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six



Joined: 01 Oct 2010
PostPosted: Sat Oct 22, 2011 5:50 am    Post subject: When are the new smartphones due? Reply with quote
We have the iPhone 4S, the Galaxy Nexus, and Kal-El coming down the pipes here. Anyone have any Korean knowledge on when the phones are due to be released in Korea?
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eamo



Joined: 08 Mar 2003
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 22, 2011 6:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Nexus Prime in November..........iPhone 4S in December.............Kal el products next spring at the earliest.



I spilled Shabbu-Shabbu water on my Galaxy S and it's been acting weird, so I might just go Nexus Prime in November. It's a seriously good-looking phone.
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six



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PostPosted: Sat Oct 22, 2011 7:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
eamo wrote:
Nexus Prime in November..........iPhone 4S in December.............Kal el products next spring at the earliest.



I spilled Shabbu-Shabbu water on my Galaxy S and it's been acting weird, so I might just go Nexus Prime in November. It's a seriously good-looking phone.


Thanks.

sidenote: hilarious that you would use "good-looking" to describe the Nexus Prime when according to Engadget http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/21/the-galaxy-nexus-super-amoled-display-is-a-minus-not-a-plus/ the phone's display is actually worse than the GS2LTE/HD. oh well.

also, do you know if the competition is fierce enough that I could get a GS2LTE from SK tomorrow and when the Kal-El comes, switch to KT with a buyout on my contract?
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carleverson



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PostPosted: Sat Oct 22, 2011 7:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
eamo wrote:
It's a seriously good-looking phone.


Personally, I think it's rather ugly and I'm disappointed about the way it looks. It looks rather "generic" to me.

Also, I'm curious as to why Samsung decided to stick the display the Nexus with a Super Amoled screen? Shouldn't this thing have Super Amoled Plus on it? WTF Question

I think my next phone is going to be the Galaxy S2 LTE with 1.5GHz processor, 4.5" super amoled plus screen.
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eamo



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PostPosted: Sat Oct 22, 2011 9:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I was using good looking in the 'looks like good spec' sense. I agree the aesthetics are pretty generic.


Is there a noticeable difference with SAMOLED plus?
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carleverson



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PostPosted: Sat Oct 22, 2011 10:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
eamo wrote:
I was using good looking in the 'looks like good spec' sense. I agree the aesthetics are pretty generic.


Is there a noticeable difference with SAMOLED plus?


Yes. You can read about it here:

http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/21/the-galaxy-nexus-super-amoled-display-is-a-minus-not-a-plus/
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wishfullthinkng



Joined: 05 Mar 2010
PostPosted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 4:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
carleverson wrote:
eamo wrote:
It's a seriously good-looking phone.


Personally, I think it's rather ugly and I'm disappointed about the way it looks. It looks rather "generic" to me.

Also, I'm curious as to why Samsung decided to stick the display the Nexus with a Super Amoled screen? Shouldn't this thing have Super Amoled Plus on it? WTF Question

I think my next phone is going to be the Galaxy S2 LTE with 1.5GHz processor, 4.5" super amoled plus screen.



i believe it's because the yields on the plus panels aren't large enough to share with other phones beyond the sII lte hd at the moment. the nexus prime will be a nice phone no doubt, but no one is going to dethrone the sII lte hd this year.
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six



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 9:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Galaxy S2 HD LTE comes out this Friday or Monday, according to the guy at the LG U+ store. Then again, he tried telling me that it was only for LG, not SK.

lol.
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carleverson



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 11:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
wishfullthinkng wrote:
carleverson wrote:
eamo wrote:
It's a seriously good-looking phone.


Personally, I think it's rather ugly and I'm disappointed about the way it looks. It looks rather "generic" to me.

Also, I'm curious as to why Samsung decided to stick the display the Nexus with a Super Amoled screen? Shouldn't this thing have Super Amoled Plus on it? WTF Question

I think my next phone is going to be the Galaxy S2 LTE with 1.5GHz processor, 4.5" super amoled plus screen.



i believe it's because the yields on the plus panels aren't large enough to share with other phones beyond the sII lte hd at the moment. the nexus prime will be a nice phone no doubt, but no one is going to dethrone the sII lte hd this year.


I think you're confused. The Galaxy s2 LTE HD has a super amoled screen on it NOT the super amoled PLUS screen the links on this thread reference.
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Underwaterbob



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 5:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
the lingo, it buuuurrrrnnnnssss
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cj1976



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 3:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Are there any good phones with a physical keyboard? I find typing and playing games etc on a touchscreen a real chore sometimes.
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singerdude



Joined: 18 Jul 2009
PostPosted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 5:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Any word on when the Galaxy Note will be released? I heard it will be released Nov. 1 in Europe, but what about Korea?
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wuzza



Joined: 02 May 2003
PostPosted: Thu Oct 27, 2011 1:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
six wrote:
also, do you know if the competition is fierce enough that I could get a GS2LTE from SK tomorrow and when the Kal-El comes, switch to KT with a buyout on my contract?


Are they even doing buyouts anymore? According to the shop I went to last week, they won't buy out the last 5 months of my 2-year contract to tempt me to switch. Maybe they figure they're always going to be splitting the numbers fairly easily and neither SK nor KTF can get a sizeable lead on the other, so why bother subsidizing phones in the meantime?
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six



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 27, 2011 4:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
yeah, I'm a bit greedy to hope for that, but what's the fun in life if you don't try? Razz

Also, I have been googling this all day, but no one can confirm for sure 100% that the hd super amoled is not a plus here. do we have the source? I am aware that the galaxy nexus is not super amoled plus, but is that the same screen that's in the GS2HDLTE? I know it probably is, but hope against hope!
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wishfullthinkng



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PostPosted: Mon Oct 31, 2011 6:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
carleverson wrote:
wishfullthinkng wrote:
carleverson wrote:
eamo wrote:
It's a seriously good-looking phone.


Personally, I think it's rather ugly and I'm disappointed about the way it looks. It looks rather "generic" to me.

Also, I'm curious as to why Samsung decided to stick the display the Nexus with a Super Amoled screen? Shouldn't this thing have Super Amoled Plus on it? WTF Question

I think my next phone is going to be the Galaxy S2 LTE with 1.5GHz processor, 4.5" super amoled plus screen.



i believe it's because the yields on the plus panels aren't large enough to share with other phones beyond the sII lte hd at the moment. the nexus prime will be a nice phone no doubt, but no one is going to dethrone the sII lte hd this year.


I think you're confused. The Galaxy s2 LTE HD has a super amoled screen on it NOT the super amoled PLUS screen the links on this thread reference.



i stand corrected. it appears the lte hd will use the pen-tile based amoled panels and not the non pen-tile based amoled plus panels.

the good news is though that with such a high pixel density the blurring from a pen-tile based panel will probably be non-existant. the green tinge however will still probably be there.
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