Following up on the previous report whereby an anonymous whistleblower outed Samsung’s Android update strategy, the manufacturer has issued a statement via email refuting the claim and is promising a further update on the situation.
“No. Samsung is not charging carriers for Froyo updates to Galaxy S. We hope to have more detail on status shortly. Promise!”
While another, more conventional statement says thusly:
“Samsung does not charge carriers for updates to new versions of Android.
We are working to make the Android 2.2/Froyo upgrade available to all U.S. Galaxy S owners as soon as possible. Due to the complexity and unique functionality of each Galaxy S device, we are performing additional testing. Samsung feels it is important to make the Android 2.2/Froyo upgrade available only after we feel that we can give the millions of U.S. Galaxy S owners a simple and reliable upgrade experience.”
Kinda hard to believe a company that has historically made inferior phones based upon other physical designs and feature sets. Their other products are fine, but the phone division is crap.
Why not design the phones to be upgrade by users?