My phone's been rebooting itself when I'm on the phone and plugging it into the charger, and is just all around sluggish even after a factory reset...and no wonder, considering it's weeks away from being 3 years old.
Why now, why this phone? It's the first of two new phones on T-Mobile that will run at 42Mbps, with real-world speeds averaging 8Mbps and peaks at 20Mbps. On a smartphone, that would be faster than either Sprint or AT&T, but half the speed of Verizon's LTE. If you're lucky and you have a legacy SIM and contract, it means you have no speed throttling or data caps...making T-Mobile's network far more useful than Verizon's, on a value basis. (One more reason to oppose AT&T's buyout, right?)
Anyway, in the near future Verizon will have a next-generation LTE Samsung Android phone, but until then, the fastest speeds you'll find is on T-Mobile's version of the Galaxy S-II. Also, both the Samsung and Qualcomm dual core CPUs are ARMv7-based, but apparently the Samsung core has a better built-in GPU, but does not support the higher speed HSPA+ 42Mbps. This explains why T-Mobile went with Qualcomm's Snapdragon S3 compared to AT&T's choice for Samsung's Exynos.
Just for comparison, all have:
- 2 MP front-facing camera
- 8 MP rear camera w/ flash
- 16 GB built in storage
- 1 GB RAM
- Bluetooth
- WiFi
- No slide-out keyboard.
Sprint's version:
- Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread
- 4.52" AMOLED screen
- 1800 mAh battery
- Standby 10.5days
- Talk 8.7hrs
- 1.2Ghz Samsung dual core Exynos C210
- 5.11" x 2.74" x .38"
- 4.6 oz.
- no NFC
- CDMA / WiMax
- SAR (body) 0.54 W/kg
- $200 w/ 2 yr contract
- Already available
- Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread
- 4.27" 480x800 AMOLED screen
- 1650 mAh battery
- Standby 400hrs
- Talk 8hrs
- 1.2Ghz Samsung dual core Exynos C210
- 4.96” x 2.60” x .35”
- 4.3 oz.
- NFC
- HSPA+ 14Mbps
- SAR (body) 0.90 W/kg
- $200 w/ 2 yr contract
- Available Oct 2.
- Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread
- 4.52" AMOLED screen
- 1850 mAh battery
- Standby 167hrs
- Talk 7hrs
- 1.5 GHz Qualcomm dual core Snapdragon S3
- 5.11" x 2.71" x .37"
- 4.77 oz.
- NFC
- HSPA+ 42Mbps
- SAR (body) 0.99 W/kg
- $280 - $50 MIR = $230 final price w/ 2 yr contract
- Available Oct. 10 pre-order / 12th in store
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