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Suggested Android 2.3 Update For Galaxy S in Germany?

http://androidcommunity.com/galaxy-s-android-2-3-gingerbread-update-imminent-20110225/
I know this is one of those rumors which you take with a grain of salt, but it would be really exciting if this was true

xnoctis93 said:
http://androidcommunity.com/galaxy-s-android-2-3-gingerbread-update-imminent-20110225/
I know this is one of those rumors which you take with a grain of salt, but it would be really exciting if this was true
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haahaha....please not again!!!

We just got 2.2 can we give it a week or so before people start this whole thing up
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crystalhand said:
We just got 2.2 can we give it a week or so before people start this whole thing up
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We have had 2.2 since october

Lol, port it over to the captivate. ;D
Swyped from my Froyo-ed Captivate.

Samsung would get a lot of brownie points back from me if they released Gingerbread this quickly.
But c'mon.. Let's be real. There's no way this is happening.

xiaoali said:
Samsung would get a lot of brownie points back from me if they released Gingerbread this quickly.
But c'mon.. Let's be real. There's no way this is happening.
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+1
10charrr

xiaoali said:
Samsung would get a lot of brownie points back from me if they released Gingerbread this quickly.
But c'mon.. Let's be real. There's no way this is happening.
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Samsung is not going to release Gingerbread. Mark my words. That is not how they do business. Need Gingerbread, buy a Galaxy S II, is going to be their motto.

Or Nexus S... or Nexus one...

We got our one update for this phone. Now it's up to the developers, if we ever get anything better.
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I don't see that happenening, and even if samsuck released it, AT$T would hold it hostage for another year to bloat the hell out of it..

...and so it begins

eyekyu said:
...and so it begins
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Yup. I saw this coming yesterday but thought it would be at least a month before people started mumbling gingerbread. Guess I got proved wrong. lmfao

rpicaso said:
Yup. I saw this coming yesterday but thought it would be at least a month before people started mumbling gingerbread. Guess I got proved wrong. lmfao
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I started mumbleing day it came out .. I love the hardware samsung comes up with but the software has gotten worse .. gingerbread would save some face .. esp if they get it out quick .

Haha with CM7 getting closer and closer to our eager Captivates, does it really matter if they release it? (Vibrant just got test releases for CM)
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sold1erjjt said:
Haha with CM7 getting closer and closer to our eager Captivates, does it really matter if they release it? (Vibrant just got test releases for CM)
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It does matter wether they release it. A lot of the drivers are available in binary form only, as they are proprietary. Having Gingerbread compatible drivers available from Samsung can help withdeployment of CM7. IIRC, what slowed down CM 6.1 was the lack of Froyo drivers from Samsung.
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You make me yawn!
Yawning, it cools your brain, please !

I dont care about Gingerbread. Give me 2.2.1 so I can BT voice dial.

I can see it happening . Froyo was released it europe back in october. Now as for the us, at least we'd be able to get a port from the i9000
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Dang, where is gingerbread already!!!!! I been waiting over 24 hours!!!!
That would be cool if they got it out b4 the evo so I can rub it in my buddies face. But I guarantee about 98% of xda aren't getting their hopes up..
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So who's jumping ship for the Galaxy SII?

Supposedly it's coming out in July for Verizon
http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/08/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-said-to-be-verizon-bound-in-july/
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"Update: We just received word from a Verizon spokesperson that the reference to a July release was just a miscommunication and was actually in reference to the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. "

Pass ... Not a fan of Samsung build quality

With a dual core 1.2 ghz processor it better have a good battery that comes with it stock. I am not changing phones to just get battery life that is worse then the thunderbolt.
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For me, if it's not HTC, pass!

If it's LTE, I'll use my upgrade on it.

Wish it had lte then I would get

SII seems solid but the Droid 3 may be my Thunderbolt replacement.
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Nate14 said:
SII seems solid but the Droid 3 may be my Thunderbolt replacement.
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The Droid Bionic supposedly is a 4.5 LTE monster...but blur and locked bootloader...no thanks

If its LTE yes.

I had the fascinate and I will not ever buy ANY samsung product. I even returned a samsung monitor I had back to costco.

I loved my Vibrant, I'd probably go back to Sammy if it was LTE.

It is surely tempting, to say the least.

yeah, had a fascinate. i think i'll pass on this. samsung phones feel cheap and they use too much plastic. just doesnt feel like an expensive device.

ilogik said:
I had the fascinate and I will not ever buy ANY samsung product. I even returned a samsung monitor I had back to costco.
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This. Worst phone I've ever owned, and I've had every android on VZW except for the Ally and Inc.

I'll wait until it launches, see what the developer scene looks like, before I make a decision. I won't be jumping on launch day, but I've been impressed with Samsung's recent actions, fast kernel source releases, donations of phones to developers, etc.

Nope pass
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Fascinate was not that bad, minus Bing and the poor updates of course. Build quality is subjective.
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I plan to be amongst the first to get one. Getting two, one for my wife too.

psufan5 said:
If its LTE yes.
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Nope holding onto my Thunderbolt for a while... All i care is that tethering works and I'll wait for a nice quad-core tablet to come out and do all my heavy lifting on that.

Anybody else listing their thunderbolt?

I just listed mine on Craigslist in anticipation of the SGSII coming to VZW.
I'm really really hoping it'll have 4G because I don't want to come back to the tbolt or have to deal with the bionic (unless the bionic is unlockable).
What about you guys? Anybody else selling to get top dollar before the new phones are officially announced?
Edit: http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/0...according-to-the-vzw-support-twitter-account/ woot, sgs2 will have 4g!

Lol, what if it's delayed I may sell mines eventually as well, I hate Samsung but this phone is a beast.
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lrs421 said:
Lol, what if it's delayed I may sell mines eventually as well, I hate Samsung but this phone is a beast.
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Yeah, I'm worried about it being delayed too :\
Fortunately, I have an old Incredible laying around that I can use in the meantime. I really hope VZW doesn't drop the ball here and delay it past early September. As far as I can tell, that tweet is VZW's first admission that the sgs2 for VZW even exists.

I'm not a fan of Apple....errr Samsung so I think I'm sticking with the Bolt!!

eleazar123 said:
Yeah, I'm worried about it being delayed too :\
Fortunately, I have an old Incredible laying around that I can use in the meantime. I really hope VZW doesn't drop the ball here and delay it past early September. As far as I can tell, that tweet is VZW's first admission that the sgs2 for VZW even exists.
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Yeah, I hear ya, atleast we know it's actually real. This phone will be hard to resist but I wouldn't sell my phone just yet, you may be waiting a while. Unless you a spare laying around somewhere.
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After hearing that it will have 4G, I might be tempted to sell my TBolt once it launches. I also am not a fan of samsung phones, but this thing really makes me drool.

i'll probably wait until next march(when my 1st year is up) as ill get my $400 deposit back then.

As a previous owner of the fascinate, I am definitely with you guys on the anti-Samsung bandwagon. The thing that has changed my mind is that Samsung has said that the sgs2 is practically made for Ice Cream Sandwich. That gives me hope that they will be updating it relatively quickly once ICS is released.
Also, the fact that they gave the sgs2 to some of the CM devs makes me think they are more consumer focused than they were the first go 'round.

eleazar123 said:
As a previous owner of the fascinate, I am definitely with you guys on the anti-Samsung bandwagon. The thing that has changed my mind is that Samsung has said that the sgs2 is practically made for Ice Cream Sandwich. That gives me hope that they will be updating it relatively quickly once ICS is released.
Also, the fact that they gave the sgs2 to some of the CM devs makes me think they are more consumer focused than they were the first go 'round.
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All good points, I forgot they hooked up some devs with phones. I still have nightmares about my Captivate. This phone is in a completely different league though.
To be honest with you I want my next phone to be great out of the box. I never thought I would reach a point that I would be tired of rom flashing, lol. I could slap lpp on top of touchwiz and would be good to go.
Still love my bolt though, we'll see.
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It's also the first and only android phone with a completely open sourced linux kernel (no linked binary blobs for drivers in it).
Selling your phone off for this right now is silly though. Who knows when it'll be out for CDMA/LTE. It could be another 5-6 months at the earliest.

The Galaxy S2 having 4G is still unconfirmed.
http://twitter.com/#!/VZWSupport/status/96264762802970626
That tweet was sent out shortly afterwards.

lrs421 said:
All good points, I forgot they hooked up some devs with phones. I still have nightmares about my Captivate. This phone is in a completely different league though.
To be honest with you I want my next phone to be great out of the box. I never thought I would reach a point that I would be tired of rom flashing, lol. I could slap lpp on top of touchwiz and would be good to go.
Still love my bolt though, we'll see.
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I hear ya on that! I'm kind of glad CM7 for the TBolt isn't on Nightlies and I am enjoying flashing once every few weeks instead of nightly. I will say I enjoy the added capabilities root and CM7 brings though so I couldn't go unrooted that's for sure.

tflogic said:
The Galaxy S2 having 4G is still unconfirmed.
http://twitter.com/#!/VZWSupport/status/96264762802970626
That tweet was sent out shortly afterwards.
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There goes that, lol.
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Mustang302LX said:
I hear ya on that! I'm kind of glad CM7 for the TBolt isn't on Nightlies and I am enjoying flashing once every few weeks instead of nightly. I will say I enjoy the added capabilities root and CM7 brings though so I couldn't go unrooted that's for sure.
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Yeah, I would have to atleast root it, lol.
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yareally said:
Selling your phone off for this right now is silly though. Who knows when it'll be out for CDMA/LTE. It could be another 5-6 months at the earliest.
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+1
No one knows for sure if SGS2 will have LTE, although Samsung would be pretty stupid to not support it. If it does, I will be first in line....but my Tbolt will do just fine until then.

lrs421 said:
Yeah, I would have to atleast root it, lol.
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Yes, even if it were great out of the box, I would root it to get rid of all the bloatware you know will be crammed on it!
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this thread made me come up with a plan I am soon going to be trading my thunderbolt for a charge and my dad just got one off verizon as his upgrade if the sgs 2 comes out august 12th then I will give him my charge and make him return his for the sgs 2
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Galaxy S II or Droid Bionic for me please
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By the way, I hope we can easily swap SIM cards between out TBolts and the SGS2 (if it does have LTE) cuz I really do love my TBolt but the SGS2 is a BEAST
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I must be the only one who loves my thunderbolt.
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ATT's Five New Ginger Phones Today - 10/11/11

AT&T announced five new Gingerbread phones today.
Question is: so where's the love for our Infuse Gingerbread?
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/10/att-android-smartphones.html

Those are new phone releases...not updates to existing phones
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I think I may need to get me some Ginger ale to go with all this ginger spreading around

hmmm that samsung captivate glyde.... i want... but i will wait out the prime.

It would be awesome if i got the gs2 or prime, my dad got my infuse, and my mom gets the glide, then we could switch off devices that would be so cool.

00mred00 said:
Those are new phone releases...not updates to existing phones
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Eh... I think we are aware of that. The point is, ATT is busy porting GB over to the new phones where new sales are. But there's no or less money in doing so for the existing phones aside from new Infuse sales.

Optimus-Prime said:
hmmm that samsung captivate glyde.... i want... but i will wait out the prime.
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Optimus Prime wants the Prime. Lol
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jesi.james said:
Optimus Prime wants the Prime. Lol
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Haha, I noticed that too.

I just bought a infuse and it is still froyo so no ginger love for new infuses either
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jvanlew said:
Haha, I noticed that too.
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Yeah! It will go nice with my Asus transformer
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Is it just me or the Atrix 2 in the pic looks way big.

bdbx18 said:
Eh... I think we are aware of that. The point is, ATT is busy porting GB over to the new phones where new sales are. But there's no or less money in doing so for the existing phones aside from new Infuse sales.
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AT&T doesn't do the porting - Samsung does and AT&T delays the updates.
It was barely acceptable to release a Froyo phone when the Infuse was released - a Froyo-on-release phone would be dead in the market now.

Entropy512 said:
AT&T doesn't do the porting - Samsung does and AT&T delays the updates.
It was barely acceptable to release a Froyo phone when the Infuse was released - a Froyo-on-release phone would be dead in the market now.
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What do you think would be the motivation for AT&T to delay the updates; especially for their just-released SGS2? The only thing I can think of is needing to beef up support needs. But then again, versus the lost sales.
I had just finally convinced a buddy to go with the Android o/s and especially the Infuse or the SGS2. Then he came around citing his research that both phones are really behind the curve and that he minimally wants a GB phone now.

bdbx18 said:
What do you think would be the motivation for AT&T to delay the updates; especially for their just-released SGS2? The only thing I can think of is needing to beef up support needs. But then again, versus the lost sales.
I had just finally convinced a buddy to go with the Android o/s and especially the Infuse or the SGS2. Then he came around citing his research that both phones are really behind the curve and that he minimally wants a GB phone now.
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People buy new phones to get the latest and greatest...there is your motivation by att
(Sgs2 has gb btw)
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Ooo yay a phone with a physical keyboard its tempting
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Well just keep in mind that... gingers have no souls..
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scyld said:
Well just keep in mind that... gingers have no souls..
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Should explain why my phones felt so soulless when I put gingerbread on it....
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still waiting and waiting for samsung or att to release the GB update... oh did i say im still waiting !!

snooter71 said:
still waiting and waiting for samsung or att to release the GB update... oh did i say im still waiting !!
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Sounds like your waiting for gingerbread to be released? I get this feeling I don't know I might be wrong
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I've been waiting to get ROM-happy until the official GB releases, but this is killing me! I feel as trapped as when I had an iPhone! Let me out of this cage AT&T, and give me my dessert with some GB!

Upgrade to Sgs Skyrocket or stay with infuse?!

I'm on the fence! I barley became elgible for an upgrade. I was going to go with an iphone 4S and just sell it however the Skyrocket seems tempting. The specs seem only slightly better than my infuse. However my infuse has been buggy lately. Should I stay with the infuse and sell my upgrade? Or should I splurge for the skyrocket? I'm currently in an area that doesn't yet have LTE so AT&T will give it to me for $149
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No point if you don't even have LTE. Wait for a native ICS phone.
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jthornton71707 said:
I'm on the fence! I barley became elgible for an upgrade. I was going to go with an iphone 4S and just sell it however the Skyrocket seems tempting. The specs seem only slightly better than my infuse. However my infuse has been buggy lately. Should I stay with the infuse and sell my upgrade? Or should I splurge for the skyrocket? I'm currently in an area that doesn't yet have LTE so AT&T will give it to me for $149
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Come over to the skyrocket forums development is going great meet some of the users then make a decision
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I am personally waiting for 1st/2nd quarter or 2012.
-Native ICS
-Quad-Core
-more LTE phones to choose from.

Giant upgrades > Galaxy Nexus > SGS II > Skyrocket

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Giant upgrades > Galaxy Nexus > SGS II > Skyrocket
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Agreed... If you're looking for development, I'd stick with the SGS2. I think the Skyrocket is going to have limited development and the LTE could cause issues like it has on Verizon with development. Just my own two cents. Or hold out for the Galaxy Nexus.

No issues here. I'm currently running both phones. Skyrocket does everything my infuse does only faster, and the battery last me almost twice as long. Side by side screen is same size, but skyrocket has shorter housing which to me makes the phone feel a tad bit smaller in hand.
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Agreed... If you're looking for development, I'd stick with the SGS2. I think the Skyrocket is going to have limited development and the LTE could cause issues like it has on Verizon with development. Just my own two cents. Or hold out for the Galaxy Nexus.
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Development is going great actually
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wicked_beav said:
Agreed... If you're looking for development, I'd stick with the SGS2. I think the Skyrocket is going to have limited development and the LTE could cause issues like it has on Verizon with development. Just my own two cents. Or hold out for the Galaxy Nexus.
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Well the infuse devl has pretty much died off since sgs2 came out. I would switch if i was u guys. I love my infuse but the devl has just fell off. I have already ordered me a skyrocket can't wait until it comes in
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Camaro1LE said:
Well the infuse devl has pretty much died off since sgs2 came out. I would switch if i was u guys. I love my infuse but the devl has just fell off. I have already ordered me a skyrocket can't wait until it comes in
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the infuse dev will never be what it will be on th sgs2 varients especially not the i9100 or i777 but i think one thing holding up the infuse is that we expexted a quick 2.3 upgrade so froyo development stopped. i mean in janurary samsung advertied the infuse a a gb device. then we got rogers rom but it didnt satisafy everyone. i was gonna start up a rom on froyo and then we got some leaks. but now we dont have source code froyo doesnt look appealing and the gb leaks are dropping so fast nobody is interested in working with them.
i think there will be 1 or 2 decent roms once att says it's ok to drop a new firmware version but from the leaks id have to say samsung isn't ready. i foresee the same situations that happened on the captivate. come december we'll all bring up the add showing the 11 or so devices promised gb by the end of the year (like samsung promised froyo for the galaxy s varients on twitter in the us but att missed that deadline) and att will simply say "we had problems" which is all rediculous because it looks like samsung only started woring on the update 2 months ago, which probably has more to do with att not showing interest in an update than anything else.

Granted, I don't believe the Skyrocket will be getting ICS in a timely manner because AT&T truly sucks in the upgrade department...but I doubt it will be abandoned like the Infuse was. Any phone that can run ICS will be somewhat coveted.
The Infuse became outdated and forgotten because it was one of the last single cores made. There are always going to be people who want the bigger display. I personally hated the size of the S2. I can never go back to a smaller screen again. The think the Skyrocket will hold it's own with the "size matters" crowd. It looks like a great phone and nearly everyone who has one is loving it.

I was at att the other day upgrading gf line to the HTC vivid, I noticed the infuse was off all displays and all the cases and such were locked in a drawer. The rep also told me that LTE won't be up here in Maine until next upgrade, lol, although its launched in Mass. She also informed me that I can early upgrade any of my 3 lines for a diduction of $200 off retail ($450) ill wait another month or 2 than upgrade my line, ill only lose a few months while my 3rd line upgrades next may. Also, my infuse as been super buggy as of late, I'm now getting strange bubble popping sounds with volume off and with out touching anything, this is my 3rd infuse.
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Optimus-Prime said:
I am personally waiting for 1st/2nd quarter or 2012.
-Native ICS
-Quad-Core
-more LTE phones to choose from.
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Agreed. SGS3
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Optimus-Prime said:
I am personally waiting for 1st/2nd quarter or 2012.
-Native ICS
-Quad-Core
-more LTE phones to choose from.
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And more importantly, higher res screens like the Rezound. Enough of this WVGA.

Camaro1LE said:
Well the infuse devl has pretty much died off since sgs2 came out. I would switch if i was u guys. I love my infuse but the devl has just fell off. I have already ordered me a skyrocket can't wait until it comes in
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I wouldn't say it's died off. Bigfau and Dman as well as others have been cranking out a lot this last month.

gl1669 said:
I wouldn't say it's died off. Bigfau and Dman as well as others have been cranking out a lot this last month.
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ports r just that.... unoriginal and not made for the infuse n e one can port and its still buggy
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kornklown69 said:
ports r just that.... unoriginal and not made for the infuse n e one can port and its still buggy
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+1
but you definitely have to give them credit for their efforts!
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