Mobile phones & tablets thread

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Originally Posted by henners88

With smartphone preferences being so different from person to person, my advice would be to anybody to go into a phone shop and have a good play with the top phones and see which one they like the best. They are all so close at the top end I think any of them will stand up to the job personally.

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Can you realistically look through 20 smartphones in a showroom though? Yeah sure, if you wanna get a feel of the interface, it's all good, but what if you wanna know more about the features? Half of the "experts" in those phone showrooms can only tell you the most basic of things, which most of the times are affected by personal bias.

IMO articles like those, with detailed info, video reviews, comparisons etc. are a great help for people wanting to know a bit more about their next purchase.

In the end none of these reviews will sway anybody's opinion to a great extent, it's just extra information. If somebody's heart is set on buying a turd, they will ultimately buy that turd.

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Originally Posted by pino

Thanks I will try that although your link doesn't work ;)

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Eh? Works here. Try this one then: http://www.samsung.com/my/support/us...tware/KIES/JSP

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Originally Posted by CaptainRaiden

Can you realistically look through 20 smartphones in a showroom though? Yeah sure, if you wanna get a feel of the interface, it's all good, but what if you wanna know more about the features? Half of the "experts" in those phone showrooms can only tell you the most basic of things, which most of the times are affected by personal bias.

IMO articles like those, with detailed info, video reviews, comparisons etc. are a great help for people wanting to know a bit more about their next purchase.

In the end none of these reviews will sway anybody's opinion to a great extent, it's just extra information. If somebody's heart is set on buying a turd, they will ultimately buy that turd.

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Imo articles like the one you linked to on techradar as well as price/product comparison sites like the Swedish site Prisjakt.nu
is a very good first step to narrow down the selection to maybe 3-5 phones that you can try out at the local store.


Btw found an article at the Guardian.co.uk about a French woman who received a quite large phone bill when she terminated her phone account.

The French phone operator had sent her a bill for the small amount of €11,721,000,000,000,000 which is 1 billion millions. or 11,72 Quadrillions (Billiard/Biljard)
for some parts of Europe). the actual correct size of her debt was 117 Euros. French phone company rings up a bill of

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Originally Posted by CaptainRaiden

Looks like a Galaxy S3 on steroids. It's got solid reviews, but I never really got the point of the note. It's too big to be a phone and too small to be a tablet. I'm surprised Samsung sold as many units as they did of the first Note.

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Looks like it doesn't need you to understand its use in order to be a hit. ;)

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Originally Posted by pino

Help needed from all Samsung users : How do I transfer photos from a Samsung S Advance to a PC ? I've tried to help my brother in law but can only transfer 2 out of more than 500 pics he has on his mobile :s Thanks in advance and greetings from Sanremo :D

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Stop thinking like an iPhone user it will make everything simple! :p ;)
You don't need iTunes, just a USB cable.

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Originally Posted by BleAivano

Btw found an article at the Guardian.co.uk about a French woman who received a quite large phone bill when she terminated her phone account.

The French phone operator had sent her a bill for the small amount of €11,721,000,000,000,000 which is 1 billion millions. or 11,72 Quadrillions (Billiard/Biljard)
for some parts of Europe). the actual correct size of her debt was 117 Euros. French phone company rings up a bill of

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I bet her bank account manager had a heart attack when she/he tried to read the sum the first time! :D

Can I watch subtitled films on tablets ie. support .srt files?

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Originally Posted by wedge

Can I watch subtitled films on tablets ie. support .srt files?

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yes. For android there are several srt compatible media players. Most likely the same goes for ios tablets.

Top 5 Video Player apps for Android Mobile Phone and Tablet in 2011 - Android Circle
http://pinappu.hubpages.com/hub/10-B...-for-Free-2012
Choosing the Best Video Player for Your Device | Android.AppStorm

Apologies for diverting from the current riveting line of conversation, but I have a somewhat daft question for which I assume a response is readily available in this thread...

Can an Apple device (e.g. iPhone) be used as a wifi hotspot router for a non-Apple device (e.g. Samsung tablet)? In other words, can I tether a Samsung tablet to an Apple device :?:

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Originally Posted by BleAivano

Imo articles like the one you linked to on techradar as well as price/product comparison sites like the Swedish site Prisjakt.nu
is a very good first step to narrow down the selection to maybe 3-5 phones that you can try out at the local store.

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Couldn't agree more. :up: