Does samsung really expect anyone to take them seriously when they charge over $260 for only 8Gb of storage. And a horrible resolution for the screensize.
There has to be some major alaising going on in most apps and games.
I want one really bad but not with only 8GB of storage.
Christ i can use that just in apps let alone music.
My one saving grace here is that i have a nice 32GB mSDCard not being used.
Really makes me mad that us cellular is in no hurry to bring the SG II to us customers. I guess maybe this will suffice until they do.
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- are you happy you got it even though you probably already have an android phone?
- Are you killing your phone battery because you are tethering the player to your phone because its a nicer device to use for surfing, email, apps, games?
yeah, Im thinking about getting this player, but I might wait for the Galaxy Note, 5.3" super amoled I think plus easy removable battery. I dont mind carrying a battery or two in my bag
The Note is a phone not a tablet though.
So unless it comes to your Carrier you will be forking over some huge ol dollar bills for it.
I bet 600-700 or more.
I just received the 5.0 player ($30 less at Amazon), and now that I have it, I would have paid $260. IMO 5" is much better than 7" for portability (fits pocket). I have an Optimus-V phone that is just too small. The SGP5 gets me a nice 5" display, FM radio, "tons" more space than my phone (I have my phone rooted, but still there's only about 100mb left for apps... this thing has like 1.5gb for apps).... I still have 1gB after "filling it up". I added a 16gB card ($15), so I have 22gB free. My OV tethers to it in 5-10 seconds (I don't plan on using that much since I have wifi at home and work). I have no cell service at home, so the SGP5 on wifi with GrooveIP takes care of most of my phone needs. Sound quality is as good as most of the other larger tablets... no regrets whatsoever. Eventually, I'll probably go back to the VM Paylo plan at $5/mo... and all my needs will be met for $5/mo.
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I just received the 5.0 player ($30 less at Amazon), and now that I have it, I would have paid $260. IMO 5" is much better than 7" for portability (fits pocket). I have an Optimus-V phone that is just too small. The SGP5 gets me a nice 5" display, FM radio, "tons" more space than my phone (I have my phone rooted, but still there's only about 100mb left for apps... this thing has like 1.5gb for apps).... I still have 1gB after "filling it up". I added a 16gB card ($15), so I have 22gB free. My OV tethers to it in 5-10 seconds (I don't plan on using that much since I have wifi at home and work). I have no cell service at home, so the SGP5 on wifi with GrooveIP takes care of most of my phone needs. Sound quality is as good as most of the other larger tablets... no regrets whatsoever. Eventually, I'll probably go back to the VM Paylo plan at $5/mo... and all my needs will be met for $5/mo.
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tcat thanks for that well written reply. thats the kind of stuff i want to hear.
along with any bad too bud i really doubt there is much bad to say aside from low storage and maybe resolution.
what do you think about the low resolution on that big of a screen?
are you seeing much jaggies or poor graphics where as your phone or other device may look better ?
Just got the Player 5 for $229.00 at Best Buy (check their on line store). Amazon had it for $229 too but now it's back up to $260. I would wait cause I think it is going to go back on sale soon.
I also thought about the Galaxy Note but it is going to be much more expensive OR you will need to have a cell contract with it. I got the Player to ditch my cell phone and make calls via Google Voice/Groove IP. I was a little worried about screen quality too but so far the screen quality has been fine - everything looks really good. Downloaded a game called Air Attack (or something like that) - a side scroller with WWII planes - and the graphics are impressive. Can't see how the graphics could be any better. Video, Angry Birds, etc. all look great.
Only downside so far is I thought the battery was user replaceable on the 5.0 - turns out it is only user replaceable on the 4.0. Hopefully, being a geek, I'll find a way to do it myself. That and I hope the custom roms become available for it.
Pardon my ignorance. I just stumbled upon this thread from new posts on the xda app on my phone. Is this sgp a tablet? What version of Android is it running?
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Pardon my ignorance. I just stumbled upon this thread from new posts on the xda app on my phone. Is this sgp a tablet? What version of Android is it running?
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Technically no it is an mp3 player.
But because it is a fully functional android device it has web browsing email and all the normal android goodies found on a phone (minus the phone, texting and good accurate gps, etc.)
Some people call it a tablet because it's 5 inches but in my eyes it's not even remotely close to a tablet
it does have gps but like all tablets without a cellular contract you have to be on wifi for it to work.and its not as accurate.
its a marketing/selling point. not something that is really very useful unless you can get on wifi and need directions to somewhere.
"Low" is all relative. Not like an Ipod, but my Dell PC screen is about 125dpi, this is like 180dpi. My Optimus-V is 160dpi. Some apps show jaggies worse than others (maybe not optimized for 800x480).. but overall it's very nice. Depends a lot on font also. The font in the Market really sucks, but system fonts aren't bad. I posted this on another forum, so far what my home screen looks like: (it's not quite as crisp as this, but isn't far off)
(Digi Clock Widget, Battery Status Text, Widgetsoid2 widgets)
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
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tcat thanks for that well written reply. thats the kind of stuff i want to hear.
along with any bad too bud i really doubt there is much bad to say aside from low storage and maybe resolution.
what do you think about the low resolution on that big of a screen?
are you seeing much jaggies or poor graphics where as your phone or other device may look better ?
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Doubts? Visit a store. Do not rely on reviews.
"Are you killing your phone battery because you are tethering the player to your phone because its a nicer device to use for surfing, email, apps, games?"
False.
At least in the case of the Galaxy i5500 that I use. No. It does not consume the battery.
Understand that when using the Galaxy i5500 so it stays in stanby. The battery is not consumed to any processing.
About resolution: it is great. Doubt? go to a store and test. If I had not done that maybe would not have bought and would be losing a good device like him.
About GPS: Yes, It works great. There are videos on Youtube with the G70 Galaxy 5.0 this function attached to a carrier. See for yourself.
About Tablet: Check the specifications of the 1010 Galaxy Tablet Wifi. You will see that the G70 is the same but with 5 ".
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"its a marketing / selling point. something that is really not very useful unless you Can get on wifi and need directions to somewhere."
I totally disagree. Extremely useful. But ... Still do not understand. You bought and regretted it because it was not useful or is just being subjective?
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"Low" is all relative. Not like an Ipod, but my Dell PC screen is about 125dpi, this is like 180dpi. My Optimus-V is 160dpi. Some apps show jaggies worse than others (maybe not optimized for 800x480).. but overall it's very nice. Depends a lot on font also. The font in the Market really sucks, but system fonts aren't bad. I posted this on another forum, so far what my home screen looks like: (it's not quite as crisp as this, but isn't far off)
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I want that wallpaper! Where can I find it?
Zedge, I believe I searched "Android". Enter your player so it determines your screen size, and all kinds of cool wallpapers show up. Here's my 2nd screen:
(three shortcut icons, smooth calendar, Jeannie)
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I want that wallpaper! Where can I find it?
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Nice to know that GrooVeIP works. Does anyone know if offline GPS software like Navigon or Copilot works? I'm EXTREMELY tempted to grab a GP5.0, especially with a $25 amazon coupon I have to lower the price even more.
The price is now $199 on Amazon for the 4.0
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Nice to know that GrooVeIP works. Does anyone know if offline GPS software like Navigon or Copilot works? I'm EXTREMELY tempted to grab a GP5.0, especially with a $25 amazon coupon I have to lower the price even more.
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Copilot works ok, aside from the bugs present in the app.
I brought this from BestBuy for $239.00 with 8gb SD thown in for free but I already had a 16gb card.. So far I'm liking it I like the size of the screen for when I'm watching movies. Shadowgun runs well on it better than running it on my Kindle Fire for some reason. Love that I can use it has a phone with GrooVe IP and Google Voice install no drop calls a call quality has been very clear. Netflix runs well colors look a little wash out but it doesn't take away from watching a movie/tv show. Splashtop App works fine so if there is movie or music or wanting to watch hulu just remote into my computer. It starts a little jumpy but once it gets going works really fine. I use my Thunderbolt to tether to device.
Alicia
ADR USR said:
"Are you killing your phone battery because you are tethering the player to your phone because its a nicer device to use for surfing, email, apps, games?"
False.
At least in the case of the Galaxy i5500 that I use. No. It does not consume the battery.
Understand that when using the Galaxy i5500 so it stays in stanby. The battery is not consumed to any processing.
About resolution: it is great. Doubt? go to a store and test. If I had not done that maybe would not have bought and would be losing a good device like him.
About GPS: Yes, It works great. There are videos on Youtube with the G70 Galaxy 5.0 this function attached to a carrier. See for yourself.
About Tablet: Check the specifications of the 1010 Galaxy Tablet Wifi. You will see that the G70 is the same but with 5 ".
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"its a marketing / selling point. something that is really not very useful unless you Can get on wifi and need directions to somewhere."
I totally disagree. Extremely useful. But ... Still do not understand. You bought and regretted it because it was not useful or is just being subjective?
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i am being subjective because no tablet or tablet like device has a working GPS without a data connection.
several tablets like the acer iconia and asus transformer tried to make GPS work without a WiFi connection and it just doesnt work. the gPS needs a data connection in order to transmit and receive the data, mostly the map data but also for general functionality of the gPS.
you can alter the gPS config file to use different servers which help but in general without a wifi connection it is very very innaccurate and slow, taking 10 minutes or more to lock on.
now if you are in the USA and are telling me that the GPS on the Galaxy 5 is different and that it locks onto your location, is very quick (like it locks on in a minute or less) and is accurate with its location of where you are (within 10 meters, lets say. then i will retract my statement about GPS being useless with out a WiFi connection. - remember i said that you have to do with without a GPS connection, otherwise the GPS is useless because you will have to be around some sort of wifi, be it your phone hotspot, or something else.
and if you have to use your phone wifi hotspot then you might as well just use your phone.
as for everything else, then i am sorry i really dont understand what you were saying other than the screen resolution looking nice.
which i agree it does from the few times i have played with it in best buy. but i did not watch a movie or really play a game outside of angry birds lol.
i may go grab one from best buy tonight isnce its on sale for $236 but i just hate returning things, even if i dont like it, i want to do as much research as i can before i (may) waste anyones time.
also with regards to your statement
Understand that when using the Galaxy i5500 so it stays in stanby. The battery is not consumed to any processing.
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that is absolutely false and especially if you have tethering turned on. it uses alot of battery to tether.
just because the screen is off doesnt mean its in standby. if it were in standby then tethering would not work.
the screen shut off thats all.
everything else is still running because tethering is active.
the cpu will probably throttle but only if it can.
if your tethering uses to much CPU then it will force the CPU to stay at a higher freq. and use up alot of battery.
plus the wifi and cellular chipsets are running full steam, so again, its just killing the battery.
what i meant to ask was... ."are you using it alot tethered to your phone, and thus killing your phones battery life?" meaning, recharging it alot sooner because normally would would not be tethering it.
I have Copilot Live Standard USA installed on my Galaxy S WiFi 5.0 and it works great. Used it for a half a dozen trips already. GPS locks on quickly (about 15-20 seconds). And because Copilot stores maps on the device, I don't need to have a connection to the internet. Routes get calculated quickly and if I deviate from the route, it recalculates quickly. This actually picks up my location and calculates routes quicker than my dedicated TomTom GPS (but its a few years old). The nice 5 inch screen makes it real nice for use as a GPS as well. This also seems to be vary accurate on my location and again it seems more accurate than my TomTom ever was.
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I have Copilot Live Standard USA installed on my Galaxy S WiFi 5.0 and it works great. Used it for a half a dozen trips already. GPS locks on quickly (about 15-20 seconds). And because Copilot stores maps on the device, I don't need to have a connection to the internet. Routes get calculated quickly and if I deviate from the route, it recalculates quickly. This actually picks up my location and calculates routes quicker than my dedicated TomTom GPS (but its a few years old). The nice 5 inch screen makes it real nice for use as a GPS as well. This also seems to be vary accurate on my location and again it seems more accurate than my TomTom ever was.
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Nice. Are you able to store the map on the external_sd and if so, how did you do it?
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i am being subjective because no tablet or tablet like device has a working GPS without a data connection.
several tablets like the acer iconia and asus transformer tried to make GPS work without a WiFi connection and it just doesnt work. the gPS needs a data connection in order to transmit and receive the data, mostly the map data but also for general functionality of the gPS.
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This has not been my experience with the YP-G70. I use Sygic which is a standalone car navigation app. It works well and doesn't need wifi. It is true that if GPS has not been used for a while then the first fix can take a few minutes. However, after that, fixes occur in well under a minute. I wonder if you have tried a standalone GPS app on the YP-G70 and failed to get it to work, or whether you are basing your statements only on experience with other devices.
Maybe I am late on this, but I was on the phone with someone and I had them on speaker phone. At the same time, I had a YouTube video blasting on the phone. To my surprise, the person on the phone could not hear my video!!! Did you guys know this? Is this standard operation with a noise canceling phone?
Now I wonder if I can play PlayStation with my girl on speaker and not hear her complain about the tv being to loud.
ROF about girlfriend.
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Yes it's standard, their is the primary microphone on the bottom, & a secondary on the back. Any sound that's heard in fairly equal volume on both mics is cancelled. Anything that's louder or primarily heard on the primary(bottom Mic) your voice, is let through. If you were to yell to someone in the other room so that the secondary Mic picked up your voice at a volume closer to what the primary is hearing it would block that out to. It's more complicated than that, but that's basically how it works. The One is really good because both microphones are dual membrane HD microphones, with much higher sensitivity than normal microphones. No expenses was spared making this phone, it really uses the highest quality parts available in just about all areas. If your on 4g with someone els on T-Mobile on a One M7, GS4, or IPhone 5 it's switches to HD voice which is really incredible. It's to bad it has to be two HD voice compatible phones on the same network to use it. Some day soon it should work cross carrier but not yet. Me & my fiance both have One M7s so whenever we talk it's HD voice. It's 10x better than a normal phone call. But she's the only one, I know on T-Mobile with a HD voice compatible phone. Great tech though, her voice comes through in CD quality it really is incredible. Can't wait till it's more widely used. Most have never even used it.
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Wow I learned a lot from that post. Didn't really know about the mic on the One. Thought it was standard.
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Guys, I am looking to buy a dual sim card phone where both sim cards/phone numbers can be active at the same time so that I can receive calls on EITHER one of them and not having to reboot and switch to one of the numbers.
I was hoping that I can list my wish list below and you guys can point me in the right direction. I'll also look for a place to buy it with at least decent service and with US warranty.
It must be unlocked as I don't use a lot of minutes and I want to be able to pick the provider I want.
..........So, here's what I want in the phone....................
Note that my current phone is the NEXUS ONE which I have had since it first came out and I’m comparing to that in size, resolution and so on.
1. Good Touch sensitivity. I’m so fed up with the Nexus one screen. It sucks on sensitivity and half the time I can’t even get things pressed in time to answer the phone.
2. Good quality speaker and loud. For speech, I don’t intend on playing music on it.
3. Newer Android version as I want predictive dialing so that when I dial, it auto completes the phone numbers for me. I don’t care if it does this with text, I want it to do it with phone numbers.
4. The ability to ENLARGE the fonts so I don’t have to root the damn thing like I did with the Nexus one just to be able to get software to make the fonts bigger and I mean bigger font ESPECIALLY in the PHONE BOOK. Overall would be good but above all, the phone book as I intend to use this as a phone, NOT to play around with.
5. I would like to have a decent camera (the one facing away from the screen) but this is NOT a must.
6. Decent size screen (the Nexus one is around 3.8” which is fine for me) with decent resolution and contrast. I do NOT need a bigger phone
7. Quad band I guess. Don’t know about this stuff.
8. I want Wi Fi
9. I want Blue Tooth
10. Sending pics with text is something that would be nice to have but I’ve lived without it for 5 years so I can do another 5 standing on my head.
11. The Nexus One has 480x800 resolution I think and I love that screen. I have no idea how 240x480 will look like some of the cheapo ones have.
12. Doesn’t have to be very fast, I WILL ONLY use it as a phone.
13. My phone service is 4G but they say I can use 2g if necessary and I don’t do much more than calling so since I’m sure it’s cheaper, 2G is fine, however, I would prefer 4g capable, just in case.
14. The Ability to use as hotspot athough I have bought a separate hotspot device. (cheaper)
Not a must.
15. I have a ringtone that I’ve had for years and I’d like to be able to just put that back on the phone and I assume I can just hook it up to the pc and drop it in the right folder?
16. I would like GPS but not really necessary since I haven’t really used it at all on the Nexus
17. To get voice dial with hands free in the truck, I assume I need voice dialing on the phone? I would like that but again, not a deal breaker. I’m broke so that is what decides my purchase.
18. Decent quality and at least a year/warranty.
19. Multitouch or gesture or whatever it’s called would be nice for when I want to enlarge a picture but again, NOT necessary.
Well, that should be plenty of info. Could I stay under two hundred bucks with this?
Again, the most important feature is the DUAL SIM that are ALWAYS ACTIVE.
Thanks for any tips and please, including links if you can.
George
How about the "htc Desire 820 Dual SIM"?
aandason said:
How about the "htc Desire 820 Dual SIM"?
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Thanks, I took a quick look and I think it may be overkill for me and too big.
I barely use my phone so the size of the Nexus would be fine for me.
George
I spent about a year and a half with Windows phone before returning to android late last year. There are 3 things I miss about my 1020. The camera (duh), insane battery life, and hands free voice control.
There was no need to physically interact with the phone at all in the car. Someone texts, I can respond aloud to either read or ignore and then give a reply if I choose. With android, I still cannot find a way to do this without first having to touch something on the phone, essentially eliminating the safety of it. This is pretty disgusting in 2015 on a platform that is dominating the world.
To my knowledge the Moto X has this ability though I'm not familiar with it in detail, but if it does, shouldn't this be something that is software based and thus can be ported? Why hasn't there been greater focus put into it as a stock android feature? How many millions of people out there own android phones and drive Bluetooth equipped vehicles, or even use headsets etc?
The research I've done has left me without answers. If you know of any apps or ways to achieve true hands free Bluetooth voice control on android, please comment with details.
Totally agree, same problem from sony,didn't expect that.
I've had an 50€ archos windows phone 8.1 for a month, and very impressed me width cortana,here,voice dial and control,voice navigation from here on bluetooth parrot without looking the screen .I have an xperia z 2years old,now on official 5.02 and voice control is missing totally,and no app to install for work in the car with parrot for calls without touching the phone,only parrot button. Definitely go by a lumia 930,940.They think google now do the job,is a shame that so many people swallow this.
Hi guys,
I discovered this today, but it's one of the first time I'm using the phone with my WH-1000XM4 since I have it since three days ago (the phone) so I don't know if it's an update problem or not.
When using the normal LDAC high quality codec the connection become unstable, it skips and jumps and is unlistenable. Have to switch to AAC.
This happens only when wi-fi is connected.
I used the headphones with my good old Xperia 1 II a lot and never had this problem exept one only time in Istanbul airport in a really heavy crowded area where the 80% of people were wearing bluetooth headphones.
I hope they'll fix the problem with an update.
First world problems, I know.
I scored the XM4s from a fire sale on Costco, and ended up with the exact same issue. bothered me so much that I returned them and went for XM5s instead, they seldom have this issue, but even they continue to get it on rare occasions.
Setting the app to prioritize connection stability also did it for me, but I felt dirty knowing they would struggle to reach max quality lol
I had the issue with my PRO-I (HK import model) yet my girlfriend's 1+8 Pro didn't suffer it. On hindsight I think it's LDAC ****ery, since I set my phone to max quality and she probably didn't, but nevertheless my XM5s work decent.
The problem isn't in the XM4's because I used them a lot with my previous Xperia 1 II and they worked perfectly in LDAC.
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The problem isn't in the XM4's because I used them a lot with my previous Xperia 1 II and they worked perfectly in LDAC.
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I agree, I think it's the phone as well, but there's not much discussion into the topic so interference is the only explanation for the time being (or again, LDAC ****ery)
I received the Android 13 update but the problem's still there.
LDAC connection is impossible while using WiFi. No problem with 4G mobile data.
So disappointing considering they'r both flagship models from the same brand.
But I'm a Sony fan, I'm used to be disappointed.