Your Thoughts - Decided To Get A Galaxy S Iii Or Note 2 For Xmas

[manuleka 0]

Just wanting to see your thoughts on these two devices...I'm going to get one for an Xmas present, now eventually i will be using it from time to time, I am a Pacific Islander so i have big hands lol...This will be my first Android device and am looking forward to play around with it woo hooI am looking around online for reviews and videos on these two but just wanted to see what your thoughts arecheers

[yordan 10]

Keep us informed which one you will decide, android tablets seem rather interesting, but seems that they have very interesting apps inluded by their manufacturer. I also would like to understand the sytem backup/restore process. I guess that these kind of toys will be very sensitive to virus attacks, and the few backup-restore methods I found on the web seem rather complicated.

[manuleka 0]

Just ordered a Galaxy Note II and it will arrive first thing tomorrw morning whoo hoo can't wait to try out my first android device...

Edited November 22, 2012 by manuleka (see edit history)

[yordan 10]

Yah! lucky man!

[manuleka 0]

Ok so i've received the Note 2 but i'm having problem with Samsung Mobile MTP device When i fire up Kies PC Sync tool it is stuck on Loading/Syncing my phone - so i'm back online looking for solution to this I have installed the latest drive which comes with latest Kies Software for Galaxy Note 2 (downloaded from Sammy website)

[manuleka 0]

i'm frustrated that MTP doesn't seem to work properly on Windows 7... tested it on a Windows XP machine and it works perfectly fine... i'll have to try installing it on Virtual Machine XP and see if it will work...

[wutske 0]

Ok so i've received the Note 2 but i'm having problem with Samsung Mobile MTP device
When i fire up Kies PC Sync tool it is stuck on Loading/Syncing my phone - so i'm back online looking for solution to this

I have installed the latest drive which comes with latest Kies Software for Galaxy Note 2 (downloaded from Sammy website)

If it's an MTP device then it should just show up without any problems on your computer. However, I had a similar problem with my Windows Mobile device and it turnoud out that the DHCP service must be running (by default it's running, but some people prefer to disable this if your pc has a fixed IP).

Keep us informed which one you will decide, android tablets seem rather interesting, but seems that they have very interesting apps inluded by their manufacturer. I also would like to understand the sytem backup/restore process. I guess that these kind of toys will be very sensitive to virus attacks, and the few backup-restore methods I found on the web seem rather complicated.

I have an Android tablet and to be honest, you shouldn't worry too much about back-ups nowadays: everything you do is in the cloud (whether you like it or not). Your contacts, mails, photo's, video's are all stored in your Google account and so are the apps you've bought. Office documents and larger files can be synced using (Drop)Box.
As you state, it are indeed the manufacturers apps that make or break a tablet. I have Cyanogenmod ROM installed on my tablet and compared to what you get with Samsung it's really a useless ROM (in terms of: you don't get any fun stuff).
Viruses are indeed a common problem with Android, there are virus scanners but I highly doubt their efficiency. As usual, common sense is the best safety measure (tough a virus scanner, firewall and permission revoker can get you pretty far too).

[manuleka 0]

If it's an MTP device then it should just show up without any problems on your computer. However, I had a similar problem with my Windows Mobile device and it turnoud out that the DHCP service must be running (by default it's running, but some people prefer to disable this if your pc has a fixed IP).

funny that the MTP installs on an XP Pro machine but not on my Windows 7 Pro - annoying