Xperia X10
Posted on 10/08/2010 11:02:53 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Samsung has announced that it has managed to ship 5 million Galaxy S smartphones over the past three and a half months.
Although Apple managed to ship three million iPhone 4 units in the first month of sales, the success of the Galaxy S is still impressive and perhaps even a bit surprising.
The Galaxy S is Samsung’s flagship Android smartphone. It packs a 4-inch Super AMOLED 800x480 display, 1GHz processor and it bears a striking resemblance to Apple’s first generation iPhone, although it’s a bit thinner.
It’s also worth noting that the Galaxy S has just launched in Japan, where it will be carried by Docomo. The handset is still not available in many smaller markets, despite the fact that it launched in mid-July.
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I wouldn’t touch another Samsung phone if you paid me. I bought the Samsung Instinct HD as it was touted the latest & greatest.
Yeah. Latest & greatest POS.
It rolled out for the Captivate before the Vibrant. Sometimes these take a while. You may want to check under Setting-Software Update in case it has come out.
“My wife has the Vibrant.
My wife has one of those too, she keeps it in the night stand.... Oh.... wait a minute :p”
TMI. TMI!
Waiting impatiently on the GPS + other assorted bug fixes update. It could take until the end of the month supposedly. Then who knows how long the wait for Froyo will be. Probably around the time vanilla Android phones get Gingerbread pushed to them.
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I retired from SBC after 30 years. I don’t like phones of any kind. I don’t need to talk to people that bad, and me being me, no one seems to desire a conversation with me. Ergo, I don’t even have a cell phone. I have free service on my land line( actually they charge me $5 a month now), so I can call anyone anywhere and talk as long as I want. I usually let the answering machine get it unless it’s my daughter or my wife. My wife says she needs a cell phone in case of car trouble, but most of the time the signal is “iffy”. I wish she could get over it and just kill the phone because that would save me $100 a month and lots of worry about the phone being broke, dead batteries, obsolete, plan changes, etc. She spends several hours a month with ATT trying to get her phone to work or get a better deal. Such a waste.
You should be able to get a lot better deal than that for a simple cell phone.
You should be able to get a cell phone plan for half that.
Even a smart phone plan should only run you $80 a month.
It sucks badly. I have the Captivate. Freezes, crashes and lag. GPS barely works. They say the Froyo 2.2 update will fix a lot of the problems but I am totally frustrated with my Samsung Captivate...
Interesting, my parents both have the Captivate and have none of the issues you describe. You may want to look into a warranty claim on that device.
I just picked up a G2 to replace my old G1 and stock Froyo is fantastic!
Tracfone.
9.99 for the basic handset
19.99 “double minutes for life” — install first
99.99 year of service, 400 minutes become 800 minutes because of the double mintes card
Service thru 10-7-11, Just under $130 or $11 per month.
Then: 99.99 per year of service, 400 (800!) minutes per year, $8.34 per month.
Bought one from AT&T captivate, love it.
Interesting. I’ve found the GPS on the Captivate to be very buggy. It doesn’t seem to lock in properly. I’d be driving along the same stretch of parkway for 15 miles and it would think I had exited and tell me to make turns on local road.
However, my Captivate almost never freezes, crashes or lags. Both the screen scrolling and internet browsing has been very fast in my experience.
Do you have a task killer app (like Advanced Task Killer)? It makes it easy to close all the AT&T bloatware and other programs running in the background, which could slow down your phone. If you don’t you can get it for free in the Android Market.
I agree. I priced them yesterday and it comes out to about $200/month just for me and my wife. That was about a middle priced plan at AT&T and about $180 a month for Verizon with limited bandwidth.
I don't get it. Those phones are cool but way overpriced for the service.
But seem to have all the network protocols covered.
For my purposes the newest Droid is about the same functionally as the Samsung. One factor is that I do a lot of research using the all-seeing eye of the great Goog and any phone that forced me to use Bing would just drive me nuts. The Samsung’s screen looked excellent, but the Droid was sufficient for me. So, the advantage for me went to the Droid line.
Sony likes to say the Xperia just about closes the Android level gap by including Exchange active sync, opening attachments, adding the GAL (global access listing for business contacts—not many phones have the GAL yet), and then, of course, the remote “kill” — if the phone gets stolen, you send yourself an email and all contacts data, personal data, etc., in your business email is totally destroyed. Nice touch for those concerned about security.
Besides the fact, it is upgradeable— the upgrade date just hasn’t been announced yet.
As others have noted, the data plans for smart phones are pretty steep. So, I’m still managing with my more simpler phone. But I’ve liked what I’ve seen so far with the Xperia.
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