It happens within few months of purchase unlike other phones that may come across the same issue years later due to faulty batteries and new operating systems which end up not being compatible with
the older hardware specifications.
The Hydro also marks the first Android smartphone from Kyocera to ship with Android Ice Cream Sandwich, as its previous Sprint devices in the Zio and Echo were not capable of being updated, owing to
their older hardware specifications which limited them to Android Froyo.
Not exact matches
And, insult to injury, many of the major public cloud players run commodity
hardware made to their
specifications by no - name
hardware makers — not IBM, EMC, HP, or Cisco — making the transition even more difficult for the
old guard.
The game will work only on the new Nintendo 3DS machine because according to Mojang and 4J studios, the
older consoles doesn't have enough
hardware specifications to handle the new features.
However, Android 7.0 Nougat was designed to require less
hardware resources, so it can play nice even with
older devices with
specifications that are lower - end by today's standards.
In addition, many
older iPhones will likely run slower on iOS 8 due to the difference in
hardware specifications.
Of course, the 2016 releases are newer in terms of
hardware, software, features as well as
specifications; however, this doesn't write off the
older Samsung Galaxy S6, especially now that it is priced lower than its initial asking price.