Exactly, and it's never going to get better until you buy a new phone! None of Google's bug fixes or performance enhancements will ever get pushed out to you!
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Samsung's New Galaxy S III Phone Offers 4.8-Inch Screen, Siri-Like 'S Voice' Feature
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Exactly, and it's never going to get better until you buy a new phone! None of Google's bug fixes or performance enhancements will ever get pushed out to you!
I used to love my iphone for a quick breakfast, it would fry an egg in no time. But since I got an ipad 3 (at 45nm too) I can use that instead and have the occasional call in the morning.
Its still no wider than a standard bill (or as such, a wallet).
The height is a non-issue.
It is the best Droid. My friend has it. It's crashed numerous times on him, it lags, it requires some PC app to transfer any data to the PC (which is glitchy and only works sometimes), the battery life is short, and its 1080p video is lower quality (by bitrate and perception) than my iPhone 4's 720p.
To be fair, my iPhone 4 has crashed once. It also has a bug where it lags when I go into the cellular data settings, but I'm a version behind and jailbroken.
No exclusivity about it - Windows Phone 7 has an arguably smoother UI than both of them and that was in 2010, well before ICS.
The X is no wider than a wallet. The Y remains a non-issue, and the Z is smaller. (Faced from front)
This isn't the first time. Everyone did copy Apple's iPhone back in 2007, but this isn't any more of a copy than the previous ones.
Yep, almost 7 months since ics released, and it's on 4 percent of devices...yeah, no thanks...
No i think the nexus is a good phone when it works, but not stable at all. But with Android you just gotta put up with instability...comes with the ecosystem lol
Both copy each other. Get your facts right. And hey, if Samsung offers a better version than Apple, then I'm all for it. Apple "innovates" by taking existing technology and synthesizing it into a user-friendly product that a lot of people buy, for multiple reasons. If Samsung can build off existing technologies on Apple, and force Apple to improve Siri and the like, then so much the better.
Samsung should have called their new music hub service S Hit to keep the S theme concept.
Sick of all the crap on the radio, then come to Samsung S Hit music.
Sick of all the crap on the radio, then come to Samsung S Hit music.
Are we going to measure phone temperature by APPL performance? For more information, check this threads:
4s getting hot when using it
4s really hot when charging
iPhone 4S camera getting hot?
iPhone 4S getting hot randomly
iPhone 4S runs hot for you?
Iphon 4s gets EXTREMELY hot after usage?
iPhone 4s getting warm/hot under normal use?
iPhone 4s Extremely Hot Running Navigon
I think you can see now why I said what I said.
I thought so too, and then I realized it's just because it has the form factor of the older iPod Nano with the fully curved sides and flat top/bottom.
I couldn't find an edge-on picture, but this should jog memories for a lot of people: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Ipod_nano.JPG
But was not Apple the original copier? id not they copy phone call, SMS, MMS (eventually), phone camera, GPS etc.? The simple fact is that iPhone 4S and Galaxy SIII have very little in common (except for Samsung manufactured parts).
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You are correct.
If you remember, Android had voice control WAY before Apple. Apple bought that tech but it has been around for some time. It was getting really nice about the time Apple bought it though.
Apple copied Android on this one.
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That's what the girl at the picnic said.
I agree, the size is ok.
No, not really.
I've owned a 3G, a 3GS, a 4, and 2 4S's (one for a couple of weeks, the other for about a month now). In all of that time, subjected to the same treatment and the same conditions, I have had maybe 2 or 3 spontaneous reboots.
My GNex would literally reboot at least once every 2 days, and sometimes as much as twice a day. Go on the various forums and check it out. It's endemic to the GNex.
That was when I was lucky, of course. Other times, a system process would crash and a dialog box would pop up informing me that this system process had stopped responding. Unfortunately this often happened while it was in my pocket and I wouldn't know about it. Double unfortunately, this system process seemed to have *something* to do with the radio modem or 3G link, because after it crashed, the phone wouldn't be on the phone network anymore. I'd walk around all day never getting emails and missing phone calls until I looked at the phone and realized what had happened.
Other times it would be asleep for a while and the touch screen would die. I could activate the screen by touching the power button, but the menu itself and the unlock screen would be inaccessible - the touch screen just wouldn't respond. Usually about a minute or two later it would crash and reboot, so maybe that wasn't so bad.
All I can say is it's a damn good thing that Apple kit isn't this flaky - I got pretty damn good at ripping open the GNex's back cover and popping the battery out and in to reboot it, and I don't know what anyone would do if Samsung used built-in batteries.
Ok, so I'll admit, the GNex might not be the most representative phone in the Android world. But my wife's Nexus S is pretty flaky too, with the intermittent crazy text cursor, email weirdness, and generally poor battery life.
Web browsing with a few select sites, maybe. App loading, not so much - definitely not with the apps I use.
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer....
here's the official 1 hour and 18-minute Galaxy launch event:
http://www.thenextgalaxy.com/
here's the official 1 hour and 18-minute Galaxy launch event:
http://www.thenextgalaxy.com/
"Most people" have terrible taste in cars, music, movies, etc. So what's your point?
Copying the Siri button - Well, OK.
Copying the iPod Shuffle - Probably infringing Apple patents, but alright, who cares.
But:
If you take this, replace 'Humanities' with 'Nature' and make it your own idea: That's kind of over the top, even for Samsung.
So, on top of just ripping off design cues, they now rip off the whole Apple ecosystem, and even Apple's core values. I'm sure you could see and feel the circular movement near Steve's grave today.
Copying the iPod Shuffle - Probably infringing Apple patents, but alright, who cares.
But:
If you take this, replace 'Humanities' with 'Nature' and make it your own idea: That's kind of over the top, even for Samsung.
So, on top of just ripping off design cues, they now rip off the whole Apple ecosystem, and even Apple's core values. I'm sure you could see and feel the circular movement near Steve's grave today.
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No need for that. My phone is GNex and I have zero problems with it. Right now it shows up time 249 hours. It's on ICS 4.0.4 which did fix some bugs but I never experienced big problems anyways.
well it always depends on what you expect from your phone. i may jump to a samsung soon because i need a new UI experience and if i dont like it ... well i still got my simlock free iPhone 4 & 4S and my iPad for iOS pleasure
but like i said, to each their own
have u seen the battery in that thing? but only real life tests will tell
I actually think this looks like a nice phone. Not in white, but I mean the general package seems pretty cool to me. I'm not going to rush out and buy one or anything, but it's got some cool features. Hopefully the next iPhone tops this and the competition stays steady.
As for the whole who ripped off who thing- it will never end. It's the nature of this business and that's fine. All the lawsuits just generate a ton of business for Samsung and Apple both. They will continue to top each other until they either merge or destroy the world.
As for the whole who ripped off who thing- it will never end. It's the nature of this business and that's fine. All the lawsuits just generate a ton of business for Samsung and Apple both. They will continue to top each other until they either merge or destroy the world.