There was a time when operating systems were most popularly associated with personal computers and laptops.However ,things have changed and mobile phones have become formidable computing devices that run on some of the most advanced operating system in the world.The era of the mobile OS upgrade has well and truly arrived and it is one that the power smartphone users can ignore at their peril.An OS update is Software based enhancement in the OS that enables it do more than what the last version was capable of doing.
UPDATE ADVANTAGE
- A new release adds useful features(like multiple task in Jelly Bean) to your phone and battery life may be significantly improved running newer code.
- Smooth functioning of the phone(Project Butter in Jelly Bean)
- AN OS update helps run more recently developed apps,
UPDATE RISKS
- First, there’s a risk – albeit slight – that the process may fail and end up “bricking” your phone.
- In certain cases updating may wipe your phone’s memory, which would result in you having to reinstall all your apps and restore your data and so on.
- Update may bring new bugs or take away some useful features from your phone(APPLE MAP ANYBODY?)
BEFORE YOU UPDATE
- Make sure that your phone has the minimum hardware specification to upgrade.
- Take backup of all the phone data-contacts,phone,photos etc.
- Charge your phone before the upgrade.
- Avoid using the phone during the update.
- Ensure uninterrupted data connectivity.
TO UPGRADE OR NOT
- The world is full of smartphone users who are still working on older version of their device's OS simply because they don't want any of the new features offered by their upgraded versions.For instance,many Apple users didn't upgrade to OS 6 because they didn't wanted to loose the Google Map-they were more content with their existing mobile OS.
- Another point to be taken into consideration is that while OS update bring new features on high end smartphones they take a very heavy toll of lower end devices.
So to upgrade or not boils down to the user.If you are happy with what your OS offering you and are not very keen on new features than you should keep you mobile OS in its old avatar.However if you like to be at the cutting edge of the technology then upgrade is not a option but necessity.
