Comments on: Samsung: Galaxy S Series and Original Galaxy Tab Will Not Receive Ice Cream Sandwich

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:38:00 +0000

The iPhone 3GS, older than the Droid, is still largely supported by iOS 5. iPhone users upgrade, I’m assuming, because they love the experience and support (Apple claiming Siri needs dual-cores, however, is similar to the underhanded tactics Android manufacturers use, but that’s besides the point). Conversely, Samsung, by unnecessarily discontinuing updates to the Galaxy S, are fostering a bad user experience in an attempt to force the user to upgrade. Space limitations for TouchWiz my ass. (Note that the Nexus S, with almost identical internals runs ICS just swell.) It’s pretty clear which method is superior for consumer loyalty. (And I have an OG Droid and a GNex, so don’t call me an Apple fanboy.)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:29:00 +0000

I misspoke, I was aware that they used the same GPU, however, after another google search, I found that I was not aware that the Exynos on the Nexus S was a rebrand of the Galaxy’s Hummingbird.

By: Fulaman

Fulaman — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:20:00 +0000

They don’t use a very similar CPU and GPU, they use the SAME CPU and GPU.

By: Fulaman

Fulaman — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:20:00 +0000

Wrong Answer, the Nexus S and Galaxy S are the same internally.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:18:00 +0000

That’s exactly what Samsung wants you to believe. The Nexus S, being a Google Nexus phone, runs ICE perfectly fine, and the Galaxy S series uses a _very_ similar CPU and GPU.

By: Derek Ross

Derek Ross — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 04:52:00 +0000

I’m really hoping Samsung does the right thing and pushes out an official ICS build to the Verizon 10.1 I own. There is no reason it won’t support it spec-wise, unfortunately Samsung is so slow to update things (even on the vanilla build the 4G 10.1 currently has) that I fear it will either never come or come so late it hardly matters. I knew this going in (regarding Samsung’s timeliness of updates, coming from an OG Droid), but still…

By: ivo passos

ivo passos — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 17:58:00 +0000

This new tablet is just amazing, lots of good applications, and of course its ANDROID!!!
definitely this is a MUST, you can use that new application for android to make some money without doing nothing eheh…
I allways read reviews on this site to know if I should buy it or not: http://www.androidallabout.com

Thanks

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 15:30:00 +0000

The Nexus S is getting ICS. Isn’t the hardware the exact same with that and the Galaxy S?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 12:33:00 +0000

Yup, Note has been confirmed by Samsung for ICS…….when, is anybody’s guess

By: Fulaman

Fulaman — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 05:30:00 +0000

This is actually incorrect, the Fascinate like every other Galaxy S phone has 512 mb of RAM, LIKE other Galaxy S phones 128 mb of that 512 is allocated to the GPU and the other 384 is allocated to the CPU.

By: Dustin Howard

Dustin Howard — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 23:44:00 +0000

i gave up on gingerbread a long time ago lol

By: Evanwalden95

Evanwalden95 — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 23:40:00 +0000

Will the Droid charge get ics

By: WhatsUp

WhatsUp — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 23:26:00 +0000

This is from the early builds but everything works now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLmkcdP92c4

By: WhatsUp

WhatsUp — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 23:24:00 +0000

My samsung captivate is running ICS like a champ.

By: Michael McCormack

Michael McCormack — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 23:12:00 +0000

has it been 18 months already….? arent they supposed to support updates for 18 months from release? the galaxy s phones are barely a year old and some newer than that ie the stratosphere. thats just plain dumb. google should smack samsung and stop giving them nexus devices, they cant even keep up with there other phones.