Samsung Galaxy S... highest spec Android phone released... also with QWERTY!
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I have this on pre order with vodafone i hope its a good phone 
Got to be better then the x10 i have.
Got to be better then the x10 i have.
lol doubt it. x10 is fine except SEs lack of support and if youve ever had a samsung phone youl know they somehow manage to be worseI have this on pre order with vodafone i hope its a good phone
Got to be better then the x10 i have.
id seriously think about waiting and seeing what it ends up like rather than preordering
Well the reviews of it so far suggest it to be the best Android phone. Still more to come though.
X10s camera is apparently better though. If it gets root support and is compatible with all the ROM flashing etc I think it will pip the X10, and the Desire.
I shall have to go and try one
X10s camera is apparently better though. If it gets root support and is compatible with all the ROM flashing etc I think it will pip the X10, and the Desire.
I shall have to go and try one
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I know the x10 camera is a lot better but i don't buy a phone for the camera and as i already got the x10 and i need to send it back to the shop.
I don't wan't the same new phone again id like to try some thing new out lol.
Its got to be better then my current phone that is god knows how many years old.
I don't wan't the same new phone again id like to try some thing new out lol.
Its got to be better then my current phone that is god knows how many years old.
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When this releases it willo probably be the best android phone.
However, as most people are saying, dont expect too much official support. Samsung spew out so many phones that they never give their attention to one for too long. I seem to remember around this time last year they also had the best specced android phone, and look at the support that has.
However, as most people are saying, dont expect too much official support. Samsung spew out so many phones that they never give their attention to one for too long. I seem to remember around this time last year they also had the best specced android phone, and look at the support that has.
I would have disagreed with you, but after buying an I8910 I have to agree. They've promised several "huge" updates to it, and neither of them really materialised past a small update that wasn't even worth the time to put on the phone.
The phone looks amazing, and as I'm not due to upgrade till november, I'll keep an eye on this and see how samsung do. Although, there will hopefully be something even better out by november.
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Which phone is that?
Not sure what's with all the Samsung hate really, I'm pretty sure all the Samsung android handsets are getting an upgrade to 2.1 at least and from what I hear at least some to 2.2.
What other support do we need?
Why's that? Flash = crap, phone camera flash = crappest of the crap.
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I'm in that disappointed I8910 club with you. Great hardware, and still a great phone, but Samsung... well I've said it all already. My contract is up then also, and using a desire for now so have nothing to complain about really. This phone looks the business, but that os on top of android is clearly a iclone. I'm still on the fence about gettin the new iPhone, so i'll wait for some reviews to see what's what.
haha hmmm let me think I like to take pictures without them being either a) grainy mess b) having to be perfectly still and so does everyone in the picture due to the exposure time
And it is an issue they are tackling observe the new Samsung Galaxy Apollo
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Oh thanks Samsung you have now giving me basically the same phone but with the CHOICE of using an LED flash. Thanks, I will wait for this one!
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I'll be honest, and a lot of professional photographers will agree, photos taken with a built in camera flash come out pretty bad most of the time, I've taken over 5,000 photos with my digital camera and probably used the flash once or twice.
I guess it's horses for courses though, if you take a lo of photos in the pitch black it's maybe useful.
Phone camera flashes I've seen are pretty weak too, it just seems like a strange thing to be the deciding factor in whether you buy a mobile phone.
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Its also worth mentioning something about the camera allows more light to be let in so it will perform better in low-light situations than other phone cameras, but just not perform at all in no-light situations, which may pose a problem for some. 
Silly logic. A phone camera with a flash is better than a phone camera with no flash. My Nokia N82 takes perfectly acceptable pub and club pics with the xenon flash, as well as passable outdoor photos when you dont have a real camera around and it's not the only phone capable of doing so. Constant comparisons to professional cameras really does get on my mammaries, it's such a tired old spiel.
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and the camera on your N82 is not the same as the camera on the Galaxy S.. the Galaxy S camera has a larger aperture and so will let more light in low light situations. So times when the N82 will need the flash, the Galaxy S will not.
There is no camparison to prosumer cameras here, but a flash will 'washout' an image - it flattens it and removes a lot of dynamic range from the photo. That is true of any on/in camera flash, be that on a phone or compact, slr etc.
There is no camparison to prosumer cameras here, but a flash will 'washout' an image - it flattens it and removes a lot of dynamic range from the photo. That is true of any on/in camera flash, be that on a phone or compact, slr etc.
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How is that 'basically the same phone'?
Looking at the specs it has an inferior and slower CPU and there is no mention of the SGX540 that makes the Galaxy S such a powerful little device.
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I'd like to agree with you but I can't really because that argument comes in the same kind of logic that more megapixels = better camera.
Sure it is nice to have the option of a flash, I can't argue with that, but there are plenty of phones out there with flash that would take much worse pictures than some phones without flash.
I'm not saying that people are wrong to like flash on phones, I'm just saying that to discount the most powerful feature rich android phone to come to the UK because it doesn't have a flash on the camera is a little strange.
Also I've been taking night indoor photos with no flash for years and they come out ok.
I was doing a simple compare on GSM arena and they looked very similar indeed.
IF there was an abundance of high quality DECENT graphics games on android to the standard of at least the iphone ones then yeah maybe that would be more of a factor.
It will be a while yet till we have these types of games on Android and when they are here I have no doubt I will be looking at a completely different sets of phones to what we have now.