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Should I buy this phone?

Was wondering what's the track record of Samsung getting custom Roms/firmware?
I really like how XDA have developers to do custom ROMS for HTC phones but was wondering does Samsung phones gets same treatment? Or will be looking at far and few in between updates from Samsung itself and won't be able to update to the latest and greatest?
Really want Nexus One but the Galaxy S is sooooooooo much better *sigh*

Can't answer your question on whether the Samsung will get the same amount of Dev time that has been lavished on the HTC phones, but I was in the same situation as yourself - Galaxy S or Nexus One.
I came down on the side of the Galaxy S simply because it's a better phone all round. There's a multi-touch vid on youtube comparing the responsiveness of the screens, and the Galaxy wiped the floor with the Nexus One. I'm hoping that the popularity of this phone will mean that the Devs on here will start giving some time to the Galaxy S.
I must admit I was initially drawn towards the Nexus One because of excellent work that has been done by the likes of Cyanogen et al, but I took the long term view that surely the same must eventually happen with the Galaxy S. *crosses fingers*

For the Galaxy, there is MoDaCo. For the Galaxy Spica, there is Samdroid. Don't know much about the others, but they weren't released here in Europe anyway.
I followed Samdroid a while, thinking about getting a Spica. There are some awesome things going on there - they even tried to modify the touchscreen sensor, because the hardware does support multitouch, but the driver doesn't. AFAIK, they had no success, but still nice try. And they even opened a board for the Galaxy S, maybe Leshak fetches one and works some magic there in the future. If not, I am pretty sure somebody will.

If you want to customize it to run the latest roms, the question is: how "open" is this device?
I know that HTC made the Desire a pain in the butt to unlock/root, and they will improve this with every new phone the make, making them more and more secure and block customized images.
Is Samsung going to follow the same strategy?

I think you're right Magicdroid, the question would be how open this is. But even though the Desire was a pain to root, it HAD been rooted just cos there's lots of developers. When there are lots of developers, you'll get rooted device
I wonder if the Galaxy S will get lots of user base.............I just hope lots and lots of ppl will pick it up and then the chance of longetivity with custom ROMS dramatically increases....

I'm hopoing for good community support as well. I have an AT&T Tilt, and have doen well on the XDA site. I'm spoiled
I am very interested in the Galaxy S, but I"m on At&T, and the AT&T version i keep reading about doesn't have the same specs. So having to wait and see on that.
Also, I see a lot of negative feedback on Samsung support, and based on their previous Android phone (Behold I think it's called) is not getting an upgrade. Lots of complaints about being abandonded by Samsung.
Not sure what I'll do. If At&T doesn't get decent phones soon, I mahy have to look do Verizon.
Sorry...I'm rambling off topic.
The Galaxy S looks like a great piece of hardware.

MarvinTheAndroid said:
There's a multi-touch vid on youtube comparing the responsiveness of the screens, and the Galaxy wiped the floor with the Nexus One.
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Hilarious! I just found it and laughed so much http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVlsRCMltDg
I was considering to buy a Nexus, but now I changed my mind...someday this mobile will hopefully get root and give enough space for customizations of every kind...just wait and see - it will come in the mid of June to Europe and I'm eager to hold one in my hands

I'm disciplining myself to not get this phone until there's a good team of developers move to it to get customizations going
aaahhh the wait the wait......

and, do you have one jet? the best mod is doctorz rom. it runs very smooth

God damn it. Did you sign up just to necro a thread that's over A YEAR AND A HALF old?

The community around the Samsung Galaxy S

I made a post in General about the dev community behind the Samsung Galaxy S, which can be found here:
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=7383703
I am curious to see what the opinions are of those that already have the phone.
I hope this isn't against the rules; if it is, please let me know and I will delete it.

have you even looked carefully at the SGS i9000 sub forums?
it is NOT in anyway relatively empty, it's more lively than ever, and it gets better every day.
there are many Custom ROMs already if you are into that, and plenty of development going on, many which were feature on the front page blog of the XDA community already.
HTC Desire was released almost 6 month ahead of SGS, of course they will have more stuff going on there.
If you are here in this sub forum every day, you'll notice all the changes and mass of things going on every few hours.
If you like the phone buy it
If you like what you see developed around the HTC Desire then go get the Desire
personally i moved up from the Desire to SGS, but i did it for technical spec reasons
Android OS is wide open, anything that works for Desire or whatever other Android phone, will work on SGS, that's all the insurance i needed to get the SGS, and of course being Rootable.
I waited until a confirmed root was out before i got the SGS i9000

Galaxy 3 Reviews

Write your own review here so others can get idea who are looking for this phone.
My Review-
I have seen many people try to claim that Galaxy Fit, Galaxy Y and other in this range are better than this phone. Well, I don't really agree with this. Yes, they are officially Gingerbread supported phones and have a good Graphic Driver but it lacks something which is more important. Development! Yes, We don't have huge development for these phones. Some don't have their own forum either. Heck, even Ace doesn't have it's forum on main page. The development for this phone is huge, great and consist of very helpful users. You can't have luxury of using various Custom ROM's, tweaks, Themes, Kernel and every other development you will see in other High range phones. Before going to start discussion than this phone doesn't have Gingerbread or a good Graphic driver. Hold on, and look on development forum.
The developers here are very best and experienced in almost every field. We have ported CM7 ROM, OpenFIMG Driver and custom ROM's which makes the phone fast and fills every field which which it lacked before. Tools like Chainfire, modified flash player makes this phone more than worth at this cost and even comparable to some Higher range phones. Thanks to our developers, I am happy that I have this phone. If you are looking for high development but want a cheap phone than this is for you. If you want to keep it all stock, then you can go for any other like Galaxy Fit.

Less devlopament because they are new...
Galaxy 3 is of of course better then galaxy y
But we can't say for galaxy fit for now...
It may get own devs by time...
I agree that we have so much devlopament...
(thanks to devs)
Because the other phones are newer, we can't compare them...
And I think, g3 and apollo is not available as a new piece, people who want to take a new phone, should buy a new phone...
News is Galaxy y will get his siblings that may have front camera with low price...
But still a cheap I think...
Conclusion is,
Our phone is best by our side...
Newer phones may get their devs slowly...
People who want to buy a new phone should buy a high range of phone which ever suits their budget...
If phone is of too low range, may not give a good android experience...
Finally, samsung always gives a **** plastic feel in all range of phones

Giving a review about this phone is hopeless because its dead. I mean you can't find it in the market. Phone like fit and pop are good but our cells beats them in dev. In spec they beat us cause we don't have a good gpu. If we had that we could kick the a$$ easily. If you are looking for a midrange Samsung, go for ace or spend some more and get a galaxy s.
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That is what I'm saying...
More over this is my first samsung or I can say first other than motorola after all motorola phones....
Phone is very good but disappointed me by
plastic...
Probably going for motorola again in new shopping...
Hope that will have good devs...
When I will buy it...
I think I'm going of topic
Sorryyyy
To mr PG
Can we continue this thread forever for writing our experience with phone instead of closing this thread?
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M_247 said:
That is what I'm saying...
More over this is my first samsung or I can say first other than motorola after all motorola phones....
Phone is very good but disappointed me by
plastic...
Probably going for motorola again in new shopping...
Hope that will have good devs...
When I will buy it...
I think I'm going of topic
Sorryyyy
To mr PG
Can we continue this thread forever for writing our experience with phone instead of closing this thread?
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Try Motorola defy+ . Great phone and great dev.
And yes prateek, don't close this thread.
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I want to request friend863 to change the name to
Your galaxy review
Or
Share your galaxy experience
Or
Any other that suits best (this is just my thought )
And want to invite all viewers of this thread to share their experience with the cute galaxy 3
Share your all experience
:sly::thumbup::thumbdown::what::beer::banghead::screwy:
All experience

Galaxy 3 Reviews sounds right too. It means we can see different user reviews here.
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Ok, that is your choice
And we have nothing yet
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G3 Good as a Mid-Range Android
G3 is really good.
This is my First Android Phone and really happy with it.

My love letter to the G3
i went in the shop looking for an entry android phone and bought my g3 because they had mispriced it at £14.00 instead of £140.00. i bought three and gave one to my bro and one to my mum. I walked out of the shop feeling pretty pleased with my bargain phone and it hasn't stopped impressing me since.
Ive played with the galaxy y and other lower end samsung models and they dont seem to have the same heart as the G3. sure its a bit plastic and the screen is small and when its laid flat it cant decide if its in portrait or landscape mode, but it has something unique, an Xfactor... you. All of you! from the skilled devs to the noobs like me, this phone is loved and cherished and is being pushed well beyond its means by this community.
i know one day i will have to get a new phone (probably when i hardbrick this one!) but i doubt il ever love another handset in the same way, if i could hit all of your thanks buttons at once i would because its this community that drives my love of our humble, glitchy galaxy 3

Ava.tar said:
i went in the shop looking for an entry android phone and bought my g3 because they had mispriced it at £14.00 instead of £140.00. i bought three and gave one to my bro and one to my mum. I walked out of the shop feeling pretty pleased with my bargain phone and it hasn't stopped impressing me since.
Ive played with the galaxy y and other lower end samsung models and they dont seem to have the same heart as the G3. sure its a bit plastic and the screen is small and when its laid flat it cant decide if its in portrait or landscape mode, but it has something unique, an Xfactor... you. All of you! from the skilled devs to the noobs like me, this phone is loved and cherished and is being pushed well beyond its means by this community.
i know one day i will have to get a new phone (probably when i hardbrick this one!) but i doubt il ever love another handset in the same way, if i could hit all of your thanks buttons at once i would because its this community that drives my love of our humble, glitchy galaxy 3
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Lol 14 frigging pounds, any deal is a good one for that money
You're quite a story teller to

Wiggierip said:
Lol 14 frigging pounds, any deal is a good one for that money
You're quite a story teller to
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lol Thanks and yeh you can certainly see why I bought 3

John Rettinger from TechnoBuffalo can't let go of the Note!

So, a lot of people have been saying how they can't go back to using another phone after using the Note. Well, here is a professional reviewer who reviewed the note a while back, and hasn't been able to well, let go of it...
Jon Rettinger from TechnoBuffao is one of my favorite reviewers on youtube & here is what he has to say about the note after using it for a month:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBhEiiMd3qU
This is pretty much consistent with what I & many others have experienced after using the note for a while.

I would say all of this started happening with Dell streak.
It's all about the big screen.
Our eyes gets adapted to this screen size and finds everything else so small and uncomfortable to use.
@Taptalk-GalaxyNote

I have to agree with everything he said.
I believe Samsung will continue to release future Notes... and I don't see myself leaving this product line anytime soon.
Its perfect for me. A phone and a tablet in one.

To be honest, I've come from working for Manufacturers (LG/Samsung to be precise) and I didn't think I could be impressed with an Android phone.... The note smashed it out of the park....
Too true about people noticing though, I've had women in bars ask me about the phone..... True Story!

Yup,
Even my 'apple fanboy' friends like my galaxy note, eventhough they hate my epic 4g before.
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I still haven't got my sim card in the mail..it hurts using my evo now..so small and slow!!
I like to watch a lot of videos Netflix etc and it looks awesome.

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[Video] Galaxy S III User Review, couple tips and comparison with HTC One S

Hi folks,
For those of you interested in Galaxy S III, or torn between GS3 and HTC One S, I made a video for you. Initially, I'm showing the pebble blue T-mobile GS3, sharing my opinions and a couple of tips, and toward the end, there's a comparison with HTC One S. The video is about 16 minutes long (and that's after I cut out a lot and sped it up about 30%). If you're anything like me, when I'm interested in a phone, I'm willing to spend the time and hear what others have to say about it.
Enjoy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A7JgmYnoA0
Allen K