Samsung Galaxy S [T-Mobile Vibrant variant] Thread

I have yet to see one of these in the local t mobile stores, but the reps at tmobile keep saying they are on hand?  Strange.  I have never been able to get myself to use my cell phone as a pmp or mp3 player because the battery life is never sufficient. 

You'll have to let us know how the battery holds up to normal daily use and mp3 use. 

Did I read your post right, it will have a 5 band EQ in it?  Very nice.  I sure looks like an interesting phone.

It's going to use the WM8987 wolfson DAC chip used on the SFlo2 and Ibasso D10 (though the former has two) and a 5 band EQ. Wonder if it will have a line out..

subscribed, i think there is a good chance this is going to be my next phone

As an Android owner (HTC Aria) I have to say that there is a glaring problem with the media player in Android OS. While I have almost fully retired my iRiver H340 in favor of my tiny little android phone just for the sake of convenience and portability, the huge problem with ALL android devices is their inability to play tracks back gaplessly. No doubt a solution to this will come eventually, but I encourage everyone to do the following:

1) Open this link: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3461

2) STAR the issue in order to alert the Android Dev team to the problem and push it up in priority (click on the star thing)

3) Tell your music obsessed friends to follow suit. With a little bit of elbow grease Android could easily be the best mobile music platform yet.

1 star for the gapless. I do hope Android improved in term of music playback/usability since i planned to get one soon.

I think the chip used is the WM8994 if this press release from Wolfson is accurate:

http://www.wolfsonmicro.com/media_centre/item/wolfsons_innovative_ultra_low_power_audio_hub_selected_for_samsungs_latest_/

I don't know whether this a better or worse chip than the WM8987.

Also, I think this discussion can be opened to all Galaxy S variants on sound quality, as the internals are all the same.

So, the Tmobile Vibrant, ATT Captivate, Verizon Fascinate, and Sprint Epic (with keyboard), as well as the original Galaxy S.

Line out would really complete the device.

As far as other reading, here's an interesting thread I found over at the XDA forums:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=735918

It is quite interesting.  I think personally, I could do without the gapless playback if they could make a battery that would withstand all of your normal daily use, such as work, and calls and texting along with the media usage.  During a normal day of use it would take 2 or 3 batteries to get through a 12 hour day.  Such a shame....

I don't know about the technical specs (nor do I really care) but I was ready to investigate get one of the Sandisk players and also replace my old Ety ER4P's. Ever since, I set-up a decent mid-fi homee set-up, my iPod Video and Ety sounded like mud. I couldn't bear to listen to my portable set-up continuously for  a 15-minute subway ride. 

I was about to get the iPhone 4, and reading about the problems that came up with the it and because of the fact that I'm with T-Mobile, I thought giving the Samsung Vibrant a whirl made sense. One of my non-negotiables is SQ. Just a few songs over Pandora convinced me that it was a no-brainer to stick with the Vibrant+Android. In fact, it sounded so good to my ears, I touched the buy link and headed over to Amazon MP3 store to buy the songs I heard.

Yesterday, I received my 16gig Micro SD card and successfully transferred my top-rated songs from my iTunes library (using Salling Media Sync). 

So suddenly, I don't feel the need to replace my Etys with something like $300 Senn or Monster IEMs. I'm so, so pleased with the phone. Yes, I heard it doesn't play gapless, and that could be a deal-breaker for some. And no, I'm not selling my desktop amplifiers and the full-size cans that I use at home, but my commuting music became pleasant again. :)

YMMV of course. :)

p.s. Not SQ-related:

Also, bear in mind that I'm keeping the phone also because I wanted a convergence of phone and music player. Initially, I thought it would be a compromise. Not really. To me, it's an upgrade of both my phone and music experience. If the Vibrant equaled the iPhone 4, which I played around with extensively to get a feel for it, I would probably still consider the iPhone 4 even if I have to deal with switching from T-Mobile (which I'm perfectly happy with) to AT&T (which I tried to switch to last year with the iPhone 3GS but I went back to T-Mobile and just paid the restocking fee). But the thing is, the iPhone 4 just pales in comparison to the Vibrant. It's not perfect. No phone is, of course.

And this is coming from a Mac person who has both a desktop and a laptop. I've also had 5 iPods. Looks like I won't be buying iPods anytime soon though (although maybe a Sansa Clip is tempting for the gym... :).

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Originally Posted by Shaikoten 

As an Android owner (HTC Aria) I have to say that there is a glaring problem with the media player in Android OS. While I have almost fully retired my iRiver H340 in favor of my tiny little android phone just for the sake of convenience and portability, the huge problem with ALL android devices is their inability to play tracks back gaplessly. No doubt a solution to this will come eventually, but I encourage everyone to do the following:

 

1) Open this link: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3461

2) STAR the issue in order to alert the Android Dev team to the problem and push it up in priority (click on the star thing)

3) Tell your music obsessed friends to follow suit. With a little bit of elbow grease Android could easily be the best mobile music platform yet.

Rockbox is being ported to Android (as an application). They already have sound. The status is here, but I think more info can be found on the mailing list or on IRC.

I find Samsung really interesting.  Especially after playing with their P3 PMP in B&H a few weeks ago.  High quality look and feel with an intuitive UI and very responsive touch screen.  Oh, yeah - sounded pretty darn good to boot!  The only thing missing was an expansion slot or I would have snatched it up then and there.  Now they have a tech event scheduled for the 11th in the city.  Rumor has it they will be announcing a tablet and a PMP along with other products.  Further rumors are speculating the PMP is an off-shoot of the Galaxy S like the iTouch is to the iPhone.  I am VERY intrigued by this because I am so wanting to jettison the Apple ecosystem out of my PC life but have yet to find a worthy successor to my 64gb iTouch.  Please, Samsung - either make it a 32gb with an expansion slot or, ideally, offer a 64gb unit.  I also require gapless playback.  I have no need for a smartphone so the potentiality is exciting to me.  If they meet my requirements - call me an early adopter!

i dont know if any samsung galaxy s will coming to my country yet :(

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Originally Posted by florin 

 

Rockbox is being ported to Android (as an application). They already have sound. The status is here, but I think more info can be found on the mailing list or on IRC.

I'm really pumped for this, but there's seriously no reason why the android media player shouldn't be doing this natively. I love my rockbox though, been using it since the earliest releases of the H300 series when they hardly had sound. I heard they got sound within the last week, and that's always the hardest part of the battle.