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Firefox for android unfortunately started out real slow...might be a good move for Google. Time to go to xda-developers and see if it'll be on your phone.
Douche move making it require Ice Cream Sandwich while they don't require telcos to ship any of us upgrades.
With Android 4.0 at 1% market share, it'll be a long time before most people can even try this. http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-ve...
Yeah, while I'm generally excited about this, I won't be able to use it anytime soon, unfortunately.
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Which Samsung Android device has a locked bootloader?
Most of the non-Nexus phones technically have a locked bootloader, so that people can only run firmware signed by the carrier. In practice, there are ways of jailbreaking the vast majority of locked phones, but there are some people who don't want to void their warranty or don't want to use community ROMs.
So which Samsung Android devices have locked bootloaders?
Motorola and HTC tend to lock their bootloaders more often (though this situation is improving).
Will this replace the browser that ships with Android in ICS, or will the user have to download Chrome?
Chrome for iOS please.
Apple doesn't allow applications to provide their own runtimes: “3.3.2 An Application may not download or install executable code. Interpreted code may only be used in an Application if all scripts, code and interpreters are packaged in the Application and not downloaded. The only exception to the foregoing is scripts and code downloaded and run by Apple’s built-in WebKit framework.”
I.e. for browsers makers the concern is not that they'll be rejected from the app store, but that they can't even legally build them with the Apple's SDK.
Currently, some of the canvas apps I've tried on ICS run worse than on Gingerbread. However, those same apps run acceptable in this Chrome beta.