old phones to the latest firmware. Naturally, they would want us to just buy their latest phones. If Android makers continue to do this they might suffer a black lash. People might just get frustrated with such poor support and move on to another platform. Another point to take note is that if they phone vendors do not provide update to their phones, the market will be flooded with different version of Android OS. This kind of fragmentation will cause headaches to developers. On many websites, there are mentions of developers frustrated with this kind of fragmentation and might consider developing for other platforms. This good news for Windows OS as some of the developers might jump back to Windows OS. This is my first Android phone and I am feeling disappointed already. Lucky I still have my iPhone.