I would not buy the vibrant. I would wait. Lets look at the facts.
1. GPS issue
2. freezing issue
3. compass issue (may be related to GPS)
4. signal or antenna issue
5. Samsung issue, they keep selling a know phone that is broken.
6. TM issue, they keep selling a phone with know issues.
7. TM has no other phone in the same caliber of what the vibrant was suppose to be.
8. And it is looking like their will be and is no fix for these phones. It has been a month and a half since these phones were developed with no fix. I believe that all purchasers of these phones have been duped and both of these companies are just blowing smoke up our @*$$. so to speak.
I find it despicable that both of these companies are waffling about this situation just to make a buck. In fact, It looks like all of the cell phone companies are doing the same thing with these phones and if there was a company that was honest about the situation I would switch or if I did not need a cell phone I would cancel my contract completely.
Simply put there will be a new top dog android phone every 3 - 4 months so if you wait for the next best phone your going to end up waiting for ever.... my opinion is that its the best phone out right now and worth the purchase....
My Verizon 2 year contract has ended recently and I am going to get on a T-Mobile Family Plan. I'm really stuck on if I should wait for the HTC Glacier, which is supposed to be some new aged dual core superphone, or just go with the Vibrant. The Vibrant seems to be yin or yang for some people. Just would like the opinions of current Vibrant users. Go for it now, or wait?
Thank you
Has many fixes already.I would not buy the vibrant. I would wait. Lets look at the facts.
1. GPS issue
My phone has never frozen on me, and for the people it has happened to, they just factory reset their phone/return it and they are perfectly fine.2. freezing issue
I think it is fixed with the GPS fix.3. compass issue (may be related to GPS)
No signal problems what so ever.4. signal or antenna issue
They are working on the problems. Every new phone has problems. Iphone 4 has no signal issue, Evo had light leakage, etc. No new phone is perfect, by the time Froyo comes most of the problems will be fixed.5. Samsung issue, they keep selling a know phone that is broken.
Issues are being fixed.6. TM issue, they keep selling a phone with know issues.
Vibrant is what it was supposed to be, a top of the line phone.7. TM has no other phone in the same caliber of what the vibrant was suppose to be.
You need to do more research.8. And it is looking like their will be and is no fix for these phones. It has been a month and a half since these phones were developed with no fix. I believe that all purchasers of these phones have been duped and both of these companies are just blowing smoke up our @*$$. so to speak.
Has many fixes already.
My phone has never frozen on me, and for the people it has happened to, they just factory reset their phone/return it and they are perfectly fine.
I think it is fixed with the GPS fix.
No signal problems what so ever.
They are working on the problems. Every new phone has problems. Iphone 4 has no signal issue, Evo had light leakage, etc. No new phone is perfect, by the time Froyo comes most of the problems will be fixed.
Issues are being fixed.
Yeah, Vibrant is the best.
You need to do more research.
I find it despicable that you know nothing and you are bashing on the phone. Samsung is definitely supporting, because it is their top of the line phone! They have to! Don't say 'Behold 2 was a disaster don't buy samsung phones!' because they just wanted to make a cheap phone for users who don't have a lot of money or are on a budget.
And btw, if samsung doesn't support the phone (which it will), there is this forum called the XDA...
To OP: Get the Galaxy S, faster than any current HTC phone with the Snapdragon and faster than the Glacier (proven in the benchmarkable scores).
Simply put there will be a new top dog android phone every 3 - 4 months so if you wait for the next best phone your going to end up waiting for ever.... my opinion is that its the best phone out right now and worth the purchase....
Simply put there will be a new top dog android phone every 3 - 4 months so if you wait for the next best phone your going to end up waiting for ever.... my opinion is that its the best phone out right now and worth the purchase....
I cant believe that everyone is bashing what I listed as facts to do with my phone, whats really interesting is that samsung said their working on it, they did not say that it would be fixed.
If you bought a car and you found out that 30% of the model cars like the one that you bought had a problem (lets say a wheel would fall of win you least expected it)and the manufacturer said they were working on it, you would be pissed, especially if you knew that it was a known problem and that they kept selling the car. keep in mind that you paid for a car to work and not work part of the time.
If the knew update is suppose to fix all known problems with the phone then all samsung had to say is that these issues would be fixed at such and such a date, but they didn't. you have to ask yourself why? Do you honestly think that samsung would recall all of the phones if it is found that its a hardware issue?
I'm looking at facts not pie in the sky. I have tried all of the gps fixes out there and my phones gps works sometimes and has failed to get a fix the last three times, it cant even tell me where I am, most of the time. If I open certain apps the screen will go black and I have to take the battery out just to un-freeze the phone. It has done this on the contacts list twice. the phone has been reset back to factory specs twice now and it will work great for several days and it slowly gets progressively worse. I am sending it back this week and exchanging it for a another phone, I just haven't decided what phone. There is a post from someone who use to work with TM customer service talking about there policies when dealing with phone issues that I think every one should read, its on XDA.
I signed a new two year contract and paid a couple hundred dollars for this phone, I had full expectations that it would perform and if it had problems they would be resolved in a reasonable amount of time, what is reasonable in this case, one week, two weeks, three weeks? they've know about it for six in a half weeks allready and haven't even given their customers an apology or a date of when to expect these problems to be resolved and they keep selling these phones, and I realize that some of the phones seem to work fine, but allot of them don't, this is not a game of Russian roulette.
pretty much how almost all electronics areyou will wait for the glacier then there will be a rumor for another phone being released 2 months later.. it will just continue
If I open certain apps the screen will go black and I have to take the battery out just to un-freeze the phone. It has done this on the contacts list twice. the phone has been reset back to factory specs twice now and it will work great for several days and it slowly gets progressively worse. I am sending it back this week and exchanging it for a another phone, I just haven't decided what phone.
Sweet jesus this screen is much more sensitive than my Dare. Also seems damn near impossible to text using the standard QWERTY without taking your time. Is there T9 on this? I'm brand new to smart phones btw.
Also, at the top of the phone, a little to the right where the signal bar is I see 3G and sometimes E. I usually have no bars when the 3G is up but it doesn't lose signal or anything. Is this poor coverage?
T9?..must be VERY new to smart phones.
It has Swype and coming from T9 (that cracks me up actually) it will take a bit to get used to but you will get the hang of it. My guess is you will love Swype and wonder how you ever thought T9 was worth a shit.
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