Finish off that, click the back button and VOILA, you are multi tasking heavily. In the middle of anything you are doing, if there is a push email or an sms, you just need to pull down a window on top. Like crazy! Google Maps, Google Talk, Messaging, Google mail, Gallery and Browser are open on it as we speak. ANY number of applications running, and this beefy processor and lean mean OS shines. The Android OS alongwith the STARTLINGLY fast 800 mhz processor, alongwith the 128 mb of RAM (who said that's less?) has NEVER, I repeat, NEVER shown a lag. The background data feature must be turned on for this (yes, android allows you to choose that too) Once Gtalk is on, you have all your friends always connected to you. GTalk: who needs BBM, when there is GTalk. Very convenient, very fast and kicks a BB's ass real bad. The Gmail client on the phone is also very convenient and helps sort mail easily. I get push mail from my Gmail account as fast as it comes, and blackberries are left behind in the speed with which the email comes. BOON: The Push mail feature on the Spica is absolutely UNPARALLELED. You can turn wi fi on and off with the switcher, and the Auto sync part keeps your phone 'quiet' at night and doesn't get push mails. The Switcher application with the phone is also a boon, since GPS, Wi Fi, Bluetooth and Auto Sync are embedded into it. This is a battery saving feature and is appreciated. The phone switches to 3G/EDGE when the screen is turned off, and the Wi Fi comes on when the screen is turned on. I never got more then one bar of Wi Fi in my E Series and my Ipod Touch in the loo, but now I get 3 out of 4 bars with this phone, which is highly convenient. ALSO, of note is the ultra song wi fi antenna. I always have network where my E Series phones gave up. Generally, a phone with so many features would be excused for slightly average (or below, sometimes) call quality/reception/signal strength, but Samsung (and Google) has worked SO hard on this aspect that it has to be complemented. Reception is one thing I would like to complement. Calls: The earpiece on the phone is loud. so on and so forth) seen on Candy bar phones, as I somehow (personally) can type faster with that kind of keyboard. ALSO, I would have also preferred the T9 way of input (ABC on 1, DEF on 2. One thing they haven't addressed is the LAG one sees when in landscape mode with the Android keyboard. You can also store a list of words you use regularly, but are not there in the dictionary, like Indian cuss words which appear just fine when typed, if stored. There is also a good touch response, and the auto correct works very well in the Android Keyboard. Another good feature is how there is a '.com' button on the keyboard when you are in the browser. One is the standard no-frills Android keyboard (which i prefer), the Samsung keyboard (which has added features, but the touch response and the auto correct just do not cut it) and the Hindi Keyboard (which i frankly don't care much about).Ī point to note is that the emoticon button on the standard keyboard is a good added feature and is missed dearly on traditional QWERTY phones. The hardware lock button comes to the rescue, but one wouldn't want to lock his screen every time he picks up a call. HOW, I can't believe!! My chin dials numbers of people I don't want to, while I talk to someone else. Proximity Sensor: Samsung forgot this one. Which can be annoying when you are showing the phone to someone who thinks the iPhone is the holy grail, and the screen response is just perfect till you take it out from the pocket and show it to them. Touch Response: If the iPhone was 10/10, then the Spica can get 8/10, since it's highly responsive, but sometimes it fails to register a touch, maybe one out of 20 times. Standby screen (lock screen) shows time, date, signal strength, 3G strength, wi fi strength, bluetooth status, gps status, operator name and charging status (charging/connect charger/fully charged) CRAZY information in one button press!!! Screen beats that of the iPhone 3GS by a long margin in this. Thus, the TFT on this phone produces blacks in a very convincing manner, and does other colours just fine. Colours are well saturated, with no 'exaggeration' seen in AMOLEDs. I type as I recall, so if it looks like I am rambling, sorry :cool2: In points!ĭon't mind if the order of points is random and haphazard. I am a lazy bugger, hence I write my initial impressions about the Spica here.
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