[Galaxy S II General] nickbarbs:
we'll get jellybean.

I'm not worried that we'll get jelly bean. it's almost a give. lets remember a few things.

Samsung is avoiding lawsuits from apple on their galaxy nexus sales ban by updating with Google help to jelly bean 4.1. On top of this, google has stated clearly that project butter is implemented across the board. the samsung brand name is higher end and higher margin, its now becoming all about the software, samsung has pledged that they are committing significant resources to the software and UI in 2012 onwards (past this current Nature UX this is just the first quick win sort of aligned to the strategy). You can bet Samsung talks to their software partner Google and those strategies are aligned with the two companies. Samsung have learned a lot working with apple and competing with apple. Time to execute on that software strategy, compete and defeat or risk the gold standard, ie the "other iphone" brand name they're building with Galaxy

Sgs 2 is still selling like mad along side the sgs3. The phone is basically the step between single and quad core, amazing how fast we moved on from dual core. It's also the phone that suprrised carriers and 3rd party contract vendors because of the demand - iphone demand - they're now eyeing the device as higher margin potential with more respect for samsung after the sgs2. The game has changed, look how samsung had control over breaking the iron fist of wireless carriers in the USA- Sorry guys all our SGS3s follow reference design, and you can't print your logo on the front. It's our device and users care about the phone, our phone. Carriers said OK based on the surprise performance of the SGS2. Who else gets this kind of pull ? Apple. Here in the UK, phones 4 u no longer gives big cash back deals on SGS3, i got a killer cash back insane deal on my SGS2 with 120£ cash back for a low contract on launch day and was unable to negotiate a similar deal for my friend this year they won't budge on the new samsung device's pricing because these new galaxies are poised to fly off the shelves.

SGS2 is in large circulation, and is still selling, it makes sense for them to continue milking what is still a very modern phone that was just way ahead of its time. It can exist along side the 3, its smaller, has incredibly nice super amoled + screen technology, its very thin it has 1 GB of ram just like the SGS3. It also has 2 modern CPUs to work with and the graphics card is under utilised.

They also realize what is so great about buying into apple? resale value. it's not in their interest to abandon phones any more because all phones are becoming so powerful that new software needs to be created to harness and utilize all that power. IT's all about the software...

I think your'e worrying for no reason whats happening right now is samsung just got their hands on jelly bean not too long ago (do you see how fast google has been moving over the past 5 months? they went from 0 to nexus 7 in 4 months with asus, this is a huge success but shows you the pace at which they're executing strategy, you can bet its in all areas.) Jelly bean is the first attempt at setting the playing field straight and addressing fragmentation. Google and Samsung are both stakeholders in this because Apple will not wait for them to catch up.

the hardware manucterers have to catch up with google's jelly beans, give samsung a chance to learn everything they need to about jelly bean (and ruin it with touchwiz haha) that knowledge and programming ability translates directly into the SGS2 there is simply no way they will not give the GS2 jelly bean.

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