Hateful phone!

mazza111

Agree with phil. My fella has one of these phones and tbh it's pretty good.

grumbler

BrandNewYear wrote: »

when I tried this phone in the store I liked it. But now that it has arrived it seems to be a piece of !!!!. It simply won't connect to anything so I cannot load any apps, access the internet or do anything much else. What is the point of a smartphone that can do nothing more than accept or make phone calls and send and receive texts?

Unless the phone is faulty (that happens with all phones), maybe it's you, not the phone? It cannot connect to your home wifi. You have to connect it. If it cannot connect to the mobile internet, have you checked the settings?
http://help.orange.co.uk/orangeuk/support/personal/document-handset.action?DocId=594517

If the reception is poor, it never was a strong point of iPhones, but complaints are very rare for S2. So, it's possibly your location to blame, not the handset.

bitterpill

I like my S2 but i couldnt get it to answer at first until i realised you have to swipe the screen in the direction of the arrow, not press the screen like on the Iphone. (doh!!)
HTH

giraffe69

My S2 connects properly and is an excellent phone. There are some things to learn like the slide instead of press to answer a call mentioned above but it doesn't seem you have given it a chance. I think Orange provide a settings file you can have sent to your phone to enable internet access.

T_T_2

BrandNewYear wrote: »

For some reason it won't pick up hardly any Orange signal in my home (Orange phones usually work well here). When somebody called me on it the buttons for Answer or Decline had no effect at all and did not work and the phone just rang and rang. It won't connect to the Samsung Apps store. Etc etc. It just seems so oddly inferior to the iPhones

Are you sure you are using the actual phone and not just the box it came in? I appreciate that most previous iphone users tend to have significantly lower IQs than other users so there is no shame in this.

grumbler

You can't be serious. A box cannot ring.:)
However, RTFM does spring to mind.
In some expensive nurseries children are taught to draw on iPads. Then they get very surprised by being unable to draw with their finger on a gloss cover of a magazine.

T_T_2

grumbler wrote: »

A box cannot ring.:)

The phone inside it might! It does make you wonder why the OP chose a non-iphone when he was clearly so impressed with iphone's build quality.

I've heard the S2 described as a lot of things but never a pile of garbage. It's getting a bit old now but it still rates in my top 5 of smartphones in today's marketplace.

jenniewb

OP, Just wondered what you comparing the handset to, what was your previous phone?

I used to (ages ago) have a Nokia 3310i, then the 6310 then a 6610-slider and they were very robust, easy to use and seemed to work perfectly. I then went on to get a Sony Ericsson and hated it. It was supposed to hook up to my computer but wouldn't, it was slower to use and took me longer to use as the menu systems because they were not set in the same order. I also found it neigh impossible to get a signal, Nokias are far better at finding signals I think.

I now don't have a handset so can't comment on any of the current range of phones out there but I think if you've become used to a previous handset, if you get a new handset and it lacks anything it really does show up and can be a big gripe.

OneADay

Presumably OP has put the sim card in :-)

If the samsung galaxy phones are like most android phones, you get to select a particular network on first setup. Might be worth taking battery out, stick a different sim and see what happens.

Gordon_Hose

Maybe try touching it with your fingers OP, rather than smashing it against your forehead.