Old Samsung Galaxy S with Android 2.6 - can upgrade to 4.x?

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I was given an old Galaxy S model SGH-T959V with firmware 2.3.6 running Android kernel 2.6.35.7

As I already use a Nexus 5 running Android 5.1, this old Samsung's version of Android is really pitiful and quite unusable. If there any way to get a clean version of Android 4.something on this old phone or should I just deposit it at the recycling center?

BTW, it's a T-Mobile phone. I haven't asked them to unlock it yet but, if that needs to be done first, I don't think they'll have a problem doing this for me (assuming it can even be done).

Thanks in advance for any sage advice.

Barry
 

Raptor007

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Unfortunately no. For one it has too little RAM to run the OS, it only has 512MB today's phones have between 2-4GB and its a phone from the Gingerbread days which is way too long ago.