Thoughts After 3 Days ... & mini review

[dyh]

The screen is excellent, but the pentile+noticeable pixels in close range make it only 4.5 from me. i would give it 5 if it was 1280x720

Text sharpness is not bad , but not what you get with the Milestone.

Thanks for taking the time to do a detailed review and answer everybody's questions!

 

[galaxyS]

Er, no, its an objective difference, this is just plain fact I'm afraid. Whether it bothers you or not is subjective, if it doesn't, or you can live with it, then you're gravy because in all other respects this is the best screen out there.

i read from this review that texts were a tad fuzzy, so it wouldn't bother me one bit, so i guess im being subjective about it, right?

 

[saj_2001ind]

one question ... can you see missed call and unread sms info on the lock screen ?

also the info on alarm and calender's today appointment on lock screen ?

 

[ianhkg]

I too am experiencing some lag on my Galaxy S which is troubling me abit. I find that my previous Desire to be MUCH more responsive when running apps and stuff. Cud it be my Galaxy is faulty?

 

[mrspeedmaster]

Question. Can you give us the bit-rate, fps and codec from your HD video.

 

[mzaher]

Question. Can you give us the bit-rate, fps and codec from your HD video.

Open the video in youtube.com and right click on the player and then choose "Show video info".

 

[mrspeedmaster]

Open the video in youtube.com and right click on the player and then choose "Show video info".

That only shows the stats for the youtube re-encoded video. What are the mediainfo for the original file. I notice the author states it is recorded in 3GP.

Is that heavy jello motion effect normal for that phone?

 

[n1tro]

The Samsung Galaxy S is my 4th phone in like 6 months. Here's some stuff that I didn't see mention which I'm sure others have experience. 1st really annoying item is your Contacts. Every single gmail contact I have shows up in Contacts when only my phone contacts should be displayed. I don't see any way of filtering this either. Yet when you are in the Messaging menu and want to send out a sms, pressing contacts, you are displayed with only your contacts with a phone number.

I can live with this annoyance.

Second, I have noticed that the phone can sometimes get in a loop of sorts making the phone heat up fast and lag out. Can't do anything unless you pull the battery. This problem may be related to Asphalt 5 but it happens.

Other than that, phone is pretty decent.

 

[emuneee]

The Samsung Galaxy S is my 4th phone in like 6 months. Here's some stuff that I didn't see mention which I'm sure others have experience. 1st really annoying item is your Contacts. Every single gmail contact I have shows up in Contacts when only my phone contacts should be displayed. I don't see any way of filtering this either. Yet when you are in the Messaging menu and want to send out a sms, pressing contacts, you are displayed with only your contacts with a phone number.

I can live with this annoyance.

Second, I have noticed that the phone can sometimes get in a loop of sorts making the phone heat up fast and lag out. Can't do anything unless you pull the battery. This problem may be related to Asphalt 5 but it happens.

Other than that, phone is pretty decent.

Have you setup your Contacts at Google.com\contacts?

 

[Evil Peter]

The Samsung Galaxy S is my 4th phone in like 6 months. Here's some stuff that I didn't see mention which I'm sure others have experience. 1st really annoying item is your Contacts. Every single gmail contact I have shows up in Contacts when only my phone contacts should be displayed. I don't see any way of filtering this either. Yet when you are in the Messaging menu and want to send out a sms, pressing contacts, you are displayed with only your contacts with a phone number.

I can live with this annoyance.

Second, I have noticed that the phone can sometimes get in a loop of sorts making the phone heat up fast and lag out. Can't do anything unless you pull the battery. This problem may be related to Asphalt 5 but it happens.

Other than that, phone is pretty decent.

Other than setting up your contacts on your Google account you can tell the phone to only display contacts with phone numbers. That should remove all the unnecessary contacts.

The second problem is something I've never heard of, but I haven't downloaded Asphalt 5 either so it's quite possible that's the bad guy in the drama as you say.

 

[n1tro]

I didn't set up my google contact accounts on any of my other previous phones (Milestone, Liquid, and Nexus One), just popped in sim and synced and phone contacts showed up.

Phone is great but I find the fluidity of changing screens or between apps is not as smooth as the Android 2.1 implemented in the other phones.

 

[Evil Peter]

I didn't set up my google contact accounts on any of my other previous phones (Milestone, Liquid, and Nexus One), just popped in sim and synced and phone contacts showed up.

Phone is great but I find the fluidity of changing screens or between apps is not as smooth as the Android 2.1 implemented in the other phones.

Then it's just to add the setting that it should only show contacts with phone numbers.

I've had the opposite experience. The Android-phones I've compared with have been clearly more choppy when it's scrolling.

 

[andrebxt]

Other than setting up your contacts on your Google account you can tell the phone to only display contacts with phone numbers. That should remove all the unnecessary contacts.

I tried looking for an option to do so - do you know where to find this setting? Thanks!

 

[arvindm]

@ andrebxt - open up contacts, press the menu button and then go to display options... uncheck google or whatever else you don't need and you are done

 

[ayrshiredude]

Can I ask a silly question? whats this pentile display? Haven't seen it mentioned in any of the other blogs. Also what is this thing about poor quality txt when zoomed? I have a HTC Hero at the moment am I gonna see a big difference?