My first impression of the Samsung: stylish packaging, attractive appearance. Well, there may be fancier cell phones, the iPhone is for sure of a slimmer shape. But in my opinion there are more important things in a technical device than the exterior.

Samsung Galaxy I7500
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Technology

Namely the technical details. And they seem to be right here: the Samsung offers a lot of features that I would not have expected from a device in this price range. For example, three screens for storing a large number of apps and data.

Or a display that rotates when the phone is tilted sideways - which is absolutely great if you sometimes fast what wants to write. Downloading and installing apps is also quick and easy. A switcher ensures that connections such as WLAN can be switched on and off quickly.

Apps

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Admittedly, some programs have to be installed, sometimes for a fee, to install: The operating system Android 1.5 comes quite naked therefore without Office program such as Windows But the integration in Google but offers the inestimable advantage of synchronizing with the address and calendar data from Google and the eMails does not have to be tedious: everything is right there and automatically runs in the background. Only those who do not want to leave their data to the data octopus google, probably had bad luck. By the way: I'll write more about data synchronization later.

But overall, I'm really impressed by the touch screen and the functionality of the apps (probably because it is my first smartphone newer Bauar). For example, the Rail-Navigator of the Deutsche Bahn, which shows me the connections of the public transport: Here connections can be found quickly and easily with a few fingertips and then save as favorites - and as such again immediately offline. With older devices, it was necessary to first navigate the external memory card.

architecture

The architecture is also well thought out: on the left a volume control, on the right one the button for unlocking the display and the photo button. Below the display are the keys for on / off, return, menu and the telephone. Say: Everything you need in daily use, is within reach, more buttons are not necessary.

A really big advantage: the cell phone has a normal 3.5 inch headphone jack. Other devices - the Palm Pre, the Iphone, also my Treo from last year and also my old Qtek have sockets that can only be connected with a special headset or headphones from the manufacturerCompany let use. Or only with a special adapter, which only costs a few euros, but makes handling complicated again. Qtek didn't even have that, at least not in Stero, because the polarity was special.

Thankfully, Samsung has given up this money-making scheme and installed the right socket right away, hooray. I finally have an MP-3 player for on the go again. This function is indispensable for me because I don't have any Lust have to carry something around with me in addition to the mobile phone and maybe the netbook.

Problem battery cover!

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Of course, the Samsung also has a few disadvantages - and I notice the first one straight away before I can even use the device: the battery cover. It's so tight that I have to try it out for a while before I can solve it. Half an hour and three broken fingernails later clearthat it can only be done with brute force.

So I take a kitchen knife to help and get the lid with a slight force, but apparently without further blemishes. Unfortunately, sitting under the battery, as on almost every phone Simcard and the memory card sits.

I wonder why it has to be? In any case, a quick change of the Simcard is out of the question and I'm also curious how long the battery cover will last? In the end it will be three full days. And you can see the first real disadvantages of Samsung or manufacturer support. It would have been too nice ...

A cell phone for Linux?

I am a Linuxfan. At least on my right, big computer I have Ubuntu Linux. And I also like it because you can build relatively well: For example because you find in corresponding, very well structured forums and wikis always the appropriate instructions.

This takes time, but has the advantage that you are not forced to slavishly follow the path specified by the software or hardware manufacturer. Because often enough I have exactly this impression with other operating systems: That manufacturers customers want to force exactly in one direction, instead of worrying about theirs needs take care of. It's different with open source software: It's “open” as the name suggests, software to participate. That's the nice thing about it.

Android - an open system!

Exactly for the reason I had looked at Android as an operating system. Android is a Linux-based operating system. Open. And thus, so my idea, there are probably countless possibilities, the mobile phone with various updates even better. For example, with a more recent version of the operating system. So my idea.

The reality looks a little different unfortunately. Android 2.1 is now on the market - Android 1.5 seems a bit outdated. Even though I did not notice any big disadvantages at first glance, you still want to have the best and latest update - if you already have a new cell phone.

No official update

On the official pages of Samsung or o2 is to the topic unfortunately nothing. There remains only the search for test reports and forensic entries. However, it is advisable to take a close look and pay particular attention to the date.

The information in Internet read at least after a day(!) of wild googling like a game of daisies: Samsung is planning an update - there isn't one - O2 has promised an update - the update will come in October - November - January 1st - in the first quarter of 2010 - yes that's over now - isn't it? And where is the update now?

Big drawback: The included PC software

Supposedly, the update of the operating system to work with the software included with the software New PC Suite. However, this is a real joke in several ways: it only works with Windows. Yes, hello, for me it was the real big joke on the Android phone that I hoped I would finally not need a Windows PC to connect the phone to my computer.

And does not work with any Windows. In any case, I am trying to install the resource-consuming PC program several hours. On my Windows XP partition is also with 500 MB not enough disk space - and to install an update and then later a few data from the PC to the mobile phone to paddle. And on my Nookia netbook running with Windows 7, it does not quite work.

Although I succeed in trying to install the bulky thing in compatibility mode (I also got that from a forum, because the manual doesn't say anything like that), it doesn't even want to run, let alone the cell phone and the matching one Find updates.Because productive, but still mobile and free work - these are the keywords of the new Working world. However, you also need functional hardware for this.

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My Swiss pocket knife

For me, a mobile phone is something like an electronic Swiss army knife for my handbag: small, practical light – but I still want to be prepared for every situation feel:

Regardless of whether I want to take a quick look at the next S-Bahn or where a restaurant is nearby, I can take notes, capture O-tones or take snapshots. Listening to music and reading e-books I want on the road, of course. Because: I simply would not have to carry a device with me for every function.

The test candidate

After testing the Nokia netbook, this time it's a smartphone: the Samsung Galaxy I7500. The trial period lasts three months. Again, I can keep the device after the test is over.

To put it bluntly: so far I found them Technology smartphones are not yet mature enough for my needs and have therefore never really been satisfied. I am therefore very excited about the Samsung Galaxy.

Technische Merkmale

The device comes with the following features:

What is my test?

As with the Nookia Booklet 3 G, the test primarily focuses on the practicability in the Everyday life go: Does the device really make my life easier or does it also mean a lot of extra work? Does it work where I need it? An important factor: What about the battery life when I use the Internet, make calls, listen to music?

And what is ultimately more practical: a netbook or a mobile phone? What do you take with you? And how does the interplay of the two devices - eg if you want to use the smartphone as a modem. Or can a mobile phone replace a netbook?

My comparisons

So far, I have used as a cell phone a fairly old carrot, a Qtek 9090, its fans also known as Blue Angel.

After last year I had a Palm Treo 500 with Windows Mobile 6, my skepticism about new-fashionable smartphones of the lower price class (around the 200 Euro) was great:

Because the many Features (Maps, timetables) only work online here. Nothing actually worked with the Palm Treo without an Internet connection – which can become an expensive problem when you are abroad at the latest. For example, the Treo does not have rudimentary word processing functions such as a copy and paste function.

Even though I may use a flatrate for the Samsung Galaxy trial period for free: I will pay particular attention to the offline functions when testing out of this bad experience.

I then went back to my old Qtek that, although a fairly large bone was, but also many functions offline. Practically, I also found that the SD card was simply plugged in without first having to take out the battery awkward. Something facilitates the exchange of data with the PC, anyway a constant problem with smartphones, but considerably.

Say: I was always surprised how much such a 5 years old smartphone could - a proof that newer inevitably has to be better.

Advantage on-screen keyboard

And its special advantage for me was just its size: on the screen, the keys of the SPB screen keyboard, which I had installed later, were so large that you could comfortably even longer texts with the thumbs.

At least since then I swear by the practicality of an on-screen keyboard, which in my opinion is much faster and better to use on a cell phone than a “real” keyboard - even if the latter is often highlighted as an advantage of cell phones like the Palm Pre. I would be happy to save the additional weight and the larger width caused by the slider.

The big disadvantage of a proper keyboard is for me namely that the same is too far from the screen, in order to tap decently on it. I find more convenient when the typed words appear directly above the keyboard.

However: I am skeptical, whether the smaller displays the tap as comfortable as on the Qutek. Well, for that I now have my netbook.

Why a change was urgently needed

And changing the smartphone was urgently needed, because the old carrot had some crucial disadvantages: it was just too slow. Wi-Fi was poorly recognized. It was just too cumbersome to get the pen out every time to quickly look up an address or an appointment (yes, my reader will already suspect that a device with a pen would not fit into my bag, er, bag).

In addition, some Windows Mobile programs could only be installed via the connection to the PC with Windows(!). This is a real problem if, like me, you don't have Windows but a Mac or Linux. For this reason, I was forced to maintain an extra Windows partition on my computer - a circumstance to which I refer in Future would like to give up.

But the biggest problem: Windows Mobile 2003 had the fatal error of producing a hard reset every time the battery ran out, which deleted all the data on the cell phone. Needless to say, the battery life wasn't particularly long either. Yes, not even a well-functioning backup program that should restore all data brought that Solution: The passwords had to be returned from all Hand .

Android

In short: Even if I was very attached to the Qtek: It was urgently time for a change. And now a Samsung Galaxy. But the update of a new operating system has to be easier than described yesterday: It also works: With the help of the Odin software, which can be found on the Internet. There are still pitfalls!

The appropriate update

Because where do I get the update from now? And do the parts work at all? Won't my cell phone be scrap afterwards? Ask about questions that only trying out can answer! And boldly I do the test.

The first problem is actually finding a suitable update. In the end there are three different operating system files that I can google. Apparently, according to various forum posts, there are so many .. But where are they?

After a lot of Google effort, I finally found some tips on everything to do with cell phones - including the download of the Android upgrade to 1.6 and a link to a very good, pretty foolproof manual.

Android 2.0 on the Samsung Galxy?

I follow the instructions immediately - and another update. Because actually I would like to have the latest or quasi-newest Android version on the phone. But I do not really have any idea what that is, what I want to play on my phone, or who actually made it available.

Since in the various forums again and again from an official update the Rede is that Samsung or o2 have provided, one can hope that this is the case. But you can't really get through all the forum posts!

Reset !!!

Apparently, with the official update on 2.0 was a fallacy. After the first try, the mobile phone starts as usual, but somehow it looks different now. Other background image, the practical Switcher is missing and otherwise it shows the reactivity of a very old device. Reset, Back to start. Only where?

After some searching around, I find the option “Reset to factory settings” under Settings> Handyinfo and I want to be happy. But once again the cell phone is not the same as before: The practical switcher is still missing, even if the cell phone reacts quickly as usual.

Update missing!

But something else bothers me: In various forums I complained about the fact that the battery life is so extremely short - and that an update of 02 this bug should fix. Exactly this update is now missing to me clearly. But from where?

One would assume that o2 could provide something like this on their website. think. So I turn to Flexibles Office who forward the request directly to the marketing department. Anyway, Evelyn Hauptkorn from the marketing department: tries to help me the same evening, two days before Easter. And yet in the end I end up in the service desert of Germany, where the normal OttoCustomer probably would have gone the same way.!!!

Caught in the service desert

No matter how exciting a product may be, what good is it if the bad customer service increases the enjoyment of the product? To honor the salvation of o2 is said: Elsewhere it is not better. But is that an argument?

I have to Honestly say that Eveline Hauptkorn from the marketing department really went out of her way to help me: two phone calls to me and the service hotline at the same time - after 20 p.m. in the evening, clarification attempts from annoyed o2 shop employees and finally two replacement parts sent , or devices. Thank you really at this point!

As a customer without a chance

However: the Otto normal customer unfortunately doesn't have a nice one Ms. Hauptkorn, but only the service hotline and the shopEmployees.

Bestseller author Umberto Eco wrote once in an essay, he hated to take abbreviations (to then write immediately that he took them). Unfortunately, I had no other choice: The problem is that I am not a genuine o2 customer, therefore, no customer number and no personal key figure, which is the customer service hopelessly overwhelmed.

In the end, we are all just ordinary customers!

In the end, however, this did not make any difference. Because the customer service twice tries to send me the update via SMS (whatever that should go) which does not work. And then send me quickly to the next o2 shop, which is fortunately just around the corner.

The nice gentleman there is however quite overstrained. He can start with the terms I have from the forums, flash, rome and update very little and needs 10 minutes until he understands what I'm doing: therefore, to re-launch a new operating system. You can not do that here, just somewhere else, where there is also a technical department.

The o2 shop needs a service update

Not without grumbling, because I want to re-record my phone before Easter, so I'm on my way to Berlin Rheinicken village to a store that distributes not only mobile phones but also alarm systems and apparently acts as a service partner of o2.

Before that I called specially and asked how long it would take to install the update and also explained what I would like, namely the cell phone in the state in which it comes from O2. I was accommodated in terms of time: Originally they wanted to take 2 hours for the update, now they have promised to help me in one hour. At least.

Actually everything is as before

I pick up the device again, turn it on cheerfully - and everything is as before, namely reset to factory settings. In the shop, the friendly gentleman explains to me that the flash software to install the device is broken and therefore the update could not be installed. One turned to o2 for clarification….

Instead, you reset the device to factory settings and thought that was what I originally wanted. Or something like that.

I then ask kindly if I can not have the software to play it (with Odin) .. first stuttered me the Lord what from binary files, then he finds a better excuse, namely, that he can not give the software ,

I'm not sure if he has ever understood what I wanted - to put the phone back into the state, as I got it from o2. Goodbye I do not say better.

Let us summarize again:

The only consolation left for me is that the last store that featured such poor customer service is now bankrupt. It's also sad that the Communication within the company o2 is as miserable as in many others, by the way Companys also - confusion is thanks!

Tip on the edge

Too bad there are no official support forums with reliable information about the Samsung Galaxy. So I'm wondering why Samsung and also o2, who at least want to sell the device, didn't gather this in forums Background take advantage and bundle it on official sites, for example, instead of pursuing such a miserable information policy?

So for a few weeks I had two Samsung Galaxy phones at the same time: one with Android 1.5 and one with Android 1.6. One of them sent back to o2 last week. A performance comparison test.

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Why a double test?

Reason for the double test: After an unsuccessful attempt with the o2 update, I couldn't think of anything better than asking for a new Samsung Galaxy. Ms. Hauptkorn from the o2-Marketing also ordered by return mail. And because there was nothing more to break on the old device, I simply flashed it again with Android 1.6.

With Success. But since the battery cover on the Galaxy after the SALE with the knife no longer closed properly (even a replacement battery cover didn't help!) I left it at the new order without further ado. And therefore had the pleasure of testing both operating systems at the same time.

Android 1.6 on the Galaxy

The interface is identical, the App-Market looks a bit more chic and there is a speech recognition, which I have however just not yet understood. Apparently, there are still a few features that are explained below in the video, but there is, as the Google search on the start screen, synonymous under Android 1.5.

Otherwise, I am not clear what should be the newer Android version really better. On the contrary, there is a really big drawback: the programs crash constantly and must be restarted. This could be due to the fact that I have only an unofficial version of Android 1.6, because there is unfortunately no official version.

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Android 1.5 on the Galaxy

Android 1.5 is completely different: Apart from occasional crashes, there is no functional impairment here. Otherwise I can not find any disadvantages. Well, there is no speech recognition. However, I just heard yesterday that even on the latest cell phones it only works in English ... so speech recognition under Android 1.6 cannot really be the best.

The update of o2 really improves the battery life compared to Android 1.6. Also the Switcher is extremely practical, because I can quasi with a thumb pressure the electricity-eating Internet connections.

Only the argument with the apps could convince me: Possibly, the shortly newer programs no longer work on the Galaxy, because they are simply to new for the old operating system. However, I had not so far this problem. And honestly, if my device works as I imagine it - why should I then always want to try the very latest apps? And why should I be willing to install a worse operating system that constantly crashes.

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Well built with small defects

The design of the Samsung Galaxy appealed to me right from the start: the most necessary buttons are on the side and under the display. It also appears to be stable, as several falls show. If only the battery cover weren't ...

Super-chic, the Galaxy is not - but the more practical. Under the display, the speed dial buttons to call, answer calls, turn off and OK - and of course for the user menu. The latter, I first desperately searched for various programs and it took a long time until the penny fell (of course, I never read the operating instructions in principle).

I was used to Windows Mobile that the menu button is integrated somewhere on the screen. It is somehow much more practical - but of course somehow unusual and even after more than two months I sometimes have to remember that there is still a menu for the program. And I can't really tell the call and menu buttons apart ...

Easy to use, good image quality!

What I like: On the side of the practical button for the camera. Under Android 1.6 you could also record videos here, the integrated function is missing on Android 1.5 unfortunately. For this I have integrated a zoom function with the App Camera Zoom. Even otherwise, the integrated 5 Mega Pixel Camera works to my utmost satisfaction:

On the Amalfi coast I have made excellent pictures from the moving bus; anyone who has ever been there knows that this is not so easy with the bends, the traffic and through you disc. But the handling of this was, just because of the usabilety with only one hand and especially the shutter speed much better than my normal camera, which is no longer quite the latest model.

Security - a little too much of a good thing

Above the camera head is the button for locking / unlocking the display, which for my taste unfortunately has a much too long reaction time: You have to press half a minute until the display is unlocked. I have now set that the display is only blocked after two minutes - everything else makes the cell phone almost unused.

By the way, you have to re-enter the pin each time the device is switched on. At first glance, this may be practical as theft protection, so I have deactivated the function so far. At second glance, it only lasts as long Sinnhow I lost my cell phone when it was switched off. If the cell phone is on, any thief can immediately enter the pin number. change according to his taste and that's it.

The trouble with the Akkudeckel

But what annoys me a lot more: The Akkudeckel simply will not sit. I have so far two mobile phones with three Akkudeckeln tried (which was also a reason for the exchange) - nothing helps. The fact is: On my mobile phone the lid sits perfectly - if the battery is not inserted. This is, of course, also obvious for obvious reasons.

Once the battery is inserted, there is no crater on the left side over the entire length of the cell phone, but there is a gap ... This is great, dust, dirt and sand can be found (if you do sit on the beach) penetrate well into the cell phone. And not only that: I already dropped the part because the battery cover came off when I wanted to take a picture. I just think of sticking a strip of Thesa film over it. Is it just me who has this strange problem?

Stable and fall-proof

After all, there are really positive things to report: the Galaxy seems to be stable. Unfortunately, I have already several times fallen down, last in full ride on the bike from the pants pocket slipped, while the Akkudeckel and the battery jumped. Blesuren seems the device but none to have carried, it functions as before, yes has not even scratches. And the problem with the battery cover - that already existed already!

The Combination Samsung Galaxy + Android 1.5 + o2 update works better than Android 1.6. I can't say it often enough: o2 once created a really useful update for its customers.

The Samsung Galaxy is priced, in comparison to other smartphones, good in the race, but comes with the old Android 1. What disturbs me however far more is the battery. For my taste is too fast!

When does the cell phone come with solar cells?

Experience: How long does the battery last?

The battery problem unfortunately have the most smartphones. When I look at it, I find the battery of my Nokia netbook, which is loose for the whole day or even longer, once again twice as good. Also the Samsung Galaxy is unfortunately no exception. When are the first cell phones with solar cells?

I was especially painfully aware of this during my last holiday - and at the Eurovision Song Contest: On vacation, I have, as one does so, called from home on the way. Then on the Amalfi Coast hundreds of photos were shot from the moving bus, because the memory cards to my camera were both full and the mobile phone camera reacted much faster than the lame camera. The 5 mega-pixel photos can really be seen.

In the evening I was in constant panic, the bus to miss, because the battery was of course empty and I had no choice but to leave the Galaxy off. I then often times simply asked for the time.

Accumulator GPS, Internet and social media

But what would have happened if I had, for example, still wandered, as I had planned, using the GPS function? What if I would have tasted the horny landscape during the bus ride with Italian music via headphones?

And what, if I belonged to the type of workaholics who are not on vacation on the beautiful beach of Positano eMails could leave – exactly the people with whom cell phone network operators Money to earn? Then I would have stupidly used up at least two batteries.

No permanent communication with the Samsung Galaxy

At the Eurovision Song Contest, I had the phone charged for half an hour before - but probably not fully loaded. Until the appearance of Lena, I was able to mittwittern then - then the battery was empty. I would like to have the points and the victory also like to get on Twitter. Too stupid, too!

But fun on the side: Even if you are not on vacation or other special occasions, I feel the battery as a real disaster.

After all, like all smartphones, the Samsung Galaxy is designed to use the mobile Internet. But that is exactly what partially drains the battery faster than you can say "beep". Anyone who wants to make a few business calls while on the move will quickly look very old. It doesn't help to switch down the screen brightness or switch off in between.

How to save electricity?

Only those who use the mobile phone, as I occasionally, for MP3 or E-Books, notes or as an address book and telephone, Internet and GPS only occasionally, comes well over the rounds. Also MP3 can be easily heard a half day,

The mobile phone network operator, for me is a smooth argument against Flatrates of any kind: Even if the o2 in the cheapest variant is already a mobile flat rate for 8,50 Euro (but only with a mobile phone tariff), I ask two and a half months test phase fixed: Why should I pay if I can not use the flat rate then but not to the desired extent - among other things because these leave the battery too fast?

Mobile handbag navigation

One of the most important arguments for a smartphone for me was the possibility of using it as a mobile handbag navigation system. For example with Google Maps. Or one of the many Alternatives. GPS is included. Unfortunately, the practice is different.

Especially the Idea I found it extremely good to always have a mobile city map in the form of Google with me, since I only moved to Berlin a few months ago. We've discussed in detail here why it doesn't work with my Nokia netbook, for example, and what alternatives there are. So now my attempt with the mobile phone.

Ask instead of navigate

The disappointment therefore followed: The data connection failed when it was first used. And that in the middle of Berlin-Mitte. I had spontaneously made a business appointment via Twitter and was therefore in a hurry to run out of the house without first figuring out the location on the computer - with the thought: on the way you look on the train where you actually have to go, the cell phone thanks ... and exactly that didn't work.

Google Maps

So I had to ask someone on the street (fortunately I had a rough idea of ​​the direction) - and of course he joked when he saw me frantically hustling around on the Galaxy: "Well, all the modern parts don't really work that well, How? But, for example, you can also have real luck People questions."

Maps Offline and Free

It is precisely at such moments that you wish that Google Maps would also work offline. Well, at least in a similar situation you can do that next time Objective search beforehand and then retrieve the search result, which is stored in the cache, offline.

In all other situations, there is Map-Droid: This is a free program app, which allows you to download all maps on mobile phones at a relatively quick rate - and they are always available offline. Yes, the program even searches for updates. In this respect, this is the best free offline navigation aid I've ever tried, really awesome (and I've tried a lot of mobile phones, because OpenStream Map has a lot of programs to download offline maps, but the use of which is incomparably more complicated)

For makers of MapDroid so my heartiest congratulations, what a super program. It would be even better if the maps were somewhat more accurate and the whole search function. The latter is indeed the big point, because the app is nothing more than a city map on the mobile phone, where one must already know about where to go and then look for an eye.

GPS

Although the Samsung even GPS - just a year ago this was completely unthinkable in this price class - and MapDroid even works with GPS. But unfortunately, the GPS positioning is anything but exactly: How stupid, that I unfortunately have to know exactly where I am and not a location three block blocks to get further indicated.

This isn't her Debt from MapDroid: During a first test of the GPS function with Google Maps, I went for a walk at the Wannsee: While Google location determination showed me my exact location, the GPS transplanted me to the middle of the Wansee... and that in the dead of winter, brrr... To go hiking the GPS is therefore completely unsuitable. Quite apart from the fact that the GPS solution is the biggest power/battery guzzler of all, because the battery was practically empty after just one hour.

Conclusion: Still improving

My personal conclusion: Google Maps is among the free navigation solutions still the number. Only offline it does not exist. Nokia maps could help here: For Windows Mobile there is the free program Smart2go - but unfortunately not for Android. MapDroid is just downloading and updating the map material the most practical at all - but unfortunately without a search. Stay only paid solutions, such as the mobile city plans of the company envi.con, which has me because of the resolution and the lack of updability never really convinced. And all solutions feed on the battery.

So who is surprised that I still carry various Falk city maps around with me in addition to my cell phone? Admittedly, their folding is not quite my thing (I prefer to have everything in front of me at a glance), the search in the register is also impractical, they are not always up to date (especially in Berlin this can be a problem ...) and with Rain and in the dark it will be difficult ... but at least this is a safe number when it comes to the battery. So that I can switch over completely, something has to be done!

Update: Markus Fabri just pointed me out on Telmap via Twitter. This is navigation software that o2 has recently been providing for its customers free of charge. Well, it's not completely free, because as I can see from the comments on the blog: Apparently you can only access the map material with an O2 data connection, not download it offline for free. This is of course just as pointless as google. But I can no longer try it out because the CO2 test period has ended.

Conclusion after 3 months of testing

I tested the Samsung Galaxy i7500 for three months, together with a data and telephone flat rate from o It can do everything a smartphone should be able to do, with minor structural defects. And, contrary to popular belief, it can be done Opinions also use it offline without a data flat rate.

mobile-office

What does a mobile phone really need?

The disadvantage of Android as the operating system: It comes quite naked and therefore you have to install everything for a high-performance use.

Only the basics are already there. But actually that's not so bad - after all, every Jeck is different and each smartphone is adapted to the needs of its user in the uses.

The office function at a glance

Therefore, finally, for me the most important function of the whole smartphone: The use as a mobile office. Clear, calendar function, contacts, eMails. But I need the little guy for more: for example, to read PDFs and to write notes - password management and data transfer included.

Above all else, my cell phone should be able to do one thing: manage calendar and contacts. View timetables and city maps, read and edit Office documents, PDFs and EbookReading s, checking emails and maybe a few more social media applications - in that order! I say this so explicitly because I am hardly interested in the numerous social media applications that are already implemented in many smartphones.

Contact, calendar and eMails sync with Google

The Google features are not a problem, just enter your username and password and the contacts, eMails and appointments from Google on the phone. The disadvantage: Who does not want to entrust his sensitive data to the data octopus, is probably in the fix. Surely there is some other way to go around google - I just did not test it and it probably will not work that easily.

I've been synchronizing my cell phone data from Linux and Thunderbird with Google for over a year. Because even with my old Windows Mobile phone, as a Linux user, I always had the biggest problems right here Problems. For the Google calendar, I use the Thunderbird addon Lightening and a special Google calendar plugin - the calendar entries from my desktop are automatically sent to Google and my mobile phone. The Thunderbird addon Zindus is used for the address book - and with it Thunderbird can be compared with the Google address book just as easily. I use imap for emails. Only for them Tasks I haven't found anything yet, but you can also enter them in the calendar right away.

passwords

There is also an ingenious program, which saves me a lot of effort: Keepass. This is my Passwordsafe, which works both on Linux as well as under Windows and the Nokia netbook and also under Android on the mobile phone. The one or the other unsafe, but for the work on different devices it is essential for me to have my passwords always encrypted - otherwise I am experienced insane.

Data transfer Galaxy PC via FTP

I've already told you how I did Contact – and compare calendar data between mobile phone and PC. But how come the rest of the data (music, Ebooks etc.) actually on the cell phone? And, as a journalist, not entirely unimportant: Can I write texts with the part?

Getting the data transfer was admittedly not that easy: I spent a long time figuring out how I should store files - photos, music, but also Ebooks or simply exchange .doc files with the mobile phone. The supplied PC software from Samsung is, as already described here, a complete catastrophe - no matter which of the operating systems I tested. Since it didn't work with the cable, another solution had to be found: Via the Internet. E.g. via FTP.

If you know what you have to look for, you can quickly find the solution: The free app SwiFTP makes a mobile phone (on request, password-encrypted) FTP server. You simply transfer the data from the really easy-to-use program into an FTP program - and then you can easily play and run data. However only with WLAN connection for the mobile phone - but the actually has everyone.

Read PDFs and e-books

In this way I can play my entire music collection, for example, or my e-book library. While a practical MP3 player is already integrated, I need an extra program for the latter. Although Documents-to-go, the mE Best Office program for Android, with which one can read and edit all types of Office files (Word, Excel, Powerpoint); even a PDF reader is integrated. The PDF files are exactly what I hated on my old mobile phone: The PDF files are simply displayed, you can zoom them on a decent font size, but then you have to scroll left to read from left , Although there are ways to convert PDF files to other, readable formats on the PC - but make the times with 3 GB to e-books.

The app BeamReader solves this problem: can textView option you look at just the typeface of the file to display - and the PDF is for practical e-book, the lines are no matter what font size to wrap on the right side and you can PDF read like an e-book. After that I've been looking for quite a long time.

Writing on the galaxy

What I find initially very difficult is typing on the phone: Even in landscape mode with a rotating display I find the keys too small, I always type the wrong letters and I'm not as fast as on my old Qtek 9090 with a larger screen. The software BetterKeyboard and all real keyboards do not change the pressure points.

Also annoying is that you often have to produce special characters long by long pressure of certain keys. In my opinion there would also have been room for the special drawing tapestry: after all, umlauts and, especially, ß are often used, but signs like ¢ but rather rarely. On the other hand, autocomplete: the words are displayed between the keyboard and the text field, rather than automatically in the text field itself. Several selection options are offered.

Word on Android: easy annoying!

Extremely strange, I find the fact that the mouse pointer in Word documents back to the beginning of the document when I turn the device. That may be due to Officetogo, it is always annoying. So, if you're writing on longer blog posts like me on the road, it's a good idea not to change your orientation while writing. However, this is impractical if you change your seat in between times - for example when changing from one bus to the other. Then you have to search each time the place in the text again.

The keyboard I'm slow to remember with a good day exercise get used to (when traveling by train, when else do you have so much time), is also the reason why I have not yet used my cell phone as a means of communication in the way I would actually like it to: Admittedly, Facebook Touch and AndTweet (there are also a number of other programs for social media applications) nicely done, but typing even short messages is still quite a mess for me. I recently received one eMail: It took me half an hour to reformulate a few lines and then send them back, which finally failed because of the missing Internet connection.

Conclusion Office features

For the basic functions, the SamsungGalaxy is a really nice, easy-to-use phone with minor build errors. The writing and communication functions could be a little more practicable for my taste, but this is probably just a matter of getting used to the small display of newer smartphones.

When word processing falls negative that the cursor jumps back to the beginning of the text when you rotate the display (and that happens faster than you might like), which makes it extremely difficult to type text quickly on the go.

Conclusion construction

After all, the device is stable, it has survived several crashes. One drawback is that the battery cover was not seated on two test phones from the start - a cell phone that needs to be fixed with Tesafilm just looks less stylish.

Conclusion operating system

I am excited by the Android operating system, the simple data comparison with Google and the many fast-to-use apps. Especially MapDroid could be an ingenious, free offline navigation solution - if there was only one search function.

Apart from the fact that Android 1.5 is now a bit outdated System is, which hasn't bothered me so far, is that the price-performance ratio of the Samsung Galaxy is really right.

Conclusion data connection

The whole pleasure is reduced by the UMTS connection of o2, which simply did not work for me in decisive moments.

Last but not least, by the time I was staying at the Maritim Hotel in Berlin-Mitte during the Webinale: Only with great difficulty did an Internet connection come about.

Conclusion memory

Great is the size of the memory: With memory you can easily and without hooks to write multi-page texts while listening to music. Anything but normal is the 8GB large internal SD card: The almost twice as expensive Palmpre has not so comfortable included memory on board.

Only rausnehmen you can not the internal SD card, which makes the data exchange via FTP required. If you feel like it, you can still upgrade your own SD card to 32 GB.

Overall Conclusion

Despite deficiencies due to it price-performance ratio a recommendable mobile phone!


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