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It is worth to upgrade to Galaxy s2?

hi, currently i'm using galaxy s. Do you think it is worth the upgrade to galaxy s2?
I already saw how smooth the galaxy s2 browser, i never see any other android phone can do this, even nexus s also can't achieve this smooth. I'm not said other android is slow, they are fast but not in term of smoothness. Even galaxy s with hardware accelerated browser still can't achieve this(lack of optimisation?)
I also read that the upcoming galaxy s2 use ext4 out of box, so the lag should not present in the galaxy s2 like the original galaxy s. Plus with 1.2ghz dual core and 1gb RAM, there is no way it insufficient of RAM with it blazing processor. Here the latest benchmarks for galaxy s2, it score really high although at stock ROM.
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I know we should not judge the phone from the synthetic benchmarks, but at least this show how the true raw power of this phone.
So, if you given the choice, would you upgrade the phone to the new galaxy s2?

Depends almost entirely on how much money you have. Even the smallest upgrade is 'worth it' with an unlimited budget, while even the biggest isn't if you can't afford it.
As for me it's impressive but I won't be spending hundreds on a new phone after just one year unless there is some breakthrough in functionality. Slicker screen and smoother performance are nice, but other than that embedded flash video what does it do that my SGS can't? (note I'm not really dying to hook my phone up with hdmi) When the next gen is talking higher screen resolution and there are apps/game with more demanding CPU/GPU requirements, I'll be all over it.

I'm going to be getting it, not sure quite how soon though
I'm mobile, please ignore any spelling mistakes

Worth what? Depends on how much it will cost you, and how much you will miss that amount of money And ofcourse how important having the latest phone is for you.
As for me, I'm not going to buy it just yet cause the SGS still satisfies me, but sure its worth it Its a major upgrade in many aspects. I havent touched one yet but from what Ive seen and read it seems like a seriously badass gadget
So yeah, as far as replacing a perfectly fine phone for a new one is ever worthy, this definately is it, though probably not neccesary yet (sgs still performing with the best of them). Depending on how often you buy a new phone you may or may not want to wait till replacing becomes more urgent. :shrug:

it's not a necessary upgrade, unless you just want to have the latest and greatest
the SGS is a pretty beefy phone with the proper custom ROM
in fact it's one of the few phones that it can truly do hardware decoding/encoding of multimedia files, and play any game you want.
there's hardly any true reason to get the SGS2 unless you want the new 4.3" screen, and Dual Core CPU, and a bit of extra RAM 1 GB instead of 512
minus the 128 for OS itself that means like 896 usable instead of our current 384 usable

AllGamer said:
it's not a necessary upgrade, unless you just want to have the latest and greatest
the SGS is a pretty beefy phone with the proper custom ROM
in fact it's one of the few phones that it can truly do hardware decoding/encoding of multimedia files, and play any game you want.
there's hardly any true reason to get the SGS2 unless you want the new 4.3" screen, and Dual Core CPU, and a bit of extra RAM 1 GB instead of 512
minus the 128 for OS itself that means like 896 usable instead of our current 384 usable
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I dont know when you last had 384 usable after the OS is loaded but for the rest of us theres not much more than 100-110mB left after the OS loaded, having 512mB more is one of the biggest pro's of SGS2 i suppose, the lack of RAM is one of the main things holding the SGS performance back especially with big apps.
Still, since better specced phones are only now starting to appear, SGS has no issues with any current apps so for now its a luxury not a neccesity.

Nah, cause when my contract run out, we'll be looking at the Galaxy S3 with quad-core and a gig or two of ram

Without reading whats written up there.
The one and ONLY reason that will make me switch from SGS i9000 to another phone will be the screen resolution. NOTHING else.
The SGS i9000 is fast and fast enough. So no, for me its not worth to upgrade

PAGOT said:
Without reading whats written up there.
The one and ONLY reason that will make me switch from SGS i9000 to another phone will be the screen resolution. NOTHING else.
The SGS i9000 is fast and fast enough. So no, for me its not worth to upgrade
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Yes, htc sensation have high resolution but so far for now,the game developers still not support the resolution in game, so maybe we will see black border?
SAMOLED plus surely hard to resist, for me it like a good upgrade...

Personally Ill get the galaxy tab 10.1 instead of upgrading my phone^^

I'm getting it as I'm due an upgrade in 2 months, however I was always going to replace the SGS because of the poor bluetooth interaction with my in-car system. Aside for these factors I wouldn't have replaced. Whether it's worth it has been aptly answered by haloimplant, I think the question should be would or wouldn't you be getting it and why?

It IS worth, however it is way too expensive for me

Question from an owner of an HTC One X

Hello all, New to this part of forum. Quick question, I have an HTC one x, not super happy with it, long love hate relationship with it and HTC themselves. I have decided to move on the one x. I have been offered a swap for a Galaxy Note, was going to do the swap, did a quick google and see the Note 2 is due for release soon. Should I just bite the bullet and swap for the note, or wait for the note 2, although I will imagine it will be a case.of selling the one x and adding substantially to it to buy the note 2, or whatever it will be called. I use my phone primarily for surfing and texting, only a few games to occupy me whilst on the thrown. Would I notice any real drop in speed from the quad core to the dual core.
Cheers for any replies.
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I have the One x and battery is very poor. I read the note has a very good battery. So for texting and surfing I would defenately choose the note
regards sygys

Not a huge difference man,u can check quadrant score for that, one x vs the note.
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Go for the note,u will be happy or wait for the note 2
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Didn't realise they were so close on quadrant. Hate the battery on one x, had an s3 for a bit, but sold it to fund a 60" tv, wasn't the biggest fan of it. I think I will take the jump to the note.
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JamDonot said:
Hello all, New to this part of forum. Quick question, I have an HTC one x, not super happy with it, long love hate relationship with it and HTC themselves. I have decided to move on the one x. I have been offered a swap for a Galaxy Note, was going to do the swap, did a quick google and see the Note 2 is due for release soon. Should I just bite the bullet and swap for the note, or wait for the note 2, although I will imagine it will be a case.of selling the one x and adding substantially to it to buy the note 2, or whatever it will be called. I use my phone primarily for surfing and texting, only a few games to occupy me whilst on the thrown. Would I notice any real drop in speed from the quad core to the dual core.
Cheers for any replies.
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I suggest to wait for the note 2. If i am in your shoes i would.

jonpaslim said:
I suggest to wait for the note 2. If i am in your shoes i would.
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JamDonot said:
Didn't realise they were so close on quadrant. Hate the battery on one x, had an s3 for a bit, but sold it to fund a 60" tv, wasn't the biggest fan of it. I think I will take the jump to the note.
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Between the note and the one x...
The pros of moving to the note from a one x
- Huge difference in Battery Life
- Micro Sd
- Super Amoled HD (if you are sm1 who likes the deep blacks)
- S-Pen
The cons
- A little slower (not by too much a little that you will initially notice)
- Heavier
- Slower Camera (This you will definitely notice)
The question am asking is why the note and not the s3?
the note 2 in all probability should be a little bit of a step up from the s3 (since the note was a little bit of a step up from the s2 and not a complete overhaul... )
Ash
I have a complete video comparison at the link below...

Thank you for the replies guys, think I will ebay my One X, and wait patiently for the Note 2. Great video link about the comparison, not long to wait hopefully to the release of the note 2 now.

JamDonot said:
Thank you for the replies guys, think I will ebay my One X, and wait patiently for the Note 2. Great video link about the comparison, not long to wait hopefully to the release of the note 2 now.
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wait a week after the note 2 release and ill do a note 2 vs s3 comparison for ya

For applications to perform well on quad they have to be written to utilise all cores. Not many quad core apps our there at the moment so it is unlikely you will notice any performance difference.
Especially if you go for Rocket ROM and NoteCore kernel.
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How fast is this phone??

Hi, I really fancy getting this phone due to its form factor, but all the reviews seem to disagree about its performance. Antutu scores (around 13500) suggest it should be much faster than snapdragon devices but some reviews say it's average....Confused!
Anyone give me some real life impressions of how fast it is? (my other options are the big boys, htc one x etc... Not sure about size)
Also do you think Cm 10.1 will arrive eventually after x86 issues are solved?
Thanks for any replies
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Not sure about CM 10.1 but dang, this phone is fast! Been using it for months now and it litteraly flies. And that is without the upgrade to JB even.
Testers from this forum found it as fast the Samsung Galaxy S3 so don't worry about the speed.

I agree. I'm not rooted and have ICS and I find this phone faster than any other I've had (recently Desire and Desire S)
Yes, using stock launcher can be a bit laggy sometimes but I use Holo Launcher and it's totally lag free!

I own a razr i and its the fastest phone ever seen....
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raz0r1991 said:
I own a razr i and its the fastest phone ever seen....
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Totally agreed. I am the king - compared to my daughters Galaxy S2 and the One S of my son in law.

so slow after update to jb
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Totally agreed. I am the king - compared to my daughters Galaxy S2 and the One S of my son in law.
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Hello ALL did you discover lags, slowdown between screens after update ? JB on my mobile (xt890) working so slow. I don't know what is the problem. I didn't do factory reset after update. What you thinking, that could be a problem? I started using difference launcher (NOVA) and seem my problem gone in 80% because I really like Motorola's launcher with amazing circles widget.

Lucky you having JB!
The first thing I'll do after updating to JB is to factory reset the phone as I'm sure that this resets everything and should stop any problems left over from the previous operating system.
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My RAZR i is running stock JB and I get a split second of lag when going back to the home screen from an app. I think that the launcher doesn't keep in memory like the ones you get from play store. So it has to reopen the launcher when you go home. Not a big deal. As far as speed, I get over 4100 in quadrant. Beats out the Asus transformer and matches the one x (according to quadrant) so yeah. Fast fast. Love this phone.
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Keep in mind that the I/O score is way lower than it could be since I only have a class 4 SD card
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Im not kiding, im on JB right now and i cant feel any lag until now... i just made some tweaks on developer settings and stopped some bloatware its running high
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Benchmarks are just theoretical and its all about how fast the phone appears to the user.
Perception is reality after all!
And on that scale the RAZR I is up there with the best. I cant make out any difference to any of the Android flagships that I have tried over the last few months.
Pete
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Thank you for the great replies, it sounds like it performs way above its mid range billing. I get the feeling that a lot of the online reviews try to compare it with the likes of the gs3, when it's real competition like the HTC one s seems at least a little slower, has no memory expansion and it's way more expensive at the minute.
There are some great deals on it at the moment, so I'll go for it. Just have to hope it ships on jelly bean. I'm sure I'll be around the forum a bit once I get it, everyone seems really helpful. Thanks
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Yeah I've seen a lot of great deals on the RAZR i recently. I only paid 320€ for mine.
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This phone is the fastest i ever touched! is as quick if not more than the galaxy s3,

Note 3 or iPad Air

Hi there guys. I got a weird problem. Hope you can help me. My contract is expiring and i can have a new gadget though only one. I can either have the note 3 or ipad air, but i'm really confused.
Now, if you are in my shoes, which will you prefer. Please don't base your decisions on my personal needs, but to your personal needs instead. Imagine you only have the Note N7000 and a PC as your gadget currently.
Please choose and state why based on your personal needs.
Thanks guys. Appreciate everyone's help.
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A man without a Crapple product is like an aardvark without a ticket for a Bolshoi theatre premiere.

Note 3!
Cause it's superior to note 3 in every aspect, android 4.3(4.4 upgradable soon)
More features
more portable
more smooth
more fast
It's a Galaxy Note
spen
touchwiz features
better dev support
more free apps
easy to root

Better go with ipad air, don't ever buy samsung phone or either go for htc one max
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abhinav quietly brilliant said:
Better go with ipad air, don't ever buy samsung phone or either go for htc one max
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No.
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That is not a valid comparison.
Phablet vs Tablet?
Reasons for a Note 3:
Customisation (roms, launcher, status bat etc....)
Cellular features that are more than just data (call, text etc...)
S pen (percise stylus good for note taking, doodling and doodling)
Ture multitasking with multi window
Better quality music for audiophiles (Wolfson 3g variant + 200+ dollar headphones ONLY). The Qualcomm version isn't bad just not as good but still better than the iPad Airs out put
Flash support with 3rd party browsers.
13mp camera with LED flash and a set of advance yet easy to use features.
It's non - restrictive meaning you can use your phone as a computer to download all sorts of files even P2P with bitorrents, extract zip + rar, download videos from youtube and extract it on board or simply use it as a USB flash drive.
Sending files over bluetooth
Being able to use your phone as a remote
Micro SD slot to cheaply expand storage rather than $100 dollars per twice the storage.
Those smart gimmicks that are useful like smart rotate and smart stay.
Reasons for the iPad Air
The larger screen 9.7" Retina display (bigger + higher than the 1080p in that of the note 3 IGNORING dpi)
It's a closed eco system meaning more quality control of apps and higher levels of security
iOS user experience will be more constant and smoother than that of any android device especially with the A7 power house.
Apps are generally more optimised so the software takes all the advantage of the hardware
Created a one code one screen size policy so the tablet apps are genuinely redesigned for tablets and it's screen area.
Better GPU in combination of better optimisation means it will be a better performer for graphics such as games thus more future proof
It's 64 bit so some CPU intensive task will perform better
Simplistic approach to UI (as technology was intended to be)
Higher 2nd hand resale value
It Is backed by worldwide hardware warranty no matter where the device was purchased as long as it was on this planet
At the end of the day, it is up to you to decide which one is better for you.
Sent by a user who owns a Galaxy S4 and a iPad Mini.
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thats censorship.......
It should be moved to the SGN3 forums instead.
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why not both?

Coffee: 2$
iCoffee: 10$
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I prefer Note 3 for Daily Use :angel:
And it's still easy to put in my Jeans Pocket

Note 3! ?

eybee1970 said:
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that $$

Finally-- The tablet that I wanted!

I loved my SM-T800, but the kind of love where you're willing to overlook little faults here and there (the small amounts of lag that people notice while others don't).
I switched over to the LTE version from Verizon a few days ago-- with the Snapdragon 800 SOC.
Lag is completely gone-- even in touchwiz (no I didn't sick with touchwiz, just wanted to confirm). Tapped Out plays perfectly. LTE reception is great. Scrolling through everything is so smooth!
$600 is expensive for any tablet; but through some lucky breaks, I paid around $350 for my non-LTE version, not including a free book cover that Best Buy threw in. I ended up selling the tablet for about $430, and I kept the cover! So net $530 for the LTE tab and cover.
If you're on the fence about this device because of some of the comments on here, I can tell you most of the complaints are rectified in the Sprint/ Verizon version.

My experience exactly. Had the Wifi 10.5, and it sucked, frankly. The Verizon LTE version is awesome.

Yeah that's what I was afraid of. They really gave the wifi version the shaft with their horrible exynos experiment.
I have a Galaxy S5 with the snapdragon and it's blazing fast, while my wifi Tab S is laggy and slow as hell.

No surprise there, Exynos lags behind the Snapdragon variant as usual. No pun intended.

Sure it has snapdragon?
Most likely improvements are just because of some software update.

i have been waiting for the Verizon version for some time and got excited when i saw it available BUT then sad when i saw it was only the 16GB version which doesnt work for me. also didnt want white but could deal with that. hoping maybe a 32GB version at some point but doubtful

pibach said:
Sure it has snapdragon?
Most likely improvements are just because of some software update.
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+1
Anyone got a cpuz or something comparable screen shot?
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Lte 8.4 with samsung cpu. Lag very much i will sell it and get my lg g pro2 back it is extreamly fast no lag

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Anyone got a cpuz or something comparable screen shot?
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I purchased the wifi 16. Returned it for the 32. Got refunded for that one and purchased the Sprint version with snapdragon. It just seems to be smoother and faster than the previous wifi only tabs. Both of my wifi units just did weird things. Ex., I would press the home key and it would send me off to google or some place unknown to my home screen. If I kept pressing the home button I would eventually get there, never did figure that one out. My other ones lagged every now and then but this didn't really bother me, I'm a patient man. I just wanted mobile data, however infrequently I will use it, but I'm glad it is there.

As stated many times, the Exynos SOC is really really bad.

long story short, who ever has the opportunitiy of buying Verizon Tab S Snapdragon 800 should go towards that direction and not the Exynos one...thanks guys i was thinking of buying with Exynos in Europe but i see that it has problems, weird is that sites seem to bypass those problems rather easily

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As stated many times, the Exynos SOC is really really bad.
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Any evidence?
Most likely it is just software issue.
Anyway, I don't see any lag on my T705 Exynos tab.

Any development for the snapdragon version?