I think I have wifi and gprs working ok now, after I installed a wifi switching app.
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Update: Good news and bad news for GPS on the Galaxy S!
I found an app in the Android Market called
Bluetooth GPS that works with the Samsung Galaxy S phone and my Holux M-241 works great, much more accurate (cannot compare) than the built-in Samsung GPS. There is a Google Map-type application in this app, but standard features like
Directions and
Layers are missing.
Unfortunately, the version of Google Maps that is installed on the Samsung Galaxy S phone does not have a configuration option to use an off-phone GPS device, so I still don't have navigation capabilities yet.
I'll search for another app or see if it is possible to install a different version of Google Maps for Android that is not crippled like the one that comes with the phone.
More to come ....
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Found another app called
Bluetooth GPS Mouse. With this program, Google Maps works very well. However, other GPS programs don't seem to work very well with this app. I sent an email off to their tech support to find out why.
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Mini Review Update:
With the exception of the on-board GPS fiasco, the Samsung Galaxy S is a very fine phone. This is my first "iPhone-style" smart phone and I realize that I have much more in my hand than a phone. Basically, I'm walking around with a small Linux computer with an OS called Android that has an amazing UI enhanced by a Super AMOLED display.
With 10s of thousands of Android apps, this device is really more of a PDA or small tablet computer than a "smart phone" but I guess the term "PDA" is out of vogue and a 4" display cannot be called a "tablet".
I really like this phone. I really like Android. This is a revolution in personal computing that is just beginning. Never mind the on-board GPS is not very good. Never mind the SSH app is not yet great. This is only the beginning of a very exciting future in mobile computing!
Thanks for reading!