I found the condescending attitude toward the CSR to be completely out of line. Clearly this person no decision making capacity at Samsung. Why would you be so rude to someone that has done nothing to you?
Title is false. Samsung will not elaborate on their plans. The CSR clearly said that they DO plan to push Froyo to the phone. He just can't say when.<p>They have no plans for Gingerbread yet, though, which is understandable since it's so new. I'll be surprised if it gets it.<p>I'm actually seriously considering dropping my Vibrant and getting a G2 or Nexus S. The G1 had a decent record for getting updates, and the Nexus S is a developer phone so I could just put the latest on it at any time.<p>I looked into upgrading my Vibrant with a third-party ROM, but it didn't seem to be as easy as when I did my G1 like that, so I didn't do it yet. But that was months ago, so I'm seriously considering it again.
The whole Froyo on the Galaxy S debacle has been nuts. It was promised in September. Since then it has been plagued with deployment problems and is still in purgatory for the US users.<p>That said, I have become a big fan of Samsung's hardware.
I've used Samsung's Galaxy S (my cousin just got one over the holidays). After having used a Nexus One and experienced "pure Android", it absolutely infuriated me to have to navigate through Samsung's crappy interface changes. Not only do they have "uninstallable" apps like monthly-fee-based AT&T Navigator (an inferior alternative to the free Google Maps which I'm sure AT&T demanded), but the Samsung customizations to the camera, apps list, etc. are completely unnecessary, inflexible, and worthless.<p>As I said before, I've used Android on the Nexus One and it really is fine "as is". I can understand why AT&T would try to trick their users into using their own apps that they can charge users for. But why would Samsung actually dump what I can only imagine is a substantial sum of money into doing stupid customizations to the camera app, applications list, and other parts of the phone that do nothing to improve the user experience?<p>edit: grammar
Anyone who's attempted to or successfully installed an unofficial ROM, would love to hear your experiences in terms of difficultly of install and stability. Please include what carrier you're on.
I wish the carriers and phone makers would stop "improving" their Android builds. Then you could just upgrade the day after Google releases a new version.<p>If you want to improve an open source project, don't fork it and forget about it. Send a fucking patch.<p>(Fortunately, AOSP seems to run fine on many phones. Looking forward to Cyanogenmod Gingerbread for my EVO 4G :)