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[Xperia Arc General] WhiteHartMart:
I don't find the Blue intrusive anyway - as soon as you change the wallpaper, the app drawer background changes so theres hardly any blue to witness??
[Xperia Arc General] topkop:
That's great to hear. Cannot wait to get this phone (LT15a that is)!
[Xperia Arc General] im_iceman:
Hahahahahahahah.... you'd not heard that they're officially unlocking the bootloader then!.. get with the program fella!
[Xperia Arc General] Drzfr3shboialex:
Sony will most likely go for tegra cuz of PlayStation suite personally I want he arc on t-mobile(USA) with FFC,4g,dual core,768mb-1gb ram and this.phone would rock x10 better. It has the latest android,look and multimedia and everything but for me its missing that and Sony takes too long for phones to come to U.S, hopefully they offer an "arc"like device with the specs I.mentioned and everyhing it has already with PlayStation suite integration as well as it being on ps3 for now ill stick to my mytouch 4g, TMobile,HTC,Sony,and android ftw! :D
[Xperia Arc General] rahbari:
If you want to go with arc you better take a look at this thread beforehand!

I got one, now dead, going for a Galaxy S2.

Arc so sluggish, battery half a day, hang and auto reset once a day! It's your choice now.
[Xperia Arc General] im_iceman:
Your experience is NOT typical.. and if you get the phone from a reputable source the you can take it back if there's problems... it really annoys me when a very small minority with issues, make out like it's a typical situation.. and it simply isn't.
[Xperia Arc General] xperiax10.awesome:
guys m thinking of buying new phone, I will continue using my Xperia Arc ofcourse..want options for secondary device, from reviews & specs seems like right now Samsung Galaxy S2 is a good choice!! wat say??
[Xperia Arc General] ucubz:
SGS2 absolutely a good phone, and yes it'll be good choice, look at its specification. But if you see sgs2 forum there lot of people complaining about that phone too. Battery issue, banding display, etc so there's no such thing perfect phone.
[Xperia Arc General] frothe3:
I'm still waiting for the Arc to come to the USA. Not one word from Sony Ericsson nor any of the other tech sites. And I thought they said the US market was important!!
[Xperia Arc General] SXUsr:
+1 On every forum someone has something to complain about.
[Xperia Arc General] Step666:
And they are always the most vociferous...
[Xperia Arc General] pushtostop:
Hi

My bro just got an sgs2 and I have to say for game play and surfing web its speed and accuracy to detail is outstanding no lag anywhere quadrant 3500 compared to my arc at 1400

Its design is un inspired ,dont think any phone will beat arc on that,but for me its all about performance so I would jump ship tomor if I could .

I think second gen dual core will be truly amazing and I hope se follow suit.
[Xperia Arc General] Nimche:
Of course they said that but sentence wasn't complete

US market is important....to have it last.

With all the regulation and wired policy'es which are governing any market in the US, it is really hard to do anything. Funny enough, these are all created by big companies.
[Xperia Arc General] nickkyboy36:
i love the way how the SEfanboyz have twisted the dualcore thing as a bad thing.

"it uses so much battery" - rubbish

"the arc's performance is just as good" - rubbish

"single core gets the job done so what's the point" windows 95 got the job done, should we never evolve in ANYTHING we do?
[Xperia Arc General] omarsara:
Yes I just got the arc it is a perfect nice phone the shape is amazing every one ask such a nice phone I realy love it ,the samsung just like korean cars full of options with poor quality ilove anything made in japan
[Xperia Arc General] ucubz:
hmm.. there are text behind my arc battery "made in china" :p
[Xperia Arc General] xtacy!:
LOL! @ucubz :D
[Xperia Arc General] chongbh:
You never know that Samsung products are all made in China as well, it is a matter of how they put it, they will just put it as Made by Samsung just like Nokia did for their phones.

SE will just put Made in China which is more straight forward.

Anyway, I guess SE might be slow on the smartphone especially their Android but they will catch up soon and by then, Dual Core processor should be stabilized in terms of power consumption.
[Xperia Arc General] doministry:
Without a doubt double core will be a standard and will push smartphones to a new level.

What I am trying to say is that ATM it's just a gimmick without any big advantage. Just because it's not a standard etc.

And it's true, Arc performance is AS GOOD. If there are some performance gains because of double core they are MINOR. It doesn't influence real performance.

But of course it's a state of things ATM, and soon all the smarties will have big double cores, so it will become a standard SO things will go further in development.
[Xperia Arc General] emorej:
I used SGS2 for about a month, and yes its a great phone..but now i switched to xperia arc, which i found better than the SGS2 in 6 out of 10 ways...

1. SGS2 is fast but it lags for about 3 sec when opening after sleep, and when using apps and going back to home it lags 2-3sec. Arc 1 sec only..

2. Arc camera is better and faster..

3. Sound is better on arc than on SGS2..

4. Colors are natural on ARC than on SGS2 (cartoons)

5. I find arc display to be better and really natural, it amaze me, sgs2 is good, but what i like about arc is when your outside and on the sun the screen is still stunning and readable 101% and makes the color appear vivid, arc best them all on this department..

6. Lastly the design of arc is the greatest phone ever engineered i think..:D:D
[Xperia Arc General] ucubz:
I've ever read somewhere here about that 3sec delay, someone said that 3sec delay was designed by samsung so you can double tap your launcher/home icon. I don't have SGS2 so I can't try it.
[Xperia Arc General] ebsglobal789:
GS2 should be much more faster than arc, but arc have great looking.
[Xperia Arc General] doministry:
Thanks this sums things up.

Plus Arc has a great battery life now.
[Xperia Arc General] emorej:
Yes battery life is superb!!!:)
[Xperia Arc General] Step666:
I would never describe less than 2 days as superb - average maybe.
[Xperia Arc General] sennyqtek:
I do, for a smartphone.
[Xperia Arc General] im_iceman:
+1... a very solid heavy day is excellent for this type of phone.
[Xperia Arc General] Step666:
My Defy used to get anywhere up to 5 days depending on how heavily I used it.

No matter what I do with my Arc, I can't get past 2 days.

My Defy was superb for battery life, my Arc is thoroughly decent but nothing special.

And given how well the Galaxy S2 has performed in battery tests from GSMArena and Engadget, I very much doubt it would be significantly worse than the Arc in terms of battery performance - Samsung's stock power management down-clocks the CPU as low as 200MHz to get the most out the battery.
[Xperia Arc General] im_iceman:
Arc auto downclocks too...
[Xperia Arc General] Step666:
Yeah, I'm fully aware the Arc down-clocks too, all modern CPUs do if properly controlled.

I was merely highlighting that Samsung's power management has been mentioned as being particularly good on the Galaxy S2.
[Xperia Arc General] Drzfr3shboialex:
I believe that Sony makes one of the best devices they just need to be up on processor,feel of phone b/c they do look nice,and release in US b/c Sony does have everything else just like good camera,screen,latest android versions,and etc and they to release on T-Mobile and sprint
[Xperia Arc General] gunawan-1:
absolutely arc
[Xperia Arc General] pygo:
I am using a rooted Neo which has identical hardware specs to the Arc, difference being it has a front facing camera which is why i chose it over the Arc. My second phone is a non rooted S2.

Appearances and Price aside...

Xperia for the camera. Low light performance is amazing! Daylight photos are very similar between the two.

S2 Video camera is apples to oranges...1080p vs 720p.

S2 for lack of bloatware, phone is not rooted cos it came without any garbage apps on the phone.

S2 For larger memory.

S2 is noticably faster with almost everything, with minimal lag, Browsing is also faster after performing some basic tests at home.

S2 for media it plays everything right off the bat. I throw 1080p mkv files and they play without a hiccup.

S2 Much brighter screen.

S2 has more supported titles for Gameloft Games (only ones i play)

S2 for homescreen i can delete the ones i don't want instead of having empty panes.

Kind of one sided, but to compare it to a phone that costs almost double it should be expected...keep in mind i am very new to Android, the only reason i got the G2 was because the internet keeps dropping with the Neo whenever i use WPA2 wifi. Just my observations. If anyone wants camera samples i could upload a couple, the night time difference is pretty drastic. If there are any further questions i'd be glad to answer.
[Xperia Arc General] Poker gypsy:
your going to get a reply saying that the arc is sexy , that was my mistake I went for looks instead of power, and I went from a gs1 to the arc and will go to gs2 or sensation or give the iphone 5 a shot if they make a bigger screen
[Xperia Arc General] rafuru:
It's not really dual core.. ever will be single core with a virtual two core so can assign threads over two cores, but actually vs a single core on a mobile scale doesn't are different.

A good point of Dual Core (on Tegra 2 devices) is the GPU for gamming, personally i don't like the gamming on my mobile, not so advanced like Gameloft's Games because they sucks my battery
[Xperia Arc General] jtc42:
I tried both, I kept the Arc.

S2 Video camera sucks. 1080p means nothing when the quality is that poor.

S2 is FULL of crappy modifications and bloatware. The hubs are terrible, at least the Arc modifications are relatively minor compared.

S2 does have more memory, I'll give it that.

S2 is marginally faster with some things. I don't know what I'm doing but I very VERY rarely get any lag on my Arc. The S2, surprisingly, lagged just as much from time to time.

S2 for media it plays everything I need, as does the Arc.

S2 screen has higher contrast, but Arc has much more natural colours, and in terms of brightness there's not a lot in it, and nobody actually needs either at full brightness anyway.

S2 has more supported titles for Gameloft Games, but that doesn't bother me personally.

S2 for homescreen and lockscreen has many modifications I personally think are awful.

Don't get me wrong, the S2 is a magnificent piece of electronic engineering, but that's all it is, electronic engineering. Samsung have put a lot of new technology in one device. This causes a lot of issues in itself like abysmal battery life and due to it's thinness, pretty poor build. I also hate the capacitive buttons.

SO on paper, yes, of course the S2 is a better phone.... but I just don't love it the same way I love the Arc. It's older technology, refined to practical perfection.

Way I see it, people should try both. If you prefer the S2, get that, if, like me, you prefer the Arc, get the Arc. Both are great phones. But saying one is intrinsically the one people MUST get is stupid.
[Xperia Arc General] doministry:
ALL the comparative videos show SGS II beeing marginally faster in some cases and SLOWER in other.
[Xperia Arc General] cherryfish:
I very much liked the look & feel of SGS I, but after having seen SGS II... no thanks. It's just too big for my taste. I'm already a bit said having bought the Arc with the Xperia Ray announced, so SGS II is not quite the choice for my girly hands. ;)
[Xperia Arc General] KingKuba13:
What cases is it slower?
[Xperia Arc General] raudidroid:
i have an arc and my co-worker has a S2.

i have to tell you that the s2 is equal or superior in almost any point.

in my opinion there are only two advantages for the arc

1. the camera app is better (the camera itself is comparable)

2. THE PRICE!

(i got my arc for 370 CHF, the S2 was at least 570 CHF)

I still think the arc is a excellent phone but there are some things that make me angry, like having to confirm that google will collect my data each time i enable GPS...

and i still miss the keyboard (of my G1)

if money would be no problem i would go for the s2.
[Xperia Arc General] doministry:
Some webistes opening, sometimes Maps, usually coming back to homescreen which seems slow in SGS II.
[Xperia Arc General] blueblood619:
I regret geting my arc..Video sux
[Xperia Arc General] doministry:
Yeah right.
[Xperia Arc General] ani55:
Galaxy S 2 ftw.
[Xperia Arc General] uiqjirka:
Absolutely arc
[Xperia Arc General] Flo95:
What sucks at videos???!
[Xperia Arc General] yt92:
i think arc is worse than gs2 in performance，but arc is more beautiful， that's enough
[Xperia Arc General] Poker gypsy:
like I said yes until the cracks start coming out!
[Xperia Arc General] jtc42:
Claiming the Arc is better based on looks is stupid.

Which phone is better depends how you define better. Better for me means more refined, original, and fun to use. Arc takes it there for me. It wont be better than the s2 for someone who defines better as newer tech and higher specs. Likewise, even by my criteria, someone may find different things nicer to use.

Neither phone is intrinsically better than the other. I cant be the only person to realize this surely?
[Xperia Arc General] piercewei:
No. Mee too. Better ot not depends on the individual user's requirements. Sadly today, too many persons care the spec. too much. I donot understand but it is just ture.
[Xperia Arc General] xtorm80:
video sucks on arc? it was way better then lg2x which is 1080 under low light, and with no autofocus the video on lg is useless....

not sure if s2 got auto focus in video or not

not with overclock kernel, im a happy man :D
[Xperia Arc General] doministry:
Video on Arc is very very good in every conditions.
[Xperia Arc General] Flo95:
@ jtc42:

Right, it's a personal choice.

And yeah, people care too much about specs.

Arc's specs are more than enough for normal use and if you aren't a gamer that won't change soon imo.
[Xperia Arc General] miniflight:
I would have to say that xperia arc is really fast...I turned on wifi downloading a movie, music and either playing a game or watching a movie...no lag at all.

I got S2 in the end tho...because some of the arc devices have a battery problem (my cousin got one that has it and need to send to repair center) which I don't want to deal with.

Arc design is better than S2, S2 is like a bigger iphone lol. Also one last thing is generally I hate samsung's keyboard because they don't put , (comma) in the main keyboard.

S2 has better specs that is for sure. But if you are not a really heavy smartphone user, arc is good enough.
[Xperia Arc General] doministry:
Arc after update has no single battery problem.

I still haven't seen any area where SGS II would be really, seriously better and making Arc a poor or worse performing device. Differences are marginal.
[Xperia Arc General] miniflight:
Not for my cousin. I did update, repair, flashing, and other methods on xda but problem is still there.

Now the phone is in repair centre, I gave up on it lol

e.g. it goes to 40% then drop to 1% the shut down. I fixed it to 20% but still not too good.

I would have got arc if there wasn't this battery problem on some phones that are manufactured...I didn't want to risk it and get the headache. This is because the arc is good enough for me to use, I don't need a dual core phone.

So far I am cool with my S2 as well, the screen is really superior compared to arc. But it would appear that there isn't a prefect phone lol, S2 have it unique battery draining problem as well...mainly due to a bug in 2.3.3 (andriod system % is high in battery usage) as well as the dual core itself.
[Xperia Arc General] xtorm80:
im lucky to have a good battery, phone is now perfect with overclock kernel and my batt last longer under conservative setting.

love my arc now
[Xperia Arc General] kkkok8051:
I just trade in my SE Arc and choose Samsung galaxy s2 by last week. when i compare it I'll love boths.... but no regret i trade in Arc. let share from here........(Below comment is all under my opinion not to compare which device is better.)

Design= Arc slim and sexxxxxy.S2 lightly and hot. (like my wife)

Performence= Arc smooth. S2 fast (like my Farrari)

Screen display=S2 Amoled Arc=Exmor both done great (Like my LED TV)

Camera= Arc low light great, S2 landscape shoot better. (like my pet Eyes)

Front camera= Arc shy and close her eye,S2 come to me Baby (like my girlfriends)

Video Play= Arc nd to convert, S2 just change the file name ( like me wash the toilet)

just share until here, if need more understand my wife and my girl friend pls wait TO BE CONTINUNE.
[Xperia Arc General] eqlove196426597:
Hmm, I think arc is better
[Xperia Arc General] Poker gypsy:
I thought so also until I tried the gs2, way smoother, faster, no lag, but as always sony will come out with a dual core but by then it will be old news as usual
[Xperia Arc General] SEFanX10i:
LMAO!

This has to be the funniest post here in quite a while :p
[Xperia Arc General] superdx:
I have an Xperia Arc that I barely use right now. It's extremely laggy. Opening the camera application by itself takes anywhere from 10-20s. I barely have any applications installed, and I do not play games.

Battery life is atrocious. I can leave it in my bag for a day without touching it (I primarily use a Blackberry) and when I take it out at night, it's down to 30-40% battery. No idea what this phone is doing when it's idle.

Every application including the default Android ones always pop up the message that it is "not responding" and asks me to Wait or Kill the program. I usually press Wait, and after 10s I can use the app.

In addition, I find the screen sensitivity quite poor - typing on the keyboard is a horrible affair, every 3 words will have a typo on it. I can type perfectly normal on an iPhone 4 as a reference.

Stay away from this phone!
[Xperia Arc General] doministry:
That's very interesting, your phone's behaviour is like nobody's else here.

Basically what users say is the Arc beeing fast and responsive.

Maybe you are still on very old software.
[Xperia Arc General] hygge:
You have got a broken device, my Arc spend less than 0,5% power per hour in standby. Yesterday I managed to bring the power down to 10% from 100% in the morning, that was after 1 hour of voice call and display on for 5 hours, 3 of them connected to our tv with hdmi while playing games. Forgot to mention that wifi was active the whole time and around 500MB was downloaded as well.

This is much better battery life than any other mobile I have owned.

I do agree with the typing issues usin the keyboard, this has been solved in the latest firmware. I was going mad like you typing longer messages ;-)
[Xperia Arc General] Poker gypsy:
I use to also before the new update
[Xperia Arc General] superdx:
When I posted my earlier message the phone was at 100%

Now the phone is at 93% and I have not even touched it. I've been out to dinner and back. "Cell standby" is at 31% usage as the top consumer. 7% lost to.. nothing. That's just aggravating.

My phone is 2.3.3 with the Build number at 3.0.1.A.0.145

It should be the latest firmware, I upgraded it about 2 months back.
[Xperia Arc General] Evil_Sephiroth:
try complete reset camera open in less than 5 second^^
[Xperia Arc General] shpanac:
The last one is 40A2368 and the battery life is much better, the keyboard is better, home screen and some new stuff are better. I think that your phone is not OK. Best regards
[Xperia Arc General] ShyamSasi:
Something to think about :

Not even Qualcomm thinks dual-core is working out yet
[Xperia Arc General] doministry:
Well that's interesting. My phone is at .145 still and the batt life is stellar. Phone without reboot for 20 days.

It must be an app or process which causes that.
[Xperia Arc General] Azev:
I've already a device with NVidia Tegra 2 in: Toshiba Folio 100. I don't do more with the Tablet than the Arc. The same games work on the both, many HD games work on Arc. I don't think that the dual core serves a lot on Android for now. I like UI and design of Arc that are beautiful. UI changes of basic Android and even with a dual core in the balance I chose the Arc. (same 2 choices than you).
[Xperia Arc General] micks_address:
i went with the Arc instead of the S2, because

1) The Arc was 50 euro cheaper for me (not the main deciding factor)

2) I dont like the size/form of the s2 - it just looks to big to me..

3) I dont think there's need for dual core processors in phones yet.. i loved my HTC desire - my biggest complaint was the poor battery life.. im hoping the Arc will be better - already it looks more promising - got two days from my first charge.. and thats with using the phone quite a bit.. new phone novely etc..

The S2 is no doubt the more powerful phone.. but so far im quite happy with the Arc.. it has a few quirkes.. like the way my Senheisser IE8is dont play nicely with it.. but i've been able to work around that by taping down the mic button on the earphones..
[Xperia Arc General] Poker gypsy:
It's not about what phone is better it's what suits you, and that is the most important I'm glad that you are happy with the arc enjoy
[Xperia Arc General] micks_address:
Someone offered to swap their mint iphone 4 for my Arc yesterday.. i have to say i was intially tempted.. but that threw me off was the screen size.. its amazing when you go to a bigger screen size how tiny the smaller screens look! ok the resolution may be better.. but looking at the screens directly its hard to tell a huge difference.. also the iphone 4 just felt like a brick in the hand compared to the Arc..
[HD2 General] froibet:
Hi there

I got an HD2 from a friend (he bought off ebay) and seems to just boot to the Tmobile sticking together logo and won't boot.

I don't think it charges as well...

there was no lines (radio?) at the bottom of the Sticking Together pink square screen...

is this phone bricked? or can I still flash a rom?
[HD2 General] david0812:
Ok try this, turn the phone off then hold the low volume botton n the power botton at the same time, n if it takes u to the bootloader then u r good, just search on how to install a rom of ur choise, good luck