After playing with both the Sky Rocket and SGS II for about a month each, the SGS II is overall better - specs and use. Development will come to the Sky Rocket surely, although never on the same scale as for the SGS II.
Stay or Go with the SkyRocket lack of Dev Support
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can I get a big storage wars yuuuupppp lol sorry I don't know where that came from
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I'm ok with development coming slow. I'm only going to root my skyrocket, no ROM. It works just fine as is.
How's it going Tony
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Well, this seems more of a troll -- even if you bought the phone day one you have another week - But I'll attempt to correct your innacuracies.
If you previously had one, then you can't go back unless the AT&T store guy was incorrect when I asked about the return policy when I bought mine. That wouldn't surprise me, but I'll be very amused if he's right and you are stuck with the phone unless you want to pay full price.
There's an entire benchmark thread stickied, take some time to read it. The skyrocket is faster on every benchmark, outside of some Quadrant runs, mainly because Quadrant is a random number generator. I benched both the original Galaxy S II (I had it as well) and the Skyrocket, and the skyrocket is faster. Assuming you own the phone, try it for yourself, but there are plenty of screenshots there.
There are a couple of Kernel's, and while I am only using Da_g's, it overclocks quite nicely, underclocks and undervolts to save power, and is quite stable. Exactly what features are you looking for? Entropy makes a fine kernel agreed (even if he is a bit too inflammatory about his opinion of the Skyrocket IMO), but I certainly wouldn't see the community development here as "limited" or "slow". It's open source, you could always contribute if you are unhappy with the progress...
I'm not really a big ROM guy, but it's a new phone - we're not exactly going to have a CyanogenMod daily yet. There's not one for my Kindle Fire yet either, but I'm not complaining about it ... it's been out only a week less than the Skyrocket. (The Galaxy S II is a rehash of the International, so yeah, they have a lot more development time in - after all, it's an old design.)
... Da_G's Kernel 0.4-pre had an SoD issue (for me anyway). 0.3 is quite stable; and that's why it's an actual release. So that's inflammatory and innacurate - if you are going to complain about alpha and beta releases, stick with actual releases. That's just plain silly.
I'd vote you to go personally.
Good luck returning that phone.There really should be some type of theme music that plays for invasion of the trolls.
See, it's going to be different for everyone.
I'm ok with development coming slow. I'm only going to root my skyrocket, no ROM. It works just fine as is.
How's it going Tony
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I just couldn't handle the screen size. Soooooo big, it barely fit in my pocket haha. My dad loves it though, so I think I am going to sell his SGS II I got him and get him a SkyRocket.
It's been good! Finally have a break from college and can come back to XDA to play around. I miss it.
Wow buddy slow down there a bit. I have been here since the day it released.
I have a Corporate Account and they are quite flexible.
Sorry but if you add a custom kernel and ROM the SGII currently is quite a bit faster and does not have the documented video studders.
I wish I had the skills to help develop but I don't however, I put my money where my mouth is and I HAVE donated to the cause.
Please point me in another direction for another kernel to try. And Da_g's kernel does not SoD for all and .3 is the most stable. He himself is seeing the SoD and is working very hard to resolve this and I am sure he will get this working.
I'd vote you to go personally.
To note I appreciate vocally and monetarily to the Dev's we do have. However this phone has not drawn a big development group yet. Its clear by the donation thread there are many wanting to come to the SR but to date its a small team.
I was simply asking for an opinion and its clear everyone has one as do you.
Thanks for your input.
Have you actually put your hands on one? I personally did not see much of a difference from the Atrix to the SGII and then the step to the SR wasn't noticeable at all.
Maybe for you guys that tweak the phones there is going to be a difference but for someone like me both phones are great. But i prefer the larger screen of the SR because i swear the keypad is a bit larger. Also to me it's faster. Plus the 4G is blazing fast in my area. Best phone i have ever had. Added the PowerSkin to it and I'm set.
I paid $35 for my Skyrocket
im not knocking a good deal.....i aint mad, lol wish i could have gotten for that. but i didnt and its ok
Me neither.. was thinking of getting the Nexus, but will never pay more then $300 for it.....
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I have used the OGSGII and its nothing compared to the SR.. its smaller and if the sgII is faster then the sr then its marginal... I just got damn near 6600 on Antu with stock rom and rooted clocked at 1.72... how much faster you want these things?
Me neither.. was thinking of getting the Nexus, but will never pay more then $300 for it.....
I got my SGS II for $.97 along with my SkyRocket.
Originally when I got my Cappy, I got it for $75 the week it came out without a new contract.
My Galaxy Tab 10.1in was $200 only.
^All of these thanks to BestBuy matching deals. I am going to pick up my Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime 32GB 10.1in for $250 brand new without a contract. BestBuy is the best.
Can't wait for a quadcore tablet!
I got my SGS II for $.97 along with my SkyRocket.
Originally when I got my Cappy, I got it for $75 the week it came out without a new contract.
My Galaxy Tab 10.1in was $200 only.
^All of these thanks to BestBuy matching deals. I am going to pick up my Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime 32GB 10.1in for $250 brand new without a contract. BestBuy is the best.
Can't wait for a quadcore tablet!
Thinking of getting the Galaxy tab 10.1.. here in Houston its $499.. How do you like it?
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1 ordered from at&t?
is it available for at&t?
Only thing I don't like is the Nexus has no expandable storage.
The "Galaxy Nexus".
Not the Nexus One or the Nexus S. I ordered it from Expansys-usa should be here sometime this week. Nexus Prime was just a name they used when the phone was being developed. Cost me $729.99 with a -$20 coupon code for the site. The no SD card thing kinda bummed me out and thats originally why I bought the SR over it but after using google music during beta and now that its out and free. I have realized that 16gb will be enough storage for me since I can stream all of my music through google music. The SR was nice but I really want that stock android experience and not to have to wait for updates from AT&T or samsung. I got burnt out on waiting when using the Infuse. How many times did AT&T promise Gingerbread for the infuse...
If anyone wants the coupon code for Expansys usa its: 20OFFLS1
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Exactly..I tried the SGS2 orig because of this Exynos talk..well it was slower than the Skyrocket. In terms of ROM, I have it working complete with 14 toggle mod, camera hack to use power button to click, 3200-3500+ quadrant (if it means anything really) without any special kernels no overclocking etc, no random reboots, no locks to freeze and take out battery etc., NO! SODs, no video lags (whatever folks talk of..have downloaded many videos and play them directly), no MMS issue at all !...Vis Voicemail etc all work..even modified the dialer so that have the Tmob type dialer with extra button for voicemail along side the button for the phone on one side and the messaging button on the other side.
only miss in-dialer video chat (3G direct..not talking of Google talk) that is there in I9000 (orig SGS not SGS2) ROMs and the Infuse (modified dialer there too for direct video chat)..the ROM for the Sky and the T989 do not support this (maybe trying to move folks to Google Talk..do not need that)..neither does the orig
SGS2 anyway
Even have a TMob rom set up for this device with all the above except Vis Vmail..even fixed in-call volume using I727 library files..
wonder what folks are complaining about..do not care 4G LTE all that stuff..it is fast no matter what..
however .lost 70$ because of this Exynos nonsense (in my opinion)..35 restocking fee to return and 35 to change from Sky to org SGS2 back to Sky..my loss the hard way.1
Well, this seems more of a troll -- even if you bought the phone day one you have another week - But I'll attempt to correct your innacuracies.
If you previously had one, then you can't go back unless the AT&T store guy was incorrect when I asked about the return policy when I bought mine. That wouldn't surprise me, but I'll be very amused if he's right and you are stuck with the phone unless you want to pay full price.
There's an entire benchmark thread stickied, take some time to read it. The skyrocket is faster on every benchmark, outside of some Quadrant runs, mainly because Quadrant is a random number generator. I benched both the original Galaxy S II (I had it as well) and the Skyrocket, and the skyrocket is faster. Assuming you own the phone, try it for yourself, but there are plenty of screenshots there.
There are a couple of Kernel's, and while I am only using Da_g's, it overclocks quite nicely, underclocks and undervolts to save power, and is quite stable. Exactly what features are you looking for? Entropy makes a fine kernel agreed (even if he is a bit too inflammatory about his opinion of the Skyrocket IMO), but I certainly wouldn't see the community development here as "limited" or "slow". It's open source, you could always contribute if you are unhappy with the progress...
I'm not really a big ROM guy, but it's a new phone - we're not exactly going to have a CyanogenMod daily yet. There's not one for my Kindle Fire yet either, but I'm not complaining about it ... it's been out only a week less than the Skyrocket. (The Galaxy S II is a rehash of the International, so yeah, they have a lot more development time in - after all, it's an old design.)
... Da_G's Kernel 0.4-pre had an SoD issue (for me anyway). 0.3 is quite stable; and that's why it's an actual release. So that's inflammatory and innacurate - if you are going to complain about alpha and beta releases, stick with actual releases. That's just plain silly.
I'd vote you to go personally. Good luck returning that phone.1
There really should be some type of theme music that plays for invasion of the trolls.1
See, it's going to be different for everyone.
I'm ok with development coming slow. I'm only going to root my skyrocket, no ROM. It works just fine as is.
How's it going Tony
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I just couldn't handle the screen size. Soooooo big, it barely fit in my pocket haha. My dad loves it though, so I think I am going to sell his SGS II I got him and get him a SkyRocket.
It's been good! Finally have a break from college and can come back to XDA to play around. I miss it.
