[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] megalomanic14:
Where did you hear this? I've never heard any word about the note 10.1 getting any firmware updates in the year I've had it, other than incremental 4.1.2 updates. Not to mention the fact that samsung just released the new note 10 and have no financial incentive to update our note 10 beyond giving us the 4.1 we got last year. Remember, we've already had one major update, we went from 4.0 ics to 4.1.2. While it may have been a while back, samsung has rolled out at least 5 updates of 4.1 alone. On top of the fact that the exynos 4412 soc had some serious compatibility problems with android 4.2, which is why the s3 and note 2 jumped from 4.1 to 4.3. All of this combined with the fact the new note 10 is only on 4.3 and you're either talking no 4.3 update at all, or several months at the soonest before it'd be even be considered in my opinion. And as an owner of a note 3 on 4.3, a mega i9205 and note 8.0 on 4.2.2. And the note 10 n8013 on 4.1.2, there is very little difference other than touchwiz updates to widgets and such, and that's on phone layouts, so there would be even less difference on the note 10. Finally, I for one don't want to go to 4.3 if it means I lose floating multi window, which is one of the main reasons I haven't bought a note 10 2014.

Mega

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Dude are you serious? The exynos 4412 was the best soc of 2012....obviously you've never seen the amount of development for the s3 or note 2. I own an att note 2 i317, a carrier based model, not even the interantional unlocked which gets evem more dev support, and there is a ridiculous amount of roms, kernels, and mods for thst phone...i mean its as strong now as when it released last year, and we're almost 3 months past the note 3 release. I'm not trying to be a jerk but you are either woefully uninformed, or mistake the lack of development for our note 10 tab for lack of development for the exynos 4412 which is completely wrong flat out.

In addition, the fact that samsung spent months, nearly a year trying to mend the mess that was android 4.2 is not Samsungs fault, or not solely their fault . Google made some ludicrous choices with 4.2 and the entire 4.2 firmware and almost every device, even ones designed and released on 4.2 all had serious problems. Just google nexus 7 4.2 issues, and read the hundred of thousands of posts about various issues, all of which have neither touchwiz nor the exynos 4412. The fact is 4.2 was completely garbage, and was only salvaged by samsung on a few devices after months and months of alterations...I've decompiled my 4.2.2 from my mega i9205 and compared it to my buddies nexus 7 with stock 4.2.2 and the differences are so vast, all the way down to the source codes that the two are hardly recognizable. Like i said not trying to be a jerk here but "the writings on the wall" thst you have no clue what your talking about. Samsung do android better than google hands down, because while it may take them longer to release updates, at least they actually function and function well as opposed to Google and their nexus kine of alpha build kits.

Mega