SMS bug OTA coming in a few days

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For those who don't follow @GalaxySsupport (official Samsung) on Twitter, they just tweeted the following:

"#NexusS owners! OTA update coming over the next few days. It will prevent an SMS from being sent to the wrong contact."

My response was great, but when's the reboot during a call bug fix coming...

Originally Posted by distortedloop

My response was great, but when's the reboot during a call bug fix coming...

Not soon enough!
If I think that a call is likely to last a few minutes I pre-warn the caller that my phone might cut out. One of my contacts said that I ought to get an Android phone (he's apparently got a Desire) FFS!!!!!!!

Heres the news in written:

http://phandroid.com/2011/01/20/sams...o-fix-sms-bug/

what puzzles me is that why is the samsung support releasing this news? aren't we getting all nexus ota's from google?

I'm confused why Samsung is the one announcing this.

Edit: lol seems I am not the only one

Originally Posted by deeren

what puzzles me is that why is the samsung support releasing this news? aren't we getting all nexus ota's from google?

It's still a Samsung product, and despite people who populate this forum thinking of it as a Google phone, there are surely plenty of consumers who have purchased the phone at Best Buys just because it's heavily promoted there (at least at all 3 of the Best Buys near me) and is a really neat looking phone.

Samsung gets the black eye for bugs in the minds of those customers, and so they have an interest in this, even though it comes from Google.

If you check out the other tweets from the account I quoted, they do say the update comes from Google, not them, so they don't have a change log to share.

Seems Google is really taking a "hands-off" approach to the Nexus line.

Such a shame.

Originally Posted by JCopernicus

Seems Google is really taking a "hands-off" approach to the Nexus line.

Such a shame.

Samsung makes an announcement, and suddenly it means Google is taking a "hands-off" approach?

I don't make the same connection quite so easily; but I'm an optimist.

Originally Posted by distortedloop

Samsung makes an announcement, and suddenly it means Google is taking a "hands-off" approach?

I don't make the same connection quite so easily; but I'm an optimist.

Well it appears they are letting samsung deal with customer service, as opposed to dealing with it in house (like the N1 initially). Although they did shift CS off to HTC sometime in may of last year.

Google is basically acting as a hands off broker at this point.

My assumption(and hope) though is that they are just using Samsung as a gateway for direct customer interaction, and not for actual software development. *crosses fingers*.

Originally Posted by JCopernicus

My assumption(and hope) though is that they are just using Samsung as a gateway for direct customer interaction, and not for actual software development. *crosses fingers*.

Google's never been good at customer service in that regard, with any product. Plus, unlike the Nexus One, Google never had anything to do with this phone's retail sales to the public.

If you read the rest of the twitter traffic on the @galaxySsupport account, there are numerous tweets that state the software is coming from Google, that Samsung doesn't even have change log knowledge, and that Google doesn't have to deal with carriers on this, and that Samsung isn't aware of what other fixes Google is working on.

Seems like Samsung's just the public voice in that light.