Gingerbread cant be far away

[ronald600]

Samsung has released the Epic now for Verizon
It has Gingerbread and a LTE radio for 4G

http://www.androidcentral.com/hands-samsung-stratosphere

Now there is no reason for the Epic not getting Gingerbread
If it works for verizon then it should work for Sprint

Not to mention that Gingerbread is on the Nexus S4G another Samsung Galaxy S1 phone
Come on Sprint and Samsung help the Epic owners out

It also makes me wonder if Sprint is going to get a LTE version of the EPIC

 

[cerobles1]

I think we are a ways away from Sprint getting LTE. I'm sure it'll b something like Epic4G III or something like that. But u r right, it can't be that far

 

[wizzeerd]

Now there is no reason for the Epic not getting Gingerbread

I don't understand why you think that necessarily follows.

step 1 - Google releases Gingerbread
step 2 - Samsung adds their customizations to Gingerbread customized for hardware X
step 3 - Sprint adds their bloatware and goes through internal testing for Sprint X
step 4 - Sprint pushes out Gingerbread update to Sprint X phones
step 5 - quality custom ROMs based on Gingerbread for X come out without worst of Sprint bloatware

If Sprint doesn't think it is worth spending $$$ on step 3 or 4, Epic doesn't get Gingerbread.

 

[Donmeister85]

Now there is no reason for the Epic not getting Gingerbread
If it works for verizon then it should work for Sprint

Not to mention that Gingerbread is on the Nexus S4G another Samsung Galaxy S1 phone
Come on Sprint and Samsung help the Epic owners out

Official Gingerbread for the Epic 4G? NOPE! Just Chuck Testa...

 

[Devtodi]

Now there is no reason for the Epic not getting Gingerbread
If it works for verizon then it should work for Sprint

This is illogical. Writing code for LTE is way different than trying to accomodate WIMAX which is difficult at best.

 

[ratsttam]

Samsung has released the Epic now for Verizon
It has Gingerbread and a LTE radio for 4G

http://www.androidcentral.com/hands-samsung-stratosphere

Now there is no reason for the Epic not getting Gingerbread
If it works for verizon then it should work for Sprint

Not to mention that Gingerbread is on the Nexus S4G another Samsung Galaxy S1 phone
Come on Sprint and Samsung help the Epic owners out

It also makes me wonder if Sprint is going to get a LTE version of the EPIC

I don't quite know how to break it to you. But the Stratosphere (as closely related to the Epic 4g as it is), is NOT it's twin in Verizon. The basic specs are the same, but the boards, connections, and even the fact that the Stratosphere has the LTE Sim card slot, shows that the internals are quite different. It's kernel source code may be able to be modified using what we know about the Epic (based on code from Froyo), but you won't be able to just install the Stratosphere roms and expect everything to "just work".
Sprint will release it when they feel good and ready. IF they decide to release it. They were under no obligation to get us Froyo, let alone Gingerbread. The Epic shipped with Eclair.

 

[Skunkape60]

I don't quite know how to break it to you. But the Stratosphere (as closely related to the Epic 4g as it is), is NOT it's twin in Verizon. The basic specs are the same, but the boards, connections, and even the fact that the Stratosphere has the LTE Sim card slot, shows that the internals are quite different. It's kernel source code may be able to be modified using what we know about the Epic (based on code from Froyo), but you won't be able to just install the Stratosphere roms and expect everything to "just work".
Sprint will release it when they feel good and ready. IF they decide to release it. They were under no obligation to get us Froyo, let alone Gingerbread. The Epic shipped with Eclair.

My thoughts exactly. I have no problem running my phone another year and a quarter without an update. It does everything as advertised now.

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[Funky Cricket]

My thoughts exactly. I have no problem running my phone another year and a quarter without an update. It does everything as advertised now.

Sent from my SPH-D700 using Tapatalk

hear hear!

 

[fredknex]

Re: Gingerbread REALLY cant be far away

I hear that the sourcecode is out.