Samsung Infuse 4G™ (i997) - Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) Software Update

The upgrade to Android 2.3.6 for the Samsung Infuse 4G™ (i997) provides the following customer benefits and will be available starting February 1st:

•             Improved Copy and Paste functionality
•             Redesigned Multi Touch Software Keyboard
•             Download manager for long running HTTP downloads
•             Improved power management and application control
•             Notification Shade: “Flight Mode” added (“Silent” removed)
•             New Fonts options added include Choco Cooky, Cool Jazz, Rosemary
•             Keyboard Changes: Android Keyboard with Wider Spaced keys and Quick Keys at the top
•             New Widgets: The name of the content provider will be listed on the widget list along with the widget name. Previously only the widget name was provided.
•             New Widget: Traffic (Android) added to list of available widgets
•             Menu Changes/New Apps: Downloads and Google Books added new, Promotional pre-load of Angry Birds removed*.

*Note: The update will remove the promotional Angry Birds pre-load from the device. If you’ve started playing the game, you would need to re-download from the Marketplace and start from the beginning of the game.


UPDATE: Per Samsung: The update link is now live.

You can use a home/office PC to visit www.samsung.com/us/infuseupgrade/gb1 to download the software required to complete this update.

Devices can be updated with new software only through tethered side loadingfrom a computer that is a Desktop/Laptop Computer Running on either Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, or XP (Download not available via Apple computers nor Over The Air)