[Galaxy S II General] DanDroidian:
Yeah, definitely a buttery BEAST!

Scrolling on Tapatalk is much better and less jittery, BUT Tapatalk still seems to stutter. I'm assuming it's the app, because scrolling in browsers and other apps is flawless. It's not bad, just noticeable.

Yeah, definitely a cool feature, but only limited to some apps (unless I just haven't figured it out yet). It is nice to be able to check your email or Facebook while web browsing, etc, without having to open/close/switch screens. Your can switch the size of each app screen and switch them, but seems like some things could be improved, for example:

Some things, like Facebook, seem squashed when changing from landscape/portrait.

You are supposed to be able to press and hold the BACK key at any time to hide/bring up the dual-screen tab, but sometimes it activated the back function first also (like if I'm browsing a thread with Tapatalk and hold the BACK key it exits the thread before popping up the dual-screen tab).

More apps will hopefully be added to this function.

I haven't tried, but I noticed that it seems I have only one drive instead of it being split between space for apps and space for storage. (I know that was exactly what you asking, but seemed relevant. Maybe the S3 is the same?)

We already get that, if you're talking about the dual-screen thingy...

Some other random comments after playing around with it for a few days now.

Seems slowly but surely devs are improving apps for Jelly Bean. Apex Launcher Pro has some minor glitches I've noticed (Google search widget changes color during some transitions, which might be what the "transparency issue" comments are about on the Play Store.

I also noticed that World of Goo seems to have some text at the bottom of the screen that gets slightly cut off.

When I press "clear memory" it closes about 50 processes. That's a lot! ! !

I've had up to 32 apps running at the same time and phone was completely smooth. It does seem to automatically close some when it gets over that, but that's maybe because I had Angry Birds and some other random games open.

The Gallery is awesome, and works nice but I'm unable to hide random folders like from CD album art, but I'm really not used to Gallery. It also has a cool spiral preview that you can spin to view thumbnails; buttery smooth (again, maybe Gallery has been that way, but I always use QuickPic, which I'll probably return to if I can't figure out how to hide certain folders).

Of note, I'm running fully stock (I'm guessing it's the Malaysian or Thai version, I live and work in Cambodia and bought it here for $650 with a one year Samsung warranty that has a repair center here) XXALJ3 with no root (yet). I haven't deleted or frozen any apps yet because I want to try them all first. I have motions disabled (like shake to update, eye detection, etc) and stopped it from ALWAYS listening for demands.

It has S-Voice and Google Voice, Google Voice being much better, but won't do as much as S-Voice.

I've only played with the stylus a little. Seems nice to have, and if you take it out during a call it allows you to write notes on your screen. It does some other cool stuff, but I think you really have to play with it a lot to feel comfortable using it.

TW is really nice, but it's just so uncustomizable I am forced to use Nova Pro or Apex Pro. I've set them up with similar home screens, and it does seem like Nova might be ever-so-slightly more buttery with transitions. I stuck with Apex so far because I'm used to it, and it seems to allow me to disable scrolling across apps and widgets in the apps folder, unlike Nova which won't let you separate the infinite scrolling tabs. Again, hardly a noticeable difference, if at all, when using them both back-to-back.

So, the second charge gave me over 7 and a half hours which included downloading some games and my friends playing with it on full brightness for a little less than an hour.

Swype Beta works great on this beast!

Also, many things in the phone allow you to choose if you want to make it easier to use with your left or right hand (phone, calculator, keyboard, Pattern Unlock, etc) which means you can easily do many things with one hand since it puts it more towards the left or the right of the screen. Ex. Unlocking with pattern and then dialing a number is easy with one hand.

(Actually was with 2 friends here that had the S3, and they were all amazed by the phone. They were both only running 4.0.4 though, to be fair. They also said I looked like "Get Smart" when talking on it:( )

Hope this post gave you some food for thought and got you a little more excited about getting Jelly Bean soon!