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Another SGS2 preview woohoo!

Well with regards to htc getting a free pass on battery there are quite a few factors. I'm with sprint; so I'm looking at sprint phones. It remains to be seen when this phone becomes available; but the following are issues I would like to see commented on before I make a purchase (btw I'm leaning towards the evo3d not because I think it is a better phone but because it will likely be available a month earlier):
a) microphone/speaker (clarity - the htc tends to do well here esp with noise cancellation hardware)
b) antenna (the htc tends to be better than the samsung; but the moto tend to be better than htc)
c) screen (gotta give that samsung the +++ here)
d) form factor - personal taste but i prefer thin and light - so samsung
e) batter life (droid x had the best; followed by galaxy s follow by very dismal evo; however the evo 3d is suppose to be much better here having a 1730ma battery and more efficient processor.
f) build - droid x was very good; follow by evo (not too sure how the galaxy s held up so no comment)
g) gps (samsung was a bit weak here; but one would hope they learned and the s ii will be better)
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Then there is ordering for me personally reception/clarity are very high; followed by usability outdoors and battery life - anyways - this phone does look interesting to me but as I noted at the start of this comment i sounds like it will be out quite a bit later than the evo3d which seems to improve on most of the weak points of the evo (though form factor is a bit weak with regards to my objective and screen performance outdoors is unknown but probably not as good as the samsung)
 
you2 said:
Well with regards to htc getting a free pass on battery there are quite a few factors. I'm with sprint; so I'm looking at sprint phones. It remains to be seen when this phone becomes available; but the following are issues I would like to see commented on before I make a purchase (btw I'm leaning towards the evo3d not because I think it is a better phone but because it will likely be available a month earlier):
a) microphone/speaker (clarity - the htc tends to do well here esp with noise cancellation hardware)
b) antenna (the htc tends to be better than the samsung; but the moto tend to be better than htc)
c) screen (gotta give that samsung the +++ here)
d) form factor - personal taste but i prefer thin and light - so samsung
e) batter life (droid x had the best; followed by galaxy s follow by very dismal evo; however the evo 3d is suppose to be much better here having a 1730ma battery and more efficient processor.
f) build - droid x was very good; follow by evo (not too sure how the galaxy s held up so no comment)
g) gps (samsung was a bit weak here; but one would hope they learned and the s ii will be better)
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Then there is ordering for me personally reception/clarity are very high; followed by usability outdoors and battery life - anyways - this phone does look interesting to me but as I noted at the start of this comment i sounds like it will be out quite a bit later than the evo3d which seems to improve on most of the weak points of the evo (though form factor is a bit weak with regards to my objective and screen performance outdoors is unknown but probably not as good as the samsung)
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If you are talking about SGSII on Verizon, then I agree that Evo 3D will come out ahead of it though probably not by much. But I think there is good chance that GSM versions of SGSII will hit AT&T before Evo 3D in summer.
Also I don't think HTC phones are any better than Samsung phones in reception/call quality. I had pretty good call quality with all my previous samsung phones.
1730 mAh batter is definitely help for HTC relative to 1500mAh in Evo 4G. But it's only about 15% bigger. I haven't used Evo 4G myself, but I hear that it's average life per charge is about 10 hours under medium usage. So adding 1~2 hours to it is not really something to write home about. Also Evo 3D got qHD SLCD and whole bunch of 3D stuffs which will likely use more power. So I expect SGSII will have better battery life than Evo 3D. Samsung has more expertise in designing power efficient chips, circuits and optimizing drivers for low power consumption than HTC.
 
jinwons said:
Samsung has more expertise in designing power efficient chips, circuits and optimizing drivers for low power consumption than HTC.
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The difference is that Samsung manufacturers SoCs, hence the "experience." HTC, to my knowledge, has only used Qualcomm SoCs, meaning HTC has no "experience" with the SoC hardware with respect to power management; I would assume their only knowledge of power efficiency would come from the mfgr (QualComm) and that's likely how they determine what SoC to use--they consult with the SoC maker.

If we're talking software, that's a different story.
 
you2 said:
g) gps (samsung was a bit weak here; but one would hope they learned and the s ii will be better)
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Just to respond to this part - the Galaxy S was weak in that area. Samsung have produced other phones with very good GPS units - the i8910 by Samsung has the best phone-GPS I have ever used... Hopefully they have got it right this time around, I do find it hard to believe they could make a collossal error like this in consecutive flagships though...
 
Kind of a shame that no preview I've read has ever gone in depth over the GPS. Prototypes should still have working GPS units, especially so close to launch. And the GPS was such a hot button issue for the Galaxy S too.
 
I agree, but at least they've left me something for my own review! Hopefully I can fill a niche the major blogs can't, since I will be an actual user of the handset, not some blogger who handled it for 24-48hours.

Incidentally, someone at XDA had a look at Eldar's latest spillikins in Russian - he makes some comments about the SGSII at the end and says he has a full review of a release version of the handset (hardware and software), and it should be coming this week.
 
What bothers me is that in both "reviews" there is no logo on the front of the phone.
Is this really the end product or still the prototype they're reviewing?
 
diS said:
What bothers me is that in both "reviews" there is no logo on the front of the phone.
Is this really the end product or still the prototype they're reviewing?
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Not final according to what Eldar has to say, his is final software and hardware and his benchmarks are higher than theirs (by around the same margin as the CPU clock speed is increased). I don't really consider Eldar extremely reliable any more, but he is still right more often than not, and I suspect he is correct here.
 
NZtechfreak said:
Not final according to what Eldar has to say, his is final software and hardware and his benchmarks are higher than theirs (by around the same margin as the CPU clock speed is increased). I don't really consider Eldar extremely reliable any more, but he is still right more often than not, and I suspect he is correct here.
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So how can someone be right more often than not and yet not be reliable? :P
 
I said not extremely reliable. He seems to have had spats with a few manufacturers in the last couple of years, and his coverage is often coloured by personal bias.
 
NZtechfreak said:
I said not extremely reliable. He seems to have had spats with a few manufacturers in the last couple of years, and his coverage is often coloured by personal bias.
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I guess you're waiting on the quad core Samsung Semantics?

:P

Interesting about Eldar. Didn't know that.
 
Eldar is biased when it comes to the SGS2. I've been linking to his previews and all the fawning and world-bending praise is pretty conspicuous. I tend to not like reviews from mobile-review.com because they are long and sound very sterile, so you know something's up when the tone suddenly changes. But I haven't read anything from the site in years so dunno what's going around there nowadays.
 
chocobosandwich said:
Very quick nexus s vs sgs2 comparison. Is it just me, or is the nexus s glass either thicker and more reflective, or the blacks milkier?
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Some Nexus S phones use an SLCD display, maybe that's why it looks poor. I've seen photos of the SGS beside an SGS2 and its OLED display didn't look nearly that washed out.
 
Jacked these from various other sites. Samsung EXTREME AD OVERLOAD. I dunno. I think they are trying too hard. At least it shows they are serious about marketing it. Tons of these ads on this youtube account, each with some writer from a popular tech blog/site. Very good pandering. I wonder if there's any quid pro quo? That would seal it. Mmmm colorful journalism.

YouTube - samsunguk's Channel

Here's some guy testing out all the functions. Several videos in youtube account.

YouTube - samsungmobilerdom's Channel

and commercial #3.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEU83IiGTT4

and here's #1 for those who missed it.

YouTube - [GALAXY S II] 1st Commercial

and #2 is somewhere above this post. Or in the same youtube account.


Disclaimer: I was extra un-diligent today and jacked all these, mainly from XDA.
 
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