Comments on: Samsung Galaxy Q: A Blackberry Competitor With Android by Year’s End?

By: yummy

yummy — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 04:44:31 +0000

Good Job Samsung. Ignore haters,I am anticipating this phone.I am glad that Samsung is now serious about supporting updates.By end of September,Samsung would definitely become a formidable competitor in smartphone market!

By: Zer09

Zer09 — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 13:16:16 +0000

@Steve and SardoNumspa

I am well aware of the shortcomings of BES as I am a Systems Admin as well. However what iPhone will never have and is difficult for Android to achieve without root that BES does offer is Endpoint Control. Activesync may allow remote wipe, but that does little good if I have an Android phone with Touchdown and I have a backup of my database on the SD Card which I can then backup to a pc. It is very easy to recover data from a lost phone on activesync where the device can not have a password policy enforced. So as a SysAd coming from both DOD and HIPAA regulated organizations Android and iPhone represent a complete lack of security in this area. That is what keeps BES and BlackBerry implemented.

By: Wilco

Wilco — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 05:58:09 +0000

I didn’t buy the Behold 2 because I didn’t like the cube thingy. I also wanted more of a distinguishing processor over the G1 (which I still have). The Behold 2 had more memory and a better screen than any other Android phone released at that time.

That said, why the hatred of the Behold 2? Is the hatred seated solely in the change of direction by Samsung to upgrade the OS? Or is the phone itself a poorly performing phone?

Has anyone rooted the B2? If so, it might be a pretty nice phone. In any case, I understand the frustration of being stuck on cupcake or even donut, but is that enough to forever banish Samsung as a company? I mean, the Galaxy line is the most promising Android line out there.

By: NowVoyager

NowVoyager — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 20:42:02 +0000

What, buy ANOTHER Samsung phone to receive no after-purchase support? No thank you. Samsung had better enjoy the money that they got for my Behold 2. They won’t see another dime of my money for their lousy phones and even worse support.
And for the record: The Behold 2 was *not* a teeny-bopper phone at launch. It was the most expensive Android that my carrier had at the time. Back to my buying another phone from Samsung. Nope. Nada. Nyet. No. Nah. and He11 naw.

By: peter

peter — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 20:22:17 +0000

I will NEVER buy phone with shell replacement (eg. Sense UI, etc..).

Why they do not want to sell clean Android phones without their crap ?

By: SardoNumspa

SardoNumspa — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 20:08:15 +0000

To each their own as far as a hardware keyboard is concerned. Otherwise, I cannot understand why someone would buy a BB for personal use. There are so many much cooler phones out there.
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From an IT standpoint, @Steve is absolutely right. Aside from just the problems he mentioned, there is the overhead to consider. Depending on your user base, you have to factor in the hardware upon which to run the BES platform, typically an additional server, then there is the security implications and Microsoft licensing. The BES has typically required a superuser account through which it connects to the mail boxes on the Exchange server. That, in itself, is a huge security implication. As far as the licensing goes, every time that BES superuser account opens up a mailbox, it requires an Exchange connection license. So now you have to double up on that expense for every user that has a BB and a laptop. An internal cost analysis has determined that our organization has up to three times the cost to run a BES environment than running Exchange alone.
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Our IT dept fights us tooth and nail to keep the BES around because of the security and control over the actual devices. Truth is, Exchange 2007 Activesync supports just about everything that the BES does so there is no longer a reason to keep supporting Blackberry. And it’s just a matter of time till iPhone and Android are up to snuff and fully support all of the Exchange Activesync protocols.
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Maybe one day BB will wise up and license the ActiveSync protocol for themselves instead of using the platform that some guy wrote in his Mom’s basement.

By: AndroidToy

AndroidToy — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:14:46 +0000

Samsung phones = Fail

By: ari-free

ari-free — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:07:10 +0000

btw not everyone who has a blackberry bought it because they are corporate (remember the “love” campaign?). Many are serious texters and this phone could go after this group of consumers. The Kin is also going after this group but with a much dumber phone.

By: ari-free

ari-free — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:01:45 +0000

ok enough about the behold 2. It was a teeny bopper phone for t-mobile. The Moment is updated to 2.1 (unlike many other phones by HTC and Motorola)

By: JonnyB

JonnyB — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:49:37 +0000

@Rick, i seen a poster on the window, their like a buck on tuesday or something lol, are they like actually good? Im pretty hungry ahah, but on topic, I think Samsung makes great phones, and they might change how they are with their customers, Im going to get the Galaxy S Pro on Sprint, and i would love to get 2.2, but something tells me their going for 2.5(Gingerbread), atleast i hope so lol

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:19:59 +0000

@Zer0-9 as someone who admins a BES, let me assure it will not take much to unseat it. It is a buggy app that with the 5 release only got worse. They went from a local app that worked to a slow buggy webapp that actually does install local stuff and only works on windows. It randomly will stop delivering messages. Since RIM sits between your BES and the devices any issues for RIM mean no mail for your clients. Activesync is much better. It would be about the first MS produced protocol that really just worked. The more mobile and server vendors that use Activesync the better. Many of our execs are switching from Blackberries to Incredibiles, now with the backorder issues the rest will go with Droid Xs.

By: Eddie Android

Eddie Android — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:18:50 +0000

Will someone please, please stop Samsung!

By: Marquise

Marquise — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:09:41 +0000

After my Behold II, I will never by another samsung phone again. I used to love samsung and there products. I have a digital camera and flat screen tv with then also. But this phone was such a disappointment that I am completely turned away from the company. I basically sent $ 400 dollars down the drain.

By: MuzikJay

MuzikJay — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:00:11 +0000

I always wondered why the business world still chooses Blackberry over the others. Why? I honestly am not familiar with Blackberries except fiddling with them here and there so I am just wondering.

By: rick

rick — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:57:29 +0000

I’m starving. Thinking of getting a toquito from 7/11. Mmm they are soo good.