"If only Samsung hadn't launched it with 2.1" -
stef7
QFT
The fact that they didn't send it with 2.2 is a clear sigh of laziness.
yes - although laziness isn't how i would describe it.
personally, i think they didn't do a thorough job of engineering the device before some entity within the company felt they must push the product out the door... and with this device, it has been so very obvious to both sprint and virgin mobile users.
luckily for the sprint users, they benefited from a badly needed update many months ago.
i believe too,we didn't need a complete rev of the OS from eclair to froyo to make the operation and product MUCH more reliable and user-centric and valuable to us - but then I'm no android platform technical expert and i'm sure the complexities are significant. however, if some of the low-level issues could have been addressed earlier, i wish they had been... we all deserve so much more here...
i wonder myself, is this an acceptable delivery model for a smart phone's life-cycle?
one thing i think consumers should NOT accept is a product development and deployment model that allows something of this great potential to be productized, yet handicapped by inferior software. i'm not sure where the responsibility ultimately lies, but its time for customers with virgin mobile to be supplied unambiguous, timely and reliable information at the very least.