Ok, here is the promised test on the Samsung Spica (i5700) phone … and some more.
The PDF comparison is in german but I’ll give you my personal result in english here:
If I had the choice between the Samsung Galaxy, the HTC Magic and the Samsung Spica, I’d choose the Spica. A few (unfortunately not all) mistakes Samsung did with the Galaxy are now resolved with the Spica; in particular I’m talking about the battery lifetime. Also the Spica in my eyes can score with it’s style. I can’t exactly tell what is, but compared to the Galaxy it does not feel so heavy and “fat” and it looks more “up-to-date” than the HTC Magic does. (well, actually, it is younger than the Magic ;) )
The OLED Display adds the cherry on the cake; the colors are just awesome and when you hold the Magic beside the Samsung you try to set your display settings for the Magic to brighter and better contrast … but that doesn’t fix the problem!
Unfortunately the Spica is still running on Android 1.5. It is supposed to be able to get updates up to Android 2.0 with the specific Samsung software which is only running on Windows. I haven’t tested any updates yet and I’m actually skeptical about that, but I’ll let you know as soon as I try do do it.
Here’s my detailed PDF-Comparison for download, enjoy!
Posted in Android, IT & Development, mob!lers
Sorry that it took me so long to give you some updates on my blog. I’ve been kinda busy the last weeks. It’s a good new year’s resolution to do at least one blog post every week … we’ll see :)
As you know, I’m one of the 18 Samsung mob!lers around in germany and we are lucky to get some phones like the Samsung Galaxy and now the Samsung SPICA for free, to test the devices and of course promote them here and there a little bit. I’ll get to the SPICA on another blog post so for now, let’s get to Proxoid:
First two words: just awesome
I’m currently not in Frankfurt and depending on my location, vodafone or O2 have the better signal (O2 is my mobilers contract which I unfortunately have to return by the end of January). I’m a few kilometers outside of Coburg right now and my vodafone USB Stick and UMTS flat makes me want to get UPS to deliver me a CD with the data I need.
I decided to only download one file: the USB-Drivers for my Samsung SPICA to get it connected to my computer via the USB debugging bridge. It took me 12 minutes to download a 3.6MB ZIP-file.
After that I installed the USB-driver for the SPICA which worked just fine and I also downloaded Proxoid from the Android market. Open up the app, click on menu and download the proxoid-adb.zip file, copy it to your computer and extract it to some lovely place.
Now follow the easy instructions here to set up your android phone as a proxy for your computer and let’s go … UTMS internet connection with O2.
Don’t forget to set you proxy for all connections if you also want to use your E-Mail- and e.g. Twitter-Client.
As I have a ThinkPad, I just use the ThinkVantage Access Connections Software to set the proxy settings and also execute the start-tunnel batch file when I want to use Proxoid.
Oh, I almost forgot: With Proxoid, you don’t need any root access on your android phone … as I said: just awesome!
Posted in Android, IT & Development, mob!lers
Last weekend was just amazing, and the keyword is BarCamp Mainz (#bcmz).
It’s been my second BarCamp yet and I’m really impressed about what the orga team got going here. I guess the number of participants on Saturday was around 320 and still the location didn’ t seem to be very packed. It was the University of Mainz where the BarCamp took place so the rooms where also equipped with very good and new technology like beamers and microphones … I missed nothing.
Every BarCamp participant had his/her own WiFi access, the only annoying thing to mention is that you always had to re-login after your computer had been in StandyBy mode.
The main topics were technology, web and internet culture. To get a feeling about the BarCamp Mainz, just go here and check out the review page here.
Due to some stupid human action I don’t want to mention here in detail, the BarCamp Mainz page has moved from www.barcampmainz.de to www.barcamp-rheinmain.de.
I had a great time, got connected with new interesting people and awesome sessions … thank you for the BarCamp.
Posted in IT & Development, mob!lers
