HTC SD Cards to hit T-Mobile Stores to Provide Software Updates

To the average person an exchange is more of an annoyance than anything. To a company like HTC and T-Mobile, it costs money, and a lot of it. Being the Android geek that I am, I know that at least 75% of exchanges are due to software issues or application failure. The solution, root your phone and put something on it that works. Sadly the carriers can’t recommend that officially. They need to stay true to their partners. On the other side of the coin, you have an update that is out but rolls slow. Sometimes taking as long as 6 months for every active device to get an update. This is rather irritating for customers. Especially when a friend or relative got the update first.

HTC is looking to help curb those issue as much as possible. They will be mailing out 2 SD cards to each retail store. Each card will house the appropriate file needed to run an update on one of three devices. MyTouch 3G Slide, MyTouch 4G and HTC T-Mobile G2. The most important being the G2, the SD card will be holding the currently unreleased Gingerbread update. With these cards expected in store and available for use by August 1st, the official OTA should start rolling out at the same time.

All in all, this is a good move on HTC’s part. I do see a few flaws with this plan though. First, why not just upload the files to a backend website for the store to download to their own SD card and avoid the shipping costs. Second, do you know how hectic every T-Mobile store will become? Once news of this is out no one will wait for an OTA. They will be standing in lines for hours. They are going to need to have an extra employee on hand for weeks just to update devices.

Source: Tmonews