So today, as many did, the first article that I saw on Engadget was a lengthy article describing the meticulous process that an AT&T smartphone goes through before it is released, a process that sometimes takes as long as18 months.
The article goes on to describe the rigorous testing phase that each and every phone released by the carrier must undergo, a phase that can take up to a few months.
I began to think back to the long delay between the release of the international version of the Galaxy S2 and the release of said carrier's... and I got around to thinking about how much shorter that process could have been. Because Samsung releases their international version the same in almost all countries save for a select few, the phones must undergo testing that rivals that of their AT&T counterparts because the phone must work in far more areas than the AT&T version. So theoretically, AT&T could just cross check the networks tested by Samsung against their own in the U.S. , thusly greatly reducing the delay.
Just a thought.
The article goes on to describe the rigorous testing phase that each and every phone released by the carrier must undergo, a phase that can take up to a few months.
I began to think back to the long delay between the release of the international version of the Galaxy S2 and the release of said carrier's... and I got around to thinking about how much shorter that process could have been. Because Samsung releases their international version the same in almost all countries save for a select few, the phones must undergo testing that rivals that of their AT&T counterparts because the phone must work in far more areas than the AT&T version. So theoretically, AT&T could just cross check the networks tested by Samsung against their own in the U.S. , thusly greatly reducing the delay.
Just a thought.
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