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By Matt Buchanan Feb 3, 2011 7:41 PM 27,708

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Why You Should Never Buy an Android Phone Because You Hope It’ll Get Updated

Long story short: Motorola was going to update the Cliq XT to Android 2.1—and told people about it!—and now they're not, after "months of testing."

The moral of this short story: Never ever buy something because you hope it'll get updated. Even when a company totally promises. Buy it for what it can do right now. [Motorola via Engadget]

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