It's more like a bug lol. I swear my iPhone has registered touches before my finger has hit the screen.
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Samsung Announces New Flagship Galaxy S 4 Competitor to Apple's iPhone
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It's more like a bug lol. I swear my iPhone has registered touches before my finger has hit the screen.
Every single one of the S3 S motion features works great, i have no clue what you are talking about, have you actually tried using an S3 for more than 15 seconds?
Direct Call (if you are txting, just put your phone up to your ear to call the person)
Tap to Top
Tilt to Zoom
Panning (ok this one works but its maybe tricky to some to master)
Shake to update
Turn Over to Mute (i use this ALL THE TIME)
Palm Swipe Capture
Palm Touch Mute
the big ass screen looks cool, but I'm not sure how I'd like it day to day. I certainly wouldn't mind the OPTION to buy one though.
Oh, I see. Even if going by design, the original iPhone looks very different if you compare every angle. 3G(S) and original were similar, 4(S) was very different from 3G(S), and 5 is a little different 4(S).
The difference is Apple spent years toting how their 3.5" screen was the perfect size.
Samsung was always open to bringing phones with larger screens to the market, and pushing those boundaries - taking risks, if you will.
Apple kept mocking the large screen sizes, and then were forced to eat their words when they saw how well they were selling.
I still have my iPhone, but I'll be moving to a Note 2 or 3 unless an iPhone 6 comes out this year.
I would prefer to stay with Apple as I really like the regular updates to iOS, the app selection, battery, and the build quality. But, the display is the most important aspect of any smartphone. The display is how you interact with the phone and consume content. It's clear that Apple understands this as they've championed higher resolutions and went larger on the iPhone 5. I just don't know why they've fallen behind here. It's a key misunderstanding of the market that is unusual for Apple.
The current iPhone should be the iPhone Nano, and 5-6" standard.
I would prefer to stay with Apple as I really like the regular updates to iOS, the app selection, battery, and the build quality. But, the display is the most important aspect of any smartphone. The display is how you interact with the phone and consume content. It's clear that Apple understands this as they've championed higher resolutions and went larger on the iPhone 5. I just don't know why they've fallen behind here. It's a key misunderstanding of the market that is unusual for Apple.
The current iPhone should be the iPhone Nano, and 5-6" standard.
And what kind of extension does this "photo" have ? Is it compliment with Internet standards ? Can a person without a Samsung device e.g. A windows PC view it ?
It's their history. I had an S3 between an iPhone 4 and 5, and even on XDA forums the Samsung apps are some of the first things people delete.
There is also nothing about better integration. We have a Samsung TV, Samsung laptop, and integration is terrible. It was easier to get stuff off my NAS than use the Samsung apps, and I had to delete almost every Samsung program off the laptop because it was corrupting the browser cache, and causing ram usage up to 14GB out of 16GB (Series 9 I put Corsair 16GB of RAM in).
Seriously?? These are touch screen smartphones. They don't need to look like anything other than a thin, featureless slab until you turn them on.
Unless you think of your phone as a piece of jewelry, how could it possibly matter one iota if the physical appearance of the phone doesn't change from one generation to the next?? "Not seeing a difference between the 4 & 4S until you turn them on" has got to be the least relevent complaint ever made about a smart phone.
Did you read the article? Do you realize you could post a picture of the iPhone 4 and iPhone 5 in a way that they look the same? Do you realize you can post a picture of the 2011 imac and the 2012 imac and they look the same? Com on. Its different and if you don't know how, READ THE SPECS!
Spec bump, others have claimed. I don't know that much about it, but it seems like a spec bump to me too. And one guy said that the pixel count isn't real due to an uneven RGB ratio.
A good rule of thumb I follow that has served me quite well so far is to NEVER buy hardware and operating system from different vendors. That's why I would never own a Samsung phone, but would consider a Nexus if Android market wasn't pure crap compared to the iOS app store.
im sorry but poly carbonate (same as what the lumia 900/920 is made out of) is not cheap crap, it can take way more of a beating than metal since it absorbs shock, polycarb also doesnt discolor when dented or chipped since you mold the shell in the color and not paint it. polycarb doesnt block any wireless signals that i know of so you should get stronger signal for any wireless radio.
if the 40 million Galaxy S3's sold "did not work" im pretty sure Samsung would be well into the ground now.
please use some common sense before posting
I'm sure there's a limit after which more pixels won't make sense, but even relatively minor differences, such as the 1280x768 on my Nexus 4 vs the 1136x640 on my wife's iPhone 5 are readily apparent when, say, streaming high-def content off my home servers. On a screen like the S4's, which is even bigger, I think you'd appreciate the higher resolution for video and gaming, and to a lessor extent other activities.
I'm not saying you need higher definition, and I'm not saying there aren't tradeoffs (battery, apparent graphical speed due to pushing far more pixels), but you can absolutely see the difference - like you could when the iPhone 4 came out and blew away the 3GS, although to a lessor extent.
Did they really boast 3.5"? They still boast keeping the same width. I think 4" or maybe a little more is as big as it should be. 3.5" at that width was below 16:9, and now it's essentially 16:9. If Apple really does make a significantly bigger iPhone (which would have to be wider without having weird proportions), I won't like it.
No idea. Since this feature was just released today and the device isn't in anyone's actual hands how would I know?
Maybe it's just for playback on the S4. Which wouldn't be terrible. It just wouldn't be as "useful" as being able to share it with a non-S4. But that happens all the time with features of phones and other tech.
The older DSLRs just created a .wav file that had the same filename format so you could see which audio note went with each photo.
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It was interesting to read this hands-on "review"
http://bgr.com/2013/03/14/samsung-g...8/?utm_source=trending-widget&utm_medium=home
its funny they think ONE size can be perfect for everyone on earth when not a single person has identical dimensions to another.
i would assume a person with bigger hands would find a larger device easier to type on than a tiny one.
Why do we think the media is calling for the next big thing from Apple? It knows not to ask Samsung. The whole industry is waiting for Apple to carve out new markets for the rest to follow.
We'll never get the media to be sensible about development of existing and future products. That's nowhere near as 'exciting' as pretending it's Steve Jobsif the media SAYS it, it will become reality.
And Samsung doesn't need to innovate. It's not that silly. It's happy to let Apple do all the hard work and copy that.
What we really need is for the media and particularly Mac journalists to keep telling the truth, reiterate their message from MWC, that iPhone's screen looks harsh against the new generation phones. Not to mention, we would at least like the option of a 5" iPhone screen. [bigger case = bigger battery, cummon!]
Frankly, I was hoping for more from the S IV, to snap Apple out of it's daze. Apple got a pass for the 5 last year because it revolutionised the insides, but this year, only doing a 5S, without a 5" screen later in the year, will not go well in the long term.
Turns out, I can't count on Samsung to push Apple towards customer's needs. Suppose I shouldn't be surprised about that. Ever the optimist.
Apple, pull your finger out. It's embarrassing to not have some of the features this new S4 has. I'm a very loyal Apple devotee, but don't take my type for granted.
Very true. Smartphones have reached a point where it's much more about the software than ever before. In other words, iOS 7 better step up or ship out.
An Android device with a quad-core processor is STILL slower than a dual-core (or even a single-core) processor in an iPhone. See, iOS has better management of resources, while Android just slaps a bunch of crap and useless items into a phone and it gets shipped. It's good when you have a phone that has software and hardware from the same company (aside the "A6 is made from Samsung" and other components crap).
