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Why was the Epic not released with Froyo

Why did that not have froyo on the phone when it was released? Froyo was out for a while before the phone was released, so does anybody have any idea why they didn't start out with froyo? Did they like ecairs better than ice cream? Who knows?
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Because they didn't.
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The development cycles on these phones is 6 or 7 months if not longer. When they started on the phone, FroYo probably wasn't to manufacturers yet. It is not easy at all to change course with software projects. And incredibly expensive to chunk everything that you have and start over. So they build it on eclair, and work on FroYo when its released, also you have all of the politics involved about which phones in your lineup gets updated, how many developers to put on each piece of hardware. I don't think most people realize the amount of planning that goes into any software written for profit. You'd probably **** your self if you saw some of my Gantt Charts, time lines, flow charts and other various wastes of paper that are done before a single line of code is typed (with the exception of prototyping) You can't just take a leap and start coding, switch gears 11 times, then hope to ever hit a deadline or budget. There isn't a lot of cost in the actual product of software, but the minds that power it are not cheap labor.

muyoso said:
Because they didn't.
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marcusant said:
Why did that not have froyo on the phone when it was released? Froyo was out for a while before the phone was released, so does anybody have any idea why they didn't start out with froyo? Did they like ecairs better than ice cream? Who knows?
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muyoso said:
Because they didn't.
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lmao!!!!!!!!!

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You have ruined my day posting Barry pic.

Come on already who cares about gingerbread? Ics is the new flavor fav of the month

Let's face it once google announced the ics as the next version of android why do some people still want gb when ics can be leaked and used on our phones. Google needs to be the one doing the updates not the carriers and phone makers. Google should open a beta and prebeta builds to all who want them.
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this thread should be stickied as a perfect example of a douche.
ibtl.

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i vote to ban this prick
could you people please stop answering him like anything he says is serious?

For someone who's been around since the 70's you seem to not understand the development life cycle of a product to be expecting such an asinine thing to happen.
Using win7 (retail) to win8 (alpha) argument proves your failure to grasp that.
BTW, i love how decad3nce pwned your last post. LOL
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Yeah, that ish was funny as hell.
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Hahaha, i actually teared up laughing my ass off!!!
waiting for a follow up encore by decad3nce... =D

ghostrid3r said:
For someone who's been around since the 70's you seem to not understand the development life cycle of a product to be expecting such an asinine thing to happen.
Using win7 (retail) to win8 (alpha) argument proves your failure to grasp that.
BTW, i love how decad3nce pwned your last post. LOL
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Yeah, that ish was funny as hell.

htc_joe said:
Let's face it once google announced the ics as the next version of android why do some people still want gb when ics can be leaked and used on our phones. Google needs to be the one doing the updates not the carriers and phone makers. Google should open a beta and prebeta builds to all who want them.
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Because to us Gingerbread is the most important release ever! Gingerbread was made with Hummingbird in mind..ICS is a huge improvement for dual core phones..while we definitely get some new features, you would not notice such huge performance increases as you do with Gingerbread.

Locked. OP, check your pm's.

Dissatisfied with EVO, what's wrong with you!!!

I glanced over at the sprint forum and folks are enraged that the Oct 25th release is actually just online & telephone order, and the device wont ship for about 4-10 days. I want the device but not that bad to throw a childish tantrum like a 6yo.
Yeah its a cool phone but it wont change my life it wont give me a raise and it's more important things to concern your self that unboxing on the 25th. Are women gonna give me a cell number and say call me I like your phone.. NO...that's what the Yamaha r1 and Mercedes is for..lmao.
3 additional phones will be dropping in the first quarter so I can still wait. Some of you are in need of a new phone since that evo might be on its last leg. My evo works fine and thanks for development of cool roms to keep me busy.
So for me its still no rush, cause the evo works , I rather wait for the kinks to get ironed out.. and I want gameloft MC4 working out the gate.. none of that device is not compatible crap....

Ummm what are you talking about? What evo 4g is shipping out the 25th??
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cbucz24 said:
Ummm what are you talking about? What evo 4g is shipping out the 25th??
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Ooops I was speaking on the Samsung note 2, forgot to include that
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Lmao
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oooooo....

C'mon guys, just let this fade into darkness.

4.1.2 & MultiWindow Feature - officially is soon

'Sunny' - the official represents of Samsung in Israel is testing the jelly bean 4.1.2 with several costumers.
Reports confirmes it will have the note 2 feature - multi window!!
How to use? Press the back button for 2 seconds. that's it.
credits to - www.tgspot.co.il
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Hope for a leaked soon
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Very good news M8
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Oh hell yeah can't wait to get the Multi window feature.

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Well, if they're testing it is because it's possible. I've seen the old SGS1 doing SO much even with that severe lack of memory, i reckon 1Gb is more than enough to do everything if well coded. I'm guessing it's just easier for samsung to add more ram than waste time in optimized coding and probably was a bit overboard hence the actual memory "problems". That and poor ram managing, my phone just seems to kill any process if the screen goes off after a while (it's a pain to download any game's extra data after installing, phone just cuts it off)
Anyway, this is wonderful news, thank you. Can't wait

Desperately waiting for this feature Great News

With this feature the s3 will definetly pwn the iphone5 and the nexus4 xd
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+1
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Arsaw said:
Hope for a leaked soon
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members in the Israeli community are trying to get their hands on the rom...
believe me, when we'll have it, it'll post.
finger cross it'll be on final version as well.

I hope there will be a leak and then i can try to port it to the i9305

Yeah, right. I believe it when I see it, and a possibly photoshopped picture isn't valid proof.

the ****ers decided to make it as a closed beta only for those who bought their phone directly from them.

Heh i see this rom have kernel from 6-9 Nov xd

great news

Theshawty said:
Yeah, right. I believe it when I see it, and a possibly photoshopped picture isn't valid proof.
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WTF ???

Theshawty said:
Yeah, right. I believe it when I see it, and a possibly photoshopped picture isn't valid proof.
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i hear you man but this website is trustable 100%.

Great News
Every S3 user was waiting for it.

[INFO] Next Android version is 4.3

http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/0...and-testing-android-4-3-its-still-jelly-bean/
I think it's great they're polishing already awesome Jelly Bean! Can't wait to see new features.
And what do you think, are we getting this update maybe? I know it was said 4.2 was the last one for our phone, but few months ago we thought the next version would be 5.0...

Kvidli said:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/0...and-testing-android-4-3-its-still-jelly-bean/
I think it's great they're polishing already awesome Jelly Bean! Can't wait to see new features.
And what do you think, are we getting this update maybe? I know it was said 4.2 was the last one for our phone, but few months ago we thought the next version would be 5.0...
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our device will get 4.2 before 2014, if we are lucky, knowing samsungs update policy, 4.3 never

I'm actually hoping we'll get 4.3 cause it's still Jelly Bean hope dies last, right?
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I think it is possible to receive the Update .

i doubt our devices would get it but if there's a chance, its going to take samsung a long time for that update

While still Android 4.x, it'll put so many improvements.

Few leaked photos...
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Kvidli said:
Few leaked photos...
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what event is it? It looks like they show it out in public

IvanKurnia said:
what event is it? It looks like they show it out in public
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Its Thailand Mobile Expo.
https://twitter.com/markmagnus/status/337997127114424321
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Yeah and with 4.3 we would get maybe 1 new widget or so.. -.-
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rockknee said:
Yeah and with 4.3 we would get maybe 1 new widget or so.. -.-
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yeah. Nothing special about us.

Kvidli said:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/0...and-testing-android-4-3-its-still-jelly-bean/
I think it's great they're polishing already awesome Jelly Bean! Can't wait to see new features.
And what do you think, are we getting this update maybe? I know it was said 4.2 was the last one for our phone, but few months ago we thought the next version would be 5.0...
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the s3 mini will end ( just like the s2) with android 4.2.2 Samsung is still testing but we will get it the around end of this year

One of the reasons my next phone will most likely be a Nexus. Hate the lack of support or slow support from manufactures...

MalekoUK said:
One of the reasons my next phone will most likely be a Nexus. Hate the lack of support or slow support from manufactures...
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+1 I'll do the same. I agree with you completely.

the one thing that puts me off of a nexus device the screen size
the next thing that puts me off is the method to unlock and root the device