***Official Samsung Fascinate 2.2 Speculation Thread***

rehpyc said:

How Samsung/VZW has been allowed to go THIS long without even providing a fix for the GPS is beyond me. Samsung has acknowledged there is an issue, have corrected it for other phones on the Galaxy line, yet Verizon still is selling the product.

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Halcyon said:

If it dosent have "Droid" in the name Vzw dosent give a crap.

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DuoWing said:

As for the 2.2 update like I had mentioned I'm with everyone else in wanting it, but in reality what exactly would it bring that would magically make the phone that much better?

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DuoWing said:

People are getting so worked up over this, but I'm not quite sure how this update makes or breaks keeping the phone for people.

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s44 said:

Basically it's just Flash. Beyond that it's a status thing, I guess -- the phone certainly runs as well as I need it to. Extra ROM options won't happen until jt&birdman's AOSP project is done... which is nice, but frankly for basic stuff (dialer, toggles in notification shade, camera etc.) Samsung's TW setup actually beats AOSP.

Personally I'm more interested in Gingerbread -- maybe Google has finally fixed their media scanner code?

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DuoWing said:

I doubt it, but with verizon allowing you to grab kies from their site is it possible that the DL09 update or whatever might be coming tomorrow could magically enable kies on the fascinate?

As for the 2.2 update like I had mentioned I'm with everyone else in wanting it, but in reality what exactly would it bring that would magically make the phone that much better? People are getting so worked up over this, but I'm not quite sure how this update makes or breaks keeping the phone for people. I play with my Incredible which has 2.2 and I haven't found anything that makes me go man this blows away my Fascinate. I guess I could see with 2.2 at least Gingerbread would be a lot quicker in getting here along with a much larger selection of Roms and Kernels?

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RadioFr33Europe said:

Better Exchange Integration
Better Performance
Better Flash

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historyteacher said:

According to an article on Softpedia.com Froyo for the Fascinate is suppose to be released tomorrow. I'll beleive it when I see it and can install it on my phone.
Here is the linkto the article. htttp://www.news/softpedia.com/news/Android.

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DuoWing said:

I doubt it, but with verizon allowing you to grab kies from their site is it possible that the DL09 update or whatever might be coming tomorrow could magically enable kies on the fascinate?

As for the 2.2 update like I had mentioned I'm with everyone else in wanting it, but in reality what exactly would it bring that would magically make the phone that much better? People are getting so worked up over this, but I'm not quite sure how this update makes or breaks keeping the phone for people. I play with my Incredible which has 2.2 and I haven't found anything that makes me go man this blows away my Fascinate. I guess I could see with 2.2 at least Gingerbread would be a lot quicker in getting here along with a much larger selection of Roms and Kernels?

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nitsuj17 said:

yeah really atm a heavily slimmed down touchwiz system with voodoo5 is actually a very response and fast setup.

aosp eclair is nice and all, but really its more important in that they got a lot of stuff to work that will carry over into froyo/gb...and its nice that while jt/bird work on getting gb with a gb kernel...punk kaos is working on getting gb/froyo working on an eclair kernel...so more chances of success

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saps said:

Yup. I've had my clean rom .9 dialed in right for what a month now. I still havent even tried aosp even once just to say I did all I heard was it wasnt any better than the set up I got now so I never tried it.

Every day we get closer to froyo and gb

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saps said:

Yup. I've had my clean rom .9 dialed in right for what a month now. I still havent even tried aosp even once just to say I did all I heard was it wasnt any better than the set up I got now so I never tried it.

Every day we get closer to froyo and gb

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Kaessa said:

There are a lot of new apps that won't run on anything less than 2.2. I'd like to be able to use them.

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chmodx said:

Amen. I came from a Droid 2, and was freaking out the first day I had the Samsung. I *knew* I wasn't hallucinating and had all these useful apps, once I poked around the internet I found out why.

Keeping my fingers crossed during the next 24 hrs, but I'm cautious to see what, if anything, even comes to our phones.

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chmodx said:

I wonder how many people are already hammering the check for updates feature on their phone already.

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saps said:

Not me

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chmodx said:

I wonder how many people are already hammering the check for updates feature on their phone already.

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