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How Samsung Just Screwed Over About 10 Million Android Phone Customers

December 27th, 2011 - 01:22 pm ET by Anonymous-Remailer | Report spam
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How Samsung Just Screwed Over About 10 Million

Of Its Android Phone Customers

Dec. 23, 2011



Today Samsung announced that its line of Galaxy S phones, one of the most popular
Android phone models of 2010, will not get Google's latest version of Android,
Ice Cream Sandwich.



That means ~10 million people who bought the phone are going to be stuck on
the outdated version 2.3 Gingerbread (or 2.2 Froyo in many cases) until they
decide to drop more cash on a new phone.



As Google continues to stick with its kumbaya message that Android should remain
free and open for anyone to use anyway they please, its users are getting shafted.
They have no guarantee that they'll get updates as Google issues them unless
they buy a Google-approved Nexus device.





http://www.businessinsider.com/sams...te-2011-12
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#1 JeffM
December 27th, 2011 - 01:50 pm ET | Report spam
dizum.com wrote: (X-No-Archive)
10 million people who bought the phone
are going to be stuck on the outdated version 2.3 Gingerbread
(or 2.2 Froyo in many cases)
until they decide to drop more cash on a new phone.



The FREE remedy to Android problems has been available for ages:
http://www.cyanogenmod.com/

The Slashdot coverage of this (the comments, actually)
http://google.com/search?q=%22.the.....bar.doesn't.get.stuck.on.top%22
points out that in many cases the hardware vendors' ports
are inferior to what you *can* get running on your device.

As the recent developments with LibreOffice show:
The answer to borking is forking.

The Open Source Software community is SO cool.

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