and of course the different OS

^ forgot to add that too

but i think might go for innov8 if were to choose between both. dunno y but i still think samsung is not up to par for PDA phone but i like that they are trying real hard to get into WM market...

Tried out GarminXT, installation is no problem but it just don't want to run . Will try to see if there are any solution .
Here are some photos i taken this morning

Penang Time Square under construction


This is the infamous close-up flower


This post has been edited by chtan: Oct 10 2008, 09:28 AM

wow nice pictures.. can you like a picture of a nice boat also

how is the UI anyway? responsiveness?

The UI is very responsive, fast and smooth. The time taken to store in the picture is really fast as well. Just under 2s for a 8MP photo, impressive.

what's the standard package consist of? Does it include 2nd FREE battery? Most of Samsung mid & high end phones have 2 batteries included in the standard package.

Please also check whether USB charging is working or not.

Nope, only 1 battery and the USB is working perfectly, i mean charging. In fact, there are no other way you can charge the phone beside USB.
The standard package is....well, pretty standard. 1 power charger, USB cable for data sync., a CD, 1 simple user guide, earphone, extra ear piece and the phone itself. Oh, before i forget, the 8G sandisk microSD.

compression is more than normal digital camera. i wonder if it suffers detail lost...

abt gmxt.. i guess we hav to wait further... did u try restart after installing?

Well, for saving a 2M photo file size in under 2s, imho is quite impressive. As for the compression, the picture is there, check it up yourself.

I restarted my unit but GarminXT still refuse to run, guess need to wait for newer release then.

Ummm... i meant does the unit charges while connected to laptop/PC via USB? This function is vital when we use the unit as 3G/HSDPA connection.

Anyways, there are lots of youtube stuff on i8510. Very good UI but abit "messy". Regarding the GPS function, there should be some tweaks to make it work to all Symbian OS phones. COM port settings is essential to make the GPS working well. Have you tried to set the COM port to COM8 or COM1....?

Not sure if this is another color variant?

Source (chinese):
http://www.eprice.com.tw/mobile/news/?news_id=7812

This post has been edited by Shinichi: Oct 5 2008, 06:59 PM

I know what you mean and of course this phone is chargeable thru. PC/laptop USB port.
I know the port is important for the software to connect to the GPS module. The problem now is it shut down totally before you can do any setting on it .

seems like memory leak issue....

Some how i don't think it is a memory leak problem. The phone remain very responsive after the program terminate itself. A normal memory leak will slow your phone down, eventually you have to reset the phone.

means Garmin can't be used for now...guess i will wait for awhile more only buy...

i second that. memory leak problem means the RAM itself is used so much but you dont know what is being used.

i wud say it is about compatibility of the software with the phone.

so there's no bundled trial GPS client? I'm pretty sure iGO8 will run smoothly with this unit coz it has auto-detect COM port capability.

i remember samsung likes navifone... or something like that.. it has its own gps bundle software usually like G810...

Agreed, it should be compatibility issue. The one comes with Innov8 is called GPS+ which i'm not familiar with, beside it needs to download GPS data(valid only for 7 days) from web. I would prefer GarminXT anytime.

If i'm not wrong, that GPS+ might be the same as in touch diamond where it is used to download satellite data for faster locking...