Mods. Please delete this. The date has already passed. FroYo will come out never. Done.
the skeptic in me will remain skeptical until i see something from sprint, but thank you for the info i have some hope since t-mo has their update available, maybe sprint will be more motivated to end the bad press and user backlash... time will tell.
Maybe a dev can choime in they always seem to have to inside track
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Ecocee mentioned EA16 being a release candidate earlier in the week. Lets hope that we see something soon.
Funny, once some big-name websites (pcmag, yahoo finance, etc) started calling foul-play, Samsung and the carriers can magically get their updates out...
Neptune5k said:
Ecocee mentioned EA16 being a release candidate earlier in the week. Lets hope that we see something soon.
Funny, once some big-name websites (pcmag, yahoo finance, etc) started calling foul-play, Samsung and the carriers can magically get their updates out...
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You are right! We should have made a stink back is November! Maybe the best thing to do from now on is to always raise a super-stink the minute a company misses their "promised" date. Then things get delivered!
JD
This screams of politics
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This screams of politics
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I agree. It seems like things are finally coming around, but something still stinks behind the scenes. At the very least my guesstimate is that the updates were a very very low priority for either Samsung, the carriers, or both.
So when do we start the *****ing about not having Gingerbread? Wednesday morning?
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So when do we start the *****ing about not having Gingerbread? Wednesday morning?
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I got company coming into town next weekend, so i'm gonna wait til the following monday
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So when do we start the *****ing about not having Gingerbread? Wednesday morning?
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We should wait till the Nexus One gets theirs then we start shouting at the top of our lungs, or start now, or just start a class action lawsuit. Which do you want to do?
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This screams of politics
And as always wary Sprint be the last to pull the trigger on this and get beat, again by the competition
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Androidcentral just posted a sprint memo saying they didnt have a release date for froyo yet...
There its now a new rumor saying that Samsung is going to give out Gingerbread at the beginning of Second Quarter.
Source: http://phandroid.com/2011/01/22/rum...axy-tab-to-get-gingerbread-beginning-of-q211/
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There its now a new rumor saying that Samsung is going to give out Gingerbread at the beginning of Second Quarter.
Source: http://phandroid.com/2011/01/22/rum...axy-tab-to-get-gingerbread-beginning-of-q211/
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To the Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab, neither of which do us any good.
So when do we start the *****ing about not having Gingerbread? Wednesday morning?
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I don't really care much about a timeline for Gingerbread atm. I just want to be able to test my own Adobe AIR apps on my own phone. Once I can do that, I'll be happy.
I doubt.it will be this Tuesday cause every article I read says they have no clue when update will be given just that it will be soon. This sounds like the 12/26 thing again where all these people had the inside informants and it was def. Happening. Look where that went
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I don't really care much about a timeline for Gingerbread atm. I just want to be able to test my own Adobe AIR apps on my own phone. Once I can do that, I'll be happy.
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That's why I installed dk28. Air works great, just a teeny bit of lag when you start an app.
I wish they would say **** froyo and just start work on gingerbread
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I doubt.it will be this Tuesday cause every article I read says they have no clue when update will be given just that it will be soon. This sounds like the 12/26 thing again where all these people had the inside informants and it was def. Happening. Look where that went
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Just for the record,I never said Tuesday,and 12/26 was deffinitly the planned release date at one point. So I wouldnt doubt sources,things dont always work out... And just because the update is not in the playbook does not mean we wont see one next week OTA... But I will say this for sure, source "Talks around the water cooler say everyone should be updated by 1/31/2011",so that tells me that roll out should start on or before 1/26/2011,so Tuesday or Wednesday... Again Im not gonna call that the date this time,because I already see the flame throwers coming out of the wood work.
Oh,and I can promise you Gingerbread is being worked on also...
IISI, IWBI...
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Related
http://www.gizmocrunch.com/android/4229-android-gingerbread-samsung-epic-captivate-fascinate-vibrant
If this is true, and followed through it will restore my faith in Samsung.
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Just a rumor.... but makes sense.
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On second thought. Why would samsung OTA us to 2.3, by doing so that would make the Nexus S just another Vibrant over at T-Mobile.
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On second thought. Why would samsung OTA us to 2.3, by doing so that would make the Nexus S just another Vibrant over at T-Mobile.
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My understanding is that the Nexus S (like the Nexus One) is a stripped down, super-phone, demonstration of new technology and in this case the most notable difference would be the form factor and the NFC. I think Sammy would face more backlash from consumers for ignoring hardware customers already paid for so as to make a new product with near-identical hardware better.
I would assume to have a 2.3 powerhouse phone on all major carriers for bragging and sales purposes. Would make a ton of sense.
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I would assume to have a 2.3 powerhouse phone on all major carriers for bragging and sales purposes. Would make a ton of sense.
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That *would* make sense. Also, it would rock.
Is the person who posted that credible?
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Is the person who posted that credible?
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From the article:
While only a rumor, he's usually spot on and the tweet does seem very plausible so we wouldn't be surprised if Samsung Galaxy S phones (Captivate, Fascinate, Epic 4G and Vibrant) will beat HTC and Motorola devices to Android 2.3.
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Personally, I'd never heard of him but I've requested to follow him on twitter. In the end we'll just have to wait and see but it would be nice. If this update were coming soon I think there would be some RCs floating around but seeing as we have Froyo ones and a 'near-official' OTA update that went to .4 phones its hard to know if we'll skip 2.2 and go right to 2.3. I want this to happen but the evidence I have right now would seem to go against this.
I honestly though don't care about gingerbread all that much. I'm planning to have this phone for awhile. It does everything I need with ease. Big difference from when I had the Moment and from day 1 felt the need to smash it into a wall because of how slow and laggy it was. I would hope samsung realizes this isn't a phone to cut ties with because it defintely has staying power even after it's superceded by something faster on paper but probably only marginably faster in real world use.
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So if you're wondering why Samsung hasn't bothered upgrading most of its smartphons to Android 2.2 Froyo yet then this could be the reason. Let's see if Samsung leapfrogs to Android Gingerbread before the holidays or not.
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if we skip straight to 2.3 I will start rescuing kittens!!!!
With how good samsung did with sales from all the galaxy s phones, i wouldnt be surprised that they would do this.. that would be so sweet to have gingerbread on epic and since its on the nexus s with samehardware screen and stats, makes sense they could upgrade all variants epic will definitly be the top of the line if it got gingerbread, but also i agree with the poster above about caring less as long as i have a good running phone with 2.2 ill be set til the dual core processors come out and another top of the line phone comes out for sprint next year or 2 years,
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From the article:
Personally, I'd never heard of him but I've requested to follow him on twitter. In the end we'll just have to wait and see but it would be nice. If this update were coming soon I think there would be some RCs floating around but seeing as we have Froyo ones and a 'near-official' OTA update that went to .4 phones its hard to know if we'll skip 2.2 and go right to 2.3. I want this to happen but the evidence I have right now would seem to go against this.
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I agree, its better to wait and see. I would rather not get myself excited only t be disappointed in the end. The best i could see out of this is samsung releasing gingerbread much earlier then any of us would expect. I don't know...lets just see.
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Personally, I'd never heard of him but I've requested to follow him on twitter. In the end we'll just have to wait and see but it would be nice. If this update were coming soon I think there would be some RCs floating around but seeing as we have Froyo ones and a 'near-official' OTA update that went to .4 phones its hard to know if we'll skip 2.2 and go right to 2.3. I want this to happen but the evidence I have right now would seem to go against this.
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I would have to agree with you. It would be nice, and it would increase following among sammy, but will it be released soon? At this point, possibly but not probably.
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I agree, its better to wait and see. I would rather not get myself excited only t be disappointed in the end. The best i could see out of this is samsung releasing gingerbread much earlier then any of us would expect. I don't know...lets just see.
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Indeed. I spent months reading about how my Mytouch was getting Eclair only to be let down every time. I will say that if they do leapfrog 2.2 and get my device up-to-android-date then when I buy my fiancee's new phone in about a month she'll be getting a Sammy device. Otherwise, I'm not going to get her a phone that's always out-of-date.
Now if we dont receive an update b4 january first for anything this might prove that we will have gingerbread later and prove that they skipped froyo.
I mean if they dont give us froyo b4 the end of the year like they promised, they could be working on gingerbread we shall see by the end of this month.
The only thing I am not looking forward to is the possible return of these forums turning into unreadable garbage of people trolling, fighting and starting multiple threads about when or why Gingerbread is/isn't on the epic.
This thread has been nice though.
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The only thing I am not looking forward to is the possible return of these forums turning into unreadable garbage of people trolling, fighting and starting multiple threads about when or why Gingerbread is/isn't on the epic.
This thread has been nice though.
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i completly agree with you hopefully it doesnt get posted all over the place including the develpment thread, this was a nice find and read tho thanks OP!
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Now if we dont receive an update b4 january first for anything this might prove that we will have gingerbread later and prove that they skipped froyo.
I mean if they dont give us froyo b4 the end of the year like they promised, they could be working on gingerbread we shall see by the end of this month.
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What you are saying makes a lot of sense. Good post.
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this was a nice find and read tho thanks OP!
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;-) np .... Hopefully we could keep most gingerbread talk here. After all, anything we hear to this point are only to be considered rumors.
What do u think we will see this year?
Option 1: Froyo
Option 2: Nothing But Maybe Get Gingerbread Later in 2011
Option 3: GingerBread
Option 4: Other: Please Post Below
spread the rumor Gingerbread! it's a 1/million chance but hey!
Good start for the poll 3 people say nothing but gingerbread later and 2 people say gingerbread... i voted nothing but gingerbread later.
I voted gingerbread because its my hope!
Well, Sammys galaxy mobile usa twitter feed is still saying 2.2 by the end of the month. I'm going to say A but hope for C. I follow GalaxySSupport on twitter. Its funny because a lot of people are complaining and asking when 2.2 will come.
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Well, Sammys galaxy mobile usa twitter feed is still saying 2.2 by the end of the month. I'm going to say A but hope for C. I follow GalaxySSupport on twitter. Its funny because a lot of people are complaining and asking when 2.2 will come.
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Honestly, I'd rather they skip Froyo and give us GB.
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Well, Sammys galaxy mobile usa twitter feed is still saying 2.2 by the end of the month. I'm going to say A but hope for C. I follow GalaxySSupport on twitter. Its funny because a lot of people are complaining and asking when 2.2 will come.
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Ya thats probaly right, im surprised its not already out tho.. if samsung give us a nice xmas present with gingerbread... i will continue to buy samsung phones forever... lol
We'll see GB on our Epics when pigs fly.
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Well, Sammys galaxy mobile usa twitter feed is still saying 2.2 by the end of the month.
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they have been saying 2.2 by the end of the month since october.
i expect froyo at max.
I had to pick the closest thing to nothing. Well, actually, Eclair.
we'll be running 2.1 for sure.
We will get gingerbread when my crap turns purple and smells like rainbow sherbert.
Either
1) whatever we are running now (reverted back to D18 myself)
2) whatever we load and upgrade to ourselves
Didn't vote, didn't have these choices, but I'm happy with my Epic, so whatever happens, beats the c--p out of my Pre.
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Either
1) whatever we are running now (reverted back to D18 myself)
2) whatever we load and upgrade to ourselves
Didn't vote, didn't have these choices, but I'm happy with my Epic, so whatever happens, beats the c--p out of my Pre.
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Thats what the other option is for....
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Honestly, I'd rather they skip Froyo and give us GB.
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^^^^^ This
Why do I get a funny feeling that they'll release Gingerbread around Christmas time? This is based on absolutely nothing more than an unsubstantiated hunch that they will release a "seasonal flavor" of Android during the appropriate season. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. LOL!
I dont know about unofficially..but no phone is getting gingerbread this year...its not going to happen..if you look at history of Froyo, Eclair..name one phone other then the Nexus One that got an update within a month? heck even 2 months?
As for Froyo..no reason why we wont see it by en of the year.
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I dont know about unofficially..but no phone is getting gingerbread this year...its not going to happen..if you look at history of Froyo, Eclair..name one phone other then the Nexus One that got an update within a month? heck even 2 months?
As for Froyo..no reason why we wont see it by en of the year.
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I guess in my scenario, I'm seeing Samsung skipping Froyo altogether and going straight to Gingerbread.
So January Huh? We will more likely be flashing roms just to have the froyo experience.
Latest info on next Fascinate update:
http://erictric.com/2011/01/05/veri...e-blackberry-bold-9650-and-others-this-month/
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Latest info on next Fascinate update:
http://erictric.com/2011/01/05/veri...e-blackberry-bold-9650-and-others-this-month/
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Please be true...thanks for the info
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This just my 2 cents. I believe that the Verizon update leaked about on the 1/10 is to allow the phone to be updated by Kies. Granted, this week is CES, and Verizon is lauching new LTE phones, but I also see this as an opportunity for Samsung to announce updates to their Galaxy S lines in the US. Considering how many of these phones have sold, if there isn't an announcement at CES, there may never be one, lol. But I believe they will say something, because they want to build up the Galaxy S brands, and you really can't do that by screwing consumers out of an update for a Free Mobile OS.
It is really most likely a bug fix, hence why it's called MR2 (Maintainence Release). Most likely it's DL09. NOT froyo.
It may actually be our beloved froyo that we've been waiting for.
But honestly, I'm waiting for jt and co's gingerbread...
Who cares .... for those who don't frequent IRC, here's today's status: "You'll notice there is not AOSP status here, thats because we got the .35 kernel booting and have moved to gingerbread...have a nice day"
i would be on IRC just watching whats going on if nothing else... but i couldnt tell you how to access it lol
maybe ill get something for my birthday, (the 10th, that is)
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maybe ill get something for my birthday, (the 10th, that is)
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Ha, nice. My birthday is the 9th. I would probably guess that it is just the maintenance update, but I guess with CES this week, you never know.
It is good to know that jt is close to getting gingerbread running though, that will be pretty sweet.
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Ha, nice. My birthday is the 9th. I would probably guess that it is just the maintenance update, but I guess with CES this week, you never know.
It is good to know that jt is close to getting gingerbread running though, that will be pretty sweet.
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Hehe my birthday is the 9th as well, will finally be 21. But yes it will be quite nice to see GB running, and before samsung could release it too. That is pretty sad.
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Hehe my birthday is the 9th as well, will finally be 21. But yes it will be quite nice to see GB running, and before samsung could release it too. That is pretty sad.
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Ha, I am going to be 30.
I'll believe it when I see it! My sisters b-day is 1/11
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Hehe my birthday is the 9th as well, will finally be 21. But yes it will be quite nice to see GB running, and before samsung could release it too. That is pretty sad.
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Not sad, just means the fascinate devs kick ass...and should be rewarded with beer and praise.
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Ha, I am going to be 30.
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Youngins
It looks like, whoever gets to it first, we're going to see some sort of update in the pretty near future.
Can't wait to see what is going to come about over the course of this month.
The official version has already been leaked!!!!! How long do you think it will take before it reaches the Epic?
http://gameolosophy.com/games/official-gingerbread-rom-already-for-galaxy-s/
Optimistically?
Never.
gokuman56 said:
The official version has already been leaked!!!!! How long do you think it will take before it reaches the Epic?
http://gameolosophy.com/games/official-gingerbread-rom-already-for-galaxy-s/
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It should be out by Friday... the latest.
Come on guys
I think it will be out by next month
apatcas said:
It should be out by Friday... the latest.
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That can't be very likely
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It should be out by Friday... the latest.
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Yes my trustworthy sources say Friday is the latest it will be pushed to our phones... I'm good friends with a sprint rep...
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Yes my trustworthy sources say Friday is the latest it will be pushed to our phones... I'm good friends with a sprint rep...
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LOL, OK, so now we know for sure that it won't be out by Friday. Or ever.
Do we have to play this game again? I think everybody already know the answer considering our froyo wait.
I hate "Top Flight Security Mods"
I have a friend who works in the Sprint retail store and he told me that developers at Samsung are currently working on a Gingerbread for our Epic4g. He said the latest build was ZM>9000 and that they let him test it and it was pretty awesome.
Are you guys pulling my leg or telling the truth? lol
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Are you guys pulling my leg or telling the truth? lol
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Considering you pretty much answered your own question...
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The official version has already been leaked!!!!! How long do you think it will take before it reaches the Epic?
http://gameolosophy.com/games/official-gingerbread-rom-already-for-galaxy-s/
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I think it will be out by next month
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what else were you expecting?
Well, I just wanted your opinions, so I posted......................... lol, but I see now that much of the Galaxy S team has lost its spirit, but what if we get gingerbread before the EVO? How will it feel then?
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Well, I just wanted your opinions, so I posted......................... lol, but I see now that much of the Galaxy S team has lost its spirit, but what if we get gingerbread before the EVO? How will it feel then?
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It will feel horrible because it will be a buggy mess. Let them get Froyo sorted out before they begin to use this as a buggy base of their Gingerbread build. I do believe Samsung will deliver Gingerbread, but dont even think it will be before Summer 2011. I have nothing against Samsung really. They could do better with software support though. And you will find ridiculous skepticism among people at XDA for anything positive that is "supposed" to be coming from Samsung in the future.
Thats true, well then, I guess, well just wait and see, anybody else want to share opinions?
updates!
I personally do NOT think we will ever see another update past froyo...
We might get a froyo update to fix bugs and what not but as far as 2.3 ect, they will leave the epic by the wayside and focus on the galaxy S2 series and other newer phones. The epic was just a complete failure and they know it, thats why they are come out with galaxy S2.
well idk, its a tough call...
took a long time for froyo...
but then you can look at it like "well samsung sees how the US folk are all pissed off so they might start trying to release more updates bla bla"
if the epic does get gingerbread, dont expect any update past that..because past that Samsung will expect us to do our part and buy another Samsung device.
I think personally Gingerbread will come just to rebuild some goodwill with the people of this country. Then maybe with that, we would buy the next uber Samsung phone. At least by getting Froyo, my Evo owning friend can now shut up how his Evo is soooooo much better than my Epic because it hbas Froyo (even after showing him my pics and videos look better, screen looks nicer, can play more vido formats natively) because that was the only thing he could point at. Now we're even.
If Gingerbread comes, it's not going to be for a while; otherwise, why would they have bothered releasing FroYo?
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It will feel horrible because it will be a buggy mess. Let them get Froyo sorted out before they begin to use this as a buggy base of their Gingerbread build. I do believe Samsung will deliver Gingerbread, but dont even think it will be before Summer 2011. I have nothing against Samsung really. They could do better with software support though. And you will find ridiculous skepticism among people at XDA for anything positive that is "supposed" to be coming from Samsung in the future.
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Don't confuse Samsung, LEAVE EB13 as it stands!!
Finish GB so we don't have to wait until 2.4 or 2.5 drops before we get 2.3!
I got gingerbread ota yesterday. I'm expecting ice cream next week!
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Maybe we'll see the official soon?
http://innovator.samsungmobile.com/bbs/tech/view.do?boardName=technology&messageId=115746
Yep, also announced on the 16th I think... It won't be much longer...
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Sweet !! ill get to play with it for like a day before E3D comes out.
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Maybe we'll see the official soon?
http://innovator.samsungmobile.com/bbs/tech/view.do?boardName=technology&messageId=115746
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Maybe, if you're "in the UK from late May."
iSaint said:
Sweet !! ill get to play with it for like a day before E3D comes out.
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So that's what it's being called around xda? E3D?
Not Hyper Threading Computerized Evolved virtual operated three dee?
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Don't count on Sprint releasing it until late June. When the articles talk about Galaxy S phones they are mostly talking I9000 in Europe. Samsung releases the code to US carriers, they screw it up, Samsung tries to fix it, they screw it up some more, they release it, pull it back. Release it.
Do you BONSAI?
It sounds like even if it won't be untill late June they are trying to be more on the ball after making us wait so long for Froyo. I remember getting my Epic a month after it came out and the guy at the store reassured me that Froyo would be out by the end of Sept lol. Not that I don't take everything they say with a large grain of salt.
After trying out EE03 I'm very excited for GB to drop on the Epic
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Don't count on Sprint releasing it until late June. When the articles talk about Galaxy S phones they are mostly talking I9000 in Europe. Samsung releases the code to US carriers, they screw it up, Samsung tries to fix it, they screw it up some more, they release it, pull it back. Release it.
Do you BONSAI?
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They seem to start getting the memo after releasing it then pulling it atleast, right? hahaha