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I'm still watching and waiting to see if Samsung will provide support for a single one of their products as long as Apple has. So far, they keep flooding the market with new gadgets, but as a last-gen Samsung Moment user who's been officially abandoned by Samsung and Sprint, left with a half-baked device[1], I've got a fairly bad impression of their offerings, even if the initial hype is positive. Call my cynical, but I can't fawn over any of their products until a single one of them has made it through a full contract cycle without being abandoned.

[1] Boring details: The RIL driver in the Moment will randomly crash causing data lockups and/or full radio failure, requiring a restart to re-enable the phone part of...the phone, it's been a persistent problem through their 1.5 to 2.1 official releases of Android, and the phone which was released in Nov 2009, was fully abandoned around May 2010, it will never get officially updated again. Sprint would trade me for a downgrade refurbed phone of a different model (HTC Hero is all that really came close) but would not allow for free contract termination, or a free upgrade without renewing the contract. After my experience, I'm switching to Apple and Verizon when my contract ends since I feel neither Samsung or Sprint deserve any further business. Google 'moment data lockup' for more info.



I was having the same symptoms on my HTC Dream on Rogers, I wonder if the root problem was the same. Enabling only 2G networks stopped the issue at the cost of paying full price for crippled data.

After fighting with Rogers and 2 phone replacements on warranty and no co-operation to reasonably upgrade to a different phone I gave up and purchased an unlocked used iphone - it works without issue.

Personally I like the Android OS and UI better but I need my phone to not randomly stop being a phone.




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