Comments on: When Is Galaxy S 2 Getting Ice Cream Sandwich? When Is Galaxy S Getting Gingerbread?

By: Br1ck'd

Br1ck'd — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 21:21:00 +0000

Part of the reason for the delayed/not going to happen update, is that the US flavors of the original Galaxy S line were fragmented into different hardware specs for the four major carriers. I have no ideaq why Samsung allowed this to happen, but it cramped the ability for them to put out one blanket update for all phones. Since they were obviously moving on to the next generation of phones, part of the responsibility for the updates fell to the individual carriers to mod GB for their individual hardware flavors, which all of us frustrated Galaxy S owners know by now will never happen.

I am a Vibrant owner and part time developer. I have made a workable GB build for the Vibrant, but without true source for the kernel, some things will never work right, like GPS among other features. Its frustrating, but not entirely Samsungs fault. I do understand that going forward, they are not going to allow different carriers to pick their own hardware configs, rather have one build for all carriers, and I for one am hopeful that this will resolve the update issue that first-gen SGS owners are now forced to live with.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:25:00 +0000

Times have changed, these aren’t disposable feature phones. If we’re going to invest hundreds of dollars into their hardware, we should get support, not six months worth of updates.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 13:46:00 +0000

Hilarious… a few years ago you couldn’t upgrade just about anything in phones. How impatient and selfish you are to demand such things?

Geez, either buy a new Samsung phone or buy a mainstream phone, not a variant!

By: Roger

Roger — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 08:29:00 +0000

One of the great things about android phones is that you are free to play around with various custom firmwares and leaked official firmwares. If you are willing to play around with the phone a little, that is. For example, you would be fine to flash an ‘international’ version of gingerbread on your galaxy s if it still hasn’t been released in the states (really? it still hasn’t been released??) and then to make sure it will work with your carriers just flash a ‘modem’ file that you know will work in the US, or better still, flash the same modem file you are using now (its called baseband in your phone’s settings – about), back onto the new gingerbread rom. At the moment the latest firmware for the galaxy s is the leaked official version of android 2.3.5 called i9000xxJVT it runs really fast and stable, samsung just hasn’t decided to release it publicly yet, I dont know why

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 03:54:00 +0000

Hard to argue with the facts. I don’t plan to buy another Samsung phone for this reason, and I will try to avoid Samsung for other purchases as well for the same reason.

By: Berklain

Berklain — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 03:37:00 +0000

Hillarious. Droid Razr, I say.