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Yeah Yeah….I know its an old model….but still a good phone.
Samsung Galaxy S Unlocked Android Mobile Phone @ BIGW for $350
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At the rate the Galaxy Nexus are dropping ($399+19shipping @ kogan) and with the Galaxy S2 being superseeded by the S3 (annoucement today?) i personally wouldnt buy this.
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People still buy this old phone when SII, SII4g, Nexus and Note are out?
Also, the Nexus S, which was almost identical internally to the Galaxy S, has been $299 outright unlocked for ages (assuming they're still in stock somewhere?).
Not a good deal. Nexus S is better yet cheaper, although neither the Nexus S nor the Galaxy S support 850MHz 3G. So stay away.
Questionable whether the Nexus S is better.. (Galaxy S has SD card slot and a much nicer SAMOLED screen) but agreed that there are better options available.
850mhz not an issue if you're on optus (or plan to be on optus) or one of it's resellers. But yeah, not optimal for vodafone of telstra. either way though, still a sucktastic price for this spec phone.
Yep, this definitely isn't a deal. Also for about $230 you can get a Motorola Defy which is just about as good as this, and it's waterproof.
Or you could get a Nexus for only $70 more as said by Forgot69.
Unless you really need the AMOLED screen you can get the Galaxy W for $279 from the same store and that comes with a 1.4Ghz CPU.
I have the phone and it's great. It lags after I use it for a few days till I install Android Booster App. I recommend this free app to everyone who has an Android phone.
My wife has this model and has had nothing but problems… It's been back to Samsung 2 times, had the motherboard replaced, and it's still completely screwed.
probably a lemon.
the galaxy S has been adopted by many when it first came out, and has been thought to be the 'iphone killer'. As the likes of HTC/motorola were still coming out with box-like form factors.for what it's worth, i'm still using this phone since it's out, and i never have the need to send it back. Still using it, hoping the next iteration is a vast improvement from galaxy note's hardware.
not sure how some use their phone, but I never use covers/screen protectors on my phones, and i chuck it around quite often on the table. The only thing I can complain about is the dying battery because it's way past it's lifespan now, and I have to look for a replacement battery. That it.
HA! Battery life… It's been lasting approx. half a day since 2 months after she got it. And there are a million stories on the internet of similar situations.
Trust me, it's not a lemon, it's the software on it.. I've looked everywhere for a solution that doesn't involve loading a custom ROM and voiding the warranty (that is nearly over..), and there isn't one. Random reboots, settings not saving, extremely poor battery life - not just us.
And how could it be a lemon when the same symptons are happening after a motherboard replacement?? That's 95% of the phone! All they leave in is the battery, screen and housing..
And FYI: I and my daughter both have HTC's, and they work flawlessly. Never had any issues when we rolled out ~30 at work either.
Well, the 'million' (did you really count?) stories didn't quite equate, as most of them found out that its a user-related problem, or largely fixed with the 2.3 update.
Hey, am not going to convince you to buy Samsung, if you don't like it it's fine. I'm calling it what it is. My phone is a stock Optus phone on 2.3. So there you go.
Fyi: I had HTCs too (from touch pro and pro2 and the 'high end' android models), and they have their own share of problems. (Heat issues, GPS lock issues, firmware issues, and battery issues, you name it.)
A bit rich of you to claim the HTCs work flawlessly - no same electronic hardware can work flawlessly under different hands.
Same thing can be said for iphone4.
There's nothing wrong with the Samsung Galaxy S model. There are some inherent 'features' of that generation of Android 2.1 phones but that's it. If there was, there would actually be a few million people owners making these claims. I make this statement having worked for a network provider, selling these devices and seeing bad models being returned.
no 850MHz support no deal ;)
I have one of these and the lifesapn is about 1 year and 3 months before it starts turning itself off, cant lock into a tower for reception…
S2 is way better…
^From your vast experience of owning one handset…
Mine is still cranking along very happily at 1 year 8 months old, running Cyanogenmod 9 nightly.
The fact that they can still charge $350 and have someone think it's worthwhile posting it up here is an indication of how amazing this phone was at launch.
running Cyanogenmod 9 nightly
ORLY. That's because the stock software is a joke.
I have this phone for the last year and 8 months … no issues at all… updated to GB official rom. Good phone and none of the others offer a next gen difference so i feel no need to upgrade yet … i think it should be a little cheaper than $350.
300 would be reasonable. 250 would be a bargain. For 350 NO.
Got this, used to be fast, now it is lagging all the time. I have since switched to a Galaxy Note. Not recommeded at this price, better off getting the Galaxy Nexus for $50 more at Kogan.
no official ICS for Galazy. lazy samsung pple.
there wasn't enough room for ICS with touchwhizz over it in the Galaxy S rom partition. there were plans for a 'kinda sorta' type hybrid upgrade, not sure what happened with that…
NVM
Bad deal - Galaxy Nexus is almost the same price.
No no no…. spend the extra $50 - $70 to get a current gen phone. At $200, that would be a bargain.