[Galaxy S II General] #illidan:
Because standard apps can only do standard stuff unlike 3rd party apps & nothing else & neither do they get updated a lot.

Case in point music players.

What makes you say samsung roms are better? I have been reading posts of buggy firmware updates recently.

You can say that about AKOP as we don't have AKOP for our device. You can only make a comparision when there is one.

Btw I have used rr & I didn't find it anything special in it imho & neither is akop. Just some added customization which you can do on asop also but will take some work as you need to flash stuff & different things might break compatibility. The only thing I liked is status bar & notification drawer customization which is coming back to asop

Agree completely over here with the above point.

CM9 - simple asop rom with useful & required features.

AKOP MIUI Modded offical roms - eye candy.

Use skype if you have wifi. Its free!!

Camera quality, video playback capabilities, OTG & FB sync along with everything else will always be better obviously because its their phone, i.e., samsung. Their proprietory drivers & closed soure libs are all horribly coded just to ensure that they work. The CM team is doing the best they can to get everything working & in the face of samsung's huge messes they still manage to get a stable release with all most everything working.

If drivers & all were open sourced like they were in the google devices then our devices on asop would have been twice as good as it is now. Right now I believe our devices are still better off with asop than stock even though there are major issues but that is my opinion.

OTG - siyah kernel

FB sync - friendcaster

Video player - dice

Camera - try different camera apps. There are some pretty good paid ones on the market which are better than stock.

I'm honestly shocked samsung would do such a thing. They are very lenient with root & all unlike the other companies but hardcoding base firmware requirements in the MB is just a disgrace to everything ASOP & google stand for. I know motorola used to do that with eFuse tech from IBM but someone would really need to confirm this on new devices beacuse maybe its just a one off thing with just his device.

All lcd's led's plasma's suffer from screen burn. It has nothing to do with pentile or matrix displays. Advancements in screen tech might help reduce it or delay its onset but there hasn't been a screen in mass production yet which is not susceptible to screen burn.

To the naked eye nobody & I mean nobody can tell the difference between a pentile & matrix display accurately. Might be there is some technique which display engg can differentiate but a normal or hardcore user can't.Tests have proven that. The difference can only be seen through a powerful microscope so the pentile-matrix issue was completely blown out of proportion. Yes the plus is obviously better than the non plus version to perfectionists because all the RGB pixels are of the same size & not sub pixiled but again you can't make out any difference with the naked eye.

Read for better understanding.

No, there is only one kind of screen burn in which your display gets screwed for no fault of your own.

That is pretty fast honestly & xploidwild had got cm9 booting the next day he got his phone. Is everthing working?

Btw GM just rebuilt the S3 kernel using the linaro tool chain. Tried that yet?

Sorry for the monster reply post guys but u'll had lots to talk about last night & I missed it but I had to give my opinion.:p