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[Galaxy S I9000 General] Kenkyo:
I had Desire and now I'm SGS owner, but still I wouldn't dare to guess which is better. Both phones have their pros and cons. Most obvious ones are:

Desire is better build, no lags, already running Froyo, great GPS

SGS on the other hand has great GPU, slightly better screen, big internal memory (something I had to battle with on Desire while using android 2.1) and battery holds longer for me.

I never used X10, but since it's still running on 1.6, I don't think I ever will.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AXIS of Reality:
As has been said, the X10 should not be considered alongside the Galaxy S and Desire.

However, because you asked, here's a quick general ranking of each phone under the major categories. You can choose from whichever categories are most important to you.

CPU:

1st: Galaxy S

2nd: Desire

2nd: X10

GPU (gaming):

1st: Galaxy S by a mile

2nd: Desire

2nd: X10

RAM (multitasking):

1st: Desire (576mb)

2nd: Galaxy S (512mb, although current firmwares don't seem to utilise this)

3rd: X10 (384mb)

SCREEN TYPE:

1st: Galaxy S (Super AMOLED, gorilla glass, 4.0 inch 480 x 800)

2nd: Desire (AMOLED, glass, 3.7 inch 480 x 800)

3rd: X10 (LCD, plastic, 4.1 inch 480 x 854)

MULTITOUCH:

1st: Galaxy S (full multitouch)

2nd: Desire (multitouch fine for pinch-zoom, but glitchy for complex stuff like gaming)

3rd: X10 (does not support multitouch)

STORAGE:

1st: Galaxy S (8gb or 16gb internal, depending on carrier/country)

2nd: X10 (8gb internal)

3rd: Desire (512mb internal)

MEDIA:

1st: Galaxy S by a mile (almost all popular audio and video codecs supported in HD like Xvid, DivX, mkv, flv, wmv, mp4, flac, etc)

2nd: Xperia X10 (standard codecs, great audio quality like Galaxy S)

3rd: Desire (standard codecs, slightly lower audio quality for music)

CAMERA:

1st: X10 (8MP, LED flash, facial recognition, front-facing camera)

2nd: Desire (5mp, LED flash, 720p)

2nd: Galaxy S (5mp, no flash, 720p, front-facing camera)

GPS:

1st: Desire

1st: X10

2nd: Galaxy S (Samsung have said they'll be fixing the issues in the Froyo update)

BUILD QUALITY / MATERIALS:

1st: Desire (glass, aluminium and soft-touch plastic)

2nd: X10 (glossy plastic and soft-touch plastic)

2nd: Galaxy S (gorilla glass and glossy plastic)

ANDROID VERSION:

1st: Desire (official 2.2 Froyo available now)

2nd: Galaxy S (unofficial 2.2 Froyo available now, official 2.1 standard)

3rd: X10 (2.1 coming soon, official 1.6 standard)

MANUFACTURER ANDROID SKIN:

1st: Desire (HTC Sense looks great and adds consistency to most built-in apps)

2nd: Galaxy S (TouchWiz 3.0 adds some good ideas like communication and music controls to notifications pane, but has a bad case of iPhone-envy. Can easily be replaced with LauncherPro or ADW)

3rd: X10 (has Timescape and Mediascape, which adds some prettiness to media and social networking but can be quite slow and only 3 homescreens available)

CUSTOM ROMS:

1st: Desire (tons of vanilla Android and Sense roms, Nexus One roms easily ported)

2nd: Galaxy S (constant stream of beta firmwares, some custom roms with theming and optimisation)

3rd: X10 (does not have custom roms)

RANDOM OTHER QUIRKS:

- Galaxy S has the well-known lag bug that can be fixed by all the various fixes on this forum, but is still annoying.

- Desire's multitouch issues make multitouch gaming very frustrating, and AMOLED screen is extremely difficult to view in direct sunlight.

- X10's old firmware and lack of multitouch limit support for many apps, especially gaming and has much lower benchmark scores than other Snapdragon phones.

---Hope that helps!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] redbottle:
i own an x10 for 4 days previously and sold it. because the call quality is real bad. the speaker where the sound comes out from is located too near the edge of the phone (top) hence it is awkward to get a good 'position' to hear the other party clearly. also, i believe the microphone used on the phone is not good therefore when you speak the other party had difficulty in listening to you. i tested it on the first day for 2 hours... just to look for a decent position to hold the phone to ensure i hear and the other party can hear me properly.

galaxy s - call quality is decent and normal just like a nokia phone.

i will not go detail into the software because having 1.6 running on x10 is decent - no complains. likewise, 2.1 on galaxy s is also decent. even though you may come across forums or peers comment about 'lags', but i don't really see any unless you are heavily installing apps and widgets. my galaxy is not rooted (yet) and the proclaimed lag are not really there at all.

as you can see from above, i am only emphasizing on the phones' hardware aspect - if a phone can't serve it's core function well, then i think wasting a few hundred on a paper weight is too costly... i can't comment on desire as have not tried on one before of its' voice call quality, but one thing for certain nothing will go wrong with phones running on android. its' actually more of the hardware you need to check on when making the choice.

i do heard desires' call quality is similar to the fruit phone... unclear in enclosed room and can't hear the other party clearly... you might want to check with your peers if they do have one :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Signa11:
I guess the Samsung Galaxy S has the most "potential"
[Galaxy S I9000 General] tameracingdriver:
I've had a Desire, and now have a Galaxy S.

I returned the Desire as there was some weird issue with it connecting to some websites, which I couldn't get my head around... but I admit, I was disappointed to have to return it, I liked that phone.

Now, the SGS. TBH, the only things that are appreciably better are the screen, 3D performance (rarely an issue as it turns out), and file format support.

However, the Desire has MUCH better software out of the box, and I've got to admit, even my lag fixed JM7 phone, while better than stock, does not seem as fast in day to day use as my mates Froyo'd Desire. Don't even get me started on the pathetic froyo firmware for the SGS (I realise it'll get better). Also, the camera has a flash - quite why Samsung decided they would not put a flash on the camera is somewhat puzzling. There's no denying the build quality of the Desire is somewhat better too, but the SGS ain't as bad as its sometimes made out to be though IMO - although it is very slippery and I have dropped it a few times (luckily onto carpet).

So I honestly couldn't say hand on heart that the SGS is better than the Desire. It may have superior hardware, but in the end, the software makes a phone (look at the iphone - often sub par hardware compared with rivals, but the software makes them very nice to use), and the Desire is so much better at this time than the SGS. It seems to me that Samsung tried hard to ape iOS, yet it simply isn't as good to use as that, and to top it off, it has lots of highly annoying bugs.

As things stand, a lot of my friends ask me about mobiles as I'm very interested in them, but in the end, I tend not to recommend the SGS to them for the reason its just filled with bugs, and most people can't be arsed with the hassle we all go to to make this work. In fact, I've got to say that for most "normal" folk who aren't technical, the Desire is pretty much the only Android phone I'd recommend.

As for the SE X10, it's another good example of decent hardware being let badly down by crap software - I've not seen anyone say anything good about their Mediascape interface or whatever its called, it lags every bit as bad as the SGS, but to top it off, has an out of date OS underlying it all. It almost may as well not be Android at all in some ways, that is the extent to which Sony have bastardised it. I couldn't recommend one of those.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] hondaguy:
i have owned the x10 and the nexus one (pretty much the same as desire) and now the galaxy s. to get a good answer you need to ask your question again, and this time include what you think is important and how you want to use your phone. i can tell you what i like and dont like, but if you dont use your phone the same way i do my answer will not be helpful.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] gtanny:
i had the x10 for a week and other then it being my first taste of what android was all about i was disapointed generally in the phone, other then the best styling available and very good camera the rest of it seemed lacking.

i replaced it with an SGS and im very happy with it as my main use is gaming and web browsing and with the screens excellent multitouch and super amoled its great at both of those, also such a great modding community is a very good thing.

ive only had a go on my cousins desire and it was very good but in gaming the performance was a definate drop and i had problems with the multitouch in some emulators although i prefer the styling and build quality felt a bit better but nothing a good sgs case doesnt fix.

my choice would be sgs everytime but i wouldnt be in any rush to upgrade if i ended up with a desire like i was with the x10 (this shouldnt be in your list!)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] the_ahmadzais:
How good is sgs compare to desire and x10

i wana buy sgs cuz when i saw it on store i fell in love with the screen. is 2.2 available for sgs? how bad is the lag and gps problem? and can u use third party headset with pic on it? please share and what makes sgs better than desire n x10
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dakine:
Better hardware wise but worse software wise. In the sense that the software isn't really finished or working as it should. No official froyo is out yet but it should be soon.

My advice: stay away from Samsung and buy a Desire HD instead.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] trentend:
I have a desire (not desire HD) and a galaxy s. I like them both. I think the desire has a better setup out of the box - entirely useable and a great consumer phone.

The galazy s I think is a lovely device. The screen is specatacular and I actually prefer the cleaner interface, the dialer layout, and the graphics acceleration. It's a device that needs some tweaking, but rewards time spent getting it how you want it. The problems can be overcome if you do. I think the problems are somewhat overstated, the galazy s is better out of the box than any HTC windows mobile phone I've had - and I've had a few.

So I'd recommend the desire for someone who wants to take the phone out of the box and use it, the galaxy s if you are happy to customise the phone (or if you want to buy it from an operator and unlock it yourself).

I find, bizarrely given the screen size, that I get a longer standby from the galazy s. Which is handy if you need a phone that stays on longer.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] andrewluecke:
The Xperia X10, still runs Android 1.6, and uses a hacky multitouch panel.. I wouldn't touch it.

In regards to the HTC Desire HD, it's a newer device, so is probably better.. However, wait for the reviews to start pouring in, because I don't think the HD has started shipping yet, and until people try it, we have no way of knowing how well it works.

In regards to the Samsung Galaxy S, Froyo will probably change a lot on this phone, so we have no real idea of this phones potential until it's released (soon).

There probably isn't enough information available yet to compare between the galaxy S and the Desire HD..
[Galaxy S I9000 General] SMThomas:
Having already purchased and returned the Sony Ericsson X10 because it is frankly an awful device to use, I wouldn't suggest anyone buying one of those. The list of problems I had with that device is VERY long.

I now have the Galaxy S and all round it is a far better device in my opinion. The screen is by far the best I have seen, and as previously stated by another poster if you spend some time setting the device up the way you want it it pays you back.

Once you have the apps installed to make the device run smoother and less battery intensive you will have a device that will deliver exactly what you want it to deliver.

I hear that the Froyo update is not all that far away now which should add those little finishing touches to the device.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] boshunter:
I have been using the x10 the the past 5 months and recently switch to a SGS, I can see a real difference in terms of speed and usability.

The x10 is very sluggish due to 1.6 and what ever crap sony put in there. Rooting is a pain on x10 compare to SGS.

As for the screens, I actually don't mind the LCD of the x10, it was easy to see in direct sunlight even at the lowest brightness setting. The SGS is also viewable in direct sunlight and looks amazing!!! The battery life is much better on the SGS. I had it on stand by for 2 days.

I had a friend using a desire, and he seem to like my SGS more because of the screen.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
check the wiki

there are links to it for comparison videos
[Galaxy S I9000 General] PhoenixFx:
X10 can’t compare, its running Android 1.6, 2.1 is coming but there won’t be a 2.2 update. Don’t have multi touch and the screen is a mediocre 65k LCD.

The real competition is between Desire and Galaxy S.

Pros for SGS

Screen , IMO the best out there

Better GPU performance

Pros for Desire

Better build quality

Better software support.

Even though Galaxy S is advertized as having 512MB of RAM there is a confusion as to whether all that RAM is really available. For now all firmware (including 2.2 Betas available right now show somewhere around 300~326).
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Bec07:
Sony is very bad with offering support and updates, x10 is not even getting froyo.

On the other hand HTC has improved but hardware is still poor as build and as parts themselves.

HWA-wise all HTC devices are inferior, not to mention SGS has Super AMOLED (you have to see it to believe it!

2.2 is already available and stable

the GPS issue is fixed (it performs almost as good as garmin Nuvi 800x and outperforms Nokia 5800 and N900 ;) )
[Galaxy S I9000 General] andrewluecke:
I'd agree with that, except the build quality. There has been few cases of anyone devices falling apart or breaking (Paul from Modaco is the main person who had a problem with build quality). The Desire GPS MIGHT be better too, but we wont know until we've seen what Samsung does.. For all we know, Samsung's final Froyo release might be a silver bullet.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] andrewluecke:
I'll also add, when the walkman version of phones were released, they were EXACTLY the same as the more basic versions, with extra software which you couldn't purchase (it definitely wasn't a licensing issue either, because the phones supported MP3 for their ringtones anyway).

And Sony Ericsson also knowingly released phones with joysticks which were known to be VERY unreliable, and consistently use many proprietary technologies (Sony only recently started selling SD cards actually).

Some people say that Samsung are horrible at software development, but Sony is the most anti-consumer company around. The only reason why they still have any market share, is probably because they have monopolised everything
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Bec07:
No seriously, HTC build quality is mediocre at best, I'm sorry, many friends had them over the years (3 of my best friends, 5 devices), 4 of them fell apart in less than 2 years.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
Having been by 2 HTC phones already, I can say for sure the HTC build material is mediocle, they use cheap parts from china.

The phones breaks apart and other components started failing over time.

They wouldn' t exchange it for me, they claimed it was user wear, invoice the end i was forced to pay to get it fixed, reason why i switched to Samsung, at least Samsung do honour their warranty and release bug fixes as requiered
[Galaxy S I9000 General] regor99:
SGS is the best

Stop worrying about it. It's easily the best phone and I've had a lot

including a Jobs 3G now no more jailbreaking, no more iTunes.

Great screen. Fast (Once I fixed the lag) light and best battery ever.

There will always be better phones but this is the one of the moment.

But remember you will need to put in the time to get the best out of it.

Luckily everything you need is in this forum. Enjoy.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] andrewluecke:
But, we have no idea if the new HTC phones are like that.. There probably isn't enough information to debate the build quality of the new products.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ickyboo:
I would still swap my SGS for a Desire Z :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mib1800:
I think SGS much better overall than Desire. Bigger+better screen, lighter, better battery life, better sound+playback and better camera+video. I played with my friend Desire and personally I also think the SGS has a better build.

The only niggle with SGS is the occasional lag but with lagfix this is not an issue. (btw: I dont have issue with GPS)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jpsalvesen:
GPS and lag will allegedly be solved by Froyo. Wait a few more weeks and come back and see what we say then.

Fixing the lag is fairly easy, though, there are several applications out there. I use One Click Lag Fix (it does not live up to its name in ease of application, but it works). However, the GPS issue requires a proper official firmware update to be resolved. And a lot of the users are currently ticked off at Samsung for promising Froyo by the end of September and then silently allowing this deadline to pass without updates, neither in the form of a new deadline nor in the form of an firmware update. I'm a bit unsure I can recommend being a customer of such a corporation.

And yes - the screen is wonderful. Perhaps unparalleled? The colors are so rich the iPhone4 owners resort to touting their higher resolution as wonderful ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] prcach:
as a user who sold desire to buy sgs i have to add few words....

its true that desire is all-in-one device, htc with bunch of good widgets, and black version of the phone looks nice. summa summarum - great phone, but there is no a single thing(exept navigation maybe) thats better than the same one on sgs.

sgs is multimedia phone and thats what i needed....great sound quality, tv out, perfect screen, 3d accelerator for portable mini-console, better camera - especialy video recording. but software is just...well, touchwiz needs more usable widgets, who the hell will use 'friends and craps' in PINK version! and other samsung widgets are quite lame, that makes phone sluggish even with lagfix. but 2 me this phone is better than desire cose it suits better for my needs
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Billus:
I find that the Galaxy S has terrific build quality, much better than the Desire but it does feel cheaper in the hand. I've dropped my Galaxy S several times while cruising as well as landing on it in my front pocket a few times. Only scratches on the back plate as well as a deep scrape on the left corner of the hump. The screen is scratch free and I don't use a case or screen protector.

Can't understand why people think that a device has to be aluminium to be of "better" build quality than one with plastic as plastic has significant advantages over an aluminum chassis.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Valeo:
Having used a X10 for a couple of hours, I have to agree with others in recommending an SGS over it. And this is coming from someone who has had numerous problems their SGS...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
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[HD2 Accessories] tritran18518:
Because the HTC HD2 doesn't have fm transmitter function so i want to buy FM transmitter accessory. Does anyone have any recommendation for me ? ( sorry for my english)
[HD2 Accessories] me:
There is no reason that any FM transmitter with a 3.5" jack connection (the vast majority of them) would not work on an HD2. Just don't get one of those that connect only via the IPOD dock connector.

So, it's not really an HD2-specific question. Better to post in a forum about accessories for all phones.

I haven't had great results myself, with any FM transmitter. It is hard to find a good frequency to transmit on. Then, if you find one, that works well in one place--as you drive around in the car, you might easily find that frequency doesn't work well any more--noise interference, etc. As you are driving, it could not be safe to fiddle around a lot with changing frequencies as you drive.

I haven't been happy with any I have tried.

Other opinions?
[HD2 Accessories] iwin2000:
what is an FM transmitter for, is it to do stuff like broadcast GPS directions on your car speakers, or is it for getting traffic information on the GPS software?
[HD2 Accessories] me:
It is to broadcast any sound from any device with a 3.5 sound jack, through the car radio.

Most often they are used for playing music from your MP3 player (in this case the phone), through your car radio.

It would also work for any other sound though--phone calls, etc. (Only works in one direction, however, so if the phone is far from your mouth, may not be too great to use on phone calls, if you want the other party to hear you.)
[HD2 Accessories] agentaaron:
I think its hard to recommend...I have a Belkin iTrip that I picked up at Wal-Mart when me and we took our kids to Disneyland this past June. It works flawlessly in my wifes Jetta (which is what we drove to California in) and the sound was actually much better than I could have ever expected.

...however, in my Grand Vitara...its almost completely unusable, when I can get a station to pick it up...its far below FM quality and I have to have the phone in a certain location and in a specific position just to acheive this.

I have been looking into either getting a bluetooth receiver to attach to the stock head unit...or replacing the head unit all together (I would prefer to keep the stock one though)

I think it has something to do with the power of the antenna on your stereo, which is going to vary with every vehicle.

I did find a little gadget that you simply plug into the antenna input on the back of the stereo and plug the antenna into this gadget...when you turn the gadget on...it basically makes every radio station pure static by shutting off the antenna (It was only like $10.00...and I think it would work if you wanted to go the transmitter way)
[HD2 Accessories] anhyeuemmaimai:
Use a speakerphone with FM transmitter

I use a motorola T505 and you can get them for around $50 or so.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shaunneutron:
What needs to be changed to be able to use Voice Search as the default dialer app instead of Voice Dialer over bluetooth? The Voice Search app does a much better job of performing actions, but it requires me to touch the screen to activate it. When I press the MFB on my Q2 it only launches the Voice Dialer and gives me no options to change the app.

I found an issue report for this on Google, but thought maybe the devs here could do it better/faster.

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=8973
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drmacinyasha:
I already filed an issue back right after Voice Actions came out:

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=10390
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shaunneutron:
Thanks for the response. I starred your Issue as well. Hopefully this will get addressed quickly. :-)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drmacinyasha:
Bugged Cyanogen about this possibly being rolled into CM6.1.

https://twitter.com/drmacinyasha/status/22960420986