http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/ Engadget Comments for Wronged i8910 HD buyer prepares doctoral-quality thesis on issues http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/
Most probably Samsung will completely ignore our community's report, but i hope at least some people are going to read it and think about it.

The phone is very nice, but it can't justify the 500€ i spent on it and for most of the i8910 community this is the last Samsung phone if things don't change.]]>Nov 27th 2009 3:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/I agree, if Samsung doesn't support their flagship with proper firmware updates, i really wonder about the rest of the phones?
If this continues, Samsung will definitely not be on my future phone list.]]>Nov 27th 2009 7:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/Nov 28th 2009 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/It's not fair they released it like it is.
There's hot pixels (white dots) on every single video recorded, and HD video quality sucks, dropped frames everywhere and audio sync problems. Not to mention the lack of firmware updates compared to the N97 -- which came out AFTER the i8910, yet has kinetic scrolling in the entire OS now and the latest s60 web browser. Samsung, get your act together -- I know symbian is a dated platform, but releasing a device just to abandon it is not cool to your end users. Should have though of that when you were choosing the OS for this beast -- Android or even Windows Mobile would have been a million times better than symbian.]]>Nov 27th 2009 3:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/Nov 29th 2009 4:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/Did you read the article, or have you been reading the mobile news lately? Samsung has no more Symbian handsets planned for their 2010-2012 roadmap. This is the last one. Think about it...if they would have used Android or another OS that is in active development (s60v5 is completely done with, on to Symbian^2, ^3, ^4) on the i8910, then they could give us better support. Why? Because, look at how many windows mobile handsets samsung has, and look at how many android handsets they have. There's alot of common code shared among them. That means quicker fixes, less bugs, and better support, and (the most important thing of ALL) a bigger and more knowledgable development team -- since they have to produce code for multiple devices, not just one. Since they only have one Symbian handset, why even bother fixing it?]]>Nov 29th 2009 5:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/Also, take a look at how many updates Android has had over the past 2 years, and compare that to Symbian. Just today Anrdoid 2.1 on the hero was announced. Sure, Symbian Foundation is working hard, but it's progress none of us will even see until Symbian^4 comes out on actual devices in late 2010-2011, and that does not help us i8910 users one bit. Samsung knew S60v5 was a dead platform the second they signed on for this phone. They knew where the foundation was heading and they didn't care. Wonder how many developers samsung even has left that work on Symbian projects...probably not many. They are all working on Android, Bada, and Windows Mobile.]]>Nov 29th 2009 5:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/Nov 27th 2009 3:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/Nov 27th 2009 4:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/I couldn't agree more that Samsung is a big company but that is also main reason they ought to make a proper moves and listen extensivly to their customers. Not supporting their best smartphone in 2009 is simply not very smart thing to do. Doing this they are just setting an example what will happen to all their flagship phones sooner or later.

The only question that remains:

Does 'big' Samsung actually think anyone techie enough (read 'small' people) with intent and money to buy advanced smartphones would even consider buying their phones again after their mistreatment of i8510 and i8910 phones?

I know I'm not repeating the same error twice, life teached me that much.]]>Nov 27th 2009 4:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/Nov 27th 2009 5:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/Nov 27th 2009 6:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/Thank you Mr. Panashe Ngwerume, Engadget team, and all owners , for the support, persuasion and not giving up on the common cause. ]]>Nov 27th 2009 7:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/Thank you Mr. Panashe Ngwerume, Engadget team, and all owners , for the support, persuasion and not giving up on the common cause. ]]>Nov 27th 2009 7:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/
It's such a shame to see a device like this one, with so much potential, being thrown away by Samsung. I mean, we have not gotten any significant firmware updates since the phone was released 6 months ago; so that we, users, have to rely on custom "cooked" firmwares to see some of the issues fixed (but most of them can be only fixed by Samsung).

I've signed the petition, but I do not expect Samsung to do anything at this point. Great initiative by Mr. Panashe Ngwerume anyway!]]>Nov 27th 2009 7:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/Nov 29th 2009 8:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/
The i8910 is a great phone. I have no problems with it and enjoy using it every day.]]>Nov 29th 2009 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/Nov 29th 2009 3:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/Nov 29th 2009 4:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/Nov 30th 2009 1:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/Guess you haven't been keeping up.
Nokia IS dropping symbian for Maemo on all of their N-series phones, starting with the N900. There will be no more Symbian based N-series devices. Samsung has no Symbian devices planned from now until 2012, and the Kurara seems to be the last high end Symbian device left. Many people predict that when the next complete version of Symbian is ready that it will be used in lower end phones.]]>Nov 30th 2009 10:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/Dec 1st 2009 6:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/Nov 30th 2009 6:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/
I'm steering far away from Samsung from now on.]]>Nov 30th 2009 10:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/Dec 3rd 2009 2:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/Dec 3rd 2009 7:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/
I have to say that since I'm running the latest speed edition rom (thx. Hyp3rX, I guess I'm going to make a donation again anytime soon!) together with software that brings a nice portrait keyboard to the phone, and have Opere Mobile 10 on it I'm actually quite content... no thanks to Samsung support whatsoever :-P]]>Dec 5th 2009 5:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/Ah yes, to add. I read before that it was originally meant that WinMo 6.5 with cap. support would be on this phone, and that Symbian was put on because MS didn't deliver on time. This would explain a lot, especially why it first had the Omnia brandname which was later changed to i8910.]]>Dec 5th 2009 5:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/Dec 6th 2009 5:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/27/wronged-i8910-hd-buyer-prepares-doctoral-quality-thesis-on-issue/Dec 6th 2009 5:31PM