Samsung i7500 (Android)

Abraham · 10 Aug 2009 at 10:22

just accidentally bidded on a ebay.de one that may well not deliver to the UK, bugger :/ have sent a google translated message saying that I'll pay the extra for it to be sent to the UK

lez · 10 Aug 2009 at 13:48

I like the idea of a forum, and have the space, and i'm thinking of getting one of these phones asap, so i suppose if i start the forum i'll always have the first news lol

anyone think good/bad?

kam187 · 10 Aug 2009 at 19:00

I've changed the windows transitions speed to 'fast' and also changed the overall font size to 'small' (using spareparts - an android market app). Its seems even faster now :-/

You can also add a few other transitions there.

kam187 · 10 Aug 2009 at 21:17

Seems swapfile support isnt enabled in the current build. Wierd.. maybe they wanted to shrink the kernel as much as possible.

AFK_Matrix · 13 Aug 2009 at 09:31

So anyone have any idea when i can play with this in a shop? Was supposed to be released after the 10th August but haven't seen anything at all about it. I really want to have a play as I have tried the Iphone 3gs and the Hero and want to make a comparison.

dephlector · 13 Aug 2009 at 10:17

About the memory again

Hi,

I also really like the Samsung smartphone, but I am really concerned about the size of RAM memory. I am tired of all the bull**** marketing statements "memory, usable by the applications" and so on. Nobody sells me a PC, saying "You have 1700 MB RAM, usable by applications (because the OS uses 300MB)". But enough with the ranting

Kam187:
So, as I understand from your post, the Samsung device you have has 192 MB RAM memory, and the HTC Hero has 288 MB. But there are places in the internet that say Samsung has 288MB RAM (i.e is identical to Hero. Is it possible that there are TWO types of Samsung Galaxy - with different amounts of memory? This has already happened once (with HTC Magic) that's why my hope is still not gone.

Regards,
dephlector

Benihana · 13 Aug 2009 at 19:09

http://www.techradar.com/news/phone...2-denies-uk-delay-samsung-i7500-galaxy-626300

Not good.

martino · 13 Aug 2009 at 21:01

Yeah, and I'm still wondering when webshops will get the device in. Would like to see what their prices are like before I would attempt to order from Germany if it came much cheaper.

Faceman · 14 Aug 2009 at 05:09

Would love to know what it failed on... not good news at all tho

Abraham · 14 Aug 2009 at 08:25

what it failed on? it's been comprehensively denied by o2 that it failed accreditation, it just came from some troll on the o2 forums.

z0mbi3 · 14 Aug 2009 at 10:27

Abraham said:
what it failed on? it's been comprehensively denied by o2 that it failed accreditation, it just came from some troll on the o2 forums.

You got a link to where it's been comprehensively denied?

neonstarfish · 14 Aug 2009 at 14:25

z0mbi3 said:
You got a link to where it's been comprehensively denied?

Not exactly comprehensively denied, but the implication is that it hasn't failed any tests (yet):
http://www.techradar.com/news/phone...2-denies-uk-delay-samsung-i7500-galaxy-626300

This doesn't detract from the fact that there seems to be very little concrete information regarding the release of this phone in the UK.

z0mbi3 · 14 Aug 2009 at 15:04

Well it seems like the dummy handsets aren't on display in store any more so make of that what you will.

Christo · 15 Aug 2009 at 12:18

http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/08/14/uk-to-get-samsung-galaxy-next-week/

kam187 · 15 Aug 2009 at 15:47

dephlector said:
Hi,
So, as I understand from your post, the Samsung device you have has 192 MB RAM memory, and the HTC Hero has 288 MB. But there are places in the internet that say Samsung has 288MB RAM (i.e is identical to Hero. Is it possible that there are TWO types of Samsung Galaxy - with different amounts of memory? This has already happened once (with HTC Magic) that's why my hope is still not gone.

I think people are just confused by the way samsung 'clarified the confusion' lol.

You can see a screenshot taken of system monitor on both the Hero and Samsung here:

http://www.i7500world.com/2009/08/09/official-samsung-galaxy-has-192mb-ram/

So in fact, I would say:

Total Memory: Hero 288mb, Samsung 192mb
Available for applications: Hero 192mb, Samsung 93mb

From my experiance of both phones....
Actual memory free on boot: Hero 60 to 70mb, Samsung 25 to 41mb

martino · 16 Aug 2009 at 23:41

kam187 said:
Samsung 25 to 41mb

Is that fine for most Android applications? I have about 25MB free on WM6 and that is just enough to open a web browser or PDF but no memory left for anything else to be open.

Christo · 17 Aug 2009 at 00:59

martino said:
Is that fine for most Android applications? I have about 25MB free on WM6 and that is just enough to open a web browser or PDF but no memory left for anything else to be open.

Im really not sure why everyone is going on about the memory, I have 4 or 5 if not more apps open at the same time, it runs fine.

kam187 · 17 Aug 2009 at 02:50

I have to say at first I was a bit worried about the memory. There would be times when I would see the memory drop to 7mb.

But then I realised this only happened when I was going app happy and launching loads of apps at the same time (5,6,7) - you know how it is when you first get your phone!

Even then It would manage the ram by itself. I'm actually now considering removing taskiller from my homescreen.

deadite66 · 17 Aug 2009 at 08:51

iirc apps are only allowed to have 16MB which helps a bit.

martino · 17 Aug 2009 at 11:18

Christo said:
Im really not sure why everyone is going on about the memory, I have 4 or 5 if not more apps open at the same time, it runs fine.

Uhh... read my post properly? If yes then you would notice where I was coming from... :/

But well, thanks kam187. I see that Android has no problems with memory management, unlike WM6, or that well, the apps are written better in general.