Apple is looking pretty damn good right now....

[BassKitten]

Grr... (warning - rant mode activated)

So about a week ago, I got a very nice Samsung Galaxy Duos for my birthday. It is generally fairly well behaved... until I turn WiFi on. Then all hell breaks loose. Bombarded with ads, "you have wons," excruciatingly slow to load everything especially music. I know it's not a problem with my internet. My laptop loads everything I need perfectly fine. There's full reception, so I know it's a problem with the device. Naturally I've downloaded a handful of apps which often bogg up even without WiFi on. It frustrates me to no end. I think if you're going to make a device of any kind, it should be able to withstand whatever abuse its owner subjects it to. My crappy old laptop has been dropped countless times and had all asortments of foodstuffs spilled on it and still works fine. My Galaxy was supposed to replace my old iPod Nano 5th gen and little Nokia flip dumphone, both of which served me well for many years and always did their jobs to exceeding standard, before taking their final resting places in my technology graveyard. The Galaxy has given me endless grief... from finding out that its memory was only 2GB when I thought it was going to be 8GB, having to buy an SD card to put all my music on, needing to install all this guff on my desktop just to copy my music across, the stupid bug called SysScope...my point is that it is just so damn SLOW. TO be perfectly honest, if I got to choose between my Galaxy or my old Nokia and a 64GB iPod touch, I would take the Nokia and the touch without hesitation. I guess it doesn't help that my dad despises all things Apple and Mac... but I'm a music person. I don't care about fancy smartphones or being 'cool' or whatever... I just want a nice user friendly place to store my vast collection that won't bogg up or stutter my songs or go into freakout mode whenever I turn WiFi on. If any of you guys know if there's something I'm doing wrong, or an app I should delete or not download, anything to make my Galaxy more bearable would be very greatly appreciated. Thanks for listening to my rant!!
-Frustrated music fan.

 

[Aquila]

I'd recommend dropping whatever adware apps are on that to begin with and for music try out Google Play Music. It can hold 20,000 of your songs, synced automatically from the iTunes folder on your pc and you can pin whichever ones you want to the device and stream all the others.

From what I remember, the Duos is basically a much much cheaper look-alike version of the Galaxy S3 with dual-sim.

For a quality experience that you want to compare to Apple devices, etc. I would recommend a current flagship device, such as the LG Optimus Pro, Nexus 4, Samsung Galaxy S4 or HTC One, etc.

 

[Aquila]

Realizing you got a device as a gift, I'm thinking the "get a flagship" comment might not be immensely helpful. I don't mean your device sucks trade it in for a better one, just that the best experience available is still out there so, while you should definitely try things out and get what suits you, don't write anything off based on one of it's weakest iterations.

 

[iN8ter]

I'd recommend dropping whatever adware apps are on that to begin with and for music try out Google Play Music. It can hold 20,000 of your songs, synced automatically from the iTunes folder on your pc and you can pin whichever ones you want to the device and stream all the others.

From what I remember, the Duos is basically a much much cheaper look-alike version of the Galaxy S3 with dual-sim.

For a quality experience that you want to compare to Apple devices, etc. I would recommend a current flagship device, such as the LG Optimus Pro, Nexus 4, Samsung Galaxy S4 or HTC One, etc.

You need a flagship to get an experience comparable to an iPhone 4 or 4S?

That bring said, my GS2 does not have those issues.

Apple would not allow this type of Adware in their App Store. Google needs to clamp down on that.

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[gollum18]

The adware that comes with those apps is mostly from an api by a company called air push. Developers chose to use them or not, as a means to make money. Google doesn't want to clamp down on developers and set grand restrictions on what they can and cannot do in their apps, like apple does.

Sprint GS3 Running TN's Msg and Chubbs