Hi there,
I'm interested to know if there are any other fellow SGS owners on Virgin out there? I'm being a little pre-emptive (I haven't managed to get it on there yet) but basically I had been holding out for Froyo to see if Samsung would fix the GPS issues, unfortunately initial reports are poor and sounds like they have failed to fix it.
GPS in it's current state is categorically defective, I cannot rely on it as a GPS device either on foot or in the car. As such I intend to press my consumer rights and return the device as defective. The issue is is that I just checked and they no longer appear to stock the SGS and there is no other feature-for-feature phone that is even slightly close to it.
If I have to I will press to cancel my contract, I'm just wondering if anyone has an experience of Virgin mobile return department?
It really is such a shame as I for the most part actually like the SGS, as a piece of hardware it's pretty damn ace (apart from a potentially dumb location for the GPS receiver). The only bit that is bad about it is ALL the Samsung software. I see absolute no benefit they have added over stock, literally no app they altered or replaced is better in anyway than the stock equivalent. I just can't fathom why they would meddle to such an extent and then compound it by utterly failing to do ANY real-world QA.
If I can achieve a return it will be a very long time before I return to a Samsung Android handset.
Yakboy - really, really misses his Nexus one
I'm interested to know if there are any other fellow SGS owners on Virgin out there? I'm being a little pre-emptive (I haven't managed to get it on there yet) but basically I had been holding out for Froyo to see if Samsung would fix the GPS issues, unfortunately initial reports are poor and sounds like they have failed to fix it.
GPS in it's current state is categorically defective, I cannot rely on it as a GPS device either on foot or in the car. As such I intend to press my consumer rights and return the device as defective. The issue is is that I just checked and they no longer appear to stock the SGS and there is no other feature-for-feature phone that is even slightly close to it.
If I have to I will press to cancel my contract, I'm just wondering if anyone has an experience of Virgin mobile return department?
It really is such a shame as I for the most part actually like the SGS, as a piece of hardware it's pretty damn ace (apart from a potentially dumb location for the GPS receiver). The only bit that is bad about it is ALL the Samsung software. I see absolute no benefit they have added over stock, literally no app they altered or replaced is better in anyway than the stock equivalent. I just can't fathom why they would meddle to such an extent and then compound it by utterly failing to do ANY real-world QA.
If I can achieve a return it will be a very long time before I return to a Samsung Android handset.
Yakboy - really, really misses his Nexus one