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Today's the day I had been waiting for...until 10 mins ago when I found out that the newly announced, official Skype for Android is available for 2.1+ only. Anybody got a gun?
oh well, I've been waiting for this moment for months...another month wouldn't hurt i guess.
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/05/skype-app-arrives-in-android-market-still-wifi-only/
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=800038
Not work for me. Currently. Now I have a strong reason to upgrade to 2.1
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well i just want 2.1 now!!!!!!
still got the beta but with no calls it just sux
Who is Rachael?
Why does everyone refer to the phone by a girl's name? It creeps me out.
Anyway, Skype will be available in a few weeks for the X10.
What sucks is it's not out in Japan, despite there being a 2.1 device out (Desire).
iead1 said:
Who is Rachael?
Why does everyone refer to the phone by a girl's name? It creeps me out.
Anyway, Skype will be available in a few weeks for the X10.
What sucks is it's not out in Japan, despite there being a 2.1 device out (Desire).
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cause Rachael is the code name of the X10
Rachael's the codename for X10 when it was announced. I like to call my X10 that cuz it's sexy lol. Yea, I heard Skype is not available for Japan an China, that's too bad
I realize it's the code name... but people refer to the X10 as "her" and the like.. that's the creepy part. lol.
Also, with 1.6, Nimbuzz works pretty good for Skype. SkypeOut is a different story..
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I realize it's the code name... but people refer to the X10 as "her" and the like.. that's the creepy part. lol.
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This is why i call my x10 "Mike". Its good to have my mate Mike with me at all times, He is so clever - always has the answers.
back on topic though, as annoying as it is not having Skype for 1.6, im ok with waiting another few weeks - hell, we've waited a while now! what is a little bit longer.
mrtim123 said:
This is why i call my x10 "Mike". Its good to have my mate Mike with me at all times, He is so clever - always has the answers.
back on topic though, as annoying as it is not having Skype for 1.6, im ok with waiting another few weeks - hell, we've waited a while now! what is a little bit longer.
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uhh... i think i'd rather have a female phone in my pocket rather than a male
Jokes aside, that's the spirit! I'm a long time user of Skype and i have a subscription with them where i can call anywhere in the world unlimited for about $14. Having Skype on my X10 would be a very good advantage.
The correct answer is "Donuts." Skype never intended its app to be used with donuts and, if they still exist, cupcakes.
Oh, yeah, the Motorola Backflip is still cupcake so far.
motorola dext still has donut in mexico xD
I seriously want an unlocked phone
iead1 said:
Who is Rachael?
Why does everyone refer to the phone by a girl's name? It creeps me out.
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Inanimate objects are traditionally referred to in the feminine in the English language. Boats and cars particularly. I don't really find it unusual for this tradition to carry over to other items.
Anyway, Skype will be available in a few weeks for the X10.
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We'll see. I'm not too confident in SE's release schedule.
If you're in Canada, yeah, you'll have to wait.
A few weeks isn't too long, even if they miss October, it'll be November, which still falls under "a few weeks".
right "few" weeks
SE will say "oh yeah forgot to say, update will be lauched in Q4 2023"
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If you're in Canada, yeah, you'll have to wait.
A few weeks isn't too long, even if they miss October, it'll be November, which still falls under "a few weeks".
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A few weeks is a pretty long time after you've already missed a deadline to release an operating system which will be a major version behind the competition. Soon to be two versions behind (again) in "just a few weeks."
I've heard, and read that Froyo is out for the Epic?
Is this true? if so has anyone tried it out yet?
It's been given to Sprint at this point. Not the user. Also, this is definitely the wrong sub-section for this post.
Before this gets moved, I have a question...when froyo is released, will we have to reroot it? I'm coming from the evo, and you don't notice the difference between 2.1 and 2.2 until youv had the later and suddenly snap back. Like sand in a open wound :-(
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Before this gets moved, I have a question...when froyo is released, will we have to reroot it? I'm coming from the evo, and you don't notice the difference between 2.1 and 2.2 until youv had the later and suddenly snap back. Like sand in a open wound :-(
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As long as you don't accept an OTA, you shouldn't have to re-root.
What we could really use is a leak.
[cough] Mid-November [/cough]
Before the end of this year...
I remember reading somewhere that in 2.2, the stock dialer must be used. Does this mean that the Epic's dialer would not be there? I have seen the dialer that comes with a vanilla 2.2 and the Epic's dialer is so much better. I hope this is not the case.
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I remember reading somewhere that in 2.2, the stock dialer must be used. Does this mean that the Epic's dialer would not be there? I have seen the dialer that comes with a vanilla 2.2 and the Epic's dialer is so much better. I hope this is not the case.
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Probably not going to be the case being the the EVO still has the sense dialer on 2.2.
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!
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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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Typical sprint. Its like a perfect storm of two companies that look at support only as an expense, not as retaining future customers.
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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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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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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.
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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?
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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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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.
So that i could ask whether or not were getting a update for sense. didn't get a clear answer (didn't expect to.) and the guy said he cant give me the date for the update. hmmmm....... sounds like somebody knows something that they won't tell.
The updated sense is beautiful but so is MIUI... plus I use my camera too much at this point to give it up. I can deal with no 4G
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So that i could ask whether or not were getting a update for sense. didn't get a clear answer (didn't expect to.) and the guy said he cant give me the date for the update. hmmmm....... sounds like somebody knows something that they won't tell.
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...it sounds like he didn't know anything. With Gingerbread getting close to being unveiled in a week or two, I wouldn't be surprised if we didn't get a update till Gingerbread (months from now) or at all.
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...it sounds like he didn't know anything. With Gingerbread getting close to being unveiled in a week or two, I wouldn't be surprised if we didn't get a update till Gingerbread (months from now) or at all.
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True.
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guesses? rumors? news? anyone? lots of hype about this. but it kinda seems like vibrant is gonna get left in the dust seeing as how we are still on 2.1. from what i have been reading, 2.3 (gingerbread) will be out within a week! so us vibrant users will be 2 versions behind! (wtf tmo and samsung?) my thoughts are maybe they didnt update us cuz they where just waiting for 2.3 to come out and wanted to get all the updating done at once. but i do kinda live in a fantasy world (drugs are bad mmmkay) so what are the thought from the fine folks here at xda on this matter?
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guesses? rumors? news? anyone? lots of hype about this. but it kinda seems like vibrant is gonna get left in the dust seeing as how we are still on 2.1. from what i have been reading, 2.3 (gingerbread) will be out within a week! so us vibrant users will be 2 versions behind! (wtf tmo and samsung?) my thoughts are maybe they didnt update us cuz they where just waiting for 2.3 to come out and wanted to get all the updating done at once. but i do kinda live in a fantasy world (drugs are bad mmmkay) so what are the thought from the fine folks here at xda on this matter?
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Lol JK2 was leaked. We will have an official froyo soon seing as that. And we will be able to port 2.3, don't worry
not sure what jk2 is. i am still kinda a noob. but that would be nice to get an official 2.2 update. i kinda want flash so i can watch southpark. haha
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not sure what jk2 is. i am still kinda a noob. but that would be nice to get an official 2.2 update. i kinda want flash so i can watch southpark. haha
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Jk2 is a build number of the most recent (and most important since its specifically for vibrants) froyo. Before this all the froyo roms out has been built off of other variations on diff models/carrier.
The fact that jk2 was leaked means the official ota for all tmobile customers is real and immenent.
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huh. well nice! still, im hearing rumors that they aren't gonna make an official 2.3 for the vibrant. which i dont know if i mind or not. but i still wanted to see what everyons opinion on that is?
djkozdefantastico said:
huh. well nice! still, im hearing rumors that they aren't gonna make an official 2.3 for the vibrant. which i dont know if i mind or not. but i still wanted to see what everyons opinion on that is?
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It doesn't matter if they do or not. Like I said above, "We can port it"
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huh. well nice! still, im hearing rumors that they aren't gonna make an official 2.3 for the vibrant. which i dont know if i mind or not. but i still wanted to see what everyons opinion on that is?
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I doubt we'll ever see an official 2.3. Samsung will probably release 2.2 somewhere between 2-4 months behind the competition. That doesn't give me great hope that we'll ever seen 2.3. Figure that it took HTC/Motorola 2-3 months to turn 2.2 final into 2.2 custom versions to OTA, then we are looking at 4-7 months from now for 2.3 if all of the same timeframes hold. That's probably past the window that this phone will receive official updates.
well seems like the ported versions of the firmware updates have problems, like the headphone jack not working. or gps lagging ect. (not to say the developers didnt do a good job{ cuz they did an awesome job}) but i use that stuff lots. i agree with lex tho. i think that we will probly stop geting updates after awhile so that the newer more awesome phones can get bought up.
Akaskriller say he has an official 2.2 froyo ready for those who donates to his site.. I saw the vid it looks good
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Tough call. I would say 1 year till official release...
mmmm im thinkin honeycomb (3.0) will be out within a year. prob not for our phones tho. we will have to upgrade to the we will have to upgrade to the galaxy t hahaha
2.3 won't be that different
2.3 won't be that different It will change the resolution mainly to allow a bigger screen Right now 2.2 really can only function on a 7 inch screen without some mods so 2.3 will have that integrated. 3.0 will have real differences, but Vibrant has become the developers phone of choice so, you will see that on the phone as soon as it gets out.
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2.3 won't be that different It will change the resolution mainly to allow a bigger screen Right now 2.2 really can only function on a 7 inch screen without some mods so 2.3 will have that integrated. 3.0 will have real differences, but Vibrant has become the developers phone of choice so, you will see that on the phone as soon as it gets out.
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ROFL.
No, not really.
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Akaskriller say he has an official 2.2 froyo ready for those who donates to his site.. I saw the vid it looks good
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it is no more official than any of the others that are out.
I doubt it will take that long. Look, the Galaxy S took a while because these are the first phones using the Hummingbird CPU. People say HTC and Motorola are more on the ball, but they're using the same Snapdragon and OMAP cores since the beginning. Heck, Froyo was originally built for the Snapdragon--no wonder Froyo is easy to port to those phones.
Now they've got Froyo on the Hummingbird, I would think future releases will be easier to port based on the accumulated experience.
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I doubt we'll ever see an official 2.3. Samsung will probably release 2.2 somewhere between 2-4 months behind the competition. That doesn't give me great hope that we'll ever seen 2.3. Figure that it took HTC/Motorola 2-3 months to turn 2.2 final into 2.2 custom versions to OTA, then we are looking at 4-7 months from now for 2.3 if all of the same timeframes hold. That's probably past the window that this phone will receive official updates.
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Froyo was out in January, wasn't it...?
That's more than 2-4 months ago.
I don't ever expect to see 2.3 from Sammy. We'll honestly be lucky if we ever see an official & working 2.2.
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Froyo was out in January, wasn't it...?
That's more than 2-4 months ago.
I don't ever expect to see 2.3 from Sammy. We'll honestly be lucky if we ever see an official & working 2.2.
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You don't visited the developer section much or what?
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Froyo was out in January, wasn't it...?
That's more than 2-4 months ago.
I don't ever expect to see 2.3 from Sammy. We'll honestly be lucky if we ever see an official & working 2.2.
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No. Froyo was pushed to the nexus one in late june.
HTC/Motorola pushed it 2-3 months after that and samsung will wind up another 2-4 months after that, depending on when they finally push it.
2.3 will be pushed any day now to the nexus one, so you can do the math from there if you assume the same timeline. My guess its that pushes 2.3 out of the window for the upgrade.
Guys.. Froyo should be out before Christmas. Team Whiskey and Eugene already got it. And tmobile is sending OTA to people with JI6 to downgrade back to JFD. They're preparing peoples phones.
Okay, we have froyo, now we are set... OH WAIT GINGERBREAD IS COMING OUT I AM NEVER HAPPY OTHER PHONES WILL HAVE IT BEFORE ME CRY CRY CRY CRY.
Seriously, I can assure you gingerbread is not going to come out this year.
And the N1 is the dev phone so of course it's going to be first to snatch up the latests firmware.
Heck, samsung or tmobile DIDNT PROMISE YOU ANY UPDATES. You bought the phone and that is it. They have your money, what are you going to do know? Didn't you check on the behold? I think they are stuck on 1.6 same as the Cliq. BE HPPY you got froyo.
I don't care what anyone else says, I happy with my froyo.
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Heck, samsung or tmobile DIDNT PROMISE YOU ANY UPDATES.
I don't care what anyone else says, I happy with my froyo.
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actually when i bought the phone i got ****in played man. haha the people at the t-mo store told me i would get all the updates as soon as they came out, and that i would get 4 g on my vibrant. thats when i didnt know much about the phone, or phones at all. but now that im doing my research, im finding out that none of that stuff is true! im liking t-mo. but dont like how they lied to me to buy the vibrant. i was even looking right at the g2. like 'what about this one?' 'na man! you want the vibrant' i love my vibrant. but i also am gonna want 4g and firmware updates in the future.