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GSM Arena have released a comprhensive review about the legend
Legend Review
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GSM Arena reviews are the most detailed and comprehensive I have seen.
Loved this review, as well.

gringooo said:
GSM Arena reviews are the most detailed and comprehensive I have seen.
Loved this review, as well.
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yeah ur right, ... I read it all, word by word, although am not interested in Legend (into desire) but just a warm up for the desire review
which i dont think will be that different from the Legend

It just confirming what I said about the great possibility that the Desire will have a way louder speaker than N1 if HTC uses the same one as Legend
But it's a little deceiving about the direct sunlight, Techradar was quite the opposite saying it's perfectly readable

this review is the best at the moment (techradars is good too but...)....the sunlight thing for is very subjective as i see it, one sees it this way one sees it the other way!!

lambrospower said:
this review is the best at the moment (techradars is good too but...)....the sunlight thing for is very subjective as i see it, one sees it this way one sees it the other way!!
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I really dont see any deal-breakers here, .. I mean, ok the AMOLED does not look so great under direct sun-light, what are you gonna do with the phone under direct sun-light anyways? .. making a call probably, you can easly see the numbers and names. (you should not worry about seeing the numbers looking soooo great)
I cant imagine anyone sitting outside his home and positioning his phone under-direct sun light to see a movie, can you?

yes that's what i am saying irkan...i posted it in another thread too where someone complaint about the sunlight. i don't have a problem with it and as you said i won't be watching a movie while outside under the sun.

irkan said:
I really dont see any deal-breakers here, .. I mean, ok the AMOLED does not look so great under direct sun-light, what are you gonna do with the phone under direct sun-light anyways? .. making a call probably, you can easly see the numbers and names. (you should not worry about seeing the numbers looking soooo great)
I cant imagine anyone sitting outside his home and positioning his phone under-direct sun light to see a movie, can you?
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I agree. I checked visibility under direct sunlight, and I can see quite enough for doing any basic function. All other things doing on direct sunlight is pointless with any phone.

Example photos?

Hi Guys,
Had my Desire HD for 5 days.. thinking of selling it and buying a Nexus S!
Just wanted to see some examples of photos taken with the Camera?
I've no need for amazing photo quality but still want something reasonable to justify the hassle in switching.
Thanks in advance

I took this picture in a completely dark room: Click to see how well it turned out
Also when you check out that picture, I have a picture of a fluffy green android I took, that was in a relatively dark room. (It's the one taken after December 16th)

Thanks for the reply... link doesn't seem to be working though?

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Thanks for the reply... link doesn't seem to be working though?
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link works for me

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Awesome thanks ... works now i'm at home so must have been my work PC playing up.
Looks good, pretty sure i'm going to swap

* UPDATE *
I'm now a proud owner of a Nexus S .
Went into my local Carphone Warehouse and from the minute i held it i knew i would buy it!
In my opinion it's positives over the Desire HD are:
- Speaker clarity and volume is 10x better
- Handset feels like a perfect size and weight (Desire HD was very big and heavy)
- The Super AMOLED screen is amazing!
- The camera takes photos and videos that i'm more than happy with

Good luck mate, its definitely a better phone than the hd, but the hd is a better spec
JD
Sent from my sexy Google Nexus S

Thanks.
Yea i agree the HD is a great phone but for me just not practical.
I found typing on the HD a real pain and made endless mistakes. With the Nexus S it's easy

Welcome.
I also think my NExus S is beautiful.

You know, after spending the last few days wading through trolls who came to this forums just to trash a phone they don't own, don't have any intention of buying, and never even held, it sure is refreshing to see a post from someone who acknowledges the shortcomings of this device and yet, is still satsified with it because it is, in their opinion, right for them.
Thank you for this thread, OP. Let no one else but you decide what is right for you.
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Increase WiFi signal strength, same poor contact as GPS

I'm not sure if this was covered already but if it was, disregard my post.
There is another tab for the WiFi antenna on the back of the Galaxy S' casing. I took a Floss-Toothpick, cut off the end.. smashed it down a little and shimmed it inbetween and now my WiFi signal strength is much MUCH better. This replacement phone has been cutting out constantly in my room and now it's working great.

Wow cool~I personally was not aware that people really had widespread wifi problems though.

between my 2 vibrants we have and the 2 original before they replaced them due to GPS issues which the replacements also have none of them have had wifi problems. I guess we are half lucky. I have seen a number of people complain about Wi-Fi problems, good to know it's a hardware problem. Hopefully I'll get my GPS problems fixed with the next replacement phones and also have working GPS.

Well since i was going to open the phone i did both of them the GPS and the WIFI, Both have been working great ever since..............

Do you have any idea what your wifi speeds were like before? I'm curious what most people get on their wireless n networks.
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I'm not sure if this was covered already but if it was, disregard my post.
There is another tab for the WiFi antenna on the back of the Galaxy S' casing. I took a Floss-Toothpick, cut off the end.. smashed it down a little and shimmed it inbetween and now my WiFi signal strength is much MUCH better. This replacement phone has been cutting out constantly in my room and now it's working great.
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It was more of an on or off thing. If it dropped down to 1 dot (not the bars) my WiFi would basically cut out on the Vibrant. If I had one bar it would be exactly what I have this router capped at which is 2500Kbps

Can you give more details on this fix?
Thanks!
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I saw the fix for the GPS and I am now able to get locks and use navigation. I can even now use my Cardio Trainer program that tracks your running. Where is the wifi at? Mine is not great. I have the phone sitting 3 feet from the wifi router and it is down a bar. My laptop can hit it at full strength 2 rooms away.

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this is a picture I took from the GPS thread. It's to the far left of the GPS antenna and looks exactly the same. I probably should have took pics myself but I didn't think of it while I had my phone open.

Jk... Sorry

can you post a pic on what you did like with the toothpick?im not really satisfied with my wifi signal and id be really glad if this method could help.thanks

Satnav Performance is better on the Galaxy Note

I understand the Galaxy Note can use Russion satellites and it's barometer for better Satnav performance and that seems to be confirmed by some early reports from users. I've always found it difficult using satnav on small phones because of loss of signal. Has anyone else tried using the Note as a Satnav? The large screen on the Note should be much better for viewing routes whilst driving.

It's the best satnav I've ever used - Even on the seat of car It regularly locks to 8 - 10 satellites. On the dash it gets 15 or so. Really want the official Samsung cardock to replace my Nexus One dock.

I'm getting 11-12 sats locked INDOORS
I couldn't even GET a lock indoors with my SGS!

I got 17 satellites outside. Can anyone beat that?
Frank

I can now get a satellite lock on my Note indoors compared to my Nexus One which struggled to get a lock outdoors.

What application are you all using to check this? And does it show how many you are connected to?
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What application are you all using to check this? And does it show how many you are connected to?
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Here is a screencap from my Note using the Charcross app from the Android Market called GPS Test. It shows the number in view and in use as you can see.
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I got 18 satellites

hope it does better than that
really? it sees 17 satellites and only has a 15 feet accuracy. that is easily two lanes of traffic. the next thread sees 18 satellites and has a 30 feet accuracy.
I am hoping that it gets better than that.

bedspringlex said:
really? it sees 17 satellites and only has a 15 feet accuracy. that is easily two lanes of traffic. the next thread sees 18 satellites and has a 30 feet accuracy.
I am hoping that it gets better than that.
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You're not gonna get sub-meter accuracy on a consumer GPS of any kind, regardless of how many satellites you have locked. The military puts intentional errors in the GPS signal to prevent non-military GPS hardware from being too accurate. You're not relying on the GPS to pilot the vehicle, so 3-5m is more than accurate enough. With WAAS, you can get down to 1 meter accuracy and that's considered adequate enough to land an airplane with.
The reasons the Note gets a GPS lock so fast are:
1. It has a barometer enabling it to narrow down its position above sea level quickly.
2. It can use the Russian GLONASS satellites concurrently with GPS satellites.

GPS lock on the plane

I managed to get a GPS Lock while on the plane (Boeing 777-200) at 6000m altitude going at 900km/h ground speed. I thought consumer GPS was not supposed to work at these speeds?
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Hehe thats a nice "score"!!!
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hahaha though you are asked to put the phone in airplane mode
Though what is the name of that app ??

My phone was in airplane mode. GPS works - it is an antenna (receiver) only and does not transmit any data. That's GPS Test app.

I used to do that with my previous phones (nokia N95 8GB and Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo V) and they both worked fine.

I was traing last year that also but I had a Galaxy S. No fix was possible with that phone. The trip was 45min, plane landed and i could get a GPS fix in 46min.
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900km/h at 6000m? Flight number an date pls!

me_max said:
900km/h at 6000m? Flight number an date pls!
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lol y so serious ?

anshmiester78900 said:
lol y so serious ?
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oh, that wasn't meant to be so serious. it's rather interesting.

Probably its some bad readings, I read somewhere that GPS wont lock if you travel at a speed superior to 300+ Km/h

I did the same about an year back. Will post the screenshot, it's there somewhere on my laptop.

LOL interesting

Actually one or two people using their phones on a plane doesn't interrupt any radio data of the plane or something like that, but if everybody would use their phone, well that would generate problems. Also I'll attach a pic of sport tracker when I was skiing last week, unluckily it's in finnish but maybe you'll get something from it. For exsample top speed of 1102 km/h xD. Yeah Aparently sport tracker doesn't work very well with cm10.1. Btw sorry for off-topic
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AFAIK your GPS will stop reporting at 1000km/h+, so 900 is normal.

How did you manage to get lock all the time?
I've been recently travelling from Eindhoven by Airbus A320. I managed to get fix but it stopped to receive correct data after 15 min of flight.
When I was in return to Eindhoven again I could get lock only for ~15 min too.
I used GPS status - after while it seemed app froze (same as others GPS apps) and I could get GPS data only for a few seconds few hundred kilometers futher.
After I exited the plane I could get immanent fix.
What can be wrong?
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