Galaxy S - a disaster?

I'm sorry we won't be seeing you around any more. You certainly have valid reasons although I'm not sure your expectations were reasonable.

The Android operating system is touted as a free, standing OS that doesn't require a link to a computer. Many users are taking advantage of that but to truly take advantage, you have to be a power user. For most average users this is an awesome phone that does cool tricks. If you have a problem, take it back to the service center.

Kies is Samsung 's nod to people that need/want computer connections and certainly seems to have hung Kies out there with no support. But I can't complain because the Kies software was never included with my device so I never expected it to work well (although until I understood it was created for BADA I didn't realize why). I had PC Studio with my Omnia 2 and it worked perfectly but I couldn't see the point of the software at all. At least I know Kies is for firmware upgrades.

Is this a device for business people? I don't think so unless your business requires that you play movies, games, music and take pictures in addition to some email and document review. Most businesses I know routinely hand out dumb phones or Blackberrys for a reason. Easy to secure, focus on email and those devices are about all most users can handle.

Samsung has sold millions of the Galaxy S phones, a small percentage (less than 1%) of users have persistent problems. Samsung needs to address that because it affects the perception of their product. Just like microsoft shares devalued because of the windows mobile revamp even though the company was still profitable and holds the marketshare in most OS for everything from home computers to ATMs.

My first choice was to get a Dell Streak, but it wasn't out in my country yet so I had to make to with the the i9000.
The hardware behind this phone is superb, but the software is what really is stopping this phone from truly shining. For a phone with this cablibre of hardware I really did not expect such slugglish performance from it. Just opening more than 3 apps makes the phone slow to the point where its barely responsive.
Installing the One Click Lag Fix was probably the best thing I ever did for my phone, it really gave the phone the real oomph.

In terms of the Galaxy S being a disaster, I would have to agree in certain aspects, you would think for a flagship phone with such power, Samsung would try to unleash its potential, but no they leave the phone barely optimised and releases it out to the public.

You should have stayed with WinMo. It's a superior OS.

Android is just between that and the lower iOS.

Sorry, Galaxians (Androidian). It's just my opinion. 

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Well I entered my contacts via gmail and could have imported my contacts as csv onto am SD card. I know quite a few people with that never connect to a PC. But kies is not great.

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I don't see any problems with   Kies it works correct and what people say that you actually don't need Kies is exactly True!

Use your google account for Emails and Agenda, Contacts  etc and just enter your device by using external memory and not Kies!

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I'm not interested in getting into a pissing match here, but let me first explain how easy this was with Nokia. I walk up to my desk, my phone automatically connects to my PC via bluethooth (SGS won't connect to Kies via my bluetooth, except for one time data transfers; Nokia works perfectly), Nokia and PC chat and exchange data automatically throughout the day, and I have a phone that knows what my PC knows.  No extra accounts to manage, connect to, etc.  Pretty cool, huh?

FYI: I now have Kies on my XP home computer, but Vista is a no go. This is not difficult. Nokia figured it out for ALL of there phones. Not just the BB want to be/business versions.

and save yourself from a heart attack 

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