Hi would like to know if its possible to start a call through the liveview? Like vrowsing the contact list and pass the signal to a bluetooth headset.
at the moment of release, no, it does not support it. However, LiveView's API is capable of doing so, u just need someone to write a program that runs between the phone and LiveView. It definitely is capable to do so, it can do alot more stuff than we anticipated, trust me
unknown13x said:
at the moment of release, no, it does not support it. However, LiveView's API is capable of doing so, u just need someone to write a program that runs between the phone and LiveView. It definitely is capable to do so, it can do alot more stuff than we anticipated, trust me
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sounds like you wanne sell some of them
yhea true thats good news but I've got another general question: of what the front glass is build of?
And back to topic, do you know anybody who is capable of writing such an app now, sinc this I'll not buy this nice toy, want to use this with my other galaxy tab.
Someone enlighten me on why official reviews of this phone do not include a GPS test. Knowing how all variants of the Galaxy S failed miserably on the GPS, would it not make sense to put peoples minds at ease with a simple mention of GPS? Why official reviewers never mention GPS is kind of strange and especially with this particular branded phone ;(.
OmniNut said:
Someone enlighten me on why official reviews of this phone do not include a GPS test. Knowing how all variants of the Galaxy S failed miserably on the GPS, would it not make sense to put peoples minds at ease with a simple mention of GPS? Why official reviewers never mention GPS is kind of strange and especially with this particular branded phone ;(.
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i'm sure i read on a few of those that gps is quick and accurate. What official tests do you need? didn't all the mobilers show you the performance of their units?
Also do we need another thread for this?
ph00ny said:
i'm sure i read on a few of those that gps is quick and accurate. What official tests do you need? didn't all the mobilers show you the performance of their units?
Also do we need another thread for this?
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An official review would be from someone like Engadget or Cnet or Android Central. Official reviewers are more meticulous with everything. I just don't understand why they wouldn't do it lol. There's no rational reason not to quickly mention that either "gps is very accurate" and vice versa =/. Strange.
OmniNut said:
An official review would be from someone like Engadget or Cnet or Android Central. Official reviewers are more meticulous with everything. I just don't understand why they wouldn't do it lol. There's no rational reason not to quickly mention that either "gps is very accurate" and vice versa =/. Strange.
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engadget is meticulous with their reviews? lol you're kidding right?
you should probably catch up on mobiler's reviews which had gps tracking with diagrams drawn. If that's not enough for you then what is
Engadget goes straight to the main points that matter and give an educated opinion, which is what I look for. It's blog short, meaning very little fluff. If I want to read an exhaustive and robotic detail of every feature, with very little I would call "impressions" because really, almost every phone is good to them, I read a GSMArena review. If I want a poorly translated and very dry review that is so long but says so little, I read a mobile-review.com review. If I want to get my tabloid kicks and whoever is paying them to defecate on some brand or write vilifying troll reviews, I'll go Gizmodo. If I want blind fanboy lust reviews with tons of smooching, I read Androidcentral and Phandroid reviews.
Here's a respectable enough looking and sounding review, saying thte GPS locked in under 5 seconds and the compass seems better than most.
http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/samsung-galaxy-s2-930907/review?artc_pg=11
I have found Anandtech have the most thorough reviews...
silverwolf0 said:
Here's a respectable enough looking and sounding review, saying thte GPS locked in under 5 seconds and the compass seems better than most.
http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/samsung-galaxy-s2-930907/review?artc_pg=11
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Frome same article:
"Another point we were happy with – the compass on the Samsung Galaxy S2 was more accurate than anything we've seen recently on smartphones, and actually pointed in the right direction most of the time."
This is indeed good news... ^^
GPS Test on engadget:
http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/29/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-gps-it-works-it-really-works-video/
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http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/29/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-gps-it-works-it-really-works-video/
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Just saw that as well ...
So in one instance at one location the phone's GPS locks quickly, but they don't say how quickly, if the lock was hot or cold or even how accurate it was. Also, why they turned off wireless network positioning is beyond me. If it works, it should only help, not hinder, the lock. If it doesn't, well, they should have said so. (Disabling A-GPS altogether would make sense if you only wanted to test the chip + antenna setup instead of the whole stack, but they didn't do that.)
I'm assuming there's labs where GPS signals can be simulated and conditions completely controlled. That's really the only way you can meaningfully test GPS functionality for a single device. To expect even a professional publication to run such a lab is unrealistic but they could certainly pay to have a few devices tested.
Aside from that there's the far easier way of comparison. Take a top of the line (civilian) GPS as a reference, 10+ phones including some with known good and known bad GPS, including non-Android ones and run a few tests in different locations.
But no, none of the above. I'm so fed up with people who conclude something works great just because it doesn't fall flat on it's face ... Instead, another video that takes ages to make, ages to watch and is absolutely devoid of any meaningful content. Bloody worthless ...
Yep, pretty hopeless video at Engadget. A quick lock with no real indication of accuracy, and no information about how well it maintains a lock. Face palm.
Jeez!
Nothing is good enough for you guys.. go buy the device and do the test yourself.
There are alot of posts about GPS and it simply works as it should!
techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/samsung-galaxy-s2-930907/review?artc_pg=11
"the Galaxy S2 managed to lock our GPS in less than five seconds, and we were away in no time at all."
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Nothing is good enough for you guys.. go buy the device and do the test yourself.
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That simply isn't practical. Even if I wanted to pay for the SGS2 itself out of pocket just to review it, I still wouldn't have enough phones and/or stand-alone GPS units for a meaningfull comparison. Never mind the equipment needed for the audio, screen and camera quality measurements. A little more technical knowledge would surely be beneficial as well.
But the fact that this is impractical if not impossible for a private layperson to do is the very reason that tech publications exist in the first place! If all I wanted were an (more or less) uneducated impression or opinion I could just order the thing off Amazon and return it after a few day, if I don't like it.
This problem is not specific to mobile phones, of course, but it's especially bad there since a lot of non-overlapping knowledge would be required to do a proper review - basically you'd have to review each device
as a mobile phone (calling & SMS/texts only)
as a portable music player
as a compact camera
as a personal / in-car navigation device
as an e-book reader
as a mobile web-browsing device
as a gaming handheld
as an external storage device / thumb drive
... ... ...
Now, some of those features can be evaluated "at a glance" but a lot simply cannot.
And no, I'm not being perfectionist right now - if I were, I'd be insisting on multiple review copies from different batches ...
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There are alot of posts about GPS and it simply works as it should!
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Not quite. There are a lot of posts about the GPS, yes. But it seems to me that they are by people who don't have much experience with GPS, on mobile phones or otherwise. How could they know if it works as it should if they've nothing to compare it to?
In my very limited personal experience the LG P500 for example is so much better than the SGS1, NS and - by the looks of it the SGS2 as well - that it isn't even funny.
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GPS Test on engadget:
http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/29/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-gps-it-works-it-really-works-video/
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That must have killed them to say something positive that wasn't iPhone related!...
My contribution to testing the GPS functions, hopefully useful to people (particularly prospective buyers). If you have comments please post them there at the blog, rather than here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VuptfBPIEI&feature=player_embedded
It is a general failing of many reviews that they do not compare but just give an overall impression .
But that is the same across a broad range from inkjets to GPS with all in-between .
Not that i am complain about my SGS2 GPS far from it i have no complaints it works as i want it to .
A minority view possible but 14 million users did not complain about SGS1 GPS some did but not 14 million of them .
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I running The-Unofficial ROM from The Collective. NFC is activated and I'm curious as hell what it's all about. I wanna use it but I'm not sure where to start. From what I gather, Google wallet will not work for payments at this point on the Note. Are there other forms of payment apps that I can use? I have NFC, what should I do with it? Thanks!
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I running The-Unofficial ROM from The Collective. NFC is activated and I'm curious as hell what it's all about. I wanna use it but I'm not sure where to start. From what I gather, Google wallet will not work for payments at this point on the Note. Are there other forms of payment apps that I can use? I have NFC, what should I do with it? Thanks!
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Here's a good article for ya.
http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/how-to-use-nfc-to-automate-your-mobile-routine-2012028/
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Here's a good article for ya.
http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/how-to-use-nfc-to-automate-your-mobile-routine-2012028/
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I had no clue what NFC was and just kept ignoring the term when I saw it. But this is COOL! Thanks for posting that article. Am I understanding this correctly that the phone can actually write the code to the tag? So all I need to do is buy a few dirt cheap tags and I can start doing this?
Also, I'm looking on this site... want to make sure these will be ok.
http://www.tagstand.com/collections...2-nfc-sticker-ultralight-c-square-35mm-x-35mm
I'm really wanting to walk into McDonald's and pay for my iced coffee with my phone, cuz I can
I'm very keen to purchase a Jawbone UP24 fitness tracker, but I understand that it's not supported by the Mega 6.3 and that people have had difficulty getting the devices to talk to each other. Can anyone shed any light on this, does anyone know a fix or workaround?
Cheers.
AidanBell said:
I'm very keen to purchase a Jawbone UP24 fitness tracker, but I understand that it's not supported by the Mega 6.3 and that people have had difficulty getting the devices to talk to each other. Can anyone shed any light on this, does anyone know a fix or workaround?
Cheers.
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The UP24 only syncs via BT to iOS devices, no android ones. As of today anyway.
My apologies if this topic has been discussed and I overlooked it when searching. I need to replace the screen on a Samsung Galaxy S5 SM-S903VL but haven't been able to locate any by using Google search. From looking at the specs, it seems that the S5 G900x models have the same specs. I would gratefully thank anyone with more experience than myself if they could verify the compatibility or if anyone knows a site that has the LCD display replacement kit for the SM-S903VL please point me to it. Thanks.
I don't know of this is reliant but if you look at the back of the phone by the battery it says g900v. It seems like the s903vl is a similar phone as the Verizon g900v but set up for other services like Straight talk etc.