[Vibrant General] KWKSLVR:
Ever tried to take the Vibrant apart? The thing is built like a tank. Mine is 14 months old and essentially in mint condition. I don't understanding the whining over "build quality". If you didn't want a light phone, then you shouldn't have bought one. If you think a phone with a metal case is going to be light weight, then you're smoking crack. Being light doesn't mean crappy build quality. The weight/thickness was a marketing point from Samsung and it was a large reason a lot of us bought one.

If you want a crap build quality, go buy a Thunderbolt and watch your paint start to flake off after three months. :rolleyes:

I love all the damn talk about dual core and "quad core". The Android OS doesn't even take full advantage of dual core, and there aren't really any apps that do either and people already want quad core. It's freaking laughable. It's barely been a year since a 1Ghz processor was top dog. A single core OC'd to 1.4Ghz will feel snappier than a 1Ghz dual core. More cores are going to help with battery life, but that's about it for now. What the hell are some of you trying to do with your phone in the first place, run Windows 7? Hardware has vastly out paced software but everyone is foaming at the mouth to pay a premium to buy something that can go 150mph in a 55mph world, only to complain 6 months later when it's "outdated". :eek:

Everyone wants a 1080P screen, HD recording, 16 cores, 8 gigs of RAM, 32GB of internal storage + 2 SD card slots with 68 hours of battery life, GPS accuracy of .01 feet, an 18MP rear camera and a 6MP FFC (because that's relevant on a PHONE CAMERA) and WiFi that picks up an AP from a half a mile away, along with instant upgrades. The phone should also boot in 3 seconds, tell you that it loves you, grill cheeseburgers and crap $2 bills. But, of course, no one wants to pay for that. $600, $700 for such a mystical device that doesn't exist and never will is ludicrous. You should be able to buy it for $99 with no contract.

I really think that people are either completely delusional, or 14 years old and just ignorant.

Innovation is good and necessary but part of loving Android is dealing with the fact that there are a ton of different manufactures with dozens of devices, all with different sizes, features and carriers. All of them are in the business of making quality devices that are "new" and display the latest technology. All of them have every right to offer their own customization's (TouchWiz, Sense, Motoblur) to set themselves apart. Part of open source is having options, having options means it's very hard for manufactures and carriers to to keep every precious device updated to the latest update that Google drops every 6 months, on every single freaking device, especially when 99% of people don't know or care about the difference between Eclair and Gingerbread, and as far as they're concerned, Ice Cream Sandwich is something that goes straight to their thighs.

People need to take a step back and take a deep breath. Yeah, not having official 2.3.X sucks, but it is what it is. My phone runs everything out there I throw at it. CM7 isn't perfect, but it's fine and frankly I still don't understand what the Vibrant, DroidX, Evo, etc all lack that the <insert latest and greatest> has other than unutilized hardware and instant updates from Google. If you wanted instant updates from Google, why the hell didn't you buy a Nexus One? You didn't because the Vibrant had other features that outweighed it, just like when people discovered the crap GPS and chose to keep the device anyway. Other things were more important. OK, great, so stop *****ing about it.

If you wanted instant upgrades you should have bought a Nexus One or an iPhone so you could upgrade your OS and Device every year like clockwork. I think it's great that Google updates often.

/rant off :p