Entropy512 wrote:
raiu wrote:
Why do you say that? What are you basing your comment on? You think Samsung is not going to abandon the Org S2?
foxbat121 wrote:
Of course, probably before Skyrocket.
The original GS2 is their flagship device. The I777 - not quite, but it's about 95%+ identical to the I9100.
The Skyrocket, along with the T-Mobile T989, are abominations that are completely undeserving of the Galaxy S II name. There's a reason the T989 wasn't even allowed out of the lucite box at the August GSII launch event. The T989 and I727 had their design compromised to fit nonstandard radios - instead of Samsung's own Exynos, it has a Qualcomm Snapdragon that needs to be clocked significantly higher (1.5 GHz) to even match the Exynos at 1.2 GHz. Higher clock means more power consumption - remember the Pentium 4, the chip that ran hot and didn't perform that well compared to the Pentium M or AMD Athlon XP/Athlon64? The Snapdragon is the same deal.
The Skyrocket is fat, heavy, poorly performing, and a niche device with no commonality with anything else on the planet except for the T-Mobile T989.
The I777, on the other hand, is 95%+ identical to Samsung's international flagship, the GT-I9100.
Supposedly the I9100 is going to get ICS in December or January. Expect unofficial ports to the I777 within a few weeks of that. Now official upgrades from AT&T - don't get your hopes up, but that's another reason to avoid the Skyrocket. No commonality means no other device to leverage for update sources.
I agree. I will never wait AT&T for an update. Leaked ROMs are my cup of tea. For example, I have leaked AT&T GingerBread ROM on Captivate before last summer. Now I alreayd sold my Captivate and the official GingerBread release is still no where to be found from AT&T. I'd expect the same for ICS release. I will get leaked ICS ROMs long before AT&T release them. And I'm confident i777 ROMs are easier and quicker to come by thanks to its 95% resemblence to i9100.
