I've had the sgs2 now for 2 weeks and despite some positives I've got to say that I'm not blown away with what is universally acclaimed to be the best handset on the Market.
The screen is beautiful no doubt and it's lightning quick but the software seems really buggy and the integration with my media has been a nightmare. Here are some of my main issues so far;
1. Integration with iTunes - I've yet to find a way for the phone to recognise m4a tags. I have 40 gig of music stored in iTunes in m4a format and when copied to my sgs2 it will not read the artist name or album name. The only way I've worked out a solution is to convert most of my music library to mp3 which has been massively time consuming. Coming from an htc desire hd I didn't have this problem before. For a company supposedly competing for Market share with apple you would've thought that samsung would have the basic compatibility that other Market leading android handsets seem to have.
2. 3G signal seems to be intermittent at best and again not as good as my htc. Same with wifi which doesn't seem to be strong.
3. The standard music player keeps resetting and will not seem to work with the supplied headphones. Play/pause does not work when the screen is turned off. I've downloaded double twist and this player works fine. Again seems like buggy samsung software.
4. Kies is crap. Keeps crashing and won't sync music or photos properly ( kies air is good tho)
5. The social hub will not log me in to Facebook for some reason.
These might seem like minor gripes and I'm sure that there are workarounds or the problems can be solved by updates. In my opinion however if the phone doesn't work properly out of the box it cannot be justifiably called a 5 star market leader.
This is where apple are way ahead of the game. Their stuff might not be open source but it just works out of the box!
Anyway.....I've vented and feel better now.
Thanks!
The screen is beautiful no doubt and it's lightning quick but the software seems really buggy and the integration with my media has been a nightmare. Here are some of my main issues so far;
1. Integration with iTunes - I've yet to find a way for the phone to recognise m4a tags. I have 40 gig of music stored in iTunes in m4a format and when copied to my sgs2 it will not read the artist name or album name. The only way I've worked out a solution is to convert most of my music library to mp3 which has been massively time consuming. Coming from an htc desire hd I didn't have this problem before. For a company supposedly competing for Market share with apple you would've thought that samsung would have the basic compatibility that other Market leading android handsets seem to have.
2. 3G signal seems to be intermittent at best and again not as good as my htc. Same with wifi which doesn't seem to be strong.
3. The standard music player keeps resetting and will not seem to work with the supplied headphones. Play/pause does not work when the screen is turned off. I've downloaded double twist and this player works fine. Again seems like buggy samsung software.
4. Kies is crap. Keeps crashing and won't sync music or photos properly ( kies air is good tho)
5. The social hub will not log me in to Facebook for some reason.
These might seem like minor gripes and I'm sure that there are workarounds or the problems can be solved by updates. In my opinion however if the phone doesn't work properly out of the box it cannot be justifiably called a 5 star market leader.
This is where apple are way ahead of the game. Their stuff might not be open source but it just works out of the box!
Anyway.....I've vented and feel better now.
Thanks!