Between the three top smartphones the HTC One, the Sony Xperia Z and the Galaxy S4 I decided to buy the S4. I had the Samsung Galaxy S2, the Galaxy S3 and the Galaxy Note 2 so it was easy for me to find the decision. The reason why I bougth the Samsung S4 is,

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I bought the Multimedia docking station – EDD-S20jwegsta for my Galaxy Note 2. I wrote an experience report about the smart dock in my Blog. Certainly the Samsung Smart Dock doesn’t convince me. I have bought a HDTV adapter for my Galaxy Note 2 too. With the adapter I am able to connect my Note 2

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I bought for my Samsung Galaxy Note 2 the Samsung Multimedia Dock. The idea was to connect my Note 2 via HDMI over the Smart Dock with my monitor on my desk. My hope was that the EDD-S20JWEGSTA Smart Dock is the first step to replace my notebook with the Note 2 respectively with a smartphone.

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Today I build a docking / charging station for my Note 2 from a paper cup. It is the low cost alternative to the Samsung Smart-Dock EDD-S20E which does not convince me. The Samsung docking station is too expensive for the functions offered. The paper cup dockingstation works perfect for me and looks cool. Samsung

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For many Apple fans the switch from their Apple device like an iPhone or iPad to a Samsung Galaxy Android device like a Samsung Galaxy S3 wasn’t so easy. Until now no application like “Easy Phone Sync” was available which easily syncs your private data like contacts, photos, podcasts… from your iPhone to your Samsung

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I want to use my Galaxy Note 2 as a mobile Wifi Hotspot in order to connect my Laptop with the Internet. The Wifi password can be changed within the settings of the Wifi configuration. Therewith no other user can connect to the Wifi Hotspot. Here is a short description how to set up a

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I do not want to show all of my pictures and videos in the Galaxy S3 Gallery app, as it is getting very confusing. Especially I do not want to see all the mp3 album covers as those are already shown in the mp3 player. I searched a lot in the settings of the standard

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Finally the Jelly Bean update (Android 4.1.1) is now available for my Samsung Galaxy S3 in Germany. I connected my Galaxy S3 via USB cable on my laptop and started Samsung Kies to update the phone. Kies immediately started the update process. The first PopUp window which appeared told me that the Jelly Bean update

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To sync the contacts on my Samsung Galaxy Note 2 with Microsoft Outlook I installed Samsung Kies on my laptop. The version of Samsung Kies I installed was the 2.5.0.12094_28 version. If you need the link to download Samsung Kies follow this one download Samsung Kies. The setup installed Samsung Kies and started immediately the

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Samsung Kies offers the possibility to transfer and sync music, photos and videos from your PC to the Samsung Galaxy S3. I will describe how I synced my MP3 collection, pictures and videos to my SGS 3. First of all you have to install Samsung Kies on your PC. Samsung Kies can be downloaded from the

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