No Ice Cream Sandwich for Replenish?

[Glennd1]

So I'm really pissed that it looks like the Replenish will be dead ended by Sprint. I went to it from a Palm Pre, which deadended Palm and I thought buying an Android based phone would give me some kind of upward compatability. I bought it less than 6 months ago - mid contract for 325 - I mean, it's not chump change. WTF? Sprint is such an effed up company, I wish I wasn't stuck with them!

Does anyone have any information to the contrary? I picked this up in an article on Android Central - it was a prediction versus any kind of official announcement. But apparently the Replenish is considered a "feature phone"? What does that mean? Grrrrrrrrrrr!!!

 

[tentonbricks]

I don't think the Replenish has the horsepower to handle ICS.

 

[fencerjared]

Not sure why you would have picked up what is obviously an entry level Android phone, expecting the latest and greatest updates to it. Sounds like you didn't do your research first. It's works perfectly fine at basic tasks, which is why I got it.

 

[tentonbricks]

I don't know if the admonition is all that necessary.

 

[fencerjared]

He's blaming someone else for his lack of responsibility in determining if an item he was going to purchase would meet his needs. Further, he's blaming what would seem to be the wrong entity; not sure exactly how much power Sprint has in telling Samsung when and what updates to release for a phone they produced, but I doubt it's much. I feel it was pretty appropriate, slightly less so if Sprint has much power over the update process.

 

[nubkill6]

sprint dosnt have the power to realease all the updates. samsung makes the codes, sends them to sprint in a update, or a OTA update.. the replenish dosnt have internal space really, why would this tiny phone get ics .. i downloaded the launchers for ics on mine, and it isnt workable because of the tiny screen.

 

[shrekdaklown]

sounds like the same person who was whinning about gingerbread here while back

 

[nubkill6]

i just made my account when gingerbread was reaslesed on the replenish because i wanted to know who all i got fast. most people have rooted to get theres faster than everyone :\ 4more days of waiting, and i will have it ! (i will not root my phone because i can wait.. only thing i want is the black notification bar and better power management...i can wait for that. lol

 

[GPOT]

So I'm really pissed that it looks like the Replenish will be dead ended by Sprint. I went to it from a Palm Pre, which deadended Palm and I thought buying an Android based phone would give me some kind of upward compatability. I bought it less than 6 months ago - mid contract for 325 - I mean, it's not chump change. WTF? Sprint is such an effed up company, I wish I wasn't stuck with them!

Does anyone have any information to the contrary? I picked this up in an article on Android Central - it was a prediction versus any kind of official announcement. But apparently the Replenish is considered a "feature phone"? What does that mean? Grrrrrrrrrrr!!!

Ahh... The troll in its natural habitat. Make sure to carefully observe its behavior without disturbing it or you might take an arrow to the knee.

 

[WILFREDOJR978]

I don't think the Replenish has the horsepower to handle ICS.

Well we can overclock it to almost 800 and i do think it could handle it.Just a couple tweaks.

And we could port both CM&,and CM9 just need a couple of people to work on it.ALsio we got a few of the ics drivers needed minus a few like the camera and bluetooth.BUt we got the chipset.

 

[RazzMaTazz]

I don't blame Samsung & Sprint for not wasting their software resources to upgrade this entry-level phone to ICS, but I'm pretty sure that the Replenish has the horsepower. I have an Optimus S, with the same Qualcomm MSM7627 600MHz ARMv6, same Adreno 200 GPU, and the same amount of RAM/ROM. Although LG & Sprint won't release ICS for the Optimus S (and I don't blame them), independent developers are working on it. I've been running an Alpha version of the CM9 ICS on the Optimus S. It runs every bit as fast as Sprint's Gingerbread release-- maybe faster.

It's just a business decision. The Replenish is just a cheap, entry-level phone to get people onboard. Good enough for many people and it's $10/month less than Sprint's other smartphones. Sprint really wants you to upgrade and pay them more money each month. They don't want the Replenish to be too good, let alone so good that you use up a lot of Sprint's data bandwidth.

ICS has some cool features, but it isn't an earth shattering advance.

 

[DJxDARIENx]

I don't blame Samsung & Sprint for not wasting their software resources to upgrade this entry-level phone to ICS, but I'm pretty sure that the Replenish has the horsepower. I have an Optimus S, with the same Qualcomm MSM7627 600MHz ARMv6, same Adreno 200 GPU, and the same amount of RAM/ROM. Although LG & Sprint won't release ICS for the Optimus S (and I don't blame them), independent developers are working on it. I've been running an Alpha version of the CM9 ICS on the Optimus S. It runs every bit as fast as Sprint's Gingerbread release-- maybe faster.

It's just a business decision. The Replenish is just a cheap, entry-level phone to get people onboard. Good enough for many people and it's $10/month less than Sprint's other smartphones. Sprint really wants you to upgrade and pay them more money each month. They don't want the Replenish to be too good, let alone so good that you use up a lot of Sprint's data bandwidth.

ICS has some cool features, but it isn't an earth shattering advance.

come to think about it, the phones data is CAPPED! If you have a normal unroted one, go use speedtest and see the speeds. Ive used in perfect signal, low signal,
almost no signal, and it all is around th same numbers. Only time it has EVER gone above is when Im on wifi. EVEN WIFI FROM MCDONALDS IS SOMEWHAT FASTER!

 

[RazzMaTazz]

When I ran the Replenish in side-by-side speed tests with my Optimus S, I recall that the Replenish had very similar (~900kbps) 3G download speeds than my Optimus at my house, and much faster (2.2Mbps vs 1.3Mbps) WiFi download speeds than my Optimus S. I don't think Sprint throttles the 3G speeds on the devices. If they wanted to do that, I think they'd do it from their towers.

 

[DJxDARIENx]

All the replenish's ive used (Ive had 3 total. they keep geting software problems ) and the uploads and download speeds are extremly low. even with perfect signal. Even with my cousins, and friends they are still EXTREMLY low. my brothers evo and moms shift both get better when they arent even full bars.