The forums are saying no ICS for Captivate

[Reggie3]

From the Home page of this forum:



It

 

[outcastrc]

Wow. I wonder if they chop a half-year (and more) off the contracted time to permit an early upgrade as AT&T does.

We are allowed to upgrade when we hit 2 years of our 3 year contract. If we sign in for another 3 years of course. It's pathetic!

These phones become obsolete long before we can upgrade them.

 

[mongstradamus]

From the Home page of this forum:



It

 

[jimrebello]

We are allowed to upgrade when we hit 2 years of our 3 year contract. If we sign in for another 3 years of course. It's pathetic!

These phones become obsolete long before we can upgrade them.

In fact, Rogers recently changed their policy from 24 months to 30 months for early upgrades. If you fight with them they will still do it earlier, but it's getting pretty ridiculous.

Then they did us a "favour" and now you can upgrade early, however there is an early hardware upgrade charge that varies wildly depending on how much you have left in your contract, your plan, your device, etc.

 

[outcastrc]

In fact, Rogers recently changed their policy from 24 months to 30 months for early upgrades. If you fight with them they will still do it earlier, but it's getting pretty ridiculous.

Then they did us a "favour" and now you can upgrade early, however there is an early hardware upgrade charge that varies wildly depending on how much you have left in your contract, your plan, your device, etc.

The one I love is if you make changes to your plan they reset the "clock" Had that happen to me twice now. Bell locked me into an extra 3 years without my consent. Rogers it was only an extra 6 months.

Crooks all of them!

 

[Jack45]

Well, there is a silver lining if you permit yourself to enjoy it. The phone you have may be technically obsolete, but far from functionally obsolete. I can early upgrade to the S2 (or other phone flavors) in December, but I really have no interest in doing so. My Captivate, with its Apex ROM and a couple of tweaks, is bopping along just fine, thank you. Fast and stable. I don't rely on Samsung for anything, nor do I care if Ice Cream, Ice Milk, or Ice Capades is ever promised for the device. I'm happy, and my philosophy is simple. Screw 'em. Sure is better than being the screwee.

 

[Android26]

Well, there is a silver lining if you permit yourself to enjoy it. The phone you have may be technically obsolete, but far from functionally obsolete. I can early upgrade to the S2 (or other phone flavors) in December, but I really have no interest in doing so. My Captivate, with its Apex ROM and a couple of tweaks, is bopping along just fine, thank you. Fast and stable. I don't rely on Samsung for anything, nor do I care if Ice Cream, Ice Milk, or Ice Capades is ever promised for the device. I'm happy, and my philosophy is simple. Screw 'em. Sure is better than being the screwee.

hahaha

 

[SouthofOttawa]

Well, there is a silver lining if you permit yourself to enjoy it. The phone you have may be technically obsolete, but far from functionally obsolete. I can early upgrade to the S2 (or other phone flavors) in December, but I really have no interest in doing so. My Captivate, with its Apex ROM and a couple of tweaks, is bopping along just fine, thank you. Fast and stable. I don't rely on Samsung for anything, nor do I care if Ice Cream, Ice Milk, or Ice Capades is ever promised for the device. I'm happy, and my philosophy is simple. Screw 'em. Sure is better than being the screwee.

I do agree with most of what you are saying. My Captivate is running better than ever and I don't have any complaints with it. Still don't like being locked in for 2 more years on a contract but...Guess I will change my mind more when there are new apps out there only for ICS. By that time I will probably root!

 

[jimrebello]

Well, there is a silver lining if you permit yourself to enjoy it. The phone you have may be technically obsolete, but far from functionally obsolete. I can early upgrade to the S2 (or other phone flavors) in December, but I really have no interest in doing so. My Captivate, with its Apex ROM and a couple of tweaks, is bopping along just fine, thank you. Fast and stable. I don't rely on Samsung for anything, nor do I care if Ice Cream, Ice Milk, or Ice Capades is ever promised for the device. I'm happy, and my philosophy is simple. Screw 'em. Sure is better than being the screwee.

I agree with that. I figured I will wait till my Warranty is up before trying it. I'm fairly savvy, but for some reason am nervous about loading custom ROMs.

As far as my Captivate, Gingerbread has been a fantastic update on the whole. My phone is plenty quick and works quite well, and that's with the stock update from Rogers.

Still though, their upgrade policy does suck big time.