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I got a Droid Last year and have not looked back

I know it is one vs the other, but I think the droid is much faster when it comes to the net, I am connected 24 hours of the day and that is alright with me, I am a bit of a web junkie anyway.

So I chose the Droid for the net features and the only complaint I have so far is I do not deem to be able to find to many places I get dropped exccpt when talking to DangerousRS on the phone  :occasion14:
 
I'm responsible for putting out this:


http://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/galaxy-tab?cid=ppc_gxt_goo_Galaxy+Tab_Tab_galaxy+tab
 
jackthehack said:
I'm responsible for putting out this:


http://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/galaxy-tab?cid=ppc_gxt_goo_Galaxy+Tab_Tab_galaxy+tab
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Nice, I rather have that than an ijunk, I despise apple.....Besides I've been rockin' samsung phones for a while now and love them.... :icon_thumright:

Death by Uberschall said:
I'll buy an iPad when it's Blue Tooth ready for my Jawbone II and can place calls.  :icon_thumright:
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That would be the other piece of ijunk...... :dontknow:
 
I love apple computers and my iPod to death, but I really dont want an iPad. The only thing I would use it for is my Peavey amp kit because of its bigger screen, but its really not all that inconvient on the small screen.
 
Yeah, I have yet to find an MP3 player that sounds as good+has a large capacity. thats NOT Ipod.

when it comes out, I'll buy it.

but until then, the sound quality on a 30 gig Zune is comparably less then my 160 gig Ipod.
 
I have a 30 gig iPod, I love it, but I dont use itunes to manage it, I use WinAmp.  My ipod is full of music and movies.

I like the quality, I don't like the company, they try to own and profit from everything you do with their product.  The Zune that my wife has is much more user friendly
 
AGWAN-O-MATIC said:
Yeah, I have yet to find an MP3 player that sounds as good+has a large capacity. thats NOT Ipod.
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Creative.  I've had both an iPod and a Creative Zen W.  The iPod was a fragile POS in comparison.  Video picture quality is 10x better too.  My mom also has 2 Creatives, which of course I manage for her because she's not very computer savvy.  Have had very few problems with any of the players, and they sound great to me.  Mine is the newest one, I've had it for 4 years, still never had to reformat it or anything, and I've dropped it probably 15 times.  The iPod lasted a year before the hard drive died, and I had constant syncing and playback problems.  I hated it.
 
hannaugh said:
AGWAN-O-MATIC said:
Yeah, I have yet to find an MP3 player that sounds as good+has a large capacity. thats NOT Ipod.
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Creative.  I've had both an iPod and a Creative Zen W.  The iPod was a fragile POS in comparison.  Video picture quality is 10x better too.  My mom also has 2 Creatives, which of course I manage for her because she's not very computer savvy.  Have had very few problems with any of the players, and they sound great to me.  Mine is the newest one, I've had it for 4 years, still never had to reformat it or anything, and I've dropped it probably 15 times.  The iPod lasted a year before the hard drive died, and I had constant syncing and playback problems.  I hated it.
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that  thing is beautiful, it seems to be off the market, which is okay. because I would have to buy and carry three of them. if I wanted to have all my music with me... actually, even with creatives newest nicest X-fi2 I would still need 3!

I am eagerly awaiting the Day Creative comes out with a high capacity MP3 player, because I have lots and lots and lots of music. and I listen to most all of it. and I hated picking what to leave behind when I had an 80 gig.

I do also hope that the newer nicer creatives have improved sound quality, last time I used one the file compression was audible and horrible.
 
Weird, I've never had a problem with the sound on any of the 3 I've worked with, or heard of anyone I know who has a Creative thinking it sounded bad.  I wasn't aware the Creative players changed the mp3s in any way.  As far as I can tell, it just stores the files, there's no encoding or anything like that.  I can copy and paste my mp3s into it from Windows Explorer and they work fine.  But I never really even thought about it before, so I don't know how it works. 
 
I've had 2 Creative Zen's and they were wonderful.  I got a 30gb ipod 5th gen (aka ipod video) with my laptop, the sound quality is better, but i miss the directness of drag & drop files.
I use it so rarely anymore that I haven't turned it on in over a year.  My phone streams last.fm and holds mp3s, so why carry two devices?
 
hannaugh said:
Weird, I've never had a problem with the sound on any of the 3 I've worked with, or heard of anyone I know who has a Creative thinking it sounded bad.  I wasn't aware the Creative players changed the mp3s in any way.  As far as I can tell, it just stores the files, there's no encoding or anything like that.  I can copy and paste my mp3s into it from Windows Explorer and they work fine.  But I never really even thought about it before, so I don't know how it works. 
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So I read this and was like "Woohoo! the sound quality got good!" then I read Autobats post and I was like "Aw crap its still not good"

But I guess its moot. because they have tiny capacities. but the minute they get a big one... Oh I'll totally try it out!

Archos does a 500 gig media player, but the sound quality is far worse than Creative on a Creatives WORST day. so no go for them either.
 
You must be hearing something I'm not because I didn't notice a difference between the sound of my ipod vs. the Creative player my mom had at the time.  Though, I almost never use headphones now, and at the time, I was always using headphones on my ipod.  There is such a big difference between types of headphones vs. all the various speaker systems I've run the different players through, that it's pretty hard to tell what any of the players we have actually sound like.  Honestly though, as long as there is no skipping or static, and I can get the levels I want, I'm happy.  I still can't believe we can take all our music with us everywhere now, when it seems like not that long ago we had to use portable cd players, and not too long before that, we had walkmans.  It still feels like Christmas every day for music lovers to me. 
 
^ I know right!? It shows how spoiled I've become when I feel like "I can only take 8,000 songs with me? THATS NOT ENOUGH! I have 19,000!"

And the Headphones I was using a few years back, when last I tried out MP3 players were Sony Studio's (the ones Wal-Mart sells. which are incredibly balanced for headphones in that price range.) I actually went through my friends players. I hated the sound on the Creative, I asked the guy where he got his rips. and he said most everything on there was a CD to PC rip. and that it sounded fine to him. the Zune sounded fine to me, but was only a 30. the 80 gig Ipod was the same price, and I figured something that huge would never fill it up.

since then I've heard about 4 different Zen pebble/stones and hated them. but they are the cheaper player.

I'm totally open to a Creative, though. just as soon as one comes out that at the very LEAST, holds my music. (about 100 gigs.)

Or if I fill this Ipod up. which is getting close. (I have like... 13 gigs left.)

Music really is a drug, the more you get, the more you want!
 
Maybe people are ripping stuff at low bitrates to save space?  Or maybe they have the speaker setting on something other than headphones, that can sound bad. 
 
this is a real possibility, though the kid with the nice one, builds computers for a living. so I hope he had known about bitrates.

all the ones since then, could totally be a bitrate issue.
 
I liked my sansa a lot, still works great but I'm listing to my music through my galaxy S phone nowadays. I preferred the Sansa for music and battery life, and will be bringing it on trips for sure. The sound quality to me seems far more a function of your earphones than anything else, providing your bitrate is decent. I have Shure noise blocking earbuds, had them for about a year and am totally hooked on them.
 
It wasn't true on earlier gen iPods, but on last year's/this year's iPod/IPhone/iPads the audio basically sucketh.

You can try this on your home recording setup if you have one. About 75-80% by the volume control is "real" max volume on these devices; if you set it any higher the signal starts clipping, very much so at max volume, you can see this clearly in your recording software.

Try using the same MP3 file on your Apple device and that Galaxy S phone with volume set to max on both devices; you'll clearly hear the clipping/distortion without recording software  on the Apple devices, just plug them into a playback system and compare.
 
Dude... stop it... YOU'RE SCARING ME.

If Apple goes to crap... how the heck am I gonna know what to buy?!  :binkybaby:
 
jackthehack said:
It wasn't true on earlier gen iPods, but on last year's/this year's iPod/IPhone/iPads the audio basically sucketh.

You can try this on your home recording setup if you have one. About 75-80% by the volume control is "real" max volume on these devices; if you set it any higher the signal starts clipping, very much so at max volume, you can see this clearly in your recording software.

Try using the same MP3 file on your Apple device and that Galaxy S phone with volume set to max on both devices; you'll clearly hear the clipping/distortion without recording software  on the Apple devices, just plug them into a playback system and compare.
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this is what i love about android. everything apple can do and more. and several manufacturers use it, so if one company goes to shit you can get everything you love on another device, samsung is the best for hardware, htc has a great feature set and software. still rocking my captivate, and nice samsung plug there jack! best stock headphones ever on galaxy s phones. way better than apple!.
 
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