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Originally Posted by testacon
I guess I'm just annoyed that they called this a "flagship" phone. Flagship devices usually require more attention to detail then any other product they offer. I just don't see that happening with the Galaxy S line. I just see mass production with lousy/slow customer service. If this was just any other phone line that wasn't hyped so much or they didn't charge premium pricing for this phone, I can understand the delays, but for a company trying to repair their name in the cellular business, I'm just not that impressed.
As far as some of the other parts of the world getting Froyo first, how much longer was the phone released there, I thought Europe saw it in early June? So it took 6 months or so to get that out, that also means that they've been working on these issues for alot longer and we just keep waiting and waiting. This is the same phone spread across dozens of carriers, one GSM chipset variant and one CDMA chipset, probably most of the same internal parts though. At&T and TMobile updates should have been released the same time as Europe was and CDMA shortly afterwards.
They could have gave us 2.2 months ago and then 2.2.1 sometime later and more slowly like HTC is doing. But hey, I shouldn't complain they made sure they released their Samsung Media Hub in a timely fashion before fixing anything else, which just shows again what the company's priorities are.
**Late Addition**: Also they hyped the fact that Froyo was coming soon as a selling point, not 5 months or later as it seems to be taking. For one year life of sales before being replaced by say "The Galaxy 2", 5 months or longer shouldn't be considered as soon...
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But at the same time you can look at it this way..SGS came out same time as the EVO..and yet international SGS has 2.2.1 and HTC doesn't..so wouldn't that put HTC behind?
The problem that happened was this..The hummingbird was made in late 2009, so the cellphone had a much shorter cycle then say an EVO that already 2 years old...(they planned t release it earlier but they had the wimax issues remember?)...
At the time SGS was released Froyo just came out...by the time Samsung started working on 2.2...2.2.1 came out..so they decided to go with 2.2.1..I'm not denying that Samsung needs to restructure somehow to make it work faster..but in this case it seems more circumstantial.
The AT&T and T-Mobile need to load it up with their bloatware...samsung already gave Froyo to all the carriers..its in their hands...