Samsung i7500 (Android)

[shrimp3r]

O2 shop told me today they'll have it in store on Thurs 13th.

Mark Mac

 

[Christo]

All significantly better than the Hero I hope!

Im not confident about the battery life..

 

[TheDean]

Im not confident about the battery life..

Oh dear.....How much do you get out of it at present?

 

[indup]

does it have multitouch and is the web browsing experience as good as on the hero?

 

[z0mbi3]

doesn't wisync solve most battery issues?

 

[kam187]

ok i give up on the syncing.. what are you guys using to sync outlook -> gmail?

And know any good widgets?

 

[Christo]

I synced my outlook contacts/calenar to gmail yep. Works well. You should use the FBsync too - get your facebook pictures in your contacts...

 

[kam187]

what did u use to sync tho? is there some app? I rarely use gmail tbh

EDIT: I just exported them as csv

 

[Benihana]

http://androidcommunity.com/white-samsung-galaxy-i7500-spotted-in-wild-20090805/

Mmm, still thinking black is better, wouldnt mind either tho!

 

[manoz]

Is this available in the UK yet, should have been out last week no?

 

[kam187]

manoz: On O2 around 13th august. But looks expensive on contract

So, i've had it off charge for 4 hours.. parlingo has been on and i had a conversation for about 15 mins on msn. I just made a 70 minute phone call. And i had wifi on for about 20 minutes while i was trying to sync to gmail.

Battery is now at 67%

Sorry its not a very good test, but some work stuff got in the way

EDIT: that 67% is in system monitor, but the battery symbol at the top looks like its 90%. Not sure wtf is going on

 

[shrimp3r]

Some interesting comments about how to care for your battery here: http://forum.vodafone.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=24620&st=84

 

[kam187]

first random reboot

 

[Christo]

first random reboot

Its that new firmware...

 

[kam187]

Its that new firmware...

yeah. also several apps are missing, like pacman and cab4me

 

[z0mbi3]

Some interesting comments about how to care for your battery here: http://forum.vodafone.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=24620&st=84

Does the Magic use the same battery though? I would have thought not.

 

[Abraham]

Does the Magic use the same battery though? I would have thought not.

the comments are regarding li-ion batteries in general though

 

[z0mbi3]

the comments are regarding li-ion batteries in general though

oh right, I didn't get that from the voda forums.

From this thread I gathered the battery problems were down to Android being always connected, and that if you used something like wisync you could get much better life out of it.

 

[shrimp3r]

oh right, I didn't get that from the voda forums.

From this thread I gathered the battery problems were down to Android being always connected, and that if you used something like wisync you could get much better life out of it.

The main thing seems to be that when you first get your phone, charge it often to keep it "topped up" and that performance should improve over the 1st couple of weeks - don't let it discharge fully during this period, as that's bad for the battery.

 

[Abraham]

oh right, I didn't get that from the voda forums.

From this thread I gathered the battery problems were down to Android being always connected, and that if you used something like wisync you could get much better life out of it.

two different problems, most android phones are suffering with a lot of things being on by default, but these terrible cases are probably a result of not treating the battery well, this comes as news to me because I've always stuck as well as I can to the run it almost empty and charge it completely full to prolong my battery life