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Guy complaining about his Nexus One being slow. It should be, that phone was designed to run up to Android 2.x and has long lost any support for system updates. It wasn't even originally designed to run Android 3.x. There's a whole lot more about your phone's compatibility than "still duking it out specifications wise", in his own words.

Edit: Oops, yes, no claim to run ICS. Either way, he's using an incredibly dated phone. The comparison isn't far off from trying to run iOS 5 on an iPhone 3GS.

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My iPod touch from 2008 runs ios5 just fine. My HTC thunderbolt from last april runs some already massivly outdated whatever version. And he is complaining about more than just his outdated phone, he gets an app, and all it tells him to do is visit the website?

Plus, he has a very good point, yeah his phone is old and slow, but he's not trying to play a new game, he is DOWNLOADING A COUPON. Wal-mart phones can do that these days. Also, needing to buy a phone every 3 months just for it to be useable, is not what they call a good "user experience"

It's not that dated. As he says it fits nicely in the midrange of phones still being offered.

Here is a brand new 2012 Samsung Pocket. The Nexus One is still way ahead of this thing: http://www.mobileburn.com/18826/news/samsung-galaxy-pocket-i...

The Pocket features a 2.8-inch, 240 x 320 pixel touchscreen and is powered by a single-core 832MHz processor.

That said, running Google Offers on my Nexus One (CM 7) was just fine over wifi (I am no longer on its original carrier and I use it as a wifi iTouch-like device). I couldn't find the Starbucks offer but all the other offers seemed to let me purchase then and there in app.

Every iPhone 3GS that's been sold for the last 6 months runs iOS 5 and I believe the majority of pre-iOS 5 3GS users have upgraded to it.

And how does it perform? Does it have all the same features?

I believe it runs fine: the 2009 iPhone 3GS processor is slower than the 2010 iPhone 4, but parses/pushes 1/4 the amount of pixels. From experience, while neither of them are particularly fast at CPU-bound operations, the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 are plenty fast enough for daily use on iOS 5 and are still quite smooth for things like scrolling and animations.

Mine has all the features (sans siri) and works fine.

When did he say he was running ICS?

The complaint was that a simple app was needlessly unusable on his phone.

He is ranting that the Google offer app ask him to use the browser to redeem. For most Google offers, you can redeem directly from the app (it gives you a bar code), some of them maybe due to the settings of the vendor requires other means such as this one.

Nexus One was release approximately a year ago. Is it really an unfair expectation that it should be able to download coupons in a non-painful way?

The Nexus One was released January 2010. You might be thinking of the Nexus S that was released last year.

I think you're thinking of the Nexus S. The Nexus One was released on January 2012, which is 2 years ago.

Correction: over two years ago. Anyone who bought a Nexus One at release is out of their 2-year contract by now and eligible for the full subsidy on any new phone with any carrier.

Did any carriers offer a subsidy for the Nexus One? I was under the impression that everyone who owns one bought it outright.

That's assuming you bought your phone at launch, people are still buying plenty of phones both android and iOS that are well over a year old and they are still being actively marketed.

To put that in perspective MS still supports a 10 year old OS and the majority of Windows Applications will still work with it.

I'm running Offers on my Motorola Droid just fine, and haven't encountered any of the problems he reports.

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