There you go, just a few pics of the lovely weather and Bert (the cat) is sun bathing, while Dolly (the other cat) is out hunting…. LOL

Samsung Galaxy S

Specs

GENERAL 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network HSDPA 900 / 1900 / 2100
Announced 2010, March
Status Available. Released 2010, June
SIZE Dimensions 122.4 x 64.2 x 9.9 mm
Weight 119 g
DISPLAY Type Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size 480 x 800 pixels, 4.0 inches
- TouchWiz 3.0 UI
- Multi-touch input method
- Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate
- Touch-sensitive controls
- Proximity sensor for auto turn-off
- Swype text input
SOUND Alert types Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
Speakerphone Yes
- 3.5 mm audio jack
MEMORY Phonebook Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
Call records Practically unlimited
Internal 8 GB/16GB storage, 512 MB RAM, 2GB ROM
Card slot microSD, up to 32GB
DATA GPRS Class 12 (4+1/3+2/2+3/1+4 slots), 32 – 48 kbps
EDGE Class 12
3G HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps
WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n; DLNA
Bluetooth Yes, v3.0 with A2DP
Infrared port No
USB Yes, v2.0 microUSB
CAMERA Primary 5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus
Features Geo-tagging, touch focus, face and smile detection
Video Yes, 720p@30fps
Secondary Yes, VGA
FEATURES OS Android OS, v2.1 (Eclair)
CPU ARM Cortex A8 1GHz processor
Messaging SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM, RSS
Browser HTML
Radio Stereo FM radio with RDS
Games Yes
Colors Black and Grey
GPS Yes, with A-GPS support
Java Via third party application
- Social networking integration
- Digital compass
- MP4/DivX/WMV/H.264/H.263 player
- MP3/WAV/eAAC+/AC3/FLAC player
- TV-out
- Organizer
- Image/video editor
- Document editor (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF)
- Google Search, Maps, Gmail,
YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Picasa integration
- Flash Lite v3.1
- Voice memo/dial/commands
- T9
BATTERY Standard battery, Li-Po 1500 mAh
Stand-by Up to 750 h (2G) / Up to 576 h (3G)
Talk time Up to 13 h 30 min (2G) / Up to 6 h 30 min (3G)
MISC SAR EU 0.24 W/kg (head)

Some things may change on the phone which is dependent on the country and provider you get your phone from, here in the UK, the phone comes with Googles Android 2.1 as standard with the update to Froyo due near the end of September, (I am currently using an early version of Froyo, and its looking very promising).

I have had this phone for about 4 to 5 weeks and have been giving it plenty of playing with, this is my 4th Android phone and by far the best I have used.

The TouchWiz interface does take a bit of getting used to, but on the hole, its a decent interface, I find the phone very fast to react to my touch and the amount of things that the unit can do is nothing short of amazing. The only thing I originally was a bit skeptical about was the camera, (I’m used to a flash), but found that this didn’t present any problems and infact was very very good when taking pictures in the evening. The fact that the zoom is on the volume which when holding the phone as a camera, is actually underneath on the left hand side (I had been using the camera for awhile and thinking that this was really the only thing missing, which I thought was a bit daft), but it seems a bit more RTFM, would have sorted this out… LOL

These were taken without changing any phone settings, I will be playing around more over the next few weeks, I have staying in Buxton during the first week of September and so will be playing with the hd video recording feature then.

But to put it into perspective, I used the 1.5 version that came with phone, and can tell you that it was not without problems.

Various force closes, dropped calls and very sluggish. So is it worth updating to the beta, well for me the answer is yes. Smoother performance, nicer look and feel, quicker response in most programs and just so much nicer to look at, the addition of easier to use key press helps too.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aSbKvm_mKA

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb-eLJsMFwQ

Some even allow you to drag and drop the image or file directly into the email.

email attach – play on windows pc, etc
email attach – played on mac

My car has gone for a new clutch, poor thing, it struggled but still kept going, the work is due to be carried out on Monday 12th, so I have been doing the very early trek to the train etc, I’m just pleased that the weather held, lovely sunny mornings and dry evenings.

There appears to have been quite alot of down time with this server, so Chris is working on getting the site to a new server and at the same time, totally upgrading my sites back and front end, so please bare with me while the work is being done.

Hope you have a nice relaxed weekend, enjoy the sun while you can