Verizon Confirms Google Search Coming to Samsung Fascinate
Face it, this phone is garbage
This phone is a pile of garbage, even for an Android phone, and even for a Verizon phone. For $200.00 you can buy a much better handset that doesn't hang up the call when you hit the search button, or didn't have Verizon cripple the search and maps capabilities.
It's a really amazing looking screen.
But I am wondering if no access to the hard drive limits the web browsing experience in ?any? way.
What that laptop is doing (most likely) is booting you into a VERY lean version of Linux. My brother has something similar on his netbook, where it's a stripped down linux that lets you access the web, and your music/video content and I think there is a basic word processor.
Sony makes good hardware, so it should be a decent device. For me, I'm holding off and seeing if I want to get a ChromeOS Netbook (would be 20sec boot and have full HD access), or maybe a tablet. But from what Google said, android won't have really good tablets until they optimize the OS for it, which is rumored to be Honeycomb (next spring?)
There's. ?no? way around this? No way at all?
Damn it, flash needs to be built INTO the browser, so it doesn't need the hd to function.
And flash is built into Chrome, but most of these lean builds use something else. You need to check with someone a bit more familiar with computers about if it's possible to customize that build or not.
Did you read that article I sent you, about that guy having trouble registering with Xbox Live cause of the name of where he lives?
Intercourse
Blue Ball
Virginville
Bird in hand
etc
All real towns in PA
bluecoyote said:
Boy Genius Report has a list of known bugs (which Mentat beat me to posting) . Go read it there.
For $200.00 you can buy a much better handset that doesn't hang up the call when you hit the search button
I agree. It's totally unacceptable to launch a phone that disconnects the call when you touch the side bezel on the device during normal use.
{points-at-iPhone4}
At least all the Fascinate issues are ALL software/UI related! Much easier to fix than faulty RF engineering!
I've experienced GPS issues with my Vibrant but after the unofficial update from Samsung I installed today (that Verizon will be getting soon too), I can tell you that the GPS issues are no longer a problem. They cleared up a couple other bugs with the update too (including the calendar reminder tone). I can't say anything about the email issues, blank screen issues, or the search button disconnecting ...
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Every phone does have issues, some have more than others. The Fascinate has a ton.
The Google/Bing problem seems to be permanent. I find it unbelievable- Google integration is the only advantage Android has in the marketplace, and it's been ripped from this phone- a crappy also-ran.
Apple has developed a few tweaks to try and minimize this engineering catastrophe- but it is a fundamentally flawed concept to place a device antenna in a region that is basically guaranteed to come in contact with an outside conductor (human flesh) that can short out the insulating gap between the two antenna arrays.
I'll make you a wager right now: if the iPhone5 has the same moronic sophomore-physics-student-designed-me-because -I-look-cool antenna array, I'll buy you lunch.
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Oh hey look at that! Now you're going to tell me the iPhone's antenna is flawed because it looks good.
Or you can just admit it would've helped if you knew what you were talking about, wouldn't it?
Obviously not everyone agrees with your opinion on the matter, or his.
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(b) While it is true that all antennas fail when placed in direct contact with skin, it's also true the Apple's iPhone4 is the first "phone" to come to market in over 10 years that made NO ATTEMPT WHATSOEVER to insulate the antenna so that direct contact with the metallic conductors cannot be achieved.
Every cell phone has a "death grip" but what's fundamentally flawed about the iPhone4 is that the death grip can be performed with ONE FINGER. It doesn't even take the whole finger. A fingerTIP is...
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Overall, I'm pretty impressed with the specs on this thing. But the Electrical Engineer inside me questions the wisdom of building an antenna out of stainless steel AND making all the antennae exposed surfaces on the phone. Copper and aluminum are both FAR better conductors for antenna applications. AT&T is shoddy enough in most places, I worry that this thing is going to be even less of a "phone" the previous i"Phone" models....
I had one of the first Samsung phones with an internal antenna and I could make that thing drop calls 100% of the time by simply placing my hand
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He had two spaces randomly thrown in there.
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