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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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Wow if they were going for ugly they succeeded! Good specs though, but s voice? Come on...what a joke and a ripoff.
It'll sell a few million, then never get updated and fall to the wayside in two months like all Android phones
It'll sell a few million, then never get updated and fall to the wayside in two months like all Android phones
HEY GUYS! LETS OVER EXAGGERATE! WOOOOOO! I HAVE TO STRETCH MY FINGERS OUT, LIKE, MAYBE HALF AN INCH! WHAT WERE THEY THINKING? I HAVE SMALL HANDS, SAMSUNG! I CAN'T DO THAT!
Comeon, people. It's not that much bigger. From the looks of it, I'd say it's roughly equal in size to the old HTC Evo, which could easily fit in your pocket. To me, it's the difference between small and comfortable, and slightly larger and comfortable.
But this all plastic body doesn't shatter when you drop it. I know some people do and some don't but plastic is more durable than glass..
James
I wonder if this one feels like a cheap plastic toy like the S and the SII did.
the iPhone 3G was "cheap plastic" as well and at least it doesnt break as easily but yea i thought they'd chose some different material for a change
hence the name...
Galaxy.
Samsung disclaimer:
Warning. Phone might be considered as a carry on item by some airlines. Purchase the Samsung Travel Kit which allows you to ship your phone anywhere in the world so that it can be there waiting for you when you arrive.
Galaxy.
Samsung disclaimer:
Warning. Phone might be considered as a carry on item by some airlines. Purchase the Samsung Travel Kit which allows you to ship your phone anywhere in the world so that it can be there waiting for you when you arrive.
Sure Apple has Siri and iTunes Match. The question that matters is if Samsung will actually manage to get their versions to work properly. At least I have continuous problems with both Siri and especially iTunes Match. Sure Siri is still beta, but to be honest based on how poorly iTunes Match works it feels like a beta version as well.
However, it's also good to note that Samsung's iTunes Match alternative is quite a lot more expensive.
Please don't compare 5gb of iCloud to 50gb of Dropbox space. Dropbox is at the moment a much more useful cloud service than iCloud, I know, since I use it daily. I wouldn't mind if Apple offered its users 50gb of Dropbox space...
Yay for competition!
No but I do know you're an anti-Apple troll. Why do you post here anyway?
Btw, who are most people besides yourself?
Both the phone and stock UI still look incredibly generic and cheap, sadly.
Edit: The truth hurts, huh?
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So basically I got a Galaxy S III months before it came out. Only thing it lacks is a way-too-huge screen and hideous form factor.
Fandroids can have at this ugly thing... I'll keep my iPhone 4S.
Let's see...
iPhone 4S compared to Galaxy SIII:
half RAM
half CPU cores
half CPU clock speed
half storage memory
no NFC
much smaller screen resolution
no LTE
Yea, you've got half Galaxy SIII
the annoying grid icon view of the iPhone/iPad is not much better and really really dated
say what u want it has some great improvement and brilliant ideas and its pretty SMART
Revamped Notifications:
if you miss a call, the phone will vibrate and flash an LED the next time you pick it up. (LOVE)
Camera:
Burst Shot/Best Photo that quickly snaps 20 photos in a row, then recommends the best one out of the series.
Social Tag links the pictures of your friends in your photo gallery to their Facebook or Google+ accounts. (the elderly will hate this of course)
Contacts:
open your adress book and hold the phone to your ear to make a call
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It still uses a Pentile display: http://androidcommunity.com/samsung-galaxy-s-iii-has-pentile-amoled-screen-20120503/
Hang on for the announcement of the SG IV with its 6" screen. LOL.
Hang on for the announcement of the SG IV with its 6" screen. LOL.
How hard would that be to hold? or how big of hand would you need for it to feel natural......
It shouldn't be that hard to hold at all. It's narrower and thinner than my Epic 4G Touch which is just fine.
Rumour has it that Samsung based the design of the new screen to be a 1:1 scale model of the Sistine Chapel's window.
No, they buy android because it is cheaper.
It is all subjective opinion from my head, but every competitor android phone I saw, they all have too complicated designs. Please can anyone dare to show me an Android phone that has a design as sleek and simple as iPhone 4S, and Galaxy SII is not one of them - IMO. Because the day I see a phone that is as simple as iPhone, I am making a transfer.
It is same for Macbook Pro - since Unibody design in 2008, 4 years on nobody else other than Apple is making a laptop that is minimalistic yet as good as MacBook Pro. Shocking world we live in, at least please copy the design if you can't design for goodness sake!
Hopefully, with iOS 6 and the next iPhone, Apple will again "reinvent the phone" and set a new benchmark of what a phone should be. How? I don't know but they've done it before.
All phones out these days are really not too different from each other. Feature here, feature there, but all pretty similar. It's not at all like when the first iPhone shipped and there was no contest as far as which was the most feature packed, intuitive, innovative phone.
Now, they pretty much all are.
All phones out these days are really not too different from each other. Feature here, feature there, but all pretty similar. It's not at all like when the first iPhone shipped and there was no contest as far as which was the most feature packed, intuitive, innovative phone.
Now, they pretty much all are.
Wow. The SIII looks impressive. Admit it, if Apple made an iPhone that looked like the SIII, everyone would be all over it. Here we are wanting a 4" screen in the next iPhone, while Samsung already has a 5" screen. It's sad that now Apple is the one playing catch-up with Samsung.
Sounds like you now have found the perfect phone for you. At least if you owned the SG III you wouldn't get teased by your friends about how small the phone screen is like you do with your 4S.
I like the big phone size, I had a Captivate (Galaxy 1) briefly between iPhones, the 4" was noticeably nicer for my large hands.
If you put this 4.8" phone in my hand and the current iPhone in my gf's hand, proportionally they'd look the same. The iPhone's current size might be great for many of you, but it is small for some of us. I think this phone looks amazing, want to mess with on in a store when they are on display.
If you put this 4.8" phone in my hand and the current iPhone in my gf's hand, proportionally they'd look the same. The iPhone's current size might be great for many of you, but it is small for some of us. I think this phone looks amazing, want to mess with on in a store when they are on display.