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shanemoeller56

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Just a few updates if anyone hasn't seen them already.

CES: AT&T goes big with Samsung Infuse 4G - CES 2011 CNET Blogs

looks like a nice phone. if i have the money when it comes out,and samsung dosnt update our captivates to 2.2 by the time it comes out, i may get it. but who knows, im overall very happy with my phone, i just love having the newest gadget out there lol.

also i follow samsung us on twitter and they were saying tests are being done on the 2.2 update for all US galaxy S phones. (sorry cant get a screenshot right now)

Twitter

SamsungMobileUS: Samsung Mobile USA
We are working to make the Android 2.2/Froyo upgrade available to all U.S. Galaxy S owners as soon as possible.
 
After my issues with the Captivate (and lack of Samsung support), I will never touch another Samsung device again. I'm looking forward for the HTC Inspire or Motorola Olympus release details. If they're not coming out anytime soon, I think I'm switching carriers to get an Android that doesn't need a dev ROM in order to function half-decently.
 
-1000 points for more BS calling things "4G" that are nothing of the sort.
-1000 points for being Samsung

I'll wait to see what HTC is bringing to the AT&T table at CES... they'd better be bringing something to the AT&T table.
 
sremick said:
-1000 points for more BS calling things "4G" that are nothing of the sort.
-1000 points for being Samsung

I'll wait to see what HTC is bringing to the AT&T table at CES... they'd better be bringing something to the AT&T table.
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Did you see the news about the HTC Inspire? It seems as though it's the Thunderbolt's (Verizon LTE) sibling. The add in Rolling Stone claims that it's an at&t "4G" device. I'm guessing that means that they're going the T-Mobile route and calling HSPA+ 4G. Pretty lame.

On the bright side, I think that HTC may be the best Android manufacturer so it's nice that they're bringing something new to at&t. The phone looks slick too.
 
I also will never own another Samsung product. After seeing the lack of support and complete ignorance of the issues with their devices, I have zero faith in the company. Even if they gave us 2.3 tomorrow, in my book they're done.
 
sremick said:
-1000 points for more BS calling things "4G" that are nothing of the sort.
-1000 points for being Samsung

I'll wait to see what HTC is bringing to the AT&T table at CES... they'd better be bringing something to the AT&T table.
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Absolutely agreed with you that HSPA+ is NOT 4G. However very recently, the ITU decided to relax their 4G standard, thus allowing these carriers with HSPA+ and first gen LTE and WiMax to call their networks as 4G. So now everybody can claim to have 4G. Haha, marketing pressure from these carriers caused the ITU to buckle shamelessly...

shameless ITU
 
skinien said:
Did you see the news about the HTC Inspire? It seems as though it's the Thunderbolt's (Verizon LTE) sibling. The add in Rolling Stone claims that it's an at&t "4G" device. I'm guessing that means that they're going the T-Mobile route and calling HSPA+ 4G. Pretty lame.

On the bright side, I think that HTC may be the best Android manufacturer so it's nice that they're bringing something new to at&t. The phone looks slick too.
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The Inspire is LCD though, not AMOLED. I'm not sure I could downgrade my display like that. Dealing with my loaner Backflip and seeing others' LCD phones (iPhones, etc) just serves as a reminder of how much of a gigantic improvement AMOLED is over LCD. Not to mention thinner screens and less battery used.
 
That seems pretty Epic. Although, I am now sad because i didn't wait and buy it. I still like my phone though. But THIS, this will blow the iphail4 out of the water AGAIN!
 
I think that's why they ramped up the battery to a 1900+ mH. There was an article that I'll try to find that illustrates how they should have better battery performance since the process threading is in parallel instead of in series... I'll rry to find it...
 
The bigger news buried in the press release is that AT&T will have 12 new Android devices this year and a renewed commitment to Android as an operating system.

Also remember that AT&T is the only carrier with a backward compatible network, so once LTE comes out the fail back is still to a "4G" Network (being HSPA+). No one else can claim that and I think that is why they are calling the HSPA+ ..4G. It will make marketing easier later this year....
 
skinien said:
I'm waiting to see how well batteries can handle dual-core CPUs. It is an awesome phone though. Almost as powerful as my first laptop :D
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I can't seem to find it now, but I saw an article just recently claiming that dual core processors could actually improve battery life, at least when not running full tilt. Presumably if you're actually using both cores to the max, they're going to draw more power than just one, all else being equal.

But suppose you have a load that say maxed out a 1GHz single-core processor, but is also parallelizable. Then the system can drop the speed of a dual core processor to 500MHz dynamically and still perform the same work by spreading the load across both cores. But the magic is that running at the lower clock speed, it can also lower the CPU voltage, which ultimately saves battery.

This is not the original article I saw, but it's another one that hints at the idea: Qualcomm will ship 1.5GHz dual-core snapdragons in Q4, phones may come as early as Christmas

So when you're just reading mail, surfing the web, or doing various other things that your current CPU can already handle, dual core may well extend the battery life.

EDIT: Ah, here's the first article I saw: http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2010/12/08/nvidia-dual-core-power-saving/1
 
sremick said:
The Inspire is LCD though, not AMOLED. I'm not sure I could downgrade my display like that. Dealing with my loaner Backflip and seeing others' LCD phones (iPhones, etc) just serves as a reminder of how much of a gigantic improvement AMOLED is over LCD. Not to mention thinner screens and less battery used.
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I agree totally man i was playing with the evo the other day and although i liked the phone man the display is not even close i cannot go back now it looks so dull and boring.
 
I can believe that's the case, assuming that the power draw of the 2 cores does not exceed that of the single core (can be achieved by going to a smaller nm process).
 
Considering how slow AT&T's 3G network is I have no faith in their version of 4G.
And I'm, also, with everyone who said they are done with Samsung phones.
 
The Atrix looks nice. Of course by the time I'm due for an upgrade, Android won't be using sweets for names and Super AMOLED won't be so super anymore.

Curse you Samsuck!
 
Why is everyone bashing samsung? I just bought the captivate and with the custom roms and what not phone is great. If your a non tech person I can see y but I'm in IT field and rooting and instaling roms is rather easy. But they also said they would update to froyo but neverdid. That's screwed up. I'm blaming att on that. They want ppl to buy the new shiznitz come summer. I don't care I've owned a black berry bold prior to this so its big jump for me! Ill just continie to use cusom roms. I'm str8. Oh and a friggin 4.5 inch screen...wtf, u wnaa carry around a damn mini monitor!?
 
I'm in the IT field also and have been for about 20 years now. It gives me particular insight on the full nature of Samsung's failings.

The availability of unofficial ROMs does not excuse Samsung for their failings both on customer service as well as the serious design and technical-deficiencies of the Captivate. The GPS is confirmed faulty and the use of horrible RFS for critical internal filesystems is inexcusable. A user should not have to get that technically-trained, void their warranty, and risk bricking their phone just to improve basic functionality to a point still somewhat short of what should've been there out of the box, or at least present after an official warrantied update.
 
sremick said:
I'm in the IT field also and have been for about 20 years now. It gives me particular insight on the full nature of Samsung's failings.

The availability of unofficial ROMs does not excuse Samsung for their failings both on customer service as well as the serious design and technical-deficiencies of the Captivate. The GPS is confirmed faulty and the use of horrible RFS for critical internal filesystems is inexcusable. A user should not have to get that technically-trained, void their warranty, and risk bricking their phone just to improve basic functionality to a point still somewhat short of what should've been there out of the box, or at least present after an official warrantied update.
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I've been on this forum for several months now and find myself agreeing with everything you say. So I don't have to post anymore, can you just add "skinien agrees" to your signature? :p
 
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