The microSD card slot is located behind the battery cover. You can also purchase a docking station and a battery charging station, which are available separately. For more add-ons, please check our cell phones accessories, ringtones, and help page.
The latter is definitely improved from previous versions, with some enhanced functionality and a more polished look. Buddies Now is like a favorites list and lets you immediately call or text those contacts, as well as comment on any of their updates. There are a number of other Samsung widgets, Android widgets, and other shortcuts, all of which can be added to one of seven home screens.
The home screens can also be personalized with live wallpaper, but there are two elements that remain on each screen: the pull-down notification tray on top, which now includes wireless manager and profile functions, and the toolbar along the bottom with quick-launch buttons to the phone dialer, contacts, messaging, and applications.
Pressing the latter takes you to a nice grid view of all your apps; they're spread out over several pages, which you can swipe from side to side. The menu icons are also neatly arranged inside squares for a more unified look. We much prefer this layout over the standard Android one, where you have to scroll up and down. It feels more natural, easier to navigate, and is easier to use than the standard Android interface.
Also, for those worried about how the TouchWiz interface may interfere with future Android updates, according to Samsung, the entire Galaxy S portfolio will be upgradeable to Android 2. However, the company also noted that without really knowing what Google has planned down the line, there may be a time where updates can't be supported because of hardware limitations or other factors. A, while 4G is in the form of Sprint's WiMax.
While we weren't able to test the 4G connectivity at the time of this writing, you can read our review of the HTC Evo 4G to get some idea of our experiences with Sprint's 4G WiMax service. Unsurprisingly, the Epic 4G comes with a few basic smartphone features like the speakerphone, conference calling, voice dialing, text and multimedia messaging, visual voice mail, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and GPS.
The latter is compatible with Sprint's Navigation service, though we're slightly partial to Google's Maps with Navigation app. The phone book is limited to available memory and there's room in each entry for multiple numbers, e-mail addresses, IM handles, group IDs, photo caller IDs, and more. You can merge all your contacts from your various email and social network accounts into your phonebook with Samsung's Social Hub feature. The phone is often smart enough to link the contacts for you, but we found we had to do some manual linking for a few of our contacts.
As with the other Galaxy S phones, this works best if you have relatively few e-mail folders-- too many of them will result in a rather cluttered interface.
The calendar also syncs nicely with your Google or Outlook calendar. With Qik and the front camera, you are able to make and answer video calls provided the other person also has a Qik account. You can also video chat with someone who has Qik running on a PC. You can get more apps via the Android Market.
You can watch content from YouTube and Sprint TV, though the video quality from both sources doesn't quite do the display justice. Thankfully, eventually you'll be able to rent and purchase content on the Epic 4G from Samsung's Media Hub that will launch later this year. According to Samsung, its service will include both TV shows and movies; however, we don't yet know the names of the content partners. The phone is also compatible with Samsung's AllShare service that lets you wirelessly share stored media that includes pictures, HD video, and more to other DLNA-certified home electronics.
The music player has 5. The phone only has 1GB of internal memory, so we would advise the use of microSD cards for storing media. Last, but definitely not least, is the 5. Its picture quality is pretty impressive. We thought the images looked sharp and colors were nice and natural. Low-light shots weren't so hot, but, thankfully, the Epic 4G has an LED flash that helped considerably.
Some of the camera settings include ISO, blink and smile detection, and panorama mode. Call quality was very good for the most part. There was a tiny bit of voice distortion in our caller's voice as well as the occasional static, but that didn't ruin the overall call.
They came through loud and clear, albeit a little tinny. Our callers said the same about us; they detected no background sound.
However, they said the voice quality was noticeably tinny and harsh. Still, its voice clarity wins out in the end, and they had no major complaints with call quality. The same goes for the speakerphone-- as expected, there was a slight hollowness and echo effects to the calls, but it was overall clear and clean. On the whole, coverage was reliable, though it can be spotty depending on your exact location. We found reliable service in the airport and its immediate surroundings, the downtown area, the Capitol Hill neighborhood, and the city of Renton, Wash.
We also took the Epic 4G for a ride on Seattle's light rail between the airport and downtown. We bounced back to 3G a couple of times during the trip, specifically in the Tukwila and Rainier Beach areas. We also didn't get 4G service in tunnels, but that's understandable. When we were connected, the service was strong and graphics-heavy Web sites loaded quickly.
He had an Evo before the epic and never had this issue. So far its been pretty nice to me but then again I have only had it for a couple hours. One thing about my phones is that I use WiFi more a lot. When I seem to have wifi on and someone sends me a picture through text, it wont download the picture unless I turn WiFi off. Is there anything I can do to change this? Is this happeneing to everybody?
The EVO you could have wifi on and it would still download pictures and what not. Any help would be greatly appreciated, and sorry if there was another thread about this, I searched and couldnt find.
Is it that Android doesn't offer this option or is there some way to make this happen that I am missing? I didn't update anything as far as I know. Just bought my Epic over the weekend, love it so far. Pages wont load, marketplace wont connect etc. I am rooted and can't get my computer to connect to the androidtether network I just got my epic last week and had it rooted within hours. I have to say, I do love this phone.
But I have noticed a slight inconvenience. I have installed the wireless tether app, and it works like a charm. No problem connecting other gadgets to it. But once I'm done tethering, and switch back to using wifi, the phone doesn't seem to want to connect to my home's wifi. I've tried reseting the phone, manually killing the tether app, and force closing the app under the applications tab in settings.
But still no connection. Eventually, after 30mins or so, th phone will be able to connect once again. Has anyone else had this issue? It just seems somewhat of an unexpected problem, and a minor inconvenience. Any information on this or a possible fix would be greatly appreciated. I have just posted this post successfully using my laptop connected to my desire flashed to 2. I can say that everything I need and have tested works perfectly on my flashed desire. Does anyone know if we can log into the sprint wifi hotspot like a normal router?
I am hoping to forward some ports and hopefully open up my NAT. I could not find anything, I know that the sprint overdrive has router settings like this. Before having an EVO I asked around all over and not many people would commit to saying it worked.
Halo 3, Warcraft Pretty much no different than my previous "high speed" cable connection. I still only have 3g, no 4g yet I was going to sell my EVO but it seems I might as well keep it since I'm going to eventually use it. My laptop can recognize it though. I tried to add the WiFi network but it'll say "Not in range, remembered". I want to be able to put in my zip code or have it pull from my gps where I am and then tell me where the nearest wifi spots are.
I used to have an awesome app on my Blackberry. It was user driven--as in we could add hot-spots and rate them. Jii Wire is trying. Their Iphone app works awesome. Given it is a new app and hopefully they will continue to make it better but seems rather slow in coming. Google places has a wifi finder but unfortunately there are too many morons that don't get how important is to have their business listing be correct--if they have claimed it you can't even add it for them.
I understood that you could make the desire a wifi hotspot and connect it to laptop etc so just wondered if this would also work with Ipad. How much do you think Verizon will charge for the mobile hotspot feature when it comes to the incredible via froyo?
Considering the pre has the service for free. How do you prioritize which Wifi Hotspot the Desire connects to? As some of you might be aware of the miwi app for the iPhone what allows you to create a hot spot from your iPhone and allows you to sharenthe phones 3G connection.
Is there anything similar for the android platform?
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