I recently bought a Samsung Galaxy Portal with T-Mobile UK. This is a pretty decent smartphone and is known as the Galaxy Spica worldwide. Now, like other Android phones that Samsung has released so far, this one also sports Android 1.5 Cupcake. While, we keep waiting for the OS to be updated to the now-so-popular Android 2.1 Eclair as seen on the Nexus One, some bloggers have released some scoop on the hacked upgrade to Android 2.1
Whilst this may not be truly official, the results are more than welcome. But then again, would I want to go that route. Still waiting with bated breathe over the official upgrade news. Samsung did release a press release stating that Germany will be getting an official upgrade to 2.1 for the Galaxy Spica, and the rest of Europe will follow soon.
There’s something bugging me in the press release though. It mentions that the official update can be done from Samsung’s New PC Studio 7. I have searched and searched and then some more for the software. The version of the PC Studio that came with my phone is 1.3. And all I could find on Samsung’s mobile website is Kies, or an older version of the PC Studio. This is no good.
It is already the end of March, and no websites or blogs have any news from Germany being able to upgrade their Galaxy Spica to the latest version.
If you have a Galaxy Spica, have you got your OS upgraded to 2.1 yet? Please comment.
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Sujoy,
Gud article on Samsung Galaxy. Waiting for some article on Motorola droid (Milestone). Google nexus one is not the only smart phone running on Android 2.1. Droid, initially launched on android 2.0 has now received free upgrade to android 2.1 for all verizon users in US (not sure about other places and service providers). my droid is still running on android 2.0. reviews I’ve read so far talks about some very interesting comparisons between Iphone and droid. would like to know your views on the same.