Poll results for February: Samsung i8910 Users Are Not A Happy Bunch

The Results Are In

I should make a note that I’m actu­ally typ­ing this post on my Omnia HD Who said it wasn’t a capa­ble device? We’re at the begin­ning of the the month so I thought now would be a good time to share the results of last months polls. You can view all the polls con­ducted over here. The results are indica­tive of what the aver­age Sam­sung i8910 user feels. More polls are to fol­low, if you have any sug­ges­tions feel free to com­ment or write. More than 800 votes were cast in the 3 polls and the results are after the break.

Is Sam­sung doing enough for the Omnia HD i8910?

No, Sam­sung is not doing enough for the i8910. Accord­ing to the votes, 177 users (63%) voted on that it would be the last mobile phone they buy from Sam­sung. Another 60 users (21%) feel it’s still early days and we should give Sam­sung more time to get their act together. With the upcom­ing release of Bada and no planned Sym­bian devices from Sam­sung in 2010, I feel we’re run­ning out of time. Once they move on and start focus­ing on other devices, it’s all over.

Which firmware ver­sion are you run­ning on the Sam­sung i8910?

Not sur­pris­ingly, most users in the online com­mu­nity use cus­tom ROMs. 130 users (42%) said they use cus­tom ROMs such as HyperX 1.x/2.x. 64(21%) vot­ers use firmware that they updated via PC Stu­dio. Only 58 (19%) use the orig­i­nal firmware as bought. A total of 59% of the users who voted use unof­fi­cial firmware. That’s quite alarm­ing and it shows just how bad the ‘offi­cial’ ROMs are.

I’ve used cus­tom ROMs before quite a lot, but the idea of know­ing that I will have to flash it sev­eral times put me off. There are times when I would flash a cus­tom ROM, install all my apps, copy music, sync etc. then I’d dis­cover a major bug that would force me to flash some­thing else. That takes a while so now I mainly go for offi­cial ROMs because they are ‘safe’ and there’s a greater sense on per­ma­nency with my data/apps. But that’s just me, I think cus­tom ROMs are awe­some though, just not for me .

Would you like bada on the i8910?

Maybe I should have started this poll after Mobile World Con­gress 2010 because Bada was show­cased then and it got mixed reac­tions. Still, a whoop­ing 161 (69%) of the peo­ple who responded felt that we should have Bada on the i8910. Only 40 (16%) said they pre­fer other Oper­at­ing Sys­tems like Android.

One of Apple’s strengths is that it makes its own soft­ware and hard­ware. That gives them more con­trol and allows them to have tighter inte­gra­tion between hard­ware and software. The result is some of the best devices on the mar­ket, the iPhone and iPod Touch lines. If Sam­sung can do the same with Bada and their devices, we will be see­ing some pretty amaz­ing devices doing pretty amaz­ing things pretty soon.