i-phone 4s

Hi everyone. This post is to bring my views of the newest of apple i-phone 4s. it was just launched in India and i believe it is sold by airtel and aircel. Few thing i would like to bring to your notice which i had some research on.

1. the phone in India is way to pricey.
2. you can rather buy the phone from foreign countries rather than buying them here as that will turn up to be cheaper.
3. The ios 5 can be updated in iphone 4 itself and you can use all the features of i-phone 4s except one SIRI.
4. SIRI is one of the brilliant feature i-phone 4s is having but in india where the 3g is way to expensive and siri works best with 3g or higher.
5. everytime you use siri it does download datas to your mobile hence the charges are way to high for 3g in india. so first of all you buy the phone by paying 50k and then your bill comes to higher every month.
6. will you buy the phone not to use siri or limit yourself using siri.. then i would suggest buying 4s is just waste of money.

please keep these points in mind before you purchase this phone and you are always welcome to add more details on the same as well as let me know if you think i am wrong is any point or something you like to add.

FACTS AND USE OF PHONES

Hi All,

Below are some important facts which can be helpful to know about the phone.

When you buy a phone and if there is a paper in between the battery and the battery connecting port then this means the phone has come directly from the company's factory.

When ever you purchase a new phone please charge them for 8 hours and after it is fully charge, turn off the charge as to get better battery life.

Do not keep on charging the battery ever now and then. It is advisable to charge the battery when the battery has only 25% or less then that of its charge left.

If you frequently keep charging the phone it will reduce the battery life for sure.

Many of us keep charging the phone the whole night. This will lead to over charging and in future you phone will take lot of time to get fully charge and this will also reduce the battery life.

When we buy a phone the shopkeeper says it has warranty for 1 year. This means only the handset and it accessories like battery and headset will only have 6 months warranty.

If your phone gets wet then it is always advisable to remove the battery first as this will only effect the screen of the phone to lose its display and it can be changed by paying. but if the battery gets wet and it gets leaked then it liquid will destroy the motherboard making the phone of no use.

When your phone is charging please do not speak while charging as you can get shocked and if there is an utmost urgency then you can use the headset which is little safer than taking directly.

Clean you screen ever now and then and buy the scratch guard screen of good quality, thou it will cost little extra but your phone screen will be well protected.

When you keep your phone in the pocket make sure it is not kept along with the pointed object which can damage the phone in someway for sure.

Any phone you buy will not have a good resale value. If you want to sell the phone then sell it outside or to known friends or relatives as this will fetch you more money then going to showroom and exchanging or selling them as they will pay you relatively less price. For instance if you buy a phone for 10000 then the next moment after your purchase if under warranty the price comes down to 50% (ie 5000) and if it is not under warranty then it can go to 2000 as well. This means not selling and using the phone as spare phone will be the best decision. 

SAMSUNG GALAXY S2 (I9100) REVIEW

Specifications:

GENERAL	2G Network	GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
	3G Network	HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100
	Announced	2011, February
	Status	Available. Released 2011, April

SIZE	Dimensions	125.3 x 66.1 x 8.5 mm
	Weight	116 g

DISPLAY	Type	Super AMOLED Plus capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
	Size	480 x 800 pixels, 4.3 inches (~217 ppi pixel density)
		- Gorilla Glass display - TouchWiz UI v4.0 - Multi-touch input method - Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate - Touch-sensitive controls - Proximity sensor for auto turn-off - Gyroscope sensor

SOUND	Alert types	Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
	Loudspeaker	Yes
	3.5mm jack	Yes

MEMORY	Phonebook	Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
	Call records	Practically unlimited
	Internal	16GB/32GB storage, 1 GB RAM
	Card slot	microSD, up to 32GB,

DATA	GPRS	Class 12 (4+1/3+2/2+3/1+4 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
	EDGE	Class 12
	3G	HSDPA, 21 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps
	WLAN	Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, DLNA, Wi-Fi Direct, Wi-Fi hotspot
	Bluetooth	Yes, v3.0+HS
	Infrared port	No
	USB	Yes, v2.0 microUSB (MHL), USB On-the-go

CAMERA	Primary	8 MP, 3264x2448 pixels, autofocus, LED flash,
	Features	Geo-tagging, touch focus, face and smile detection, image stabilization
	Video	Yes, 1080p@30fps,
	Secondary	Yes, 2 MP

FEATURES	OS	Android OS, v2.3 (Gingerbread), planned upgrade to v4.0
	CPU	Dual-core 1.2GHz ARM Cortex-A9 processor, Mali-400MP GPU, Exynos chipset
	Messaging	SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM, RSS
	Browser	HTML
	Radio	Stereo FM radio with RDS
	Games	Yes
	Colors	Black, White, Pink
	GPS	Yes, with A-GPS support
	Java	Yes, via Java MIDP emulator
		- Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic - NFC support (optional) - TV-out (via MHL A/V link) - SNS integration - Digital compass - MP4/DivX/XviD/WMV/H.264/H.263 player - MP3/WAV/eAAC+/AC3/FLAC player - Organizer - Image/video editor - Document editor (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF) - Google Search, Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Picasa integration - Adobe Flash 10.1 support - Voice memo/dial/commands - Predictive text input (Swype)

BATTERY		Standard battery, Li-Ion 1650 mAh
	Stand-by	Up to 710 h (2G) / Up to 610 h (3G)
	Talk time	Up to 18 h 20 min (2G) / Up to 8 h 40 min (3G)

MISC	SAR US	0.16 W/kg (head)     0.96 W/kg (body)
	SAR EU	0.34 W/kg (head)

Positives:

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       4.3" 16M-color Super AMOLED Plus capacitive touchscreen of WVGA (480 x 800 pixel) resolution.

·         Android OS v2.3.3 with TouchWiz 4 launcher (Gingerbread)

·         1.2 GHz dual-core Cortex-A9 CPU, Mali-400MP GPU, Exynos chipset, 1GB of RAM

·         8 MP wide-angle lens autofocus camera with LED flash, face, smile and blink detection (best in the class for the  

       photographer’s perspective.

·         1080p HD video recording at 30fps (Without lag or dragging or frame-shot feel)

·         Quad-band GSM and quad-band 3G support

·         21 Mbps HSDPA and 5.76 Mbps HSUPA support

·         Dual-band Wi-Fi 802.11 b, g and n support

·         GPS with A-GPS connectivity; Digital compass

·         16/32GB internal storage, microSD slot

·         Accelerometer, gyroscope and proximity sensor

·         Standard 3.5 mm audio jack

·         Charging MHL microUSB port with USB host and TV-out (1080p) support (Sadly does not come with the box and need to sell out extra buck to own one)

·         Stereo Bluetooth v3.0

·         FM radio with RDS

·         Great audio quality

·         Extremely slim waistline at only 8.5mm and low weight (116g)

·         2MP secondary video-call camera (good overall clarity while doing video calling)

·         Full Flash support and GPU-acceleration for the web browser permit 1080p flash video playback

·         Document editor (mobile office)

·         File manager comes preinstalled

·         The richest video format support we have seen

Negatives:

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       Plastic body (finger print magnet.. but good quality plastic)

·         No dedicated camera key

·         Will struggle a bit while taking pictures

Other important useful information’s:

·         On top of the homescreen bar press with your finger for few seconds and move your finger left and right. By doing so you will be able to adjust the brightness of the phone.

·         

      The phone book is excellent and the one of the best feature is that if you want to dial to a person whose name is stored in the phonebook, then you just need to type that name in the number key pad and you will get all the match automatically. It saves time. For example you have saved your mothers number as mom in the phone book, on the dial pad type MOM (636) and the phone will automatically show you all the contacts with mom and 636.. it saves sometime thou.

·         

      The phone has never got stuck

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      The voice feature which comes with the phone is really cool. Set the driving mode on and it will speak out all the notifications when it comes on the phone.

·         All your social website and other email ids can be synced very easily in the phone.

·         The best way to safeguard of your contacts is by always create or update contact in the google mode than in phone mode. The advantage is that the contacts gets saved in your google contacts automatically and in case of any data loss you can always sync them to any of your android phone back at a touch of a button.

·         The camera as already stated above is the best in the class. With 8 MP camera with LED flash you can go one of the best photography and the videos can be taken at 1080p which is best. So photography crazy people will love this phone for sure

·         For zooming in and out to take pictures or videos you can just slide up and down in the screen but I was able to zoom in and out automatically without touching the screen and it is possible by just moving your phone away or near to you. The camera automatically zooms in and out.

·         Coming to the battery, since it is an android phone they are always thirsty for battery. The battery with a typically normal use can last for 12 hours. This is because the sync always happens. Your emails and social updates frequently, so the battery is used to a great extent. Since it is gingerbread and AMOLED screen the battery life is little more than froyo and LCD. It is always advisable to have the usb cable or an extra charger in hand so that you can charge the phone at work or at the place where you spend most of your time.

·         The power saving mode which come preinstalled in the phone is the best and it really helps you to save some battery seriously.

·         Since it is Samsung the most and the only main disadvantage which I have found is that when you connect your phone to computer using USB cable the internet connection on the computer cannot be used in the phone. I always hated this feature and wanted this feature to consider this phone as a complete phone package. Since my office does not have a wi-fi and I would require my office computer internet to be used in the phone this feature does not let me use the internet and hence I feel that’s the only disadvantage in the phone. Once can use phone internet connection to computer by downloading an app from the android market. There are plenty of them and everything works fine.

·         Once you insert the headset and try to play music the volume automatically starts at 10 instead of the set volume limit. I set the limit to maximum (15) but when I insert headset the volume automatically starts at 10.. I am not sure as to why is that but this is with the handset I have used and few of my friends also face this similar issue. The same goes with when you talk or answer a call on headset. The only way is to manually increase the volume and talk and if you are ok with volume 10 then you won’t have to worry then.

FINAL WORDS:

An excellent phone to have. The phone is pricey but worth the value. This phone will get all the updates first as it

is the best of Samsung android, successful and best of phone of the year. The Android ICS (IceCream Sandwich) 

is now started in the market and Samsung galaxy Nexus is the first of its class to get them preinstalled on the 

phone. This means Samsung galaxy S2 will be among the first one to get the update to flash the ROM and get the 

taste of the new Android 4.0 (ICS).