OFFICIAL: T-Mobile Exhibit II prepaid reviews/thoughts

[kecel]

I have heard that TM 2g is about as fast as Sprints 3g.

EDGE is comparable to Sprint's Rel.0 and T-Mobile's throttled 3G is comparable to GPRS, but your Triumph was Rev.A so no comparison.
Do you have a notification light, FM radio with RDS, and LED flash?

[teyong]

Is the wifi hotspot disabled?

Battery Life?

Wi-Fi hot spot works out of the box.
and battery life is same as other competitor phones 1500mAh.

[vikingjunior]

Wi-Fi hot spot works out of the box.
and battery life is same as other competitor phones 1500mAh.

Thank you.

Also why is it $199 at Walmart and $249 at T Mobile? I see no price on T Mobile.com

[teyong]

Thank you.

Also why is it $199 at Walmart and $249 at T Mobile? I see no price on T Mobile.com

Wallmart exclusive now.....

[ja5219]

I hope this walmart exclusive lasts a bit, planning on buying this tomorrow.
Moving from Virgin Mobile to T-Mobile, might as well enjoy this plan while it lasts.

[AndroidFoneFan]

EDGE is comparable to Sprint's Rel.0 and T-Mobile's throttled 3G is comparable to GPRS, but your Triumph was Rev.A so no comparison.
Do you have a notification light, FM radio with RDS, and LED flash?

Not going off the Triumph. If you can base it off of Optimus V Sprint 3G or ST Precedent 3G. Both are more than fast enough to suite me.
I have only down loaded a few apps on the 4G, it took about 10 sec to link with the tower and I know that has got to be slow, but once it links it downloads fast.

It does have a led flash. Don't see a notification light, Don't know if it has a FM radio either. The flash I wanted, the notification light and FM radio I don't care one way or the other. But as far as I know neither of those are on this phone.

Here are the specs from gsmarena.com Don't see the led notification light on the list.

For T-Mobile
Also known as Samsung Ancora, Samsung SGH-T679

General
2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network HSDPA 850 / 1700 / 2100 / 1900
Announced 2011, October
Status Available. Released 2011, October

Size
Dimensions 115 x 60 x 11 mm
Weight 116 g

Display
Type TFT capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size 480 x 800 pixels, 3.7 inches (~252 ppi pixel density)
- Multi-touch input method
- Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate
- Touch-sensitive controls
- Proximity sensor for auto turn-off

Sound
Alert types Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
Loudspeaker Yes
3.5mm jack Yes

Memory
Phonebook Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
Call records Practically unlimited
Internal 4 GB ROM, 512 MB RAM
Card slot microSD, up to 32GB, buy memory

Data
GPRS Yes
EDGE Yes
3G HSDPA 14.4 Mbps, HSUPA 5.76 Mbps
WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Wi-Fi hotspot
Bluetooth Yes, v3.0 with A2DP
Infrared port No
USB Yes, v2.0 microUSB

Camera
Primary 3.15 MP, 2048x1536 pixels, autofocus, LED flash
Features Geo-tagging, face detection
Video Yes
Secondary Yes, VGA

Features OS
Android OS, v2.3.3 (Gingerbread)
CPU 1 GHz Snapdragon processor, Qualcomm MSM8255 chipset
Messaging SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM, RSS
Browser HTML
Radio Stereo FM radio with RDS
Games Yes + downloadable
Colors Black
GPS Yes, with A-GPS support
Java Yes, via Java MIDP emulator
- SNS integration
- Digital compass
- MP4/WMV/H.264/H.263 player
- MP3/WAV/eAAC+ player
- Organizer
- Image/video editor
- Document viewer
- Google Search, Maps, Gmail,
YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Picasa integration
- Adobe Flash support
- Voice memo/dial
- Predictive text input

Battery
Standard battery, Li-Ion 1500 mAh
Stand-by Up to 360 h
Talk time Up to 5 h 30 min

Misc
SAR US 0.74 W/kg (head) 0.76 W/kg (body)

[kecel]

Not going off the Triumph. If you can base it off of Optimus V Sprint 3G or ST Precedent 3G. Both are more than fast enough to suite me.

GPRS is 50~60 Kbps, EDGE is 100~200 Kbps, the Intercept (Rel.0) is 300~400 Kbps, and the Triumph (Rev.A) is 1~2 Mbps. I am not familiar with the Optimus V or Precedent nor am I able to test them at this time.

My dumbphones had the LED notification light, FM radio with recording, and a camera LED flash that doubled as an LED flashlight. I have come to miss these functions in Samsung smartphones, hard to break ten-year old habits, especially the LED notification light. RDS is not what I thought it meant, can you record FM radio?

[skiltrip]

How long do you think before we see some generic eBay cases for the E24G?

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[The_Sweeper]

For those who wish to root...

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...1275415&page=3

Should be the first post on that page. Even though it says it's for the Exibit, I rooted the Exibit 2 with it.

[skiltrip]

For those who wish to root...

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...1275415&page=3

Should be the first post on that page. Even though it says it's for the Exibit, I rooted the Exibit 2 with it.

Nice! Already! I love it. Good job!


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[IsLand_BoY]

Nice! I'm glad someone found a way to root it!

Few more observations:
- The Exhibit II drops down to UMTS when the data connection is idle, then bumps back up to HSDPA
-- I'm getting about 3-4mb down where my Galaxy S II gets 9.5mb down; however, this is at the expense of battery life on my S II. The Exhibit definitely lasts longer because my S II stays on HSPA 24/7.
- Sound quality is good, reception is good
- Battery life is definitely better than the giant super-Android type phones, due to the more modest processor and screen

I've had a few hiccups with my home screen icons not coming up when I first turn on the phone so I have to reboot, which I read is due to widgets not playing nice. I setup all my Androids the same way so I'm thinking it might even be one of the preinstalled things that are causing the problem.

The touchscreen is a tiny bit less responsive than my S II, maybe because it has a plastic screen? Not sure. It's not a problem except maybe when doing a lot of text messaging. I'm pretty picky but this is still a keeper for me. No auto-brightness is a SLIGHT bummer but I added a shortcut to it so not a big deal.

All in all, $199 is a sweet deal for this phone and T-Mobile's HSPA+ network is quick, if you've got coverage. This will steal a lot of business away from VM for those who live and work in major cities.

[ptsun]

I can't get this for 199$ and go on prepaid w/ an activation kit??

[IsLand_BoY]

I can't get this for 199$ and go on prepaid w/ an activation kit??

It comes with a prepaid activation kit, but you'll have to buy an airtime card because it only comes with $3.34 credit.

Sent via Android

[Gumpphone]

Sorry, as an Android newbie, I'm a bit confused by some of the terminology here. I read that wifi tethering is disabled on this phone, but there is an app that does USB tethering (presumably without rooting?). But I also read that wifi hotspot works right out of the box. Is the latter something different from wifi tethering, or is one of these statements in error? To me, wifi tethering implies a connection to one device only, whereas hotspot implies the ability to connect several, but I don't know if that is really the distinction being made here. If it reallys is the case that wifi hotspot works even thought wifi tethering doesn't, why would one choose USB tethering over wifi hotspot? Security? Performance?

[Antenna]

GPRS is 50~60 Kbps, EDGE is 100~200 Kbps, the Intercept (Rel.0) is 300~400 Kbps, and the Triumph (Rev.A) is 1~2 Mbps. I am not familiar with the Optimus V or Precedent nor am I able to test them at this time.

My dumbphones had the LED notification light, FM radio with recording, and a camera LED flash that doubled as an LED flashlight.

You can download an app (tesla) that turns flash into flashlight

Sent from my HTC Incredible S