{"id":157,"date":"2010-10-03T08:08:04","date_gmt":"2010-10-03T06:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/2010\/10\/htc-open-letter-to-htc-regarding-leaf-and-upgrade-availability-in-south-africa\/"},"modified":"2010-10-03T08:08:04","modified_gmt":"2010-10-03T06:08:04","slug":"htc-open-letter-to-htc-regarding-leaf-and-upgrade-availability-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/2010\/10\/htc-open-letter-to-htc-regarding-leaf-and-upgrade-availability-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"HTC &#8211; Open Letter to HTC regarding LEAF and upgrade availability in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Open Letter to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.htc.com\/\">HTC<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I want to lay an official complaint about your (HTC) agent, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leaf.co.za\/\">LEAF<\/a> in South Africa.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Android 2.2 upgrade for HTC Desire is available for users around the world for a couple of months already. &nbsp;However here in South Africa we are still waiting. &nbsp;Everytime that Leaf get contacted for an answer on when it will be available, they have some excuse and it is never the same.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>As more and more applications in the Market depends on Android 2.2, this situation is getting unbearable.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>What is happening now is that more and more user roots their phone and install some custom ROM to get Android 2.2.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Most cellphone user in South Africa has reached the stage where they refuse to get an Android HTC cellphone due to the problems in upgrading the device. &nbsp;If something drastic does not get done then I am afraid that HTC Android market share will drop to close to zero.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I trust that this will get the attention and action it needs.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Very unhappy HTC Desire user.<\/div>\n<div>Marius Bock<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open Letter to HTC.&nbsp; I want to lay an official complaint about your (HTC) agent, LEAF in South Africa. The Android 2.2 upgrade for HTC Desire is available for users around the world for a couple of months already. &nbsp;However here in South Africa we are still waiting. &nbsp;Everytime that Leaf get contacted for an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[105,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android","category-cellphone"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1SHVw-2x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}