...that's if Samsung even upgrades the Galaxy S to Gingerbread/3.0...

They are already upgrading it once to Froyo which, combined with...

So true. Back in the WinMo days, HTC and XDA single handily made it (barely) worth using WinMo.

Not really. HTC is still the best. Samsung still uses some non-open source components that prevent anyone from porting unofficial ROMs....

Yeah, seems like a 3-4 step zoom which isn't as good as "smooth" zooming but could be usable if it didn't zoom so fast that you skip all...

I've never really used it enough before to notice that, but this version doesn't seem to do that. Anyway, it seems okay, loads pages a...

Does that mean the ability to develop/port fully working UNOFFICIAL ROMs? Like take the Froyo AOSP build and port it to the Galaxy S?...

I'm with you there. My ideal future is this:

Techcrunch was right when they reported that Gingerbread will bring a major UI/UX upgrade...