Samsung has confirmed to TechRadar that current Jet owners won't be getting the BBC iPlayer upgrade.
The new Jet Ultra edition, which was announced recently (despite being on sale for weeks) is essentially the same phone as the Jet S8000 launched last year.
However, it has a few minor tweaks and polishes: it's now available in black with a chrome rim, BBC iPlayer is included as standard and integrated social networking.
The Jet is dead, long live the Jet
The thing is the phone is essentially the same under the hood, so we hoped current Jet owners would be getting the upgrade.
Sadly, that's not the case, as Samsung bluntly told us today:
"At present the software will not be available for the [existing] Jet handsets"
So despite having the same processor and innards, if you're in love with the Jet's chassis but just can't sleep at the thought of others having the iPlayer, you're plum out of luck.
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lovlid
March 19th 2010
3. @ nitebot.
Selective reading syndrome??
"AT PRESENT the software will not be available for the [existing] Jet handsets"
That doesn't say to me they've stopped supporting it.
And Beavis should know better. The headline should have "YET" at the end of it.
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seanb
March 18th 2010
2. As a Samsung Jet S8000 owner I don't really understand why I would bother with an Iplayer widget or whatever as I just log on via the web browser and access Iplayer that way.
I just have a bookmark set and away I go !
Certainly not bothered about a bit of chrome trim.
I still like the Jet very much and is a great option to some of the more expensive handsets out there.
Seanb
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nitebot
March 17th 2010
1. Shocking really! All that marketing tricking people into buying the Jet then they stop supporting it a few weeks later. Just knew it was a waste of time.
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