Samsung has just announced some bad news for the people that own the Galaxy S and the Galaxy Tab tablet. These devices will not be getting Android 4.0. Although the numbers sold of the Galaxy Tab are unknown, we know that the Galaxy S has sold about 10 million units. The Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab are not getting Android 4.0 because it does not have enough RAM and ROM to run alongside TouchWiz. Many people bought the devices with the expectation that they came equipped with powerful enough hardware to receive some of the latest Android updates including Ice Cream Sandwich. This news is relevant to an article I wrote earlier about the Google Android Update Alliance with telecommunication companies starting to fizzle.

Samsung has won an appeal to start selling the Galaxy Tabs again in Australia. The court in Australia overturned their injunction in October against the Tabs for violating Apple’s touchscreen technology patents. Samsung had quickly redesigned the Tabs and it will be back on shelves this Friday at 4PM. [BBC]

Samsung Electronics is upgrading the 7-inch Galaxy Tab tablet to Android 2.3 (Gingerbread). Gingerbread will also be added to the Galaxy S, Galaxy Ace, Gio, Fit, and mini phones. Gingerbread will start being rolled out into the Galaxy S phones in the U.K. in the middle of this month. Then it will be spread to the rest of the countries afterwards. Users will be able to upgrade to Gingerbread through Kies. The Gingerbread upgrade for the Galaxy Tab tablet only applies towards the 7-inch edition. [CNET]

A Samsung executive has admitted that sales of the Galaxy Tab have been quite small. Research firm ITG reports that returns in the U.S. from the November launch of the Samsung Galaxy Tab through January 15th was at about 16%. Based on the numbers from the 6,000 stores that ITG monitored between November-December 2010, the return rate was at 13%. The rate had risen to 16% in the period subsequent to January 15, 2011. The return rate of the iPad was at around 2%.

Despite earlier reports that Samsung had sold 2 million Tab tablets, the numbers are actually quite different. During Samsung’s quarterly earnings call this past Friday, a Samsung exec revealed that these numbers don’t represent sales to consumers. It is only units shipped to wireless companies and retailers across the globe.

Yonap, a Korean news agency is claiming that the Samsung Galaxy Tab tablet device has surpassed 2 million devices. The Galaxy Tab is powered by the Android operating system. Not bad considering that the tablet passed 1 million units early December. The Galaxy Tab was Samsung’s first Android tablet and it was launched with all 4 major U.S. carriers. The Galaxy Tab is available in 94 countries across 200 different carriers. Here are the sales break-down numbers: 500,000 sold in Europe, 350,000 sold in North America, and 330,000 sold in Asia.

Sprint Nextel has lowered the price of the Samsung Galaxy Tab to $299.99 with a new two-year contract or $499.99 on contract. This is a $100 price drop on the contract and non-contract price from before. The Samsung Galaxy Tab has a 7-inch touchscreen display, dual cameras, video chat, WiFi, 3G, and the Android 2.2 Froyo operating system. The tablet costs $29.99 per month for 2GB of data or $59.99 for 5GB of data per month.

Verizon has dropped the price of the Samsung Galaxy Tab to $499. After buying the tablet, you will also get $60 worth of free movie rentals through the Blockbuster Media Hub application. Now that there has been a price drop, will you buy one? Let us know in the comments. [Droid-Life]