With just about every Android powered phone on the market it’s pretyt much a race towards who will get the latest version first. While hot devices like the HTC EVO 4G, Samsung Galaxy S and Droid X either have gotten or will be getting the update, the lesser known budget phones are generally left in the dark.

Luckily, Samsung and O2 have been nice enough to throw owners of the Samsung Galaxy GT-I7500 a bone with the Android 1.6 update. This isn’t exactly the biggest leap forward considering the devices ships with Android 1.5 and is still a ways off from Android 2.2 but it’s definitely getting there.

This Android 1.6 update will bring with it a new Android Marketplace, and Google’s built-in speech-to-text feature. Sounds good to me.