Is Samsung Blocking Updates To Froyo?

jfruhlinger writes "One of the complaints about Android is its fragmentation; many different versions of the OS are out there in the wild, and often users are held back from upgrading by their hardware or their carrier. But now a disturbing rumor has it that Samsung is strong-arming T-Mobile to prevent an over-the-air upgrade to Android 2.2 (Froyo) for Samsung Vibrant owners. The reason? Samsung wants people to shell out for the new Vibrant 4G — which, other than the fact that it ships running Froyo, is largely identical to the Vibrant." Reader CWmike contributes an informative link if you'd like to know which Android vendors are actually delivering timely upgrades.

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Fanboy downmods are sad,

[mjwx]

Really, if you find the idea that Android is not as bad as you think that offensive perhaps you should stop browsing Slashdot.

Sorry for the rant ladies and gentlemen but every time someone downmod's a post simply because they disagree with it weakens the moderation system, weaken it enough and it becomes useless. After that pandemonium, goatse links in the streets, two girls and one cup raining from the sky, cat and dog posting together.

Worse yet, someone else has to up mod the post to compensate, or the censorship of "distasteful" ideas works. It's a complete waste of modpoint and potentially insightful, informative or funny posts go unmoderated due to the intolerance of a few narrow minded individuals.

So please, those of us with mod points, stop the fanboy moderation. It helps no-one and serves no useful purpose.