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[Galaxy S III General] minhqp107:
I think if you like something, especially a phone then you should go with it. If you wonder which one to get, I think it's only appropriate to compare those that are already available. Simply because if you need to wait for a better phone, the waiting will never stop, cause how can you tell if there won't be a better phone in the near future after iPhone 5 hit the market?
[Galaxy S III General] The Smoking Man:
Well, let's put it this way...

What can the iPhone 5 have that would make it better than the SIII? Probably nothing.

What can the iPhone 5 have that would make it better than the 4S? Quite alot.

What I'm expecting from the new iPhone:

- Slightly updated design

- 4,2" screen

- Gorilla Glass 2

- Resolution increased from 640x960 to to 720x1280

- Secondary camera improved from VGA to 1.2 or 1.3 MP

- New CPU (dual core or possibly quad)

- Increased RAM from 512MB to 1GB

- Increased battery capacity from 1432 mAh to ~1800 mAh

- Wireless charging support

- Improved Siri (adding support for languages S-Voice already understands now)

- Hundreds of bugfixes (as usual)

So in other words, it should be an upgrade from the 4S, but hardly better than the SIII. To be honest, I wouldn't worry much about iPhone 5.

I'm sure Samsung will roll out a FW update, 32/64GB versions and wireless charging kit by the time the iPhone 5 is announced. Not to mention the SIII will have a huge head start - thanks to the Olympics. Apple will have to rely on their brainwashing techniques and marketing to really boost the sales this time.
[Galaxy S III General] tarpon6:
iPhone

Wait for the iPhone. The iPhone is the best phone. It has the 3G's and the WiFi's and it has apps.
[Galaxy S III General] ilostmypistons:
If you're looking for a LTE device	the S3 has what you need now. Lte chips are in demand and back orders are at a all time high. I heard many companies are pissed at Samsung for buying most of the LTE chips for months to come. Qualcomm is backordered til 2012 from Samsungs demand. Now the question is will Apple be able to get LTE chips for the iPhone5. S3 will launch on many carriers in North America june/july so I think Apple might be screwed. Asus rep was the source when talking about having issues getting parts for there new phone
[Galaxy S III General] brekec88:
Obviously its not going to have a Super amoled display, that would be a MAJOR downgrade from the 4s.

I'm sure some samsung fanboi will jump on me for this (and hey I like samsung and have owned several) but your smoking crack if you think the SIII display is as good as even the Iphone 4s's.

OH WHY SAMSUNG!!! If they would have just not put pentile in I would have pre ordered already.
[Galaxy S III General] poozali86:
go grab a s3, you wont know when iphone 5 will come out
[Galaxy S III General] brekec88:
Iphone 5 will have a better screen, better looking design, but yea tha'ts probably it. I guess if you want to get technical the Iphone 4s already has a better screen and IMO build design so it wouldn't be a new feature.
[Galaxy S III General] araje:
Guys.... Awesome responses.

Let me add my two cents to this discussion.

The reason I have glued myself to galaxy S since past 2 yrs is mainly because 1. Google Navigation 2. Wolfson DAC ie supercurio's Voodoo. Once you get used to Voodoo everything else sounds horrible to me.

I just learnt that S3 gets Wolfson DAC just like S and unlike S2, so it makes it much easier now to decide I guess.
[Galaxy S III General] Kiahnlliya:
OP, have you seen these videos? http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1557484

EXCELLENT videos by member Wicked4u2c, detailing the differences between Android and iOS. Definitely helped to make my mind up. Gave my iPhone to my wife. :)
[Galaxy S III General] bozdag:
LOL What? Have you even seen an S3? My friend had a 4S and now also has an S3. The HD Super AMOLED trumps the 4S display. We even compared it to a friends HOX and the SAMOLED looked better.
[Galaxy S III General] Infekxion:
I said 800 just for a comparison.
[Galaxy S III General] skhan.786:
I would get s3 but then again we dont know what the iphone 5 will have
[Galaxy S III General] brekec88:
I actually have a 4s. I hope this is true because I like the GS3, was just kinda hung up on the display. I have not seen one in person, only in reviews so I cannot say from experience. Have seen the HOX in person though and the screen is literally AMAZING. Hope your right. I don't know if its better than the HOX, all review sites sat HOX is better, but if it is only slightly worse than HOX I am cool with getting a GS3. Guess I will wait to see one in person.
[Galaxy S III General] GalaxySN00B:0:
Its completely subjective, both are however better than the 4S (Its so small) the S3 has alot better blacks and everything looks really saturated and vibrant, the One X has better whites and the tones look alit more natural, imo the Samoled is better on the GS3, i dont really care for what looks more natural, i just want it to look vibrant and eye-catching, an example of this is say you take a picture of a flower, on the One X it might tend to look slightly more true to real life, on the S3 it will look alot more red or blue or whatever colour. But if your not into photgraphy or things like that and your merely just comparing an image side by side, the S3 will look better. since its alot more contrasty ;)
[Galaxy S III General] bozdag:
Yes, most reviewers do say the HOX is better. But when we compared it with my friends one the colours on the HOX looked washed out and blacks looked grey. The detail was mostly the same but the HOX was slightly blurred.

Some don't like the saturated colours of the amoled displays but there are screen modes which have different colour profiling. I managed to get the colours to look similar to the HOX but still retain the deep black s in natural mode. But honestly, it looks so much better in dynamic mode (More vibrant colours).
[Galaxy S III General] conmeo:
idiot question. surely noone know whats inside iphone5. why compare. but i guess it has 2.5inches screen. 256mb of ram. for that's spec. go for galaxy s3. hahahahaha
[Galaxy S III General] kulzboy:
I avoid apples press conference like plague. They always make their products look better than it is. to be honest when I held the 4s, I didnt know what to do beside Siri which is useless because to me, it's a thing for forever-aloners (sorry if I offended anyone) but seriously their products are boring as hell
[Galaxy S III General] conmeo:
idiot. s3 have a better design than iphone 4 or 4s. it's my taste. better screen? let wait and see.
[Galaxy S III General] brekec88:
I said IMO. That means In My Opinion. Like IMO people who repeadetly call other people idiots they do not know online are usually idoits themselves. And yes in MY opinion I do not think the super high quality 'hyper glaze' looks good as well as the shape of the phone. I like Samsung alot BUT also like the design of alot of other phones better than the SIII. also about 50 review sites and 1 million people online agree with me about the design not being so hot.
[Galaxy S III General] thebobp:
Someone's been eating Steve's propaganda. Higher pixel density does not (necessarily) a better screen make.

1) At some point, around 300ish ppi, you stop actually noticing any further pixels.

2) This "technicality" completely ignores the rendering abilities of the screens.

Why do you think the screen comparison reviews aren't just like "the iPhone screen is best, the end"? That's right: because it's still debatable.
[Galaxy S III General] brekec88:
Didnt mean to thank you but I do agree with you that it ia definitely debatable. Amoleds produce very good blacks but colors are saturated and if you look hard on pentiles you can see pixels. IMO any phone you can see pixels is def not the best display. Retina display is crisp and clear like hox (not quite as good)and has deep blacks like amoled (as good). Def not an apple fanboy I like Android more im just not blind or ignorant and can admit when something is good and bad. Im so tired of people acting like the iPhone is ****ty phone. There def some of the best out there. Androind fanboys and apple fanboys are always so funny. Androids and iphones both have there own strenghs and weaknesses.
[Galaxy S III General] voodoochild2008:
Well for me I hate apple, I have had most phones and yes they do come up with some good ideas and some good tech but I hate how its their way or the high way.

I love how samsung is the slut of the phone world.....I mean it will have anything you put in it :-)

For me apple have been dragging their heels for years, for me when I look at the 3gs/4/4s and look at sg1/sg2/sg3 its clear samsung take bigger steps, and I know thats going to cause a spec war but seeing as how apple was king at this time and samsung was going up against apple when it was smooth sailing for them, I think samsung have done an amazing job.

In a perfect world you would be able to mix the tech and ease of use of samsung and wrap it in a apple case....company called Sample? lol

Getting back to ip5 been better? well its out after sgs3 so I would be shocked if its not better in areas, but then you are stuck with a nice new phone that only lets you get to first base and reminds you that they want to take it slow, give me the samsung slut any day.

Plus this time next year we will be back with the next phones, same thing over and over again.

PS

I have sgs3 and love it, walks all over anything out at this time.
[Galaxy S III General] blairh:
Great thread. I'm torn too. I think my decision will be much clearer post WWDC and once I demo the SIII.

The timing just sucks. Most of us wish we could see the next iPhone this summer to make a choice. For me, I'll get the SIII if I like it once I handle it. I love my iPhone 4, but if I deem the SIII to be what I'd want in a new smartphone, (larger screen, LTE, 64 GB storage, able to handle with one hand) then I doubt the next iPhone will have anything that I'll be missing. At the same time, if I'm not impressed with the SIII in person, then I'll be getting the next iPhone.
[Galaxy S III General] mertzi:
here's my angle; if they don't do a drastic makeover of how iOS works you lose a lot of benefits that you have with android, one that I value is full file management. iOS is really limited on that front. And take flash, I am not a flash lover, I really love the development of html5, but there is still a LOT of stuff on the internet that requires flash. I can stream sports from any flash stream with android.

And android has a lot of cool stuff around the corner, e.g. ubuntu for android.

Besides all the benefits with android, you should consider the moral and ethic angle of buying apple products. Apple is in my opinion the tech industrys counterpart of Shell. If you haven't slept under a rock you know the conditions for the employees at foxconn. And also keep in mind that apple do their utmost to prevent all their competitors from making innovative better products and are against free competition. However great products they make I am an idealist and would never support them.
[Galaxy S III General] viniturb0:
Have them both
[Galaxy S III General] leedavis:
Hmmm, you come to an S3 forum to ask this question. Wow, I wonder what answer you'll get
[Galaxy S III General] thebobp:
Well, then, count out the "retina" display. Even the name, unfortunately, was just another bit of Steve's propaganda for people to latch onto and make such grandiose claims like you just did.

(And, as I should point out, not even Steve claimed that pixels are impossible to see, period - only at 12 inches. If you try hard enough, you can see pixels on any screen.)

In practice, it doesn't actually matter. Anything around 300+ ppi will have you looking for pixels before you find any. What's the point?

sent from my Terran Command Center.
[Galaxy S III General] O.A.A:
As im android user, waiting for iphone 5 is kind of stupid i dont know why people waiting for something that has limitation in every aspect and compared to Android OS :eek:........
[Galaxy S III General] pewpewbangbang:
IPhone is good in its own way. If it sucked and was unusable I think more people would complain but it doesn't. IPhones just work which is good in it's own respect and there's nothing really to worry about. No compatibility worries,lag problems etc,it just works and battery life is the best still.

It depends on what you want. I've had both iPhones and androids and like androids a lot but I also like iPhones for their ease of use, battery life and such.

I'm personally getting the iPhone 5 on an upgrade,but I doubt you'd go wrong with either choice. The leaked two tone design on the iPhone looks sexy as hell especially the black aluminum and screen looking promising. Sgs3 you already know everything about it and its a great phone.
[Galaxy S III General] ilostmypistons:
I'll be getting a iPhone5 to resell so I can support my Android habit:D
[Galaxy S III General] barondebxl:
I think the most interesting thing coming with the iPhone 5 or 6, is IOS6. If rumors are true, it should be a major update, even the core apps. Design also will definitely change. It just depends what you want, if you want a great phone that works well out of the box with great battery life, iPhone. But again the S3 works well out of the box too, more customizable and of course root, ROMs and kernel galore. I guess it comes down to the OS, IOS or android with touchwiz nature UX.....
[Galaxy S III General] Totòòò:
The only thing the iphone is better at is the fact of proce fixing policies apple sets. You pay 500 for it this summer and you can still sell it around 500 even next summer one month before the new one comes out.
[Galaxy S III General] appelflap:
If you are using Apple services go for the iPhone. If you're using Google services go for a Android phone. For example, don't expect good gmail support on the iPhone and don't expect good iTunes support on Android.

As for the OS itself, the Android OS is way more open for developers. So expect a much more exciting evolution of apps that are extending the OS itself, like launchers, utilities, input methods, floating apps etc. The way the user operates the phone is completely constrained by iOS, while Android leaves much open for independent developers. In general the Android platform is open for much more innovations.
[Galaxy S III General] Dtguilds:
You must be monumentally stupid to ask a question like this in a Galaxy S III specific forum full of raving Fandroids. Crazy.

I'd personally wait for the iPhone, Apple will definitely one-up all of the Galaxy S III specs and revamp iOS so it's a tad more customisable but with the superior apps to Android. Not to mention their designs are the best in the world so it will show up the S3 as the cheap fisher price toy lookalike that it really is.
[Galaxy S III General] thebobp:
This, at least, is highly unlikely. The newsfeeds already get excited about the possibility of 1024 mb ram - "twice the amount of the iPhone 4s!"

I wish, but it's also pretty unlikely they'll revamp iOS in any way. They didn't even revise the number of columns for the iPad, despite that it's clearly able to fit more. "Consistency" is the name of the game with iOS, along with "we're already making enough money; why bother with any significant changes?"

And even if they did revamp it, doing so to include more customization is practically anathema to Apple. Their entire philosophy hinges around their devices "just working", a.k.a. "we're going to treat our users as babies and not give them any advanced options".

So, while this is a better possibility than "one-uping all of the Galaxy S III specs", it's still not something to hold your breath for.
[Galaxy S III General] Jukiz:
Going from 3.5inch to 4.8 inch screen. I would never go for anything smaller again.
[Galaxy S III General] speedyjay:
Mate look at it this way....I have a galaxy s3 and a lot has changed in the UI....look at the entire range of iphones and look at the UI....they all look the damn same lol Galaxy S3 all the way dude!!
[Galaxy S III General] NIKKG:
I'm gonna get both, I'll buy the GSIII for ATT on ebay because it'll probably sell for 400-500 in a month from now, but I'll get the iphone 5 under contract since its a better investment overall and holds on to its value. I'll try both out and whatever I like the most I'll keep and sell the other on ebay. You can probably make a nice 400 profit selling the iphone actually.

I just switched from an HTC Vivid with 4.5" screen to a iphone 4s with a 3.5" and the puny iphone screen sucks big time. But overall, if the iphone was just a little bigger than I'll prefer it over Android because it just works right from the get go without all that customizing crap also it seems that the iPhone apps are much more polished and smooth compared to Android. Another thing that pisses me off on the Android is that some games will (gameloft) only work on certain phones and you can't download it even though you paid for the thing. Google needs to crack down on that crap because thats bullsh!t. With the iphone all the apps and games work perfectly and you get timely OS updates while 90% of Android users still don't have ICS even though it came out almost a year ago.

Also, you can jailbreak iphones and do all the crazy stuff that you can do on Android. I got mines jailbroken and installed Cydia and Installous. It was actually easier to get the tether working on the iphone than on my Vivid because AT&T had locked the Vivid down big time.
[Galaxy S III General] speedyjay:
What more could apple do to surpass the Galaxy S3?? Quad core processor, 1gb ram, 8mp camera, 720p display, eye tracking, nfc chip etc etc....their gonna have to do soooooooooooooooo much to compete. Apple are overpriced **** in my opinion....
[Galaxy S III General] :
LMAO!!!!!

You cannot do anything to iPhone.

Sent from my CM9 SGS3 Quad Core now with more flava!
[Galaxy S III General] daraj:
I wouldn't call someone stupid just because they ask a question or have an opinion different than mine and definitely wouldn't come to SIII forum and praise the IP5 !!

2cents.
[Galaxy S III General] speedyjay:
How have you got CM9 on your S3?? I want!!!! Lol
[Galaxy S III General] NIKKG:
Apple doesn't compete on specs, specs are for nerds. Apple is more about having ease of use and also being a status symbol. As long as 90% of the population are happy with iphones, than thats all Apple needs, they don't need to cater to the nerd population. In fact, I would say Apple wouldn't want the nerds to buy their phones anyways because than the phone would be considered uncool by the masses and detracting from the status symbol image, thus hurting their sells. Lets be honest, nerds are not fun, I'm a geek and I don't like hanging with other geeks either because they are boring as hell.
[Galaxy S III General] speedyjay:
You go and look at the 2g the 3g the 3gs the 4 the 4s and tell me what you see!! Everything is the same lol
[Galaxy S III General] :
Ported it to my device with laptop. Made my own Kernel.

Sent from my CM9 SGS3 Quad Core now with more flava!
[Galaxy S III General] speedyjay:
You need to upload it lol
[Galaxy S III General] NIKKG:
Thats the point, the older less nerdy people get used to the same familiar interface and thus they get hooked on it. The general population likes familiarity, they get turned off when things change too much like in Android. Its only us the minority geeks that like all that new stuff, the rest don't give a damn.
[Galaxy S III General] speedyjay:
Then what's the point in releasing new phones if they all look the same lol may as well stick with the iphone 2g lol oh yeah I forgot that's how apple operate, look at the changes from the 4 to the 4s.....exactly the same except a dual core 800mHz processor and a better camera and apple has the nerve to charge £600 for a beefed up version of the 4....overpriced **** lol
[Galaxy S III General] NIKKG:
They release a new look every 2 or 3 years so that when people come of contract, they will buy the new looking phone with a new contract and thus having them locked in all over again. Also, they only upgrade the things that normal people actually care about, with is mostly the camera specs, screen resolution and maybe processor speed. The general population don't give a damn if their phones are LTE or 3G or HSPA. As long as they get their internet and are able to text messages than they are happy.
[Galaxy S III General] speedyjay:
Not upgrading stuff is not important yeah?? So basically what your saying is the 4s is an ever so slightly beefed up version of the 2g?? YET THEY CHARGE £600 FOR IT???????? overpriced **** mate!!! Anyway I'm not gonna argue....I'm entitled to my opinion....Galaxy S3 all they way mate
[Galaxy S III General] NIKKG:
Yeah, I had the iphone 4 and now the 4s, pretty much the same crap except better camera and slightly faster. Guess what, the phone still sells like crazy and made Apple rich, that just proves my point that most of the people don't give a crap about specs, they just want a phone that works. I was in Las Vegas last week and 99% of the people had iphones and I only saw one dude with an HTC One X. Even the Asians visiting from Korea and Japan to my surprise were on the iphone because to them its a major status symbol, kinda like a Louis Vuitton purse.

Also, Apple keeps their prices high because they don't want broke ass people to buy their phones, same as Louis Vuitton never has sells either. If they make the phone cheap, than it wouldn't be a status symbol anymore.
[Galaxy S III General] speedyjay:
Because their fooled into believing theirs a lot of difference....look at siri....you ask it something and it doesn't recognize what you say half the bloody time lol anyway I'm entitled to my opinion and I'm sticking to it.. .Galaxy S3 all the way
[Galaxy S III General] OneDeep:
Don't forget you can jailbreak your iPhone but its still the same layout. A few themes and a couple of swipe gestures and nothing really stand out. Anybody seen the leak pictures of the new iPhone parts with a bigger screen? Whoopie doo dee. People want a phone / tablet now.
[Galaxy S III General] Arsaw:
90% of people don't give a damn about spec, that's why Apple is so successful. But sooner or later, Iphone will face the same fate as Nokia Symbian and Blackberry unless they could come out with new innovation, which I don't think they will.
[Galaxy S III General] Arsaw:
Even 3yrs old kids know that is retarded to think that Apple will ever beat Android in terms of specs. :cool:
[Galaxy S III General] pewpewbangbang:
I doubt they will face the same fate as blackberry or Nokia.........not even close

They don't give a damn about spec because it doesn't matter. iOS runs 100% perfect on the underclocked single core 800mhz just as it does on the dual-core.

That's not to say their specs aren't competitive, they perfectly are. GPU-wise, one of the best and games show it/are optimized for it perfectly. Everything else is competitive and some of the best like screen, camera, etc...
[Galaxy S III General] thebobp:
Really? There are no upgrade hurdles at all? Oh I c..
[Galaxy S III General] pewpewbangbang:
lol it's a 3 year old device.........is the 2 yr old Nexus One even getting updated to ICS?

Thats a 600mhz CPU your talking about on the 3GS, I was talking about the iPhone 4 800mhz.

Still the 3GS probably runs better/gets better battery life than most android phones on the market excluding high end ones. My mom has mine now and it still runs great.
[Galaxy S III General] thebobp:
Do you really get bragging rights based on those kinds of "updates"?

Edit:

Same thing actually happened with the iPhone 4: it's just not quite as blatant.

(There is such a thing as futureproofing after all! And of people getting screwed over because of Apple using the crummiest specs possible. There's not exactly a competing iOS hardware provider you can choose from - thanks, monopoly.)