m0h1t said:
What were the bugs/issues that the new firmware is suppose to fix?
Is bad s/w support really a deal breaker?
No its not.
See, my trainer bought this phone when it was launched here. And every time he comes to my place, all he does is connect to my wifi network and see if Samsung India has released an update
Its not a bad phone at all. But its flaws are in critical areas of day to day operations.
The screen is great, absolutely gorgeous. But the symbian was not ready for large capacitive screen.
Samsung really needed to give custom touches to the firmware when it comes to critical functions like keyboard, browser, and they didnt. They wasted time on customising home screen which though great, is not the critical part of the phone.
Typing is a big issue. I myself use a capacitive screen phone, and life is much simpler on my Hero when it comes to emailing and smsing.
The keyboard in this phone is exactly same as Nokia 5800, samsung didnt make any changes to it and kept it as it is which is real shame as its waste of the estate area on the phone.
On the other hand, even when you use the phone for couple of months, you will still be making mistakes when typing messages.
HD recording does have frame duplication problem but its not a big deal. Its still the best quality recording I have ever seen on a mobile phone.
The main problem is the integration of Capacitive screen with symbian. And samsung is known to screw over its smartphone users over time with lack of support. These are the 2 main disadvantages.
Other than that, for the price they are asking for this, its a great multimedia device but average phone.