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On 26 February 2012, the Indian men's national field hockey team qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London after a gap of eight years. However, all pre-Olympics expectations were ruthlessly dashed as India set the dubious record of being the only team to lose all five pool matches by scoring six and conceding 18 goals.
India's group included Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Korea and New Zealand. The humiliation was completed when India was defeated 2-3 by South Africa in the 11-12 place classification match and finished last in a field of 12 competing teams. The previous lowest position that the country had occupied was eighth at the 1996 Atlanta Games.
It was in London that the Indian hockey team had clinched the 1948 Olympic gold medal in what was independent India's first major international sporting achievement, so it was ironic that the same city was the host when Indian hockey reached a new low.
Centre forward Shivendra Singh later blamed coach Michael Nobbs' wrong strategy of over-attacking for India's Olympic debacle. Nobbs, who still holds his job, had accused the Indian players of lacking commitment during the Olympics and had stated "there were some players in the team who are just happy to be Olympians".

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A war of words has flared between Ankara and Damascus this week after a Turkish air force Lockheed Martin F-16 shot down a Syrian air force Mikoyan MiG-23BN ground attacker on Sunday. While Syria described the shootdown as a "flagrant act of aggression," Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, warned Syria, "Our response will be heavy if you violate our airspace." Syria has also accused Ankara of shooting down the aircraft to deflect attention from Turkish domestic political issues, just a week before local elections.
On March 23 two Syrian MiG-23BN Floggers were operating in support of government forces engaged in heavy fighting with rebels, including the al Qaeda-linked Al Nusra Front. The battle was for control of the border post of Kasab in Lakatia province, in the northwest of Syria. The aircraft were reportedly tasked with strafing and bombing rebel forces close to the border.
According to a Turkish armed forces statement, an air defense command and control center began tracking the aircraft when they were 80 nm from the border, and broadcast four warnings to them as they continued to approach, the last given at a 10-nm distance. One of the MiGs turned away, but the other continued, crossing into Turkey at 1:13 p.m. local time. A minute later it was shot down by one of two patrolling F-16s from 181 Pars (panther) Filo (squadron), based at Diyarbakir. The MiG was reportedly approximately one mile inside Turkish airspace, and the wreckage fell just inside Syrian territory. The pilot ejected safely, and was later interviewed by Syrian TV, apparently admitting that he had crossed the border for a short time.
Sunday's shootdown was not the first in the region. On September 16 last year a Turkish F-16 shot down a Syrian Mil Mi-17 Hip helicopter that strayed around a mile into Turkish airspace.
Tensions have been high between Syria and Turkey since June 22, 2012, when a Syrian surface-to-air missile downed a Turkish air force McDonnell Douglas RF-4E Phantom from 173 Filo. The aircraft had been conducting maneuvers over the Mediterranean Sea and inadvertently violated Syrian airspace. When warned by Turkish controllers, the crew changed course and immediately vacated the area, only to be shot down after reaching international airspace. In the aftermath, Turkey established new rules of engagement that would treat any Syrian aircraft approaching the border as a military threat.


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ABC have picked up the series for more production because of its satisfying second season story.
ABC show their interest move on the new season of "Eli Stone" though it only premiered Tuesday night, October 14. The dramedy TV series is ordered to have four more additional scripts to be produced. The network reportedly were satisfied with the rating it made for the first season and how the new season will well turn out.
"It's an incredible vote of confidence," says the series executive producer, Marc Guggenheim. "I had told that in order to keep production rolling , I would need to know by Wednesday [if they wanted more]. I figured at the very least that would give them a day's worth of ratings to analyze. And they were like, 'Nope, we'll just order them now.'"
"Eli Stone" is an American sophomore legal dramedy which is created by Greg Berlanti and Guggenheim. The story goes about a lawyer played by Jonny Lee Miller, who becomes a modern-day prophet after he starts having precognitive visions.
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* A cut in BOJ growth view may add to expectations for easing - analysts * All of Topix's 33 subsectors rise * Fed Chair Janet Yellen's testimony awaited * Otsuka soars on new drug application to FDA By Ayai Tomisawa TOKYO, July 15 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei share average climbed on Tuesday with all sectors rising, helped by gains on Wall Street on Citigroup's strong earnings and a merger and acquisition deal in the healthcare industry. The market was awaiting the outcome of the Bank Of Japan's policy meeting later in the day. The BOJ is set to maintain its stimulus programme and its projection that inflation will approach its 2 percent target next year, though it may slightly cut its economic growth forecast. The Nikkei gained 0.9 percent to 15,432.65 points by mid-morning after rising as high as 15,441.54, the highest since July 7. Investors are focused on BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda's speech after the meeting. Analysts said that if he cuts this year's economic growth forecast, it may reinforce market expectations that the central bank will have to launch more monetary easing later this year. "A direct short-term impact to the stock market (if Kuroda cuts the growth view) should be limited as long as he keeps the 2 percent inflation target," said Hikaru Sato, a senior technical analyst at Daiwa Securities. "But in the mid-term, expectations for monetary easing during the second half of the year may rise." Investors were also awaiting U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen's congressional testimony later in the day for signs on when U.S. interest rates will rise. Exporters were strong, with Honda Motor Co rising 1.9 percent, Nikon Corp adding 1.2 percent and Advantest Corp advancing 1.5 percent. Otsuka Holdings soared 2.3 percent after the drugmaker and H Lundbeck A/S submitted a new drug application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for "brexpiprazolea", a drug to treat schizophrenia and depression. The broader Topix gained 0.9 percent to 1,276.33 and the JPX-Nikkei Index 400 advanced 0.9 percent to 11,609.19. (Editing by Kim Coghill)


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Deborah Harris, Public Affairs and Media Relations Chief
District 7 losing its public face.
When District 7 Public Affairs and Media Relations Chief Deborah Harris started working for Caltrans 20 years ago, one of her biggest challenges was overcoming her shyness.
Huh? Who knew? Certainly not the legions of employees, members of the public, media, elected officials and representatives from other agencies that have encountered her gracious demeanor and heard her booming laugh.
"Having to deal with people who are irate or have differing needs is a great way to get over yourself," Harris said. "I did it because I didn't have a choice – it was part of the job--and over time it got better."
While many of us "end up" in our positions for various reasons, Harris has been fortunate to have worked for the agency she chose in a job that interested her. When she first came to Caltrans from another state agency, where she was headed for layoff, she took a demotion in order to get a foothold in the communications field.
"I was first offered a Right of Way Agent position, which I turned down because of the long commute, and then offered a position in public information," she said. "I accepted the commute for the opportunity to do something I thought I might really enjoy."
Harris started in District 12 as an Assistant Caltrans Administrator but, despite having no experience in this line of work, she was upgraded 90 days later to Associate, bringing her back to her previous level.
Then came the ping-pong years: After a year in District 12, she transferred to District 8, where she spent five years, some of those working for now-District 7 External Affairs Director Deborah Robertson; then, it was back to District 12 for a promotion to Public Affairs Chief; two years later, it was back to District 8 (where Harris resides) to be chief there; and then….she was asked to take a temporary position in District 7 just until a permanent chief could be found—six months, tops. That was nine years ago.
"What has kept me interested all this time is that this is such a large and varied district with so many issues, challenges and opportunities," Harris, a native Angelino, said. "Los Angeles is one of the largest media markets in the world."
Media here are pretty aggressive, she said, as opposed to Districts 8 and 12 where they seemed at that time more inclined to work with Caltrans to get the word out. After first coming to District 7 "it seemed like there were non-stop interviews – I had to appear like I knew what I was talking about even though someone had just briefed me an hour before." Gradually, as other members of the Public Affairs unit took on more media duties, it became easier, she added.
During the last 20 years, Harris has seen changes to the role of public affairs within Caltrans. "Increasingly, the Department has recognized the need to speak with one voice, and they are relying on Public Affairs to help craft our messages. The Department realizes the vital role the public plays in project delivery," she said. "The Public affairs unit is one of the most important in the Department because we have an obligation to keep the public informed of our activities and our possible effects on their lives." A current project involves translating the District 7 website into Chinese, Spanish, Korean and Armenian. The web will be up and running in Spanish and Mandarin by the end of June.
Within the division, there have been major changes brought about by technology. When Harris first started, they were just transitioning to computers. "There are so many different ways to reach out to the public now, such as virtual conferencing, webinars, Facebook, Twitter and blogs," she said. "Speaking of which, we will be launching a District 7 blog, The Caltrans Connector, in the very near future, so stay tuned."
In fact, dear readers, this will be the last monthly issue of Inside 7 as we transition to keeping you informed via the blog. Inside 7 will begin publishing bi-monthly in August.
In other news, this will also be the last appearance by Harris in a Caltrans publication as she is retiring on June 30. "I'm planning to do all the things I didn't have a chance to do when I was working every day," she said, including working out, learning upholstery, spending more time with her grandchild, volunteering at her church and traveling to such places as South Africa, Europe (Tuscany, in particular) and the Caribbean ("always my favorite").
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GNC (GNC) was downgraded at Deutsche Bank to hold from buy. Twelve-month price target is $40. Company has a lackluster outlook for the remainder of the year, Deutsche Bank said.
Hilton (HLT) was upgraded at Morgan Stanley to overweight. Twelve-month price target is $27. Company has strong fundamentals and there is upside for Waldorf Astoria valuation, Morgan Stanley said.
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On Radio: Holiday music returns to the airwaves
Published 10:00 pm, Wednesday, November 21, 2007
If Christmas music isn't your thing, the radio might not be your place for the next month.
Two stations in particular won't be to your liking, as they're continuing their tradition of playing nothing but Christmas songs from now through the holiday.
Soft-rock station KRWM- FM/106.9 switched to all-Christmas last Friday, while contemporary-Christian format KCMS- FM/105.3 makes the switch the day after Thanksgiving (it plays both secular and religious holiday music).
KCMS program director Scott Valentine doesn't believe listeners will be burned out on Christmas tunes for the more than four weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas. "Last year we eased into it," Valentine says, only to find the station lost some listeners "because we didn't go all Christmas."
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Christmas music figures prominently on other stations. "We have such a great variety of country Christmas and standards," says Becky Brenner, program director at KMPS-FM/94.1. The station will emphasize Christmas tunes -- four or five an hour -- on the weekends, backing off a bit during the week, and adding more religious-themed songs closer to the holiday.
Favorite Christmas tunes include Kathy Mattea's "Mary Did You Know," George Strait's "Christmas Cookies," 3 of Hearts' "Christmas Shoes" and "All I Want for Christmas Is You" by Vince Vance and the Valiants.
As for that other "standard" -- "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" -- "we hate to play it, but we do it, anyway -- very sporadically," Brenner says.
"We play a few of the great rock Christmas songs," says KISW-FM/99.9 program director Dave Richards. "There are not a ton of them, but there are some."
KING-FM/98.1 will be adding classical Christmas pieces to its main broadcast, but it's also launching all-Christmas programming on its HD-2 channel, beginning the day after Thanksgiving.
Program director Bryan Lowe says KING-FM has long discussed the multichannel capabilities of the HD technology to provide specialized programming within the classical format. "This is the first step in that direction," he says.
Lowe says KING-FM plans to launch another classical-music HD channel in January.
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Rising visitor numbers, innovative events and activities and a thoroughly warm welcome – all of these have combined to help Watford Museum win a VisitEngland Accreditation, or Quality Rose Marque, for the fifth year running.
"It's really lovely," says Sarah Priestley, the museum's heritage and arts manager and curator, "and it adds to Watford's parks having Green Flags, and our nightlife having a Purple Flag."
The museum, housed in the former Benskins Brewery Mansion on Lower High Street, is the only accredited visitor attraction in the borough of Watford, and Sarah is in no doubt as to how it earned the award.
"The most important thing is the welcome," she says. "You step through the door and immediately you feel it's your museum. We're here to help you enjoy the museum experience, it's your history. You look around and the staff are helping visitors with maps, telling them about the history, and giving out information about the town."
The marque has also been awarded, Sarah believes, for the museum's community work.
"We're involved in so many projects," she says. "Recently, we've done things with Wellstones, students from West Herts College, the Peace Hospice, and musicians for Dark Heart Forever, our successful music night. There are so many different people involved, it's a real hub.
"Every year they expect more," she continues, "it's not a case of 'now we've got one so we don't have to do any more'. They give you advice about what you can build on for the future.
"It's wonderful because this award acknowledges all that effort. We've got a small team of staff but a big team of volunteers – a lot of people are stakeholders and there are so many people we couldn't do it without.
"So many people have made it their museum."
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Blog Company Sugar Looks Beyond Ads for Profit
You might spend some time with Sugar, the family company that owns and runs 16 blogs aimed at young women, and leave thinking its properties have the collective editorial heft of a strand of silk. Or you might see in Sugar an unusually canny media play that, with remarkable speed, attracted major advertisers—Mattel (MAT), Microsoft (MSFT), Neiman Marcus, I could go on—and diversified its revenues to a degree that most companies would envy. Since its formation four years ago, the San Francisco-based Sugar has gone from a simple blog to an ad-supported blog to a company that, according to co-founder Brian Sugar, last year derived 40% its revenues from non-advertising sources, thanks to an e-commerce technology it licenses and a platform that aspiring bloggers can use.
All this started—in the classic new-media equivalent of being discovered working at an ice cream shop—when Lisa Sugar, then 29 and employed by ad agency Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, began blogging about her celebrity obsession on a site she called PopSugar. At the time, her prior writing experience was largely restricted to e-mails and term papers. In a less classic fashion, Sugar, the company, came about a year later, when her husband, Brian, was working at a telecom company but mulling a media startup. "We basically took a lot of women's magazines and we sorted them by circulation and ad dollars," says Brian. "Glamour. Lucky. InStyle. Us. People. Bam! [We thought,] 'Let's go after that.'" They did, with $15 million from NBC Universal (disclosure: I am a paid contributor to its cable channel CNBC) and major venture capital firm Sequoia Capital.
Sugar's editorial voice skews so earnest and chipper—Lisa and Brian have both long stressed its blogs are snide-free zones—that it actually seems slightly dull by the standards of the Web. And it can't exactly go toe-to-toe with the titles Brian mentioned. Sugar's roughly $10 million of revenue last year would amount to a pretty bad single issue for People. Still, PopSugar started running ads in late 2006—Neiman Marcus bought the first ones—and PopSugar's spawn quickly proliferated: There's FabSugar (fashion), LilSugar (parenting), CasaSugar (home), GeekSugar (technology)...you get the idea. (Sugar trademarked KarmaSugar and AirSugar for future launches that would focus on volunteerism and travel, although Brian says the latter blog might also be called JetSugar.)
Its funding enabled acquisitions, most notably the shopping site ShopStyle. There, among other things, users can click on galleries of celebrity outfits to be directed to retailers' sites that sell those goods, or close replicas. Sugar gets a small fee either when a reader clicks through or when a related sale takes place, depending on how retailers' deals are structured. (Sugar also licenses ShopStyle's technology to InStyle's site, as well as those of other magazines it originally targeted.) In October, Sugar launched OnSugar, a platform on which bloggers can self-publish. OnSugar's platform enables Sugar to sell ads across all blogs published on it—and it allows users to take advantage of ShopStyle technology, thus opening additional ways for Sugar (and those bloggers) to wring revenue from the Web. Since half of Sugar's revenue last year came from non-ad sources, evidently all those clicks add up.
Still, Sugar has had growing pains. Late last year it laid off nine of its 80 or so editorial staffers. (Brian says it did so in order to hire an ad staff, since NBC Universal is no longer handling ad sales.) And Sugar's ambitions generally have forsaken the modest for the grandiose. An early investor presentation, according to reports, said Sugar would notch $15 million in revenue in 2008 and $40 million in 2009; don't hold your breath waiting for that, kids. More recently, Sugar has signaled that it foresees one day hitting $25 million in profit, with around 40% of revenues coming from non-ad sources. (Brian would not confirm or deny revenue and profit details.) That would be a tall order, even in a good economy. But subtract out some startup hubris, and Sugar suggests an interesting way forward for media.


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Samsung Epic 4G Review: The Fastest Android Phoneby Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/6/2010 5:28 PM EST
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Ethaniel - Monday, September 06, 2010 - linkI have also noticed that all Android phones out there do some kind of "breakdancing". You think it has something to do with Android, but I think it has something to do with Java. Now, Java devs will probably want to eat my brain after this... but Java sucks. Big time. Making Android's UI based on Java was a bad, bad, really bad move. About four three time slower than C++, it demands more memory... completely inadequate for a mobile environment. Reply
meatless - Monday, September 06, 2010 - linkIt's sad, the prevalence of Java FUD to this day. It's also bad to blame Java (the syntax), as you are unnecessarily conflating the Dalvik VM with desktop VMs such as Sun's.
C++ is fast, sure, but there is a lot more to designing a platform than speed, and the Dalvik VM is more than fast enough. iOS's Obj-C implementation is also not C++ fast, but who complains? Reply
taltamir - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - link1. both Javas are shit
2. There is more to a platform then speed... but when you are designing a platform starved for processing power and that needs to sip electricity then it makes a huge difference. Reply
Penti - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - linkMost of the platform are actually C/C++ libraries and programs, where you glue your app in isn't that relevant. You need a framework for any mobile phone platform, but the resources that framework glues into thats where a lot of performance comes from and it's in C/C++. It's better to have an accelerated framework running on a virtual machine then an unaccelerated C++ one. Rendering of menus and such would be slower on the last one. Besides on Symbian it's QT-framework that rules now, not some ultra customized embedded framework. Memory requirements have gone up there too, but capacity have grown even more. Besides nobody wanted to write mobile apps to some badly designed and awkward C++ framework and API. Java syntax was a good choice therefor. Reply
taltamir - Monday, September 13, 2010 - linkthe fact that there are more considerations than just programming language when it comes to power and speed are obvious, as is that you could make a java app thats faster than a C++ app.
Neither make java a good choice.
BTW, I didn't personally comment about the issue of jerkiness, I was going on a tangent as a reply to what meatless said (specifically the socalled "java FUD") Reply
zizagoo - Monday, September 06, 2010 - linkIt's an Android problem. The cause of the "jerkiness" is that unlike iOS/WebOS/WP7, Android doesn't have a gpu accelerated ui. They supposedly did this because the G1 wouldn't support it at the time.
Gingerbread, which is supposedly showcased next month, should fix this. Reply
deputc26 - Monday, September 06, 2010 - linkThankyou! this is exactly it, give the man a medal. I don't know why Anandtech never mentions this. It should be ubiquitous knowledge in the android community. Reply
meatless - Monday, September 06, 2010 - linkAlso, the 3-4X speed difference on non-mobile platforms is greatly exaggerated. I always find http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/ a fun and FUD-free site. Reply
Iksy - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - linkGreatly exagerated? That site shows a 2.3x speed difference and it's comparring against Sun's fastest most optimizing version against g++. The unoptimized version is over 20x slower, you'll find it near the bottom of the list for compares. I do find it interesting that while they're satisfied with using an open source C (gnu) compiler, they do not include the open source java interpreter. They also do not include the Intel C compiler, even though they easily could and include the Intel Fortran compiler.
In other words, is still in the ball park so say Java is 3-4x slower than the equivalent c++ code. Reply
dvinnen - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - linkWait, so the Java syntax is what is slowing down Android? Because it doesn't run Java, it runs Dalvik.
I would also like to see evidence that C++ is 4 times faster. Not saying Java is faster but it is fast enough. I say that as a Java developer who doesn't like the language and would rather use slower languages like Python Reply
medi01 - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - linkJava's JIT could create code that is faster than C/C++. Because unlike C++ compiler, it also has runtime info about executables, it could know for sure, which of the if branches is more likely to be true, for instance.
The only part of Java that was much slower than C++ was (and I think still is) sin/cos related functions. Since Sun had to guarantee "runs anywhere" with the exactly the same results, instead of using CPU's features they "manually" calculate it. Reply
Voo - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - linkWell java WAS slow - around ten years ago, but people have already made up their mind, it's hard to get new ideas into some heads. Though the lack of a JIT in dalvik hampered performance, but that's hardly something where you can blame the language for..
Ah, just like all those people who still believe that manual memory managment is inherently faster than GC.. Reply
medi01 - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - linkJava is not inherently slower than C++, but it does need more memory.
The problem with Androids up to 2.2 was Dalvik VM that had no JIT. Reply
designerfx - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - linkwhat a brilliant troll, or accidental. I'm not sure, but plenty of debunked this.
What really brings down the entire samsung line of phones is that the GPS is horrible. I have one myself, and have the same issue on the vibrant as on the epic. Samsung really screwed the GPS up bigtime. Reply
lwatcdr - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - linkWell when faced with such a brilliant technical argument like "but Java sucks. Big time" what can one say.
Is an article from back in 2004 about how those idiots at NASA used Java to control the Spirit rover on Mars.
If only they had you available to show them how to do right.
Man I get sick of this crap. I heard the same thing way back when. People complaining when programmers used high level languages to write programs instead of assembly.
The thing is that it was all silliness just as it is now.
What really counts isn't the language but the programmer using it.
Android's speed issues tend to because by.
1. Not using the GPU for the UI
2. Using multitasking from the start.
IOS has only just now gotten official multitasking and even that is limited.
But really just drop the Reply
Iksy - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - linkUmm... to be clear, this is just the user interface used on Earth, which is something Java does well. The rovers themseves are controlled using VxWorks RTOS. VxWorks itself is written in C or C++ I believe. Reply
Ethaniel - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - linkWell, it's not the kind of technical argument everyone would like, but it gets to the point. Anand reviewed like half a dozen of Android phones, all with the same problem. So, or the companies are making exactly the same mistake with each and every model they launch, or Java is to blame. And no, I'm not trolling because I do want to Android to succeed. A troll is based on hate, and it usually doesn't check back the thread he/she started. And you haven't seen a single insult in this thread, right? ;) Reply
ktwebb - Monday, September 06, 2010 - linkSounds like an IPhone Fanboy that is trying his best to be subjective. Samsung actually did not get it right performance wise. They use an antiquated and slow file system. For a pleasurable UI experience on Android, the N1 is still king, especially on 2.2. The only way the samsung galaxy variants fly is with root access and ext2, 3 or 4 fixes. there are GPS fixes as well however where Samsung let down actually is in the UI with Touchwiz and their ridiculous homage to Apple. No wonder this twit liked it. Android people IMMEDIATELY change the launcher. Anyway, the Hardware on the Galaxy S is excellent. Samsung did their best to eff it up and only with tweaks and root level access is it a really strong phone. Google and Androids main problem is OS sprawl and fragmentation. They get that cleaned up and the IPhone 4 is a distant second mobile OS. Right now, with the clear advantages Android phones have, specifically customization and an open source community among others, it's essentially a wash. It's about what you prefer and are comfortable with. I'm an Android guy because I like to make my phone do what I want it to, not what Jobs wants my phone to be. Reply
StealthX32 - Monday, September 06, 2010 - linkktwebb, I don't think Anand reviewed it w/ the ext2 FS hack/fix (whatever you want to call it). The UI speed is fine from the factory; it's much better than the EVO 4G (even with Froyo) and on par w/ the N1, just not as good as it *could* be once you root it and fix the filesystem. Reply
ktwebb - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - linkN1 Froyo is faster than stock Galaxy S Variants. And yeah, he didn't review with hacks and I certainly understand why he wouldn't. Shouldn't need them. But that is a Samsung issue, not Android. Samsung has the potential for a very good handset with the Galaxy S. They are trying their best to eff it up though. I haven't played with the EVO but had android phones since the G1 inception. The N1 was the best UI experience after Froyo was pushed. And far better than any IPHone I've used, although my experience with 4 is limited. Reply
Dane74 - Monday, September 06, 2010 - linkMy Epic is fine but the GPS is not, and the fixes out there for the other Galaxies are irrelevant to Epic, which has new, different, and in many ways, worse, GPS problems. Samsung has issued one single recommendation for the poor GPS on Epic: turn on cellular tower location estimates. Some fix!
I am no iPhone fan. i can't stand them or the people who use them. But the GPS problems on the Epic are real. For starters look at the pics posted in this review. They are consistent with what anyone who tests the GPS finds -- the GPS reception hardware itself on Epic is weak. Look at that satellite strength.
Epic's other GPS problem is that frequent resets are required, as Epic does not discard expired GPS assistance data, and does not attempt to get new assistance data, often causing complete inability to get a GPS fix, even when many satellites are in view. Reply
Desslok - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - link<q>I am no iPhone fan. i can't stand them or the people who use them...</q>
WOW! Way to be an asshat of epic scale. Just because I have an iPhone you can't stand me? I thought only Apple users were supposed to be such arrogant asses? Reply
medi01 - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - linkI also can't stand you. In my opinion by agreeing to use hardware with unbelievably draconian restrictions (not being able to copy stuff from my own device? not being able to copy stuff to my own device from more than one source? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?), you are asking form even more crap in the future. Reply
Desslok - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - linkYet again the users on this site do not understand how most people use their phones and their way is the only way. Like bearxor has said in a later post most people take the phone out of the box and start using it. They don't root it and then start tweaking it.
For what i use my phone for the iPhone works for me, am I saying it is the best phone/OS of all time of course not; it has it flaws. I am also not bashing anyone who uses any other type of phone/OS, It is a freakin phone/OS people it isn't that important.
Medi01-Hate if you want, but the iPhone works for me. Have fun judging others on material things, let me know how that works out for you in the future. Reply
ktwebb - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - linkI didn't say the GPS problems weren't valid. I just mentioned fixes were available. Multiple "Fixes" Unsatisfactory to ship their phones with broken GPS but that's Samsung. But once again, that's a hit on Samsung, not on the OS. Reply
bearxor - Monday, September 06, 2010 - linkWhy does everyone on sites like this think their way is the only thing people will do. Do you really think a lot of people are going to buy a phone and then root it and then tweak it?
Most people are going to buy the phone, take it out of the box and begin using it. Heck, before switching to an iPhone in 2008, I used a Treo 700wx for two years, the longest I had ever used a WinMo device at a time, because I just got so sick and tired of HTC's crap. I was always having to reset the phone. Switch out ROMs on the phone. I never knew if a phone call was going to come through on a PPC-6600 or PPC-6700. Enough already!
I know that makes me less of a "geek" but I was cooking roms and flashing devices before a lot of people even discovered regular phones with qwerty keyboards on them.
I found this review to be a great example of what I would expect of the phone if I were to march down to a Sprint store, picked one up and started using it right away. That's all I really want from my phone. For it to do the functions that it's advertised to do. Reply
nermie - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - linkI think you also forget what website we are at. Just last a couple weeks ago there was an article on tuning your memory using a custom made bios. Every article on computer hardware usually covers the intended consumer point of view first, and then gets right into dissecting and tweaking the hardware to squeeze every last drop of performance out of it. Seems like kind of a shame to not at least mention how much faster the phone can be if you do a few things such as overclock the cpu or a file system fix. Reply
erple2 - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - linkNormally, I'd completely agree with you. However, taking the phone as a complete package, I think that Anand has done a good job in reviewing the phone as you get it, and not post tweaking.
While it may be common to buy a motherboard and CPU then tweak it until you squeeze the maximum amount of power out of it, it's less common to do that with a laptop.
Similarly, not very many people buy a Dell then go into overclocking options with it (since it's not necessarily as easy to do on a Dell than a home-assembled computer).
But I do agree that there's a myriad of things that can be done to the phone after the fact. I'd wager that it's possible Anandtech is coming up with a "Android tweaking" article at some point in the future that goes into some small detail of the things that are available to the end user, and how those can impact performance of the phone to the end user. Reply
ktwebb - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - linkThat's fair. I've said in multiple posts Samsung blew it releasing this phone before properly QA testing. I think you missed my point however. Reply
dvinnen - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - linkDon't like the fan boy accusations but he does bring up a point. With the lag fixes it does benchmark a lot faster (Look up One Click Lag Fix on the market, will root your phone and install the lag fix and GPS fix). Have to wonder how it will fly with 2.2 Reply
MJinZ - Monday, September 06, 2010 - linkIt's an interesting review since it starts out with some good words and ends with, what my impression is - well it's a POS.
And I'm sorry Samsung, but a phone needs to last more than 5 minutes and a GPS needs to work. We really could not care about it looking like a damn iPhone. Hell, people buy iPhones for that.
Try harder Sammy. Reply
zizagoo - Monday, September 06, 2010 - linkThere seems to be an agreement amongst high-end Android users that battery life is terrible within the first two weeks, but then significantly improves after the battery has been conditioned. It's possible that due to the short review period, this never get's a chance to happen, causing an under report of the battery life.
It would be fascinating if you did a follow up later on to determine if this is true. Reply
StealthX32 - Monday, September 06, 2010 - linkThe functional battery life is pretty long. I can pull 1.5-2 days if my use is limited (maybe 20 minutes of calling, 20 or so text messages, little to no browsing). The Hummingbird really does sip power when it's idle.
If you're hammering away at it for 4 straight hours, then the battery life is pretty poor. Reply
strikeback03 - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - linkBut other than emergency situations, are you really going to have a phone like this and only use it that little? I've mentioned before, I wish they could come up with some type of "real-life" battery test that would include a certain amount of talk, text, web, video, etc. per hour. For example, I would be surprised if the battery in my HTC Diamond lasts much more than 2 hrs in 3G browsing, but in my usual day (5-10 min talk, 80-100 text, few MMS, 10-15 min web, many times turned on to check the time) it generally has 20-30% still showing when I put it back on the charger after 15-16 hrs. Reply
Dane74 - Monday, September 06, 2010 - linkOn battery break in: with Lithium based batteries, break in is negligible. The observed better second week battery life comes from playing with less features.
I expected better battery life than my spouse's Evo, due to more efficient power usage of the Epic's processor as well as its screen. We found the battery life to be equal, my impression from behavior of both in weak signal areas is that Epic's voice, 3g and its 4G reception is slightly worse than Evo which will cause some additional drain on power. Reply
gvaley - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - linkMy personal experience (6+ device batteries so far, including phones, cameras) shows a 1,8-2x battery life improvement after 3-4 charge-discharge cycles. And it's definitely not due to unbalanced usage. The same holds true for both Lithium-Ion and Lithium-Polymer batteries, although the more I think about it, the more I convince myself that Lithium-Polymer are more susceptible to break in. Reply
Ratman6161 - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - linkI've got an original Droid now running Android 2.2. A while back I picked up a couple of spare batteries cheap online. These are identical to the one that came in the phone. When I swapped in one of the new batteries it was showing up as fully charged already. I started rotating the three batteries every Friday to keep approximately equal usage on each one.
I never really noticed any difference. Then again I wasn't specifically looking for that and did not do any kind of test. Reply
AdamPflug - Monday, September 06, 2010 - linkI have the Samsung Captivate (not the Epic 4G), but it's still in the galaxy S line. I noticed that I needed at least 3 complete charge/discharge cycles before I got reasonable battery life out of the phone. It wasn't a decrease in usage either, I made sure I kept my usage patterns consistent.
My experience with the Captivate now is that I can listen to podcasts all day, read all my work email, do some web browsing, and still have around 60% battery left at 10pm. If they could just fix the GPS issues with a software patch (they say they're going to sometime in September, along with an upgrade to 2.2) the I'll be extremely happy.
Also, I've been pretty happy with the brightness of my Captivate, I wonder if the review took into account the separate brightness settings for the browser app? Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - linkThese results were all recorded after discharging the phone more than 3 times (each test was run multiple times). Note that 4 hours of continuous usage can often times yield a pretty long real world battery life depending on your usage pattern. That being said, a phone that gets 8 hours in our tests will obviously last longer with the same usage pattern. While the Epic 4G's battery life may be sufficient, it's lower than we'd like to see for a modern smartphone.
And thank you for the correction on the browser brightness setting, that's why the screen looked dimmer at full brightness by comparison. In that shot the Epic 4G's screen was set to approximately 20% brightness. I've made the appropriate correction in the review and credited you with the heads up :)
Take care,
Anand Reply
gvaley - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - linkAnand, the poor battery life is probably due to Sprint. Other reviews (of the European 3G galaxy S) show maybe the best battery life among Androids. Check this test from a very reputable site: http://blog.gsmarena.com/samsung-i9000-galaxy-s-fu... Reply
Alexo - Thursday, September 09, 2010 - linkI agree with gvally, this discrepancy between the results should be explained. Reply
jasperjones - Monday, September 06, 2010 - linkUltimately if you're trying to give someone a more iOS-like experience on an Android phone, Samsung gets the job done.
more iOS-like experience? do not want Reply
dvinnen - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - linkLuckly because it is Android and you can do what you like with it there are home screen replacements on the market. I use the open source ADW replacement and got rid of the iOS knock off crap Reply
spathotan - Monday, September 06, 2010 - linkTouchWiz is the sole reason im avoiding these phones. HTC still has the best UI and their devices run good without having to root and use bootloaders.
The device is a total failure if you have to root it and use hacks/bootloaders to get it to perform "good". Reply
StealthX32 - Monday, September 06, 2010 - linkHey, at least it's easy to root... ;)
It's 2 steps versus 30 or so that you need to on the EVO 4G.
That said, I do agree with you; the product should be judged as released. Reply
Dane74 - Monday, September 06, 2010 - linkSprint has excellent warranty. they handle it in store themselves for warrantable problems for free for one year even if you purchase NO protection plan. So rooting it, which voids warranty if detected, carreis some risk of a lost substantial benefit. Reply
sprockkets - Monday, September 06, 2010 - linkThat's the problem with Samsung. Motorola's CEO (or someone high up) called them Samesung. They are like the KIA of smartphones, copying Honda.
That being said, I might check up on the Vibrant. Then again, a more vanilla G2 is just around the corner. Reply
afkrotch - Monday, September 06, 2010 - linkActually, phones like these have been out a while now. Just not in the US. The Galaxy S looks the same most of the other Samsung phones that have been on the Korean market for the past 1-2 years.
I would have much preferred the Samsung Haptic Pop, than the Galaxy S. Sadly, we'll never see the Haptic Pop in the states. I have the T-Mobile Galaxy S. It feels too much like an iPhone. Only thing I like, the AMOLED screen. Reply
bearxor - Monday, September 06, 2010 - linkSure you haven't been watching too much 30 Rock? In the beginning of Season 3, Will Arnett's character claims that he 'sold the E (in GE) to Samsung. They're Samesung now."
That's the only place I've heard anything like that. Reply
bigboxes - Monday, September 06, 2010 - linkAs a Palm Pre user I know the pain of poor battery life. I thought the Super AMOLED display was suppose to improve batter life by almost double over the EVO. What happened? As far as the Pre goes I have mine o/c to 800Mhz and it's very snappy. Add the almost cooperative nature of Palm to the homebrew community means that I can customize my phone to make up for the OS shortcomings. The GPS on the Pre is craptastic as well. Hopefully, Palm will improve on these when they release new models this fall. Reply
dvinnen - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - linkI bet it has to do with the 4G/WiFi-MAX radio. I have a Vibrant and the battery life is fine Reply
Milind - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - linkI think that's possible since my Vibrant gives me about 6-7 hours of battery life with full brightness and the screen consumes about 70-80% of my battery as per the battery usage view. I don't care since I'm typically around a charger so I set it at max brightness. But if I were to lower the brightness, I should easily be able to go for the whole day. Even at 0 brightness, the screen is surprisingly usable.
I have also noticed that the only thing that drains battery faster than the screen (in my G1 as well), is if it has to hunt for a phone signal. At one time, my G1 was draining battery in about 2-3 hours, which was awful even by the G1's sorry battery life standard. It turned out to be because I was using a SIM card of a provider that had very poor coverage at the location. As soon as I swapped the SIM with another carrier, the battery life went back up. So it's possible that Sprint's causing the phones to go back and forth between 2g, 3G and 4G signals causing the battery to drain faster. It might be worthwhile to go into the Mobile Networks settings and use only 2G network to check the battery drain. Obviously this would just be to test the hypothesis. It would be stupid to buy this phone and use it only in 2G mode. Reply
jamawass - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - linkThe GPS on my Pre Plus is perfect. Reply
Voldenuit - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - linkThanks for reviewing the Galaxy S, Anand!
Probably the most requested review here. I'm actually glad that the battery life turned out to be abysmal - it helped me make up my mind about an otherwise desirable phone.
Let me explain: My fiancée had two dead Samsung Blackjacks within one warranty period. My Samsung Spinpoint F1 is dying. My mother just junked a dead Samsung TV (5 yrs old). To be perfectly frank, I have ZERO confidence in Samsung products, and the build quality of the Galaxy gives me no reason to revise that opinion.
Fortunately, the poor battery life gives me a legitimate excuse not to buy this, and I won't feel like I am missing out on anything because of a possibly irrational aversion. Sure, it's nice to have a fast phone, but by the time apps come out that make meaningful use of this, there will be *much* faster phones on the market. Buying for future-proofing is not a smart idea in the smartphone space. Reply
Voldenuit - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - linkPS Still looking for that 'perfect' (Android) smartphone. Evo 4G is too big and power hungry, Droid X plans are too expensive.
Something like the recently announced Droid Defy might work, if only it didn't have eFuse, Motoblur, and wasn't tied to a sucky carrier.
I'm perfectly willing to wait 1 year on a post-paid phone plan for a decent phone to come out. Even the Torch would work for me, though probably not for the missus.
First and foremost for me is that it should be a phone above all things and 'smart' second. If you're going to chew the battery life tweeting and watching youtube on it, then have no juice to call AAA when you break down on the highway, it's useless to me. Integration with social apps is also something of a nightmare for me - there are people I may enjoy hanging out with on social occasions, but that doesn't mean I wish to know what they are eating, thinking, drinking or (bodily function deleted) during office hours. Somebody, please get this. So far, only Blackberry seems to. Fortunately, most other BB users are sober/boring enough that BBM is a good way to communicate for the dour, buttoned-down crowd. :p Reply
Mike1111 - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - linkI think it's worth mentioning that SuperAMOLED is officially a Samsung smartphone exclusive until 2012 (IMHO mostly because of limited AMOLED manufacturing capacity until the new Samsung OLED fab is up and running in 2012) . So you won't see it anywhere else in the near future. So please people, don't bitch about missing Super AMOLEDs in every smartphone that's coming in the next 18 months... Reply
Mike1111 - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - linkAnand, your mixing your SGX versions when mentioning the OMAP3630. One time it's SGX535, the next SGX530. I think SGX530 is correct. Reply
Milind - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - link>>
Thankfully Samsung provides a setting to sync these two so both the screen and buttons go blank at the same time, but it's just not enabled by default.
I have seen this posted a couple of times, but I can't find any such setting on my Vibrant. Is it on the Epic? Can someone provide a little detail on exactly where this setting is? The timeout for lighting the buttons is just too short and very annoying. Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - linkOn the Epic it's here:
Settings -> Sound & Display -> Keyboard timeout (last option in the list) -> Same as screen timeout
Take care,
Anand Reply
Milind - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - linkThanks Anand. That option is not present on the Vibrant. The last option on the Vibrant for Sound and Display is TV out. Hopefully, it will be part of the Froyo update. Reply
Chaitanya - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - linkGPS receiver on almost all Samsung phones is bad. Its no surprise that Epic 4G is an epic fail when it came to GPS performance. Reply
medi01 - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - linkThe Apple fanboism in anandtech's articles is getting more and more annoying... :(
"The move to Super AMOLED is key. With Super AMOLED the Epic 4G improves outdoor usability significantly."
To bad we can't see it on the pictures you've made. Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - linkI believe this shot illustrates the huge improvement over standard AMOLED displays:
Glare/reflections have been reduced significantly.
Take care,
Anand Reply
pervisanathema - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - linknoticed this on page 2:
"The back cover snaps off with relative ease revealing the 1500mAh battery, a microSD card slow."
I'm sure you mean slot instead of slow. :) Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - linkThanks for the correction :)
Take care,
Anand Reply
DoubleVanos - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - linkBattery life seems fine on my AT&T Captivate to be honest. It can easily go on for a full day with a lot of usage. It must be a Sprint thing I guess. Reply
MaxMax - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - linkWTF !
I don't know why always Sprint and Verizon gets the best Android phones comparing to T-Mobile and AT&T !!
This one have flash LED while the other galaxy s doesn't !! Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - linkHaha yep, fixed! Thank you! Reply
vision33r - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - linkThere's a very good reason RIM and Apple have lower clocked CPUs, Apple's A4 processor is running only at 60% of it's full clock speed.
Battery life.
Remember smartphones are still phones and talk time is more important than mhz.
Most Blackberrys still run under 500MHZ and they do email, web browsing, and light apps just fine.
Why would Android need 1.2GHZ just to run apps? What apps need 1.2GHZ?
That's just not efficient design for mobile apps. Reply
bplewis24 - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - linkI guess I'm one of the lucky ones. I must own the only Android phone that is just as fast as my girlfriend's iPhone3GS or my colleagues iPhone4 with no more in the way of choppy animations and stuttering than they have.
Brandon Reply
dk99 - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - linkWhy is it so easy to see the pixels on the epic's screen? It seems annoying.
Look at the first picture on the display page on Anand's article.
http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/gadgets/Samsun... Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - linkThe camera/lighting plus running the screen at full brightness exaggerates pixel pitch a bit but remember this device has the same resolution as the Nexus One but with a larger screen.
Take care,
Anand Reply
dk99 - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - linkI had a chance to check out an Epic 4g at the local sprint store and compared it to the Evo screen. The pixels were more easily seen on the Epic and it did bother me, but I guess it may not bother others as much.
Here is a picture from another review site demonstrating the pixels:
Anand, Thank you for a great website. Reply
Aigoo - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - linkPentile RGBG
:( Reply
pvdw - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - linkYou mention the problem with jerkiness on Android phones, but I find my Desire is wonderfully smooth. It's almost exactly the same hardware as the Incredible, but with better build quality, and I've found no SMS scrolling problems.
My Desire is unbranded, so there's no junk from operators like Sprint, etc. installed. Maybe this makes a difference?
And I manage to easily get a days worth of business use out of it - remote access, phone calls, web, etc. 30 hrs on lighter use.
I sure would love to have a better gpu, like the Galaxy S, and, more importantly, a screen that I can see in daylight without squinting. Reply
joncat - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - linkI wouldn't say that the SGX 540 is a waste of hardware today. While there are nowhere near the amount of 3d games that IOS has, there are several high quality titles that run great on the galaxy s. Need for Speed Shift and the Sims 3 HD by EA, NOVA, Sandstorm, Assasin's Creed, Hero of Sparta, Asphalt5, to name a few by Gameloft all run great at native resolution, which can't be said for phones like the EVO and Incredible that run on the Snapdragon SOC. Reply
Mumrik - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - linkI absolutely love that we're back to using Quake 3 as a GPU performance benchmark.
It stuck around for a long ass time in the first place and now it's back :-D Reply
Mumrik - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - linkAnand, is there a reason you don't test standby battery life?
It's a pretty essential number...
Even if it prevents you from getting the review up fast, you could always just post the review and add the data later after averaging out 2-3 tests. Reply
SomeAudioGuy - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - linkOk, so I've had an Epic 4G for about three weeks now. Battery life is completely on par for any other smartphone in this segment.
I did switch my background to a darker one (the tent with star trails), but other than that I've done very little to mod the device. I don't even use ATK or juicedefender, and I use the built in auto backlight setting to manage brightness. I did not use any 4G today.
I pulled the phone off my charger at 7am, it's 4pm now. I streamed two hours of Pandora, made one 30 minute phone call and three 5 minute phone calls. Took three pictures and uploaded them to twitpic, have been using Tuiteur, facebook, and checking email on 4 different gmail accounts (with background sync enabled). Spent five minutes yelping a spot for lunch. Played about 15 minutes worth of games (GalCon Flight Control, and Simple Dice), helped debug a wireless router (which required about 20 minutes of wi-fi use), and just spent the last 5 minutes looking up geocaches in my area.
My battery is at 35%.
I would term my use as "moderate".
There's absolutely nothing wrong with the battery life on the Epic 4G. Nothing at all for a phone this powerful and with a screen this large.
GPS is a pain, but I find if I turn off GPS throughout the day, and turn it back on before I start an app that requires GPS, i get locks fast enough, and I'm usually down to about 3 meters accurate.
Maybe it's just the signal in Anand's area, but I've gotten better battery life with both EVO and Epic, and even though we TECHNICALLY don't get 4G in LA, when you find pockets of 4G access we're currently getting 4+Mbps down.
Lastly if you're going to review a keyboard slider phone, maybe give the phone to someone who isn't quite so lit on iPhones, and likes to use a hardware keyboard? Just a thought? Exactly TWO sentences are spent on what is quite possibly one of the best keyboards on the market today. No small feat considering this is NOT an HTC phone. No mention of the dedicated number row (who really likes pushing a function key)? No comparison to any other hardware keyboards? Really? Nothing? Reply
Dane74 - Wednesday, September 08, 2010 - linknot ot call BS, on your GPS findings butt eh are out of wahck with all the testing using testing applicaitons. There are several serious problems with Epics GPS. And actually a number of them show up becasue of switching the GPS off. Go to XDA, or androidforums and you will see discussions.
Your 3 meters accurate is Epic fooling you since it has already been shown the Epic is cooking those numbers..
Look at the pictures published by anantech, or others. Pictures of side by side comparisons showing nubmer of satellites used by the Epic show the serious problem. Reply
SomeAudioGuy - Monday, September 20, 2010 - linkHey Dane74,
Here's the deal. I've had the phone for three weeks BEFORE it was officially released (I also write for a tech blog). You can look at pictures of SOMEONE else using metric apps, and trying to tally measurements in lab-like conditions, or you can use the phone.
You know what, lets look at Anand's pic. Next to the Nexus 1, it's off by 30m, but has found one additional satellite over the N1. It's only locked to 3 satellites, but is reading better signals from the other satellites it hasn't locked. SO this is probably not a hardware issue (if we're to base EVERYTHING on one pic published by a reviewer that doesn't seem to like this phone that much).
I GeoCache A LOT. Using the GPS in the phone to geocache in really challenging environments to get good satellite line of sight (like the canyons in LA), I'm still within 5 meters. This is comparing the on screen data to map and compass.
Samsung might have issues, but it isn't "Fooling" me. They haven't written any malicious software, they aren't trying to hurt you, they aren't trying to trick you, they aren't evil-ly twiddling their fingers laughing "Muah-ha-ha" style at their customers while petting white cats. They've admitted they have some software issues, and are working on a patch.
My locks do take longer than my EVO, but are CONSIDERABLY faster than my Fascinate (Yes. I have all of these phones.) If the EVO is more accurate, I can't tell when I'm outside or doing turn by turn navigation. Truthfully, for all of the advantages that the Epic offers over any other phone, if it's only accurate to 4 meters and the iphone is accurate to 2 meters, the iphone can STILL shove it. I'm driving/walking/riding a bike NOT engaging in surgical missile strikes...
As to whether or not turning GPS on and off creates problems, I can't say. I haven't had any of these issues. My issues usually stem from not having good line of sight (like when I'm downtown). Reply
Jeff7181 - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - linkVery helpful review... I almost bought one of these. I was hoping with the AMOLED the battery life would be better than the Evo 4G since it actually turns off black pixels from what I hear. Unfortunately that doesn't seem to help. Looks like I'll be keeping my Curve a while longer. Reply
michael.gulde - Wednesday, September 08, 2010 - linkDidn't see much about ports on this article does it have a hdmi port? Reply
MrMaestro - Wednesday, September 08, 2010 - linkThe i9000 (international version), which I assume is the same as the Epic, has a micro-USB port. Samsung has developed a micro-USB to HDMI cable but apparently they took the Galaxy S off its compatibility list on their website, so, I think the answer is essentially no. Still, the cable isn't out yet so we'll see. Reply
DigitlDrug - Thursday, September 09, 2010 - linkHi Anand,
Thanks for another great review. I'm curious re. the supposed GPS software fix Samsung is cooking up.
Supposedly the Epic was supposed to ship with this "fix" or had at least been validated.
If you are able to dig up any additional info (maybe prod the engadget boys to see if they're testing methods are as exacting as yours, and what soft. ver they have) can you please update the article or drop in a news blurb?
(I'll admit this is a big one for me, GPS is the one sticking point as I realy heavily on it.)
- J. Reply
fookxixi - Friday, September 10, 2010 - linkThe 30m/98.4feet GPS accuracy is a well-known bug. It won't go larger nor smaller. But from my google maps, the accuracy is definitely much better than 30m, probably ~5m. My friends' Epic don't have GPS problem either. You can not rely on the accuracy shown on some test apps. Reply
Dane74 - Monday, October 18, 2010 - linkThe Epic has such widely GPS problems it is an entire section on Epic GPS issues in the Wikipedia article on it. If you are new to smart-phones, the GPS seems ok, If you know how good GPS has been on smart-phones for the past couple of years, you realize how bad Epic's is. And the picture shows the really low signal, that is the root of the problem on all the Epics.
You are new to smart-phones, that is why you think the poor GPS on Epic is ok. Reply
ELT0R0 - Saturday, September 11, 2010 - linkI've had my Epic basically since launch day, and I've noticed (and found others at xda and androidforums) that the phone has issues with both the standard 3g data and general reception.
First thing is that for some reason the phone is constantly "without a signal", meaning that for some reason it is constantly searching for a cell signal (GSM?), even in areas with great reception. This can be 'fixed' by toggling airplane mode right after initial boot, and it might even alleviate some of the battery issues since the phone is no longer searching for a signal.
Second big issue is that the 3g upload data seems to be capped at 150 kbps. I have yet to see/hear/read any Epic capable of uploading faster than that on 3g. Even with full bars in the dead of night where I've been able to hit 1700 kbps download, I still get stuck at 145 kbps upload. I know for sure that my Pre before hand could easily hit 400-500 kbps under similar conditions.
Even in the review it looks as if Anand was also hitting the 3g upload wall, but it wasn't as apparent as it appeared to just be a reception issue since the area normally only gets 500 kbps U/D and the down speed at the time of testing only hit 300 kbps.
Anand, is there any way you can test these further? Reply
Hrel - Sunday, September 12, 2010 - linkIt's too bad you didn't include the DroidX in the comparison pictures. Hopefully you will when you get the Verizon version. Reply
quickbunnie - Monday, September 13, 2010 - link"I will say that I no longer have the problem where 4G performance is worse than Sprint's 3G in my area. I usually get around 0.5/0.5Mbps on 3G, so there's a noticeable performance increase when WiMAX is enabled."
Are you sure you are getting 0.5Mbps up on 3g?
There have been no posters with speed tests that get more than about ~150kbps up on any Epic 4G phone, even when side-by-side tests of an Evo will get 700+ kbps.
http://androidforums.com/samsung-epic-4g/166945-lo... Reply
PubicTheHare - Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - linkAnand,
If you look at the XDA site you will see mention of a "lag fix" for all Galaxy S variants (US and International versions) that converts what some of the XDA guys are calling an inefficient file system.
Supposedly, the "lag fix" - there are multiple ones out there - converts the Samsung file system to something else (I believe to EXT2) and users are reporting Quadrant benchmarks that go from 800s (stock) to over 2000 post-lag-fix.
I would love for a brief commentary on this and, if possible, a word from Samsung (though I doubt they'd admit to anything).
Great review. I just got the Fascinate and love it so far. Reply
jeans_xp - Wednesday, October 20, 2010 - linkAMOLED, www.mobilegoing.com Reply
epic11 - Sunday, May 08, 2011 - linkI have had to phone replacements in the past two weeks, working on my third or a differant brad. I can not be the only person with these problems. My first phones web page wouldstick behind the main menu page. I correted it by re passting the wall paper. It would also freze. I removed and re inserted the battery to unlock ad run again. My second phone had a whole set of differant problems. It will consistantly bump three times and send me back to the main menu regardless of which app I am in. A call, web site, a game, in the middle of a email, etc. I have never dropped the phones, I have taken perfect care. This started on each phone shortly after using them for only a few minutes. I can not be the only person with such problems. Sprint just said, bring it back in for a replacement or choose another brand??? How many are being returned. To bad I really like the phone, or the idea of it.? Reply


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ROME: Sally Pearson says she is not injured despite pulling out of the Diamond League meet in Rome.
The Olympic gold medallist did not take to the track in the 100m hurdles at the Golden Gala because of a hamstring problem.
She withdrew after appearing to injure herself in the warm up.
Pearson took to Twitter to reassure her fans it was not an ongoing concern and she withdrew as a precaution.
She wrote: "disappointed I couldn't get out there and run 2night but it's a precaution that I am willing to take 2 b in the best shape possible.
"I am not injured but if I ran I either would've torn my hamstring or ran well off my best either way was not an option for me."
Pearson's withdrawal opened the door for an all-American podium as Brianna Rollins won on her Diamond League debut.
The world champion ran a year-best time of 12.53 seconds, 0.01 ahead of Dawn Harper-Nelson. Queen Harrison was third in 12.61.
Kim Mickle, the only other Australian in competition, placed third in the javelin.
Mickle threw 63.05m with her fourth attempt to finish behind Czech Barbora Spotakova (66.43m) and Slovenia's Martina Ratej (63.12).
Justin Gatlin won the 100 metres for a second straight year, while Mutaz Essa Barshim of Qatar set a meet record in topping a high-class high jump.
Gatlin, who set a year-leading time of 9.87 last month, was in front from the start and finished in 9.91, 0.11 ahead of Jamaica's Nesta Carter. Britain's Adam Gemili was third. It was a repeat of last year's success for Gatlin, who edged Usain Bolt on the line.
In the high jump, Barshim achieved a personal best as he matched the Diamond League record and year-leading height of 2.41 metres, set by Olympic champion Ivan Ukhov of Russia in Doha.
Barshim and world champion Bohdan Bondarenko of Ukraine each made three unsuccessful attempts at 2.43, which would have been a European record.
Bondarenko, who went close to the world record of 2.46 in Moscow, was second after passing on all other heights after clearing 2.34. American Erik Kynard was third with 2.31.
Ukhov cleared 2.28 but failed three times at 2.34.
In the women's 100, American Tori Bowie smashed her personal best in winning in 11.05, as two-time Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce finished only eighth.
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Everyone knows that "Thriller" was perhaps the late King of Pop Michael Jackson's greatest hit ever. When hearing the song or even thinking of it, most people think about the famous music video with the zombies dancing along with Jackson, who is dressed in a slick red and black jacket. Well, imagine if you owned that very jacket. Now you can, as it, along with other Jackson antiques are up for auction.


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Already announced to launch on the HS 250h, Lexus Enform with Safety Connect will soon become available on additional MY10 Lexus models. As of the telematics' systems official "go-live" date, which is August 1, 2009, the IS sedans–including the all-new IS C and the IS F, the LX 570 as well as the RX 350 and RX 450h SUVs will also begin to offer the subscription service. Lexus Enform with Safety Connect will be available on these MY10 models manufactured after August 1, 2009.
Pricing has also been announced. One-year renewal subscriptions to Safety Connect alone will be available for $139.95 and to Lexus Enform with Safety Connect for $264.90 per year. Multi-year subscriptions will also be available. Complimentary one-year trial subscriptions of Lexus Enform and Safety Connect are included on all purchases of new Lexus vehicles equipped with the services.
The Lexus Enform and Safety Connect response center operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week–every day of the year. Safety Connect, the cornerstone of the services, is available on both non-navigation and navigation-equipped vehicles and offers four safety and security features: Automatic Collision Notification, Stolen Vehicle Location, Emergency Assistance Button (SOS), and Enhanced Roadside Assistance, which adds GPS data to the already included warranty-based Lexus roadside service.


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Do you have those No. 2 pencils ready?
We've got kids all over the section filling in tiny circles on the SATs, which means the action isn't starting until later. And in some cases, not at all. They could not find officials to cover at least two games that I know of when the schools decided to push back the star. Somers at Bronxville and RCDS at Rye had to be postponed.
Neither change is reflected on the BOCES site.
Although there is some entertainment value in New Canaan at John Jay and Happauge at Brewster, I'm going to say the game of the day is Dobbs Ferry at Pelham. It's under the lights at Glover Field. Both teams want the headline for this one, and there are some Division I players in the game.
I'm heading to my first lacrosse jamboree, so if you're watching, post a score, please. Tweet at me, too, I'll pass the news along.
Saturday, May 5
Fox Lane at Greeley, 3 p.m.
Peekskill at North Salem, 3 p.m.
Edgemont at Blind Brook, 3 p.m.
Hen Hud at Pleasantville, 3 p.m.
Happauge at Brewster, 3 p.m.
Westlake at Lourdes, 4 p.m.
Hackley at Fieldston, 4 p.m.
Hastings at Irvington, 4:30 p.m.
Ardsley at Harrison, 5 p.m.
Sleepy Hollow at Ossining, 6 p.m.
Minisink at Clarkstown South, 6 p.m.
Dobbs Ferry at Pelham, 7 p.m.
New Canaan at John Jay, 7 p.m.
Stepinac at Fordham Prep, 8 p.m.
Yorktown 14, Lakeland/Panas 10
North Rockland 9, White Plains 7
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January 1st, 1989: Nirvana Signs Record Deal
After releasing first single "Love Buzz" under the infamous label Sub Pop, Nirvana recorded their debut album "Bleach" in a Seattle recording studio for $600. With hype surrounding the band, Cobain began researching the record industry (he borrowed a book about it from the local library) and demanded that Sub Pop sign his band to a three-album deal. This deal lifted the label up from their financial woes whilst simultaneously allowing the band the creative freedom to release songs with titles such as "Rape Me".
January 2nd, 1981: "The Yorkshire Ripper" is Finally Arrested
On this day in '81 the five year hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper was finally brought to an end, as Sergeant Robert Ring arrested Peter Sutcliffe after spotting him in a stolen car with a prostitute. Sutcliffe requested that he take a piss behind some nearby bushes and, when Ring returned to the scene of the crime later in the day, he inspected the bushes to find a knife and hammer – the Rippers' weapons of choice – hid in them.
The manhunt for the Ripper had seen an unprecedented police campaign that included raising billboards across the city featuring the handwriting of the killer and a number to dial to listen to his voice. As Sutcliffe changed his choice of targets from prostitutes to female college student's paranoia began to spread throughout the city, with his final amount of victims far surpassing the number killed by even the notorious Jack The Ripper.
Amazingly, Sutcliffe had been interviewed by police nine times prior to being arrested, having convinced them each time that he was innocent. Sutcliffe was charged with the murder of 13 women and sentenced to life in prison.
January 2nd, 1969: John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Naked Cover Causes Controversy
In 1968 John & Yoko released a selection of hazy, mostly incoherent tracks under the album title "Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins". The title was intended to symbolise their new union and the photograph on the front cover featuring the couple completely nude was an extension of this. Unfortunately, the cover was deemed "pornographic" by New Jersey authorities and 30,000 copies were seized by the police.
The album was later put back on sale with a brown sleeve covering everything in the cover image other than the couples' faces and the title. Unsurprisingly, it didn't sell well.
January 7th, 1947: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Tops the Chart
By now you're probably sick of Christmas (literally sick, as you have spent the past month gorging on miniature chocolates and your Nan's lethal mince pies), but back in 1947 the Christmas spirit was still going strong enough to propel songwriter Johnny Marks' "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" to the top of the US charts.
Marks, already famous for penning classics such as "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree", adapted the story of the bullied reindeer from his brother-in-law Robert L. May's short story. May had created the tale as part of a promotional deal with retailer Montgomery Ward, who were giving away more than 2 million Rudolph storybooks to children around the festive period.
This led to confusion as to who owned the rights to the song but, as May was an employee of Montgomery Ward, it was found that he had no right to the royalties of the tracks profits. Years later May found himself swamped by debts following the terminal illness of his deceased wife, but in a heart-warming move Ward president Sewell Avery gave May 100% of the tracks copyright, which allowed May to live on the songs royalties for over 30 years.
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melbourne beach market
lucy loo
super!!!! market. this place is like a museum, full of visuals from head to toe and beautiful and exotic items. i'm not sure i've ever said that about a neighborhood market, and it is well deserved.
you could spend hours perusing the aisles and the exquisite cases full of pastries, meats, seafood, side items, cheeses, and olives; loads and loads of olives! if you were ever stuck for a meal idea, inspiration would only require you to step into the melbourne beach market and, problem solved. i really should have brought my wide angle lens!
although there is some seating outside, vanessa and i thought, it being so spring like, a nice picnic by the indian river would be ideal. there are many places, almost one at the end of every road, to sit by the water, and there are two nice parks: ryckman by the river, and ocean park (you know where that is). the fun, was loading our basket at the market. it was like being on a game show, what to choose? what to choose?
this being a picnic, we shared everything. we even devoured a slice of pizza as an appetizer, while ordering other food in the deli. we were that worked up about things and needed our strength. on top of "main courses", we got a selection of 3 sides, and 2 deserts. remember, this is on top of pizza, which, by the way, is giant in portions and perfect crunch with enough grease. nobody likes a "dry" pizza.
everyone in the supermarket, is also super. you feel like you are dealing with a big family. everyone from charlie (the owner you can always spy up front, working at his desk, or helping you with special requests), to every single person that speaks to you, and they all do. we even got greeted by some enthusiastic customers!
after a really fun time of shooting photos , looking at so many products, we settled on our loot and took off in our magic food mobile.
starting with the big stuff: the gyros are loaded, extremely fresh, and if you like them at all….. get them here! i can say the same for the cubans. i am a bit of a regular at the market, and this was not my first cuban (try several). melbourne has many, many great places for pizzas, gyros and cubans, it's true, but can you get them all at the same place? i don't think i have run into that yet.
selections were overwhelming, but we kept it simple with:
some good old fashion ham salad, perfect and chunky, not too mayonaisey (not a professional word, but correct). this would be great for an easter lunch.
the tortellini salad (one of several pasta salads), which was very robust. it has a flavor that is completely unique. i cannot put my finger on it, and know i couldn't create it myself.
the chicken curry salad, i devoured. it has raisins for a sweet upbeat and fantastic aftertaste that makes it really hard to quit eating. you have been warned.
wash it down with "musette" sparkling limonades in orangeade and blood orange for a taste of france. it was the perfect compliment. you can find these on the far aisle where the teas are. good luck making decisions over there.
for our grand finale……. baklava and chocolate cheesecake moose. we choose the greek baklava (you have choices with these too), which just tasted like pure honey to me. it was perfect in my book. i know vanessa, as a great cook, will do descriptive justice to the other because i do not know how to describe this wonder. hey, i'm just the photographer.
welcome to melbourne beach spring!!!! and thank you, thank you MBS for having a REAL grocery store! go inspire yourself there and see what you come out with! we bet you'll be a big fan of shopping local after coming here!
vanessa too!
walking into the market , owned by charlie, there's an ahhhh ringing in my ears and a bright light surrounding ron standing behind a case of beautiful sweets from love bug bakery in melbourne. maple bacon donuts says it all ya'll!
you know your in the right market when the first three rows are lined with every type of wine and beer you could ever dream of and loo and i have these kind of dreams!
there's so much to take in but i'm going where my nose is taking me, to the prepared food area. my eyes go straight to the pizzas …huge! we got a slice of cheese and another with pepperoni. let's just say we didn't make it out of the store with the slice of pepperoni, this would be the appetizer to what we'll be bringing to our picnic along the indian river.
we perused the store…this took awhile…and made our selections for our picnic and off we go!
we started…even after the pizza…with ham salad that took me right back to my grandmother's kitchen, that good! now onto the curry chicken salad, one of my favorite foods, with big sweet raisins and it had some green peppers in it that i would have never thought of. i will now! tried out some tortilini salad that was heavily seasoned with rosemary and other fresh herbs.
believe it or not i also had an "entree", a traditional cuban sandwhich full of pork, ham and cheese with pickles and yellow mustard pressed between crunchy cuban bread. soooo good!
our refreshments didn't only come in beautiful reusable bottles but the contents were do delicious it made me feel special just by drinking them.
but wait a minute…here it comes…desert! ooh la la, homemade greek baklava and chocolate mousse cheesecake. that should say it all but no i must explain. the baklava with it's flaky crust, nuts and basically soaked in honey made my tongue do a dance…a greek dance…and the chocolate mousse cheesecake, so different, with it's three layers of sin. the bottom was a spongy moist chocolate cake then the middle chocolate mousse and finally topped of with an airy cheescake. we must have been real good girls to deserve this!
a huge thanks to all of you leslie, ahmad, brently, ron, and of coarse charlie for the warm smiles and a picnic to go down in red truck eats history!!!!
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Day when the cheapest one-way flights are usually available is Tuesday. Average price for one-way flights is $ 187.52, currently, the lowest price is $ 175.73 and is available with the departure on local with Norwegian International. Newburgh - SWF is the cheapest airport for flights Newburgh - Amsterdam.


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Contenders for the Liberal Democratic Party's presidential election should avoid making an issue out of Yasukuni Shrine, Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe said Tuesday.
Apparently trying to avoid a political minefield before the poll, the hawkish 51-year-old Abe, widely considered the front runner for next LDP president and thus prime minister, said it is vital that such an important issue not be addressed before the party's election in September.
"I think a majority of people believe it is only natural that (a prime minister) should pray for the people who fought for the country," Abe said at a news conference.
"But on the other hand, because of Japan's historical background, this has become a diplomatic issue and a political issue," Abe, the top government spokesman, said. "I think it's important not to make it a diplomatic or political issue."
Abe is known as one of the most vocal supporters of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's contentious annual visits to the Shinto shrine in Tokyo that honors Japan's 2.47 million war dead — along with 14 Class-A war criminals.
"I question if we should deepen discussion on this issue" during the policy debates for the LDP race, Abe said.
Anti-Koizumi and anti-Abe politicians have formed alliances opposing Koizumi's well-publicized visits to Yasukuni Shrine, apparently believing the issue could prove an Achilles heel for both. Abe is a follower of Koizumi diplomacy.
Chinese and South Korean leaders immediately protest every time Koizumi visits Yasukuni and after he tries to justify his trips.
His most recent visit resulted in the cancellation of two summits with Asian leaders.
Koizumi, who has enjoyed public popularity because of his initiatives in domestic and economic matters, has been under fire for eroding ties with Japan's two Asian neighbors by continuing the contentious visits to Yasukuni.