****The Official Samsung Galaxy S II Thread***

Cold Fusion said:
Just read the TechRadar review and its largely positive. Just a few questions to ask hopefully more informed members of this thread.

TechRadar said that the UK models have thier NFC 'disabled' and that 'Enabled' phones would come later. Does anybody know what they mean by this is the NFC hardware still in the phone with a software update required to enable it? or have they removed the hardware completely?

Are there any other sites such as TechRadar with reviews? I'm quite a shrewd purchaser and like to have more than one opinion before I take things further.
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Dunno about NFC, personally I don't think I'll ever use it but it would be nice if the hardware was there anyway.

As for another review, Slashgear did one too...

http://www.slashgear.com/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-review-26148446/
 
Cold Fusion said:
Just read the TechRadar review and its largely positive. Just a few questions to ask hopefully more informed members of this thread.

TechRadar said that the UK models have thier NFC 'disabled' and that 'Enabled' phones would come later. Does anybody know what they mean by this is the NFC hardware still in the phone with a software update required to enable it? or have they removed the hardware completely?

Are there any other sites such as TechRadar with reviews? I'm quite a shrewd purchaser and like to have more than one opinion before I take things further.
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There is no link to anything to do with NFC on my S2, but whether the hardware is inside it I don't know. Maybe the capability is there, but due to there being no operators as yet supporting it, they have decided to disable it in software.

Don't fancy taking it apart to have a look for the NFC chip at the moment.
 
I haven't heard anything more from P4U other than an order confirmation. Time to moan at them.

Cold Fusion said:
Just read the TechRadar review and its largely positive. Just a few questions to ask hopefully more informed members of this thread.

TechRadar said that the UK models have thier NFC 'disabled' and that 'Enabled' phones would come later. Does anybody know what they mean by this is the NFC hardware still in the phone with a software update required to enable it? or have they removed the hardware completely?

Are there any other sites such as TechRadar with reviews? I'm quite a shrewd purchaser and like to have more than one opinion before I take things further.
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Only the Korean versions are NFC enabled, the phone with NFC inside is slightly thicker, so the UK models wont have it.
 
estebanrey said:
Dunno about NFC, personally I don't think I'll ever use it but it would be nice if the hardware was there anyway.

As for another review, Slashgear did one too...

http://www.slashgear.com/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-review-26148446/
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Thanks i'll take a look at the other review. As for NFC, i do know what you mean as TechRadar commented that provision for it in the UK is low , but can't help feel a little disappointed with Samsung. It might be related to the Tsunami in Japan and they can't get parts. Just when i read 'disabled' it suggests it can be enabled but that might have been a bad use of words on TechRadars part.
 
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Cold Fusion said:
Thanks i'll take a look at the other review. As for NFC, i do know what you mean as TechRadar commented that provision for it in the UK is low , but can't help feel a little disappointed with Samsung. It might be related to the Tsunami in Japan and they can't get parts. Just when i read 'disabled' it suggests it can be enabled but that might have been a bad use of words on TechRadars part.
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Who knows, personally though I'm not to bothered about "interacting" with posters or using my phone as a debit card. Besides if NFC does take off it probably won't be until at least the time of my next upgrade (15 months time) so I'll see how the whole NFC thing takes off.
 
Mujja said:
Supertaff, transfer contacts from Outlook in to iTunes and then to your Google account. Then sync from Google to SGS2. You can tidy up any missing or incorrect info online in Google Contacts.

I moved from a 3GS to a Nexus S. At first it also felt a little cheap but you'll get used to the lightness. Also, you'll soon be too busy admiring the display to notice what the rest of the phone looks like.

You mentioned an issue connecting to one of your routers. Any other WiFi issues like low signal strength (as mentioned in techradar's review) or losing all connectivity when switching from 3G to WiFi. Big problems on the Nexus S and really annoying.

If you could do a quick test for me. Turn off WiFi, browse on 3G for a few mins. Enable WiFi and then load a new page or refresh an open one. On the Nexus S it could take up to 2 mins to respond. Switching Airplane mode on/off fixed it if you were in a hurry.

As already mentioned, low WiFi signal strength. The Nexus S has a low power antenna to save battery, hope this isn't the same with the SGS2. Have you tested this?

And lastly, what's transfer rate from using Wifi Direct (kies) or copying from a DLNA server is Windows 7 share (techrader mentioned W7, is this correct? Can you browse the Network?)
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Hi Mujja,

thanks for the tip on the contacts synching. I will try that this evening.

As for the router issue, in the end turned out to be a password problem, that I have now resolved.

As for signal strength seems to work ok, but the router I have been using is about 6 foot away from the the phone.

Will try to your test request later on this evening.

As for using KLIE Air, I transferred 44 songs last night onto the phone so I had some music for today and that took about 2 minutes with each track being about 3MB.

Haven;t tried DLNA yet, But my NAS drive exposes all my video/photos/music content via DLNA so will also try that tonight.
 
I posted yesterday that there doesn't appear to be any antenna related stuff on the back cover, so I think it's safe to say Techradar are right and there isn't any NFC,

Did find one annoyance last night, the samsung calendar app fails at listing all the possible calendars available to enable/disable, I have my personal account with several calendars and also my work account with many more (meeting rooms/colleagues etc) and I use the launcherpro widget to, in theory, just see the ones I want.

However the stock calendar app on the sgs2 only lists ~7/8 of the calendars, I needed to get another calendar app that could actually handle all of them to select the ones I wanted the phone to sync/view, only a minor irritation really but hey, it's a good phone and gotta find something to moan about :p

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My wireless is roughly the same strength as my old Magic, not done any real tests but it just seems to work which is nice,

Also DLNA, I setup wmp last night to share/stream all my music, seems to work nicely, for some reason it (wmp) doesn't seem to like some of the larger 720p files I've got which I wanted to see how well they streamed (also need to copy them over to see how they fare on the built in memory as well, lots of stuff to do :p)
 
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Does anyone think this thread is going to be slightly annoying in a month or so when more people have their handsets, and they have to make it all the way to page 43 just to see people start getting their phones :p

Need to start a new one called ***The Official Samsung Galaxy S II OWNERS Thread*** so that you can go straight into facts not just 40 odd pages of OMG it's out, soon.. oh wait it's not.... etc. :D
 
Apparently there was a 'problem' with my P4U order yesterday so I've just ordered it again on another network.

I noticed that Vodafone deal has got even better, no more £29.99 upfront!
 
estebanrey said:
RE: the "cheap feel" is that just the back cover that causes that? Could a third party manufacturer produce a replacement back made out of another material do you think?
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Personally I don't think it feels that cheap, I've held/used briefly the HTC Desire and Desire HD's and they feel a bit more solid due to the weight, but not sure I equate weight to 'cheap',

I guess you could say the back cover could be better with a soft rubber style covering, or something else, but I don't really notice it all that much and overall it's quite solid, no noticeable creaking/flexing from that back cover (literally everything else is solid, just that which is a thin bit of plastic, but tight around the back)

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Journey, you're in need of man sized pages tbh, we're only on page 17 :p
 
Cool, it's not the cheap feel that bother me really more the possibility of modding. As I said earlier my LG Arena had plenty of people make new chasis in new colours and as long as you were confident taking your phone apart you could give your phone a new/unique look.
 
estebanrey said:
RE: the "cheap feel" is that just the back cover that causes that? Could a third party manufacturer produce a replacement back made out of another material do you think?
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In my view there are two elements that make it feel cheap.

One is the weight and I've tested this out an some collegues this morning, all of them equate a solid weight to a premium handset and equate a very light weight to a cheaper handset. It's the Mercedes effect. They may not be better cars than Fords these days, but there is something solid about it.

The second is the back, I don't like the rough feel of it and also when you take it off to put the battery in, you realise how little material they used to make it, though it feels better once it is back on the phone.

I think when I put it in a nice Hard case the weight, feel of it won't be so much of an issue.

But the phone itself is great, had a play with the Google Navigation this morning on the way into work. Was already driving so had background noise. Used the speech function and it recognised where I wanted to go and gave me the best route. So was impressed by that.
 
Supertaff said:
One is the weight and I've tested this out an some collegues this morning, all of them equate a solid weight to a premium handset and equate a very light weight to a cheaper handset. It's the Mercedes effect. They may not be better cars than Fords these days, but there is something solid about it.
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I take your point but maybe cars aren't the best example, as I eluded to earlier super cars are very light and very exclusive...but then you don't "pick up" a car like you do a phone.

I've always attributed light weight in phones as a good thing though and it used to be a big selling point.

I guess a good example of thinness/lightness being seen as a good thing is the Mac Book Air which is promoted purely on it's tiny size and weight, I doubt your colleagues would think that was cheap though so I reckon the brand name coupled with the weight can give a false impression.
 
Im I right in saying I think i watched someone talk to text?...would this be a sms feature...in teh car that could be handy on the very odd occasion.
 
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