This is the first in a series of several that aims to dissect my take on the newly launched Samsung Galaxy S.

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I'm going to start off by saying here in bold. I AM NO TECHIE.. I am merely your average nearly-30 year old new mother who works full time, who happens to, like everybody else, own a mobile phone. And on the phone, I do the usual few things:

  1. Talk to people
  2. SMS a lot
  3. Take photos, and sometimes, videos
  4. Go online occasionally
  5. Play with the games, sometimes.

Did I miss out on anything? Yup, I think that about sums up how I use a mobile phone. Nevertheless, the mobile phone is my most important, stand-by-me gadget, and I never go anywhere without it. Ever.  CAN-DIE-IF-I-LEFT-THE-PHONE-AT-HOME. Kerja perlu, call hubby perlu, tengok gambar anak perlu. Yup, liddat.

So, based on the above, this is exactly how I'm going to treat the Samsung Galaxy S while it's with me. I'm going to see like how well it functions against my basic requirements of a phone (vis-a-vis the five items listed above).

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Oh yah I have another personal preference for mobile phones. * MUST LOOK NICE WHEN I PUT IN THE BAG * If people ask me what phone I'm using, that also can, but these days the 'I have a cool looking phone' thing is not so much a priority anymore. However, like everybody on the #Maxis10 review programme, I have to agree.

The Samsung Galaxy S, or henceforth christened 'the GS'

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… is sangat cantik dipandang. Nice to see.

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With the locked screen…

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Idle screen showcasing the apps I've put on the first page…

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Plasticky back cover, but quite shiny.

I did a simple video explaining  first feel of the GS and here it is. I've been having a cough since last Friday so my voice is sorta muffled but otherwise the video approximately sums up the bulk of what I want to say about the GS at first impression. The video was taken with a basic point-and-shoot digital camera, which will necessarily give me an opportunity to later compare this 'basic quality' sort of a vid against the videos imported directly from the GS.

In a next post I'll move on to finer details, speaking of how the GS fares against my basic-everyday-needs-in-a-handphone requirements.

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