Take the 2-minute tour ×  Silly straightforward question: are
updates to Samsung devices firmware regional, meaning that US
may get an update earlier than South America or EU?  Also: who
controls those updates? Do they depend on carrier when the
device is tied to one?  Thanks a lot...really!  share|improve
this question  1 Answer 1  Samsung's OTA updates are carrier-
based, as usual. Kies updates are usually regional, but not
particularly restricted; you can usually select a different
region when installing Kies and get updates from there.  Kies
updates are up to Samsung, though they would probably work with
carriers on it to ensure it works well and whatnot. OTA updates
are controlled by the carriers, though of course they rely on
Samsung to actually produce the update. There's being some
speculation that Google wants to break the carriers' tight
control over this (and pricing, etc.) but in general Samsung et
al. don't want to get on their bad side.  share|improve this
answer Thanks again. So this means that