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Galaxy S3 - First Full Official review for those interested, it doesn't look good.

Before I used to change phone every year. Just before the iPhone I had a Samsung Omnia HD, and let me tell you how much I regret it... Plastic feel oh yes. No ********** updates ever. I had to install roms from samsung italy and such, and it didn't make the phone better at all.

Super amoled screen is definitely nice, but I couldn't do basic stuff like set my email account on the phone. No good apps (maybe because it was Symbian...). Overall a bad experience.

On the iPhone I can do everything I need and easy, and let me tell you Im a gadget guy and know how to do almost everything (like I said before, I even flash my Omnia HD with different ROMS, something I don't want to ever do again because its a pain in the ass).

2 years later and I still haven't found any good reason to upgrade from my iPhone 4 to any new smartphone. Do they offer something really new I can't do on my iPhone 4?

I can still send emails, surf the web, watch videos, listen to music, play hundreds of cool games, use tomtom gps, etc.

What does the SGS3 (or any other phone in the market right now) offer me that I can't do on my iPhone 4? Thanks to Apple I finally found a good phone that works and its nice, so I don't have anymore the urge of changing phones every year.

I still get thousands of new apps every year plus I'm gonna get iOS 6 plus I have jailbreak for new tweaks.

Theres really no need to change phones every year... No progress. Ill wait until a phone with 3D display comes out or something like that :D:D:D

Quad core is no progress if the OS and apps are not optimized for it. Its just pure marketing... so I don't buy that it feels faster and all. The OS probably only uses 2 cores of those 4. My iPhone 4 has just 1 core and look how fast and fluid it feels.
 
briantaylor619 said:
Who actually uses NFC? I had the Nexus for a month and didn't have a single opportunity with any retailer to use it (still got the $10 sitting in my google wallet account).
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I agree that there's not many retailers available, but surely you've been to a CVS, Rite Aid or convenience store like 7-Eleven (Wawa in my area) if you're in the States?

You can check for yourself though:
http://www.google.com/wallet/where-it-works.html
 
Rennir said:
You mean the one that won't shatter when you drop it from waist height? :) That's actually pretty standard in the phone market, it's just Apple decided to sacrifice practicability for form.
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Blah. Not that old argument. When I read it, I always have this vision in my head of thousands of people dropping their phones constantly. I've had the 3G - 4, and never have dropped my phone, or cracked it. I have seen plastic phones drop, and the battery cover fly off. Then after trying to put it back on, they realized that the little clips broke off, or the cover cracked. Then you're left with a nice piece of duct tape to hold it.

I think Apple went for a good looking phone and sacrificed putting out plastic junk.
 
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nefan65 said:
Blah. Not that old argument. When I read it, I always have this vision in my head of thousands of people dropping their phones constantly. I've had the 3G - 4, and never have dropped my phone, or cracked it. I have seen plastic phones drop, and the battery cover fly off. Then after trying to put it back on, they realized that the little clips broke off, or the cover cracked. Then you're left with a nice piece of duct tape to hold it.

I think Apple went for a good looking phone and sacrificed putting out plastic junk.
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Good thing the GS3 is made of Polycarbon instead of plastic.

And lets not forget the plastic "junk" Apple put out prior to the fragile back glass. Nobody here seems to want to remember that but will rip another company for using plastic and the fanboys were quite happy to call the 3G & 3GS a beautiful phone.
 
Vegastouch said:
But much better than regular plastic. Its like regular glass compared to gorilla glass.
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Yes it's stronger, but that has nothing to do with the complaints I been reading. Many are saying it still has the same cheap feel and look to it as regular plastic.

Not that I care much, plastic is fine with me. But I think many would have been more impressed with a back of a differ substance.
 
LIVEFRMNYC said:
Yes it's stronger, but that has nothing to do with the complaints I been reading. Reviewers are saying it still has the same cheap feel and look to it as regular plastic.

Not that I care much, plastic is fine with me. But I think many would have been more impressed with a back of a differ substance.
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Dont know why. The chrome back on the iPod was horrid and very slippery and scratched so easily but many loved the device and it looked good and the all glass iPhone is fragile too but it looks good.
Personally i dont care what it feels like. Mine will be getting a case on it even if it is made out of titanium.
 
So does anyone think we'll actually get a 64GB variant of the GS3 in the USA (or ANYWHERE)? I'm banking on it for a switch over, but now I'm think we're lucky if we get a 32GB variant. :(
 
Tones2 said:
So does anyone think we'll actually get a 64GB variant of the GS3 in the USA (or ANYWHERE)? I'm banking on it for a switch over, but now I'm think we're lucky if we get a 32GB variant. :(
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Well you can always get a 64GB microSD. I'm hoping to get 64/64. :eek:
 
nefan65 said:
Blah. Not that old argument. When I read it, I always have this vision in my head of thousands of people dropping their phones constantly. I've had the 3G - 4, and never have dropped my phone, or cracked it. I have seen plastic phones drop, and the battery cover fly off. Then after trying to put it back on, they realized that the little clips broke off, or the cover cracked. Then you're left with a nice piece of duct tape to hold it.

I think Apple went for a good looking phone and sacrificed putting out plastic junk.
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The beauty of that though, is you can get another back :) When an iPhone shatters, guess what? :eek:

Nope, but it does happen. I'm happy for you that you have never dropped your phone, and perhaps you never will. But people do drop their phones, and I dare say that the majority will drop it at least once in their life, although I freely admit that my estimate is based upon my own perception of human clumsiness and therefore may be skewed by the people I surround myself with or the country I live in.

That is your personal experience. If we were to conduct an experiment using the S3 and the 4/4S and dropped let's say 10 copies of each from varying heights each time, which phone do you think would end up more damaged? Heck, let's do 100. My bet would be on the iPhone. I can't prove this, but like you, I have enough anecdotal evidence of having friends and acquaintances drop their iPhones from waist height and then for the entire front or back to completely shatter.
 
Sensamic said:
Before I used to change phone every year. Just before the iPhone I had a Samsung Omnia HD, and let me tell you how much I regret it... Plastic feel oh yes. No ********** updates ever. I had to install roms from samsung italy and such, and it didn't make the phone better at all.

Super amoled screen is definitely nice, but I couldn't do basic stuff like set my email account on the phone. No good apps (maybe because it was Symbian...). Overall a bad experience.

On the iPhone I can do everything I need and easy, and let me tell you Im a gadget guy and know how to do almost everything (like I said before, I even flash my Omnia HD with different ROMS, something I don't want to ever do again because its a pain in the ass).

2 years later and I still haven't found any good reason to upgrade from my iPhone 4 to any new smartphone. Do they offer something really new I can't do on my iPhone 4?

I can still send emails, surf the web, watch videos, listen to music, play hundreds of cool games, use tomtom gps, etc.

What does the SGS3 (or any other phone in the market right now) offer me that I can't do on my iPhone 4? Thanks to Apple I finally found a good phone that works and its nice, so I don't have anymore the urge of changing phones every year.

I still get thousands of new apps every year plus I'm gonna get iOS 6 plus I have jailbreak for new tweaks.

Theres really no need to change phones every year... No progress. Ill wait until a phone with 3D display comes out or something like that :D:D:D

Quad core is no progress if the OS and apps are not optimized for it. Its just pure marketing... so I don't buy that it feels faster and all. The OS probably only uses 2 cores of those 4. My iPhone 4 has just 1 core and look how fast and fluid it feels.
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That tiny screen was the reason myself and many others changed to something other than iPhone
 
Minute I think about switching to any other phone I remember how much I've invested in Apple: iPhone, Mac, iTunes, App Store... And being a guy who likes uniformity, it's gonna be hard to ever be anything other than an Apple guy.
 
Timzer said:
Well you can always get a 64GB microSD. I'm hoping to get 64/64. :eek:
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Yes, that's what I want. 128 GB access at once. 96 GB is not enough to get me to switch. I want to have my whole 100 GB music library on my phone at once.

Too bad no Android programs offers the 128 kbps on-the-fly conversion like iTunes does, at least yet (that I know of). That's probably the biggest thing I'll miss about switching from the iPhone.
 
0m3ga said:
Yet some more reasons why I will be buying the S3, once it comes to the U.S.

The double tap on top of the phone to scroll to the top of a page would be annoying though. There has been an ios jailbreak, which has been around forever, that auto-scrolls to the top by simply tapping the status bar once. Much more intuitive. It's too bad something similar to the tweak 'swipegesture', wasn't incorporated. That's another awesome tweak.
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Its not necessary on android as android scrolling has a lot more momentum allowing you to quickly scroll up and down a whole long page quickly. IOS no matter how fast you try to throw it quickly stops scrolling after about a half second. If you've used both OS'es you'll notice this. I personally prefer androids way, especially in 4.0.
 
blackhand1001 said:
Its not necessary on android as android scrolling has a lot more momentum allowing you to quickly scroll up and down a whole long page quickly. IOS no matter how fast you try to throw it quickly stops scrolling after about a half second. If you've used both OS'es you'll notice this. I personally prefer androids way, especially in 4.0.
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I prefer Atomic Browser on iOS.

Press one button : scroll to the top of a page

Press another button : scroll to the bottom of a page

It's simple, quicker, and more effective.
 
briantaylor619 said:
Who actually uses NFC? I had the Nexus for a month and didn't have a single opportunity with any retailer to use it (still got the $10 sitting in my google wallet account).

LTE will hopefully be in the next iPhone once the battery life isn't terrible like it is on current LTE Android handsets.

Expandable storage is a "whatever" sort of feature for me. I wouldn't use it even if the iPhone came with it as an option. Pictures / Video I transfer to my computer and I have about 2 gigs of music (around 500 songs).
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When apple implements NFC that is when it will take off and retailer implementation will speed up dramatically.

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SGMD1 said:
Not to mention that Google Voice Actions is nearly identical to Siri and existed two years prior.
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Wrong.
 
LIVEFRMNYC said:
Yes it's stronger, but that has nothing to do with the complaints I been reading. Many are saying it still has the same cheap feel and look to it as regular plastic.

Not that I care much, plastic is fine with me. But I think many would have been more impressed with a back of a differ substance.
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Get a Razr Maxx than. Kevlar casing and Gorilla Glass but still lighter than my 4s. Love mine :)
 
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