It's not fine if you find reading text on forum like this without zooming in a hassle.
And yes, I know S3 would have a way better screen than S2, which is why I sold it. It should also be RGB and not PenTile.
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Galaxy S3 vs iphone4S
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It's not fine if you find reading text on forum like this without zooming in a hassle.
And yes, I know S3 would have a way better screen than S2, which is why I sold it. It should also be RGB and not PenTile.
I can read the text on this site without zooming my ip4. I don't like it and would prefer the option to easily bump the text size up. I also don't zoom the web browser out on my MBA to the tiniest font size available (I'm guessing you don't either.) I visit other sites that have even smaller text than macrumors some of which are designed in a way that prevents double tap to zoom on the iphone.
I'm all about the hardware now(because I haven't seen or read anything about ICS to be a dealbreaker), and Samsung phones bring it in spades. I can say without hesitation that the GS2 being more than half a year older than my iPhone, easily matches or exceeds the iphone 4S in performance. The fact that the phone has a bigger display that is crisp, clear and vibrant, all the while staying super light is all graaaavy. It doesn't matter how you wanna spin it, the GS2 is quite an achievement. And what is more impressive is that it is only the 2nd generation of the Galaxy S. So it's no shock to me that this is the biggest selling android phone and the one the gets a majority of the attention from the industry. How anyone on this forum can discredit such a device is beyond me. You don't have to like it or buy it, but don't say things that are just down right factually false.
All the original Galaxy owners that passed on the GS2 because of their contract, now have a device to look forward to in the GS3. And from the way Samsung has been doing this phone, you can be it won't be just some small spec bump to the GS2. You're gonna get a whole new phone that has REAL UPGRADES from the GS2. Unlike how the 3Gs owners were waiting for the iPhone 5 and ended up being introduced to a 4s. Samsung does upgrades the right way from model to new model. That's how it should be done. And I give Samsung full marks in doing it this way.
All the original Galaxy owners that passed on the GS2 because of their contract, now have a device to look forward to in the GS3. And from the way Samsung has been doing this phone, you can be it won't be just some small spec bump to the GS2. You're gonna get a whole new phone that has REAL UPGRADES from the GS2. Unlike how the 3Gs owners were waiting for the iPhone 5 and ended up being introduced to a 4s. Samsung does upgrades the right way from model to new model. That's how it should be done. And I give Samsung full marks in doing it this way.
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...and I won't kill you because you're just too much fun. I think you and I are destined to do this forever.
[taken from TDK]
No, the iphone 4s was the 1st to come out, the SGS3 will be 4-5 months behind, (Apple was first this time) -
(sgs2 came out over a year ago, it's the old phone = to iphone4)
(the ihpone 5 will be lucky to come out by the end of the year)
^^ THIS ^^
So many on this forum for whatever reason don't realize the Galaxy S line is on a 1 year cycle. I have no idea why they think the phone is redone every 2 months or so. Maybe what throws them off is that when the SGS2 came out, it was such a big jump in specs and performance from the first Galaxy S that they thought (by Apple standards) 3 other models must have been introduced in between. I know Apple users are not used to having such big jumps from a device that is introduced every year. When your mindset has basically settled for small spec bumps from YEAR to YEAR, then you've done just that, settled.
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I don't think there's been any iPhone release that hasn't been a big jump up from the one prior. Even the 4S was a big jump because it gave us a dual-core processor and much improved graphics, although a select few would like to make you believe that because it doesn't look any different, there isn't anything significantly different about it. The trick is to look under the bonnet.
So you've settled with a brand that will give you a new phone that looks the same year to year but only with spec bumps to bring it up to par with phones introduced half a year ago. Ummm...ok. To each his own.
As long as Samsung drops the 3D fad, stop worrying about making the phone razor thin and instead puts a more efficient and bigger battery that can allow me to watch stuff for more than 4 hours on that beautiful screen i will happily buy it. Otherwise my iPhone 4 at 4.3.3 with upto 9 hours of usage times serves me well minus the small screen.
The first company to combine a 4 in + screen with a 7+ hours usage time on single charge (stock battery) gets me off the current device irrespective of OS or other stuff.
The first company to combine a 4 in + screen with a 7+ hours usage time on single charge (stock battery) gets me off the current device irrespective of OS or other stuff.
You mean in your dreams or in reality?
If you are browsing the web and watching videos on 3G, the iPhone 4 will get you 5-5:30 hours. If you're doing light browsing 6hrs.
Unless it is light, very light use, with data turned off most of the time, I can't see how an iPhone 4 will give me 9 hours of usage. I had one for a year. Impossible.
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So you've settled with a brand that will give you a new phone that looks the same year to year but only with spec bumps to bring it up to par with phones introduced half a year ago. Ummm...ok. To each his own.
The iPhone 4 looks completely different from the iPhone 3Gs.
The Galaxy S doesn't really look that much different from the GS2. Except the GS2 wants to be an iPhone 4, so it's more squared. The GS1 was more round because the iPhone 3G was round.
If in 2012 the iPhone is a triangle, then the GS4 will be a triangle.
Unless Samsung spies learn of the triangle iPhone 5, in which case, they will go to their manufacturer and throw away the iPhone 4s copies and start making them as triangles.
Just like they did after the iPad 2 came out.
I would love to be a design guy at Samsung Mobile. "See those guys? Yea. Just do what they do".
Android 4.0 is great, which is why the next iOS will have iPhone users envying nothing. Android had notification bars? We got notification bars. It's a game.
Personally, it's all the same. If Apple copies Android, so be it, but to be honest, if they take Siri further, Android can have nothing like it.
Also, the build quality of the iPhone is much more superior.
I was checking out a GS2 White. They had it attached to one of those cables with the alarm so you can't steal it and the damn back kept popping off every time I lifted the phone.
Plastic crap.
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Samsung needs time to copy the new iPhone.
Personally, it's all the same. If Apple copies Android, so be it, but to be honest, if they take Siri further, Android can have nothing like it.
Also, the build quality of the iPhone is much more superior.
I was checking out a GS2 White. They had it attached to one of those cables with the alarm so you can't steal it and the damn back kept popping off every time I lifted the phone.
Plastic crap.
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No, the iphone 4s was the 1st to come out, the SGS3 will be 4-5 months behind, (Apple was first this time) -
(sgs2 came out over a year ago, it's the old phone = to iphone4)
(the ihpone 5 will be lucky to come out by the end of the year)
Samsung needs time to copy the new iPhone.
5-5:30 hours? lol. Yesterday I read a full novel online (2:30 hrs), played modern combat for a good 30 mins and did some browsing for about an hour or so and i was at 42%. Overnight and then some music during the day (light screen on time, some facebook, and ebuddy) and I just put it on charge an hour ago.
However, only about 40% of the time i was connected to 3G, rest wifi. I always turn on wifi at home because 3G sucks and causes even more drain with a bad signal.
With full 3G browsing i have routinely ended with upto 6 hours of browsing and ebuddy mixed together with a little of youtube.
It is not impossible. Yes it was impossible on the SGS2 i had (which can be rectified if i do buy a spare battery but i am not doing that, sorry) that is why i hope samsung goes for better battery life than some flashy gimmick like 3D or 3mm thin phone. Then i will gladly buy that.
I don't see how text can be anymore clear than in the retina display. Any more pixels wouldn't make any difference to your eyes. It will make the big 4.6" screens look as clear as the retina display. No better just equal and bigger.
The downside to big screen is that you can't get to all your icons easily with one hand as you usually use the phone. You will be constantly travelling the screen and having to adjust your hands.
If I can't read something, I tap "reader" up on top.
if it doesn't have reader, turn it sideways.
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Well, if course, WiFi. You can be on Wifi all day.
That's YOU
Try doing all that on 3G and see how long you last.
With full 3G browsing i have routinely ended with upto 6 hours of browsing and ebuddy mixed together with a little of youtube.
Yes, that's' what I said. you get up to 6hrs on 3G. That's as much as I've had. No more. So, 9 hours would be impossible. Unless, AS I SAID, you TURN OFF DATA, which is what YOU ARE DOING.
The downside to big screen is that you can't get to all your icons easily with one hand as you usually use the phone. You will be constantly travelling the screen and having to adjust your hands.
If I can't read something, I tap "reader" up on top.
if it doesn't have reader, turn it sideways.
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Well, if course, WiFi. You can be on Wifi all day.
That's YOU
Try doing all that on 3G and see how long you last.
With full 3G browsing i have routinely ended with upto 6 hours of browsing and ebuddy mixed together with a little of youtube.
Yes, that's' what I said. you get up to 6hrs on 3G. That's as much as I've had. No more. So, 9 hours would be impossible. Unless, AS I SAID, you TURN OFF DATA, which is what YOU ARE DOING.
"Retina display" doesn't have anything to do with the limit on how sharp something can be. It is a marketing name for 326ppi.
Anything higher than 326ppi will be sharper. It is just known that upto 300ppi is good enough for an average eye at a respectable few inches distance. Which means by your logic text on "retina display" cannot be sharper than text at 300 ppi.
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Yeah but does it make a difference? Cellular data or wifi, both are forms of internet pathways. I just transition from 3G to wifi when coming home and vice versa when going out and it routinely gives me a good 7+ usage time without fail. I am not going to debate on how many hours i can get on pure 3G because that is not just the only thing i depend on.
In other words, my phone still keeps connected. I have ebuddy on 24/7 on my phone (need it to communicate with people overseas) and never miss an alert, whether i am on 3G or wifi. I just wish i could do the same on a little bigger screen.
When teens get off school they dont do anything.
By the way she writes, she is probably about 14 or 15.
Anyway, the iPhone 4 will give you 5-6 hours of continuous use, depending on what you are doing. I've had as little as 4:45 or 5:45 (which is the norm) and as much as 6:30 at the most without browsing the net, just using apps.
On WiFi of course, I can watch a streaming podcast for an hour and a half and drop maybe 15 or 20%.
But, who has WiFi? I'm working, I'm in the car, I'm around. I'm not sitting next to a WiFi modem like a teenage girl all day long.
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are you really that dense? You human eye can't see the difference once it passes a certain number of dots per inch. It wouldn't make any difference.
You really honestly have no clue what you are talking about do you?
On 3G it even depends where you are and the strength of the 3G signal from your provider. In areas of low signal, your battery will drain more.
You should study and do your homework more instead of posting in forums. Your mom should take the phone away.
LOL. First i am not a she. Second I am a last year graduating student from university and third I had no work for a week due to renovations at the place. So if i am not going out i have to do something right? Maybe you should put a break to your generalizations?
I get you are oh so busy and yet have time to argue on an internet forum like a non-teenage person. Is that what you call work or sitting in a car? I feel bad for your employer with your pitiful knowledge of wifi needing to sit near a modem all day.
Where can i sign up for a job where i can work on macrumors writing replies?
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Perhaps you love to argue, but where was i debating signal strength and other battery issues? I thought the end of my post was clear it was a usage based point.
And for the human eye, you just reinforced my point. The exception is you think that retina defines that limit. How gullible of you.