[Galaxy S III General] mihaits:
Here's what I wrote to Endgadget:

Android is known for it's flexibility and being open source. Because of that, many people owning Android smartphones that want to get more out of them can modifiy them by rooting, tweaking os-level stuff or even install whole custom OSs (aka custom ROMs), which is posible through the work of android developers. Some phones that are old and don't have new software versions made anymore can still enjoy the latest android versions via custom roms but even users having the latest high-end phones can still install custom roms (like cyanogenmod) to enjoy the original pure android experience, without the changed ui and apps added from the manufacturer.

Having said that, Samsung has been giving these type of users and developers a hard time. Their flagship smartphones/phablets/tablets use Exynos chipsets and unfortunately for us they provide very little or no sources and documentation for these chips, making it almost impossible for developers to work on them. And I'm not talking about the kernel source code which they have to *eventualy* release for their firmwares. Besides that, devs also need hardware libraries (for hw acceleration, camera, other stuff). They have usually dirty hacked older libraries so they could partially work on custom roms, leaving us with many bugs or missing features. Big developers (like codeworkx, Entropy512 or gokhanmoral) have already stopped samsung support. The other smartphone manufacturers are far better at this, provinding far more dev-friendly chipsets like Quallcom or Texas Instruments. Sony even opened all the hardware libraries to the public for their Xperia S device.

Many sites have started writting about this, even XDA developers, the biggest Android developing site, with millions of members or other news sites ( pocketdroid.net sammyhub.com androidauthority.com sammobile.com pocketnow.com talkandroid.com tweakers.net tech-gadget.co.in androidcentral.com samsung.hdblog.it androidpit.de androidnext.de ). Many people started flooding @samsungmobile @samsungexynos on twitter, and Samsung Mobile on Google+ and Facebook, requesting source code for the exynos chipset ( started from here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1925709 ). The BIG fact is that the android tweaking community isn't just a small, underground one. For example, one of the most popular custom ROMs, Cyanogenmod, has been installed on MORE THAN 130.000 DIFFERENT Galaxy S II devices, more than 110.000 Galaxy S and over 30.000 Galaxy S III devices, only counting the official installs. There are actually maybe more than 300.000 Samsung devices with the unofficial ones not to mention many other custom roms (http://stats.cyanogenmod.com) . People even started a petition which has been signed by 11000 people (http://www.change.org/petitions/sam...t-achieve-full-potential-of-purchased-devices).

Unfortunately, Samsung has only given us 3 vague answers regarding this on @samsungexynos and on Google plus and many people think samsung just wants to ignore us and shut us up like it did before.

If you can make an article about this, it would make Samsung more aware of this problem and it will probably try to solve it. Thanks for taking the time to read this!

EDIT: I sent it to The Verge too