[ale] OT: The Samsung Secret - Why U.S. Galaxy S Phones run Android 2.1 Still - xda-developers

[Michael Trausch]

Indeed. Cyanogen, and his many minions, are the very reason that we in this
house have such pleasant phonecomputer experiences.  If I could give the
project a million bucks, I would.

--
Sent from my HTC Vision (G2), running Gingerbread.
That is, a phone-like mobile device. :)
On Jan 18, 2011 5:51 PM, "Jim Philips" <briarpatch.jim at gmail.com> wrote:
> This post shows the wrinkles introduced by having an open source operating
> system on phones. Even though the OS is free, the handset manufacturer
often
> wants to charge the carrier for the update. So, you often don't get
feature
> upgrades until somebody pays. This makes it even more important to support
> the developers of custom ROM's like Cyanogen. They're the best weapon
you've
> got against this crappy arrangement.
>
> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=913045
>
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