ATT shares part of the blame with respect to firmware updates, but samsung doesn't handle it well either. I remember the day after I purchased my captivate they had just released a firmware update which they basically forced you to install. Update went great, until it hard bricked my phone. To att's credit they replaced it the same day. Between that experience, the long wait to the next firmware update, the broken gps, and AT&T trying to charge be to tether my phone to use bandwidth I already paid for, I went to cyanogen. It is a pain in the ass to install on the captivate for several reasons, but aside from the shorter battery life was much happier with it.

Seconded. I run CyanogenMod7 on a captivate, and think it is great, except for the horrible battery life. Mind you I have most of the features turned off and still the battery gets less than a days use, mostly idle time as well. I thought it may be the battery just going bad, so I temporarily flashed back to the samsung rom, and get several days when idle.

I agree that windows mobile held them back, but it is what let them get their foot in the door.

honeycomb is for tablets. Google has been very good about their 2.x code source releases.

I kind of doubt it, but not so much because of google. Service providers love putting their irremovable bullshit apps on phones whilst locking down features such as tethering.

This is a curse, go fuck yourself you troll.

To the best of my knowledge it is only the US and Russia, hope to hell that is everyone anyway.

I believe the article you are referring to is this http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/press-release/study-says-texting-while-driving-is-more-dangerous-than-drunk-driving-184522.php. Despite Car and Driver considered to be a world renowned journal throughout all of academia, the study was not very thorough. Specifically, using only two test subjects for your test doesn't provide meaningful data.

Got it

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=91026&cid=7841775

That is a drawback. If only there was some device, resembling a balloon, that could be placed over a man's penis during intercourse to help prevent the transmission of STDs.

There is just no room for the little guy anymore.

Honest journalism.

Most of these criticisms are completely off the mark based on the cases they have taken on. ACLU has done more for society than you will ever do. I don't agree with them on everything, especially when it comes to their stance on the 2nd amendment, but I am not a one issue person and I will continue to support them.

It is fair enough that 3.0 and up has not been open sourced, however the number of devices with honeycomb being sold is very small, and google has stated they intend on releasing the source code. If they don't release the source, I agree it will cease to be open source, however it isn't the only difference from IE. And the insinuation that the anti-competitive practices of Microsoft with respect to IE4 are analogous to Google's business practices with respect to Android are absurd. Aside from the versions of Android on the vast majority of devices being open source, Android entered into the mobile market as the underdog, and they still face serious competition from more than one company.