I have been told that Sprint limits OTA updates to 10 MB because of legal reasons. The OTA update process for Sprint leaves the phone unusable, which would prevent a customer from dialing 911.
Q: How does Sprint expect the non-tech people to update their phone?
When I asked how Sprint expects people to update their phones without over the air updates, I was given two scenarios. Customers could download an update file to the PC and apply it by hooking up their phone via USB. Non-tech people could visit a Sprint store and have a Sprint employee perform the udpate.
Neither option sounds that great to me. If the updates are not automatically sent out, I picture more than half of Sprint’s customers never updating their phone.
