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Samsung's New Galaxy S III Phone Offers 4.8-Inch Screen, Siri-Like 'S Voice' Feature

The S3 is a very impressive phone, although one of my friends has already broken his ha ha. I've compared it side-by-side with the iPhone 4, 3GS, and Galaxy S2 and yeah, it's large. I always thought the S2 was borderline how how large you can go with a phone, so the S3 is pushing the boundaries again. But it feels great to hold and it's very fast.
 
smoledman said:
Thing is even if Samsung sells 9 million of these in the first month, Apple is selling 15 million iPhones per month!
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You're comparing sales of a particular model of a phone (Samsung Galaxy SIII) with sales of a line of phones (iPhones, e.g. iPhone 4S, iPhone4, iPhone3GS - all being sold still). Samsung actually sells a lot more phones than Apple (but, of course, Apple probably sells more iPhone4S' than Samsung Galaxy S III's).
 
I got one on ATT last Thursday. It's an amazing device. The software is much more complex than iOS but if you take the time to make it fit you, it is so much more capable as well.
 
Lots of settings, widgets the way I like them, live wallpaper, new apps for email, browser, etc. Takes a while vs. all of iOS's default settings.
 
Dmunjal said:
Lots of settings, widgets the way I like them, live wallpaper, new apps for email, browser, etc. Takes a while vs. all of iOS's default settings.
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Thats Android for you, you have a learning curve, loads of customization available and its different for each phone.

How sucky is it that NA doesnt get Quad core? Apple has to make iphone 5 Quad core and it will have S3 beat
 
This is actually acceptable. The Galaxy Note is what I think is ridiculous. Seriously, it's a Tab with a voice app, as said before. Might as well strap your iPad to your head, it'll look better.
 
Hisdem said:
This is actually acceptable. The Galaxy Note is what I think is ridiculous. Seriously, it's a Tab with a voice app, as said before. Might as well strap your iPad to your head, it'll look better.
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It's a kickass phone that is capable of taking notes and perfect size for portable drawing tablet.

It's also reason why Galaxy Note sold many.

Much better than iphone, IMO.
 
kaizenmx said:
It's a kickass phone that is capable of taking notes and perfect size for portable drawing tablet.

It's also reason why Galaxy Note sold many.

Much better than iphone, IMO.
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I never said it wasn't good, I'm sure it is, as is the Galaxy SIII. But it's gigantic. Stupidly gigantic.
 
Galaxy S3 is really a amazing phone from Samsung, i will switch myself to this high speed android device.
 
Thats the result when hardware and Software is not ONE! Thats the result when software is distributed at so many manufactors. Where smoothness and software optimization is a total joke....

Microsofts key selling factor which is horsepower (more cores, more ram, better Graphics Drivers) sth that drives real sheep customers to an endless pc upgrate race in order to support its crapppy OS also hits androids world. After LG's bigger stronger faster smartphone with 2GB RAM, GS3 gets also an early update..... i am so waiting for the next android smartphone with 8 cores and 4gb of ram :p


Galaxy S III variants got last-minute RAM upgrade 'to be future-proof' for Jelly Bean
http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/27/3121569/galaxy-s-iii-variants-ram-upgrade-jelly-bean
 
DJTaurus said:
Microsofts key selling factor which is horsepower (more cores, more ram, better Graphics Drivers) sth that drives real sheep customers to an endless pc upgrate race in order to support its crapppy OS also hits androids world. After LG's bigger stronger faster smartphone with 2GB RAM, GS3 gets also an early update..... i am so waiting for the next android smartphone with 8 cores and 4gb of ram :p
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lol, yeah. Technology is stupid. Why do these Android developers rush on with spec upgrades when Apple has already made the greatest electronic gadget to ever exist and will be perfect for everyone's needs for the next 150 years at least. Steve Jobs was right, you just don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

But beyond that, tell us how you really feel.
 
DJTaurus said:
Thats the result when hardware and Software is not ONE! Thats the result when software is distributed at so many manufactors. Where smoothness and software optimization is a total joke....

Microsofts key selling factor which is horsepower (more cores, more ram, better Graphics Drivers) sth that drives real sheep customers to an endless pc upgrate race in order to support its crapppy OS also hits androids world. After LG's bigger stronger faster smartphone with 2GB RAM, GS3 gets also an early update..... i am so waiting for the next android smartphone with 8 cores and 4gb of ram :p


Galaxy S III variants got last-minute RAM upgrade 'to be future-proof' for Jelly Bean
http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/27/3121569/galaxy-s-iii-variants-ram-upgrade-jelly-bean
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Although I agree with you in many ways, it's important to point out that Android 4.1 most certainly does NOT need 2gbs of RAM to run well. Nor does the SIII need it to run Android 4.1.

Another large reason for why the imperial version of the SIII has 2gbs of ram is because it uses a dual core, instead of the quad core processor in the international version.

When Android is not bogged down with heavy Sense UI style customizations, it runs quite well and very smooth, even on older hardware.
 
Dmunjal said:
I got one on ATT last Thursday. It's an amazing device. The software is much more complex than iOS but if you take the time to make it fit you, it is so much more capable as well.
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What can a S3 do that an iPhone 4S can't? Nothing. Unless you want useless widgets and a crash everyday...
 
chris2k5 said:
What can a S3 do that an iPhone 4S can't? Nothing. Unless you want useless widgets and a crash everyday...
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Have you tried one yet? The OS is solid. The 2GB RAM means that you never have to reload an app or web page.
 
Renzatic said:
But beyond that, tell us how you really feel.
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I ll tell you. After of 2 years of android user and Samsung Moderator in Greeks biggest smartphone forum->

Like it or not software optimization comes only when hardware+software is one. Open source is the biggest myth in tech industry (which is still not as mature as car industry) a myth created mostly from the crapiest person in industry (bill gates) -> what that guy did (who is a great businessman not tech enthousiast but harvard abomination) is that he fooled customers with open source (in the way that any manufactor could pay license to use it not to change its core) and cheap pcs ( pc's for example from amiga with code written in assembly, from real developers like Woz not schoolboys from xda... took 5-7 years to develop and where expensive as hell.... cause in that era pcs were not affordable for anyone... and thats how should go and nowadays... while in the other hand current days we have all these moaners who complain about facetime over 3g, bt conectivity with other smartphones and that ios6 is loosing theme customization race with android etc useless silly things).... nevermind that guy persuaded sheep customers (he first forced us companies with monopoly games to use only windows os (many companies vanished and people lost their jobs), commercials, money under the hood to editors etc and thats how he first expanded windows as an os) to buy those cheap pcs but then with the help of industry (amd,nvidia,ibm etc) he also pursuaded them to spend money in order to upgrade their pcs at least each 2 months... cause when the code is not written in assembly and when os and hardware are not one (like the old pc and nowadays macs) you have great bottleneck... pc parts dont communicate together in the same "heart beat" (different clock synch/speed for cpu, graphics card, memory etc)... also iphone,macs have bottleneck cause they are also not written in assembly but cause software and hardware are one that effect is reduced.

So i wrote all these because i love competition. Apple is also a company that sales lot of its products from marketing but it RESPECTS the consumer more because i prefer its SANDBOX philosophy. I would be the first supporter for Google when they had their chance to build their own sandbox company with motorola (btw one of the most historic tech companies->Microprocessors) .... but they decided to continue following Microsofts crapppy philosophy with distributing os to many manufactors. I believe you read Balmers comments last weak about Surface tablet -> hardware and software as one is better blah blah blah....

For 2 years i was changing android smartphone after 2-3 months.... there are so many manufactors and you get addicted to upgrade all the time. With iphone you can stay with a phone at least 1-2 years. So i would never give so much money for an android flagship smartphone which it has crapppy as hell materials, racket size dimensions, angly design and not optimised software. Also with all do respect i lost many hours of my life with flashing custom roms/kernels and playing with my phone... i am getting old and i dont care anymore like i dont care for Jailbreak. The spec race is pointless when ICS isnt even optimised for dual cores. Spec race and mentioning specs in general is for fanboys... Microsofts key selling point that has brain washed 80-90es gen and damaged mostly tech industry.
 
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DJTaurus said:
I ll tell you. After of 2 years of android user and Samsung Moderator in Greeks biggest smartphone forum->

Like it or not software optimization comes only when hardware+software is one. Open source is the biggest myth in tech industry (which is still not as mature as car industry) a myth created mostly from the crapiest person in industry (bill gates) -> what that guy did (who is a great businessman not tech enthousiast but harvard abomination) is that he fooled customers with open source (in the way that any manufactor could pay license to use it not to change its core) and cheap pcs ( pc's for example from amiga with code written in assembly, from real developers like Woz not schoolboys from xda... took 5-7 years to develop and where expensive as hell.... cause in that era pcs were not affordable for anyone... and thats how should go and nowadays... while in the other hand current days we have all these moaners who complain about facetime over 3g, bt conectivity with other smartphones and that ios6 is loosing theme customization race with android etc useless silly things).... nevermind that guy persuaded sheep customers (he first forced us companies with monopoly games to use only windows os, commercials, money under the hood to editors etc and thats how he first expanded windows as an os) to buy those cheap pcs but then with the help of industry (amd,nvidia,ibm etc) he also pursuaded them to spend money in order to upgrade their pcs at least each 2 months... cause when the code is not written in assembly and when os and hardware are not one (like the old pc and nowadays macs) you have great bottleneck... pc parts dont communicate together in the same "heart beat" (different clock synch/speed for cpu, graphics card, memory etc)... also iphone,macs have bottleneck cause they are also not written in assembly but cause software and hardware are one that effect is reduced.

So i wrote all these because i love competition. Apple is also a company that sales lot of its products from marketing but it RESPECTS the consumer more because i prefer its SANDBOX philosophy. I would be the first supporter for Google when they had their chance to build their own sandbox company with motorola.... but they decided to continue following Microsofts crapppy philosophy with distributing os to many manufactors. I believe you read Balmers comments last weak about Surface tablet -> hardware and software as one is better blah blah blah....

For 2 years i was changing android smartphone after 2-3 months.... there are so many manufactors and you get addicted to upgrade all the time. With iphone you can stay with a phone at least 1-2 years. So i would never get so much money for an android flagship which it has crapppy as hell materials, racket size dimensions, angly design and not optimised software. The spec race is pointless when ICS isnt even optimised for dual cores.
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Are you still in grade school?
I have to ask because what you typed is completely unreadable.
Sentence structure and punctuation are nonexistent

The only thing I can gather from the pile of text you've vomited on the screen is you're pretending to have some Android knowledge.

To say ICS is not optimized for multiple cores is absurd at best.
The 3.0 kernel was specifically designed for this very purpose.

As for your comment on XDA, there are some developers there that run circles around the PhD's littering the hallways of Samsung and Motorola.
They understand efficient coding, not spray and pray and "close enough".
 
DJTaurus said:
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Wow, and I thought I wrote long posts.

The whole software integrated with the hardware thing is only true up to a point. You're guaranteed a smooth experience, but there aren't any real performance advantages to it. A well designed computer or phone with a widely available licensed OS will perform just as well as an iPhone or a Mac.

OSX doesn't leverage the hardware in some special way Windows doesn't. Nor does Android automatically run badly just because it's not tailor fitted to a specific platform. In the end, it's all about drivers, and the time the manufacturer spends tailoring the OS to their machines. If there's a problem, it's because some OEM slapped the software on some generic piece of hardware, and shipped it out to make a quick buck. The philosophy behind a hardware independent, flexible OS isn't flawed because of those sloppy few.
 
There's also the point of the innovation cycle. Early on it is better to have a vertically integrated solution for time to market reasons. Once things are more commoditized, a distributed approach with multiple vendors is a better model leading to better economies of scale.

No matter what you think of Microsoft, Windows, and PCs, it drove a lot of cost out of the equation so almost anyone can afford one. Otherwise, we all would still be using expensive Macs.
 
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