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Face it, this phone is garbage

bluecoyote

Sep 10, 2010, 9:21 PM
Boy Genius Report has a list of known bugs (which Mentat beat me to posting) . Go read it there.

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.
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evrodude

Sep 11, 2010, 11:47 AM
I wouldn't call it garbage, but the list of bugs and no solutions to them is what made me take a step back and consider keeping my HTC Incredible longer and wait to see what else gets released before 2010 is over.
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Menno

Sep 11, 2010, 1:49 PM
It didn't say there were no solutions, it said that there were no current short term solutions, this means that any fixes need to come via software update. Most bugs on these kind of lists are this way.
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Jayshmay

Sep 11, 2010, 5:55 PM
Is the Fascinate the only Galaxy S that is having these problems?
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Menno

Sep 12, 2010, 9:39 AM
These specific problems? Maybe. But the entire line has a list of bugs that will hopefully be addressed in Froyo.

It's a really amazing looking screen.
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Jayshmay

Sep 12, 2010, 9:44 AM
Btw, I emailed you a couple days ago asking you a PC question, haven't heard back from you, have you read it?
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Menno

Sep 12, 2010, 9:52 AM
Have to look at it again. Been busyish at work.
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Jayshmay

Sep 12, 2010, 9:56 AM
Oh. I was trying to ask you if there are any functional limitations to web browsing w/o using the hard drive? Sony has a laptop that turns on in about 20 seconds withone touch web access. Not just quicker access to the web, but better security since there's no access to the hard drive.

But I am wondering if no access to the hard drive limits the web browsing experience in ?any? way.
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Menno

Sep 12, 2010, 10:07 AM
No harddrive means no plugins (Flash, Silverlight, etc)

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?)
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Jayshmay

Sep 12, 2010, 10:56 AM
What you said about booting up to web only witrh no access to hd is of *great concern* to me!!! 😢 The no porn thing, big yikes!

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.
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Menno

Sep 12, 2010, 12:14 PM
It all depends on the build of Linux that Sony is using.

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.
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Jayshmay

Sep 12, 2010, 12:17 PM
Oh, so your more knowledgable about Andoid than PCs?

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?
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Menno

Sep 12, 2010, 2:11 PM
yeah i did, they missed the PA towns:

Intercourse
Blue Ball
Virginville
Bird in hand
etc

All real towns in PA
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Jayshmay

Sep 12, 2010, 2:23 PM
Ha! F'n funny 🤣 🤣

My golf cart @ work died. So I'm on foot for 2.5hrs.
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CellStudent

Sep 12, 2010, 6:03 PM
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!
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bluecoyote

Sep 12, 2010, 7:30 PM
Fortunately, the iPhone 4 suffers from neither, which you would've known if you'd ever use done. 🤣
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evrodude

Sep 12, 2010, 9:29 PM
iPhone 4 indeed does have a faulty designed antenna. And Steve Jobs was warned about it but the dufus just shrugged his shoulders.
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bluecoyote

Sep 13, 2010, 11:15 AM
I'm going to sum this up in a way you'll understand:

No, it doesn't.
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shellis129

Sep 12, 2010, 10:13 PM
Bluecoyote, you're quick to jump on cellstudent when he took a shot at the iPhone, so I'll ask you... you ever use a Galaxy S phone? If not, how do you know it's garbage? By reading a list of known issues? Yeah, EVERY phone has a list of known issues. The difference is that they usually don't get leaked. Read the Droid forums... you'll see.

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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bluecoyote

Sep 13, 2010, 11:18 AM
I've used every one except the Sprint Epic.

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.
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CellStudent

Sep 12, 2010, 11:19 PM
iPhone4 uses a fundamentally flawed antenna scheme. Period. There is really no reasonable debate that can take place on that argument, especially with a troll like yourself who has no knowledge of antenna design and RF propagation (as I do).

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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bluecoyote

Sep 13, 2010, 11:27 AM
How is the iPhone 4's antenna flawed? Because its design has lead to improved reception? Because if you touch it it attenuates? Like the Google Nexus One, Droid X, Palm Pre {Sprint}, Oh, and the Samsung Galaxy S?

{cited by none other than PhoneScoop's Eric Zeman: http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/ handheld/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=22590004 2&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_News }

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?
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Caucasian

Sep 13, 2010, 12:02 PM
That article is hilarious, not because it's little more than a blog post, but the absolutely hilarious amount of hate he receives in the comments section. Thanks for my daily dose of lulz.

Obviously not everyone agrees with your opinion on the matter, or his.
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CellStudent

Sep 13, 2010, 12:15 PM
(a) Posting a working URL would help
The URL (Web address) that has been entered is directing to a non-existent page on the InformationWeek.com website. Please check that there are no typographical errors in the URL.


(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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CellStudent

Sep 13, 2010, 12:23 PM
P.S. I saw this whole fiasco coming 15 minutes after Steve introduced the iPhone4.

https://www.phonescoop.com/phones/p_forum.php?fm=m&f ... »

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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Caucasian

Sep 13, 2010, 12:24 PM
http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/handhel ... »

He had two spaces randomly thrown in there.
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