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********* I got my EVO 4G!!! ***********

I have a feeling we will be hearing this A LOT, and I mean A LOT come FRIDAY JUNE 4th. So I though I would facilitate the excitement into one thread... For us brave ones who had to patiently wait till JUNE 4th. Ill most likely be posting where I got my EVO, time I got my EVO, length of time in line and my overall first impressions of this majestic beast!
*I do apologize ahead of time for the over use of exclamation marks (!)I wont be able to contain my excitement!*
Feel free to post your first Pics taken with or of the phone here...
Update: So I got it!!!!!!!
First of all I woke up with a hangover.....
as tired as I was I still woke up and drove to my local RS and I was the first one there. Eventually 28 other people showed up at 6:30 or so... I got my EVO first thing I did was throw a Zagg on it. My # has not yet ported so I havent even turned on the phone!!!!! I hate you AT&t!!!!!

How is this an "official" thread?
Got mine last week.

Bielinsk said:
How is this an "official" thread?
Got mine last week.
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i agree. needs more CAPS LOCK and ***'s to be official.

i was under assumption that only admins/moderators and fellow senior members were supposed to make "official" threads...
and yeah, getting my evo in 18hrs

Bielinsk said:
How is this an "official" thread?
Got mine last week.
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Some of us werent as lucky as you, and had to wait till Sprint released these OFFICIALLY to the general public... aka "us" Its more for the people who are having to suffer these last 15 hours of horrible and unbearable wait to get our stuby fingers on this... there's a lot of excitment waiting to pop!

Bielinsk said:
How is this an "official" thread?
Got mine last week.
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HAHA! pwned... you so mean...

Not really lucky. Just had the financial means and an opportunity.
It's only money, you will make more. You can't buy time

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didnt know the "official thread" rules... changed it up, now its less OFFICIAL, but more ********** lol

xavier1022 said:
Some of us werent as lucky as you, and had to wait till Sprint released these OFFICIALLY to the general public... aka "us" Its more for the people who are having to suffer these last 15 hours of horrible and unbearable wait to get our stuby fingers on this... there's a lot of excitment waiting to pop!
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Haha funny you said 15 hours, I said that to a coworker not too long ago earlier today!

Bielinsk said:
Not really lucky. Just had the financial means and an opportunity.
It's only money, you will make more. You can't buy time
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cool, even if i had the money I had to wait till today to be released from AT&T's contract!! Im free!!!!

I got my EVO last Wednesday.

Hell, I will just be happy to be able to get my real phone number on this and sell my Hero.

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Hell, I will just be happy to be able to get my real phone number on this and sell my Hero.
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Lol. Me too! My friends think I've moved to SF

Comfirmed: Expect froyo for the vibrant sometime this month!!

Facebooks official vibrant group just post the message. Oooh yeah!
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"A birdie just told me to expect Froyo for Vibrant as early as this month!!!!!"
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And which of the many Samsung Vibrant's on Facebook is the official one.

Its off the many samsung vibrant pages which I'm not so sure is the "official" page anymore. Probably a blonde moment. Uh I'm going to sign of now. Sorry for the false alarm peeps...
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As early as this month doesn't sound too concrete or confirmed to me. They haven't even pushed the 2.1 update with gps fix. I hope I'm wrong though.

As far as I know, this is coming from a Samsung tech employee in Finland, and is only stated for the international Galaxy S. I wouldn't expect this by the end of the month for our US Vibrant.

T's Response
I called T today to find out about the GPS fix that was leaked to come out today. I was transferred to T's Android Rep who stated that the GPS Fix is to be included in 2.2 and that he did not have a time for the release. He could not even speculate on the time frame for a release but that it was in the works and coming soon. I would not expect the update till late November but before Christmas. It could be pushed back even farther if there is any chance of there being some issues with the update to 2.2 The last thing Sam and T want is bad PR it would be a loss of sales and loss of customers. I believe they are going to test the crap out of the 2.2 update which will be nice to have a great stock rom.

Digital_Warrior said:
I called T today to find out about the GPS fix that was leaked to come out today. I was transferred to T's Android Rep who stated that the GPS Fix is to be included in 2.2 and that he did not have a time for the release. He could not even speculate on the time frame for a release but that it was in the works and coming soon. I would not expect the update till late November but before Christmas. It could be pushed back even farther if there is any chance of there being some issues with the update to 2.2 The last thing Sam and T want is bad PR it would be a loss of sales and loss of customers. I believe they are going to test the crap out of the 2.2 update which will be nice to have a great stock rom.
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Stop with your speculation. If Samsung waited till November, no one in these forums would still have a Vibrant. Every other phone to come out in the last few months has been updated to froyo (Droid X will be out soon, but has seen many leaked versions). Waiting till November would be a deathwish for Samsung. By then, Gingerbread might be out then the whole process would start over again.

Uglyboyed said:
Facebooks official vibrant group just post the message. Oooh yeah!
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link? or it did not happen

I would still keep my phone no matter when the updates come out. It happens when it happens. No one can make it happen any earler. So every one needs to chill.
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Froyo. I don't even know what it was (a yogurt desert) before buying an Android phone, now I see this word on a daily basis. God Bless Xda.

you know what. im kinda tired of seeing these threads. I think Sammy And Tmo are gonna take there sweet ass time with this. Seeing as they alreay have your money from when you bought the phone ($400 full price, $200 New 2 yrs contract, or a penny if you got on the amazon ****) they dont really have to care. They provided a phone that worked. that was that. they dont have to update it. if they wanted to they could be like yeaaaaa **** it. and there is nothing we could do but cry and build our own roms for it.
Tmo has us real good tho. they get you for the monthly and if you ditch them before 2 yrs is up hey guess what your shelling out another 200 bucks for nuking the contract LOL. its all about money. theres rumours left and right about when its gonna get 2.2 - if it does it does if it dont it dont. not much we can do

aeok18109 said:
you know what. im kinda tired of seeing these threads. I think Sammy And Tmo are gonna take there sweet ass time with this. Seeing as they alreay have your money from when you bought the phone ($400 full price, $200 New 2 yrs contract, or a penny if you got on the amazon ****) they dont really have to care. They provided a phone that worked. that was that. they dont have to update it. if they wanted to they could be like yeaaaaa **** it. and there is nothing we could do but cry and build our own roms for it.
Tmo has us real good tho. they get you for the monthly and if you ditch them before 2 yrs is up hey guess what your shelling out another 200 bucks for nuking the contract LOL. its all about money. theres rumours left and right about when its gonna get 2.2 - if it does it does if it dont it dont. not much we can do
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The one thing WE CAN DO: sell our pieces o' **** for something else, i.e. a nexus one, iphone 4, droid x, etc. etc.

aeok18109 said:
you know what. im kinda tired of seeing these threads. I think Sammy And Tmo are gonna take there sweet ass time with this. Seeing as they alreay have your money from when you bought the phone ($400 full price, $200 New 2 yrs contract, or a penny if you got on the amazon ****) they dont really have to care. They provided a phone that worked. that was that. they dont have to update it. if they wanted to they could be like yeaaaaa **** it. and there is nothing we could do but cry and build our own roms for it.
Tmo has us real good tho. they get you for the monthly and if you ditch them before 2 yrs is up hey guess what your shelling out another 200 bucks for nuking the contract LOL. its all about money. theres rumours left and right about when its gonna get 2.2 - if it does it does if it dont it dont. not much we can do
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I almost agree with you here, aside from the fact they did NOT give us a working phone. Try your GPS on your stock Vibrant and come back and tell me it works

spacecasespiff said:
I would still keep my phone no matter when the updates come out. It happens when it happens. No one can make it happen any earler. So every one needs to chill.
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How long will you chill for? Hell, in december it will be out for almost 6 months. So if thats the case, f that,.

aeok18109 said:
Tmo has us real good tho. they get you for the monthly and if you ditch them before 2 yrs is up hey guess what your shelling out another 200 bucks for nuking the contract LOL. its all about money.
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That's why I got no contract. I'll just mosey over to verizon or sprint or one of the many other carries with a Galaxy S phone once they come out with Froyo.

Uglyboyed said:
Facebooks official vibrant group just post the message. Oooh yeah!
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I went through all the Vibrant Facebook Pages and found the one mentioning Froyo and there is no way in hell that is a Samsung managed page.
a) They bag on the Captivate - Samsung wouldn't do that
b) July 14th - Said "I just played with one" - Why would Samsung say that?
c) "Their review" links to http://thetechninja.wordpress.com/ - Why would Samsung do a review of their own phone?
So, rumor squashed, there is absolutely no basis for believing anything posted to that page. The OP here should not have said its the official Vibrant page when it clearly isnt.

clivo360 said:
Stop with your speculation. If Samsung waited till November, no one in these forums would still have a Vibrant. Every other phone to come out in the last few months has been updated to froyo (Droid X will be out soon, but has seen many leaked versions). Waiting till November would be a deathwish for Samsung. By then, Gingerbread might be out then the whole process would start over again.
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Nothing to add except that I thought it was funny that you began with "stop with your speculation", then proceeded with your own speculation.

I love how people make posts about "hey man, i read this somewhere", and somehow REFUSE to post a link.
Do you think we're stupid?
Post a link or it's BS.

Here is the link the OP is referring to:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Samsung-Galaxy-S-Vibrant/129061660469467?ref=ts
Take note from my post above that there is no way in hell this is official Samsung news.

Froyo In November!!

http://engadget.com/2010/10/21/samsung-comes-clean-with-galaxy-s-froyo-upgrade-dates-all-carri/
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Then how long until sprint releases it? That's what I would like to know. Lol
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As ususal, Engadget gets it wrong. They can't even read a press release, and never bothered to pick up the phone and call Samsung. This announcement was datelined from London and about the UK, which is clear from its context.
See also this thread in Vibrant forum.
p.s. As recently as a few minutes ago, Samsung's Galaxy S support site for the U.S. on Twitter was saying there is not ETA for Froyo on this side of the pond at all.
Deployment for the Epic is even more complicated than the rollout for the GSM-based variants in the U.S. If the Epic gets Froyo in November, I will be most pleasantly surprised.

one way or another it seems like typical samsung taking forever to release an update

I just got word from my sprint connect to not expect froyo until mid-late december... he said it may be well into january before sprint pushes it out. let's hope he's wrong!

infamousjax said:
I just got word from my sprint connect to not expect froyo until mid-late december... he said it may be well into january before sprint pushes it out. let's hope he's wrong!
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Typical sprint. Its like a perfect storm of two companies that look at support only as an expense, not as retaining future customers.

infamousjax said:
I just got word from my sprint connect to not expect froyo until mid-late december... he said it may be well into january before sprint pushes it out. let's hope he's wrong!
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The Samsung Twitter sites for the United States, debunking the the speculation based on the U.K. news, reiterate what Samsung has said all along: Froyo will be deployed by U.S. carriers sometime this year:
RT @SamsungMobileUS Re: Froyo release in November statement came from SamsungUK. Froyo for US SGS will be avail this year http://ow.ly/2Xce8
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Anyone who expected something sooner has been misinformed, or just thinking wishfully. Many examples of both errors have populated comments in the various forums for weeks or months.

I hope they put the Sprint ID or whatever it is on it so I can do away with TW all together. Looked at the Samsung Transform review and was jealous that there was no TW.
I was hoping the delay was due to Sprint ID

In other words.....maybe on the next phone.

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I just got word from my sprint connect to not expect froyo until mid-late december... he said it may be well into january before sprint pushes it out. let's hope he's wrong!
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I'm inclined to believe this since Rogers in Canada is saying their version of the Captivate will get Froyo in 2011. If Froyo was ready in 2010, everywhere else in the world, why would Rogers tell their customers to expect it in 2011?

Samsung is a joke when it comes to software updates...almost on par with htc gimping allof there products
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Like I said in previous threads, sprint will recieve it last, because of 4g kernel modifications.

Honestly id rather them skip froyo and work on gingerbread.
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mykenyc said:
Honestly id rather them skip froyo and work on gingerbread.
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What? You want to wait until 2012 to get a new OS update?

What does 2.2 offer that you can't have on 2.1? I just don't see what the big deal is anyways. Is everyone that unsatisfied with their phone that they are getting bent out of shape about 2.2? This is Sprint and Samsung we are talking about right? I fully expect it to be here in January or February. In the mean time, I will enjoy my Epic with 2.1 Which is still better than the Evo on 2.2, imho.

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What does 2.2 offer that you can't have on 2.1? I just don't see what the big deal is anyways. Is everyone that unsatisfied with their phone that they are getting bent out of shape about 2.2? This is Sprint and Samsung we are talking about right? I fully expect it to be here in January or February. In the mean time, I will enjoy my Epic with 2.1 Which is still better than the Evo on 2.2, imho.
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Its faster, and "the latest and greatest" has support for full flash, not just flash lite...theres a few others.

scriz said:
Its faster, and "the latest and greatest" has support for full flash, not just flash lite...theres a few others.
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I heard flash sucked with 2.2 but that's just me. Granted it's nice to have and it's something the I-suck doesn't have so that's always a plus.
Phone is plenty fast for me but I don't do anything extensive on it. Even when it drops I'll probably still wait a while to see if it's even worth it. Reading the Evo forums, it sounded like it was more trouble than it was worth and broke more things than fixed.

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I heard flash sucked with 2.2 but that's just me. Granted it's nice to have and it's something the I-suck doesn't have so that's always a plus.
Phone is plenty fast for me but I don't do anything extensive on it. Even when it drops I'll probably still wait a while to see if it's even worth it. Reading the Evo forums, it sounded like it was more trouble than it was worth and broke more things than fixed.
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THANK YOU!

rquinn19 said:
I hope they put the Sprint ID or whatever it is on it so I can do away with TW all together. Looked at the Samsung Transform review and was jealous that there was no TW.
I was hoping the delay was due to Sprint ID
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You want to exchange one piece of bloat for another piece?
Why not just ship it with stock Android (and more than 3 screens) and then allow us to customize our devices as we see fit?

blazinazn said:
I heard flash sucked with 2.2 but that's just me. Granted it's nice to have and it's something the I-suck doesn't have so that's always a plus.
Phone is plenty fast for me but I don't do anything extensive on it. Even when it drops I'll probably still wait a while to see if it's even worth it. Reading the Evo forums, it sounded like it was more trouble than it was worth and broke more things than fixed.
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Thats because its on a Evo lol
Yeah I went to the Sprint store when I went and bought my case for my Epic and messed around with an Evo..be it a display, and they had a screen protector on it, the screened looked REALLY grainy, and it was very very slow. I'm guessing it hadn't been restarted in awhile and had every app open on it running in the background. I checked it and sure enough it was running on 2.2.

Evo being discontinued

It has almost been a year since our wonderful phone was release does anyone know when it will be discontinued? If i so happen to drop it and need to take advantage of bestbuys plan I would like to get a new phone . I know that once it is discontinued that I can just get the MSRP for it and put that toward a new phone. Thanks Guys

T13190 said:
It has almost been a year since our wonderful phone was release does anyone know when it will be discontinued? If i so happen to drop it and need to take advantage of bestbuys plan I would like to get a new phone . I know that once it is discontinued that I can just get the MSRP for it and put that toward a new phone. Thanks Guys
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I doubt that it will be anytime soon since Gingerbread is still in the works for our current Evos
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Too early for the flagshp phone
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It was supposed to be discontinued May 21st at 6PM but it was delayed due to a new wrestling app being developed by Randy Savage and his Godly crew.

T13190 said:
It has almost been a year since our wonderful phone was release does anyone know when it will be discontinued? If i so happen to drop it and need to take advantage of bestbuys plan I would like to get a new phone . I know that once it is discontinued that I can just get the MSRP for it and put that toward a new phone. Thanks Guys
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considering its still one of sprints top selling phones i don't think any time soon

DirtyShroomz said:
It was supposed to be discontinued May 21st at 6PM but it was delayed due to a new wrestling app being developed by Randy Savage and his Godly crew.
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Giggle.
I doubt that it will be anytime soon since Gingerbread is still in the works for our current Evos
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Too early for the flagshp phone
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That doesn't mean anything, as soon as the next best thing comes out the old ones are dropped fast. Phone companies are notorious for this.(Verizon is the big one) The Samsung Moment was EOL'ed, but still got updates. The Droid was EOL'ed as well but Motorola and Verizon still put out a Froyo update for it, and even replaced Droids that had the camera issue with Froyo with a Droid 2. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised of the Evo was EOL'ed sometime after the 3D's release.

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Giggle.
That doesn't mean anything, as soon as the next best thing comes out the old ones are dropped fast. Phone companies are notorious for this.(Verizon is the big one) The Samsung Moment was EOL'ed, but still got updates. The Droid was EOL'ed as well but Motorola and Verizon still put out a Froyo update for it, and even replaced Droids that had the camera issue with Froyo with a Droid 2. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised of the Evo was EOL'ed sometime after the 3D's release.
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I forgot about the Moment, maybe that's a good thing because I still have nightmares bout that phone LOL
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The evo is still on backorder some places, I doubt they'll discontinue it for awhile

IT will sell a long side the evo 3d

I think the thread title should be changed to "when will the EVO be discontinued."
The current thread title indicates or causes one to think that it has already been discontinued.

It'll be dropped to 150 after the 3d drops I bet.

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I forgot about the Moment, maybe that's a good thing because I still have nightmares bout that phone LOL
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How do you think I got an early upgrade to the Epic before?

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It was supposed to be discontinued May 21st at 6PM but it was delayed due to a new wrestling app being developed by Randy Savage and his Godly crew.
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Don't forget about December 2012, there's still another possible date.
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the future of the vibrant

Aperently samsung dose not want to update this phone anymore so what will happen to the vibrant
i believe our phones are in the hands of the developers to make roms like ics passon that will be the closest thing to the ics rom that we will get

Well considering my contract ends in october, im not worried about this phone anymore. Switching to verizon

my contract ended a long time ago we jest havent swiched providers

Bring Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich To The Galaxy S Family http://t.co/o66h7AUL

This phone is a year and a half old now, it's future involves a move to florida and driving 10 miles under the speed limit
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It's old yes, but it never really got any updates. It got 2.2 but I think it wasn't ever an OTA, it was a kies only update that bricked a lot of phones. Ive only used custom roms, but if I had kept this 500 dollar phone stock and never received any updates/fixes for it, I'd be pretty pissed. I don't know of any other phones that got the shaft THIS bad...I cannot believe samsung/tmo got away with this. It was a flagship phone, not some $199 retail phone they gave away........Hell all the other variants have OFFICIAL 2.3...nexus has the same specs and has official ICS....
Thank god for XDA

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It's old yes, but it never really got any updates. It got 2.2 but I think it wasn't ever an OTA, it was a kies only update that bricked a lot of phones. Ive only used custom roms, but if I had kept this 500 dollar phone stock and never received any updates/fixes for it, I'd be pretty pissed. I don't know of any other phones that got the shaft THIS bad...I cannot believe samsung/tmo got away with this. It was a flagship phone, not some $199 retail phone they gave away........Hell all the other variants have OFFICIAL 2.3...nexus has the same specs and has official ICS....
Thank god for XDA
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Actually I got my vibrants bogof from Tmobile so it was 2 for $149. For that price I'm pretty happy with what I got. I could understand somebody that got it full retail or at launch day at full price feeling like they were shafted though.

bfranklin1986 said:
Actually I got my vibrants bogof from Tmobile so it was 2 for $149. For that price I'm pretty happy with what I got. I could understand somebody that got it full retail or at launch day at full price feeling like they were shafted though.
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Yup.
I got it last October for my birthday, full price (I don't have tmobile)
Overlooked the Captivate because I thought this phone would progress more development wise
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I got my 2 phones during the valentines special for free. I love this phone thx to XDA, CM and now ICS Passion. Updates from TMO or Samsung? That ship has sailed... a long time ago.
I don't worry about that anymore, CM7 is running just fine, lets get some bugs out of Passion and we are good to go.

I agree, if it wasn't for team toxic I would have sold this phone a long time ago.
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Still lovin my Vibrant
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hell, i'm looking for a second one for the wifey, no more than 100 though, so i'm looking for a bit.

bfranklin1986 said:
Actually I got my vibrants bogof from Tmobile so it was 2 for $149. For that price I'm pretty happy with what I got. I could understand somebody that got it full retail or at launch day at full price feeling like they were shafted though.
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Since im on an old em+ plan that doesnt cover subsidized phones, i paid full price for my vibrant. Barely had that phone for a year and i fully blame tmobile for the piss poor support. Never again. Im much happier now with my galaxy nexus.

EdWood110 said:
I got my 2 phones during the valentines special for free. I love this phone thx to XDA, CM and now ICS Passion. Updates from TMO or Samsung? That ship has sailed... a long time ago.
I don't worry about that anymore, CM7 is running just fine, lets get some bugs out of Passion and we are good to go.
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Hope you never have to call 911.
On a side note, why isn't there a way to unthank a post? Damned thanks button needs to be somewhere else, I'm used to the quote button being on the end.

raduque said:
Hope you never have to call 911.
On a side note, why isn't there a way to unthank a post? Damned thanks button needs to be somewhere else, I'm used to the quote button being on the end.
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I'd prefer a F*** you button.

bfranklin1986 said:
I'd prefer a F*** you button.
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Well, F**k you, sir.
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My Vibrant will serve as my music and video player when I get my GSM Galaxy Nexus next week. Vibrant = Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0.

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Well, F**k you, sir.
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lol, we were thinking the same

EdWood110 said:
I got my 2 phones during the valentines special for free. I love this phone thx to XDA, CM and now ICS Passion. Updates from TMO or Samsung? That ship has sailed... a long time ago.
I don't worry about that anymore, CM7 is running just fine, lets get some bugs out of Passion and we are good to go.
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I presume you mean "fine, except for the fact the GPS doesn't work, and you can't call 911?"

mindaika said:
I presume you mean "fine, except for the fact the GPS doesn't work, and you can't call 911?"
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Not sure what your issues are, but my phone has pretty good GPS AND I can use 911 just fine, the 911 "issue" has been blown out of proportion