Have a Galaxy S or Galaxy Tab? No ICS for you.

[mosco]

Its not an update. Its a new OS that doesnt belong on tablets or old/slow hardware.
Tablets need Honeycomb anyway, which IS Ice cream sammich except its designed for larger devices.

Except that the Captivate is a 1ghz, PowerVR SGX540, and 512MB ram phone. I wouldn't qualify that as slow.

 

[Puddle Jumper]

So not only is it newer than the iphone 4, but the latest release for it is 2.2. Thats embarrassing.

Blame At&t, the international Galaxy S was the first phone to get a Gingerbread update. Even Verizon put out a Gingerbread update for the Fascinate.

I don't see what the big deal about this is. Samsung can't put out an update that radically alters the phones UI and even when they do put together an update the carriers delay it for months. If they did update the Galaxy S to ICS by the time it would be released a lot of Captivate owners will already be eligible to upgrade.

One of the reasons Apple can update older devices is the iOS UI never changes.

 

[Bateluer]

That is easy to fudge though:

http://arstechnica.com/hardware/new...able-debacle-intel-pushes-microsoft-bends.ars

I have major issues with that lawsuit, its total BS. Microsoft never hid, denied, or misled customers regarding the Vista Capable vs Premium Ready. There were dozens of articles regarding the differences, and Microsoft had it posted on their Vista page. The public not bothering to do any research, and by research, I mean 3 minutes with Google, it not grounds for a lawsuit. HP/Dell/et al made a bunch of ultra cheap desktop systems, cut corners on the CPU and RAM, and sold them as Vista Capable, which they were. Had any buyer done that 3 minutes of Googling, they'd have sprung for the slightly better model or bought an XP based machine.

Edit - It certainly didn't help the public perception of Vista when Nvidia couldn't write a driver that was stable for over a year after its release.

 

[Raduque]

Thanks. Good info.

You wouldn't happen to know how big mmcblk0p2 is on the SGS2 do you?

I am worried about being future-proof.

It's a different partition on the SGS2:
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/block/mmcblk0p9 503.9M 391.3M 112.7M 78% /system

 

[dguy6789]

It's actually like a year and 5 months, not 2 years. The Captivate came out about a month after the iphone 4.

So not only is it newer than the iphone 4, but the latest release for it is 2.2. Thats embarrassing.

Because a new version of Android came out, the previous version(s) are suddenly unusable or bad Keep in mind that iOS is still playing catch up when it comes to feature parity with Android 2.2, let alone the later versions. It's really not that bad to be "stuck" on 2.2.

Nobody should buy a phone because it might get an entirely new OS for free sometime in the future, buy the phone for what it is today. I don't recall HP or Dell giving people free upgrades to the next version of Windows for every computer they sell.

 

[Dari]

What's also sad is that it's the same Samsung that's re-badging old hardware as new phones. I wonder if those will get ICS...

 

[mosco]

Because a new version of Android came out, the previous version(s) are suddenly unusable or bad Keep in mind that iOS is still playing catch up when it comes to feature parity with Android 2.2, let alone the later versions. It's really not that bad to be "stuck" on 2.2.

Nobody should buy a phone because it might get an entirely new OS for free sometime in the future, buy the phone for what it is today. I don't recall HP or Dell giving people free upgrades to the next version of Windows for every computer they sell.

Yeah, as a mobile app developer, i would say that 2.2 is bad. From the APIs to the version of webkit that it comes with. Users are at a disadvantage with those things. That's a pretty baiting statement regarding feature parity with iOS, and it's not even true.

Second, at least with a PC, you can buy the new version of the OS.

 

[Bateluer]

Looks like it isn't the end of the story.

http://www.droid-life.com/2011/12/2...eam-sandwich-for-the-galaxy-s-and-galaxy-tab/

You can imagine that there were some unhappy people after hearing that Samsung was planning to leave out the original Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab lines from its Ice Cream Sandwich update plans. Apparently there were enough that Sammie is now revisiting the idea to see if they can somehow make it happen. This is good news for the millions of folks that bought Galaxy S phones across the globe, but we’ll have to recommend that you not hold your breath, hold on for dear life, or cross any appendages as it could be a while. With TouchWiz reportedly the blame for the initial “No,” and also knowing that Gingerbread took almost a full year to rollout, it could be a while.