So, I have a Samsung Galaxy S 4G phone. Its about a year and a half old, and I plan to upgrade to the Galaxy III in a few months when I'm eligible for a full upgrade. Anyway, theres been a software upgrade for awhile to Gingerbread via Kies Mini. The phone isnt rooted but I plan on doing it in the next couple of days. I upgraded and went from Froyo expecting Gingerbread to be this amazing thing and really wow me beyond expectations.



Honestly, other than a couple of color changes and different looking icons, I see no real big major difference. Am I missing something I havent seen yet or is Gingerbread not really all that great of an update that changes alot?

 

The biggest changes are the APIs which drive things behind the scenes. They do make large changes to the UI. Gingerbread introduced hardware acellerated animation rendering across the UI. However everything you see on a Samsung Galaxy series device is not what Google made, its called Touchwiz... a manufacturer variant of Android... a rather tasteful variant, but still not quite AOSP.



I'm writing this on my Nexus7 running 4.1.1 Jelly Bean. My phone is a Galaxy Nexus also running 4.1.1. I have a Galaxy S1, an Infuse4g and a GalaxyS2... I must say, you should consider forking out the $350 for a Galaxy Nexus phone and $250 for a Nexus7 tablet. If you ever wondered what Android is like before it was Samsung'd, its easy to see when you use the devices Android was designed for.

 

well having gone from a htc incredible (the original, not the 4g) to my GS3 i can def tell the HUGE advancement between donut and ice cream sandwich (the gs3 doesnt have jellybean yet now does it?)



i eventually plan on doin some HAXXORZ to it but for now im just trying to figure this damn thing out so far ive been quite impressed with it

 

Faith. Also keep in mind you were using HTC Sense Donut and you switched to TouchWiz ICS.



HTC still has a sensy feel.

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I was following until you went all robot on us.



Oddly, I was also on an HTC Incredible and switched to a Galaxy SIII.



I also have an Asus Transformer.

 

sorry. Can you clean that up? I'm on a mobile device. Copy-pasta failure.

 

No problem. Fixed.

 

I swear that these software names are getting more ridiculous by the month





The ratio of hackers to nouns must be quite slim these days

 

Wheel, Android versions are named after a desert in alphabetical order the versions were

Android

Android

Cupcake

Donut

Eclair

Froyo (frozen yogurt)

Gingerbread

Honeycomb

Ice Cream Sandwich

Jelly Bean



And, we speculate the next one will be Key Lime Pie.

 

They should pay advertizing and make the next one Krispy Kreme.