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WHEN ARE WE GETTING DONUT OR ECLAIR ??????

Galaxy is few months old, and already can't run apps that use APIs brought in 1.6. Same goes for Moment.

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Other than that, this phone is Hawt]]>Oct 26th 2009 5:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/Oct 26th 2009 5:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/Oct 26th 2009 7:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/
http://www.petitiononline.com/SERO/petition.html]]>Oct 26th 2009 7:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/Oct 26th 2009 5:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/Oct 26th 2009 5:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/Oct 26th 2009 5:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/Oct 26th 2009 6:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/Oct 29th 2009 1:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/Oct 29th 2009 2:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/
(I was secretly hoping the Moment would hold a charge for 2 days :)]]>Oct 29th 2009 7:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/Nov 28th 2009 1:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/Oct 26th 2009 5:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/http://www.phonescoop.com/phones/zoom.php?p=1966&g=2]]>Oct 26th 2009 5:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/Oct 26th 2009 9:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/Oct 26th 2009 5:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/Oct 26th 2009 5:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/Oct 27th 2009 2:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/
You guys give a hard time to stock Android, but it's the only way to get higher boot speed, overall faster handling, consistent UI across devices and a fully tested stack. Reliability lovers know that not every device should be unique, and at some point the Android guys (and users) are going to realize that. V2.0 would be good, but is it beta-ish or ready for prime at this point? No one can tell until a lot of users test it out.
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The HTC Passion is also supposed to come out in Q4 and that thing has a snapdragon processor(a bit faster than the omap, but with lesser graphic capabilities).

Those are the 2 phones to get in 2009. Which performs the best has yet to be seen, but keep your eyes peeled. Other than that, I'm with Engadget on this one. It's too late to come out with a phone running this kind of hardware. Sure, the phone runs well itself, but we're going to be seeing phones with snapdragon, omap 3430, and tegra chipsets, and the performance increase in those are just too good to pass up. The Omnia 2 is going to suffer a similar fate. Samsung should have tried to push these phones out sooner, or waited to put in better hardware.

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You have multiple versions of Android itself shipping to multiple carriers for optional branding on multiple handsets. And naturally absolutely no incentive for any carrier to provide after-sales software updates.

Some might argue that channeling software this way provides consumers with choice, I say it creates confusion. Is there even a guaranteed way on every Android handset to download and install the latest unbranded version of the O/S without carrier dependance? If so there may be some hope for those savvy-enough to keep up-to-date but the other scenarios sound rather limiting.]]>Oct 26th 2009 6:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/Oct 26th 2009 6:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/
I'm more concerned with the (IMNSHO) stupid skins. While I understood their purpose on WinMo 6.1... now it makes far less Sense (pun only slightly intended), especially on Android that has no problems with being touch ready. Let these skins be sold as a add-on in the marketplace (along with the others that are already there like aHome), rather than these manufacturers throwing their own faces on them. It is these faces that are also going to keep things out of whack version wise, as devices build for MotoBlur, Sense, TouchWiz, et. al. are going to be the ones that lag behind in Android version updates, as these skins will need to be modified first each time to ensure they work with the newer versions Android before they are released.]]>Oct 26th 2009 11:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/
Anytime an opensource platform is launched there will be lots of modifications. The market will cover any customizations that need to happen for each device both adding and removing any UI that a carrier or phone manufacturer has added to the device. My concern is how the market will handle all the different hardware specs.

Sounds to me like engadget will not be happy with anything short of a netbook to their ear. Good luck carrying that and the cord to that thing around guys and maybe next time include battery life information since that is usually a users number one concern. It is a phone and cannot be plugged in all day.

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Not that I'm giving up my Hero anyway :-P]]>Oct 26th 2009 6:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/Oct 26th 2009 8:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/Oct 26th 2009 7:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/Oct 27th 2009 9:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/Oct 27th 2009 10:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/Oct 26th 2009 7:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/Oct 27th 2009 2:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/Oct 26th 2009 7:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/Oct 27th 2009 12:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/Oct 26th 2009 7:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/
Anyway to make the main screen go landscape on rotate without opening the keyboard? That an option? Annoys me driving with the GPS landscape and then going to the main screen and it's portrait...

& Battery life vs hero...

I think this phone's browser is SUPERIOR to the hero...Hero's browser is nearly unusable...I use a task manager so I know it's not me...Steel seems to be a lean browser alternative...]]>Oct 26th 2009 8:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/
I am a big cell phone fanatic. Every chance I get to swap to new phones I do. I have been with Sprint for 9 years and have had my share of phones. Soooooo. My opinions are as follows with the Moment.

As far as I can tell from using mine no you can't go to long screen without opening keyboard for actual main menu. Any other window all you do it turn it around.

Hope this helps. I was very skeptical myself about this phone. I swapped from a BB Tour to this and I love this phone. Too used to BB features that hopefully these curve in smoothly. All in All I enjoy this phone.

GPS rotates if you rotate screen. Not a problem at all. Does great with it. Unlike a lot of older phones, you can also adjust volume while using the navigation.

Battery Life compared to Hero is Moments last a bit longer thatn Hero.]]>Dec 8th 2009 5:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/Oct 26th 2009 8:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/Oct 26th 2009 8:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/Oct 26th 2009 8:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/samsung-moment-review/Oct 26th 2009 8:32PM