I've seen the opposite trend, frequently: Unless you're a customer of AT&T or Verizon (which I admit, are a lot), you likely: 1. Choose your own handset and i

I've seen the opposite trend, frequently: Unless you're a customer of AT&T or Verizon (which I admit, are a lot), you likely: 1. Choose your own handset and ignore the carrier-provided ones 2. Purchase it from a number of quality retailers 3. I'm not too happy with Samsung phones, but they are popular among people in the group I'm talking about So I sort of agree with you, that Samsung's not going to roll out Android 4 very fast. But their loyalty to US carriers is almost certainly dying.