I used to love hearing that the next OS update was coming soon or that the SDK had been released by Google. Now I hate it.

Gingerbread was released at the back end of last year and has already been rolled out to Nexus devices and others. Those of us with older handsets i.e. not brand new, especially those with Manufacturer UI’s have to wait ages. HTC have unofficially confirmed my handset, the HTC Desire will not get the latest software until well after the summer.

Great, Im already seen Honeycomb plastered all over the place and Im not going to become a  little Gingerbread man for ages.

So, you can imagine my disgust when Amazon got in on the act by sending me an email yesterday at 06:57 saying that there will be a software update delivered over the next day or two for my beloved Amazon Kindle. Ok, well I actually like the fact that they, the company that provide the product contacted me direct to tell when whats coming and in some detail too.

There wasn’t anything major in the software update but still they listed what was to be included and gave links to more information for those who wanted it. Given my experiences with Android software updates, I tried to forget the mail.

That evening I turned on my Kindle and BHAM! There was the update, the Kindle did exactly what Amazon had explained and I received the software update and on the same day as I was officially informed about it. Impressive.

I should have known really. Amazon doesn’t try to do everything but what it does try and do, it does well much like the Kindle itself. Rarely have I been so impressed with a piece of technology. I thought it was a bit of a gimmicky gadget but no, it’s a sophisticated bit of kit that does what it says it does and does it well.

The minor Kindle software update is a long way from a major OS release for a mobile phone operating system but we’ve seen minor software fixes rolled out extremely badly by operators, manufacturers and OS developers so they really should look at how Amazon managed this very clean roll out.

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