[Galaxy S III General] hutzdani:
So finally we see the S3.

After wandering around several phone shops is it even worth getting an S3 ?

Several things have made me wonder this :

First up the hype of the handset was soooo high, it has been hanging in its own mist for so long with all the leaks and fake leaks e.c.t so for non-fanatics if the hand set does not deliver its going to be one hell of a fall from grace.

Secondly Samsung have gone and done an Apple on use and all the song and dance around the devices launch, it was horrific to watch, all the slogans and buzz words it was like watching a 16 year old's business plan exam.

Then there are all the leaks that have appeared, some good custom designs and some Photoshop trickery and the shoddy fakes of recent times.

Again these have shown what people think Samsung would produce, and some of them where not far off and it was the Photoshop trickery's ones that where the closest and also the least ambitious designs.

Now we know what it looks like and its specs its not stacking up as revolutionary as the S2.

1. Looks like Samsung ran out of ideas and have fused the current Galaxy series and the Nexus series.

2. The thing is a considerable size, in between the Nexus and the Note.

3. Its all shapely ( Yes i know its designed like a pebble ) and curved and shiny, Apple already does this with its handsets so its a clone really and still adopting the single home button its still looking iphone-esqe

4. Its got a Quad core CPU for what ? most people who can afford to buy this handset off contract or on a new contract are not really the kind of customers who will playing Quake on their phone.

5. The S2 already packs enough CPU power to do everything a business user could want, and still play the 3D games.

6. With a bigger screen and a quad-core and delivering HD visuals your battery is going to get raped, and im sorry no matter what people say about less power hungry X/Y/Z the simple fact is if you add more screen and need brightness to see in direct day light your screens going to negate the savings of the improved power consumption of the other components.

7. No battery technology improvement - until this progresses there is no point adding fancy 6 core CPU's and 4k Screens what ever fancy next Tech is about.

Now I love my S2 and I like Samsung products I own 3D TVs and have had several PC screen and Phones and Laptops by them, but i can't get excited about another "Super Phone" it does not offer anything GREAT or SUPER that last years high end hand sets already do.

I skipped the Galaxy Nexus for this very reason, the design is frankly poor its still made of plastic and its filled with stuff your never going to use. . . . "I want to take a photo" why must i talk to my phone and wait for it to decipher what i said to then load the camera ? I can press the bloody button on my screen and get to the app quicker this goes with everything.

Speaking to your phone to do stuff is not faster or more intuitive its a gimmick like NFC and Beam.

"Designed for humans" is frankly the most pathetic tag line I have ever heard to plug a product, and "People don't want to learn technology" ? Im sorry Samsung you have just called your audience stupid in a round about way.

All this event has done for me, is prove that Samsung is trying to go Apple on us.

People are just Sheeping Samsung now instead of Apple.

Call me cynical but im not impressed and will think hard about who to buy my next handset from.