Soon to be an android user!

Four of a kind

Switching to android from iOS in a week or two and will pick up the S2 as my first android phone.

Question regarding the sd card.....I plan on getting a 32Gb micro SD card on the cheap while I'm here in Bangkok. Any recommendations as to the best make to get? I presume some are quicker than others?

Can't wait to say goodluck to apple restrictions!

garysully1986

I'd say Sandisk is usually your best bet, Stay well away from Kingston as I have had loads of them come back to me when I used to supply them with phones! Also prob obvious but stay well clear of the no name brands for obvious reasons, May be sold less than 32gb and not know ya know ursmelf

jenno86

Try and get one of these bad boys!

Four of a kind

jenno86 wrote: »

Try and get one of these bad boys!

Nice but doubt it would be compatible with current selection of smart phones.

5starpool

Get something class 4 or better. The higher the class, the faster it is.

srsly78

Class indicates faster for writing only, makes no difference for most people except when saving video. Just get the normal class 2 32gb micro-sdcard.

Four of a kind

Cheers lads. One other question, if I bought an S2 out here in Bangkok, will it work back home? Sim free works out about €470 here. I asked a rep in a shop and he said yes, no problem. Just want to make sure it would though obv.

sombaht

Four of a kind wrote: »

Cheers lads. One other question, if I bought an S2 out here in Bangkok, will it work back home? Sim free works out about €470 here. I asked a rep in a shop and he said yes, no problem. Just want to make sure it would though obv.

I've bought plenty of phones in Thailand over the years and they all worked here in Ireland. Once its sim-free you'll be fine.

Cheers,
sombaht

Four of a kind

Nice one!! Thanks!

Four of a kind

I presume there would be no language restrictions either? Don't want to be left with not been able to change it to English.

Also would there be any 3G problems with picking up the phone in Thailand? Read something about different "bands" relating to 3G.

jimmycrackcorm

jenno86 wrote: »

Try and get one of these bad boys!

LoNdon the comments on that... How does anyone manage to use anything bigger than a 4gb card :-)

sombaht

Four of a kind wrote: »

I presume there would be no language restrictions either? Don't want to be left with not been able to change it to English.

Also would there be any 3G problems with picking up the phone in Thailand? Read something about different "bands" relating to 3G.

No language issues, the phones will all have an English language option, in fact I think in most cases it is set to English as a default. Never had any issues with 3G here (Ireland) on a Thai phone.

Cheers,
sombaht

seanybiker

Four of a kind wrote: »

I presume there would be no language restrictions either? Don't want to be left with not been able to change it to English.

Also would there be any 3G problems with picking up the phone in Thailand? Read something about different "bands" relating to 3G.

My new phone came from one of them mad places over there and it was set to english by default. No problems with 3g at all.

Jimmy Bottlehead

Only thing is, at €470 there's not a HUGE price difference with buying here (I think I'm right saying that?!) and if something goes wrong with the phone and you need to return it, you're kinda screwed.

Just something to keep in mind.

Four of a kind

Jimmy Bottlehead wrote: »

Only thing is, at €470 there's not a HUGE price difference with buying here (I think I'm right saying that?!) and if something goes wrong with the phone and you need to return it, you're kinda screwed.

Just something to keep in mind.

Was only thinking of that last night myself. Yeah, its a bit of a risk alright for the sake of a €100+

Sure I like abit of an auld gamble though

sombaht

Four of a kind wrote: »

Was only thinking of that last night myself. Yeah, its a bit of a risk alright for the sake of a €100+

Sure I like abit of an auld gamble though

Yeah, but you also have the freedom to choose your operator, not be tied into a contract, use abroad etc etc.

Cheers,
sombaht

Four of a kind

Looks like I'll be picking up 3 of these out here now. A few mates want one as well.

Four of a kind

Just to be clear as well, I'll have no problems when I want to root the s2 I buy in Thailand I take it?

meathgal2010

Samsungs Warranty is international for 24 months so if you buy in Thailand your covered here but will have to send it yourself to a repair centre in Ireland ..... unless you root it

oh and make sure you keep your receipts as this will be needed by the repair centre

Four of a kind

Thanks. Gona go ahead and pick them up tomorrow.

Four of a kind

Lads, went to pick up the S2 here in a samsung shop in Bangkok and the guy said it's sim free, but the 3G would not work in uk/Ireland????

The 3G specs on the box read:
3G 900/2100 MHz
3G 850/2100 MHz

Anyone shed some light on this asap as I won't get it if there's something nit adding up.

The staff didn't really speak great English so they may not have understood.

Thanks

Four of a kind

Did a check and the GSM 900/1900 2100 MHz band is the one I got. Same specs as my iPhone 4 GSM.

Professey Chin

Ireland uses 2100 for 3G coverage

http://www.gsmarena.com/network-bands.php3?sCountry=IRELAND

Four of a kind

How do I go about getting my contacts from iPhone onto the S2?

Also, I need to send mass group SMS texts every week. Can you do this on the phone with the stock app or do I need to download one to do so?

Professey Chin

Four of a kind wrote: »

How do I go about getting my contacts from iPhone onto the S2?

Also, I need to send mass group SMS texts every week. Can you do this on the phone with the stock app or do I need to download one to do so?

Not too sure about iPhone contacts. I think you can export them as a CSV from iTunes and then import into Google.............I think

Group texts can be done with the stock app. Just create the group of contacts and you can select the group to send to

Four of a kind

Excellent! Thanks!

meathgal2010

Four of a kind wrote: »

How do I go about getting my contacts from iPhone onto the S2?

Also, I need to send mass group SMS texts every week. Can you do this on the phone with the stock app or do I need to download one to do so?

You can do it through outlook and a csv file or

Sync your iphone with itunes
It asks you what do you want to sync it with and there is a drop down menu > select google mail > insert the gmail details you will be using with the gs2 > select sync

Then sign into your gs2 with that gmail account and make sure contacts sync is ticked and all your contacts will come down from googles server.;)

Four of a kind

Thankyou!

I've a few more android noob questions that I'll ask as I go in this thread if thats ok.

First one is regards "go launcher" - I seem to hear about these alot. What one can ye recommend for me to try out?

Knasher

Did you get your 3G sorted? It covers the right frequencies so it should work but if it doesn't automatically I'd guess it is missing the APN settings for your network and you just need to add them in yourself.

Professey Chin

Four of a kind wrote: »

Thankyou!

I've a few more android noob questions that I'll ask as I go in this thread if thats ok.

First one is regards "go launcher" - I seem to hear about these alot. What one can ye recommend for me to try out?

Launcher applications like Go, LauncherPro & ADW among others are replacements for your default home screen and app drawer. Some would come with different widgets, menu options & would be more customisable then the default TouchWiz(Samsung) or Sense(HTC) launchers.
Personally I use Go since its regularly updated and full of features but its all user preference

Four of a kind

meathgal2010 wrote: »

You can do it through outlook and a csv file or

Sync your iphone with itunes
It asks you what do you want to sync it with and there is a drop down menu > select google mail > insert the gmail details you will be using with the gs2 > select sync

Then sign into your gs2 with that gmail account and make sure contacts sync is
ticked and all your contacts will come down from googles server.;)

Tried this, but not working yet. In iTunes, I used sync contacts with "google contacts" and entered my gmail which I've set up on S2.

Then when I sync contacts on the S2 nothing gets pulled down??

I checked my gmail account on desktop and there's nothing on the contacts list on the left?

Four of a kind

How do I download videos instead of streaming them on dolphin hd browser? Is it possible to download youtube videos as well?

Can anyone tell me how I go about finding out about making sure I've flash enabled as well on my browser?

seanybiker

Four of a kind wrote: »

How do I download videos instead of streaming them on dolphin hd browser? Is it possible to download youtube videos as well?

Can anyone tell me how I go about finding out about making sure I've flash enabled as well on my browser?

Get tubemate and you can download videos from youtube.

go to a flash site and if it works then flash is enabled lol.

Four of a kind

confused with how the notification system works on the official facebook app! I font get private message notifications or other notifications as they happen? The setting only allows me to get push notifications for every 30 minutes at the earliest..... Any way to get notifications as they happen?