Inspire vs Atrix vs Infuse

[55pilot]

With all due respect, you are wrong.

And what is the basis of your ignorant statement?

I do not work for Samsung, nor am I advocating for them. I am simply setting the record straight. Are they perfect? NO. Are they excellent? Yes.

Care to come up with some data for your claim that Samsung products are "excellent" ?

In a moment of stupidity, I bought 2 Samsung phones 2 years ago on my AT&T plan. In the last 2 years, we went through 4 phones: 2 on warranty exchanges under manufacturer's warranty and 2 died and were replaced with other unlocked phones. This is addition to needing to take the battery out at least once a couple of months and a host of other problems attributed to poor design.

Other than these, I have never had any of the Nokia or Motorola phones I have owned since the early 1990's stop working for any reason other than physical damage. So I speak from personal experience that Samsung is synonymous with crappy, unreliable and poorly thought out phones.

I will tell you beyond a shadow of a doubt, that Samsung is going to continue to be a very big player in this market.

That, unfortunately, is true due to two reasons. One: There is a sucker born every day. Two: Apologists like you who do not know what they are talking about keep providing the suckers with reason to believe that it is a good idea to trust a crappy product.

 

[burtonvdp]

Having had both (Inspire and Atrix), I can tell you what I went with. I ended up with the inspire. Started with the atrix and loved the fact that I had a dual core processor.... Let me back up for a sec and tell you what I use the phone for:

Texting
Email (work and home)
Camera
Phone calls
Web browsing
Work apps (Zendesk, SIP Clients, and network tools)
Facebook / social apps
Games

In just about that order of use....
Now here is why I turned the atrix back in:

1) Keyboard, even with the gingerbread overlay seemed to be a bit laggy and ghosted characters.
2) Every photo I texted that had to be resized ended up in landscape which irritated me to no end... When I took it back one of the reps at costco tried their droid and it did the same thing so they thought it might be a moto software thing /shrug.
3) Camera was horrible compared to others.... I used multiple camera apps and while they helped (Still not great) I really didn't want to set iso's and like every time I wanted to take a nice pic.
3) I had that goofy static bug when making phone calls (I hear they have fixed that though)
4) The screen seemed to change the huge to a yellowish tent when looking at photos and the like.
5)Was getting random reboots after the first major patch

I was worried about leaving my dual core behind but for what I use the phone for I can honestly say I cant tell the difference... The inspire (to my eyes) was a cleaner screen although not quite as bright. The size was a bit odd for about a day or 2 now I pick up my wife's iPhone and it seems like a toy!

The inspire has horrible battery life if you like live wallpapers and a lot of syncing widgets... I personally get a full day and a half out of it when using "normally" (Turning off Bluetooth and wifi when not in use) but I can see power users eating through the battery. It seems to go through memory fairly quickly and I have to kill apps every week or so... or reboot. Oh and the speaker is not the best... Barely usable to be honest.

All and all I'm pretty damn happy with it. I keep trying to find reason to buy a new phone but every time I try to justify it, I just can't. The gps works great, web browsing is fine, texting is great (other than the slide show thing), apps open quickly... and so on. Mind you this is a completely stock phone with no mods either.

 

[Puddin422]

Funny you say that about Motorola phones and texting pics. A friend of mine has a moto device, and every pic from them is sideways. I have to save it to my gallery and rotate it permanently in there. It's really frustrating to try to find that perfect spot where you can rotate the phone slightly without it rotating the pic, all the while, cocking your head sideways to see it....lol...It's very stupid.

 

[moondrius]

And what is the basis of your ignorant statement?
Care to come up with some data for your claim that Samsung products are "excellent" ?

In a moment of stupidity, I bought 2 Samsung phones 2 years ago on my AT&T plan. In the last 2 years, we went through 4 phones: 2 on warranty exchanges under manufacturer's warranty and 2 died and were replaced with other unlocked phones. This is addition to needing to take the battery out at least once a couple of months and a host of other problems attributed to poor design.

Other than these, I have never had any of the Nokia or Motorola phones I have owned since the early 1990's stop working for any reason other than physical damage. So I speak from personal experience that Samsung is synonymous with crappy, unreliable and poorly thought out phones.
That, unfortunately, is true due to two reasons. One: There is a sucker born every day. Two: Apologists like you who do not know what they are talking about keep providing the suckers with reason to believe that it is a good idea to trust a crappy product.

Samsung has come a long way since then. I had a Samsung Glyde on Verizon and that this was horrible. The phone itself was nice but the touchscreen would die every 2-3 months. At that point I decided to stay away from Samsung phones. I tried out a Moment right before the Evo came out and was actually surprised at how decent the phone was. I have used a Captivate, Fascinate and currently own and use a Droid Charge and I have to say that I have been very happy with Samsung these days. I have used Android devices from HTC and Motorola and I have to say Samsung got it right with the Galaxy S line.

 

[Puddin422]

Speaking of Samsung, I have decided to wait for Attain.

 

[55pilot]

Samsung has come a long way since then.

There is such a thing as burning the bridges. It takes years to build confidence and only one crappy product to ensure that a customer will never ever try the company's products again even if they are are offered the product for free.

At this stage, the only way I can see myself spending any of my time using a Samsung phone is if I were being paid to use it or if I was convinced that all other cell phone makers were worse than what I have experienced Samsung to be. In other words, I do not see it happening.

 

[Puddin422]

I thought that after the Instinct. Not that it wasn't a decent phone. It just wasn't all it was hyped up to be. Galaxy S phones are leaps and bounds better than Instinct. My Epic has its moments, but the camera takes fantastic pictures (for a phone), has FFC, has a gorgeous display that can actually be SEEN in daylight, dedicated camera button...

I think, if GS2's are as much an improvement as the first ones were over previous Samsung phones, it will be phenominal.

And it sounds like Attain will come out in the next month or two..!!

 

[maerlim]

Personally, I'm waiting for the LG Thrill (Optimus 3D) and Samsung Attain (Galaxy-SII) to come out (I expect them in July) then I'll have a battle royal between them.

 

[shawn1224]

Never again will I trust Samsung. I've had over 3 Samsung smartphones (2 being android) and 2 feature phones. Every last one of them has failed me. I can say without a doubt that when it comes to media features, nobody can best Samsung and they put out some of the best cameras in the game. Where they fall short is in software development. Too many bugs & glitches. It's like they disregard any quality control measures before they release a product to the general population.

Every maker has their issues but I've found that Samsung just has too many and when their business mantra is all about sales and no service. It's hard to support a company like that.

Signed
CEO of the DNPSEA foundation

 

[Puddin422]

I don't doubt that Samsung CAN get it right. People seem happy with Nexus S.