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[Galaxy S I9000 General] eaglesteve:
All of you have posted some good points. To summarise, among the current top end Android phones

- best screen especially under bright sun

- best video recording sounds, in HD.

- best GPU

- best video and music player

- better touch screen than all HTC phones (but is it true multitouch like in iPhone?)

- one of the few Android phones with front cameras

I understand it does not have flash for the camera, right? This is one of the negatives, but in view of the other positives, I'm prepared to overlook this.

Another few questions outside this topic:

1) Is there any FREE software to sync my outlook contacts and calendar to Samsung Galaxy S?

2) Is there any FREE software to sync my musics, videos, podcast from iTune to Samsung Galaxy S, maintaining the playlist, ratings, and album artwork?

3) Can I get TomTom or Navigon Australia for Android yet?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] viknet365:
+1 for why I choose the phone,

but I should also have check the software..... and as per now, it lack some feature that shoucd be std (ie proper contact synchronization, repeated lag, erratic GPS positioning) I could understand if it was samsung's first android phone, but it's not the case AFAIK

I thought all android are equal: we are not there yet....
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mirceal:
The UMTS/GSM version of EVO should be HD2. But it's on WM6.5...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] eaglesteve:
So, if any Android phones today there yet? We can't migrate Outlook contact, calendar, notes, and todos to Samsung Galaxy S with free software provided either by Samsung or other party? This does not sound right.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] emelie:
1) exchange sync in stock rom works flawlessly - contacts & calendars on my sgs in front of me

2) sorry don't know

3) google navigation is a free google maps addon (since ~2 weeks), supports turn-by-turn/voice(said not to be the best but it's sufficient according to my standards) - also there are a couple of apps that don't need online access (eg andnav)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] eaglesteve:
1) Not exchange. Outlook. Can it sync to PC?

3) google navigation is not sufficient. I want something that can warn me for overspeeding, when approaching schools, when approaching speed camera and red light camera, and does not chew up my expensive data at all.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
I'm coming from a long line of "smartphones" all the previous ones were disappointing and did not live up to my expectations, but they served their purpose.

The SGS i9000 has everything i wanted in a phone plus more, with a faster CPU and RAM, hopefully this phone can live up to my expectations in the long run :D I can't see why not, since it is Linux, and it can be customized anyway you can dream of.

Now the only little thing that is a bit disapointing about the SGS is the 1500 mAh battery life, in my old phones 2400 mAh was not enough, i'm quite sure 1500 mAh wont even last me half a day.

Good thing is ebay is full of cheap batteries, so i wont my carrying 3 extra packs with me, to keep me online all day.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] eaglesteve:
Okay. Samsung galaxy s it will be. If it is not perfect, the other android phones are even less perfect it seems.

Thank you guys for all your inputs.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] gk0r:
FYI. Most Galaxy S's do not have a front facing camera. Do your research carefully into which model you're buying.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] OrionTC:
2. Doubletwist or MediaMonkey both sync with itunes, i found MediaMonkey(may cost money) the better program though, takes a little setting up but the things you can do with it are unlimited, it supports scripts and basically lets me set my phone up just like itunes without the apple influence....

As much as i hate to admit it i missed itunes when switching from my iphone to SGS.... i felt like i needed a base for syncing my playlists.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] eaglesteve:
You are wrong, it has a front camera based on my research.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Rizlo:
CoPilot Live, despite its name, works offline and does everything you mentioned. You only have to download your map once, at home with your wifi, and you're good to go.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] sammy555:
I chose it for:-

1 The screen

2 The 3d capabilites

3 The codac support out of the box

4 The 2GB of rom so almost unlimited app installs

These are 4 things that no other android phone come close to matching,and everything else is about as good as others except lack of camera flash
[Galaxy S I9000 General] eaglesteve:
Is this the only choice in Australia? I have used the iPhone version and hated it. Lots of roads without speed information, and the map is quite outdated. Does Sygic has a version for Australia to your knowledge?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] eaglesteve:
I've got my phone!

Like how slims it looks. The screen is really really nice, although still have to zoom in to web page before we can read the text.

Initial impression is that it is a bit laggy compared to iPhone 3GS or even 3G. Scrolling is a little jerky. But I had read that rooting will cure this problem so I'd not been bothered. I also read that there is GPS accuracy issue which can be cured once rooted. Hope it turns out right.

But I can't get a case! It's too slippery to be used naked. They should at least give a basic soft pouch IMO.

My next major task is to bring all my contact, calendar, and notes from Outlook to this baby. I do not want any information to go to the cloud though. Google likes to poke its nose into everyone's privacy and already have our wifi details and passwords. I want only PC to Samsung Galaxy S sync. Hopefully with free program. Any advice on this?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] drleospaceman:
No other phones (that I am aware of) have this combination:

1) Great native codec support: Xvid, MKV, AVI, etc.

2) 3.7" or larger AMOLED

I like watching videos on my Cowon S9 (3.3" amoled), so the Galaxy S will basically be an upgrade from that.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Insin:
I have used Co-Pilot for the iPhone and it is an excellent, and great value piece of software. The maps are very up to date, it has great features and it runs really well. I'm going to buy it again for android at some point.

Back on topic, the Galaxy S is really good. I have been in the iPhone camp for the past couple of years but switched over now as I think Android is in the right place to offer an equal experience to the iPhone.

Features which attracted me before purchasing,

- The screen, its just beautiful.

- The screen size

- The processor, gpu

- The convenience of being able to just drop on video in various file formats. I haven't found a video it wont play yet.

- 24 month warranty (if Im taking a 24 month contract I want to make sure that if my phone fails within that period that its covered).

My only concerns were the lack of flash, and also the finish didnt look up to scratch for what I considered to be a premium smart phone. However, it really isnt that much of a concern. I hope they do bring out different coloured battery covers in the future tho.

Since buying I have found the Touchwiz interface provides a great user experience. Its very Usable and provides plenty of eye candy for showing off that screen.

My only complaint is Kies (the desktop sync/backup etc software). What an abysmal piece of software. I hope they improve that in the future, or bring out some sort of lightweight version. Why I would want to have another set of desktop media player functions running in a bloaty virtual desktop arrangement is beyond me.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Intratech:
Best hardware out there is the reason for my choosing Galaxy S over the other Android devices.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] hrabia:
Here are the reasons why I have selected Galaxy S:

- Super AMOLED

- great, accurate and blazing fast responding touch sensor

- quite big screen

- external buttons count minimized

- quite nice design

- TouchWiz 3.0 (yeah, I may hate Apple for how they do business but I love their user interface :-) )
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Ollie2:
I too find it way to slippy and not that easy to hold and I'm looking for the best way to make it a bit more grippy.

There are some cheap silicone cases on ebay so I'll try one of those first but I don't really like things that make the phone bigger.

Does the Zagg invisible shield make it any more grippy?

As for syncing download the Samsung Kies software and use the Outlook sync function but as mentioned by others avoid the rest of the crap it comes with.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Roland Deschain:
Huh? I've only watched one comparison that had video between the Galaxy S and the Droid X, but the Droid X spanked the Galaxy S for audio recording quality in the one I watched. Perhaps it's because that review activated the front-facing microphone (which they should have) and other phones don't have one like that? I don't know, but there was a huge difference with the advantage going to the Droid X.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] eaglesteve:
I have to agree with you here.

Here is another comparison between the two phones:

http://androidforums.com/motorola-droid-x/119365-droid-x-vs-samsung-galaxy-s.html

In Australia there is no Droid X so I can't really include it in my shortlist unfortunately. Otherwise I would have chosen it over Samsung galaxy S.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Maroon Mushroom:
Because I have AT&T and MUST get rid of this POS iphone. I hate it. I hate everything about it. This will be the last apple product I'll ever own.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] FL00DY:
Are you serious? I don't get this paranoia about Google having all my data. I've been using Gmail since the first few months of it being in Beta, so late 2004. I use Google Docs & I use maps, what is it that you think is going to happen to me? Are they going to find out where I live and come and nick my wallet? Send someone round to hack my my wifi settings?

By all means live how you like, I'm intrigued by how Google is going to effect your life by having your email and contacts and calender?

I'm in Sydney and going to get the SGS on Optus tonight. Very first thing I'm gonna do, sync my contacts with my gmail account. If I don't post back tomorrow, call the police :p
[Galaxy S I9000 General] padlad:
Google: "Resistance is futile. you WILL be part of the collective........." :D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] eaglesteve:
Sheeps on the way to slaughter house do not know what's coming.

I'm absolutely serious mate.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mickeko:
Why? All of the obvious reasons already mentioned.

One reasons for my choice was also that SGS has a significantly lower SAR value compared to other current smartphones:

Apple iPhone 4 - 0,930

HTC Desire - 0,752

Google Nexus One - 0.867

Motorola Droid X - 0.760

Samsung GT-i9000 Galaxy S - 0,304

Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 - 1,250
[Galaxy S I9000 General] FL00DY:
What a load of bollocks :confused:

I have my new phone and whilst your still trying to play around with Kies. I have it sync'd with google and facebook and I haven't even undone the zip tie on the USB cable :rolleyes:

In 6 years of use with Gmail, if they were going to enter my head and take over my brain, legs, arms and mouth ... when are they going to start making my life as much a misery as you're creating for yourself by having to put up with Kies?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
thanks i was looking for something like that to work offline, to replace my TomTom maps
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
the problem with most of those website review is they never mention the whole thing, most review websites always ignores the fact to mention the network bandwidth it uses.

The Droid X is only available in CDMA

http://mediacenter.motorola.com/content/detail.aspx?ReleaseID=12975&NewsAreaId=22

Same reason why i choose our Galaxy S i9000 over the Sprint Galaxy S Pro (with the keyboard)

originally i wanted that version with the keyboard, but then i did my research and found out it's only for CDMA i decided to get the i9000 version, which is quad band GSM

on most countries CDMA networks sucks, and CDMA are not traveller friendly, if you plan to take the phone with you on a trip and HOPE for a lower rate... good luck

with GSM, you can easily pick up a local SIM card and you don't have to worry about any roaming fees, long distances, and nothing of that sort.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] copo:
I was an iPhone 3GS user a few days ago. And since I have been using the platform for few years since iPhone 2G, it's time to get some refreshment. :D

To make the switch, my friend have borrow me his Nexus One for my evaluation. I mainly use Web, Gmail, Facebook and SMS. Not much dependency on Apps (especially Games, this is the best part of iPhone, my sons like the kids games very much).

The first thing N1 impressed me was the AMOLED screen. The color is vivid, the resolution is high (compare to the iPhone 3GS), and the contrast of the graphic is superb. I don't want to look at the screen on the iPhone after that.

I use a lot of Google services, Gmail, Reader, Map, Calendar, Finance...the Gmail integrate seamlessly, even better than on iPhone, ya, of course, it's from Google as well.

After a few days of trial and I have made up my mind to switch from the iPhone. At my place there are not much Android phone to choose from, for mid to high end device, only HTC Desire, Google N1 and Galaxy S to choose from.

HTC/Google device have the same (or even more on the Desire) RAM, which is crucial to the system operation and smoothness, however, the CPU is last gen. So there is only Galaxy S left if I want immediate available. I was wondering if I go for Galaxy or wait for the GSM/WCDMA version of Droid X to land on Asia, since the Droid X is having an even larger display than the Galaxy, and it's TFT, will be be much better for reading text when browsing webpage with less zoom (as the AMOLED is using pentile subpixel scheme), this is not the most important aspect of the decision.

The upcoming lineup of flagship android devices are at least with the CPU that is at least the grade comes with the Galaxy S, it is at least good to go for another major release (3.0?) of Android OS so I didn't choose Desire/N1.

Just found out that there is a camera on the front which could use for 3G call! (Ya, just found that out after a few days) Did a call with friend and the "Open Source" FaceTime from Apple might have chance to get ported to Android...

Impressively, despite the size of the big screen, it is so thin and light, although I hope it would be a metal case with some feeling of weight on your hand.

Just to name a few, there are so much I have to love with the Galaxy S. I think I won't get so excited if I have upgrade to iPhone 4. Small screen hurt eyes!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
You wont be disappointed with Galaxy S i9000, basically those are the same reasons i selected this phone.

I was planning to get the Droid X until i found out it was CDMA only, and i did not want to wait another 6 month to find out if they ever plan to release a GSM version of the same phone.

I was not too impressed with the Droid X phone design, it has that weird protuberance at the top, which kills the slick design.

and for the record the HTC Desire is also Android 3.0 capable, it has pretty much the same hardware as the Galaxy S, except for the CPU that is not 3D friendly.

If the HTC Desire had the same CPU as the Galaxy S, i'll have choosen the Desire over Galaxy S.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] eaglesteve:
I didn't realise this. If that's the case, Droid X is out of question in most part of the world then.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Roland Deschain:
Just so you guys know, any "Verizon-only" or "Sprint-only" phone is CDMA.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] emelie:
hehe this is brilliant. sorry i'm really respecting your view in this regard but that just sounds weird.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] eaglesteve:
LOL. Will reply this just one final time and come back to the topic.

- Are you aware that anyone can pay money to read your mails now?

- Why do you think Google goes around collect your wifi mac address and email password, and also wants to patent their method for doing so? You honestly think they did not do this intentionally?

- Do you really think nobody is interested in reading your calendar and address book? Heard of people calls hackers, investigators, police, criminal gangs?

- Do you seriously think that Google could not be forced to open up this information to the government around the world? Are you aware that governmetn around the world are already accessing such information to varying degrees right now?

- Do you seriously think that hackers are not trying to get access to these informations all the time and they do have fair amount of success that Google is unable to do anything about?

Not trying to convince you to be a panaroid. You can make up your own mind on what to surrender to Google. If you feel comfortable with it, go ahead, but don't try to convince me to follow you.;)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Arkymedes:
Waiting for mine to arrive after selling my Hero.

Mostly because I'm a hardware whore and this phone is THE beast.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] emelie:
hey eaglesteve,

as stated before, i respect your views that you don't state but seem to express through vague questions.

i'm also going to reply just once more as this is definitely offtopic.

i want to provide a little bit of opinion/fact as a response to your seemingly rhetoric questions as these forums are visited by non-technical users as well and like i said you are just posing questions which may be subtantiated by fact from your side but since you refrain from doing so (no offense - my time is also limited but this is an important, often raised issue) i'll try my best and please correct my or add as you wish.

that's just some out of the blue paranoia statement. it's similar to saying: "anyone is able to to anything if one has enough money." i don't know of any case where google, which is the company we are talking about, handed over personal data when offered a large amount of money.

well since your asking: i think they are doing it because of the geo-locating benefits of having ssids in combination with gps-data. they want to patent it because that's what ip-based companies (which google AFAIK partially is) companies do.

the don't collect email passwords they have passwords stored for their services, i suppose encrypted, like every other online service you use from any other company.

i do think they are doing that intentionally.

and as a an additional point: i don't think that this behaviour is ethically correct and i don't support this move. but that was not the point you raised.

i do think there are people interested in reading my calendar and address book.

i have heard of those people.

i don't get the value of those question relative to your opinion in this matter which i'm trying to extract out of the other questions.

google can beforce to open up this information, again, like any other company in areas where legislation allows the government to do so.

see http://www.google.com/governmentrequests/ for more information where and in how many cases this was already done.

i am aware that government has access to various extents but this point also applies to every other company out there.

i seriously think that hackers to try to get access all the time. but compared to the security level present on the typical user-pc with windows i suspect that my data would be more secury at googles' servers than at my pc.

but that's a rhetorical question completely beside the whole google-paranoia-thing.

i think the security level at a google data center is high enough to satisfy military standards which is enough for me. but that's just a wild guess. facts anybody?

i don't feel like you try to convince me but what i do think is that users need to be educated on a as-much-facts-as-possible basis instead of posing rhetorical questions, which at least from my point of view is what you are doing.

my guess is you don't feel like i'm trying to convince you either and that is the case ;)

as a last link i want to provide this: http://www.dataliberation.org/

quote from that site:
[Galaxy S I9000 General] eaglesteve:
Emelie, do you work for google?

It is your choice as to whether you want your oersonal info to be given to google. Please just simply respect my choice. Thank you.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] emelie:
no i don't. it is my choice and it is your choice as well.

of course i respect that choice.

i wanted to paint a complete picture that is all.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dakine:
I'd be more concerned about anonymous Russian firmware sites than Google. As far as companies go Google is pretty damn cool.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] alovell83:
Wow, you made my day, I didn't read this before. However, I'll contradict you a bit, my Googling tells me that this is coming to Korea in August. "Asia" is different, as Asia uses the international I9000 and should be coming out after Korea SHW-m110s and presumably at the same time with the international version.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] alovell83:
I know you said this is the last time you'd respond, and feel free to stay on topic, but honesly I don't think everything you said is solely applicable to Google (sans stealing the wi-fi pws and what-not).

Most importantly, for point 1, you don't actually think that's in their TOS, do you? Please show me a link to that 1. If you just mean hackers, then again, this isn't a Google only issue.

Lastly, "- Do you seriously think that Google could not be forced to open up this information to the government around the world? Are you aware that governmetn around the world are already accessing such information to varying degrees right now?" Google has shown more willingness to protect private data from governments and require the rule of law in all requests to be followed to the T. The last thing I worry about when it comes to data and Google involves the government.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] krumbs:
i have a galaxy s and htc hd2. recently sold off my nexus one and motorola milestone.

have put the android port on the hd2. though it is not perfect, it works good enough for daily use. and it will only get better.

have installed the "eyes are watching you" droid x wallpaper on both the hd2 and galaxy s. the first thing you notice is the huge difference in the way the screens render colours.

galaxy s is warmer, deeper while the hd2 with its lcd looks bright and washed out. can post a few screenshots if anyone wants to see the difference.

personally i prefer the galaxy s screen. if only this phone had camera flash and notification LED, it would have been perfect.

Pretty soon, the devs on XDA will release a stable and fully-functional Android build for HD2, and we all will have good alternative to the Galaxy S - the HTC HD2.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] silox2000:
You are absolutely right! Good to know at least one person here is awake. :D
[XPERIA X10 General] Mystiqueen:
there's an update on X10 recently and have doing that, the size of video viewing strung. Anybody know what difference does the update brings and how do get the video to full screen?:confused:
[XPERIA X10 General] yetep:
double tap the vid ;-)

wrong section tho
[XPERIA X10 General] Draken Korin:
indeed...

Mod. edit: not dev related, moved to general
[XPERIA X10 General] TechGuru_x10:
Lets Show OFF our skills with the Images captured from the stock camera.

Here is mine:

First is with Automatic settings with SCn... Second is Macro....
[XPERIA X10 General] sasc:
Bro I'm sorry, but that is a poor effort..
[XPERIA X10 General] TechGuru_x10:
Not a problem, Buddy. Show yours to prove you can do better...
[XPERIA X10 General] iead1:
Not to pile on you or anything, but your lens appears to be smudged a bit. A macro shot should be far, far clearer than that, with any camera.

Try giving it a clean with a cloth.
[XPERIA X10 General] SXUsr:
Nice pictures, thanks for sharing. I've yet to take some outside and the only others I've taken are of family, which I'm not putting up here, and the dog lol.

And for those being critical, lets see yours!
[XPERIA X10 General] xtremedrunk:
Thanks for sharing, nice shots of outdoors!

Here is a shot of some food. Lighting was quite weird, high dim lights with a window right next to me. Anyways I thought it turned out decent!