yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S III General] barondebxl:
Thanks dude. Just picked it up at the post office like 20 minutes ago!!!!!!!
[Galaxy S III General] SlimJ87D:
Awesome, let us know how you like it! Omega ROM is the closest to a stock ROM with lots of fixes. I recommend it.
[Galaxy S III General] NightSkylar:
The S3 officially went on launch in Canada today..let the user reviews flood :victory:

Two hours to go for my phone to arrive :D
[Galaxy S III General] radeonxt:
that was what i was waiting to hear.

a custom rom that is close to stock rom because the features samsung put in there are very good + optimizing by the cookers = very very very good.

tnx for that.

:victory:

backing up my updated stock xxalf6 now cos the one i had backed up was on the box xxalef.
[Galaxy S III General] SlimJ87D:
No problem. Install the Theme too, it makes the phone look beautiful. No joke, I'm amazed by the Theme just as much as the ROM.
[Galaxy S III General] NZtechfreak:
Part two of the AndroidNZ mega review up now, covering media (audio, video), gaming, and the browser. Kept it brief, at only ~8,900 words.

http://www.androidnz.net/2012/07/galaxy-s-iii-real-user-review-part-2.html
[Galaxy S III General] vinuneuro:
You're in the wrong forum. Don't brick your phone by flashing something from this forum.

http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1668
[Galaxy S III General] P1n3apqlExpr3ss:
KitGuru's review is now live

http://www.kitguru.net/mobile/blair-mcclelland/samsung-galaxy-s-iii-indepth-review/
[Galaxy S III General] Tomatoes8:
http://www.techradar.com/news/phone...-best-mobile-phones-in-the-world-today-645440

Haha A lot of butthurt in the comment section there, especially the Anoniemouse person.

I pretty much agree with most of that list. Although I would put the Xperia S higher and the HTC One X a lot lower.
[Galaxy S III General] piyush001:
thanx

really good information...

i love this article and totally agree with writer..

http://golalaa.net/
[Galaxy S III General] SlimJ87D:
Added additional battery test. Can a MOD sticky this?
[Galaxy S III General] bala_gamer:
just pm them your request :)
[Galaxy S III General] istoica:
Hello... not official :) but here is my review of the new Samsung Galaxy S III. A comparison with a Canon DSLR will come shortly ;)

Here is the 1st segment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAhgMesYRV4
[Galaxy S III General] mrvirginia:
duuuuuuude! that DroidSans review is making me drool over here. sooo many neat features with S Voice and gestures! stuff you can actually see yourself using day to day. i'm sold ha.
[Galaxy S III General] rapaholic999:
Ferrari of the droids -- cnet

You might want to add the CNET Review :)

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19736_...msung-galaxy-s-iii-review-ferrari-of-android/

http://reviews.cnet.co.uk/mobile-phones/samsung-galaxy-s3-review-50006020/?tag=mncol;txt

:D:D:D
[Galaxy S III General] SlimJ87D:
CNET Editor's choice award. Very awesome.
[Galaxy S III General] pcoulson:
Great thread - thanks for the effort involved.. very useful.
[Galaxy S III General] sak500:
Bought the phone few hours back. Never seen something so clear in the phone. I've sold my iphone4 32 gb for this and loving it. Now need to sell the crap lg O3D. Amazing phone bit plasticky but will buy cover for it.
[Galaxy S III General] GalaxyS2R:
can i please ask if it is possible that you can

1) use the camera whilst in a phone call.

2) use the camera when the battery is 15% and under

3) watch videos on the stock video player whilst in a call.

answers would be very appreciated, thanks in advance.
[Galaxy S III General] sak500:
1) use the camera whilst in a phone call. Not allowed

2) use the camera when the battery is 15% and under battery above 60% so can't check right now

3) watch videos on the stock video player whilst in a call. again not allowed.
[Galaxy S III General] zyryn:
hey bro, wht do u mean by "so clear" in the phone?? is tht a good point or bad one??
[Galaxy S III General] sak500:
Sorry meant the screen, it's so clear and bright. I've come from iphone 4 and LG O3D, N900 and many other phones but this is the best screen i've seen.
[Galaxy S III General] zyryn:
thts great to hear...so wanna get this phone,.

hey from which store n mall u got urs?? and how many dihrams it cost ??

u got a case with the box ??
[Galaxy S III General] sak500:
I was out last evening with wife in Deira City Center and checked every shop from axiom, carrefour, sharaf, jackey's jumbe, but no one had stocks. So we went to carrefour again and i traded my wife's 16gb ip4 and bought her 4S and then when i visited the phone counter again asking when SIII will come the nice guy there showed me the demo unit in his hand and said u've come before and i see ur desperate to have it so i can sell u the last unit we hv and i just opned it yesterday. So i tried to get some discount since it was open but he said as u know no1 has stocks to upto u. So same time i traded my 32GB ip4 for 1300dhs and bought this one for 2499. Difference of 1199Dhs. It's worth it, just now rooted it and used the back of titanium of my LG O3D and restored all apps here. :)

What do u mean case with box? I got the box with the regular accessories like hphones etc. Tried to find cover for it but no one has it so orderd online for clove.uk.
[Galaxy S III General] zyryn:
lol, i dinno it would sell so well in dubai !

great deal, lucky u !!

yeah i meant to ask about the cover itself, i was hoping they included it !

anyway, u said the screen is clear n good, but do u see that yello/pinkish tint on max n min brightness on white color ?? as some ppl say it has a tint, some say no, so just wanted to know wht is the actual case !
[Galaxy S III General] TMaLuST:
http://android.hdblog.it/2012/05/25/galaxy-s3-test-live-durata-batteria-by-hdblog-inizio-ore-10/

I know that it's in italian but you can follow this liveblog of GS3 battery life.

There are screenshoots and thanks to the icons, you can easily understand how the galaxy s3 is performing.
[Galaxy S III General] zyryn:
and we always have google translate too:D
[Galaxy S III General] sak500:
You can set the display in settings/ screen mode like dynamic, standard, natural movie. Plus individual settings like brightness for movie player , browser etc so depending on battery u can have birghter settings. Check the attached image with white bg.
[Galaxy S III General] NZtechfreak:
Since a mod closed the other thread, which was actually a much more useful place for this information rather than this meandering thread:

Looks like there will be a major shortage of pebble blue S3s at launch, with delays in many markets: http://www.androidnz.net/2012/05/breaking-news-samsung-galaxy-s-iii.html
[Galaxy S III General] GalaxyS2R:
Thanks very much for the replies. So that hasnt changed from the s2 then, hmmm guess i am just going to have to walk around with my one s aswell so if i see something whilst im out and im in a call i dont have to hang up.

I like the fact I dont have to do that on my one s you can just go to the camera and use it for pics or video (same for the xperia s which i have given to my little sister)
[Galaxy S III General] jaju123:
http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/samsung-galaxy-s3-1078667/review
[Galaxy S III General] MaskedMagi:
F. Stuff Full Review:

http://xdaforums.com/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=1662822

Summary: Stuff.tv full review of the Galaxy S3. Battery life test shows it as double that of the HTC One X.
[Galaxy S III General] istoica:
As promised here is the second segment of my review of the Samsung Galaxy S III:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2sfbY176vU

Security is good on this device.

Enjoy it!
[Galaxy S III General] sak500:
Overall good score in Passmark but 3D score is quite low. See attached.
[Galaxy S III General] VJKotts:
THe Verge review is up. Back to reading..http://http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/25/3042640/samsung-galaxy-s-iii-review
[Galaxy S III General] mrvirginia:
engadget review is up! http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/25/samsung-galaxy-s-iii-review/
[Galaxy S III General] Marlinn:
I have a feeling they already made choice before even the first test, not because of they didn't review in favor of the s3, but because alot of their results are compared in a negative way towards to One x, running a whole bunch of retarded (in my eyes) benchmarks which are limited by 2 cores, or by the screen refreshing rate for example. Also they claim the battery life isn't that good, but I haven't seen a graph showing it or their testing method for that matter. I was also amazed by their conclusion, I read the whole thing and was very positive, to find out in their conclusion they don't recommend it.. Strange.

They also compared it majorly to the One X US version, which has the S4 SoC. Won't the S3 get the same in the US?
[Galaxy S III General] istoica:
I agree. I tested intensivly the S3 and I know what I am saying. Engadget is known for taking sides ;)
[Galaxy S III General] stirkac:
The Verge has the best review to date. period. I do not even mind reading Engadget, they are always full of ****.

To be honest I will get myself HTC for the looks and added resell value. But i'm shure GS3 will be mainstream as GS1, even with it's (potential)flaws.
[Galaxy S III General] DocRambone:
Good Stuff

Unequaled performance

Excellent camera

Functionally sound design

Android tweaks have mostly been for the better

Bad Stuff

Aesthetically challenged

TouchWiz takes getting used to

S Voice is no less of a gimmick than Siri

Samsung has a history of failing to update phones on time

Lol, Verge had hard time to find the bad things. A pretty ****ty review as usual from Verge
[Galaxy S III General] stirkac:
Well if You have decided for GS3 that's fine, but I am in real doubt and things in cons matter to me a lot. Especially the design. Pretty much everyone says it's ugly, why should I pay 500 euro for it? I had OG galaxy S and it was terribly scratched after a week. Things like this matter. Not the pure horsepower.
[Galaxy S III General] SlimJ87D:
My god, thanks guys. I will have to edit the OP in a little bit. Also thanks MaskedMagi for putting it in a ready format for me haha.
[Galaxy S III General] SlimJ87D:
My god, thanks guys. I will have to edit the OP in a little bit. Also thanks
[Galaxy S III General] mrvirginia:
i agree. not sure what was up with the engadget review. i always take theirs with a grain of salt now. i really just like watching videos of the device tbh :)

good point on the benchmarks, though. i was thinking the same thing... are any of the bench apps updated for quad-cores yet :confused:

---------- Post added at 02:00 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:58 PM ----------

i don't put much weight with how a device looks. it's more about how it feels in my hand. the HOX feels like a square brick in my hand in comparison to my GNex. i expect the SGS3 to feel similar to the GNex because of it's rounded corners.

also, why can't everyone adopt the sleep/wake button on the side!?!? using two hands just to turn your phone on makes no sense, esp as devices are increasing in size.
[Galaxy S III General] stirkac:
May I ask you of material feeling of One X vs GN? I simply love that "skin" like feeling of HTC like wildfire, rhyme, HD2 plastic parts. Does One retain that(on the whole surface?)?

thanks
[Galaxy S III General] DocRambone:
Pretty much all of the ones that claim SGS 3 is ugly has never seen the device for real...
[Galaxy S III General] mrvirginia:
the GNex has more of a grippy feeling due to the battery door in comparison to the slicker feeling of the matte finish of the HOX on the back. the HOX feels more like a solid piece in hand due to the unibody but neither feel cheap imo. i'm not quite sure what you mean by the "skin" like feeling since i've never owned any of the other devices you mentioned. i did own an HTC Evo at one point.
[Galaxy S III General] ECrispy:
You know what I don't like - when reviewers talk about the GS3's 'all plastic build' when in fact the One X, and many other phones, are also all plastic.
[Galaxy S III General] stirkac:
I know how GS2 feels and i can understand GN too - But gs3 will be glossy :(

Many HTC devices incorporate soft plastic which feels like skin when you touch it. It cannot be scratched like shiny plastic. If you have non-glossy LCD around (computer or TV monitor) try to swipe a finger across and it feels really soft and nice.

Time to go window shopping lol
[Galaxy S III General] ECrispy:
Obviously Engadget has no idea how useful menu actually is, or the ugly menu bar that keeps showing up on the One series. They barely know Android it seems.
[Galaxy S III General] mrvirginia:
what i'm always wondering when someone mentions this is if they've held a phone that's not mostly plastic, ie one of the HTC aluminum unibody phones. i have and it's really heavy so i don't understand why someone would complain about the plastic and feel. having a heavy phone doesn't automatically make my brain think premium feel. i think brick.

---------- Post added at 02:38 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:35 PM ----------

ohhh yeah, i gotcha now. i have two matte monitors in front of me. yep that's exactly how the HOX feels :) but again, the matte was sorta slippery feeling. the gloss on the SGS3 is going to stick to your fingers better than the matte. so, although you might have the possibility of scratches showing up easier/better on the SGS3, you have a phone that's less likely to drop from your hands. i personally would take tiny light scratches over a phone totally slipping from my hand and getting deep cuts and scuffs. just my thought process here.
[Galaxy S III General] ph00ny:
See how close all of those devices are? Probably reaching the vsync limit

---------- Post added at 02:48 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:46 PM ----------

After listening to their podcast *****fest for an hour, i'm surprised that they actually rated the phone where it is

Some parts of the review is just a re-iteration of their initial point of view
[Galaxy S III General] TMaLuST:
Lil' battery test from:

http://android.hdblog.it/2012/05/25/galaxy-s3-test-live-durata-batteria-by-hdblog-inizio-ore-10/

I'll do a short translation because the usage is not standard.

-ALL THE SENSORS ARE ON, EVEN EYE TRACKING

-Autobrightness

-Connection (3g) always on

-Push notification activated, gps activated

-Nfc is off

-Autosync background datas is on

-downloaded 200mb via 3g and 760 mb via wifi

-Spent 1:5h calling

-spent 15 minutes playing mass effect

-50 minutes of music with earphones

-10 minutes of google navigator

-3 minutes of 1080p recording

-uploaded 15 screenshots to dropbox

-61 minutes of webbrosing

-Costantly checked twitter (he says he has almost 450 tweets updated per hours), mail and facebook each hour.

-Played SkyRunner for 5 minutes

-Played reckless Racing for 3 minutes

-17 minutes of voip call via 3g

Phone lasted 11 hours e 30 minutes aprox

Display on: 3 hours and 16 minutes

It doesn't look that bad. He is really stressing the device, keep in mind all those mbs downloaded!
[Galaxy S III General] SlimJ87D:
Thanks guys. OP UPDATED!

I disagree... the reviewer mixed up the numbers of the Anutu benchmark for the One X and SGS3. This is a very easy mistake that should have been corrected.

Also, one thing Engadget fails to bring up is that the VYSNC for the SGS3 doesn't allow it to go past 60 FPS in some benchmarks. Therefore Nenmark is useless for comparison.
[Galaxy S III General] tremblingwater:
Im surprised at the Engadget. What were they thinking?

The quality of their review is atrocious. The perspective and rationale is off by a mile, by comparison, The Verge has the best review ive read, i feel they were more objective, did their homework, analysed features/specs and their implications on situations/scenarios much much better.

Shame on you engadget.
[Galaxy S III General] SlimJ87D:
The verge needs to fix their benchmakrs as it is teh SGS3 that gets into the 11,000s and the Tegra 3 that gets in the 10,000s.
[Galaxy S III General] tremblingwater:
Course, but overall, what do you think? The Verge has a much better perspective/objective analysis of good and bad points.

Engadget just seemed disregarding....and as reviewers, you need to be thorough and objective, well more so than they were.

Either way, how can two reviews differ so much? Which has more credibility? Makes the whole point of a review a bit null, but either way, it'll be good to see this thing first hand.
[Galaxy S III General] vapotrini:
Honestly, I was expecting considerably more. I'm not seeing any figures here that my GN can't match or come close to with a 2000 mah battery. A little disappointing IMO. Maybe it's the eye tracking?
[Galaxy S III General] SlimJ87D:
Yeah the content was good and I love the comparison par on the bottom. It already gives you a great breakdown.

THE BREAKDOWN

More times than not, the Verge score is based on the average of the subscores below. However, since this is a non-weighted average, we reserve the right to tweak the overall score if we feel it doesn't reflect our overall assessment and price of the product. Read more about how we test and rate products.

12345678910

DESIGN 8

DISPLAY 8

CAMERA(S) 9

RECEPTION / CALL QUALITY 9

PERFORMANCE 10

SOFTWARE 8

BATTERY LIFE 8

ECOSYSTEM 8
[Galaxy S III General] ph00ny:
They lost a lot of staff to verge. Pretty much everyone in verge used to be part of engadget
[Galaxy S III General] cdd543:
I agree totally. It was one of the worst engadget reviews of a flagship phone that I recall ever reading.
[Galaxy S III General] Reckless187:
Review of the SGSIII by Engadget:

http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/25/samsung-galaxy-s-iii-review/
[Galaxy S III General] dehem333:
I liked it at the beginning and it looks even better in real. For the people who are still unsure, just wait for the release and test S3 and HOX in store. And dont just check one review, from some random Engadget reviewer for example.
[Galaxy S III General] barondebxl:
It sounds like Engadget prefers the One X.
[Galaxy S III General] ECrispy:
Engadget lost their credibility a long time ago. They don't even pretend to hide their bias for Apple products anymore. They have no business reviewing Android.
[Galaxy S III General] barondebxl:
I'm sure the phone is better than how Engadget reviewed it just as I think the one x is better than how phonearena reviewed it. There's no way I won't be happy with my soon to have in my hands, soon to be rooted galaxy S3. Who cares what Engadget says!!!!!:cool:
[Galaxy S III General] Reckless187:
Not sure if this is legit but South Korea are getting a redesigned SIII!!!

http://www.stuff.tv/news/phone/news-nugget/new-samsung-galaxy-s3-design-–-but-not-for-the-uk

The worldwide SIII is a looker but I prefer the new straight edged version personally. It seems to have a slimmer top and bottom bezel

Plus the Stuff Review!

http://www.stuff.tv/review/samsung-galaxy-s3
[Galaxy S III General] Chicken Nugget(s):
The thing is the new layout needs apps to be updated with an onscreen menu to be good, so while HTC has the right frame of mind, they've done it too early. When the apps are updated though, the menu button on the GS3 is basically redundant.
[Galaxy S III General] ECrispy:
That looks like a bigger screen. Probably due to resizing the picture though.
[Galaxy S III General] SlimJ87D:
Looks fake.
[Galaxy S III General] thebobp:
Looking for an S3 vs Lumia 900 and/or Titan II comparison. Thanks beforehand.
[Galaxy S III General] yatbond:
I think you can bypass this annoyance with 3rd party software as I use lgcamera app to take photos while I am on a call with my gs2...
[Galaxy S III General] GalaxyS2R:
when you say with third party software do you mean by rooting your phone or just downloading a app?

I have no intentions what so ever to root any of my phones, never have done and never will.
[Galaxy S III General] radeonxt:
Samsung Galaxy S3 has twice the battery life of the HTC One X

http://www.stuff.tv/news/phone/news...3-has-twice-the-battery-life-of-the-htc-one-x

:D
[Galaxy S III General] stirkac:
that is definitely fake/biased. tegra3 can play video forever if optimized right (this has been proven on many benchmarks of tablets). They probably used non-optimized 3-rd party player and not the stock one (using four cores instead of ULP companion core). You should be able to get atleast 6-8 hours from one X.

Edit: try to search google for rundown tests I remember reading those facts even on older (pre-1.28) firmwares.
[Galaxy S III General] touness69:
Why it would be fake ?

They've probably used a 1080p video for their test, and I doubt that the 800Mhz companion core only can handle it

And even, we don't give a rats ass about the how, the result is here : GSIII have twice the battery life , no matter how idk why you are talking about biased reviews
[Galaxy S III General] stirkac:
as said before, If you have decided for SGS3 already, you have nothing to do here. this thread is for COMPARISON because some are actually interested in both devices but can only afford one (including me)!
[Galaxy S III General] radeonxt:
gsmarena's test was done way back and that stuff.tv's test just proved that video playback is twice more than hox's.

so are you saying this is faked/biased as well?

so every tests/reviews that shows the hox being beaten by sgs3 is going to be faked/biased or toned down as "benchmark mean nothing in real life blah blah blah", is that what's its going to be for you guys?:D

mind you, the samoled that supposedly consumes more power in whites ie web browsing beats the hox by almost an hour - wherein lcd doesn't consume much power on whites.:D
[Galaxy S III General] XDA mark:
GSMArena did batterylife tests as well with playing a video, and the S2 lasted twice as long as well in the video playback area.

http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s_iii_vs_htc_one_x-review-759p8.php

GS3: 10:01

One X:5:45

In general use though, I don't think the S3 will last 2x as much the One X. Maybe something like 20-50% max more. But when playing a video, there is a huge difference.

edit: I'm not fast enough anymore lol, guy above me was faster
[Galaxy S III General] MaskedMagi:
I have reviewed both handsets and can confirm that no matter how you look at it, the S3 beats the One X in battery life. I love both handsets, but for those looking for a little more juice, you can't ignore the S3's results.
[Galaxy S III General] MiG123:
nothing shocking there, the entire samsung galaxy series had always had incredible stamina when it comes to video playback. I believe this can be attributed to the multi-codec wide hardware acceleration support all samsung android phones have, which means all playable video is automatically routed to decode using the GPU(in this case the mali400mp4) instead of the CPU for most other brands including HTC. That's probably why I realise samsung galaxies remain room temperature cool over long movie or TV series marathons while the HTC desire i used to own turned warm after a while.

In addition to that, most movies typically contain large sequences of dark or blank scenes, more so then your typical webpage or game. This plays out well to the traditional power consumption superiority of amoleds while displaying black, which could have piled on additional battery life over the LCD equipped HOX.
[Galaxy S III General] Wond3r:
If we are getting the s3 we have nothing to do in this thread? what are you talking about?

Also, This thread isnt only for COMPARISON...
[Galaxy S III General] kirdroid:
What? Who cares about windows phone? Until windows phone 8 releases they are useless. Its currently the high end android phones or iPhone.
[Galaxy S III General] :
Congrat for posting all of the reviews, but i dont wanna watch it becouse i wanna be suprised of some features
[Galaxy S III General] mrvirginia:
i loved this piece on the stuff.tv review. it's exactly what i've been thinking and why i personally like the SAMOLED over the SLCD2...

"Either way, both the Samsung Galaxy S3 and the HTC One X have excellent screens – if you prefer purer whites and more realistic colours the One X will be more up your street, but if sharper detail, true blacks and more vibrant colours rock your display boat, you won’t be disappointed with the Galaxy S3's display."