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Anyone going to get the Galaxy S?

What does everyone think? 4" may be the sweet spot between big screen size and too big. I don't know how I feel about even less physical buttons though as I already think it is the stupidest thing ever to not have dedicated send/end, but that is just me.

Not while they've skinned Android and replaced some Google integration with Yahoo integration.

No led flash? Are you f*cking kidding me?

I like the S-AMOLED and the proper multi-touch screen. However, having used the N1, I feel that it's just about as large a smartphone as I'd like to have in my pocket.
Not having to jump through as many hoops to get it customized, rooted, unlocked, etc. is also a nice thing about being on the N1.

Why would I want that when I have an N1?

Nexus 2
T-Mobile Vision http://phandroid.com/2010/06/25/dual-core-4-3-inch-htc-vision-headed-for-t-mo-this-year/

I've had a G1, and a N1, I'll wait until the next "Google" phone's out to upgrade, I think

If it gets rooted and with a stock rom i'm going for it. Samsung makes great hardware. The software sucks big time.

lorin.bute said:
Samsung makes great hardware. The software sucks big time.
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+10. Updates will be non existent, samsung expects you to buy a new phone if you want to update, screw that. I'll stay with nexus one.
Ex galaxy owner here, experienced samsung support (or lack thereof) first hand, never again
Rellikzephyr
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If a good cooker like cyanogen is going to make roms for Galaxy S then why not.

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T-Mobile Vision http://phandroid.com/2010/06/25/dual-core-4-3-inch-htc-vision-headed-for-t-mo-this-year/
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Yeah I'm with you I'll wait for the new Nexus One every phone on T-Mobile that's made by HTC and only has stock Android is the phone Google uses for the next year. Thanks to Froyo the Nexus One has been the best Android phone until at least August when the Droid X gets 2.2 and gets a speed boost. Also you know that the Galaxy S will not get to use the free tethering that people with the Nexus enjoy. So to the original question NOPE
Sent from my Nexus One

If it is rooted why couldn't you use wireless tether? Wow I did not think everyone would be so against it. Its already rooted though I thought.
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hah2110 said:
Wow I did not think everyone would be so against it.
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If I upgrade phones from my Nexus One its going to be for these features:
- Vanilla android
- 4.3' screen
- Can use the same $50/mo even more plus T-mobile voice + data
I'm more than happy to play the waiting game with my Nexus One until this phone comes out...
If the guys at Samsung weren't so cheap to cut corners and actually included an led flash I might have considered the GalaxyS... but I can't support such obvious penny pinching cost cutting by Samsung

I love its GPU power and the Super-AMOLED, but for me to go from the N1 I need :
dualcore
>WVGA
stock android
[email protected]
I don't expect that for another 6 months or so, so I'll be keeping my Nexus One until then
The Galaxy S is also plasticky and ugly
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what should i get next?

Hi all,
I have this bad habit of trying out latest gadgets.......
i never had a single phone for more than 2 months...i easily get bored
till now i had many phones.......
iphone...HTC (diamond, HD, HD2, G1, Magic, Nexus one)..plam pre, sony ericsson (satio, Xperia x10).. Palm pre....samsung (some stupid phone) .....Motorola milestone..nokia N97..some other small phones (all in just 1 year )
now i am bored with nexus and xperia and want to try something exciting...but all exciting phones like HTC evo 4g and droidx are only available in US and also CDMA...
samsung bada is not so exciting (No apps )
please suggest something exciting phone i can get in germany......

I think you have had just about everything to date.
Try that new watch phone that LG came out with. It looks pretty cool, reminds me of James Bond

Get the GSM version of the droid x. It's the milestone xt722 or something but it has a 8 mp camera with a xenon flash and a keyboard along with a front facing camera. I would've got it before my Nexus, but it's got Motoblur and it's Motorola....

How about the Samsung galaxy s? Too bad it's very familiar with the iphone design...

motorola is the worst company i would i ever go for...they are against openeness and they can't fulfill my rom flashing addiction....
sold my milestone within 3 days of buying it brand new.....
thinking of N900 or Dell streak...wat say?
but N900 has this bad resisitive screen which i hate.....
i dont know why...i dont like samsung at all...
what do you say XDAians?

no one ...... :'(
Sent from my Nexus One using XDA App

My brother has the N900, it's a pretty cool phone and the OS is sleek. Havent really played a lot with it.

chowdarygm said:
motorola is the worst company i would i ever go for...they are against openeness and they can't fulfill my rom flashing addiction....
sold my milestone within 3 days of buying it brand new.....thinking of N900 or Dell streak...wat say?
but N900 has this bad resisitive screen which i hate.....
i dont know why...i dont like samsung at all...
what do you say XDAians?
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I agree 100%. HTC all the way!

get the streak let me no so i can get one lol

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You should sell me your Nexus! What bout the Aria? Mytouch slide? Hd2? Desire? Wildfire? Kin? Legend? Droid X? Xperia X2? Streak? Htc Hero?
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Dell Streak is the one for you man not out in your country yet but will be soon and you wont get board with it after 2 months,
PS you must do good business Selling on Ebay LOL

Idk about a dell streak... It's not really portable. It's meant to be a tablet with phone capabilities. You can tell by the way the capacitive buttons are turned 90 degrees so when it's on a table you see them correctly . But still... a 5 inch screen on a phone is just way to big.

Stick with HTC and XDA on what ever you get!

thank you all for the replies...........
Dell streak is good but its on 1.6 ........
most of the other phones Alex530 has mentioned are not available in Germany and they are not GSM too....
@lufc ...i dont sell these on ebay as i have got many local friends who would like to buy phones from me as i am the mobile guru for them here and i still have most of the phones with me still
looking to try Bada os but it has no VOIP app yet which is the major part of my phone usage
i am still confused and dont know what to do............please...help me...

Why don't you turn to some other kind of gadgets?
You have cars, watches, hi-fi, home cinema, bikes, girls (I did not say that! or did I? ), etc, etc.
An all new world for you.

vmiguel said:
Why don't you turn to some other kind of gadgets?
You have cars, watches, hi-fi, home cinema, bikes, girls (I did not say that! or did I? ), etc, etc.
An all new world for you.
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i have my footprint there too
have 2 cars....2 bikes (one in that is Yamaha R15 ..the R-DNA bike)....recently got PS3 250GB, 42inch LCD TV..........and girls....my wife will kill me (typical Indian women style)
huh....i filled your list too....any one anymore?

Oooookkkkk...
Sell all, go live in the mountains for 2 years minimum, with no modern facilities whatsoever, and then start over!

vmiguel said:
Oooookkkkk...
Sell all, go live in the mountains for 2 years minimum, with no modern facilities whatsoever, and then start over!
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LOL........if any girl company me there i am happy......

Shsss!!! The wife, remember the wife...

hey geeks are you guys planning on releasing android 2.3 os ???

For the t-mobile g1 or google g1?

add119 said:
For the t-mobile g1 or google g1?
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xD well for startes who the hell you calling geeks xD anyways yeah as soon as it's out anyone who's a dev will ost likely try so that would be a yeah xD and in the end probably cyanogenmod will do it xD

Ah **** guys newbies figured out there is a New Thread Button. Mods we gotta keep an eye on these kids. Its ok bud we will get you back home soon.

Lmfao my bad bro and i mean tech geek much better?

add119 said:
Lmfao my bad bro and i mean tech geek much better?
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xD yeah sure

yeah hopefully android 2.3 os allow us to take the old processor and change it lmfao. Jk

add119 said:
yeah hopefully android 2.3 os allow us to take the old processor and change it lmfao. Jk
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xD im up for it lol who's up for some hardware modding opposed to software jk ofc

I wish lol if i can change my processor to arm 7 i could be enjoying hulu right now .

haha epic Thread name....but yeah i am pretty sure there will be a G1 version. Me in my opinion, i don't think it will get any better, i am back using Super D (Donut 1.6). fast performance, and battery saver.

You guys should work on modifying the processor number from arm 6 to arm 7. That way, ppl don't have to spend money buying $600 dollars phones.

@davil124
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=825716
This is the best roms on froyo for the g1 so far everything works on this.
Expect it doesnt have apps2sd rooted version it has the cheap google version.

@add119
yeah i will check it out right now, this is the Rom i been using, its based on Super D but with updated apps and things like that. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=638916

FTW!!!
add119 said:
@davil124
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=825716
This is the best roms on froyo for the g1 so far everything works on this.
Expect it doesnt have apps2sd rooted version it has the cheap google version.
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Wrong. Tried it...not the best.
davil124 said:
@add119
yeah i will check it out right now, this is the Rom i been using, its based on Super D but with updated apps and things like that. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=638916
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OOops...wrong again. Still not the best.
The best Froyo ROM is BiffMod v2.1...True Story!

BookCase said:
Wrong. Tried it...not the best.
OOops...wrong again. Still not the best.
The best Froyo ROM is BiffMod v2.1...True Story!
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not to be disrespectful or anything, but your wrong.
biffmod is not the best froyo rom.
this one is, super stable and doesn't trip out like the biff and cyanogen roms.
LEGIT, i promise.-> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=811620

add119 said:
You guys should work on modifying the processor number from arm 6 to arm 7. That way, ppl don't have to spend money buying $600 dollars phones.
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Best 'Dumbest' response EVER!

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no comment for you bookcase, i was talking about Donut based roms not Froyo. Froyo its too slow for G1 Hardware, so i got tired of using something that supposed to work right and consumes more battery.

That not the dumbest answer i bought so far 3 android phones. They all cost around 1,200 all together. Droid 1 $230, Google g1 $400+ $25 tax=425,Motorola cliq $400+25=425 not including tax that cover the $100 tax.

You can't "change the processor number from 6 to 7," because that would do absolutely nothing. It's like taking a .zip file and naming it .jpg. No matter how much you want it to be a jpg image, it's still going to be a zip file. Each new processor has a different hardware structure, and the naming scheme (ex: arm v6, arm v7) simply denotes what hardware it is.
I can't believe I even took the time to respond to that post, haha!

Phone

Hey, I'm thinking of buying this phone, but does anybody know if its likely to get the android 4.0 update? Is it capable of it?
Thanks
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Let me put it this way.
We're waiting for 2.3 since July.
By the time we get it there will be probably 5.
Shame because the hardware its good.
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Jordanooo said:
Hey, I'm thinking of buying this phone, but does anybody know if its likely to get the android 4.0 update? Is it capable of it?
Thanks
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To be fair, with same specs and price, I'd go for Nexus S. Can't see your country but roam the android threads, MIUI and CM threads to see what's good for your money with great dev support and ROM variations.
I'm giving you my 2 cents for that.
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if you're expecting some Ice Cream in this device, forget it
it'll be already melted when it releashed by the way

The hardware is good. Yes we are dissapointed by the proper LG 2.3 firmware they promise to release but you can use CM7 as an alternative - IMO CM7 is much better.

Well if you just think only and only about ICS then go for nexus s.
But just think aside for a while.... and here you go
- With optimus black you get a great looking phone with slim and sexy built. Compared it. With thick nexus s and you will see the difference.
- with optimus black you get the best and the brightest display in the world. I know a new Nokia device is going to have 1000nits brightness but its a 3. 5" device... and the smaller the screen size its easy to bright it up. But for a 4" display our optimus black is still the best and brightest display in world.
- with optimus black you also get memory card facility... especially useful if you need to exchange card with friends on occasions. And tremendously tremendously helpful when you get out on a tour... just Leo two three 8 gb cards and you can shoot as many photos as you wish record as many videos as you wish. While with nexus s you will have to rush to a cyber cafe to empty your internal memory into a pen drive or dvd.
... so in short in my honest opinion you stocks buy optimus black. Trust me with cyanogen mod and perhaps with help of any developer around here we will surely get ICS. sooner or later. It debt affect tbe use power of the phone to that extent as you think. Consider this again mate.

Thanks everyone, I think I will go for this phone as I like the look of it. I have cyanogen on my current phone (galaxy 5, £50 phone) and that's made 2.3 available, so 4.0 should be able to go on the black.
Does this phone have any specific developer working on cyanogen?
If not, I know one I could request to try to do cyanogen for this phone?
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There is Cyanogen mod in progress already for OB. Nearly done by the sound of out.
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Dont buy it! You will regret it, the chances of getting ICS are none. I really regret not buying the nexus s and i wouldnt have bought this one in june if i'd knew it wouldnt have gingerbread until 2012, cause lets face it, we wont get gingerbread this year, not a chance. I even recommend you to get an SE xperia Arc as they are cheaper now, at least in sweden, an SE is nowadays much better with updates. Still nexus s is the best alternative.
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And the cyanogenmod is far from complete. Read the thread about it, dont trust those recommending this phone, they just dont want to admit to themselves that it was a bad purchase, you know, nobody wants to drink alone.
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dont by any lg mobile they give great hardware with less price but software support sukssssssssss there UI and rom is not attractive as compare to other better go for Motorola or Sony Ericsson and check this out
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darn it
maybe LG should change their name into
LS : Life's Sucks

dont buy lg any more!!pls beg u!!m stuck with froyo from aprill knowing that we will get gingerbread soon!!and even now its not ready !!get sony ericsson cuz thier customer service is extremely good now a days!!no more lg for me!!regretting!!

I agree with that the customer service isn't good with LG but... hey ! We have a good hardware and you are talking like if froyo is the worth thing ever !! We are lucky to have some development and Cyanogen let us have Gingerbread and maybe later ICS.
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Yeah, it looks a good phone. I mean, they managed to get gingerbread to my current phone which I thought was a miracle (has very little ram) so this should be able to get ics one way or another
But its in consideration anyway
Thanks for the comments so far, and I welcome more opinions to this phone
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I don't recommend it, that's why I sold my Optimus Black. I had a problem with my phones and in all firmwares I tried I encountered a lot of annoying bugs, like battery drain, GSM/3G problems, wifi couldn't connect to an enterprise signal... all the uses I'd give to an smartphone were gone with it, so thats why I sold it.
Really, I was happier with my old Iphone 2G. It had some crappy features, but did all the things I wanted.
My recommendation: buy another device, specially an SonyEricsson or HTC. They are serious brands.
Of if you like to have Ice Cream Sandwich for sure and quick, but a Nexus device.
Regards

Who will make my next phone?

Hey all.
Basically i just want to hear all your thoughts on your current devices, and what you think of the next device in that product family.
My thoughts.
My first android device was the Motorola defy which really sold android for me, the fact i could treat a phone horribly by accident and it not care was a really solid selling point. The developer community for it was really quite strong too, it even receiving CM10 before my current S2.
The original transformer isn't the prettiest, lightest and fastest tablet anymore (not that it was ever lightest SO MUCH GLASS) but it was and is my first tablet and still works amazingly today. Good job Asus.
My current phone is the Samsung Galaxy S 2 which i bought outright after everyone that had one giving raving reviews and a quick view of the forum showed a very active community. Little did i know the issues the developers faced to get the aosp roms working properly, it is not pretty and it is entirely the fault of Samsung and their hardware partners (I am looking at you, yamaha). I know this and love the developers for supporting my S2 so well, especially codeworkx whom has been moving devices lately.
I love the idea of getting the S3, but i would only be going for the larger screen and if all i want is the larger screen why not go even larger and get the Note 2? Especially after its drop test video. It is a tank of a phone.
The One X+ Kind of interests me with unlocked bootloaders etc. But the fact i have to flash the kernel separately to the ROM every time (or at least that is my understanding) would really annoy me.
After the defy i would rush to a unlocked bootloader on a Motorola. That and screen size were the only issues i had with my defy.
But my current plan runs out in December which is only a few months away and i would love some ideas on devices coming into Christmas season.
Currently i am thinking Note 2, but i don't want to have half baked aosp roms because of hardware support. Ideas?
And yes doing a BYO 6 month plan with my local carrier is an option.

How bout this one?
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orangekid said:
How bout this one?
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Although super durable i am not sure it would have all the features i am after. And look at that screen, tiny!

HTC 100% of the time.
There are some really cool devs and contributors who have written apps and scripts that enable you to flash everything all at once, kernel included.
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I have the SGSIII and the One X. In the case of the One X (not the One X+ but it's basically a refresh of the One X) yes, you do have to extract and flash the boot.img via your pc using fastboot and the flash the modules via recovery...not as bad as it sounds. It's a great phone.
The SGSIII not only has a bigger screen but a higher resolution than the SGSII. There are many ROMs for it and in the case of the US variants I've flashed ROMs made for the AT&T variant on my T-Mobile one. (The international version also has great development.)
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tommytomatoe said:
HTC 100% of the time.
There are some really cool devs and contributors who have written apps and scripts that enable you to flash everything all at once, kernel included.
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Hey Tommy thanks for the reply, i take it your experience is from the EVO?
Thanks Babydoll one of my friends has the one x which i rooted/cm10ed for him the other day, it was an interesting look into HTC custom roms and i must say it is not overly difficult or anything. And i did see the scripts Tommy was talking about, they would be nice in easing the transition. How do you find the one x build quality? I heard it was hit and miss between users.

yay101 said:
Hey Tommy thanks for the reply, i take it your experience is from the EVO?
Thanks Babydoll one of my friends has the one x which i rooted/cm10ed for him the other day, it was an interesting look into HTC custom roms and i must say it is not overly difficult or anything. And i did see the scripts Tommy was talking about, they would be nice in easing the transition. How do you find the one x build quality? I heard it was hit and miss between users.
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I have a HT23 which is one of the earlier batches and I have no issues. No Wi-Fi attenuation, no screen flicker, nothing wrong at all with my device.
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Evo og and Evo LTE. Also had an Evo 3d for a brief time.
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I also had the (original) Samsung Galaxy Note. I really loved that phone. I only sold it because the eMMC brick bug got on my nerves.
I still miss that phone. I am getting the Note II.
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Babydoll25 said:
I also had the (original) Samsung Galaxy Note. I really loved that phone. I only sold it because the eMMC brick bug got on my nerves.
I still miss that phone. I am getting the Note II.
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That's the reason why you sold it? You could have flashed a safe kernel. Done.