Despite the high initial retail value of Samsung phones, few months after that hoo-haa and we will see price crashing down. Haven't we see that before? INNOV8, Omnia HD i8910, what else?

Super AMOLED is nice. No doubt about it. But Samsung is notorious for pushing new high techs for incredible pricing and then comes the mainstream manufacturers with more competitive pricing. After all, Samsung supplies a lot of the components in your average mobile phone. In other words, the mobile phone business is just another hobby of theirs.

Yes, can always consider SG sets

Frankly speaking, this is not Samsung's fault although they are notorious for pushing new tech at high prices. Still it is the local distributors that screwed it all. FMG has been equally notorious for charging high prices for feature phones during the rise of smart phones. Have you guys ever heard of RM24xx on a feature phone during the 2004-2006? Crazee... and the usual phones were selling well below that kind of price.

FMG was slow to bring in better Samsung phones and kept on with their mainly similar models plan.

Don't worry, video hands-on during the launching convention showed that the UI is damn smooth and fluid. Its exactly the same as iPhone fluidity I dare to say. My concern is that heavily customized interface. It doesn't look like typical Android OS. Knowing Samsung's history of releasing updates or fixing issues (at least for Malaysia region), potential Android OS updates may be late if at all.

The beauty of Android OS is its completely free (almost). So corporations that doesn't have their own OS platform tend to build their interface/branding on top of Android like HTC. In the case of Samsung Galaxy S, it looks like they want to bury that Android 2.1 as deep as possible and make it look like their own flagship interface ala TouchWiz or Bada-lookalike. High chance, Bada OS is something build on top of Android hehehehe.... but I don't know enough to be sure.

I think a regular consumer's definition of a good phone speaker is one that produce clarity, good frequency response, intelligible speakerphone and of a certain amount of volume. Of course it won't replace your favorite IEMs or dedicated speakers. But the Desire's speaker is especially tiny. I tried the Nexus One before and the sound is 'Ki Ci Lai' compared to the Milestone which was more full bodied. I have a feeling Desire would be the same as Nexus One due to their similarities.

Hehehe I think people who uses the front VGA camera to take picture doesn't know that the quality is worse than the main camera. I do know some female friends who uses the front facing camera as a 'digital mirror'. Yes its weird. Continuing on the front facing camera, its function is now not really significant. Not many people (at least among the people around me) uses video call or wouldn't miss it if it was removed. Maybe mainstream consumers want that.

Funny... I saw the hands-on video and it seems smooth to me. The youtube video was dated last month.

Well if it is retail set, the firmware/software may well be of a later revision. Meaning the UI could be more polished and bugs fixed. If Samsung really want to make a successful phone, I believe they will do their best to ensure the firmware/software is optimized for prime time.

So the guy before you isn't entirely incorrect.

Yeah, probably a bad typo or wrong info received. GSM Arena made mistakes before so I'm not surprise it'll be fixed in due time. 256MB is really low for a phone. Just check Milestone and you will understand what I mean. In my opinion, at least 384MB, better if you have 512/576MB.

Yeah serve them right About damn time now...

I guess they just want to prevent other networks from getting their hands on it. So the strategy for exclusivity. Now that digi also in the iphone game, they want to secure and protect their other competitive advantages.