Version 2 of my report for Samsung Mobile

My report on the Sam­sung i8910 v2 is complete..

i8910 report

Big­ger, bet­ter and stronger!!! Over here: Report on the Sam­sung i8910 v2 final enjoy! This took me hours, please take time to read it. I hope it has the impact I wish for — enough for  Sam­sung to actu­ally do something..

Abstract

The report was pre­pared to high­light prob­lems with the Sam­sung I8910 firmware and soft­ware and to sug­gest pos­si­ble solu­tions and addi­tions that can be made to make it bet­ter for the users. The report will cover fac­tors that are only software/firmware related (which can there­fore be addressed in an update by Sam­sung). It has been pre­pared in col­lab­o­ra­tion with mem­bers of sev­eral forums related to and/or ded­i­cated to the Sam­sung i8910, backed by a peti­tion signed by ­­­more than 1460 peo­ple (as of 27 Novem­ber 2009) from all over the world at http://www.petitiononline.com/fixi8910/petition.html at the time of writ­ing. Prob­lems dis­cussed include– lack of firmware updates for cer­tain regions in which the phone was offi­cially launched, inex­plic­a­ble lag or delays in open­ing the media and appli­ca­tions fold­ers, faulty web browser that crashes out of web­sites with­out warn­ing, lack of auto focus func­tion in video capture(although it can be achieved by tap­ping the phone lightly) and the lack of kinetic scrolling, a fea­ture which has been imple­mented in the a new Chi­nese firmware update but not in any other, to name a few. The report also cov­ers the accom­plish­ments made by indi­vid­u­als such as hyperx and se7en (forum names) in the online com­mu­ni­ties to fix these prob­lems and oth­ers and their short com­ings. As indi­vid­u­als tak­ing time out of their busy lives with­out as much expe­ri­ence, resources and knowhow as Sam­sung engi­neers, they can only go so far which is why we need Sam­sung Mobile to play its part. Also promised, was an appli­ca­tions store for the i8910 [2] but sadly the device is not sup­ported even though it is flaunted in the adver­tise­ment for the store.  One of the main fea­tures of the device is its HD video record­ing capa­bil­ity. Again it falls short by not deliv­er­ing the promised 24 frames per sec­ond [3] but 20 or less. We also sug­gest the pos­si­ble imple­men­ta­tion of the Symbian^2/3, Android 2.0, bada, Maemo or Qt. These plat­forms are/are going to be well sup­ported and as users, that’s all we want from Sam­sung– support.

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