http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12011163/IMAG0260.jpg
I was surprised the GPS couldn't get a speed lock, though- there were some 10 good satellites in view. Either it needs an internet connection (which I didn't think it would for speed, vs. mapping) or the logic figures you shouldn't be going > 99MPH and filters it out as a bad datapoint).
Somehow, I knew this was going to be about altitude.
What app is that?
sweet. Thanks for sharing. I've never been able to get gps lock in a plane with my phone, even by a window. That's cool that the Xoom can.
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GPS Test. I just bought the paid version, too, since I use it on a couple of devices I have.
Ahah way to draw in the readers... that's pretty slick though!
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I was surprised the GPS couldn't get a speed lock, though- there were some 10 good satellites in view. Either it needs an internet connection (which I didn't think it would for speed, vs. mapping) or the logic figures you shouldn't be going > 99MPH and filters it out as a bad datapoint).
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Not all countries have speed limits like that In Germany you will get honked at if you go less than 99 MPH ha ha. It didn't work for me when I was on a plane though.
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ive been able to get an altitude reading while on a plane with my Droid x but never a speed reading
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Somehow, I knew this was going to be about altitude.
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Well, you knew more then me, because I was thinking something totally different lol.
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Well, you knew more then me, because I was thinking something totally different lol.
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LOL!! same here.... good one OP.
I got a speed reading using Garmin on my old Nokia (Symbian) - something like 569mph
never altitude though... pretty cool! I'll try it next week ...
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Not all countries have speed limits like that
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Actually, I was thinking more along the lines of "throw out this data point if it's an outlier" (i.e., too high or even negative, due to errors in the received GPS data) for better reliability.
But since installing the Pro version, I see there's a setting for "Max Speed" which has an option for "Airplane" (600MPH), so it was apparently the GPS Test application just not working over 100MPH.
I'll try it again on my flight back home from work this week; stay tuned!
This is the way back to work tonight; I guess that's a pretty decent speed for a 737:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12011163/IMAG0269.jpg
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This is the way back to work tonight; I guess that's a pretty decent speed for a 737:
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So the one showing the speed is the paid version and all works well? Is 600 the maximum speed it will handle? I'm not planning a supersonic flight (we no longer have Concorde) but it would be good to know!
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So the one showing the speed is the paid version and all works well?
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Yeah, I guess that also explains the red numbering, too.
Is 600 the maximum speed it will handle?
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According to the Dev's docs, yeah- but I also wonder if some of that is due to the limitation of either the calculations or of even the GPS chip itself (the speed of the updates). But you're right- I think even a balls-out 747 is capable of only Mach .92 (~615 MPH) so I'm pretty sure we're gonna stay under that limit (unless we're on a long-haul craft trying to beat weather!)
Blah blah blah. All I wanna know is how you were still high after getting thru security.
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This is the way back to work tonight; I guess that's a pretty decent speed for a 737:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12011163/IMAG0269.jpg
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Damn it that's all the xoom can do?? I have to return mine.......lol
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Damn it that's all the xoom can do?? I have to return mine.......lol
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No....the xoom can let you watch porn with no limitation aka flash enabled lol
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i have got speed readings when i fly with mine (i'm a pilot) but you need a good 6 or 7 sats being used for your fix, not just "in view".
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i have got speed readings when i fly with mine (i'm a pilot) but you need a good 6 or 7 sats being used for your fix, not just "in view".
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You must have the paid GPS Test (or another GPS app); in the first picture I had 10 sats being used for fixes (all "green bars") but the for-free app itself didn't support speeds > 100MPH (by design).
Didn't get speeds in-flight 'till I'd upgraded; that's what's being shown in the 2nd pic.
I loved this post. I had to show my friends this one and then let them read the details. Very good hook to get people to read.
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It has happened, the iPhone FINALLY loses a prizefight.
http://cnettv.cnet.com/nexus-one-vs-iphone-3gs/9742-1_53-50083136.html
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It has happened, the iPhone FINALLY loses a prizefight.
http://cnettv.cnet.com/nexus-one-vs-iphone-3gs/9742-1_53-50083136.html
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I had to watch that with no sound... damn work computer... I wanted to see the ratings though. Did the Nexus One have the multi-touch update? I would assume no. And I am also assuming that would go a long way in helping out on a couple of those 4.0 scores.
They did not include the new MT support. Time for a rematch!
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I had to watch that with no sound... damn work computer... I wanted to see the ratings though. Did the Nexus One have the multi-touch update? I would assume no. And I am also assuming that would go a long way in helping out on a couple of those 4.0 scores.
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Nope, and yeah it definately would.
I get mine today, and I was wondering what is everyone's favorite thing about the nexus one compared to their old android device...
the speed. they did some amazing things with overclocking on the G1, but I love that my N1 runs silky smooth right out of the box.
I can't really compare it to my 'other' android device, since it's my first android;
However, my favorite thing is the extreme ease of navigation and installation of new apps from the market (especially browsing and downloading more apps before finished downloading current apps).
I also love the combining of contacts (all my facebook, gmail and SIM contacts are now joined and merged).
Thats good to know, so hopefully that means I wont miss the lag of my mt3g
Man I am excited... I wish FedEx would hurry up, its supposed to be here by 3, but something all ways seems to happen so, with my luck I think it wont be here till tomorrow lol.
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Man I am excited... I wish FedEx would hurry up, its supposed to be here by 3, but something all ways seems to happen so, with my luck I think it wont be here till tomorrow lol.
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You can check the tracking # to see if it is out for delivery... just make sure someone is there to sign for it!
My favorite thing is the speed, its so fast, everywhere. The thing I was most suprised about is how good the camera quality is, its great for random pictures that im not gonna take out my slr for.
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You can check the tracking # to see if it is out for delivery... just make sure someone is there to sign for it!
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Yea well it says its supposed to be here by 3pm but then at the bottom it says Feb 10, 2010 1:27 AM Shipment exception INDIANAPOLIS, IN "Delay beyond our control" so IDK if it is going to make it by 3 today... and there havent been any other updates so IDK, I know when you call and listen to the telephone tracking it says its on schedule so I am a lil lost and anxious lol
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My favorite thing is the speed, its so fast, everywhere. The thing I was most suprised about is how good the camera quality is, its great for random pictures that im not gonna take out my slr for.
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have you tried it on qik yet? I am wondering how the video quality is for that. My brother has the hero and his quality compared to the mytouch on the qik app was crazy better
My favorite thing is all the ass I get!!!
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My favorite thing is all the ass I get!!!
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Only interest in my phone has been from guys!
lol, he didnt say what kind of ass
Speed and the Display
ok I am officially bummed, due to snow, my phone is not coming today... so sad... I am looking forward to all these things yall are talking about though
looking at weather.com It may be a while. I hated waiting Hang in there?
errr... daggum snow...
I definately like that my N1 runs super fast & silky smooth everywhere!
Processor, RAM, display. In other words, the superior hardware
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Speed and the Display
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+1 ............
compared to my hero this thing is a monster. Plus the development taking place on this thing is out of this world!
Hey, im not sure if any of you noticed but i had a nexus one which was a great phone! but it seems the vibrant is much fast when loading pages and pulling in data on edge and 3g. It's hard to explain what i mean but it's just a little more powerful. anyone else notice this? when you download apps, especially on 3g.. it's like #pow! and installed... very zippy!
just wanted some opinions. I can't wait until a real rom is generated for this phone and they create a 3200 mah battery for this. IM BUYING IT lol
Also yall should try Skyfire browser from the market and set your browser to open as Desktop rather than android or iPhone. Even on edge, the pages open so fast!
check it out!
yea, the data seems quite zippy on the phone, even if the speed readings are a bit inconsistent. I did hit 5 Mbps in pasadena yesterday tho.
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yea, the data seems quite zippy on the phone, even if the speed readings are a bit inconsistent. I did hit 5 Mbps in pasadena yesterday tho.
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yeah exactly
I too came from a n1 and yes this beats it in speeds. Even on edge with no bars is faster than my n1 with 2 bars... I just wish the signal bars wasn't wacky. Its throwing my thinking off...lol
The phone takes advantage of HSPA. That's probably what you're seeing.
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The phone takes advantage of HSPA. That's probably what you're seeing.
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So did his n1.....
Coming from the Slide I couldn't even use the browser on Edge but on this Vibrant its really quick on Edge and I don't even need to switch it to 3G. Definitely a difference.
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The phone takes advantage of HSPA. That's probably what you're seeing.
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Coming from the Slide I couldn't even use the browser on Edge but on this Vibrant its really quick on Edge and I don't even need to switch it to 3G. Definitely a difference.
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Same here, in edge my n1 most the time didn't do anything... this is fast on edge....
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yeah exactly
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I just record my best download on speedtest.net. 6.1Mbs in Seattle area.
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I just record my best download on speedtest.net. 6.1Mbs in Seattle area.
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Nice I got 5.0 this morning in Portland Oregon...
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The phone takes advantage of HSPA. That's probably what you're seeing.
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well the nexus was said to support HSPA as well but it wasn't this fast.
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I too came from a n1 and yes this beats it in speeds. Even on edge with no bars is faster than my n1 with 2 bars... I just wish the signal bars wasn't wacky. Its throwing my thinking off...lol
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Nice I got 5.0 this morning in Portland Oregon...
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i can't seem to get past 3.2 mb download speeds in Philadelphia. it normally ranges from 2.5 mb though. that's pretty good.. it's consistent compared to some unfortunate people in bad areas
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i can't seem to get past 3.2 mb download speeds in Philadelphia. it normally ranges from 2.5 mb though. that's pretty good.. it's consistent compared to some unfortunate people in bad areas
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Anything over 2.0 for me is good. ...
I'm lucky if I get .5 Mbps here in vegas.. And we supposedly have that high speed network here. I went to california not long ago and edge there completely blew away the 3g in vegas. That is very sad.
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using speedtest.net i got 5.6 download speed here in richmond va
then the next day, saw 1.9 - someone on another forum said when he had spotty svc at home, he complained and Tmo sent a tech out to his tower, and a week later his was smoking with 4 bars constant
no idea how valid that report was but i'm thinking to try it
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Hey, im not sure if any of you noticed but i had a nexus one which was a great phone! but it seems the vibrant is much fast when loading pages and pulling in data on edge and 3g. It's hard to explain what i mean but it's just a little more powerful. anyone else notice this? when you download apps, especially on 3g.. it's like #pow! and installed... very zippy!
just wanted some opinions. I can't wait until a real rom is generated for this phone and they create a 3200 mah battery for this. IM BUYING IT lol
Also yall should try Skyfire browser from the market and set your browser to open as Desktop rather than android or iPhone. Even on edge, the pages open so fast!
check it out!
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The Vibrant definitely processes things fast all around. I'm hitting 5-6Mbps down.
As for your battery you should just pick up some extra 1500mAh to get you by.
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I'm lucky if I get .5 Mbps here in vegas.. And we supposedly have that high speed network here. I went to california not long ago and edge there completely blew away the 3g in vegas. That is very sad.
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funny you mention that - had a similiar issue when i was out in vegas - called tmo cause i couldn't believe vegas would have weak coverage - csr said to try turning phone off, wait a couple minutes and turning back on - and it worked
in case it helps, she said something about the phone "reregistering with the network"
Looks like were gonna be getting something sweet soon Check out the tweet twitter.com/googlemobile
So, If this gets released to the Nexus One. How long untill we get an Evo port? Let's start guessing! I can't wait for this!
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Looks like were gonna be getting something sweet soon Check out the tweet twitter.com/googlemobile
So, If this gets released to the Nexus One. How long untill we get an Evo port? Let's start guessing! I can't wait for this!
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Call me stupid, but what improvements would it bring us?
That's some crazy ass upload speed you have sir. As far as improvements, The updated base Android UI should be something to look forward to in itself. I am sure as well as numerous speed and stability tweaks and enchancements. Here i found this on the web..
Confirmed new features:
Support for WebM video playback
Improved copy–paste functionalities
Improved social networking features
Unconfirmed new features:
Android Market music store
Media streaming from PC library
Revamped UI
Support for bigger screens with up to Wide XGA (1366×768) resolution
New 3D Games support including new Marketplace area for gaming
Use of mksh for /system/bin/sh
Support for video calls
Support for WebP image files
Support for Google TV
If anyone esle has anything to add please feel free! I am curious to what else there may be...
Hehehe, thanks! That was on my office T1 connection.
as far as the improvements, those seem fairly decent. i didn't realize they were gonna do a UI refresh. time for some research!
please have native 4g... please have native 4g...
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Hehehe, thanks! That was on my office T1 connection.
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How is that possible on a T1? T1 lines are max 1.544Mbps....
Screen off animation. Very neat
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How is that possible on a T1? T1 lines are max 1.544Mbps....
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i'm pretty sure youre confusing megabytes/second with megabits/second
granted my CS is a bit rusty
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i'm pretty sure youre confusing megabytes/second with megabits/second
granted my CS is a bit rusty
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Nope, not confusing anything. A T1 line is 1.544 megabits both down and up. His speedtest cap shows 61.19 megabits down and 47.3 megabits up.
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i'm pretty sure youre confusing megabytes/second with megabits/second
granted my CS is a bit rusty
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Nah, that's looks about right for T1. Docsis 3 cable or a fiber optic connection could easily do speeds up in that range.
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Screen off animation. Very neat
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I just saw a video of this... Its pretty awesome!
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Nope, not confusing anything. A T1 line is 1.544 megabits both down and up. His speedtest cap shows 61.19 megabits down and 47.3 megabits up.
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This gentleman speaks the truth.
T3/DS3 I'm sure they call it a t1 in his office because it is a Tier 1 network and they are ignorant (not calling them dumb or anything like that, just don't know any better, not meant to be an insult at all). Judging by the ping it is not docsis3 cable. Cable easily goes this fast finally, lol, but pings are much higher, 40's maybe.
oh yeah and on topic, WOOT for html5 video and images.
And woot for sense-like copying and pasting lol, not that we've been missing out.
Lol! you guys are all right. i'm thinking of our old connection. we just recently upgraded to a Cogent fiber line. My bad!
Man I would love to play COD on a 3ms ping O_O
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Man I would love to play COD on a 3ms ping O_O
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this^ so hard, haha.
make counterstrike, world of warcraft, league of legends...diablo2? lol yeah. could only image 3ms latency on those.
... that speed test server is less than 50 mi away thats why his ping is 3 ms. they are prbly on a tier 2 connection thats why the ping is so low because it doesnt have to travel through 6 different dns pools to get to the speed test server
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Nope, not confusing anything. A T1 line is 1.544 megabits both down and up. His speedtest cap shows 61.19 megabits down and 47.3 megabits up.
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that was "back in the day." T1 is really just a name for a type of circuit. back then a T1 was 1.544Mbit, but these days they are faster.
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... that speed test server is less than 50 mi away thats why his ping is 3 ms. they are prbly on a tier 2 connection thats why the ping is so low because it doesnt have to travel through 6 different dns pools to get to the speed test server
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When I test my speeds on speedtest (with the closest server), I get 120ms or so. And same ping on almost all COD servers.
So back on topic for a second when is gingerbread being released or at least the sdk
studies show that most computer errors are actually iD10t errors in over 90% of all cases.
So back to the topic, I been reading that we could see gingerbread as soon as Christmas. I just hope the update for the Evo won't be to far behind!! I'm also looking forward to Google releasing it's own OS without the other companies twiking the phones.
Its gawt damn awesome. This phone rocks in every way that a phone can. It works on att 3g plus its unlocked. I don't care what you have to do murder, pimp out wife, sell a kidney...get this phone.
where is the review?
Lancez said:
where is the review?
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Need he say more?
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lancez said:
where is the review? :d
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gggeeeeetttttt iiiiitttttttt:d
The BEST android phone i have used to date - and i have used A LOT of phones!
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The BEST android phone i have used to date - and i have used A LOT of phones!
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Listen to this person!
I ran a quadrant benchmark and got 3200.
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... This phone rocks in every way that a phone can...
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Does the S II compass provide 99%+ accuracy? I've never had a phone (iOS or Android) with an accurate compass.
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Does the S II compass provide 99%+ accuracy? I've never had a phone (iOS or Android) with an accurate compass.
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Got me Im not really into compasses on phones.
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Got me Im not really into compasses on phones.
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I was kidding. I don't think there will ever be a phone with an accurate compass.
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I was kidding. I don't think there will ever be a phone with an accurate compass.
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dork I was perplexed
How did you get the S2 on AT&T?
Where did you buy it unlocked and how much?
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I had it shipped overnight from xpansys. I couldn't wait and ordered two of them, the one from Clove will get here monday.
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How did you get the S2 on AT&T?
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Quadrant Schmadrant.... take a few graphic heavy sites and download them...compare to your previous phone
I.also have it on ATT...trying for a week.
Speed test is 2500 avg-, Quadrant is 3200+, real world performance (site download times) is just OK. Ping times are relatively slow for some reason.
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Quadrant Schmadrant.... take a few graphic heavy sites and download them...compare to your previous phone
I.also have it on ATT...trying for a week.
Speed test is 2500 avg-, Quadrant is 3200+, real world performance (site download times) is just OK. Ping times are relatively slow for some reason.
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Downloading is depends on network speed.
rockky said:
Quadrant Schmadrant.... take a few graphic heavy sites and download them...compare to your previous phone
I.also have it on ATT...trying for a week.
Speed test is 2500 avg-, Quadrant is 3200+, real world performance (site download times) is just OK. Ping times are relatively slow for some reason.
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Thats odd I am getting over 6000 on speedtest here in austin. Is yours not connecting to 4g?
It takes a long time to charge. Kind of reminds of my nexus s. I wonder if its a samsung thing?
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It takes a long time to charge. Kind of reminds of my nexus s. I wonder if its a samsung thing?
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it charges quicker if you use wall mount plug comparing to USB on your computer.