Recent content by mpnalvin

@WVU There seem to be two schools of thought on application closing. The first is the official Google way, which goes like this: [Begin Google Jedi mind trance] You don't need to close applications. You can trust the android to do it for you. Don't buy Apple. [End Google Jedi mind trance]...

Well, all you can do is try. Maybe phone around a few Sprint stores if you live in a metro area and see if someone will cut you a break.

@chuck Run Settings, then go to About Phone. From there, you can find your PRL under Status, and upgrade it under System Updates.

@maddog Android is perfectly capable of multitasking. The issue that I faced as Pre user was not multitasking, but task switching. On the Pre, everything is a card. New browser windows , for example, are new cards, and you can switch back and forth easily from any other app to any browser...

@kh Some of these answers will necessarily vary depending on personal circumstances. Here are my answers. 1. Call quality is excellent. The speakerphone is much louder than the Pre-. On Saturday I did a road trip with my wife and forgot my 3.5mm cable to hook the phone to the car stereo. We were...

@Kim The numbers Kevin gives are as follows: the "Range" number is the signal strength. Higher numbers are better, so -76 is better than -86. It's also good if a phone has a consistently strong signal. A signal in the -80s is OK. A signal in the -70s is good. The 4G and 3G numbers are about how...

Re: Another Epic FAIL by Samsung just like the Epic 4g?? Hmm... I'm sorry to hear that. My ET is at least 3x faster at loading web pages than my old Pre even on 3G. I wonder if it would be worth re-running the speedtest in the Sprint store to see if your phone is just defective. But if not, the...

@Kim For me, the virtual keyboard is a huge deal. I typed a lot on my Pre. I've tried swype, swift keyboard, stock Android keyboard, Samsung keyboard and others. None of them come anywhere close to having a hardware keyboard in terms of speed or accuracy. The advanced ones, like swype and swift...

GPS lock takes 9-10 secs for me, indoors in my comfy chair :) The led is both a charging light and a notification light. Solid red = charging Solid blue = fully charged Blinking (red or blue) = notification

It looks to be about the same as my Pre- where I live, just outside of Houston. Wifi is also fine so far, a little less than what I get on my laptop, but not a problem. Aww. Sad moment. I've been charging my ET with my Pre USB cord, and my Pre just bonged to let me know it needed some juice...

@tennisfan I just bring up the Google Talk app and it logs me in and gives me a list of contacts. If the contacts have a little camcorder icon next to them, and the icon is green, then they are logged in and you can video chat to them.

@tronthedon My suspicion is that there isn't really the stock available to meet the demand for this phone, but Sprint/Samsung didn't want to leave the launch any later. So I've cancelled my order with Letstalk, and got one this afternoon from the Sprint store. I didn't mind waiting a week to get...

:-! where's the face-palm graphic when I need it?

I didn't do anything special. I did use the take20back code. I noticed when I was checking out that the activation fee was $0. On the other hand, maybe all that means is that Sprint will bill me for it later :) On Wirefly, I did consider them, but after looking at the BBB records for both...

Yeah, I'm looking too. I've seen a few that seem big enough, but usually only by a mm or two. That's not a lot of room for tolerance. I guess I'm not surprised with the Touch being larger than the international version.