There are devices discover there, same the example HTC Hero, that hit both traveler branded versions, and purely unlocked models floating around. This secernment between devices crapper attain it somewhat troublesome for manufacturers to promulgation authorised code updates to their handsets, as they not exclusive hit to care with unlocked devices making their artefact around the globe, but also those traveler branded versions, which hit to care with traveler optimized software. But manufacturers, same HTC and Samsung, hit figured discover a artefact around that: only promulgation the updated code via your website, for the pertinent device, and permit the someone update on their own.

It haw not be as cushy as an Over the Air (OTA) update, but at diminutive it meas you intend an update. However, if you encounter yourself with a Samsung Galaxy S device, and you’re branded by Vodafone, you haw poverty to conceive twice most upgrading some software. Apparently, Vodafone has begun terminating the traveler warranty of the device, if users establish “unapproved” code upgrades to their devices. That means, modify if you raise to the stylish edition of Android, no concern how diminutive the update, and you didn’t intend it specifically from Vodafone, they won’t do anything for you in their stores.

The traveler warranty module permit owners bushel or change their devices from the carrier. So, if you didn’t poverty to hit to disorderliness with that manufacturer’s warranty, this was your another choice. (But, you do ready the concern warranty.) The full collapse came from users discussing an update that Samsung prefabricated acquirable finished its copyrighted code KIES. Apparently the salutation from Vodafone hasn’t prefabricated some Galaxy S owners every that happy, for manifest reasons. Interesting invoke of events, surely, but we module hit to move and wager if Vodafone redefines their position, or if they definite to meet firm.

[via Samsung Hub]

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