Re: At&t removed galaxy labs
That shouldn't be the case though.Carriers should not interfere with a phones firmware, they should just make sure it works properly on there network. Plus Samsung is big enough where they could say no and control these changes or even be like Apple. I am at the point where I have to spend more money just so I can get the unlocked version of a phone, so there isn't any carrier changes and I can get updates. I have to give it to T-mobile though, even there Samsung phones don't have there branding on the back, and have little bloat and almost no changes. It's as close as you can get to buying the unlocked version.
I am on At&t though so it's kinda stupid to try and buy the T-mobile version just to not have At&t's changes. The Iphone while boring and has no customization and is missing a lot of features from android, is starting to look pretty good to me. Just so I can buy a phone and get updates on time and no carrier bloat.
It is the U.S. carriers and not you, who are Samsung's customers, buying, as they do, millions of phones from Samsung. Therefore, if those carriers demand their own models and control over their own firmware, so be it. It is not just Samsung that are subject to these demands, other phone manufacturers have to provide separate models and firmware for them. If you do not like the phones and firmwares that your carriers are providing for you, then boycott them.
U.S. carriers would argue that all the revenue generating bloatware and lack of firmware updates helps to keep the cost of the phones down to you, the customer, not to mention increasing their profit margin. They then, in some cases, lock down the bootloaders and even make them unrootable, so that you cannot obtain a cheap handset and then get rid of those revenue apps and modifications and in some cases, you will be punished and no longer receive firmware updates from them if you dare to switch to another carrier.
Kim Jong-un, Supreme Leader of North Korea, lies awake at night, wondering how he too can exercise the same totalitarian control over his people that some U.S. carriers have over their customers!
You are lucky, we have to pay so much more just to get your version.
As you can see... you get what you pay for.
I wish you could buy direct from Samsung.
You can in most countries of the world, as shown on this Samsung page,
here. I wonder why Samsung are not allowed to do the same thing in the U.S.A.!!!
Not only that but Samsung even offer an Upgrade Programme with finance, as shown at the bottom of that page.
Think all Galaxy S7 phones are the same...
Think again!
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