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.
Quadcores are just around the corner. Its pointless upgrading to a dual core. I will gladly keep my skyrocket until i pick up my quadcore sammy device. 4 cores mabye 2 gigs ram and a big super amoled with lte is what im waiting for
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.
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.So here we are approaching the 30 day window for returns with ATT.
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.I previously had a ATT Galaxy 2 and returned it for the SkyRocket because I am in an LTE area. Well I love the LTE Speeds but I have some negatives with the SR and would like some input not flames.
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.Concerns:
1. Processor is not as fast as the Exynos and the benchmarks support the statement. As a result video's can get choppy.
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.Each and every ROM has issues whether its MMS or LTE Support or SoD on the kernel development.
I'd vote you to go personally. Good luck returning that phone.So do I stay or go? What are your thoughts are you staying or going?
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.
The sprint and at&t og sgs2 are the most similiar to the International one.
The ****rocket and tmo sgs2 are the mutated ones.
I was planning to get a ****rocket, but after reading about the LTE throttling, bad ppi, and snapdragon chipset, I decided to sell my og SGSII and go with the Note.
Lets just say, once you use the note, you will not be able to use small phones anymore.
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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 would be tempted by the skyrocket but the lack of dev support and the huge size are pretty big turn-offs.
Are there no LTE phones on the horizon that are "normal" size, eg like the Nexus S and Nexus One?
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!
ordered from at&t?
is it available for at&t?
Only thing I don't like is the Nexus has no expandable storage.
i would agree, but the note is not LTE ready if you buy it overseas so you can keep it. once it hits the US with LTE i will buy it and will not look back.
for now i am very happy with the rocket, i dont notice this lag in videos or ****rocket talk. i had the sgs2 for a week and was not blown away buy any means in the comparison. do what you will - ITS YOUR phone and you have to live with it. i plan on upgrading to either the nexus if it hits or the Note once it hits anyway so the rocket is just a short stop for 4 months or so till one of thoes drops anyway.
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.So here we are approaching the 30 day window for returns with ATT.
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.I previously had a ATT Galaxy 2 and returned it for the SkyRocket because I am in an LTE area. Well I love the LTE Speeds but I have some negatives with the SR and would like some input not flames.
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.Concerns:
1. Processor is not as fast as the Exynos and the benchmarks support the statement. As a result video's can get choppy.
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.Each and every ROM has issues whether its MMS or LTE Support or SoD on the kernel development.
I'd vote you to go personally. Good luck returning that phone.So do I stay or go? What are your thoughts are you staying or going?
The sprint and at&t og sgs2 are the most similiar to the International one.
The ****rocket and tmo sgs2 are the mutated ones.
I was planning to get a ****rocket, but after reading about the LTE throttling, bad ppi, and snapdragon chipset, I decided to sell my og SGSII and go with the Note.
Lets just say, once you use the note, you will not be able to use small phones anymore.
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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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