So what does every think about the Galaxy Pro S coming to Sprint?

[rinkeedink]

I hope the GALAXY S PRO will let me get the bad taste out of my mouth from the EVO and move on from my PRE. I just returned my EVO due to a crashed Sense launcher that made the phone unusable, and a bad headphone jacket that made it think I had headset attached and wanted to voice dial and voice search for no good reason. Thank God Sprint's website let me reactivate my PRE easily.

Also, the EVO screen was not good enough in bright sunlight. I hope the super amoled will have better luck in direct sunlight. Front facing camera and QWERTY keyboard are attractive. Even the EVO screen was a huge 4.3 inches, I could still type faster and more accurately on my PRE keyboard than the virtual keyboard on the EVO.

Is Touchwiz really as bad as they say in post?

 

[voghan]

There are some CTI videos going over Touchwiz 3 and it doesn't look that bad. I think most people are annoyed when a phone comes with a custom UI. A lot of people complain about Sense on HTC devices but I think it's better than the default UI android ships with.

 

[barrysanders20]

I'm considering it. I bought an Evo. I'm content with it, but will return it if the reviews on this are positive. Samsung's previous support history does concern me a bit.

 

[ConceptVBS]

Is Touchwiz really as bad as they say in post?

Touch Wiz 2.0 and below were HORRIBLE. Many people think that Samsung didnt change anything in 3.0 (current) version. However, they've completely changed the UI from the bottom up. Its very intuitive now.

Have a look at yourself:

YouTube - Samsung TouchWiz 3.0 User Interface (Galaxy S & Wave S8500)

 

[tojoe616]

Touch Wiz 2.0 and below were HORRIBLE. Many people think that Samsung didnt change anything in 3.0 (current) version. However, they've completely changed the UI from the bottom up. Its very intuitive now.

Have a look at yourself:

YouTube - Samsung TouchWiz 3.0 User Interface (Galaxy S & Wave S8500)

Wow, just watched that for the first time. Coming from a HTC Sense phone there are some feature in Touchwiz 3.0 that just look amazing to me. Especially if it runs as smooth as it is shown.

 

[meyerweb#CB]

All I can say is thank god I did not waste my upgrade on the Evo with it's color banding 16bit display. 4.3" screen with a terrible color depth. What were they thinking?

The Samsung has a super clear Active Matrix 16.7 million color display and best of all a keypad. I am so happy

Have you actually USED an EVO? Every single person who's looked at mine is blown away by the screen quality. Even on photos and movies. The Samsung screen may be better, and you can say that without name calling. The EVO screen is far from bad. Why don't you just grow up?

 

[Raf]

Why....why a sliding QWERTY keyboard.....man, a real bummer. That really did it for me.

All other carriers will have the sleeker looking Galaxy S while Sprint with the S Pro get the brick.

 

[sel1965]

The one I played with for a little while just seemed to much like an iphone. That turned me off a little, but the screen is wonderful and I'm sure I will get one when it comes out which probably won't be till September or later. They are just now in the testing phase with the pro. So I will have had my evo for a few months and like I said I will try it out but I don't know if I will keep it. The evo is a keeper though.

 

[J.Steere]

Why....why a sliding QWERTY keyboard.....man, a real bummer. That really did it for me.

All other carriers will have the sleeker looking Galaxy S while Sprint with the S Pro get the brick.

I can't remember where I saw it, but there is also rumors of Sprint supposedly carrying the regular Samsung Galaxy S.... Idk how true though but if they do it seems like they are setting themselves up to gain alot of ground on the android circuit, being able to cater to hw kb & virtual kb fans alike.

 

[Raf]

I can't remember where I saw it, but there is also rumors of Sprint supposedly carrying the regular Samsung Galaxy S.... Idk how true though but if they do it seems like they are setting themselves up to gain alot of ground on the android circuit, being able to cater to hw kb & virtual kb fans alike.

That would be the smart thing to do but don't think Sprint would pony up the cash to have that perk. Who knows though....

 

[boomhower1820]

Why....why a sliding QWERTY keyboard.....man, a real bummer. That really did it for me.

All other carriers will have the sleeker looking Galaxy S while Sprint with the S Pro get the brick.

Because they have the EVO for the touchscreen crowd. This will give them something to compete with the Droid/Droid 2.

Also, the EVO screen was not good enough in bright sunlight.

This will be worse than the EVO in direct sunlight. AMOLED is useless in direct sunlight. S-AMOLED improves that greatly and is usable in direct sunlight but is not as good as an old fashioned LED TFT screen. The upside is better screen quality inside and lower power use due to no back light being needed.

 

[Raf]

Because they have the EVO for the touchscreen crowd. This will give them something to compete with the Droid/Droid 2.

Yeah...I figured that much even as I wrote those concerns.

 

[vor]

Wow, just watched that for the first time. Coming from a HTC Sense phone there are some feature in Touchwiz 3.0 that just look amazing to me. Especially if it runs as smooth as it is shown.

I can't imagine them not stepping up and making it uber user friendly if they expect to capture 10% of the market by year end...

 

[jbern8]

Any chance the Galaxy S pro is the Samsung Intercept that Sprint is due to launch on 7/11?

 

[Kedar]

It's just I wish I could RIP that integrated GPU in that hummingbird processor...

... and put it on my Evo. There, that's it.
Screen's fine... just wish my Evo had richer colors.

 

[SanGo]

So, being a "Galaxy S phone" does the Epic 4G have the same 8/16GB internal storage?

 

[VDub2174]

Saw this on Twitter.

Samsung Epic 4G, America?s First 4G-Capable Phone with Slide-out QWERTY Keyboard and Brilliant Super AMOLED Touchscreen, Coming to Sprint
Samsung Epic 4G brings a living room entertainment experience to a mobile phone, offering HD-like video through the first video store with movies and TV shows, optimized for a 4G handset for rental or purchase

Pre-register to learn more about Samsung Epic 4G at Sprint

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - June 28, 2010 - Sprint (NYSE: S) and Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile), the No. 1 mobile phone provider in the U.S.1, today introduced the second 4G-capable handset from Sprint, Samsung Epic? 4G, a Galaxy S? smartphone and Samsung Mobile's first 4G Android?-powered device.

"Sprint takes another leap forward today, announcing its second 4G-capable smartphone," said Steve Elfman, president, Network Operations and Wholesale. "Samsung Epic 4G joins a portfolio of powerful devices offering an unprecedented simplicity and value to our customers as the only national carrier with a 4G network and devices and applications that can leverage the increased data speeds to provide a high-def entertainment and business experience in the palm of your hand."

"Samsung Epic 4G is a powerful member of our Galaxy S smartphone portfolio which offers premium screen, speed and content features," said Omar Khan, chief strategy officer for Samsung Mobile. "The Epic 4G ups the ante with a front-facing camera for video conferencing, a full QWERTY keyboard and lightning-fast 4G speeds."

Samsung Epic 4G is part of a new breed of Samsung smartphones offering their very best in screen, speed and content quality for a premium user experience, and offers a fully integrated multimedia, messaging and social networking experience. It also features an exceptionally thin smartphone design with a slide out, full QWERTY keyboard and 4-inch Super AMOLED touchscreen display.

The brilliant Super AMOLED touchscreen display offers:

The best representation of color on a mobile phone that matches original content, more than 100 times the contrast quality of other leading displays

Faster response time that reduces "ghosting" images

Wide viewing angles to prevent blurring or distortion

Thinner design to offer more accurate and responsiveness to touch
Entertainment at Its Best
In the coming months, Samsung Epic 4G will have access to the Samsung Media Hub, making it the first and only 4G handset to feature a video store with movies and TV available for purchase or rental, and video content set up for an HD-like entertainment experience on a handset screen. With 4G from Sprint, users will be able to get turbo-charged downloads of a full library of video and literary content powered by some of the biggest names in entertainment.

Samsung Epic 4G also features Samsung's exclusive AllShare service to wirelessly share stored music, pictures and HD video to other DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) certified? home electronics, including HDTVs, monitors, digital cameras, printers and more. Through AllShare, users will be able to capture moments with the phone's camera and camcorder, and wirelessly show them to friends or family on their DLNA certified HDTV or download music from a PC to Samsung Epic 4G and take on the road.

Amazing Features
Powered by the Android 2.1 platform, Samsung Epic 4G also supports a series of advanced touch screen gestures including multi-touch pinch, long tap and zoom and vertical and horizontal swiping.

Samsung Epic 4G is the only 4G smartphone to offer three fast and easy ways to enter text onto the device - a slide-out full QWERTY keyboard, virtual keyboard and Swype technology, which allows users to input text faster and more intuitively with one continuous finger motion across the virtual keyboard.

The smartphone is designed for an optimal gaming experience with a six-axis sensor that fine tunes its accelerometer's ability to interpret simple movements of the device, so when the phone tilts up and down or left and right, the game can immediately respond in the same directions. A demo of Asphalt 5, a popular racing game, is preloaded exclusively on Samsung Epic 4G allowing users to take full advantage of these advanced gaming capabilities.

It also features:

Samsung 1GHz Cortex A8 Hummingbird Application Processor supports amazing 3-D graphics, faster upload and download times and the full richness of HD-like multimedia content.
Dual camera: 5 MP camera/camcorder with autofocus, Power LED flash and 3x digital zoom for HD video3 (720p) video recording and front facing VGA camera for video chat and more
Visual Voicemail
Mobile Hotspot capability supporting up to five Wi-Fi enabled devices to share the 4G experience simultaneously
Android Market? for access to more than 50,000 useful applications, widgets and games available for download to customize the experience
Wi-Fi? b/g/n
1500 mAh battery
Game-changer for Business Customers
Samsung Epic 4G is designed to deliver one of the best multi-media experience for business users in several vertical industries such as healthcare, education, public safety, construction and professional services through superior speed and display innovation. It offers support for push email and integrated calendar services, including Google? and Yahoo, as well as Exchange ActiveSync for corporate email including enhanced device management and security features, as well as full support for Google Mobile Services.

With Android's open-software platform, businesses can benefit from several productivity-enhancing applications available in the Android Market? including bar code scanning, signature capture, document viewing and the ability to stream and upload video for customer approval and archival purposes.

Staying Connected with Social Networking
To make staying connected faster and easier, Samsung Epic 4G includes Samsung Social Hub designed to integrate all your social networking services, messages, personal and business email, calendars and contacts. Additionally, calendar information from portal calendars, such as Google Calendar and social networking services are displayed together in one calendar with two-way synchronization.

As work on finalizing the software is underway, Sprint expects to launch Android 2.2 for Samsung Epic 4G in the near future. With the Android 2.2 upgrade, customers can expect improvements to include the following benefits among others: updates to User Interface, improved EAS Support, improved Browser Performance including Flash 10x Support, voice Dialing Over Bluetooth and application Storage on External Memory.

A Sprint 4G developer guide is available today from the Sprint ADP Web site at Sprint Applications Developer Home Page. The Sprint 4G developer guide provides details on developing for an Android 2.1 handset and how to take advantage of the Samsung Epic 4G's unique hardware and software capabilities and the Sprint 4G network. The Sprint Application Developer Program has been providing tools for third-party developers since Sprint first launched the Wireless Web on its phones in 2001.

Sprint will announce pricing and availability in the coming months; meanwhile customers can pre-register for more information about Samsung Epic 4G at Sprint.

Blazing trails with Sprint 4G
Sprint 4G offers a faster wireless experience than any other U.S. national wireless carrier, and Sprint is the only national carrier offering wireless 4G service today in 36 markets. Sprint 4G delivers download speeds up to 10 times faster than 3G, giving Samsung Epic 4G the fastest data speeds of any U.S. wireless device available today.2

As the first national wireless carrier to test, launch and market 4G technology, Sprint made history by launching 4G in Baltimore in September 2008.

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[Andrew Ruffolo]

This may pull me away from my Hero... Not crazy about the keyboard... but I can get a case that makes it closed (like on the droid). They're even ballsy enough to have asphalt 5 pre-loaded. Definitely want to try that out first before taking it home.

 

[VDub2174]

This will replace my Moment.

 

[Mughato]

Thanks Sprint for providing more ammo to negotiate away the EVO fee, since the EVO is no longer the "top of the line 'Premium Data' smartphone".

I wouldn't consider this phone for myself, and I'm happier with the new exchanged EVO as opposed to the one from drop day.

I do not expect Sprint to remove the EVO tax and I do expect that they will tax the Epic as well.