[RUMOR] Froyo coming Feb. 21 - Androidcentral - Page 3

**shane6374** · #21 (**permalink**) 02-09-2011, 01:26 AM

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Originally Posted by testacon

Yes, this really kills my ESN swaping, I have an old flip phone I use while white water rafting and jetskiing and a smart phone for everything else. It won't hit me till this summer but I'm annoyed about the loss of this feature if I haven't upgraded by then. If I had a clear decisive promise from Sprint, I would just get 2 Epics and be done with it--arghhhh bloody 2 year contract!

Me and my stupid commitment problems, just ask my wife--stretched that bachelorhood out for 12 friggin' years.

Yeah, I have a Vogue I wanted to reactivate, but not now.

As far as Samsung goes, damn near everything in my house is Samsung, but there will be a pretty good chance that my next phone won't be.

Unlike HTC and the issue with getting updates out being more an issue with the carrier. Anyone remember how long it took to get 6.5 on the TP2? Everyone else had it months before Sprint. This time we can place a good part of the blame on Samsung.

**gTen** · #22 (**permalink**) 02-09-2011, 01:40 AM

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Interesting, I didn't know that Motorola gave 2 concurrent updates to any of their line--which phone was it? I did know that they recently condemned a long awaited upgrade to some phone a week ago, so I guess it's hit or miss...

The Motorola Droid 1 got the 2.0.1 update, 2.1 and 2.2..

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Do you think there's a good chance that the Epic will see Gingerbread from Samsung themselves? I remember them saying yes on one of the overseas forums in reference to the Galaxy S but then they removed the comment post-haste.

I am pretty sure i9000 will get it..I see no reason why not as its fairly similar to Nexus S..as for the Epic..I hope so but its up to the carrier :/

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Originally Posted by testacon

Yes, this really kills my ESN swaping, I have an old flip phone I use while white water rafting and jetskiing and a smart phone for everything else. It won't hit me till this summer but I'm annoyed about the loss of this feature if I haven't upgraded by then. If I had a clear decisive promise from Sprint, I would just get 2 Epics and be done with it--arghhhh bloody 2 year contract!

Why? flip phones have no extra $10 fee..unless your swapping a none Epic smartphone?

testacon · #23 (**permalink**) 02-09-2011, 01:45 AM

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Originally Posted by shane6374

Yeah, I have a Vogue I wanted to reactivate, but not now.

As far as Samsung goes, damn near everything in my house is Samsung, but there will be a pretty good chance that my next phone won't be.

Unlike HTC and the issue with getting updates out being more an issue with the carrier. Anyone remember how long it took to get 6.5 on the TP2? Everyone else had it months before Sprint. This time we can place a good part of the blame on Samsung.

Wait--I'm confused, you already have the Epic so aren't you already paying the $10 tax, why would it matter to you if you switched to Vogue and back again? You don't have to pay the fee every time you switch phones do you?? I thought that they just were going to hit you with a $10 fee each month whether you had a 3G or 4G phone once you "broke the seal", am I mistaken?

**shane6374** · #24 (**permalink**) 02-09-2011, 01:48 AM

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Wait--I'm confused, you already have the Epic so aren't you already paying the $10 tax, why would it matter to you if you switched to Vogue and back again? You don't have to pay the fee every time you switch phones do you?? I thought that they just were going to hit you with a $10 fee each month whether you had a 3G or 4G phone once you "broke the seal", am I mistaken?

I was going to swap out one of the other phones on my account for it, not my Epic.

testacon · #25 (**permalink**) 02-09-2011, 01:50 AM

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Why? flip phones have no extra $10 fee..unless your swapping a none Epic smartphone?

No I have PPC-6800 and a old school Katana, when I play in the water, I swap to the Katana and a ziplock bag, then back to the Mogul when I'm done, so while I'm not penalized on the Katana swap, when I go back to the Mogul, BAMM $10 a month, or so I thought that's how it'll work.

**gTen** · #26 (**permalink**) 02-09-2011, 01:54 AM

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No I have PPC-6800 and a old school Katana, when I play in the water, I swap to the Katana and a ziplock bag, then back to the Mogul when I'm done, so while I'm not penalized on the Katana swap, when I go back to the Mogul, BAMM $10 a month, or so I thought that's how it'll work.

Yup..thats exactly what will happen...is there any reason why you swap out for a katana?

**shane6374** · #27 (**permalink**) 02-09-2011, 01:56 AM

So I just read over at xda that the Onion is now reporting that the protests in Egypt are actually a bunch of angry Epic owners upset about not having froyo yet.

**gTen** · #28 (**permalink**) 02-09-2011, 02:04 AM

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So I just read over at xda that the Onion is now reporting that the protests in Egypt are actually a bunch of angry Epic owners upset about not having froyo yet.

And they shut off the internet so there would be no more Froyo OTA leaks?

**shane6374** · #29 (**permalink**) 02-09-2011, 02:10 AM

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And they shut off the internet so there would be no more Froyo OTA leaks?

I'd say yes, but the protest has only been going on for 2 weeks and we haven't had a new leak in over 2 months.

That would be a funny story for the Onion though.

daddymikey1975 · #30 (**permalink**) 02-09-2011, 08:02 AM

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Yup..thats exactly what will happen...is there any reason why you swap out for a katana?

He mentioned a few posts up that his thing is water sports (jet skiing, boating, etc) and he puts the katana in a ziploc bag. My guess (i had jetskis before too) is that if he loses or trashes or water logs the katana, it's not a big loss.. then afterwards he swaps his 'good' phone back onto the account.

Just making a stab.