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Android 4.0 Upgrade For Sony Xperia Smartphones Opens a Pandora Box

Posted by timothy on from the upgrade-treadmill dept.

First time accepted submitter ctrl-alt-canc writes "The udpdate to Android ICS offered for free by Sony to the Xperia smarphone users has caused plenty of troubles. Not only the decision by Sony of not updating Xperia Play phones to ICS caused rage among customers, but those who were lucky to get an upgrade for their smartphones discovered that WiFi connection did not work anymore. Up to now, the only suggestion proposed by Sony to fix the problem is to turn off the encryption, and reboot the smartphone and the access point."

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  1. Someone doesn't understand what a pandoras box is. by man_of_mr_e · · Score: 5, Informative

    If it opened a pandoras box, then all hell on earth would break out.. all manner of terrible things would be unleashed upon the world.

    Having a few problems with your phone is not a pandoras box.. at best, you could say it opened a can of worms.

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  2. wait, what? ppl are buying Sony stuff still? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Didn't we learn our lesson from the last N rounds of user-hostile actions taken by Sony?

    Who in their right mind buys Sony gear any more, after them suing their customers, removing advertised features from products after you bought them, root-kitting people's PCs, leaking your private data to the whole world, etc etc?

    Seriously? People are STILL buying from Sony? Why on earth would anyone want to encourage their behaviour?