Samsung Galaxy S2 (ATT)

[Kamal]

Guys I might have to change everyone's mind (including mine) about getting Android devices. During my recent trip overseas, I met with a software maker that we use, who also created apps for their software, for BBs, iPhones and lastly Android devices. Their software team commented about a whole bunch of "unidentifiable" services that appeared to be running under the core Android OS that they believed was transmitting data back to Google. Moreover, when they tried to disable the services, it rendered the OS inoperable.

I pride my privacy as much as the next person and this is definitely not something that sat well with me. It's also one of the key reasons I won't use Chrome, you just dont know how much data they're mining about you and your smartphone is the epic collection of your private info.

Buyer be warned.

[res0nat0r]

Re: It's here fellas...

Humm...I bet if it was seriously technically looked into it is a lot less scary than it sounds. Did you hear about the huge uproar earlier this year about the iPhone uploading your coordinates or tracking some kind of data about your location that everyone assumed was apple spying on you? It was was a database it was keeping up to date of cellphone tower locations to help the software properly triangulate cell tower handoffs or something such.

A lot of this suspicious stuff from the outsider can look scary, but it is just code doing specific functions, you have to really spend some serious time with someone who knows their shit and also the code to know whats going on.

Also FWIW most of the Android ecosystem is open source vs iOS and BB...so technically this should lead to less bad stuffz, as anyone can peer review the code, vs a set of developers working behind a curtain.

Just my .02c though

[Kamal]

Re: It's here fellas...

Valid points, but these guys are great programmers and for their lead programmer to mention it was unnerving.

[dusk]

Re: It's here fellas...

^^ I have to agree with this. One of my pet peeves when it came to my Samsung Galaxy was those damn processes running in the background eating my battery life.

[Kamal]

Re: It's here fellas...

This has got to be a heck of a deal. S2 black Friday deal for $0.96 ay Sams club

http://www.samsclub.com/sams/pagedetails/content.jsp?pageName=date&iid=CRSJ291

[Kamal]

Re: It's here fellas...

Huggie, I finally did it. I finally got the S2. I took the flyer to an Att store and got the phone for $1. So in love with this device.

[Kamal]

Samsung Galaxy S2 (ATT)

So instead of hijacking the iPhone thread, thought I'll start a new thread for the Sammy. Got it yesterday for $1 at a local ATT shop (showed them the Black Friday flyer from Sams club and they matched it). So far I'm absolutely LOVING the device. The screen turns SO BLACK in the black areas, its like the darkness of space. Brief overview from the last 12 hours

Pluses

- Battery life is GREAT. Much better than my rooted HTC Desire HD
- Amazing Screen
- Fast (the dual core processor REALLY REALLY shines)
- Light (weight)
- Comes with 16 gb of onboard space, with my 32 gig card added, I have a ton of room now

Minuses

- Screen does not stay on when the device is plugged in
- No night clock
- The default music player on HTC was a lot better and sounded a whole lot nicer than on the Sammy


I'll post more in time but so far, I've had mixed emotions about the purchase. I wanted a connected device which I have got, I just hope it lives up to itself over time.

[Kamal]

Re: Samsung Galaxy S2 (ATT)

Free hack to unlock the S2, provided the device has been rooted

https://market.android.com/details?id=eu.chainfire.sgs2simunlockcode

[dusk]

Re: It's here fellas...

^^^ Glad to hear that you're loving it K.

However all I can say is once bitten twice shy.... don't think I'll ever get a Samsung device again!

[dusk]

Re: Samsung Galaxy S2 (ATT)

Free hack to unlock the S2, provided the device has been rooted

https://market.android.com/details?i...2simunlockcode

Now that's a bonus

[Huggie Smiles]

Re: Samsung Galaxy S2 (ATT)

totally bizarre - I got mine today! however with sprint - due to the unlimited download.

SO FAR (only a few hours) reception is almost non existent at my house! - will have to see what tis all about.


"Screen does not stay on when the device is plugged in" - I know! WTF is that all about?

[feather]

Re: Samsung Galaxy S2 (ATT)

$1 up front without a contract? Damn I should've tried getting that

[Kamal]

Re: Samsung Galaxy S2 (ATT)

"Screen does not stay on when the device is plugged in" - I know! WTF is that all about?

Huggie get the app "screen on". You can select which apps, when running, will leave the screen on. But I read that because of burn-ins on the super Amoled displays, it's not recommended to keep the screen on all the time. Another major negative.

$1 up front without a contract? Damn I should've tried getting that

Naa it was a two year contract.

New negative. Typing on this thing officially sucks. Was 10,000 times easier on my HTC.

[poults]

Re: Samsung Galaxy S2 (ATT)

I like the samsung keyboard but just dont like where a few keys are placed down the bottom so i downloaded the gingerbread keyboard which is a lot better.

[Kamal]

Re: Samsung Galaxy S2 (ATT)

I had made my above post from my phone and didn't realize how many typos I had mad (just fixed them). I found a new pain in the ass reason to hate the keyboard, each time you type a word and it's spelt incorrectly or auto-corrected incorrectly, if you delete just a part of that word and re-type it, the system only takes the new part of the word as an independent word and saves it to the dictionary. WTF.

This means it's going to have a bunch of new obscure words and auto-correct is going to go insane by 10x.

Granted speed, battery-life, screen size, and having bridged the gap with it's iphone-esque surfing are all major pats on the back, but the above negatives (for me) are nibbling away at those benefits.