All the ICS update how-to's mention the GSII 9100, do the same updates and instructions apply to the SPH D710 model from Sprint?
You have to remember, ICS still has to go through the carriers once it leaves Samsung, which can be a lengthy process in itself.
Im not sure whay new features will it have or whats the hype about it? Any mind explaining
I'm looking forward to the face-recognition unlock.
Wow, you people who are complaining about the new software release please get a grip. If you're that troubled by having to wait to get the "free" update, than go buy yourself an iPhone every year and quit your belly-aching here. My SII is still the baddest phone on the planet and it's just a nice bonus to get the new software...when it gets released.
Seriously...
Louis CK_ Everything is amazing right now and nobody is happy - YouTube
@2:05 of the video is exactly how feel reading all the complaints on here...
I guess my real issue isn't whether or not a particular update is ever going to come down the pipe. Hell, I didn't even know my sII was going to get ICS till I bought the phone and the sales guy mentioned it.
My problem is how both carriers and handset manufacturers are marketing and pushing the android microcosm.
Yes, the touch/4G is a great phone and has the potential of being by your side for a good while.
Hypothetically: Let's say 90% of all customers re/signing a 2 year contract decide in their mind that they are going to hang onto their handsets for the duration of their 2 years and maybe even well after that.
Samsung, HTC, etc would be in DEEP shit if that ever happened and they know this. So they have to move units. Carriers by the same token have to get people to continue to sign their lives away and so they enter into a partnership with phone manufacturers.
Google announces that a new OS code named Peppermint Dick is on it's way. It's amazing and revolutionary. It can satisfy your wife better than you've been able to lately, tell your kids to shut the **** up when they're being too loud and maybe get you a beer. Problem is you need a Hexacore processor phone with 12 gigs of RAM in order to run it.
So you buy a phone that "may" get the update, and the sales guys high five each other and laugh as you walk out of the store.
Meanwhile, a month later, HTC announces their new phone - Mr Incredible Pants and Google is starting to whisper about an update that can punch a hole in the wall.
I guess, it's part of the reason I'm starting to like the iPhone. Yeah, they're overpriced, tiny and spec-wise they don't hold a candle to android phones but at the same time you know what you're getting into for the next year or 2 and you know they're only going to upgrade their camera in the next 8 months or so and put an S at the end of the name.
If you have time to come here and cry about ICS being... "late?" Then you have time to root your phone and install it yourself. And there's even stock ICS roms you don't have to be rooted to flash, you just use ODIN. It takes 10-30 mins depending if you have the drivers or not, and they're pretty stable now. The Odin way, there's like a 99.9% success rate as long as you don't click anything you're not supposed to. If you're gonna whine about "slow" updates then either get another phone (Android or not) or do something about it yourself.
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