never wait. if you need a new phone right now, buy it now.
but honestly, i would prefer a DHD over a SGS, bigger screen (no S-AMOLED, but the HTC screen is acceptable), flash for camera (very important feature for me), HTC Sense (makes is usable out of the box), and no lagging issues.

this is my honest opinion as a SGS user, and not as a fanboy. but if you asked me am i happy with my SGS, i can answer you yes. i love the community here, they are very very helpful, when i post questions somebody will definitely try to help me, and that user experience is something i enjoy, and its part of the SGS community.

lol, sometimes, first batch is better e.g. HTC Desire 1st batch all AMOLED, subsequent phones are S-LCD.. so its hard to say. i think the Koreans should be less arrogant, and hire HTC engineers or hardcore to help them in the software department. and for the love of god i cannot understand why no LED flash on the SGS.. yet you get it on the EPIC & Fascinate. I'm really fascinated by Samsung's stupidity.

No, its not drain battery like darky 2.1.

Gmail is true push out of the box right?

i know right all now use HDTV especially thos korean no more low size

May I know What software to use to chek GPS lock time?

I totally agree with you, Jason. Can't understand the stupidity on Samsung. No flash and software laggy problem. Their software engineers sucks! I think they purposely not to make SGS a perfect smartphone at the time it was released. Damn, I'm drooling as I look at my friend's iphone 4. It's so smooth........Why huh?

guys, do you knw anyone in here can provide buy paid apps from android market? i dont know how to buy la. im still student, no credit card + paypal. huhu

Yes. Now Hotmail has push as well. No need for Samsung Social Hub from Samsung apps.

but your snr is not high, mine will get average of25++ instead of 10-20 snr

This post has been edited by silentser: Feb 13 2011, 08:45 PM

Guys, unless it's a xenon flash( and some xenon flashes on phones arent that good, more of a battery drainer) , it's not much of a use la. Youre pics will look much saturated, or blue in colour, and the camera is good enough in adequate lighting la. If dark lighting even using a DSLR would be tough. Even if flash is available in the galaxy S it would be up to a very very limited distance, which renders the flash useless(which applies to most camera phones).

And don't cry over spilled milk (in terms of UI smoothness) Just install a kernel and everything works fine, you ARE buying an android, not an iOS (imo which is an app launcher, nothing else.)

This post has been edited by headhunter7: Feb 13 2011, 08:45 PM

I see no reason to shoot any photo in the dark where you can't see what is there. Dude, are you a professional photographer? What DSLR do you use? I see no problem ppl shooting in the dark with DSLR at all.

iOS an apps launcher? But it's good enough to have so many ppl to write nice apps if compared with Android. And I don't see Android is more than just an apps launcher as well. May be someone can enlighten me?

yes you are right. but at the very least, LED flash on iP4 for example, you still get some pictures. SGS? none.
as for installing a kernal..sure it fixes the problem, but why buy an Android phone with a problem to begin with? A HTC won't have lagging issues. just admit it, SGS is flawed out of the box.

thats why some phones have flash. xenon flash is the best (for a phone anyway), LED is better than no flash.

Well I'm just stating that you don't have to sulk over things that happened ie: you've bought the phone. The need to call Samsung stupid isn't necessary,as they're the ones who brought you the Galaxy S, the SuperAMOLED.

You should've known that flash isn't available and if it is much of a deal then don't get it . There are other proprietary gadgets for the sole purpose, and I believe, though adequate, the Galaxy S is more of a phone than a camera. Yes I know it'd be more complete with the flash, but I might say, we may not get the super slim body of the Galaxy S that we currently hold. The camera works well, and in low lightings there's bound to be noise, flash may,may not eliminate that, we won't know for sure. But I believe there is more to just omitting the flash on purpose.

For the iOS comment, I apologize to those who are disheartened, but to clarify; your homescreen is your menu, hence the app launcher. In Android you'd have a customizable homescreen, push apps here there anywhere, and an extensive operating system. In comparison the apple leaves you with scrolling of the menus, hence the smoothness. There isn't much else for the processing unit to compute, til late which apple comes up with the multitasking.

I am entering the second month of using my Galaxy S, and to what I've known , it met and shoots well above of my expectations in which I came from a windows mobile platform, in which at first I thought was the complete phone ( I had a Samsung Omnia i900). I have yet to root the phone, nor install a custom ROM, the usability of Touchwiz 3.0 caters to my needs.

Heh strayed off here, I'll just end this here.

This post has been edited by headhunter7: Feb 13 2011, 10:11 PM

Actually, my no.1 reason for going SGS instead of iPhone4 was Adobe Flash. The ability to view websites and embedded flash videos (e.g. Facebook, Engadget, Gizmodo etc) as how they're seen on a PC was the killer factor for me, as I am a very heavy Tweetdeck user (lots of vid links embedded in peoples' tweets and FB updates).

I really hate web browsing on my iPad, Safari sucks ass for one and I am still looking for a seamless web browser that would let me play embedded videos instead of having to launch separate apps to play them (e.g. youtube app, videotime for facebook). On the other hand, battery life on the iPad is great (10 hours non stop use on 1 full charge) and I'd expect the iPhone4 to also last longer than the SGS..

Note : Yes, I did buy my SGS when it was still only Eclair, but Samsung did confirm Froyo for the model, and now we're all at 2.2.1.

This post has been edited by kmrdeva: Feb 13 2011, 10:33 PM

Fascinate and Epic is just as slim, and it has LED flash. what you said regarding flash doesn't hold up, at all. your argument is baseless. admit it.
and Samsung is indeed stupid, they delivered a phone that lags out of the box. true fact.

EDIT: when i bought the SGS, i know it doesn't have flash, expected. but i didn't expect it to lag like an O2 Mini from half a decade ago.

This post has been edited by Jason: Feb 13 2011, 10:41 PM

haha..@ jason and headhunter...dont mumbling over a small matter..i admit it..what jason said is true fact...and headhunter said about ios also true...about the camera flash..it is up to user preferences...and i'm eager to see what inside the SGS2 that samsung had to provide the customer according the feedback from sgs2 predecessor....but i think i'm just stick to my current sgs because of this community and no money to buy a new one...hahaha.. ...

calm down calm down buddy... XD

ya it lags but at least there's a fix now... ^^
i agree with u SGS is indeed flawed, i bought it even though i knew there was a problem and even after switching to DHD i switched back... all becoz SGS is a lot better...

and I also support the comment about iOS feels more like an app launcher instead of an OS, android... there's a whole lot more of possibilities on android than on iOS, what makes iOS superior is becoz apple is so capable of turning iphone into a TREND, not just a phone, being a iphone4 user for 1 night (hehe), yes it feels good but feels really restricted, nothing to do... I believe app and game developers are just trying to make money out of the current trend, its not becoz ip4 has better specs or ip4 apps and games are easier to develop...

Anyway, i'm a proud SGS owner that flashes the phone all over looking at those who r using optimus one, defy, desire, or even the so called "Best Android Phone" Desire HD...

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Added on February 13, 2011, 11:08 pmhaha i must say, SGS owners in lyn feels a lot more friendly XD

This post has been edited by CrossX: Feb 13 2011, 11:08 PM

sorry but I mean camera firmware, not app

have you all see an android ads in the movie or on tv..nahhh...iphone?...their investment in ads is big enuf to make it as a trend or fashion fever...no wonder no peoples queue up to buy android phone...hahaha

here is the video after upgrading the camera's firmware


This post has been edited by ken2291: Feb 13 2011, 11:19 PM