From what I can tell, after hacking through the i760 for a month now, Samsung has very little software or software control on the i760. They have MITs, the keypad driver and that's pretty much it. Check for yoursef in the registry.

It seems to me that the i760 was designed just to run WM software. Even two hardware buttons are branded with the windows logo.

My point is, neither Samsung nor VZW is a big worry here. If you look up WM6.1 the windows site, the first thing you see is an i760. Windows pwns this device.

VZW may hold up the update to 6.1, but it will come from the windows mobile download site (I think a VZW tech had said that already). The update will come in time.

As for all the peeps who rag on the i760's tech, check out the S3C2440 microprocessor. That is what powers the i760 and a lot of HTC devices as well as a bunch of other handheld tech. (ever wonder why the sdhc drivers from an HTC work on the i760?) The outside of the i760 may look boring but inside there is a powerful triad nija pirate warrior that can cure aids and kill zombie hoards in the blink of an eye... oh and it has some pretty sweet assembly code that dwarfs most other devices with different cmos and or microprocessors. We mock what we don't understand.

In short, my phone can beat up your phone.