Re: N900 vs samsung galaxy s
 

I think Galaxy S is better in almost domains:
-navigate on web
-quality of screen
-pretty U.I

but N900 have
32Go
Keyboard!!

that's why I'm still use the N900 even if it's sometimes a litlle hard

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I made this move a couple of weeks ago and I'm very happy. Best of all Samsung has decided to support the device, and it will be getting the froyo update next month. I don't miss the n900 at all.

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And after that?

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I'm pretty certain that if he's happier there, after that, he'll not be going back to the N900. Hell, why would anyone go back to the N900 when you already know it's being replaced soon. Do you plan to pick up an N800?

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I guess you didn´t understand my joke.

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I haven't seen an add so unrelated to the actual product since the cover of atari 2600 games.

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Well because this thing wasn't a complete waste of money, I'll probably be keeping it for a couple of years. Who knows where things will lie by that point. I won't consider a Nokia though. That's for sure.

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I have both , and i am still using my N900 more and more . Galaxy is very pretty thou .

So i let my girlfriend use it .

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The longer I own the N900, the more I use it and like it. The pretty, flashy aspect of new phones wears off after a while. Moving wallpaper looks nice, but it soon gets replaced with something static.

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WHat dnla client have you got that works on N900, please provide link if you have one or name of it in app manager

Thanks

Colm

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Isn’t the Galaxy S Pro a CDMA Handset?? No sim card slot, us Europeans aren’t going to get the Pro... i think all we are going to get is the galaxy s with a Camera flash LOL

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This is bad comedy.

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No. The Galaxy S Pro will basically the GSM variant of the Samsung Epic 4G. So yeah... you Europeans will get the actually use it - only us Yanks are still using the anachronistic CDMA.

And the Epic 4G is the only Samsung Galaxy S phone with a LED camera flash.

Re: N900 vs samsung galaxy s
 

Galaxy S is better for watching videos by far.
Also it has obvios,usly all the Android apps and games.
More GPS apps and soon official flash 10 support.

N900 has hw keyboard which I MUCH prefer.
Has far more intuitive and proper multitasking.
Dunno. I've used both. I prefer N900 still.
My N900 is a PC and Galaxy S is a smartphone.

I don't feel Galaxy S is an "upgrade" really. It's not tons better.
I would personally wait for next-gen Android 3.0 devices or MeeGo devices.

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That N900 is PC and Galaxy S is smartphone spot on. I still much prefer the overclocked N900 browser experience over Galaxy S and i general N900 is a device where i spend time on while Galaxy S to me is a bit more of phone with lots of apps.

As a everyday smartphone Galaxy S is so far my favorit. Partly because i prefer capacitive and smaller size.
N9 hw wise so far seems perfect with tying the 4" screen, qwerty, 8-12mpx, hopefully HDMI out and all that in a rather small package. Can't wait for that.

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one thing that I miss my N900 (well I am still using it for that actually)

with the FM Transmitter and the internet connection, I stream radio from the internet onto the phone, and then from the phone I transmit it to my car

I understand that for "normal" users that's not so useful, but for a sports fan who wants to listen to a football game from another country while driving back from work, there is no going back from that!

luckily, because the Samsung has the WIFI AP feature, I just use the N900 to connect to the Galaxy S and stream from the internet.

The Galaxy S has an amazing screen and plays videos well, but I can't make it stream my videos from my DLNA server :/ Anyone managed that?

Also I am still experiencing lockups. They say that these get fixed with froyo, so fingers crossed...

As far as the Android market, it has indeed thousands upon thousands of apps, but is missing some foundamental ones.

I just wish there was a combination of the two phones :)

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just the normal media player! it works fine with tversity

it has interminent problems with ps3 media server

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Navigat on web--> you mean mobile web content? Enjoy that ****! :D

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You clearly missed the thread where I pointed out that "mobile web" content is a redirected web page from the web server side based on the Agent tag your browser identifies itself with. You CAN change the agent tag on any Android phone to report itself as an Android, an iPhone or as a desktop browser very easily, so you can get whatever flavor of web content you want that the web designers tried to pigeon-hole you into. Again, it's not about the browser, it's about what you identify your architecture as. On my Droid, to make things very easy, I use both Android's browser and Dolphin. I've set the Android browser to the default 'Android' agent while I've set Dolphin to identify itself as a desktop browser, so I can get either just by picking whichever browser to launch for any given thing I want to do. Because the N900 is not identified as Android nor iPhone (instead, it's in the "WTF IS THIS?" category) it just falls back on whatever a "Miscellaneous" default category falls into (usually the default web pages you browse on the desktop).

You can enjoy that ****, or the other ****. It's not really an issue on Android (and I suspect it's not an issue on N900's browser, nor most platforms, either by changing the agent identifier).

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danramos i believe you can change the user agent of the N900 too, so this is not such a big deal.

but another big minus for me is no skype for the galaxy S!

the hardware of the galaxy is just amazing but android and its software is letting me down at the moment :/

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Err are you sure there is no Skype on Android? I'm positive there is, maybe not as nicely integrated..

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According to the skype site, 'skype mobile' is available for many android devices. It seems to support calling as well (though I didn't do much research).

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I wrote no skype for galaxy S

and actually there is no skype on the android market guys...

from what I saw, they only make it available for specific carriers in the US

and I think you have to buy it

when they say "many android devices" they probably mean like 6-7and on specific networks

the Galaxy S is not one of them. the Desire is not either i think.

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It's true that Skype is Verizon only in the US; however I use Nimbuzz which allows me access to Skype. It's free, there's no "buy" to it on that carrier.

But if you're able to use Google; you can find skype.apk and if you have root and the ability to sideload; you can install it, easily. But I swear (Skype) locked it down to just Verizon's network.

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Thanks gerbick

Nimbuzz? I will give it a try.

I think it is very likely that skype support will be removed from all 3rd party skype clients on android. They recently removed it from Fring.

Not sure if Maemo will also be a target.

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Fring was infringing on Skype's network and whatnot, Skype was pretty willing to deal with them; Fring backed out.

Nimbuzz, IIRC, has licensed Skype. And I'm pretty darn sure that Nokia has licensed Skype, so not a problem there. Maemo and MeeGo are real safe.

Random oddity around Skype though, there's to be no Skype for Windows 7 Phones...

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You can also use sipdroid if you have a PBX that can connect to skype to make/receive calls. Of course this is less straight forward than an app that is designed to do this!

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I've honestly had very little luck with Sipdroid - but that's not saying much. I probably overlooked a lot while trying it.

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I've not used it, so I can't comment, but I'm hoping that it goes smoothly when I get a Galaxy Tab in the coming months. It seems to support very common codecs, and while there are shortcomings, it is reported to have sufficient features to be usable.

What SIP PBX/service were you trying it with?

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I have access to Aptela and a Trixbox. If anything - like I said earlier - I can honestly only blame myself for my Sipdroid failures, not the software.

I just need to read more, experiment more, play more. It's not exactly "straight-forward" but it's not that hard either.

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Here try this link its free for a few Android Handsets http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/get-...obile/android/

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From that link:

It supports the fact that Skype isn't on an non-Verizon phone - at least in the US.

And if you go to skype.com/m on the phone, you end up with:

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Dude im sure its said free for the bottom 2 Android Phones, otherwise i would have not posted that link ??

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I played HEAVILY with VOIP on the Android to see if I could use it in an on-the-go Podcasting capacity, so I'll share my experience:

Sipphone is... not good, in my experience. Very tragic product. That being said, there are far worse tragedies out there for VOIP on Android.

As far as the best goes, I had the best luck with using Linphone on Android, and it seemed to work the cleanest of the whole bunch.

All of that means nothing if the conversation is about Skype, though. Since Skype is a closed-network and NOT a standard SIP protocol VOIP system, none of this software is going to matter to you.

If you want Skype on Android, you're likely going to need to be on Verizon. If you don't necessarily want Skype in particular, just ANY VOIP will do, then you have a plethora of SIP client apps available (and a few other less used VOIP protocols).

Re: N900 vs samsung galaxy s
 

the title of the link you posted writes:

"Here are the Android™ smartphones from Verizon Wireless that support Skype mobile™"

So what I said basically. And Galaxy S is not one of them either.

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the bottom two are not for sale so not sure why they even list them

i think skype is missing a couple of marbles! :)

Re: N900 vs samsung galaxy s
 

Peoples, the Skype app is free. There's a big blue bar on that page that says what to do to get it.

The "Buy Now" buttons are links to purchase the phone (hardware) from Verizon. The Droid and Droid Eris are listed because Skype is supported on them.

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My Bad Dude :(

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Do you want me to post a screenshot that basically states everything I said earlier and how it's not available for any non-Verizon Android phone?

I mean, I typed in exactly what I got when I tried it earlier.

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LOL Chill out i believe you, all i am saying is that I’m sure it said free Skype for a couple of android handsets that’s all….