hi all! im new to smartphones, and may wanna get one. currently interested with galaxy w. i've read alot of reviews online, and i've read thru the pinned post of this thread (4 threads in fact! in just a few months ) noticed that there are quite a number of galaxy w owners here.

pardon my ignorance on smartphones but its hard for me to go through each post in these threads, i've only read the first few pinned by TS.

anyway, is there anything i should be aware/know regarding this model? i mean, so far i see no huge problem with this phone (from online reviews, etc), but sellers at my area warned me about the quality of this phone. one shop told me there's prob with the speakers (or earphone im not sure), another told me to watch out for 1st batch of phones (claimed that 1st batch has bad build quality and asked me to wait for 2nd batch and stuffs like that), truth is, i dont know which is true. plus not many shop carry this model in my area, most of them either say they dont have stock or the display unit is the last one.

anyway TLDR: a newb getting touchscreen smartphone for the first time, wanna know is it safe to get this model at this time? cheers

thanks all!

im seriously new to smartphones, in fact, i would still opt for tactile feature phone if i could. but the more i read, the more i realize smartphones are like slow mini pc. and then i read about all these OC and ROMs, somehow now kena poison abit. i read that there are tons of thirdparty ROMs out there so what other ROM to be recommended? how does cyanogenmod compared to cow rom?

anyone encountered "Not registered to network" error message? just bought a galaxy w yesterday, got the same message when testing at shop, shop girl said its due to old sim card; so she cleaned the sim and restart and everything's ok. today same message pop up again, so we tried switching to another sim card, same "not registered to network" message. thanks!

converting your mp3 to flac doesnt improve the quality at all.