Recent content by jdurston

Had a look today at best buy (I live in Canada). Screen is great pentile or not. The phone felt nicer than I was expecting too. It is really tall. First thing I did was open the desktop version of theverge.com as it's a pretty heavy website. The text was much sharper while zoomed out than the...

Do any non samsung ROMs feature smooth browser scrolling and zooming like the standard Touchwiz ROMs? I could never find any smooth browser roms fit my nexus s. I love that I can load a super heavy website with tons of high res pics with no slow down are stuttery scrolling on my SGS2. Also I'm...

I'll try and shoot some comparison footage tomorrow. Not sure if YouTube's compression will make the difference impossible to tell though.

This is misinformation. I don't know why it keeps being repeated. I'm running CM9 ICS on my Nexus S with no soft keys. The soft keys are only present if no hardware is, although you can enable them on some ROMs and they look pretty good if you're willing to give up the screen space.

So 720p plays back smoother? Just on the phone screen or over hdmi? Sent from my GT-I9100 using xda premium

Do you typically record 720p or 1080p video? I use 720p because the files are smaller and I own a 720p tv. I wondered if 720p might offer better quality in low light conditions because it can average over more pixels in the sensor? Also if the phone cpu is working too hard at 1080p does it...

Just wanted to say thanks to everybody who's posted useful info in this thread. Just got a SGS2 off Kijiji, and got it flashed with the frankenstein XXKI3 firmware. I'm itching for ICS since I have a Nexus S too and the latest ROMs are pretty polished on that phone. Galaxy 2 kicks the Nexus'...