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Please point me in the direction to a cost-comparative (to the iPhone) Android device to an iPhone that has not received updates.

At least Android devices give you the option to upgrade. I've been forced into iOS upgrades on devices we use in the enterprise that have been made obsolete because of new bloat we didn't need (nor can we downgrade).

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I had a droid x2 and it didn't get 3.0 despite being priced similar to an iPhone and it was less than a year old when 3.0 was released. This is very common with android phones.

Android 3.0 was a tablet only release.

I didn't mean 3.0, I meant any version from then on. For a phone that came out in may 2011, it was infuriating to be stuck on 2.x.

Other than nexus phones, all android phones are at the mercy of the carrier and manufacturer. None of them get updated on the day a new version of android comes out, most experience long delays, and many see no major version bump.

When iOS 7 comes out next week there is no doubt I will be able to install it on my iPhone.

How were you forced to upgrade ? It's neither mandatory nor automatic.

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