Last week, Samsung Galaxy S owners in Europe began updating their Samsung Galaxy S phones to Android Froyo 2.2. Then the update files were pulled from Samsung servers. Samsung UK tweeted, "The Froyo upgrade will be available in the UK from early November, and we expect all operator versions to be available by the end of November."
Update 02/24/11 The update for the Samsung Galaxy S Samsung Captivate is now live and requires Kies Mini installed on a computer.
Update 02/23/11:AT&T will release a link to the update to Android 2.2 Froyo for the Samsung Captivate update on 2/24. The Nexus S is getting a minor update to Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread.
Update 02/18/11: Sprint will release an update to Android 2.2 Froyo for the Samsung Epic 4G on 2/22.
Update 01/20/11: The Samsung Vibrant will start getting an update to Android 2.2 tomorrow 1/21
Update 01/19/11: The latest Samsung Galaxy S update news is that the update to Android 2.2 Froyo is promised ASAP.
Other U.S. Samsung Galaxy S smartphone owners in the U.S., including the Samsung Fascinate and Samsung Continuum are still waiting.
Some bloggers interpreted the UK tweet to mean that U.S. Samsung Galaxy S owners would also be updated by November. However, the Samsung Mobile USA Twitter page denies that date and tweeted, "that tweet was from UK counterparts. In the USA we are working with carrier partners to release Froyo this year."
The Samsung Galaxy S
update includes many well-liked features, including an Adobe Flash
compatibility, speed improvements, better keyboard, Samsung Media
Hub, better Microsoft Exchange support, and storing of apps on the
microSD card (see list of update features). The update is also supposed to have a fix for a bug that has sometimes disabled the GPS to lock on the Galaxy S phones.
There was a lot of Samsung Galaxy S update news lately:
- The Froyo update was made available in Europe.
- The Android Froyo update finished testing in Korea.
- The Samsung Epic 4G, after a Media Hub update in September, began getting the interim "3G-fixer" update in early October.
- The Samsung Vibrant started sending an OTA (over-the-air) update with GPS fixes and Samsung Media Hub, which became available through the Kies app.
- The T-Mobile Forum warned Samsung Vibrant owners that the Android 2.2 update was delayed.
- There were minor updates to the Samsung Captivate and Samsung Fascinate in late September.
Many of the Samsung Galaxy S phones were named in Wireless and Mobile News' Review of Reviews Top Ten Best Android an' Droid Phones Now an' Later.
All Samsung Galaxy S phones have a super fast 1GHz hummingbird processor with efficient 3D-graphics processing, Super AMOLED 4-inch touchsreen, 5-megapixel camera, microSD, Wi-Fi, and Android 2.1. Samsung has added on TouchWiz software for a social hub as well as a media hub for online viewing. Differences come in the amount of internal storage, size of the microSD card included, mobile hotspot capabilities, keyboard style and the speed of data networks.
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This is some bullsh--it and these damn service providers need to put out the update and stop putting that bloatware on the phones, stop messing with the performance like they always do and let us get the update instead of being behind everytime.. Gosh I can't wait to get my Windows Phone 7 Samsung Omnia 7 for Verizon. They update past the Wireless Provider..
I have worked in the mobile marketing industry, and the main reason for the delay of 2.2, can be blamed for Google's marketing practices setting themselves as open-source to the carriers. Now I really am an advocate of the open-source community, but it is the way Google set all this up (which they realize their error and put out a statement that any updates will be more organized). See people, Froyo has been released for about five to six months now. Remember Nexus One? The Android 2.2 OS was first released to the hardware vendors to tweak and optimize the OS for the phone’s hardware. Then it is given to the cell phone carriers, of which they need to add their branding, bloatware, and also service limitations. Service limitations? To limit services that which the OS was built to do, like T-Mobile’s G2 can not do WiFi tethering, even though it is in 2.2. This service limitations is from the carriers. Again, remember how fast the Nexus One received 2.2??? It is because the phone didn't have all the RED-TAPE attached to it. You had to purchase a Nexus One direct from Google. So, you would need to blame Google's marketing plan to give the carriers their freedom for the sloooowness of updates. A good example of the exact opposite is Microsoft’s mobile OS. Since Microsoft is CLOSED source, there were much limitations given to the hardware vendors and cell carriers, that when any updates were sent out from Microsoft, it was usually given to he masses immediately.