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Originally Posted by subnaiyo  This is not true. Google can use the CDMA sprint radios from the previous release.
Google is the one to blame here. And your covering for them isn't helping the situation.
The only reason ICS isn't out for ns4g is because google wants the galaxy nexus to be the first device to have it. It will come a few weeks after that phone is released on sprint. We got screwed.
Sent from my Nexus S 4G using Tapatalk | It seems you have a lot of misconception about CDMA device. You should go to the main page here on AC and look up the article that explains the CDMA fiasco that happened.
You're talking as if Google and Google alone provides the updates to us and decides when they come out, when they do not. That only happens on GSM carriers such as AT&T and T-Mobile. With CDMA like Verizon and Sprint, they still control when the updates come out (and can even control what's actually on the phones, as evident by Verizon telling Google NOT to put Google Wallet in the Galaxy Nexus and Sprint telling Google to disable tether in the NS4G).
Google has nothing to do with this as they released the update to ICS for the Nexus S 4G on about December 17th. There were no radios for it until the "leak" of 4.0.4. If we didn't have these updates provided back then, we would still be using ROMs based on the T-Mobile Nexus S.
Google only controls GIVING the updates to Sprint, Sprint controls when they come out. Sprint already has them and are most likely testing them by now considering the 4.0.4 "leak" is pretty buggy with a crappy proximity sensor and all.
If anyone was holding the update back until the GNex release, it's Sprint. As stated previously, Google wins either way as people will be using their new OS and that is all that matters to them. Quote:
Originally Posted by BlackHawkA4 Google makes money either which way. I'm sure its a combination of Samsung and sprint trying to make money on new phones. So until we get the galaxy nexus officially we won't get ics. I guess Google couldn't have there hand in it but it really is mainly because of sprint wanting to sell new phones. Why buy new if you got. | Samsung has nothing to do with any of this OTA business as they only make the hardware. They're who you send your phone to if it breaks and Sprint can't fix it (such as a stuck capacitive button).
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