“Samsung has revealed that its Galaxy S smartphone and Galaxy Tab 7-inch tablet will not be getting the latest Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update,” Rue Liu reports for SlashGear.
“The company explained that the devices could not be updated due to hardware limitations that would not be able to run the new Android platform alongside Samsung’s custom TouchWiz user interface,” Liu reports.
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Vlad Savov reports for The Verge, “This will come as a massive blow to the great many users of the Galaxy S, who would have rightly expected the 1GHz Hummingbird processor and accompanying memory to be able to handle ICS — it’s the same hardware as you’ll find inside the Nexus S, and that phone is receiving Android 4.0 over the air right now.”
“HTC had this exact same issue when upgrading the Desire to Gingerbread a few months back, and after some equivocation, it was forced to disable some functions of its own Android skin, Sense, in order to make the upgrade fit,” Savov reports. “So Samsung isn’t alone in making its users suffer for buying a skinned Android device.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Aww, Samsung’s pretend iPhone and pretend iPad won’t be getting the Google’s latest pretend iOS. Boo-hoo. To those affected: Now’s a perfect time to go get that iPhone and iPad you really wanted in the first place.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “macgadget” and “Jax44” for the heads up.]
How can a system where devices 1 year new can’t be upgraded to the latest OS possibly be called “open”?
In propaganda it’s called: The Big Lie.
The sooner Apple, Oracle, MSFT and other tech companies who have had their IP stolen by Google for use in Android can kick the shit out of Google the better the world will be. Do no evil my ass! They are the embodiment of evil!
Haha! My favourite MDN take to date!