First Impressions

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While we are all waiting in here, some SingTel customers (Singapore) are already getting served:

Read their first impressions (starting at page 10):

http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/sh....php?t=2781948

Some good stuff:
- Feels good and light to hold
- Brilliant screen
- Smooth touch/swiping

Some complaints (hopefully solved quickly):
- No led notifications for missed calls/texts/low-battery?
- Lag when opening apps
- No subtitle support for movies?

Oh.. and when you finally get yours, please post your first impressions in here

offcourse the subtitle thing is a problem with the media player. You can always choose an other one from one of the markets.
i'm more concerned about the lag when opening apps. Although i haven't seen it on any of the youtube movies (yet).

List of a few of the bugs found on Galaxy compiled by the Singaporeans who got the device:

1. Video recording hangs and crashes pretty often, like 2 out of 3 times, upon recording halfway, I am unable to pause or stop and the timer just stops.
2. Only once that the music player crashes when browsing.
3. World clock crashes if I switch between the top buttons too fast.
4. Text reflow requires double tap to activate on some sites, wonder if it is a bug?
5. No subtitles =p
6. 6 channel AAC audio in video not playing.
7. online can be uncertain at times compared to other smartphones. not as smooth flowing on other smartphones as connection tends to be disconnected (prompting error to load message) at times
8. Got a kernel panic error (!!!) from using Kies + PC Internet on WinXP.

number 1 and 7 worry me a lot... number 2 a bit.

Battery Sucks!
Yesterday afternoon fully charge, by this morning flat, 5 mins surfing, 5 min calls + abit playing ard...
thnk need a few more full charge to c.. my battary C7

After a day heavily palying with the phone, now the phone less 5% and is charging now

Batt life seems to be a prob (i charged for hrs, and today it only lasted for 15hrs)
*EDIT: mines G7, printed on the battery. I saw others like state G9*

Ok...i managed to play with it slightly more than my first usage..and the battery lasted 24hrs+...better than the first 19hrs...see how...

Darn.. diff bat types...
that sucks..

Originally Posted by BasieP

Darn.. diff bat types...
that sucks..

Battery on reach it full capasity after 4-5 charges.. ..

Issue seems serious. eg video recording hang

Originally Posted by Archius

List of a few of the bugs found on Galaxy compiled by the Singaporeans who got the device:

1. Video recording hangs and crashes pretty often, like 2 out of 3 times, upon recording halfway, I am unable to pause or stop and the timer just stops.
2. Only once that the music player crashes when browsing.
3. World clock crashes if I switch between the top buttons too fast.
4. Text reflow requires double tap to activate on some sites, wonder if it is a bug?
5. No subtitles =p
6. 6 channel AAC audio in video not playing.
7. online can be uncertain at times compared to other smartphones. not as smooth flowing on other smartphones as connection tends to be disconnected (prompting error to load message) at times
8. Got a kernel panic error (!!!) from using Kies + PC Internet on WinXP.

number 1 and 7 worry me a lot... number 2 a bit.

some things I found:

7. the battery seem to drain quite fast, fully charge last night, after some heavy browser in the morning for two hours, it dropped to 80%. it may be due to me constantly playing with the new toy. Hopefully the battery is as good as Omnia II.

8. all the apps don't close automatically, i check the task manager, my memory usage hits, i think 80-90%, this maybe why the battery drain so fast, i have to manually terminated all those apps that i opened, msn, twitter, facebook, calculator, internet, music player.....

9. just that when i thought this Android is great compared to my usual Windows mobile that run on Omnia 1 and 2, i tried the camera, boom, it give me the "not enought memory" ****ty problem. i remembered Omnia 1 used to have such problem with the firmware, hopefully i don't have to wait long long for the firware upgrade to resolve such issue.

7. total incompatibility with macbooks. my only gripe.

this one really sucks:

The user manual mentioned to remove the charger when the battery is full. Overcharge will reduce lifespan of the battery(number of charges).

Every new phone got this right! even my 2 year old htc hermes won't overcharge the battery! i'm mostly charging over night, so no chance for me to remove the charger

I don't believe that's true. If regular LiOn battery is used, there won't be any difference from other phones.

So no notification LED? That would suck as you'd have to pick up the phone to see if there is any email or missed call

Originally Posted by ajaffarali

So no notification LED? That would suck as you'd have to pick up the phone to see if there is any email or missed call

It was confirmed that there is no LED notification :'( by the Singaporeans that received the device.