darrenm

Given that in pure os terms, Android is way more powerful and useable than ios4 anyway, then an Android tablet should be better than an ipad with everything else being equal. The ipad hardware is very nice but the galaxy tablet with super amoled and swype should wipe the floor with it.

I'd rather someone like Jol, because he has a decent record but Bob Bradley wouldn't be that bad. He's shown that he's a decent tactician at the WC at least.

If that happened....I'D miss a heartbeat! No thank-you. Everyone still feel the same?

I'd take mon back in a heartbeat.

Really? I absolutely hate windows, if ever there was a completely outdated piece of technology thats it. Slow, unreliable, irrelevant. My netbook just died, my next one won't have windows. Google OS looks like the most likely candidate. Chromium OS should be nice but it will still have a job to be better than Ubuntu Netbook Edition, which is the ultimate n[et|ote]book OS right now when run with Chrome browser rather than Firefox.

Sorry mate, didn't notice this, currently on holiday in Tenby Yeah I'm still on JG5. I keep watching XDA for ROMs that would be worth moving to but nothing seems worth it so far. I would ditch the mimocan SD fix and use the ext2 image file in RFS fix as it seems to properly fix it but I'm just waiting for the Froyo betas. The time between JP3 and whatever comes out next is a long time so far which means they must be busy beavering away and the next Froyo pre-build should be much better, with JIT working properly and hopefully RFS completely ditched / re-architected to stop lag. Yes, just run Odin3, use the 512 pit file and load the CSC, PHONE and PDA files. All info you need is in the XDA flash thread. As I don't use Windows I've had to load an XP VM into VirtualBox and pass through USB which works fine. I'm looking forward to the stable release of the open-source cross-platform Samsung flash program Heimdall so I can flash from Ubuntu. Incidentally, since I've ditched Advanced Task Killer my phone is much better. Android isn't designed to have tasks killed so I decided to try and find what was misbehaving - turned out it was the facebook and the sky news apps. Now I've uninstalled them the phone is much better and I never need to task kill. A good indicator is looking in the battery usage and see if anything is more active than it should be, taking lots of battery. Finally incidentally, is anyone using Tweetdeck Android? If not and you use either Facebook, Twitter, Buzz then get it now. It's utterly brilliant

As honest as I can be. I wanted a Nexus One as the 1GHz snapdragon SOC is excellent. It works really well with Froyo and HTC devices are top notch. I didn't want the Desire as the bootloader lock is excessive which (at the time) prevented you from loading your own ROMs on there. When I first saw the Galaxy S out I decided to go for it because the Super-AMOLED screen and the hardware comparisons put everything above the Nexus One. The final thing that did it for me if the Galaxy S has an unlocked bootloader so you can flash what you want. Also I like the idea of having 16GB + whatever SD card I put in there. The reality is that the SGS has a few bugs, but the screen makes you forgive it. The performance under normal use isn't really any different to a Desire but the 3D performance and screen is definitely noticeable. The slightly larger Super-AMOLED seems to give it a bit of a wow-factor. What lets it down is Samsungs drivers and default software build. It seems they built a top-notch hardware device and didn't get the software right, which is the same old story with anything Samsung. They've now got lots of people working full-time on getting it right and everything points towards the September Froyo launch as making the device show its true colours. if you need any more convincing to go for the SGS: After Froyo that should be in the 3000's

You do know he didn't mention Android. So how do you know he has an android phone? I have never liked Apple or the iPhone but that opinion has been there for years, it didn't only come about when I got an Android phone a few months back. Anyway, Google maps is on the iPhone too so when the Google Maps Navigation is turned on for Europe we'll all be able to get it for free. It's been turned on in Europe for months. I use mine for navigation all the time. Google won't ever release Navigation for iPhone though so whether or not Apple consider having free sat nav on the phone is too techy or not will dictate their next move with that.

Oh and do yourself a favour and install JG5 firmware.

None at all. Well unless you wanna update Twitter and Facebook at the same time.

Install appbrain and away you go. Click, click, click. Apart from that, everything's backed up in the cloud. Awesome innit?

The initial ROM that Samsung still seem to be shipping is JF3 and that's the one with the lag issues. Following things at XDA keeps you pretty much up to date. What seems to have happened is Samsung made the phone with the specs and didn't really implement Android particularly well, especially with Touchwiz. They suddenly started to sell a boatload and thought 'shit, we'd better make this work properly quick' and apparently brought almost all of their RnD into SGS Android development and very quickly fixed things. I'm now running JG5 with the SD-card /data cache mod, which is why I get stupidly fast Quadrant scores. Since then there has been almost a new firmware every day from Samsung, with the early Froyo build (JP3) the current latest but it's a bit buggy and isn't actually any faster than what I've currently got. Samsung have stated Froyo will be in late Sept for the SGS, so they've got 6 weeks ish of beta testing from the community, with each Froyo build getting a bit better each time. This is also what I love about the SGS so far, it's easily rootable, you use a tool called Odin3 to just flash a firmware file each time to update it, or to flash a community ROM and the dev firmwares they supply are pre-rooted. They're engaging the community rather than trying to alienate them like HTC and Motorola are doing with their 'perfect' locked bootloaders.

If they mark it down because of the flash - sustained, it should have had a flash. If they mark it down because it looks like an iPhone - well I don't especially like the iPhone look but it looks tidy enough. If they mark it down because of touchwiz - well, it's the default launcher. It's like marking an iPhone down because O2 pre-install some O2 feed app that's not very good. The launcher is personal choice and is replaced by going to the market and installing something better. Most people use LauncherPro which is excellent. Apart from that I can't see why it wouldn't be better than a Desire. Again, don't get me wrong I like the Desire and N1, I was about to get a N1 but had a Desire and sold it for the SGS.

Hmm, I'm finding the camera to the be very good in decent light, poor light not so much which is a shame as it could have done with a flash. The 720p HD recording is spectacular and much better than my Toshiba Camileo HD video camera. I've seen a Desire HD recording and it's not really up to the same level.

Lol Limpid: Hi, can you tell me when you'll be pushing Froyo out and will it be OTA? O2 monkey: (looks at flow chart) So is that a hardware or a software error, sir?

Do you know you've bricked it? i.e. is it worth telling you about the bootloader etc?

When your network decide to release their own version of it. Probably worth reading some vodafone forums to see if there's any inside knowledge on there.

I can't find a CM version for the X10?? I've used it on my Dream for about 12 months and will be putting it on the SGS as soon as the build is finished, depending on the quality of the Samsung Froyo update.

Game-changing phone.

It depends on how devs set it up. It allows the possibility to kill piracy, but only if the devs use some pretty draconian market settings (which good recommend doing against) that will render your app useless if there's no net connection available. It also has the potential to limit the number of installs on a per-device basis, so you can specify an app can only be installed on one device, so if you get a new phone you'll need to rebuy it, you can't just transfer it over with your google account like you can now (but again, that's something google advise against). It's something that developers will quickly learn what the market has an appetite for, too severe restrictions and you'll find apps rated down and abandoned in droves. Oh, and it's also trivial to bypass, it just involves removing the market from your phone, so piracy will still be an option, just an inconvenient one. The one thing that I am concerned at though is the ability to force an app update, you can mandate that anyone running the app HAS TO use the latest version, so you could make an awesome pay app, and then down the line throw ads into it too and anyone using it will HAVE to update to the ad version if they want to use it. That's the beauty of an open ecosystem though. As you say, people will leave apps with severe restrictions in droves and developers will find a happy medium where customers won't feel like they're persecuted and still be able to exercise some level of control.

Great news. Can't stand people pirating things.

Everyone with an interest in driving technology forward has to thank Apple and more specifically, Steve Jobs. The iPhone implementation was a kick up the arse of the mobile ecosystem, and even though Android was around first it wouldn't have been anything like it is today without the competition provided by Apple. As it is, Apple have already lost their war. The only way for them to remain relevant now is to open iOS. While it can only run on their own devices they will have to compete with Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, HTC etc., all of which suddenly have access to a very capable OS with almost zero development lead-time. It's the silicon valley war all over again. Apple innovated but remained closed and the free-market IBM-compatible personal computer forced them out. You would have thought Steve Jobs would have learnt from his mistakes the first time out. Get ubiquitous, it's the only way.

Sorry for taking this OT but this bit relates to something you posted in the Ubuntu thread. The Samsung NC10 is an Atom-based netbook. It's what Ubuntu Netbook Edition was built for. It seems the biggest advantage anyone can think of with an iPad is that they can just pick it up, wake it, find what they want on the net and put it back down again. I've got an Asus EEE netbook (same kinda thing as the Samsung) and all I do is open the lid, wait 2 seconds, browse the web and then close it again. And I have a keyboard and usable apps in the OS. Don't get it.

Oops, fixed

Didn't realise the Snapdragon was as good as the 1GHz Hummingbird, much better system than I thought after doing some reading. The lack of a flash is a pain, yes. That Rockplayer does look spookily like the default SGS Media Player! Just done a Quadrant benchmark. Wow.