I had the phone for about a week now and it has just too many problems for a high end phone. I don't feel I should be debugging Samsung's problems or finding ways to circumvent things that should work.
Here are my reasons for taking the phone back:
*Poor battery life even with many background tasks turned off. Battery lasts just about a day.
Battery may be an issue to some, but what's so hard about putting the phone on it's charger every night or day when you sleep? I've been doing that for years with all my previous phones.
*GPS fails to work as expected. Takes 10 minutes to lock on outdoors under a clear blue sky. Works about 1% of the time in a car.
GPS, again, not an issue to everyone. Mine works sometimes, and sometimes it doesn't. Hopefully it gets fixed, but if not it's still an amazing phone.
*Bloated software bundle from AT&T, and no easy to remove the software. Why purchase a phone with 16GB when there is only 1.6GB available for new apps out of the box.
The 16 gb is on in internal SD card. That is what has the 16 gb, well a little less, but with a bunch of stuff on my phone, it is still sitting at 12.96 gb. Look closer. It shows "External SD Card" which would be one that YOU would put in. It shows "Internal SD Card" which is the "16gb." Then it has the 1.6 gb phone storage. Did yours not come with the Internal?
*Can't sync contacts with Outlook using any software that I tried. Had to manuall enter all my contacts.
Haven't tried yet.
*USB drivers fail to recognize the phone on Win 7 64-bit. Tried three different versions without success.
Had no issues on Win 7 64 bit. Actually, I have it set up on my 64 bit tablet, my win 7 32 bit pc, and my XP box at work.
*Poor selection of add on apps--even if they could fit!
What type of add-ons? Wouldn't that be up to the droid community vs Samsung?
In summary this phone is not ready for prime time but is still in beta test mode. Perhaps in six months or so Samsung will fix some of these problems but I have my doubts. In the meantime back it goes!