pkphilip

4S is so yester-year. :-) Spec wise, SGS2 still better than Nexus. I am skipping the Nexus and wait for SGS3

Rogers will get Galaxy Nexus, but in 2012. I think you are better off buying a SGS2 off contract for $550 in NCIX. I am not a big fan of Bell.

Actually for some odd reason, Bell got the exclusive on Nexus until next year. So the pre-order page from Rogers was pulled.



Philip

pkphilip

In short, SGS2 has Exyno CPU/GPU, faster than TI OMAP CPU/GPU. Screen on SGS is Super AMOLED Plus w/ Gorilla glass; SGS2 has HD Super AMOLED, which is a pentile screen. SGS2 has SDCard slot, readable as FAT32 in Windows. Nexus is EXT4, which you must rely on MTP for transfer.

See here: http://10division.com/samsung-ga ... e-comparison-guide/

Therefore SGS2 being a flagship Samsung device and has the latest bells and whistles, the Nexus is more more development with everything open-source.

Philip

pkphilip

Rogers has SGS2 LTE as well, an alternative for Bell if you must insist on carrier specific phones.

Philip

pkphilip

LTE is fast! We were doing it at demo... roughly 5-7 Mbps compare to 3-4 on HSPA+

Philip

pkphilip

Nexus all comes unlock as required by Google. If the Nexus run Cyanogenmod, the phone runs so much faster and save on battery.

Philip

pkphilip

小道消息話 Rogers 都會入, 但最快都要出年 Jan 先有。但已經比 Bell 食左頭淡湯啦。
Bell 上個禮拜已經出  ...
matt72178 發表於 2011-12-5 20:56

Basically Rogers got shafted due to exclusive agreement between Samsung and Bell. Bell has been a good supporter for Bell during the HSPA+ network launcher before Olympic time. Rogers on the other hand, still in love with the relationship with Sony Ericsson... under estimated Samsung at that time?? I think so, and got bit at the end.

Philip

pkphilip

You can read here for how the Nexus programs works, Google picks the components carefully with reasons: http://www.extremetech.com/compu ... p-instead-of-exynos

About the lack of SD, lack of SD slot means that USB transfer speed is much slower because it only supports MTP. With SD slot, the device gets recognized as a disk drive and supports FAT32. I have a Galaxy Tab 10.1 and it is slow on files transfer comparing to my Galaxy S.

About the OS, I am not worry about future upgrades. See, my old HTC Legend is running Gingerbread 2.3.7 thanks to CM7. If you are into Android, you will most likely skipping out on the OEM's version and on MIUI or Cyanogenmod already. it's all about the dev community and popularity of the hardware. The Nexus definitely gets the first dip for everything, but I honestly don't need to be first. http://www.loyaukee.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=25007&page=5

Philip

pkphilip

Big screen, more drain, especially with 3g on with all the Samsung software running. The only way to fix this is vanilla ROM like the ones I mentioned. Personally, I don't care about brand as much until Samsung started to build something with brilliant spec. Coming from HTC, which is more conservative and restrictive, the Galaxy line is something impressive. I am paying close attention to Chinese brands like Meizu and Xiaomi, these guys are starting to pick up speed.

I might pick up the new Meizu, but if Samsung can convince me otherwise with S3, Android is still my prefer platform.

I have iPad, Touch myself as well, and I don't find them any magical.

Philip

pkphilip

Of course you can, simply email, dropbox, or use an app called Wifi File Explorer Pro can send any files to the internal storage, and install it from the file manager.

I have been using Dropbox, WiFi File Explorer and ADB command to install apk without SD card.

adb push whatever.apk /sdcard/
adb install whatever.apk

Samsung calls the internal storage as SDCard, external SD as ExtSD; Cyanogenmod/AOSP calls it EMMC.... it's super confusing sometimes.

Philip