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I love my Vibrant, yes even in 2011

Just wanted to say thanks again to all the Devs and Samsung for such a great phone. In fact I have owned this for half a year, which may be the longest I owned a phone in years. 2.2, haha who gives a damn. Ive been running it since the good people here made it available. I love TMO and my month to month plan rocks too. Since it released 6 months ago, I would expect a successor to come out by now anyway.
Thanks again Rom developers.

+1 I agree the phone is a great phone regardless of the lameass treatment we get from Samsung........

1+ love my vibrant. Even convinced a co worker to return his hd7 for a vibrant. Installed nero 5 voodoo on his and loves it way more than the hd7
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thank you finally a worth while thread i dont understand why there are so many threads on this forum that try to bring the phone down because of the 2.2 update that none of them probably need. honestly most of the people that post on those threads already have rooted their vibrants and are running a 2.2 rom. the only ones that have a right to complain are the developers that are waiting on the source code to make their roms better. this is a great phone and currently still one of the best if not the best available in the us market.

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thank you finally a worth while thread i dont understand why there are so many threads on this forum that try to bring the phone down because of the 2.2 update that none of them probably need. honestly most of the people that post on those threads already have rooted their vibrants and are running a 2.2 rom. the only ones that have a right to complain are the developers that are waiting on the source code to make their roms better. this is a great phone and currently still one of the best if not the best available in the us market.
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Agree, all these 2.2 OTA threads are more suitable for HF not XDA

rock on!!! glad to see a thread promoting this wonderful phone. I think it rocks which is why i bought it.

techboydino said:
Just wanted to say thanks again to all the Devs and Samsung for such a great phone. In fact I have owned this for half a year, which may be the longest I owned a phone in years. 2.2, haha who gives a damn. Ive been running it since the good people here made it available. I love TMO and my month to month plan rocks too. Since it released 6 months ago, I would expect a successor to come out by now anyway.
Thanks again Rom developers.
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+1 love my vibrant. Appreciate all the hard work the devdevelopers put into it. And appreciate the help of the community.
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I just bought this phone 2 weeks ago to find out skype doesn't work without froyo. I had no intentions of rooting this and playing around with roms but im back at xda to get fixes.
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+1 gotta say I love my vibrant especially with Neto 5. Nothingmore I could possibly need/want.

I wish the update for my MyTouch Fender would finally get pushed out to me. I have missed my Vibrant so much this past week. It is such a great phone, and can't be matched by anything T-Mobile or Google have out now or in the near future.

budney said:
I wish the update for my MyTouch Fender would finally get pushed out to me. I have missed my Vibrant so much this past week. It is such a great phone, and can't be matched by anything T-Mobile or Google have out now or in the near future.
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What about that new dual core phone we've been hearing about?

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What about that new dual core phone we've been hearing about?
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It's inevitable, most new phones in 2011 will be dual core. No worries about battery either, tegra 2 is pretty amazing. had some hands on at CES. For now, Im loving on my Vibrant.

I really like the vibrant as well I just wish TouchWiz with Android 2.3 would come instead of 2.2 so I'm still sad that Samsung has been such a *****.

I just got my Vibrant a couple of weeks ago as well (while it was free), moving from the MyTouch Slide. Nero v5 is one of the most stable roms I've used. The phone is beautiful, it flies, and I simply don't need the FFC and curved screen that Nexus S has. And god only knows when Maine is going to get 4G.
It definitely sucks that phones have to wait so long for an update, but it's not just Samsung. HTC still hasn't updated the Slide. The latest update is that a) Wifi calling isn't working reliably and b) they can't get it to install because of limited space on the system partition.
I figured if I was going to be rooted and providing myself with updates, I might as well have a nicer phone than the Slide.

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What about that new dual core phone we've been hearing about?
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Dual core is nice, but their is more to a device then the processor. Having the 16GB on board along with a memory card slot is what I love about the Vibrant. Until T-Mobile has a device with both, I will stick with my Vibrant.

Not sure what all the buzz is on the dual core. Android is not, and probably will not be optimized for dual core devices until next year, due to the nexus s, google's flagship, using the same single core hummingbird. Besides, compared to a vibrant on browsing and opening apps, you may have a 1-3 second difference, not worth the $200 upgrade.
Besides, all apps will mainly be optimized for single core devices, which are still the majority. And the power sgx 540 in the hummingbirds fares well against the tegra 2 gpu.

How many devs/users we got left?

So how many people we really still have using and working on the vibrant? I'm feeling kinda lonely with my love for this phone =P seems like the vibrant is getting left in the dust allot quick then my G1, which is sad =/
Also side note, anyone else feel like with a SGS there really isn't anything good enough to upgrade to yet? Only phone I'd even consider is the original SGS2 or the sprint SGS2. And those are iffy due to crappy audio. Vibrant is the best phone I own period. Beats my nexus S in everything =P even beats out my HP touchpad easily IMO. Thoughts?
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I feel you man, I'm getting bored of this phone. I will probably upgrade to the muiu phone. Since, it's battery lastes so long.
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I just got the Vibrant about 2 months ago, as my wife's Motorola crapped out on her and our carrier swapped it out for the Vib. She wanted to swap with me, so I did and I have to say that once I upgraded it to a custom ROM, I actually like it a lot. It works well for me and what I want.
I think that most of the Jump-ship is because of boredom and not performance. I feel that and understand it. I have been there myself, but I like this phone and it is really easy to handle, breakdown (mean ADB by this) and there have been some really great customizations out on it.
Plus between the 16gb internal and my 32gb external,that is some serious storage for a phone. My old computer from a few years ago only had 30gb hard drive in it.
I am here and plan on staying for awhile.

I'm still here, kinda. My G2x is my main driver, but i still got my Vibrant and still build kernels when i have time. You're not alone

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I'm still here, kinda. My G2x is my main driver, but i still got my Vibrant and still build kernels when i have time. You're not alone
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Doesnt really serm like it lol
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But this phones death is due from no updates.from tmobile. it just makes it way harder to develop for....

Go to the galaxy s2 forums ;-) .
You will find most of the great devs from many of the different forums there.
It seems as though Samsung shipped out yet another phone with outdated filmware lol....imagine that,
They are promising to send ics thru kies lmao ....I believe we have been thru this BS before

There are 3 vibrants in my home. My wife upgraded to the sensation and after a week gave it to my son and took her vibrant out of the drawer. I personally love this phone. Thanks to all the devs who still work on it. I have stockpiled my fave roms and kernels....just in case the remaining devs leave
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I just got my Vibrant 2 mth ago from my fren who sold to me. Im not chasing the technology so i tink this phone is great for me. I like it a lot n planning to stay with it for a while longer cos i dont have the 2yrs contract matter. Btw cos im frm Singapore and we dont have Vibrant here so that makes my phone unique than the original SGS..lol. But i really dissapointed on Samsung on the firmware case and yeah this phone if rooted fly high. So i have to say i love my vibrant. Also thanks to all the devs here, appreciated what u guys have done for us n for staying with us making us great customs roms/kernels.

Mr. Apocalypse said:
I'm still here, kinda. My G2x is my main driver, but i still got my Vibrant and still build kernels when i have time. You're not alone
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Any plans for IcS? I'm gonna start working on it today
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ICS for Vibrant? Looking foward to this.lol

this is a great phone and when rooted does everything i've ever wanted a phone to do. although the experience with ICS will more than likely be better I'm still content with what we have so far. there are no hardcore 3d games that have pushed the hardware to the limit so I don't see any real hardware upgrade necessary. I stopped buying games on my vibrant any way cause I wasn't finishing the ones I had bought before and realized I was wasting my money. So i'm simply using it for media apps, social apps etc. These don't really need a dual core processor with 1gig of ram. The only thing I could want is an identical ICS theme and I'd be set at least for another year on this phone even if we don't ever get ICS.

Yeah, I could maybe see myself moving over to the Nexus S simply because it's got a bigger dev community and the T-Mobile version can be found for pretty cheap, but otherwise I just can't justify moving on from the Vibrant. If I don't go for the Nexus S I'll probably ride out with this until more ICS phones come out.

Hey ECOTOX, I've been quietly learning some stuff about Android and whatnot, I wouldn't consider myself a dev, not even close to one, but I'm learning and I catch on quickly, if you need any help, or have any tips, I'm here. I love this phone, and I won't be moving on to any other phone anytime soon.

theexel said:
Hey ECOTOX, I've been quietly learning some stuff about Android and whatnot, I wouldn't consider myself a dev, not even close to one, but I'm learning and I catch on quickly, if you need any help, or have any tips, I'm here. I love this phone, and I won't be moving on to any other phone anytime soon.
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Pm me and give me the DL on what you can do
=)
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Still here till July 15th of next year. Then I'm off of T-Mobile. In the meantime I put miui on my phone for the first time and it really renewed my love for what this phone can do. Still ready for a new one though.
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If Devs are here im still here just waiting till we get no support at all but i love this phone! best ive ever owned an it was ahead of its time

Jasonhunterx said:
If Devs are here im still here just waiting till we get no support at all but i love this phone! best ive ever owned an it was ahead of its time
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I'll support it as long add a decent amount of people still got it lol
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ECOTOX said:
I'll support it as long add a decent amount of people still got it lol
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Glad to here cant wait for the journey of ics

manlisten said:
Yeah, I could maybe see myself moving over to the Nexus S simply because it's got a bigger dev community and the T-Mobile version can be found for pretty cheap, but otherwise I just can't justify moving on from the Vibrant. If I don't go for the Nexus S I'll probably ride out with this until more ICS phones come out.
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I feel the same. I just don't see a lot of end user support with the Samsung products such as the Vibrant, and many other iterations. Updates seems to either take forever or it'll may never see the light of day. As for developer community? I can't really complain about their support for this device, since they are bringing out the goodies out of their own time with no expectations of donations, etc. And I'm grateful that they are cooking up roms, etc. In the future? I will be purchasing a Google branded phone: prompt updates, and great end user support. I just can't live with a dead end product, just feels like I got cheated out.

Well I just went to T-Mobile store and played with the sgs2 and I must say I'm completely impressed.
With a quadrant score of 2748 stock I'm blown away.
With my shattered screen and assurion's choice of replacement I'm sticking with my broken vibrant with miui ...I'm hoping sgs2 gets miui soon ...but I'm getting antsy and just might go out next week and buy the sgs2 outright

i9000 - the smartest purchase ever

So, back in 2010, my wife and I were looking for new phones to buy. I had a Nokia E71 while hers was an outdated SE feature phone, and she desperately needed a smartphone to keep track of her emails. She was hell bent on getting a Blackberry. I tried reasoning with her, and she finally agreed not to get a blackberry, but then she started insisting on getting a Nokia instead. This was around Valentine's Day in 2010, I tried telling her that some great Android Phones are about to be launched, she should wait, or better still get an iPhone.
The sad state of affairs in India in Feb 2010 was such that Apple were releasing the previous year's iPhone model (3GS I think) a month before the new model was announced. I could not let her buy an outdated iPhone for INR 36,000 when she could get the latest Nokia N97 Mini for INR 24,000. I still implored her to wait for newer Android phones.
She decided she couldn't wait and she got an N97 Mini for Valentine's Day . I must say I was also interested in some Symbian devices at the time, but I kept telling myself that I could make the E71 last a few more months and make a call when the newer Androids were released.
Finally i9000 released in July 2010, and I heard the world going crazy over the internet. I still kept waiting, and I finally decided that I needed to make sure that this phone would be future proof like the HD2.
The clincher for me was XDA. I saw so many people boasting of updated i9000 ROMs for each android release that I finally purchased my own i9000 on 11/11/10.
Not disappointed at all. Have you seen the number of JB ports available for i9000? Tell me one phone that was released at the same time and has such brilliant community support. All I can say is, my brother's Desire HD cannot find even a single decent ICS ROM.

Thats right we are awesome. We know

I agree with the great community support. Yet, maybe we are also lucky because it is very much close with Nexus.

Yeah I switched from my N8 to an i9000 a couple months back and haven't looked back. I was bored of modding Symbian^3 it was just so locked down... almost why I couldn't live with an iPhone, they're great devices stock but Android devices are great stock but with heeeuuugeeeee potential.

Go open source as much as you can
I'm always motivated to the open source devices and software

I bought it during the release years ago and I'm still checking these forums everyday looking for something new.
It's still working like a charm and I love it! Thanks for the great community developing roms!

Ryu Tamasaki said:
I bought it during the release years ago and I'm still checking these forums everyday looking for something new.
It's still working like a charm and I love it! Thanks for the great community developing roms!
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I have mine two years now and still think its a Beast. i9000 Forever!

I had mine till today when I got i9300....and fast as the i9000 is I'm blown away by the s3, just plain gorgeous, but I'm hanging on to my s1 as I consider it to be so iconic and will continue flashing it and testing roms and supporting this community cos it is so much fun, it's dead over at the s3 forum, to many serious people!
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slaphead20 said:
I had mine till today when I got i9300....and fast as the i9000 is I'm blown away by the s3, just plain gorgeous, but I'm hanging on to my s1 as I consider it to be so iconic and will continue flashing it and testing roms and supporting this community cos it is so much fun, it's dead over at the s3 forum, to many serious people!
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Was gonna get i9300 last week but when i sampled it in the store i thought the screen was huge. Seriously its like a tablet that makes phone calls.
Don't get me wrong im not saying bigger isn't better LOL!! but a phone is a phone and a tablet is a tablet. So what next the gs4 will be a 42 Inch LCD?

I got mine about 1 1/1 year ago, but was a bit bored and anoyed by all the samsung and telco stuff
so I started flashing about six month ago and I never will go back to stock. I'ts also great to be in this comunity,
you learn so much stuff and it's interesting wat's going on... :good:

slaphead20 said:
I had mine till today when I got i9300....and fast as the i9000 is I'm blown away by the s3, just plain gorgeous, but I'm hanging on to my s1 as I consider it to be so iconic and will continue flashing it and testing roms and supporting this community cos it is so much fun, it's dead over at the s3 forum, to many serious people!
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Good to hear! Have fun with your new toy! :beer:
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slaphead20 said:
I had mine till today when I got i9300....and fast as the i9000 is I'm blown away by the s3, just plain gorgeous, but I'm hanging on to my s1 as I consider it to be so iconic and will continue flashing it and testing roms and supporting this community cos it is so much fun, it's dead over at the s3 forum, to many serious people!
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What did I say ?

Had my i9000 for about a year and a half.
Don't regret it in the slightest. If my device makes it to 3 years old I'll still be using it as my main phone.

Goodbye Comunity... thanks!!!

I have bought a S3... and now getting to a new level!
I want to thanks every one here for the developments of new roms, has we seen these days, getting new threads day by day. Many things on Android learned with you and i hope to evolve with the new machine!
Hope to see many new things on this old fantastic machine!
Cheers!

ICavalera said:
I have bought a S3... and now getting to a new level!
I want to thanks every one here for the developments of new roms, has we seen these days, getting new threads day by day. Many things on Android learned with you and i hope to evolve with the new machine!
Hope to see many new things on this old fantastic machine!
Cheers!
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Wow.. S3... Sweet!! Have fun with your new machine.. Hope one day i can afford to buy one too..

I bought on a promotion here in Portugal. Paying a little bit for month without fees. and a option to give more money when I want. So... Maybe in February is finish!
With our economy, only by this way they sell and you buy.
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ICavalera said:
I bought on a promotion here in Portugal. Paying a little bit for month without fees. and a option to give more money when I want. So... Maybe in February is finish!
With our economy, only by this way they sell and you buy.
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Shame we have to much tax even for things like smartphone here in my place..
S3 priced around USD 710 - 750 (without contract, open sim/network).. Even iphone 4 is more than USD 450
Even this Legend, i bought it 2nd hand singapore set for USD 120

Well really bad in there. Here is not that easy... But sometimes something good happens and we need to enjoy it.
Stay safe!
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I'm Jalous.
I'm trying to take a Galaxy Note of my friend :laugh:

ICavalera said:
I have bought a S3... and now getting to a new level!
I want to thanks every one here for the developments of new roms, has we seen these days, getting new threads day by day. Many things on Android learned with you and i hope to evolve with the new machine!
Hope to see many new things on this old fantastic machine!
Cheers!
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Take care ^^

I may be joining you soon with the Galaxy Note II. Hopefully my Legend can hang on a little longer

I´ve sold my Legend to my friend... He had an HTC Magic, sold it and bought my. An upgrade also!
Legend is still on the move!

I love HTC with sense, so I'll buy HTC One X once I have enough money

My two daughters abandoned their Legends for iPoop so I finally got to root and custom ROM them as spare phones. They wouldn't let me do it when they were using them, even though I told them they would be better.
They had a look after I flashed them and said "WOW they didn't work like that when we had them".

EHEHEEH
Finally they see the Android on the best way!

You got a very great website forum.xda-developers.com , Glad I noticed it through yahoo. regards

I've moved on to an HTC One S S4.
Really owe this community a lot for all the stuff I managed to do with Legend

Hard to believe the Legend's nearly three years old. I still don't even have a fallback phone! Maybe an old One X or the Nexus 4. :-$
Sent from my Nexus 7 on the XDA app. GO CANADA GO

And after more than 3 years my Galaxy S is still the best!

I was in a store today and tried all kinds of the new smartphones out there. And I walked out giggling. Damn, after 3 years there is no phone out there, even with their quad core this super Gpu that, which i would take over my Galaxy s.
The S2 and S3 are impressive, but are big as hell, also quite expensive. The Nexus phones always impressed me, but they don't take external sd cards or swappable battery.
I never liked HTC phones either.
And with the latest CM10 and semaphore kernel my old Galaxy s still can compete with the latest products and still looks beautiful and even better than the new stuffs.
And don't get me started to compare it with Iphones.
Talking about durability, my little boy thrown my Galaxy S couple hundreds times on the floor, and it's still ain't broke yet. Meanwhile i saw tens of broken iphones. Funny that the people normally still walk around with a broken display, because they can't afford to buy another overpriced phone.
You can say I'm a Galaxy s fanboy, and after 3 years it didn't change. That's something isn't it?
Thank you all devs for making this phone such a fun thing to play with!
From Donut, Eclair, Froyo, Gingerbread, Honeycomb, ICS and now Jelly Bean... it was a heck of ride.

same here, ive had my s1 for nearly 3 years, not used much for last year as i've had an s2 and now an s3 but the s1 gotta be better than both, kids been playing with it for last year but still in great condition and not too much difference from an s2 or an s3

Phone is legend indeed, but 3 years? LoL Don't think so mate. It was for sale as from June 2010, that makes it 2 years and 5 months max. You just added 7 months out if nothing? LoL
7 months in smartphone world is allot you know
I still use mine everyday to, my wife is using the SGS 3, and the Note II is on my Christmas list
I'll use it until it stops working =)
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Phone is legend indeed, but 3 years? LoL Don't think so mate. It was for sale as from June 2010, that makes it 2 years and 5 months max. You just added 7 months out if nothing? LoL
7 months in smartphone world is allot you know
I still use mine everyday to, my wife is using the SGS 3, and the Note II is on my Christmas list
I'll use it until it stops working =)
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Lol you're right. Shame on me. It does feel like more than 3 years already. And i think I'll keep it till it dies too.

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From Donut, Eclair, Froyo, Honeycomb, ICS and now Jelly Bean... it was a heck of ride.
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Dude yu ran Honey comb on the SGS?
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Nope, but a honeycomb lookalike Rom for sure. Lol.
I exaggerated a bit. But i guess u got the point.
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same here
neverending SGS
but on christmas i want S3.. but i will miss semaphore kernel...

galaxy s never die. it cant stop working . unbrickable device . iron steel display . my display doesnt even have a small scratch. but my silvrr metalic color only half exist . throw millions time on the floor . it was swimming with me in the sea. i love my galaxy s and there is no other device witch can beat it ( 2years+phones). there are few devs long life to them. i am using Miui King Soft rom and its great
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I had mine since the first day it was released in the UK at Carphone Warehouse in August 2010. Coming off the G1 all it took was to see it switched on in the shop to indulge in a bit of impulse buying.
Upgraded to a Galaxy Note 5.3" six months ago and then only used the S to play with CM builds. Sold my Note a couple of weeks ago to get the cash for the Nexus 4 and been back to my trusted S and I cant believe how decent it feels for an everyday phone running CM10 nightlies.
As much as I liked the Note I just never got attached to it like I did with the S. :thumbup:
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I couldn't agree more. I bought my Galaxy S second hand more than a year ago just to see what Android was like and I have been happy since. Off-course it needs some tweaking but mine is running very fast at the moment (Semaphore kernel + X-Bean 3.0 + script). I did try other Android phones from friends and in shops but their overall size is just too big and they seem very fragile. If my phone would fail I really don't know what phone currently on the market I'd go for. Quadcore sounds nice but the screens are just too big.

Thanks to the developers the phone is still alive...without them it wouldn't have been the same...I would have bought a new phone by now if it wasn't for them. :good:

the best phone
Me too. I have this phone for 3 years and it is the best!!!

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Thanks to the developers the phone is still alive...without them it wouldn't have been the same...I would have bought a new phone by now if it wasn't for them. :good:
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I really do appreciate dev's that work hard to "keep" phones relevant, but please tell me your only joking about about not having something newer...
I still mod phones that are seemingly older than dirt too, but 3 years?
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3 years, hundreds of drops, not a single scratch or problem, my Galaxy S is a true survivor and I will keep it as long as it lives...

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pacc said:
3 years, hundreds ofms, not a single scratch or problem, my Galaxy S is a true survivor and I will keep it as long as it lives...
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Is a solid like a rock this phone. Sgs 3 maybe is new but not so resistent.

s1 is the best
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The latest Android instead by tens of developers
All games are still playable
It's fell down so many times and hadn't crash
Download mode works forever
This phone will never die for me!

One of the best single cpu phones. Even better than Ace 2. Great support, great GPU, super .

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One of the best single cpu phones. Even better than Ace 2. Great support, great GPU, super .
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*Core
Glad I got this instead of Desire

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*Core
Glad I got this instead of Desire
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This, so much.
Had I gotten the Desire instead of the SGS I'd have updated my phone so very long ago.
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