Samsung plonks universal search BACK into Galaxy S IIIs Samsung today conceded it was wrong to remove the universal search function from Galaxy S III phones in its latest software update - and has promised punters in the UK another firmware patch will restore the functionality. “The most recent software upgrade for the Galaxy S III in the UK included the inadvertent removal of the …
"Promise upgrade to ICS
Promise update to Gingerbread"
I had a Froyo Galaxy S which Samsung upgraded to Gingerbread, and now an SII which shipped with Gingerbread which has been upgraded to ICS, so I'm not sure what your point is...
Samsung have actually been pretty good with OS upgrades in recent experience
Call the police!! I looked at my watch, then realized it copied Big Ben. Well it's got 2 hands and markings cleverly disguised so as to be not roman numerals.
Clocks tell the time, cars carry people, smartphones search, tv's have screens to fit to current content. Used to be 4:3 now 16:9. They are all copying. It has to stop.
That's because the western car manufacturers pretty much all traded some design techniques with the Far East in exchange for some engine technology way back. I can't recall exactly but I think it was Rover and Honda that inked the first deal which led Honda to have similar chassis design's to Rover's. In return Rover was then able to develop the K Series engine which was in all of it's models for a number of years.
Although nowadays chassis design is not really considered a commodity because when you have a bunch of designers and a wind tunnel, the choices that come out will be pretty similar no matter where you are in the world. Car manufacturers then rely on technology in the car, offers/deals and marketing to compete with each other and differentiate their products that way.
Er, rather more than similar. Your Honda Concerto or Legend at the time came with a badge on the slam panel that said "Made in Longbridge by Austin-Rover". They were the same car as the Rover 200 and 800, off the same production line, only the trim differed.
The engines were the same too and Rover's continued to buy in Honda engines for some time after the partnership broke up due to their being purchased by BMW, who Honda perceived as a key competitor. That BMW purchase is what destroyed Rovers, as they were overnight deprived of their next generation of mid-range (1.6 - 2.7 litres) engines. BMW's engines were all in-line units and unsuited to use in the transverse engined Rover vehicles without major and expensive modification. A marriage made in hell.
The "K" series was an in-house project and the only tech brought in was the Variable Valve Control system from Associated Pistons (which still ranks as the best variable induction timing system ever made by anyone in my book). As the technology of the "K" series differs radically from anything Honda ever produced I doubt they had too much of a hand in it. For a start, they'd have spotted that the coolant capacity of the head design was inadequate and avoided the legendary head gasket issues. This latter was compounded by the sudden need to take an engine orginally designed to top out at 1.4 litres in a four pot and bore it to 1.6 and 1.6 versions, courtesy of the planned Honda engines being unavailable. The engines so built proved hideously unreliable. The money that should have gone towards sorting the problems of the "K" series four-pot got allocated to building the KV6 engine for the 75 project which, despite its name, has little in common with the "K" and is a rather good unit.
By that time the rot had really started to set in. BMW ditched the company, the planned KV8 engine for the mooted return of the Rover 3500 V8 never materialised. Market pressure required a cheaper, 4 cylinder engine in the 75, yet no money existed to make one. This resulted in the suicidally stupid decision to blow the "K" series, despite its already well-known propensity for blowing up when normally aspirated.
The rest is, as they say, history.
Thanks for filling in the gaps TeeCee, I did always wonder why the K Series had the head gasket problem when I thought it was far east technology, which at the time was fairly bullet proof. Was too lazy or forgot to look up the history (probably because I was concentrating on the smoke pouring out of my exhaust cause the head gasket had gone).
Hmm, when I looked on my S3, NFC was totally disabled anyway. That said, it could have been my innate skepticism, I tend to evaluate new toys, and go through and disable things I don't need, only re-enabling them if it turns out that they are useful after all...
so after disabling the search function Samsung decides to restore it just because of a spat with apple, Samsung do me a favour take apple to the cleaners Steve jobs is not around to save apple now. everything was fine in the mobile market way before apple turned up now when apple shows up there way to solving competition is throw patents at Comapnys just cause they cant hand the competition grow up apple.
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