Recent content by Tarrant

Froyo OTA has gone live It's downloading as I type -- I'm on the west coast, and also have confirmation from somebody on the east coast of the same. I can also confirm that a flock of what appear to be airborne pigs just flew by my livingroom window, I say again last, flying pigs have been...

This is excellent news. :D About half a year late, but great nonetheless. I'll be taking off for good now, which I'm sure will be to the distinct pleasure of many. But before I depart, I figured y'all were owed... not an explanation, necessarily, but certainly a few words, and not the least...

Anybody who suggests to you that they know a Froyo ota update is imminent is either ignorant or flat out lying to you. There is NO indication that an update is in the works. Samsung released source code because they're taking a huge amount of negative PR for Verizon's mistakes. It does NOT...

Wow.. I'm blown away by how many people are willing to immediately believe that this means an official Froyo release for the Fascinate is imminent. I won't enjoy watching the cycle of disappointment again, but it'll be clinically interesting to watch it play out. In approximately 2 weeks, some...

Nothing personal, but.. I'm really not sure how anybody can say that when we've not only been waiting on Froyo for nearly 9 months now, but that we neither have it now nor is there any indication at all that an official Froyo release for the Fascinate will ever actually happen. A few leaks !=...

I'm with you in terms of reasoning, but to continue a bit with devil's advocacy: if you look at the Froyo leaks, they haven't been substantively different -- at least, not in any way that would take a single developer more than a week or two hammering away at the code. If even one dev were...

Not to quit, no, but the leaks are simply a means to assuage the most tech-savvy, vocal Fascinate owners until their contractual obligation to Microsoft re: Bing is fulfilled. If they push an official release without Bing prior to meeting that obligation, they'll be liable. If they push a...

There's no indication that this is true. If it were, why are we seeing leaked versions of Froyo and not Gingerbread? As for the number of complaints: the contractual relationship between Verizon Wireless and Microsoft concerning Bing on the Fascinate is much, much more financially important...

I love the Fascinate too, but it's a damn shame that Verizon Wireless has discontinued all future updates to the phone and that the update to Froyo/2.2 has been abandoned. If I'd known that going in, I'd have purchased a different phone.

babyfett, It's likely at this point that Verizon has abandoned development for the Fascinate, for a whole host of reasons debated elsewhere. If you want to use Froyo/2.2, you'll need to download and install one of the abandoned, leaked (but surprisingly functional) versions of the firmware...

Apologies if this idea has been thrown out previously in the thread -- I haven't been around much. It seems increasingly apparent that the delay is due to a contractual issue and not a technical issue. Nearly 9 months of delays to simply port firmware is categorically absurd, particularly when...