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Review: Is Samsung's Galaxy S III worth all the hype?
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article published on 3 July, 2012
Samsung's latest flagship device, the Galaxy S III, is easily the most hyped Android device of the year, and possibly of all-time. The question is whether the phone is worth the hype, and whether it appeals to the broad spectrum of Android fans out there.
While the specs aren't too different from competitors like the HTC One X, what really differentiates the device is its software, which ... [ read the full article ]
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Tazer247
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4. July 2012 @ 00:37 |
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2GB of RAM for the US version, no?
Other than that this was a good review to keep me occupied as I anxiously await my Verizon pre-order.
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4. July 2012 @ 00:44 |
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Originally posted by Tazer247:
2GB of RAM for the US version, no?
Other than that this was a good review to keep me occupied as I anxiously await my Verizon pre-order.
Correct, updated.
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4. July 2012 @ 02:32 |
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Want so much. Can't live without the keyboard though, I do way too much typing on my phone. Release ICS for Droid 4 Moto! Now!
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Interestx
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4. July 2012 @ 09:23 |
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Things like Samsung not heading down the anti-consumer road of things like no memory expansion or sealed away batteries are also of great interest to me (and I suspect many others).
The cloud is fine in a big city or large town, elsewhere its limitations rapidly show.....and as a micro SD slot costs pennies to include @ manufacture I just cannot see any other reason (other than commercial greed) for refusing to include one (and this applies to both somne of the latest phones & tablets).
The ability to use the latest 64gb SD XC micro cards is a real plus (as it is on the S2 as well).
A sealed away battery is plainly idiotic on these ultra slim phones, so credit to Samsung for not letting greed get the better of them there too.
I'll give it a couple of years, I've just bought a new phone but my factory refurb'd Samsung Galaxy S2 was less than half the price of an S3.
No contest, the S3 is very nice & very good but not over twice as good as an S2.
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4. July 2012 @ 15:20 |
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Originally posted by Interestx:
Things like Samsung not heading down the anti-consumer road of things like no memory expansion or sealed away batteries are also of great interest to me (and I suspect many others).
The cloud is fine in a big city or large town, elsewhere its limitations rapidly show.....and as a micro SD slot costs pennies to include @ manufacture I just cannot see any other reason (other than commercial greed) for refusing to include one (and this applies to both somne of the latest phones & tablets).
The ability to use the latest 64gb SD XC micro cards is a real plus (as it is on the S2 as well).
A sealed away battery is plainly idiotic on these ultra slim phones, so credit to Samsung for not letting greed get the better of them there too.
I'll give it a couple of years, I've just bought a new phone but my factory refurb'd Samsung Galaxy S2 was less than half the price of an S3.
No contest, the S3 is very nice & very good but not over twice as good as an S2.
agree~ siii does have all of above u mention~ removable battery and expansion slot~ def a plus
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ps355528
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5. July 2012 @ 01:23 |
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the daft thing about all the hype is.. you can put a nice clean rom of the 4.0 andriod on your s2 and pretty much get an s3 anyway.. watch out for the "swap" of internal and external sd locations.. 2 ways round that.. won't go into details.. both are easy enough to implement.
I would say to any s2 owners being sucked in by the hype.. don't bother.. just update your kernel/rom to increase speed.. ditch all the phone company bloatware crap at the same time.. and in use you won't notice ANY difference in speed or performance. All this "extra" ram is just so fone companies can install more "impossible to turn off" crap..
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5. July 2012 @ 02:02 |
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Originally posted by ps355528:
the daft thing about all the hype is.. you can put a nice clean rom of the 4.0 andriod on your s2 and pretty much get an s3 anyway.. watch out for the "swap" of internal and external sd locations.. 2 ways round that.. won't go into details.. both are easy enough to implement.
I would say to any s2 owners being sucked in by the hype.. don't bother.. just update your kernel/rom to increase speed.. ditch all the phone company bloatware crap at the same time.. and in use you won't notice ANY difference in speed or performance. All this "extra" ram is just so fone companies can install more "impossible to turn off" crap..
in case u didnt know, u can actually uninstall the bloatware
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On the AT&T model, the bloatware was surprisingly kept to a minimum, which was a welcome relief. The only bloat was AT&T Navigator, Device Help, AT&T Messages, YP Mobile and myAT&T, and they were actually uninstallable, as well. Great.
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phoenix19861
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5. July 2012 @ 06:07 |
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samsung galaxy s4
- Snapdragon S4 MSM8974 Quad Core
- Adreno 320
- 2GB Ram
- 12 mp 1080p camera
- 4.5 display
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Morreale
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5. July 2012 @ 17:28 |
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Thinking of picking up one of these in August if my money's right... I feel like I can't leave my HTCs though :(
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xtago
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6. July 2012 @ 09:55 |
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The US version is LTE only and 2 cores due to the LTE chip allowing for a dual core CPU.
Could still have the 4 core GPU though.
2gig of prog ram is very handy the phone won't bog down.
I have the 3G version very good phone the 4cores have more than enough power for anything you can throw at them.
1.5gig prog ram though but still good.
4 core GPU.
The battery has the NFC addon in it so if you swap the battery you won't have NFC in the phone.
My S3 last for hours stream spotofy and playing games etc I hardly charge it up.
don't worry about the cell standby doesn't chew iup the battery
the S3 3G has ICS 4.0.4 on it if people wanted to know.
A problem for LTE android phones though android can't do the LTE side very well using the cell mapping programs have all sorts of notes about the problems android have with LTE phones.
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7. July 2012 @ 00:10 |
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Originally posted by phoenix19861:
samsung galaxy s4
- Snapdragon S4 MSM8974 Quad Core
- Adreno 320
- 2GB Ram
- 12 mp 1080p camera
- 4.5 display
why would it have 4.5 display when S3 is 4.8 display?
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7. July 2012 @ 00:12 |
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Originally posted by justby:
Originally posted by core2kid:
Want so much. Can't live without the keyboard though, I do way too much typing on my phone. Release ICS for Droid 4 Moto! Now!
If you ever got used to swype and the speed at which you can enter text you would wonder why you ever thought a keyboard on a phone was a good idea.
Used swipe and I'm pretty good but I'm still a keyboard guy. I send some long emails.
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1smurf
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8. July 2012 @ 10:50 |
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Great review; lots of useful information. Doing my research into an upgrade and so far have not found any better. Think I'll wait a couple more months to see if Iphone 5 makes a comparison worthwhile.
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