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Samsung Galaxy S - brief review - Dark Samurai - 02-09-2018
Jailbroke my iPhone 4 last night, makes such a diffence, can now facetime over 3G. And free app time here I come lol, will experiment at ace with your SGS parthi, and you can look at my i4?
Samsung Galaxy S - brief review - steviewevie - 13-09-2018
Interesting thread for me, since I'm considering whether to change my phone (currently running an HTC Touch Pro 2 with Windows Phone 6.5.x).
I'm seriously considering the new HTC Desire Z, which has a slide-out hardware keyboard (like my current phone). The processor is a new one, which "only" runs at 800 MHz out of the box (though is a newer generation Snapdragon), but folks on XDA have got it to run at 1.4 GHz via overclocking ! The HTC Desire HD is similar, but with slightly faster processor, bigger screen, and (more importantly for me) no hardware keyboard. Both come with Froyo (Android 2.2).
Samsung Galaxy S - brief review - Dan_Turism0 - 13-09-2018
I would highly recommend the Samsung Galaxy S stevie, mines running Froyo and is absolutely flying
Samsung Galaxy S - brief review - parthiban - 13-09-2018
As I said in the other thread, have a play with a keyboard-less one before you decide - in my opinion the major difference is that you lose half the screen when typing rather than it actually being easier to type on a physical keyboard.
My personal pick of the current bunch is the Desire HD, great hardware with HTC Sense on top (technically I think the Galaxy S still has the superior hardware)
Samsung Galaxy S - brief review - steviewevie - 13-09-2018
parthiban As I said in the other thread, have a play with a keyboard-less one before you decide - in my opinion the major difference is that you lose half the screen when typing rather than it actually being easier to type on a physical keyboard.
Good point.
Quote:My personal pick of the current bunch is the Desire HD, great hardware with HTC Sense on top (technically I think the Galaxy S still has the superior hardware)
Care to expand on that last bit ?
Incidentally, although the 800 MHz processor in the Desire Z has been successfully overclocked to 1.4 Ghz (!), it'll be interesting to see whether the Desire HD's 1 GHz CPU can be overclocked even higher than that or not - i.e. whether they're exactly the same chips, just clocked down on the DZ, or whether they pick out the "best" chips for the DHD (which will therefore overclock higher).
Samsung Galaxy S - brief review - parthiban - 13-09-2018
steviewevie Care to expand on that last bit ?
Incidentally, although the 800 MHz processor in the Desire Z has been successfully overclocked to 1.4 Ghz (!), it'll be interesting to see whether the Desire HD's 1 GHz CPU can be overclocked even higher than that or not - i.e. whether they're exactly the same chips, just clocked down on the DZ, or whether they pick out the "best" chips for the DHD (which will therefore overclock higher).
I don't know enough about this stuff to say for sure, but what I've read is that the hummingbird processor is better than the snapdragon. The S-AMOLED screen is also very impressive but the Desire HD does have a bit more RAM. Interesting that the Desire Z has been up to 1.4GHz, makes me wonder whether it's effectively the same processor as the one in the HD but just "detuned" a bit :biggrin:
I know the hummingbird has been up to 1.4GHz too, not sure if anyone's gone any higher with it. The problem with the Galaxy S is that Samsung have crippled it with a different (and apparently antiquated) file system that really makes it bog down. However Froyo has made a big difference, and if you use one of the lagfixes off XDA it simply flies - haven't had a chance to compare it to a Desire HD, but if it's anything like the Desire I had previously the Galaxy S is miles faster.
Samsung Galaxy S - brief review - Dan_Turism0 - 13-09-2018
must say i'm still running froyo on my SGS without lagfix imo you really don't need it
Samsung Galaxy S - brief review - steviewevie - 13-09-2018
I guessed that the lagfix thing must be a file system thing, from the ext4 reference.
As for the processors, the Snapdragons in the DHD and DZ are a newer architecture than the previous ones, so they're a lot faster (800 MHz in DZ is a lot faster than the older 1 GHz one).
I do like HTC phones though, and there's very good support for them over at XDA, so I'm likely to stick with the HTC route (though I know the SGS is a very good phone too).
Samsung Galaxy S - brief review - parthiban - 13-09-2018
Dan_Turism0 must say i'm still running froyo on my SGS without lagfix imo you really don't need itThat is fair actually, it was fine before I did the lagfix - although you won't believe the difference with it on if you haven't tried it already :thumbup:
steviewevie I do like HTC phones though, and there's very good support for them over at XDA, so I'm likely to stick with the HTC route (though I know the SGS is a very good phone too).
Yep I agree with you re: HTC, they're much better all round - I really like Sense, they bring out updates quicker, and everything is always well built and reliable straight out of the box (that goes for the hardware and firmware)
Samsung Galaxy S - brief review - steviewevie - 15-09-2018
Further to this, and me thinking about the HTC Desire Z, it's emerged that the DZ (and its G2 sibling) have some sort of protection on the internal memory, meaning that it's set to read-only. So right now it can be rooted but you lose that when you reboot (the writes are cached but not saved).
There are a lot of people working on cracking that protection though, and I'm sure it's only a matter of time before it's overcome.