Samsung Galaxy S Thread

GSM Arena has a review and the RMAA reading looks promising

both this and samsung wave got excellent audio quality results in the gsmarena reviews. also phonearena says the sound quality must be heard, cannot be described. sound promising! :)

I has been using the Samsung Corby Pro for a two weeks now and all I can say is the audio quality is really good. It won't replace my Fuze just yet but I also don't find it too lacking in side-by-side comparison.

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i got mine aredy, its been with me for a week

sound quality is equal to the iphone, just as i expect, samsung being an apple supplier

i think it uses the same cirrus dac

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now that i got to think about it

i think it sounds better than the iphone, although i dont have my iphone anymore so i cant make a direct comparo

bad thing is the headphone out pin layout is standard so iphone compatible headsets will suck due to the reversed mic/ground connection. Im in the process of making a diy adaptor for my triplefi10vi.

atm im using my tf10 via the extension.

the 5.1 surround option on the player is amazing with the tf10. it sounds bigger than it already is, sounds coming from the outside of the iems, bigger soundstage with more air between and i know the soundstage of the tf10 i no pushover for an iem. but with the galaxy s and the 5.1, its a different thing altogether(i hope somebody else can confirm this).

im no purist nor a hardcore audiophile but i used to frown on anything that will introduce changes in the audio like eq and effects. thats why i only discovered the 5.1 today. i used to have it disabled and no eq and effects.

i experimented today when i noticed the 5.1 button on th top right of the player screen and i was just amazed.

btw im using the default player. havent had time to customize my android yet so its all stock atm

Hi, first post!

I got the Galaxy S the other day, my first samsung, and I would like to mention the fact that it is one of the few android mobiles with a custom EQ. I have been waiting a long time for this.

Sound quality is very good for a phone and the EQ is useful. There are some effects too, all of them useless IMO.

The real letdown though is the fact that any phones that are not capatible headsets won't work with phonecalls. Of course you can use the 3.5 jack with any phones to hear music (or movies or whatever) but while making phone calls the phone will switch to internal mic AND  internal speakers. With my annoyingly buggy nokia (that I got rid of) i would use internal mic and connected phones while calling (holding the phone in front of me, talking into it) but with the samsung galaxy s, this option doesn't seem to exist.

A few questions: Do you know if this is this the case with all samsung phones? Is there any work-around or fix for the issue mentioned? Concidering samsungs past reputation, do you think they will ever fix this issue? Thankful for any halp.

one word: Swype

I quite desire the Galaxy S, that is, if it is true the sound quality at least matches that of the iphone. The AT&T variant, the Captivate, will supposedly be priced at $350 off-contract. I say yes to that!

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Originally Posted by huheeje 

Hi, first post!

 

I got the Galaxy S the other day, my first samsung, and I would like to mention the fact that it is one of the few android mobiles with a custom EQ. I have been waiting a long time for this.

 

Sound quality is very good for a phone and the EQ is useful. There are some effects too, all of them useless IMO.

 

The real letdown though is the fact that any phones that are not capatible headsets won't work with phonecalls. Of course you can use the 3.5 jack with any phones to hear music (or movies or whatever) but while making phone calls the phone will switch to internal mic AND  internal speakers. With my annoyingly buggy nokia (that I got rid of) i would use internal mic and connected phones while calling (holding the phone in front of me, talking into it) but with the samsung galaxy s, this option doesn't seem to exist.

 

A few questions: Do you know if this is this the case with all samsung phones? Is there any work-around or fix for the issue mentioned? Concidering samsungs past reputation, do you think they will ever fix this issue? Thankful for any halp.

the 3.5mm jack of the samsung galaxy s is trrs left/right/mic/ground similar to a nokia. so any nokia headset with mic will hopefully work.

im using my tf10 with a nokia ad57 that i got from an old 5310xpress music. mic on the ad57 works, so does the mic button.

BTW have you tried the auto setting in eq. i've searched around the net but no info on it.

ive experimented with it and it seems the player reads the idtags and sets the eq to the corresponding preset. ive tried it on tracks with genre idtags(pop,rock,classical) i tried switching between auto and the corresponding preset. the frequency response doesnt change between auto and pop, auto and rock, so on and so forth. teh tracks sound different with normal eq tho thats for sure. I just hope the preset eq can be customized to ones liking. so custom eq presets for particular genres and auto eq = kick ass sound for every genre without having to switch between presets