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Respectfully, I got a Galaxy note for the full sticker price and am "stuck in 1997" using Gingerbread.

The phone screams for ICS, and it's nowhere in sight for the newest LTE phones.

The form factor and phone itself is fantastic. I don't like that I miss iOS 3 because it did more.

What I've learnt is:

1) After Android releases a new version,

2) Samsung has to release version with their stamp

3) then it gets passed to your carrier to release a new one.

The Carriers are the bottleneck for the most part given the amount of Samsung ROMs floating around. They may or may not update it, or release anything.

Many of us have been spoiled with direct updates from Apple.

When I first got the iPhone a few years ago I wondered why Apple was so gung ho about controlling and directly updating my phones.

In hindsight, it was most welcome.

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Well same applies to Microsoft and their phones have been much better at getting updates.

No bias intended against MSFT. Just spoke to the Apple experience because it was most recent.

I've enjoyed Handspring Visors, Palm Treos, Samsung Blackjacks, HTC Touch Pro with Windows mobile and they all have their pros.

My last experience with Windows Mobile on the HTC Touch Pro was severely suffering on the older windows mobile, with no prospects of a new OS in sight.. I'm glad the new OS sounds to be better addressing updates.

Actually not the case- the Samsung Focus S has been waiting for an update for months. AT&T said they weren't going to release it at all until public opinion managed to force their hand.

I suspect Nokia is very different. In fact, I think if the schedules had been different, Nokia would have been the sole hardware provider for WP.

I've got a Dell WP7 phone. Microsoft has a long B2B relationship with them.

I doubt they would jeopardize that for a Nokia exclusive. It's not really in Microsoft's DNA.

Perhaps not, but it seems that Dell isn't really interested in making any more anyway:

http://www.wpcentral.com/no-new-dell-windows-phone-75-device...

MS may have had to persuade Dell to make a phone, not the other way around.

BS! Samsung Focus S already has the Mango release. What update are talking about here? There was no major update after Mango that I know of.

http://www.wpcentral.com/att-planning-post-8107-os-update-cu...

It's mostly a bug fix release, but there's one big one- the keyboard keeps disappearing when you're typing on it. Infuriating. I had to force update my phone.

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