The Samsung Galaxy Beam brings the Pico projector and has the specs for success, but due to its small customer base, Samsung is not willing to spread Froyo goodness to this device. The Galaxy Beam is currently only available in Singapore and Samsung obviously doesn’t plan on sharing this device with anyone else. The Galaxy Beam features:
- 3.7-inch WVGA Super AMOLED display
- Android 2.1
- TouchWiz 3.0 UI
- 8-megapixel camera with LED flash and autofocus
- A front-facing VGA camera
- GPS
- DLNA
While the Galaxy Beam and S share similar specs, it doesn’t seem too hard to bring Android 2.2 to the Beam, but Samsung can’t justify the resources for such a small consumer base and we all know that time is money. It looks like this device may be getting the axe anyway as the device is currently listed as “out of stock.” It was fun while it lasted, right Mr. Galaxy Beam?
Via: Samsung Hub, Phandroid
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At least the bootloader is open.
Was this device ever actually sold anywhere other than Singapore? I saw it “coming soon” in several markets, but the only one I ever actually saw selling it was StarHub (a local telco & ISP) in SG. They also had an exclusive on it.
I am beginning to regret my Galaxy S purchase. Samsung is the slowest of the large manufacturers to upgrade, and the first to EOL its products.
But this brings up a larger problem with Android phones and OS updates. Consumers will continue to be at the mercy of manufacturers, until Google enforces vanilla OS compliance and open drivers, so that updates can be performed for as long as the hardware supports them.
If update paths keep getting blocked by manufacturers, the Android platform will quickly lose consumer appeal.
don’t count on it… SE and their X10 came out long before the Galaxy S… and no, they have not updated either.