[Epic 4G General] ProDriver77:
This may be a bad analogy, but I'm going to post it and see if maybe it quells some frustrations among us. ( I too, would like Froyo for the enhanced BT and ability to use the Audio Out on Car Dock.)

Anyone here remember how Saturn Car Company began? The company actually started in 1985, but development took over 5 years to create and release a car in 1990 (for 1991 Model Year) that wouldn't "crap out" in the 1st 30,000 miles! As a result of taking their time to release a quality product, there are still 1991-model S-series still on the road running on their original engines and gearboxes. I see many well over 200,000 miles, one reported to have conquered 500,000+ miles, and a "believable rumor" of a S-series to have gone over 700,000 miles!

Then the bad things happened. People wanted bigger & better (which Saturn was working on). They became impatient because other manufacturers were beating them to the punch (i.e. Honda). As a result, Saturn was pressured to push their mid-size L-Series to market in time for the 2000 Model Year. It ended up with engines with bad timing chains, that when failed could take out an entire engine - something that cost Saturn A LOT of money to fix. It took 2 revisions (2001 MY and 2003 MY) to correct problems. By then, consumers were so fed up with the "bugs" they abandoned the L-Series, and the model was dumped by 2005. This was, in part, due to Saturn using parts from Saab and Opel/Vauxall Divisions and adapting them to fit the American car in order to rush the vehicle to market. Unfotunately, that mistake caused the failure of an entire company; making it unworthy for anyone else to buy the brand when GM dropped it from their lineup.

Again, I apologize if the analogy seems off-base. It comes from someone who's just as much of a "gearhead" as he is a "wireless device junkie".

Moral: Samsung has always been known to be a bit slow with updates. I had an Instinct and the updates took forever. When they tried to push them faster, bugs happened and people we're even more ticked off then they would've been had they been patient. I've been through the Windows Mobile World with 3 of HTC's "flagship" devices (Vogue, Raphael, and TP2). Their software updates were quicker than Samsungs, but still quite slow compared to other devices (especially TP2 to WM6.5). The Raphael had multiple releases on software to get a decent stable version. The TP2 made a good software release upon 6.5; but like other HTC phones in this category,the hardware couldn't keep up. I lost track of how many HTC phones I've had to have replaced through Sprint TEP due to poor hardware/build quality.

I'll gladly be patient with this phone. The device feels solidly built, the current software is running clean for me, and the processor and hardware I've yet to see be beat by anything in this class. We've already seen evidence to suggest that Froyo is indeed coming. I have my doubts on Gingerbread, but just Froyo alone will give me the couple extra features I need to make this a phone an outstanding product. God knows, it already has FAR exceeded anything I've played with on my TP2, which took almost a year for a developer to make a custom ROM that the hardware could handle.

Anyone wanna revert back to WinMo. By comparison, Froyo or not, this phone truly rocks!

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