I tweeted back at them to find out if maybe the existing Moments that have been sold already have this DTV chip in them, but I haven't gotten any response back.
With my luck, it will be an updated version of the Moment hardware. Which would suck, considering the device was only out for a couple months.
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Typically a company's attention is dedicated to CES where multiple new products are show cased. To avoid diverting attention from these major product announcements, minor updates will not be announced even if they are ready. If there is one, I don't expect a bug fix release for Moment until the later half of the month.
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The article above? It seems a bit vague to me. Do you have other sources for this assumption?
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Samsung Moment, without the Mobile DTV chip, originally launched in November 2009 as Samsung’s first U.S. handset integrating the open and innovative Android™ platform with the high-speed connectivity of America’s most dependable 3G network3 (EVDO Rev. A.) and oneof the best values in wireless with Any Mobile, AnytimeSM calling feature, available on Everything plans with data.
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Customers can purchase Samsung Moment without Mobile DTV capabilities through all Sprint channels including Web (www.sprint.com), Telesales (1-800-SPRINT1) and our national retail partners. Retail pricing is currently $179.99 (excluding taxes) after a $50 instant savings and a $100 mail-in-rebate with a two-year service agreement.
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It says it's being test marketed in DC & Baltimore, so it may be a while before this is rolled out nationwide. I figure by the time this is rolled out nationwide, I'll be eligible for my one year Sprint Premier upgrade anyway, so not a big deal.
I'm going to enjoy my awesome Moment for now, and look forward to the next awesome phone when I'm eligible for upgrade.
Android is certainly better than the iPhone, in my book!
I still can't help but to compare this in my mind to the iPhone price drop a couple years back.
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lol yea that happened to me. fortunately apple sent me back 100 bucks. i wouldnt mind a new moment with dtv being released if they would have provided better support for this phone which is apparently now the ugly stepchild. this moment just keeps getting better
Dammit. It's like the Q and the Q9c. The Q(which I got the day it came out) got abandoned like 6 months later for the 'cooler' Q9c which had WM6 but was essentially the same phone.
Gotta admit though, even though DTV would be cool I'd never use it. With the ability to store 16GB of commercial free shows why would you bother finding a local station that you couldn't even watch after you get on the plane? Couldn't pause to do something real quick or anything like that. Sounds cool at first but isn't really that great... to me anyways.
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Well that means that the phone will get updates now. If not and the "new" moment is only getting updated, I pay the 14 bucks a month for insurance, so my phone is getting broke.
Well that means that the phone will get updates now. If not and the "new" moment is only getting updated, I pay the 14 bucks a month for insurance, so my phone is getting broke.
as do i but....theres also a 50 dollar deductible if i remember correctly
Still worth it if they abandon updates for ours. Though I don't see why they would differentiate.
Agreed. I highly highly doubt that the update would even be separate between the current moment and the one with the DTV tuner chip. The differences between the two versions would be so slight that it wouldn't make any business sense to put the energy into two different updates, rather just one update that would install everything, including a few drivers that would go unused on our current version. I can speak from firsthand experience that that's the way tech companies operate when it comes to updates... anything else would be a waste of resources.
I'm really thinking that this is why the Moment has taken a back seat to the Hero. They've been waiting to start the publicity push for the Moment at CES.
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Having worked with and knowing how much effort goes into adding a whole new chip/subsystem on an electronic board already in production, I think all Moments have the TV chip incorporated. Just not supported in software. Yes, even after reading the aforementioned news article. Just replace "TV chip" with "TV chip support" in the news article. My guess is this feature will eventually be supported in software release, may or may not be in Android 2.1 update by June, but hardware is there. In fact, that piece of software may already be included in the current release on all these devices and can be flipped ON with a bit in the Sprint Profile/PRL, thus easily enabling it for the Washington/Baltimore customers. JMHO.
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Device manufacturer confirms: No DTV chip in Samsung Moment currently being sold since Nov 1. http://twitter.com/SamsungMobileUS. Well, so much for the hope of early adopters.
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Reason: like the edit says..
If the DTV Moment is to ship Q1, wouldn't this have to run Android 2.1? Would they really do DTV on Cupcake? I'm guessing when this comes out, we all get the 2.1 upgrade for the "legacy" Moments.
There are definite hardware changes as indicated by the press release. The new moments will have the additional chip as well as that huge screw on antenna port. It will not apply to existing phones.
I'm just happy to hear that samsung is still working on this phone. I know they promised 2.1 but I think this solidifies the deal.
Samsung Moment, without the Mobile DTV chip, originally launched in November 2009 as Samsung’s first U.S. handset integrating the open and innovative Android™ platform with the high-speed connectivity of America’s most dependable 3G network3 (EVDO Rev. A.) and oneof the best values in wireless with Any Mobile, AnytimeSM calling feature, available on Everything plans with data.
Samsung Moment represents a new generation of portable Internet access devices and provides access to built-in Google™ mobile services, including Google Search™, Google Maps™, Gmail™ and YouTube™, as well as thousands of applications available in Android Market™. Moment is powered by an 800 MHz processor, making this device one of the fastest wireless phones available today. Moment is also designed with a full QWERTY keyboard for fast and easy messaging and email entry.
Customers can purchase Samsung Moment without Mobile DTV capabilities through all Sprint channels including Web (www.sprint.com), Telesales (1-800-SPRINT1) and our national retail partners. Retail pricing is currently $179.99 (excluding taxes) after a $50 instant savings and a $100 mail-in-rebate with a two-year service agreement."
In my mind, Sprint did a HUGE disservice to loyal customers. Fortunately, I can upgrade again in June 2010. But, to someone that bought the Moment and is stuck for 2 years, I would be PISSED!!!!! The Moment should have released when the above phone was ready!
Last edited by masbirdies; January 6th, 2010 at 12:03 PM.
Anybody on this phone qualifies for Premier status. The Everything Data 450 is $69.99 and the Everything Data Family 1500 is $129.99. Both qualify you for an upgrade every year.
The only way you wouldn't is if you are using a Business Advantage plan that is cheaper than $69.99 or you are using the Sprint Relay(data only) plan for $29.99.
Last edited by dkjones96; January 6th, 2010 at 12:31 PM.
Wonder if there's any way to get one of these as a replacement down the road when your original Moment "breaks"? I'm guessing they'll have to be depleted of all the original (early adopter fail) retail and refurbs first?
So this kind of sucks... I just signed up under my parents' family contract about a week ago and love the Samsung Moment. However, I don't know if I'll be able to sleep at night knowing that mine doesn't support the Mobile TV.
I'm wondering if this will be available to everyone around March, and how much price difference there will be.
Still within the 30 days, so I'm really debating canceling out and waiting.. What do you guys think?
One question to ask yourself. Would you use it? It's a cool feature don't get me wrong but when/where would you use it?
I asked myself that very question last night... and I absolutely would not. I'd much rather watch what I want to watch when I want then just watch an OTA signal... hence my DVR with the 1.5tb drive hooked up at home lol.
We already have SprintTV... how often have you all used that? I've used it once, when I got my first Sprint phone. It is indeed a cool feature, but if I've got my phone and I'm bored I'd rather read news articles or play my complete collection of NES games on my emulator
There's emulators for NES, GB/GBA, SNES and oldschool Sega in the market... most have a free and paid version... the only difference is the paid version allows instant save states in most cases. I don't really use the save state thing that much but I did pay for my NES one, because I really do try to support developers on things like this... it's how our app collection gets better... both in quality and quantity.
As for the ROMs, I only have two things to say:
1) legally to use a ROM you must own the original disk/cart the game came on, if you're concerned about that sort of thing
2) I'm not going to post links, but you'd be surprised how easily available things like old ROMs are with a quick visit to the googles.
EDIT: I should also mention that I'm really happy I went with the Moment over the Hero when it comes to the emulators... I can't even begin to imagine how awful trying to play any of these games would be using only the home button set and a touchscreen!
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As long as the legacy Moment get Android updates, I could care less about DTV.
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/me takes puts on my conspiracy theory hat
This probably explains the lack of commercials and the treating the Moment like a bastard child of their Android phones. They probably didn't want more people pissed that a phone that has only been out 2 months is already coming out with a hardware upgrade. It also explains another rumor I read that said 2010 was when Sprint was going to start pushing the Moment.
I tweeted back at them to find out if maybe the existing Moments that have been sold already have this DTV chip in them, but I haven't gotten any response back.
With my luck, it will be an updated version of the Moment hardware. Which would suck, considering the device was only out for a couple months.
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They responded back to me yesterdy via twitter. The DTV moments will be the same hardware, with the addition of the new chip.
That should bode well for us as, as far as keeping the first round of Moment's firmware in sync with the DTV moments.
Has anyone seen a writeup anywhere on the web where someone has done a disassembly of the Moment? I'm wondering if there is an unused socket on the board... That would make adding the DTV chip really easy if Samsung planned that far ahead.
There are photos of one disassembled but I can't find it right now. From what I can remember there wasn't an extra socket but in a compact unit like this they would use a BGA chip on the board itself because there is no room for much to be socketed.
There are photos of one disassembled but I can't find it right now. From what I can remember there wasn't an extra socket but in a compact unit like this they would use a BGA chip on the board itself because there is no room for much to be socketed.
They responded back to me yesterdy via twitter. The DTV moments will be the same hardware, with the addition of the new chip.
That should bode well for us as, as far as keeping the first round of Moment's firmware in sync with the DTV moments.
Has anyone seen a writeup anywhere on the web where someone has done a disassembly of the Moment? I'm wondering if there is an unused socket on the board... That would make adding the DTV chip really easy if Samsung planned that far ahead.
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kinda sad that an "improved" model is announced two months after the original is out. they haven't even fixed the problems in the current version. I'm still pushing for a Nexus like slider from HTC for gen 2 and scrap the Moment altogether.
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kinda sad that an "improved" model is announced two months after the original is out. they haven't even fixed the problems in the current version. I'm still pushing for a Nexus like slider from HTC for gen 2 and scrap the Moment altogether.
Like you said the Moment is only 2 months out, and new firmware has been put out by Samsung, albeit takes some technical skills to apply.
So this means they are not allowed to make enhancements / announcements for the phone? Kind of silly, I think.
I think it's great they're announcing this, it means this phone is being kept up-to-date and well supported.
Of course expect people to bitch about this...given how they bitch about everything else...
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