signal strength, its pretty good, full bar 3.5g when im in my room

here is the weird part, if i go out, drop to 2-3 bars...

in toilet, only got 2-3bar 3g, no 3.5g

lol, urs is metal, if not hot i dunu how lol.... anodised aluminium rite n8??

not super hot, but hot that it gets very uncomfortable near ur ear

yes, they do have... its in ur location and security, located under ur options

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Added on May 8, 2011, 5:00 pmsry not options, its settings

This post has been edited by oldKyoo: May 8 2011, 05:00 PM

since when a good screen protector is cheap lol??

it came free lolz,

200 is like just an estimation larh....

if u walk into it malls, sgp, or those so called "scratch-proof" might cost a wee bit over 100rm, they r quite a shark though

honestly, if I have heard very good comments on the o2x screen

The arc is a fine phone, with their new policy of keeping their bootloader unlocked, pretty sure the devs are welcomed, but, id suggest the o2x, more firepower. and better web browsing.
The arc wont stand the onslaught that has come to claim its life.

I recorded a 1080p video, 500mb lololol... i nearly vomit blood, i come back il upload for u guys.

Okay, the video is not very good, reason 1, bloody sun, reason 2, window blocking

Next, no option to edit the video i just toke, the movie maker blows, it could not find my video file.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3Ilo-A_OJE...be_gdata_player

The longer one il post it when im back home, youtube dun allow me to upload big files via 3g.

I discocered, i can edit the video, but i have to go and take the video thru videomaker app

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Added on May 8, 2011, 6:28 pmYes, 1080p kenot edit thru video maker

This post has been edited by oldKyoo: May 8 2011, 06:28 PM

My full review is coming tomorrow.
Alot of things to hantam but not much to praise.

android like one said, takes full use mostly of its software, not just by its hardware.

even with a low spec phone, with the right software coding, the phone is silky smooth.

Okay, since I do have some time, il do the review now, anything I missed out, pm me so i can edit and tell u all.

Everything I typed is based on my own device, to hell with the other people's device, because its my opinion, and it is strictly subjective.

Lets start off with the boot time and shut down time.
The Samsung Galaxy S II takes 12 seconds on average to totally shut down. To completely boot it back up, it takes 12 again on average.
Then, it takes 10 seconds to completely do all the memory reading and scanning.

From there, we enter the homescreen. Now im greeted with a hell load of heavy widgets, such as weather syncing, ap news, email, skype, and such, with a background live wallpaper. No lag is experienced when navigating from one page to another.

Screen, as you all know, is fantastic, dont be mad or whatever, but sometimes, I feel the screen looks just normal, most probably because I keep looking at the screen.

Pressing the capacitive menu button leads me to add, wallpaper, search, notifications, edit, and settings
Press edit and it will allow you to edit the 7 home pages you have, to reorganize the page in any order, or to remove the page completely (Those who have used HTC's recent android phones would be used to this function, and will feel like this is a rip off from htc's, and we'd wonder why samsung is being sued )

Pressing add and that will lead you to either an option of placing more widgets, adding folders, shortcuts, or applying wallpapers.
Now widgets, you have about 30 widgets out of the box both by samsung and google. Theres like 7 types of clocks for u people obsessed with time.
Talking about widgets, I must say, not all widgets are adjustable by size, few are only. Examples are like accuweather, ap mobile news, email, and about 1 or 2 more I could not bother to give a finger to greet their mother (its rubbish in another word).

Now within this "adding widgets" function, theres a way which samsung calls panning to move widgets from one page to another, this function I find most useful if ur on the 1st page, and you plan to place the widget on the 7th page because its just so inaccurate, like when I want to move the widget to just anothe page, for example from page 1 to page 2, id rather just drag my finger to the next page, so much faster, rather then playing super monkey ball with the damn widget and page..... Of course, you have to activate this "panning" by going to settings and to motion settings.

Next, the contact widget is pretty basic, you have keypad, logs, contacts and favourites tab on top. As usual, facebook integration makes it better, so i can see whos calling me when i forgot who is that.

With keypad tab, you get the dialer, very responsive, no lag at all at this part. You also have 2 options to call, call by voice, or call by video, and also an option to text.

Messaging, the bubble conversation as usual. but before you tap on the small bar down the screen to bring up the keyboard, you have a shortcut to attach files as such : pictures, videos, audios, locations, contacts, calander, memo and tasks. (pretty damn alot if u ask me, very useful indeed)

Since we r on the message, il talk bout the keyboard, the keyboard is alrite, i personally dont find touch screen keyboards great due to the fact that i have kinda "large fingers" not to say fat, but id definitely guarantee loads of americans will find this problem as well.

Back to the keyboard, the samsung keyboard is fine for most of you people im sure, with the additional space you get from the 4.27 inch screen, its definitely easier to type on compared to my previous nexus one.
There is also a swype keyboard, i tried it, and.. I dont find it really good, personal preference.
Now both swype and samsung keyboard has a bulit in microphone "button", pretty neat, used it, and its accurate, there was a time though where it got it quite a wrong.

Lets jump to the email client.
One word. FANTASTIC.

This client is nice because I dont know why, I do think they already have this function, but I can have like a "android 3.0 style email, with one bar separating the email list and the email content. This email content capable of supporting pinch to zoom. Neat feature indeed.
I have like a hotmail inbox, a gmail inbox, and a yahoo inbox and you can differentiate them.

Internet, its blazing fast... what the heck can I say, the dual core really does work wonderful here.
Scrolling is just so fast, without any lag. Afew sites ive been are unreal tournament web, scan.co.uk, engadget, youtube to stream a 1080p video. No lag. I swear upon my surname, browser no lag, as long as the page has finished rendering.

When I try scrolling a site while the page is still loading, i will get those checkerboard thingy. Thats the only time i ever get it.
Now, if you try to type in lowyat or any other forum's reply box, there are times where u noticed u will lag or worse, sometimes hang like my nexus one did when i was listening to music while replying here..
While using the sgs2, the lag is almost, almost! unnoticeable. I say almost because there are some times where it does lag alittle, but thats like quite rare, so no worries.
Since we r on browser, il comment about the "tilt" feature, which you can place to pressure points on the screen and bring the device back and forth, to enlarger or to minimize.. This feature... is a real waste of time, why would i want to move my hands or arms when i am already lazy to move my 2 fingers??? no brainer issue here, its just to show off to friends who are not smart enough to shoot u back with what i just said.... Or, its just a feature to say, ur phone got anot???

Moving on to GPS, the 1st time it tried to locate me, it toke exactly 2 minutes to search. Now, 2-4 seconds and it will lock u down with precision. No joke.
Maps is just the common maps but with rotation and mayb 3d buildings, i have yet to see any 3d bulidings on my screen yet, perhaps i need to bring the location to KL, okay tried, cant, this 3d feature we dont get in Malaysia...

Now lets go to the 4 hubs, Music, Game, Readers, and Social hub.
Music Hub, il skip, because its not supported here in Malaysia.

Now gamehub, We have 2 tabs above, one for social games and the other for premium games.

Social games consists of
- We Rule
- We City
- Pachinko (Is this the cute puppy doggy from the movie???)
- Forces of War
- Villians (I soppose they got all the bad guys from james bond judging from the cover that looks like 007.)
- Age of Legends (I think this is a mmorpg game)
- We Farm Safari (ANOTHER WE?????)
- Vegas Strip City (The only enticing game tittle which disappointed me 1 minute later)

Now, TO Premium Games !!!!
Premium games is nothing but a special link to all gameloft's game I believe, because we have tittle as such:
- Real Football 2011 HD
- GT Racing
- N.O.V.A Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance HD (This game is like a must to buy, it takes full advantage of the sgs2 gyroscope, hyposcope whatever scope lah)
- Lets Golf! 2 HD
- Assassin's Creed- Altair's Chronicles HD
- Hero of Sparta HD
- Shrek Kart HD
- Modern Combat 2
- Brothers In Arms 2
- James Cameron's Avatar HD (Havent watch this show yet, waiting for astro hbo )
- Dungeon Hunter HD

Well, thats bout the amount of games right now, and its quite an extensive list to me, im not a real mobile gamer, and yes, as the name suggests, u pay for the premium games... The social is free of charge.

Lastly, is the camera, owh yeah, I know u dslr lurkers are waiting to paw me on this one.
The camera is decent. Much better compared to a desire HD, but not really much difference if you compare it to sony xperia sensors.
Seriously, why frust about the photos??? just pay 20k and get a leica or a hasselblad if ur that obsessed.

Now the camera comes with quite a hell load of options, we have
- Self shot (it activates the front camera for more camwhoring)
- Flash (3 choices, disable fully, keep it auto, or enable it permanently to blind a person)
- Shooting mode (Choosing either single shot, smile shot, beauty shot, panorama, action shot, cartoon)
- Scene mode ( Choose from none to either portrait, landscape, night, sports, party/indoor, beach/snow, sunset, dawn, fall colour, firework, text, candlelight, backlight)
- Exposure value (-2.0 to +2.0, no idea)
- Focus mode (Choosing either auto focus, macro, or face detection)
- Timer (choosing from off to either, 2,5, or 10 seconds, useful when u too shy to ask ppl to take photo of urself or noone wan help u take photo of ur whole gang/triad/kampung/clan)
- Effects ( From none to either negative, grayscale, or sepia)
- Resolution (Yeah babeh, from 3264x2448 aka 8mp all the way to 640x480 aka 0.3mp)
- White Balance (Can set from Auto to daylight, cloudy, incandescent, fluorescent, josticent, last one joking, dun claw me plueseeee)
- ISO (From auto to 100, 200,400,800)
- Metering (From centre- Weighted to either Spot or Matrix)
- Outdoor visibility (off or on lah)
- Anti-Shake (Cant see difference)
- Auto Contrast (Off or on)
- Blink Detection (I think it will detect if ur blinking then it wont take the photo, so it doesnt look like ur sleeping, dslr ppl help me here!)
- Guidelines (to create white borderlines for u to aim better when u wanna take a photo, so the object is where u want it to be in the photo)
- Review (to let u see the photo after u taken it)
- Image quality (from superfine baby skin to normal like ah mah)
- GPS tag (u wan ppl know where u are when they lookin at cho photo then this is gooding)
- Reset (For u to "FFFFUUUUUUU" after u so hard to set ur camera settings" and end up back where u started)

For Video mode, u have the some of the options available only, but new settings as well such as:
- Recording mode (Normal, limit for mms or self recording)
- Resolution (from 176x144 up to 1920x1080)
- Outdoor visibility (when the sun tells u to turn stop recording, u use this to challenge the sun's brightness, a losing battle indeed to begin)
- Flash (whether u want to be a night stalker in the singapore night safari)


Battery life.
I officially announced that i plug out the charger at 09.xx am and the battery was 100% full, charging for about solid 8 and a half hours while the phone was shut down.
I got my 1st battery warning at 20% by 20.13pm. Battery definitely can last you from 8am to 7pm for u working people out there. This was on moderate usage. Calls about a total of 1 hour, heavy messaging, moderate browsing, email and weather syncing. I dont know about others like ccm or anyone else, but this is far from the so claimed 2 days battery, since they got the device, and charged it up for the 1st time as i did. Battery wont last a "Whole" day, but it will get u thru ur working hours.(exclusion for those definitely working in banks and some hardworking people)

The heat, while playing games, and browsing the web, it was well within the acceptable range, but as for calling, it was never once within an acceptable range, all phones are never within that range, thats why they gave u a earphone, and thats why they sell bluetooth earsets, not to show ppl ur ear can wear one, but for a good reason. Thus, phone is cleared from overheating worries.

Hardware wise, phone is light, yes, light. But this light isnt the cheap light, it somewhat has a quality feel. hardware buttons feel great and responsive, its raised perfectly i should say, even with the rubber cover, it still feels good.
The battery cover is the one dissapointment, theres no good way of taking it out, u have to pry it out with ur fingernails, but samsung had mercy and gace a small gap only on the side above the volume control hardware button. From there, u drag ur fingernails all the way down and the battery cover will slowly come out.
Flimsy, but not to the extent of giving u an impression u can tear it easily.

One thing I want to point out for the hardware, is the usb, whoever used the samsung galaxy s knows that it had a neat little feature which made the phone much more elegant, it was the usb cover that could slide. I'd wish samsung had done this to make the phone look less "hole-ful".

Overall impressions, Touchwiz 4.0 is definitely something... all these little wonders that samsung threw in the pot certainly made the new touchwiz better then those found on the stock 1st gen sgs.
With its samsung social hub, I do find it quite a replacement for Htc's proprietary social widgets, although truth be told, it will not beat htc's one.
Satisfied?? quite satisfied.

overall ratings 9/10

where did the 1 go?? The 2 REAL reason why the one went off is because the phone rebooted itself without its master's permission. Secondly, battery door, definitely a market i see for people to get a metal doorcover, but i wish the person planning to do this all the best and godspeed, because its gonna be hard, real hard.

If u find this useful, u r more then welcome to pin this up infront of the page, and pray to god people look at this before start typing a question already answered.


Polite version 1.0.

This post has been edited by oldKyoo: May 8 2011, 11:34 PM

Edit: Im too tired of typing... I have yet to talk about video playback as well, hope some of u guys can adress that

I dont know much about garmin, but the gps is pretty good.

its just that sometimes, google maps asks me to turn left when all i see is a concrete divider

Im happy that some of u r willing to read the wall of text i produced.

Try finding the app called tune in radio, its free in the market, plus its got an extensive list of radio stations around the world, I use that app to listen to power 98.

Anyway, im still giving the swtpe keyboard.a go before I totally declare it not suitable formy daily uaage.

I also have to add.the frustration of typing on lowyat forum, the screen keeps jumping,.i wished.samsung had some curser to edit words with pin point precision...
When in landscape mode, its useless, I cant see what im typing.. The screen jumps too frequent in lowyat..

Again, I really want to emphasise the browsing experience on this phone. Heavy flash webpages doesn't slow the phone at all, it feels like im browsing google search page lol....

this phone really does close the gaps between phone and tablets browsing experience. Yes, though it does come in frustration when the pages load in mobile mode, you can set the page as yr favs when the page is in desktop mode.
That is the only complain for browser.