Android 
We’ve had the Samsung Galaxy S for a couple days now here at ZCJ. And boy, those sure were enjoyable days. Mostly.
Here’s our First Impressions so far.
What we liked :
We’ve already spoken about it in a previous post, so we wont repeat ourselves again. But y’all honestly have to see it up close to believe it. Some argue that the colors are fake looking, I argue that they’re more true. Some say contrast isnt as good as OLED, I say it’s way better. Regardless, this thing is beautiful to look at and use. I’d say it was second only to the Retina display on the iPhone 4.
Out of all the phones we’ve used, the Galaxy S slips into our pocket the easiest.
What we werent too sure about :
We werent expecting too much, to be honest.
No Flash at all. More Image Samples on our Samsung Galaxy S Camera Samples Flickr Album.
720p HD video recording is great to have, but it does drop frames a bit here and there.
Battery life isnt too great. It’ll just about manage to get you through the day. Just about, with moderate to light usage. Anything even remotely heavy will start to take a major toll on your battery life. With my screen on full brightness, after 2 hours of Music over Headphones, 30 mins of calling, 30 minutes of GPRS and another 30 minutes of Wifi usage, about 20 minutes of GPS, 10 minutes of Camera use, and another 20 minutes of installing applications and configuring the device, the Galaxy S was only halfway bars down when I got back home. Of course i’ll have to test this out more intensively over the coming days. But you will definitely have to charge it every night.
What we didnt like:
Here’s a video of our First Impressions, along with a short overview of the device.
So that’s about it. So far the benefits outweigh the cons. Remember you can keep a watch on our Samsung Galaxy S Review Album on Flickr, or our Samsung Galaxy S Review Playlist on Youtube.
Were you considering a Samsung Galaxy S? Have any questions about a feature ? Something we missed ? Do let us know in the comments y’all !
Clinton is currently based in New Delhi, India and is executive editor for UnleashThePhones. He is responsible for all editorial decisions, and covers all forms of Mobile and mobile-related accessories.
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I completely disagree with the bluetooth headsets part of the information in the blog as well as the Nitish's argument. I own a Galaxy S and got a Nokia headset free with it. (Due to price difference when compared to other stores). It paired up very well and an awesome sound clarity.It was just a mono headset. The headset pairing is what is important here. The headset, for example nokia's, it requires the headset power button to be pressed for minimum of 5 seconds to get detected by any new phone. It just needs 2 seconds to switch on though which will try to pair up with the previously paired up device. Hence usage of the headset properly is very important. Battery life is just too good to be true. Guys, spare a thought of having a 4 inch screen and expecting a good battery life is crazy. But still the battery lasts for more than a day with EDGE on for the whole day and music beng played for a long time. With normal to heavy usage, 2 days is minimum battery life I get. Flash is absent, which is a bummer. I agree with that.
totally agree with Pavan on the bluetooth headsets issue. I have a Plantronics Voyager Pro and was struggling to get it to pair with my Galaxy S. Then I read this reply and tried it, set the phone to scan for bluetooth devices and kept the power on button on the Voyager pressed for 30 secs. Then it happened, headset detected and paired. Thanks a lot, Pavan.
I agree. I was having issues pairing my Nokia BH 105, I read PAVAN'S post, pushed on my Nokia headset for 5 secs and now it's paired. Nice one man!
hiya i have been useing the social hub app and like it but just had the facebook update for the Andriod os but it sits with the other widgets instead of being intergrated into the social hub app leaving me with two apps for facebook? anyway of transposing the update into the social hub or even adding any other IM type app into the social hub link? otherwise i cannot see why it is any use if you have update sitting elsewhere not being intergrated into the app? any ideasDave
thanks for the review. Is it possible to set your own message tone also is there a setting to repeat a message alert as it only goes once....
The MicroSD is HC and can support up to 32GB. Plus the internal storage which is 16GB altogether is 48GB!. Im able to store my entire MP3 library in my galaxy S! My iphone is stuck with only 32GB. The galaxy S battery is removable so I intend to get a spare one for standby so no problems for battery life.The music play back quality is unbelievable after I installed mixzing player as it has up to 10 band graphic equlizer! Together with my denon high end earphone, I have never hear anything better than this!
My last Nokia device was an N82 (still use it, awesome camera), and after 3-4 apps open, it just quit working and restarted or i would have to kill apps to bring it back. Android's implementation is smart, my phone has never and i mean NEVER frozen. Never tested out multi tasking on it explicitly but its working for me.
The list of apps is not a list of open apps, its a list of the last 6 apps you used. The manufacturers can configure the size, I get 8 on my Nexus One.
And web browsing no? :P Just do it for the sake of comparison bro hahaPS. N900 is still the better of the two imo lol I9000 is just the iPhone wannabe phone xD
I dont think there'd be a point Asif :- Totally different types of devices. Plus other than camera, hardware keyboard and Multitasking, the Galaxy S would probably win lol.
CJ, are you gonna do a comparison of Galaxy S with N900?
Well! I am disappointed as bazil or suyog said. May be we are too much used to Nokia and many things became obvious to us.Lovely is screen, lovely is size, lovely is integration (exactly as was on N900) with Google, but heavily disappointed with following1.Battery seems pathetic2. In no world, I could accept living without Flash. Better if you have excluded the camera. What's use of 5MP if it has to be thrown down in night. It doesn't make any sense and freaks me out about Galaxy S.3. "Multi-tasking" seems to be like iPhone standards, otherwise I wasn't even going to call it Multi-tasking.4. After living in Nokia world, other bluetooth heasets gonna annoy me and if this thing doesn't support most of them, then God bless Samsung
I was hearing so much about the Android and the "amazing" Galaxy S, that's "even better than the iPhone" (of course it is, even €200 phones are better than the iPhone), and I can say that I am disappointed after this review. It proves once again that things which one expects as natural from any Nokia or Symbian phone are not when one goes to other brands. No flash, no camera button, no multitasking, no notification light, no connection to the PC other than mass storage, problems with pairing of bluetooth headsets (I paired my Nokias with almost every BT headset on the market, from Nokia and Jabra to Plantronics and Jawbone, and I had never any problem with any of them), poor camera. And this is expected to be the best Android device. That's why I prefer Nokia and Symbian. Such a pity that Americans have no idea of those amazing devices and that powerful OS.
Thx my friend, so wait to read your comments.
I'll try to check that out Juan. We'll have a piece on Email on Android 2.1 coming up so we'll deffo try to test exchange support :)
The Music Player app allows you to play music in the background. The Email app (atleast the Gmail one) checks for new messages. But like I said, if the game doesnt 'support' it, it'll start off brand new.
Clinton, do you have the chance to test Exchange support, pre 2.2 (Froyo) activseync security policies is one of the weakest points of android and most of the times prevents using exchange accounts (if IT admins enforce security policies).
Is it true for multitasking? thats new thing for me, I always thought that Android is as good or better in multitasking than Symbian if not better than Maemo/MeeGo.So lets say typical multitasking scenario for me on E52 "Email running in background, Music player running, and I am playing games with sound off, email notification comes, I check emails, reply etc, come back to game continue where I left"Isnt this possible in so called "future" OS by Google?
From what I noticed, not really. Some games "support" this sort of thing and go into a sort of freeze in gameplay while you do something else. But most dont, so when you come back you're booting up the game brand new. Same for apps.
Nice post i am really confused about multitasking android but bada os of samsung does it so is there any kinda multitaskin in android such as you can run a 3rd party game in background come out and browse a page for a while then continue gaming etc etc ?
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