Samsung Galaxy S sails through the FCC

The already favorable odds that the Samsung Galaxy S will soon find a home in the US have skyrocketed, as the super sexy smartphone has been awarded certification by the FCC. Sporting the AT&T-friendly 3G bands, the Galaxy S would represent a huge shot in the arm to AT&T’s Android offerings which is currently limited to the Motorola BACKFLIP. And although we can’t tell you with 100% certainty that AT&T is in its future, short of getting a hold of some internal AT&T documents or an official announcement, we’d certainly put a lot of money on this being the case.

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Tags: 1GHz, 2.1, 3G, Android, Android 2.1, AT&T, capacitive, eclair, FCC, Galaxy, Galaxy S, GT-I9000, HSDPA, i9000, Samsung, Super AMOLED, touchscreen, wvga

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Daniel

Crippled!

Droid

Yeah….I would be surprised if ATT crippled the Galaxy S. What joy that would be eh? But hopefully this hits the other carriers as well.

Droid

My bad…I meant I WOULDN’T be surpised…
DrPepper

The Behold is old, and t-mo is trying to push out buy1 get 2 free (fam plan) on the behold 2, so maybe t-mo will get this too. I do recall reading this was aimed at all networks.

bonesb

I’m really only interested in an unlocked, unfscked up handset that I could use on the ATTWS network. C’mon, Samsung?!

Galen20K

It’s going to better once its on T-Mobile’s AWS bands this summer. = )

Scott

any truth it’s coming to TMo?

Galen20K

Samsung said it hopes to have it on all 4 major carriers by summer so definitely a great possibility.
james

Hope it come to Tmobile soon, i been waiting to upgrade to a good phone since October, and Tmobile hasn’t had one since. ( Nexus doesn’t count).
justme

at&t 100% for sure

Scott

i hope this comes to TMobile. I can only hope.
StevenGlansburg

It would be sweet if it ran Android

bonesb

Um, you really didn’t hit up the link, did you, SG?
DrPepper

This is an android thread, Go over to jarretts house and play with his new etcha scetch.

(The real Jarrett) Jarrett

Honestly, my “etcha scetch” isn’t all that new really.

justme

It will be released to AT&T. Not sure about how long before anyone else gets it.
http://(null) Dallas

AT

BGRiphoneappdoesntdo&s

How come this bug hasn’t been fixed? For however long the app has been out anyone who uses the app and uses the & sign gets cut off there…anyone??

aok

@StevenGlansburg,

I think it says with google on the back when it was at ctia

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DrPepper

I think he,s refering to bada running on top of android & fragmentation of the original google o.s. I know it,s not popular but I think google needs to lay down a few laws.

(The real Jarrett) Jarrett

It is what will keep Android from dominating. Google has to get almost complete control over their platform. Other wise it will alwasy be fragmented and who knows to what extent eventually.
DrPepper

Im not looking for anyone to dominate, I just want other good choices. Android is a good but young o.s. it could be excellent , but they have to just say no to yahoo phones,bada , motoblur etc., and all the fragmentation taking place. I cant believe im saying this, but I do have to give apple credit for protecting its product even tho its not for me.

quest

It does run Google ANDROID 2.1, with TouchWiz 3.0 and some kind of UI called “S Life” on top aswell….

I hope at&t does get it, I fell in love with it at CTIA…
Mik

Imo, Knock it for what its worth an not much at that, Though Samsungs TouchWiz and LG’s S-Class are still born, half assed GUI’s.

They have no where near the polish of HTC’s Skin work and should be an option only and if that even.

They can make a sweet device, just to bring it down with poorly thought out GUI’s on decent OS’s.

DrPepper

The hardware is awesome.

JFA

Poor Galaxy S, AT&T will probably cripple the hell out of that thing if it goes to them.

Replacing Google Search with Yahoo Search and all these other things.
drunknbass

@BGRiphoneappdoesntdo
drunknbass

@BGRiphoneappdoesntdo,

blame it on shitty XML formatting.

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DrPepper

Samsung was never mentioned as one of the 5, unless maybe one of the others pulled out. (grow some htc) I like this phone a lot, but im sure it will be a yahoo phone. I hope Htc and google will stand up for themselves and make the htc,s for sale untouched online. If they want to lock down the app store, im ok with that. lots of good android apps, but we should be able to delete the bloatware and choose google as default. I know android is meant to be open, but its also allowing people like at&t to do what they want to it.
Mooch

T-Mobile getting a 2.1 phone? LOL That’ll be the day!

LaToya (AKA Digital Nightmare)

They already have the Nexus One, the first Android 2.1 phone.

Nico

Wonder what Canadian carrier will get this? I want Rogers to get it, but want Rogers to get the Galaxy S Pro even more. Rogers needs a GOOD high end Android (not like the X10 with old 1.6 and no multitouch or the Acer Liquid E that’s ugly but has 2.1). A high end Android with qwerty keyboard is really what Rogers needs. All Rogers has for qwerty Androids is the old Dream and cheap LG Eve…..
(The real Jarrett) Jarrett

Hopefully there will eventually be more than one phone manufacturer who doesn’t allow the carriers to ruin the experience for the user. If Google would get a hold on the platform they could really have the carriers by the balls.

StevenGlansburg

no HTC android phones on At&t, just Moto, coincidentally they are all the ‘Crippled’ android phones….

I guess you could get the At&t Nexus One (made by HTC) but you are buying from Google and not HTC in that case.

HtcDesire.

I like android, Alot. I realize being open is a major attraction. I think google needs to pick a couple good manufactures and set some guidlines. The platform on its own could grow and compete with anyone. By allowing ot to be too open, it allows carriers to do what they want with it and then lock it down to the customers. If apple can make companys not mess with their o.s. than google should be able too also.

DJ Megatron

A big difference there is that Apple makes both the phone and the OS. Google just makes the OS, which I feel is their one major drawback and why the OS is so fragmented. You have 1.5, 1.6, 2.0 and 2.1 across multiple phones, with different skins on top. By allowing the phone manufacturer to set their own guidlines, they allow multiple versions of the OS.

DrPepper

Agreed, thats why im in favor of just letting htc make the phones, update at once from them, or google. tell at&t and others they cant add their own crap, (works for apple) I know im sounding appleish, but I really dont want to see a good o.s.fall apart. thats one thing I will give apple credit for.

ray

Stupid samsung, thats all i have to say…. stupid samsung what bad business…. so mad….. just dumb…. dumb dumb dumb… way to not get america excited for a great phone…. stupid….. now thats REALLY it from me haha….
ray

ps, watch verizon get the wave, so dumb! Dont care how much the droid sells its inferior to every other high end android phone so stupid verizon for not trying to get super high end phones, incredible is not so incredible, whats an 8 megapixel camera without hd recording and the same messed up amoled display at the nexus one… damn verizon, i might go to sprint now but i reallly want super amoled and a phone with great audio quality and hd video, come on samsung dont screw up what greatness you have…. haha for real im done now
ray

again ps, what i mean by super high end is a one ghz processor phone… now im done for real real ha
Counsel

Really, how much trouble is it to switch your search engine?

I hope it comes through AT&T with stick android GUI. I’d buy.
Iread

Uh….so I cruised over to take a peak at the FCC documents. WCDMA (i.e. 3G) is only 1900. This is the Euro variant. AT&T only use 1900 for EDGE. They’re moving their 3G traffic to 850, which this delicious phone doesn’t appear to support. It does support 850 GSM/EDGE/GPRS, but not 850 WCDMA/HSDPA
Nico

@DrPepper
Bada is an OS, not a UI like Sense or MotoBlur.
http://(null) Jordan Brown

if htc doesn’t deliever the desire(whether it’s their fault or AT
http://(null) Jordan Brown

@Jordan Brown,

don’t use the ampersand. this phone has everything I want spec wise, and it may be what I end up getting of the desire doesn’t make it out.

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Samsung Galaxy S sails through the FCC

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