Some Entertaining reading. GO XDA DEVs.

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please try not to shoot the messenger here. Thought this may be of interest to some here.

Class Action

Also a Plausible explanation for the Delay...

Originally Posted by Sighcosis

please try not to shoot the messenger here. Thought this may be of interest to some here.

Class Action

Also a Plausible explanation for the Delay...

The second article, if true, is what pisses me off.. Good job Samsung, you may be deceptively inflating the value of your Vibrant 4G, but, at the cost of the PR of thousands of customers who've already put value into your company.. brilliant!

Let's watch all those Fascinate owners hop over to the iPhone 4 on Febuary 10th because we STILL won't have OTA Froyo by then!!..

The lawsuit will fail. We are not guaranteed any updates, read the contract you signed when you got your phone.

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not sure about if there is a case there or not.
But its is not all about updates.
I understand that to be a small part of it.
Apparently more to do with the GPS not working and basically not following in the Android Open Source Project scheme. I was reading up on that and from what I can understand of it their source should be available to Devs *hence the Open Source*.
Personally it costs me nothing and if it helps in getting the message out that as customers we are unhappy.. I am all in..

Twitter something to @SamsungMobileUS with #NeverAgain tag. That is another "movement" started by DEVs here at XDA.

this was mine

@SamsungMobileUS I have been a user of your fine video and audio devices for years. #NeverAgain will I purchase a Samsung device.

I am but one voice and can not be heard in the masses. But if I join the masses we can become a Shout or a Deafening Roar

Well let me go read the AOSP license..

and that aside.. who knows what license agreement Google and Samsung made? It is not necessarily the one on the code.

Here's the corporate license: http://source.android.com/source/cla-corporate.html

Well.. as far as I can tell (I'm no lawyer..) Samsung is not doing anything illegal:

http://source.android.com/source/licenses.html

The are not required to redistribute their source at all for user space applications.. they are only required to retain the license and make sure they note where they have made changes. Code, however, may be distributed in source OR object format.

As far as the kernel (which is what we really need) they are only required to redistribute the source of any linux kernel they have in turn modified and then DISTRIBUTED. Key word distributed, and let me assure you, this has been done. The source for the current kernel on our device can be obtained from Samsung's open source website (albeit at obnoxiously throttled DL speeds.. ~70kb/s). I have it . Once they push 2.2 they will [have to] make the source available. I'm sure they will.

Originally Posted by skitzo_inc

The lawsuit will fail. We are not guaranteed any updates, read the contract you signed when you got your phone.

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I also don't the lawsuit will succeed, but from what I gather its not about the update itself, its about them all saying we would get it and never getting it. The whole "false advertising" thing. Think about what kind of legal staff a multinational conglomerate like Samsung could put together. I love the fact that he is speaking out and getting a decent amount of attention, but in the long run will it do anything? Unfortunately I doubt it. I do not hate Samsung or US Cellular for that matter, in fact I love my Mez way better than my crapberry curve

Originally Posted by droidzach

I also don't the lawsuit will succeed, but from what I gather its not about the update itself, its about them all saying we would get it and never getting it. The whole "false advertising" thing. Think about what kind of legal staff a multinational conglomerate like Samsung could put together. I love the fact that he is speaking out and getting a decent amount of attention, but in the long run will it do anything? Unfortunately I doubt it. I do not hate Samsung or US Cellular for that matter, in fact I love my Mez way better than my crapberry curve

In the business word the only promise is a contract. And even those can be broken..

I know this, if I worked at Verizon I would hold off the 2.2 update until after the Iphone4 is launched to beef up the sales of the new product. Then release 2.2 after sales have leveled out.