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[Galaxy S III General] chrisjcks:
I'm hoping the specs come out soon, but think I'll give the HTC ONE X a go.

Their software seems to have always been better, & finally they have released a powerful phone.

ICS for SGS2 is a real disappointment to me, which doesn't give me the best confidence.

Plus, ive owned both galaxy s phones, & think it's time for something totally different & new to me.

... But still, if specs are released before the HTC phone is released, i will take them on board before finalising my decision.

I use my phone alot for audio & its one of the biggest weak points of samsung, whereas htc have now integrated beats into everything, plus their partnership with dropbox is a good bonus too.
[Galaxy S III General] nikzDHD:
Beats is a load of marketing bull, beats headphones are poor and yes I've tried them far better headphones out there let's not go into that.

HTC One X looks lovely the SGS3 may beat it hardware wise but we'll have to see how they integrate ICS and Touchwiz in their next reincarnation.
[Galaxy S III General] gyagapen:
beats is really crap, just sold my beats solo hd for senheisser hd25.

I hope that samsung partnership with jays will give us a nice audio experience.
[Galaxy S III General] chrisjcks:
Maybe,

But Beats audio is still much better than what's inside our SGS2 - regardless if people call it a gimmick.

The sound on the original galaxy was a let down too, only was it improved by supercurio - samsung seem to not pay much attention to this.

I get the feeling samsung want the best specs, but fail to offer best user experience.

HTC seem to offer a better android version, better sound & user experience whilst samsung will have the specs.

It's a tough choice for sure, but I feel an upgrade to the s3 will be more about the larger hd screen & thinness of the device whereas the software & phone in general will have a very similar feel to what I already have in the SGS2 - whereas the HTC will offer a different experience completely to what I've been used to,

... I hope the specs & info is released before the HTC phone is released though, as I'd like to make a calculated decision. :)
[Galaxy S III General] Goku80:
i must admit mate you are right in what you are saying. for me i use my phone mainly for music as well and plus what you said regarding the overall experience with HTC plus build wise seems more user friendly and they put more emphasis onto the consumer and how the software runs instead of specs...that is what might make me change to go with the HTC instead of the S3..hard decision but one way or the other two great phones and it will be hard to choose from
[Galaxy S III General] override182:
Guys, what if Samsung released a quad A9 initially, and the next batch be packed with dual A15. Will anyone consider to sell and get the new one? There have been talks about this but in imho :

- Ill get the first variant available, i hope it has a good support from the devs

- the dual A15 might be used in a diff device, Samsung surely wont be wasting their SOCs resource by having a device with two diff levels of their own resource. Its either the 4th gen Galaxy flagship or some other phone/tablet they gonna release in late 2012

What do you guys think? Its quite a crucial decision and i hope not to waste money on buying then selling just to get the most up to date from Samsung. The one year cycle of Galaxy flagship has been good enough but they seem to be out reached by other OEMs and SOCs thiz year
[Galaxy S III General] peachpuff:
Compared to qualcomms dual core krait the quad a9 won't be that impressive cpu wise, the tegra3 has trouble keeping up with it in some benchmarks, qualcomm also has a quad core krait up its sleeve too. Gpu wise im sure samsung will pack something nice in there so it might level the playing field.

But honestly no matter what phone you get these new 28/32nm soc's are gonna more than sufficient for everybody, a few fps here and there shouldn't deter anyone from getting this or that phone.
[Galaxy S III General] :
I think that this screen is too much big to fill in the design. It must have some space between the display and the edges.
[Galaxy S III General] Poker gypsy:
No ICS it's not the sgs3
[Galaxy S III General] coradux:
Yes, where are the volume buttons?
[Galaxy S III General] E_Keeper:
The device with quad processor - why? No android support, no apps, but the price and just "be the most powerfull device" :) The China device makers wins in price war and became a technologycal winners soon.
[Galaxy S III General] adz63:
http://www.sammobile.com/2012/03/21/breaking-this-is-the-galaxy-s-iii/

Let's hope not. It's ugly

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[Galaxy S III General] NOMIOMI:
The Samsung Galaxy S III rumors keep coming in and different sources are starting to agree on some key specs. You should still take what the rumors say with a pinch of salt, but these seem slightly more credible than most of the previous ones.

An anonymous tipster told GSM Helpdesk that the Galaxy S III will measure 131 x 64 x 8 mm and weigh 125g (the Galaxy S II is 125.3 x 66.1 x 8.5 mm, 116 g).

The screen will be slightly smaller than previously rumored - 4.7" with 720p resolution - and will use SuperAMOLED Plus HD technology. That's regular RGB matrix in 1280 x 720 pixel resolution.

The camera on the Samsung Galaxy S III is tipped at 12MP with 1080p@60fps video recording. The camera will reportedly also feature slow-mo recording, so the 60fps might be for that mode rather than producing 60fps clips.

As far as CPU goes, the anonymous tipster confirms the quad-core at 1.5GHz, but doesn’t really add anything to what the Samsung exec said a few days ago. The Galaxy S III will have 1GB of RAM (same as current model) and 32GB of built-in storage, according to the tipster.

The connectivity on the S III should see the adoption of dual-carrier HSPA for downlink speeds of up to 42Mbps, but uplink is reportedly still limited to 5.76Mbps. There are other specs mentioned - Wi-Fi a/b/g/n with Wi-Fi Direct, Bluetooth 4.0, NFC and HDMI out (likely over MHL). None of those comes as a big surprise, either.

One final tidbit is the launch date - set for May 22, but Samsung might pull it forward to April. Another unrelated source agrees on the date - the Galaxy S III might see its launch in China pulled from May to April.
[Galaxy S III General] Toss3:
Looks exactly the same as the pic posted earlier, that is just an ugly version of it.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=23714806&postcount=545
[Galaxy S III General] override182:
I believe its the same pic.. except its perhaps the original render of it or touched up from the leaked shot. Seems like the images on it is fake. Gingerbread coloured touchwiz, ICS TouchWiz5 has to be blue IMHO.

Samsung sure has plan to make it blue and comply with google standards while mantaining their touchwiz idea. Plus the scale of the pics, looks wrong. Then isnt that the old images on the SGS2? That surely has to be fake.

The specs revealed perhaps is true or maybe guessed at the most safe level. SGS3 has to include some special thing by Samsung otherwise it wont have the WOW factor at all. And it dosent say about battery removable or back cover snapshot. The author is just guessing and dosent have or know a real deal about the device.

Just my 'dua puluh sen' (Malaysian)
[Galaxy S III General] Rooster19:
What do people think of selling S2 for a reasonable price, to buy the S3?
[Galaxy S III General] X-Plosiv:
Don't know for others, but I have no plans to sell S2 to get S3, I'll rather wait for S4...it's not that big jump from S2 to S3 in my eyes :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S III General] Rytkonen:
I remember I had same feelings when SGS2 was coming (and I had SGS1). Bought it anyway and the jump wasnt that big, it was frigging huge! :D
[Galaxy S III General] samydroid:
No, this is not the Samsung Galaxy S III either :D

http://www.androidcentral.com/no-not-samsung-galaxy-s-iii-either
[Galaxy S III General] CamoGeko:
I doubt there will be any real leaks until the day of the actual presentation.
[Galaxy S III General] nikzDHD:
I personally think it won't be as much of a hype to be honest. The S2 is still so good minus a few quirks. None of the quads seem appealing, however I do like the HTC ONE X, the media link HD is useful and I can imagine myself using something like that, swipe it to the TV to view recorded videos and swipe back down.

Hoping Samsung implement something similar as my TV is 3 years old so no DLNA.
[Galaxy S III General] sxi200:
I was in the same boat and fully agree. Massive jump from S1 to S2. However the S1 had alot of room for improvement such as camera, file system (rfs), flash, performance amongst other things. But the S2 has done so much right and it still feels very up to date.

But I'm still.getting an S3 to add to the collection :D.

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[Galaxy S III General] CamoGeko:
Yeah the One X looks good. I still think the next Nexus is calling my name though. :p

By the way, I ordered a sim from GiffGaff through your link a while ago. Will be activating it soon. ;)

I heard about the downtime on friday due to the issues they had, was it serious?
[Galaxy S III General] chrisjcks:
It lasted a few hours, but they kept a rolling status updated on their message board.

There was a water leak which caused one of their suppliers to lose power.

All is working fine now though.
[Galaxy S III General] X-Plosiv:
Yeah, but speaking of power wise, there is a jump from S to S2....dont know if it will be the same for S2 to S3..

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[Galaxy S III General] SpeedYY:
i´d say that´s the way the new SGSIII will look like :3
[Galaxy S III General] SamKia:
The main problem with the SGS3 will be the battery life if the quad-core CPU specs is true.

My S2 is still 4 months old and i'm happy with it, i'm planing to keep it and go for a tablet (Quad-core CPU of course) instead of a smartphone with the same CPU specs. its just not worth the trouble to get a powerful smartphone and get stuck with its battery life issues.

(I still have a laptop with a Celeron CPU @ 1.6GHz & 1.5GB of RAM as a reserve :D )
[Galaxy S III General] aydc:
This phone keeps looking uglier and uglier with each new leak... I think these pics are getting leaked by Samsung just to give Apple a false sense of security...
[Galaxy S III General] nikzDHD:
Thanks dude, no I had no issues to be honest. Generally they are good as based on o2. So if o2 mess up then it affects all of us on GG, Tesco and such.

They are hard to beat my data speeds are better than three and tmobile and that's saying something, the 3G900 masts are an improvement.

I was on o2 before GG been with o2 since early genie sim card days, BT cellnet and such old school lol.
[Galaxy S III General] koolshubh:
How many of you think that we really need a Quad Core processor?

I hardly have a few application on my desktops which require quad core!!

Nice marketting thingy Samsung....
[Galaxy S III General] newgargamel:
I personally don't mind having 4 cores inside. Why not? :)
[Galaxy S III General] X-Plosiv:
I'm more curious about heating...

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[Galaxy S III General] odevans:
Any rumors of what the audio hardware will be like?
[Galaxy S III General] setspeed:
Let's hope they go back to using a Wolfson DAC instead of that POS Yamaha in the S2.
[Galaxy S III General] chrisjcks:
I think If the leaked specs are true, think I'll give HTC a try, they've really stepped it up this year.

Samsung have peed me off with ICS for their current flagship device, thats why I'm still on GB.

The ONE X has similar specs & an earlier release date whilst HTC have a better software history.

And upgrade to SGS3, i feel will offer me a very similar experience to what I already have, whereas HTC will offer me a different experience after being a user of both galaxy s phones.
[Galaxy S III General] Sticks02:
Hey everyone, another pic of the Galaxy SIII, this one is definitely real! :D

http://i.imgur.com/NyBf2.jpg

On another note, apparently they've pulled the release date from May to April? Gah, misinformation everywhere.
[Galaxy S III General] d3vo:
If its a quad-core Cortex A9 I will wait for something to utilize the new A15 design.
[Galaxy S III General] madpete:
I cant wait for today's fake picture :p
[Galaxy S III General] Fulvian:
I guess it's specifically for Indian customers, isn't it?
[Galaxy S III General] uvaman:
Then here you are ;

:D:D

Source : http://www.phonearena.com/
[Galaxy S III General] adz63:
I just see this too. Damn that's ugly.

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[Galaxy S III General] Deeco7:
Imagine if they follow Apple's path and leave it how it is and just update the specs. I know this won't happen, but if it did I would literally lol.
[Galaxy S III General] anaweb:
v good << thanx:)
[Galaxy S III General] CamoGeko:
Yeah, I thought so.

To be honest, I am looking forward to only having to pay £10 and getting free unlimited internet. At the moment if I wanted to get that on O2 then I'd have pay £20 which will of course include some minutes and free texts as well.

GiffGaff FTW! :D

Looks like an ugly transformation of the Galaxy S. lol
[Galaxy S III General] Poker gypsy:
What ever it looks like I'm getting it because I can't stand my crap junk arc lol I'm sick of lag, cracks, low memory,
[Galaxy S III General] g2tl:
Notice the double case. Actual phone is hiding within that plastic cage.
[Galaxy S III General] tietherope:
Still has a thick bezel though.
[Galaxy S III General] nikzDHD:
That does look fugly, looks like an S2 with a case on trying to make it look like a Nokia 800.
[Galaxy S III General] Scared27:
I think the inside looks more like an S1 actually, it looks like it has very rounded corners.
[Galaxy S III General] sam razzy:
This sources is copied from GSMARENA... not my own...

Title says that " Samsung I9300 live photo surface, might be a disappointing S III"

Another day, another Samsung Galaxy S III leak. Today we've got a live photo that's allegedly depicting the Samsung I9300 Android smartphone. The model number has previously been associated with the next Samsung flagship, though there's no confirmation that this is in fact the Galaxy S III.

With the Samsung Galaxy S lineup carrying I90xx model numbers, the S II series getting I91xx model numbers and the Galaxy Nexus leading the I92xx smartphones, it would make a lot of sense for the international Galaxy S III to get I9300. However, the pictured device looks nothing like those renders we saw over the previous few days.

The screen bezel seems quite wide, so if the pictured smartphone really does have a 4.7" screen it will be quite large and hard to handle. Plus, the alleged I9300 obviously lacks the design sophistication that would befit a successor of the very successful Galaxy S II.

One possible scenario is that earlier rumors had it right and the Galaxy S III will come with a model number I9500, while this one here is going to be its sidekick. We can also be looking at a prototype unit, which has a different design to the final version.

So, while we see no obvious reason to doubt the authenticity of the photo, we suspect it might not be the Galaxy S III that stars in it. Either that, or there will be plenty of disappointed Samsung fans, come the next Unpacked event.
[Galaxy S III General] golf2vr6:
9300 isn't S3....
[Galaxy S III General] Ok_Kaleidoscope5109:
whatever the specs are, i'm sure Samsung will have a winner or something that can challenge the One X.

What I care more about is that there are more open source things. HTC phones are easy to work with for Devs. It's been almost a year with the SGS2, and CM7 is nowhere as good as it was on my Nexus S, and CM9 is only chugging along slowly. We're still never gonna get FM radio, and a lot of things will always be borked. I'm not saying codeworkx and Team Hacksung haven't worked hard--they have slaved in fact. However, the hardware fragmentation of the Android world, and the fact that no one else really uses Exynos, and it's difficult to port things over makes the SGS2 an insanely hard platform to develop for.

The SGS2 is the most popular phone right now, and it's got a horde of followers. However, development lags behind phones like say the Sensation and other lesser phones. It's unfortunate, but given that mods are so important to me, I may have to look elsewhere if SGS3 development is gonna lag behind other phones. Or maybe the Nexus phones are where I should stick to.
[Galaxy S III General] MiG123:
seems legit...
[Galaxy S III General] tjtj4444:
Probabably a legit Samsung phone, but probably not SGS3

http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/21/samsungs-gt-i9300-is-probably-not-the-galaxy-s-iii-as-revealed/
[Galaxy S III General] sohebq:
http://www.youmobile.org/article/Rumored-Samsung-Galaxy-S-III

Latest joke from youmobile. Yeah its a joke because battery can't be just 1850MAH. I won't ever purchase it then If it is true.
[Galaxy S III General] Fysi:
Is this the fault of the phone, or is it that codeworx/team hacksung aren't as good as their contemporaries developing on other devices?
[Galaxy S III General] mirer:
I agree with you
[Galaxy S III General] hIdd3N-:
I disagree. Problem is that the SGS2 uses hardware that needs drivers which are not opensource.
[Galaxy S III General] nikzDHD:
What could this be? Hmmm

http://www.eurodroid.com/2012/03/23/mystery-samsung-event-planned-for-march-30th-at-phones-4u/
[Galaxy S III General] .Arkham:
I like the "3"s in the date. ;)
[Galaxy S III General] nikzDHD:
30.03.12 (1+2=3)

Lol, could be anything, Samsung Galaxy Beam hence cinema curtains?

Galaxy Ace 2? Who knows too bad I'll be at work otherwise would of gone to whatever this is.
[Galaxy S III General] sushigeezer:
Not necessarily.

If the new cores are build at 32nm which proved massive improvement over power consumption.

Read.

If all of that will be confirmed in practice and 5th core running low end energy processes will do what is says, we might have a wining combo.

Still, all "leaked" images of S3 just shout FUGLY!

about the 3s in the date ... they look like someone is trying to spell BOOB
[Galaxy S III General] machatta:
As a matter of interest, what mods are important to you?

IMHO, having travelled on the android dev curve and seen the massive gains achieved on past devices, the SGS 2 offers a really solid stock experience. I love flashing and love tinkering, but in reality, diminished functional gains over stock.

---------- Post added at 01:43 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:39 AM ----------

And while I am at the giving out about giving out, what is it with the battery thing? I bought two spare batteries and a charger for 10US 10 months ago and they both work fine. I never plug in my phone to charge, get 14/18 hrs from the one I have in and leave the charger in the kitchen.

(Oh go on, tell me about the friggin Mugen waste of money)
[Galaxy S III General] override182:
The date absolutely look like 'shopped' to me. Its diff from the rest of the image
[Galaxy S III General] toast7989:
No matter what the Sgs3 looks like. Lets bet Australians are gonna be getting a $900 price tag again...
[Galaxy S III General] override182:
SGS2 is priced RM2099 in Malaysia. Prolly be the same or jump an extra RM100 to it
[Galaxy S III General] X-Plosiv:
In Croatia if you go into store to buy S2, It's 880$. And when S3 comes out, he will be 900$, guess then S2 price will go down. While if you are going to buy it from another person (who sells new, not opened, bla bla) it's around 530$.
[Galaxy S III General] vcosmin:
the biggest battery eater in the phone is still the display. even if i play heavy 3d games still the display takes most of the battery and not the processor. and that in sgs2

i guess that on sgs3, with a bigger display the things will be worse

and actually even the display is capable of 1280*600 resolution, with that crappy virtual buttons, the actual resolution of the display could be 1024*600 but, as we seen on omnia 2, when sammy advertised all the memory even that from 512 mb of ram we could only use up to 300 mb, i am especting that they will advertise the phone as 1280*600 resolution...
[Galaxy S III General] peachpuff:
Its not the display, its the processor that is the battery hog. Set your display to never time out and leave the display on for an hour and you'll see that its not draining that much battery. Now start browsing and playing games and you'll see you battery instantly go down and the back of the phone gets nice and warm near the camera where the cpu is.
[Galaxy S III General] sushigeezer:
what he said ^ ;)

btw going back to Phones4U 30.03.2012 Samsung launch.

Isn't there couple of Samsung mid range handsets awaiting release?

Honestly, it would make sense to get the SGS3 out to public before OneX. Looks like Samsung is aiming for market domination and the whole marketing tactics here are matching the ones from Apple. Build up trending, "leak" a sneak peak half true half bull****, when trending peaks, announce and release ASAP.
[Galaxy S III General] SpeedYY:
but there are small apps to reduse the CPU Clocks ;)
[Galaxy S III General] override182:
Agreed.. how good the power efficient is the main key we r looking for.. no matter how high the clock would be, we could down clock it to be 800mhz-1ghz cuz its sufficient already
[Galaxy S III General] bluefa1con:
*facepalm* nexus phones have open libraries and drivers

developing for them is easy compared to galaxy s2 which has closed drivers

and team hacksung has to reverse engineer many things to get it working

codeworkx and xplodwild are the most talented members of the team imo

they 2 alone made cm9 this useful for s2 if there were more devs it could be perfect
[Galaxy S III General] BJ van Beethoven:
Could be the S II Plus?
[Galaxy S III General] patience_gnr:
Wish the galaxy siii can update to JellyBean.:D
[Galaxy S III General] X-Plosiv:
haha good one, nit even ICS is polished:)

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[Galaxy S III General] rovo89:
Who knows, maybe there will be a Galaxy S2S? ;) Although some of the pics look nice and features sound promising - no way I'm gonna buy a new phone after just a year or so.
[Galaxy S III General] sxi200:
Below is part of a reuters article on Samsung printed in a local newspaper. Hopefully it means an awesome design is in store.

"We were told so many times until the early part of last year that Samsung is not good at software. We're not hearing that as often any more," Samsung Chief Executive Choi Gee-sung said at the CES event in Las Vegas. Late last month, Choi went further and told reporters at the world's biggest annual mobile show in Barcelona that Samsung would not unveil its new Galaxy model at the Mobile World Congress for fear of rivals copying it.

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[Galaxy S III General] thaako:
SGSII display is draining 950mV( max brightess,white screen)

minimum is 360mV, and average use could be 450mV

CPU is draining at 1,6GHz..1400mV

GPU is draining at 400mhz..1150mV( depends what you set)

but at normal use is draining display max of your battery,.. when you look into ''usage of battery''..settings.. etc.

by the way :D SGS III....waiting,.if they could use A-15 dual core :)

today i red article, about US... HTC one X is using snnapdragon S4 with A-15..dual core, and if can HTC, why not samsung in their flagship?
[Galaxy S III General] nikzDHD:
Phones4u event is a just a store reopening nothing major no announcement.
[Galaxy S III General] BJ van Beethoven:
That's ONLY in the US/Canada.
[Galaxy S III General] tesse112:
but all the info here is just rumours is it??

i remember living in a forum trying to figure out whether to buy sgs2 or not.. and there were too many false infos presenting themselves as official announcements in a way.
[Galaxy S III General] runedrune:
Unless of course its an official statement from Samsung themselves, everything you come across will be just a rumor.
[Galaxy S III General] Anfieldshankly:
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[Galaxy S III General] peachpuff:
The s4 isn't an a15, its a tweaked core to resemble the a15 but its not a true a15.