Samsung Galaxy S II

fransdev

Just went into two 3 stores and Vodafone. 3 is gonna have a midnight launch in Grafton Street on Tuesday and maybe pre order this weekend. Vodafone another two weeks according to store staff.

Zascar

Lisa on the 02 forum said they are getting it on Wednesday.

Lordfranto

Ok so that's 3 of the big 4! So what about the android specialists meteor?
I'd go on their forum and ask only u gotta be a meteor customer to get on it, won't let possible new customers on! If I don't get some news from them shortly bout a time I'll just stay with o2 and get it. I know the price plans are not as good but at least I know if i can depend on them to know when they'll get stuff and know how to sort out any problems. I've also been looking at meteors phone insurance and by all accounts it seems a bit dodgy, I was going to overlook my reservations about meteors service and go for the cheap deal but they can't even say when they'll have a phone less than a week before it's launch. Doesn't instill confidence now does it?

Dr.Winston O'Boogie

Lordfranto wrote: »

Ok so that's 3 of the big 4! So what about the android specialists meteor?
I'd go on their forum and ask only u gotta be a meteor customer to get on it, won't let possible new customers on! If I don't get some news from them shortly bout a time I'll just stay with o2 and get it. I know the price plans are not as good but at least I know if i can depend on them to know when they'll get stuff and know how to sort out any problems. I've also been looking at meteors phone insurance and by all accounts it seems a bit dodgy, I was going to overlook my reservations about meteors service and go for the cheap deal but they can't even say when they'll have a phone less than a week before it's launch. Doesn't instill confidence now does it?

The latest from Meteor on their forum is the below (posted May 16th):

"Hi Fionny
Thanks for your input. This phone is due in the June timeframe but we don't have a confirmed launch date just yet. We'll be sure to let you all know once we do.

Thanks
Caitriona
Meteor talk to us"

So they say June, but no specific date. Whenever I hear vagueness like that I expect delays, especially so close to June as we are now.

Lordfranto

niallo24 wrote: »

The latest from Meteor on their forum is the below (posted May 16th):

"Hi Fionny
Thanks for your input. This phone is due in the June timeframe but we don't have a confirmed launch date just yet. We'll be sure to let you all know once we do.

Thanks
Caitriona
Meteor talk to us"

So they say June, but no specific date. Whenever I hear vagueness like that I expect delays, especially so close to June as we are now.

Yeah I seen that it's pathetic especially as I've said cos they tout themselves as the android specialists, I know I sound like a broken record mentioning the specialists thing but they are meteors words and they seem ro bw the only major network that won't have it

Rsaeire

I agree with you Lordfranto. I certainly hope Meteor have stock of this handset come 1 June and will be actively selling it, otherwise they may as well remove any android specialist reference from their stores and just stick with the plain ol' Samsung Galaxy S.

Given that so many of the other mobile networks seem to be releasing the Galaxy S II in and around the same time over the next week or so, it would be very foolish for Meteor to simply pass up the chance to capitalise on the incredible buzz surrounding this handset by dragging their feet. I guess we'll all find out sooner or later come the end of next week.

meathgal2010

All networks and CPW will have it in store next Wednesday

Lordfranto

meathgal2010 wrote: »

All networks and CPW will have it in store next Wednesday

And this information is comng from?

meathgal2010

If I told you Id have to kill you ...... I work in the industry

Headshot

meathgal2010 wrote: »

If I told you Id have to kill you ...... I work in the industry

What will the price be?

meathgal2010

Looking at between 519 -559 prepay supposedly. Bill pay prob starting at 99e depending on network.

JOCookie

meathgal2010 wrote: »

Looking at between 519 -559 prepay supposedly. Bill pay prob starting at 99e depending on network.

Thanks

Lordfranto

meathgal2010 wrote: »

Looking at between 519 -559 prepay supposedly. Bill pay prob starting at 99e depending on network.

Thanx!

the-ging

meathgal2010 wrote: »

Looking at between 519 -559 prepay supposedly. Bill pay prob starting at 99e depending on network.

What? Thats a mad price, I think I'll be going with the Sensation.
450 on voda, wonder what its going to be on Meteor? (if they are getting it)

Lordfranto

the-ging wrote: »

What? Thats a mad price, I think I'll be going with the Sensation.
450 on voda, wonder what its going to be on Meteor? (if they are getting it)

Your kidding right? You couldn't pay an extra €100 for a 1.2g duel core, as opposed to the sensations 1g single core?

conor.hogan.2

save 100 euro, lose processing power but gain sense and all the htc goodness.

sounds reasonable to me.

Lordfranto

conor.hogan.2 wrote: »

save 100 euro, lose processing power but gain sense and all the htc goodness.

sounds reasonable to me.

And u work for, let me guess? HTC?
Ur kidding right, there will be other duel core phones following shortly I'm sure and there will be over the next 6 months a glut of new apps or updates to old ones that will require a deil core to run em effectively! U scrimp now, in 6 months time u ll be pulling ur hair our with ur sensation lagging when u open apps, wise up. Wots the old saying penny wise pound foolish?

Headshot

tbf alot of reviews iv read have picked the S2 over the sensation

Lordfranto

Headshot wrote: »

tbf alot of reviews iv read have picked the S2 over the sensation

I don't think I've found one that came out in favour of the sensation!

tonto2010

Lordfranto wrote: »

Your kidding right? You couldn't pay an extra €100 for a 1.2g duel core, as opposed to the sensations 1g single core?

The sensation has a dual core snapdragon! there probably isnt a massive differerence between the two processors.

Lordfranto

tonto2010 wrote: »

The sensation has a dual core snapdragon! there probably isnt a massive differerence between the two processors.

My bad I stand corrected, it does have a duel core snapdragon! Still I'd check out other stats like ram. It all plays it's part in the longevity of ur handset. I will say I like the build quality of htc, but still the s2 is simply thee most powerful handset at present!

Brian

Your posts hurt my brain.

Lordfranto

Baza210 wrote: »

Your posts hurt my brain.

It's prob a tumour, u wanna go and get that looked at by the doctor!

tonto2010

Lordfranto wrote: »

My bad I stand corrected, it does have a duel core snapdragon! Still I'd check out other stats like ram. It all plays it's part in the longevity of ur handset. I will say I like the build quality of htc, but still the s2 is simply thee most powerful handset at present!

I agree, if the Galaxy had the build quality and a qhd screen it would be the perfect phone.

fionny

Vodafone's pricing on bill pay for the sensation is fair money... shows three's pricing is WAYYYYY out for the GS2 at the moment... hopefully the gs2 will be cheaper on the other networks otherwise i might swing to the sensation even though id prefer the gs2 any day over getting another htc.

conor.hogan.2

I wish I worked for HTC

I will have to wait for pricing, but if they come out with same prices imo HTC trumps samsung on everything but the screens.

Zascar

I've just gone and bought the HTC. I have a Desire now, but yet i was kinda set on the Galaxy up until now, but I had to go for one, so I bought the Sensation sim free, can always get an S2 when I have my upgrade from 02 in 6 months. From the youtube videos i can't see the S2 screen being that much better. The lock screen on the Sensation was a big plus for me.

What are the other reasons that people prefer the S2?

conor.hogan.2

Perfect, i dont suppose you have a blog or would like to whack up a thread reviewing this phone in a while?

How much you paid etc.

It has 256mb less ram but a .2ghz better processor which wouldn't make any noticeable difference really except the ram might.

Mc Love

Zascar wrote: »

I've just gone and bought the HTC. I have a Desire now, but yet i was kinda set on the Galaxy up until now, but I had to go for one, so I bought the Sensation sim free, can always get an S2 when I have my upgrade from 02 in 6 months. From the youtube videos i can't see the S2 screen being that much better. The lock screen on the Sensation was a big plus for me.

What are the other reasons that people prefer the S2?

Where did you buy the sensation?

thomasj

Zascar wrote: »

I've just gone and bought the HTC. I have a Desire now, but yet i was kinda set on the Galaxy up until now, but I had to go for one, so I bought the Sensation sim free, can always get an S2 when I have my upgrade from 02 in 6 months. From the youtube videos i can't see the S2 screen being that much better. The lock screen on the Sensation was a big plus for me.

What are the other reasons that people prefer the S2?

[URL] http://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=3621&idPhone2=3875 [/URL]

The battery is a big one for me. I turn off 3g just to get the most of the battery. 18 hours for samsung s2 vs 8 hours for htc sensation in 2g mode or 8 hours for samsung s2 vs 6 hours for htc sensation in 3g mode.

Mimikyu

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Zascar

thomasj wrote: »

[URL] http://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=3621&idPhone2=3875 [/URL]

The battery is a big one for me. I turn off 3g just to get the most of the battery. 18 hours for samsung s2 vs 8 hours for htc sensation in 2g mode or 8 hours for samsung s2 vs 6 hours for htc sensation in 3g mode.

Wow, thanks for that link. Actually battery was going to be one of the major things for me too. I have the desire and the battery is awful. Before seeing this I had not seen much on the battery performance really. Disappointed by this. However, I bought the sensation sim free - I have an upgrade due with 02 in 4 months so I can get the G2S then if i'm not happy with the HTC at that stage.

digiman

Captain Morgan wrote: »

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It's actually pretty cheap at that price really, €470 is a good enough price on payg

Mimikyu

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cullenswood

thomasj wrote: »

[URL] http://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=3621&idPhone2=3875 [/URL]

The battery is a big one for me. I turn off 3g just to get the most of the battery. 18 hours for samsung s2 vs 8 hours for htc sensation in 2g mode or 8 hours for samsung s2 vs 6 hours for htc sensation in 3g mode.

I can get two days easy out of my Desire with 3G on only when surfing and 2g the rest of the time.

Zascar

Forgot to mention that if you download Juice Defender Ultimate it will almost double your battery performance.

Headshot

Ill be getting this phone on Monday, I cant wait

fionny

I wish the networks would get their act together and price it up on their sites... its embarrassing for them on how little information they seem to have.

Lordfranto

fionny wrote: »

I wish the networks would get their act together and price it up on their sites... its embarrassing for them on how little information they seem to have.

All networks 1 St of June, I have info from a source I believe!

fionny

Lordfranto wrote: »

All networks 1 St of June, I have info from a source I believe!

Danke good sir, I shall be buying on meteor then. God bless 12month contracts.

Dr.Winston O'Boogie

Latest post on the meteor forum is some bloke who said someone in customer care said they don't think it will be launching for a while as they just launched their blackberry range.

So many conflicting reports...

Lordfranto

niallo24 wrote: »

Latest post on the meteor forum is some bloke who said someone in customer care said they don't think it will be launching for a while as they just launched their blackberry range.

So many conflicting reports...

My source rubbished that and mentioned frustration at meteor for not confirming dates and price etc, even tho it's a done deal!

fionny

I guess we will know for sure eitherway on wednesday!

pitchnputtking

Looks great but would want to be pretty special to beat the iphone4

fionny

pitchnputtking wrote: »

Looks great but would want to be pretty special to beat the iphone4

Hahahahahahahaha it will easily beat the iphone4, android is a far superiour os in my own opinion.

Lordfranto

pitchnputtking wrote: »

Looks great but would want to be pretty special to beat the iphone4

Man I gots an iPhone 4, I've had an iPhone since the 3g, and it ain't all that anymore! And the gs2 kicks the be jasus outta da iphone4, now that may change with the iphone5 but I strogly doubt that apple will give u that much extra, they're way to mean, they only wanna give u drips and drabs

Zascar

Both the HTC and the Samsung are far better phones than the iPhone, but apple's marketing genius will still ensure most iPhone fans will continue to stick with them. It's retarded but you have to hand it to them...

pitchnputtking

Sorry i just remembered what the iphone was like unjailbroken and ure right actually its not all that

But a jailbroken one certainly is all that:)

Lordfranto

fionny wrote: »

Hahahahahahahaha it will easily beat the iphone4, android is a far superiour os in my own opinion.

I have to agree, it may seem not as good to technophopes but if have half a brain and can google the answer to android how to I do this or that it's miles ahead! Ios is restricted by apple like you would not believe, I have always jailbroken my iPhones and they then become capable of so much more but apple constantly try to take control back it's a joke. Especially as when apple relaunched themselves many years ago they took moral high ground over micro soft saying they would give u total control unlike micro soft trying to control everything! Talk about hypocrites, apple would tell how and when to go to the toilet if they could! I truelly believe that with the likes of gs2 and htc sensation on the Market that anyone who buys an iPhone either hasn't got a clue or just wants a fashion accessory! But hey that's just my opinion and what do I know?

fionny

Even a Jailbroken iphone is a pain to use, ever time there was an update you had to either wait for a new jailbreak or go back to stock ios. You had itunes forced down your throat.

Cydia was awful to use it took so long to install or remove anything with it! Once I moved to android and saw the difference I swore that it would take something very very special indeed to bring me back inside apple's walled garden...

Besides the iphone 4 was a broken design.... antenna-gate anyone... eitherway fruitfans will be fruitfans.