yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S III General] demlasjr:
Me neither, but let's hope.
[Galaxy S III General] airpd:
What site would you recommend to buy the Galaxy S3 LTE i9305 contract free from ? I live in Romania but we don't have it yet. I have a friend in Germany who can help me buy one from there.
[Galaxy S III General] kms108:
have you tried www.expansys.com
[Galaxy S III General] vampyren:
Same here, if Samsung makes a huge jump they will only make it worse for themselves. S3 is selling like crazy in Sweden and if Samsung update this rapidly people will just wait longer before buying or even worse jump boat. I'm also curious sd hell about the News but I'm thinking they will wait until summer before release.
[Galaxy S III General] Idan73:
Announcement on Feb 28, release end of march, early April to take advantage of full q2 and beat apple to a pulp for q2 and traditional q3.

I love cider.

Testing JKay alpha on GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] otester:
Jump boat? If anything it will make the I9305 cheaper.
[Galaxy S III General] vampyren:
Yes out might but I meant people who bought 9305 or even 9300 will be pissed. I personally think people get loyal to a brand when they see frequent update and not hardware update way to often. Pretty much what some does. Some disagree but that is what makes your phone valuable.
[Galaxy S III General] otester:
They're mad because they can't have the latest and greatest all the time?
[Galaxy S III General] vampyren:
Truth in what you say but again the company also benefit to keep the customers happy and loyal by not doing to many hardware updates I think. This will also make the existing phone more valuable and make people appreciate it more. I think more that one flagship a year just is bad business on to many planes but this in my personal feeling. The geek in me love to see the last and greatest still but I do hope Samsung don't drop the boll for existing products any time soon.
[Galaxy S III General] otester:
I don't think it will affect value much at all, stiff competition alone is enough to bring that right down.

What people forget is that not all of us are peasants, some of us can afford to have the latest and greatest all the time and some may just be finishing their S2 contracts (24 month-ers) and want something new and if they can't get an S4, they'll go with a rivals latest offering (Nexus 4 etc.).
[Galaxy S III General] demlasjr:
I guess the GT-I9305 owners shouldn't be mad if the S4 will be released in February, because they got the same S3 like us, but double of ram, lte included at the same price like us. So we should be mad on samsung because they released GT-I9305 with double of ram at the same price as GT-I9300. Why they have done x versions of S3. To win more money. Now Sammy, release that damn S4!
[Galaxy S III General] Badelhas:
Yeeeeeeeaaaah!
[Galaxy S III General] bleepsake:
I agree with the One phone a year with faster releasing software updates. I think the whole two phones a year (talking about the iphone 3G & 3GS, iPhone 4 & 4S, i9300 & i9305 etc) is just a way of saying okay we ****ed up on the first model so lets release one with alterations. If samsung and other brands listened to their consumers and told the carriers that unlimited data is a must then everyone is happy. I hate brand loyalty, up until the iphone 4 i was happy. So I decided to get the S3. I am even happier at what android has become.

Samsung should release an international poll with what realistic features people would like to see on their next flagship phone, and work on that. At least consumers have something to do with what they want in their next phone. Idealistic views i know but so many major blogs release feature blog posts on this and sometimes i feel that samsung etc dont listen, when were all trying to help. lol anyway my rant slightly went off track. sorry. if samsung release the S4 in feb it better be AMAZING otherwise you will see it being get scrutinised in how quickly they released something in order to be the best at the period of time.
[Galaxy S III General] Badelhas:
Been thinking about changing my I9300 for this i9305, can you please tell me your opinion about browsing with the low latency and high speed of lte, opposed to hspa +?

I have 5 to 9mbits speed in hspa + in my city. Thanks! :)
[Galaxy S III General] bleepsake:
The speeds are great, london LTE isnt as optimized as they say, im getting around 30mb down and 19mb up with an average latency of 30ms outdoors in west london. a little lower in central london. depending on your signal masts the phone is greatt anyway really fast and responsive.
[Galaxy S III General] vampyren:
It has nothing to do if you are peasant or not. If you make to many flagship without consistency it will lower the premium and people will be mad for it. If you buy something and in less then say 2 month there is a better phone from same company you (atleast i ) get pissed.

I rather see more software update and proper support instead of hardware update and little software support .

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I agree with you that its a good idea for Samsung to read the blogs and listen but on the otherhand you will never get the full picture since most people who are happy with their phones wont never write about it but in general i have said the same things that companies need to read more online what people want. And its better companies dont F**K up :) cause that is when people jump brand. I was a loyal iPhone user but iPhone5 seriously dissapointed me, sure its nice and light and all but heck i want a bigger screen and S3 LTE gave me that and so much more like SD card and AMOLED. I really love it.

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I never got over 8-9mb , can you check one thing, under About Device->Status->Mobile network type-->UMTS:3 ???

I think i should be able to get the speed you get but i never seen it, will try when i'm in town but would be interesting to know what mode gives you that speed. Cheers
[Galaxy S III General] otester:
It has everything to do with whether you're a peasant or not, if you are rich the value of something so petty wouldn't even cross your mind.

If you upgrade every x months anyways it doesn't matter.

All I'm hearing is jealous ranting.

Also he is most likely with EE on their 4G network, great speeds but no usage...
[Galaxy S III General] CHEVYbarracuda1:
Why would u need 3Gb ram for? I mean cpu quad with 2ghz is just too much by far my opinion.. Battery life will be horrible either phone size will increace or they will keep same size but with few tweaks to the cpu and ram like they did on i9305.
[Galaxy S III General] DjeMBeY:
I'm using it on 3UK, DC-HSPA+ and speeds are awesome!!! :))) Who need EE??? What you can do with 500MB/pm?? Hehe.. few speedtest and all gone.......
[Galaxy S III General] Badelhas:
Great speed but lots of latency, compared to 10 or 20ms of lte. Does it notice?
[Galaxy S III General] demlasjr:
Come on mate, even my ping with Google is sometimes higher. You know that ping is unnoticeable, unless you want to play CoD Black Ops 2 with your mobile phone. If it's below 500ms its unnoticed. :)
[Galaxy S III General] otester:
CS Portable?

I think we're all referring to tethering when we go on about ping, currently Three's service goes as low as 55ms during off-peak hours, 60-70 usually.

World of Tanks seems to work just fine along with a few FPS games.

Generally I have my phone tethered to a virtual machine downloading P2P via a VPN and then use my regular DSL to play games at the same time, best of both worlds then.

Do you think 10-20ms ping really worth it considering current 4G coverage and usage costs? (I don't).
[Galaxy S III General] DjeMBeY:
Ping vary a lot on 3G but you won't notice it in real life.. I don't know why but sometimes it goes as low as 53 and another time it's 120... On screenshot you can see results from tests taken in bad reception, 2bars only... It's strange, better ping but much slower speeds

I'll never pay £36/500MB to have tiny bit faster, no point...
[Galaxy S III General] btemtd:
Did I say I was going to open 40 tasks pfft but said that phone could if it wanted...get over it... i9305 is better then i9300 stop crying lol
[Galaxy S III General] EdgaBimbam:
Lol if u dont open more than 3 tabs, it doesnt mean that others does same. Test is not relevant because only you close browser after browsing? lol mate. Do you think that others do everything same as you? lol never. I'm not whining and I dont want to start flame war but stop stating that there is no differences between 1gb and 2gb. 2gb rams gives much better multitasking. And if you are using 5 apps it doesnt mean that others use also 5 apps.

"As you see, before opening those multiple tabs in the browser and opening the Google Maps, the 1 gigs S3 was answering as fast as the 2 gigs version and even looked much smoother. After that point, it was with 0.5 second slower."

damn dude, it uses same processor.... more ram=better multitasking...
[Galaxy S III General] demlasjr:
Can I call this multitasking enough ? http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=31731388#post31731388

Even if I would have 20 tabs opened in browser, do you think there is any difference between those two versions ? Do you think 1 gigs can't take more than that ?

If I'm not closing the Dolphin browser using the back button (completely close), do you think will force close because of RAM ?

I have Facebook, Tuenti, Path, Pinterest, Instagram, GetGlue, Foursquare, Twitter, Talk, Skype, Tapatalk, YouTube, Spotify and some games all the time opened (not force closed). Isn't this enough, are you doing much more multitasking that this ? Do you think that my phone can't take this smooth enough than the 2 gigs ? Come on, we are not talking about opening Photoshop on a 256 mb ram laptop ;)

I'm done, can't explain you better than that. Period. :fingers-crossed:
[Galaxy S III General] EdgaBimbam:
Nevermind... No point to argue if you still didnt understand after watching video....
[Galaxy S III General] btemtd:
But its not purely only for multitasking, More ram generally also helps apps load up faster games running smoother. Less jerks if too many tasks running at the same time and webpages and pictures all load up faster the more ram you have.

I bet you it will run better then the phone I am on now. And we will see soon enough.
[Galaxy S III General] demlasjr:
Yes, I understand that after opening 2 apps on the 1 gigs version, the browser closed itself because of lack of RAM (Android handled all that). When the guy reopened the browser (full reload), it took 1 second more than the 2 gigs version (which had that app in RAM, not completelly closed) and needed to reload a ****ing banner on one of the opened websites (disclaimer: no opened tabs has been closed, neither ram memory killed). All this is making you happier and feeling superior than me and my 1 gigs S3 (feeling better now :D ?)

P.S If everybody (around the world) would complain about the differences between S3 (dual core - 2 gigs/ quad core - 1 gigs / quad core - 2 gigs), I guess it will be the World War (S)III (imagine over 20 millions people killing between them). I'm just trying to ignore and not complain like a child as others :)
[Galaxy S III General] Galactus:
That 2gb will also help to keep the damn contacts/dialer/messaging in memory rather than taking 2-3 seconds to load because I want to browse the web, forcing them out of memory lol
[Galaxy S III General] mwatson:
and the dam re-draw will be gone..
[Galaxy S III General] demlasjr:
LOL

However, you need those damn contacs/dialer/messaging opening faster rather than taking 2-3 seconds to load just in case you need to call to emergency (where every seconds count). But for that it's easy: 112 or 911 :laugh:

Seriously now, the dialer is quicker than the Contacts, I agree, but I feel a bit of lag even if I have the contacts list or the dialer in memory and if you need to fast type a number (for example, if you want to buy something seen on tv and need to call fast - no, i'm not buying those things, it's just an example).

The dialer and messaging are using few ram, contacts is using more and it's slower because of the pics of profiles. I hope in JB will be better optimized.

I'm curious if that issue will be solved in the 2 gigs version. I doubt, as I think is a Touchwiz issue and not ram. Finger crossed
[Galaxy S III General] mwatson:
Samsung have already confirmed the re-draw is a low RAM issue http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=31758223#post31758223
[Galaxy S III General] bala_gamer:
You call that a conformation?

Hmm we already have a fix for that.. The intent here is not about fixing the problem but moaning about a missing gb of ram. ;)

《spilled from dragon jellybean rom》
[Galaxy S III General] snelz:
gotta be a bad decision to take out a 2 year contract on this... with the s4 just a few months away. just because it has lte. if buying outright and got the cash then why not i suppose.

personally i have 120meg wifi at home (UK) and when out and about if i was going to watch anything id copy to sd card before i go out so have no need for fast mobile data.

or alternatively ive hit a friends house and just use there wifi.

how many people think they might actually walk into a middle of a park, or a bench on the road, or sit in the car on a lunch break and want to stream media on a regular basis.

will be a small percentage who would might want to whilst at work ( who can actually get away with watching media at work) who would like to watch sky go or something similar. or constantly travelling and tether to a laptop (pretty sure carriers will be on to tethering lte to a laptop / pc like a shot)

regardless hate watching movies/sports games/tv shows on any phone/ tablet is just not big enough screen compared to 32, 40, 50 inch + LCD think a lot of people just want the best speeds regardless if they will use it for anything actually needed.

easy 90 percent will just have a a faster browsing experience by a few milliseconds lol. and be paying a good couple of hundred extra each year

although i am curious though as to what EE will charge for 4g and for what data caps.

equally bad decision to take 4g contract with any data cap imo has to be unlimited or nothing or just not worth it.

at the moment i pay £45 a month for 2 x SGS III, 1 x 400 mins 1 x 600 mins . both 1gb data and unl texts and got phones for free shortly after release.... admittedly have some orange loyalty discount applied. would no way jump to lte would never need the ectra speed.. h+ even 3g is fast enough for apps / browsing.

the 2gb ram is only very slightly faster in some scenarios with lte off..... with it on then i expect there to be even less difference

suprised by how many people live every minute inside there phones for the millisecond improvements to mean that much.

the odd redraw every now and then isnt gonna change your world if it wasnt there.... stop flicking through so many apps and straight to home screen every 10 seconds for it to consume all your time ;).

put the phone down for a while is a whole world out there!
[Galaxy S III General] demlasjr:
LOL, so true :laugh:

Not such a big issue and if I don't hear it from a Samsung rep I don't believe it. I don't think Samsung would released the S3 with those specs OR make such conformations if the issue was with the RAM. They rather add an extra ram, made a different touchwiz or lied about this situation.

Exactly ! However, not sure if I will get the S4 (probably I will get the S5, if doesn't have a 9" screen, of course). The intl. S3 is just perfect for the next 2 years (time of warranty).
[Galaxy S III General] Galactus:
By the time the dialer has loaded, the knife is already poked in my kidneys o_O lol
[Galaxy S III General] irzero:
I never run out of Ram so i dunno what your doing but its silly either way.
[Galaxy S III General] mingocr83:
Do you want more free RAM on your GS3 International, non LTE version?

Simple dudes, just disable the ripple effect on the lock screen options and then...BOOM...you have yourself 300MB of RAM free!
[Galaxy S III General] Galactus:
Didn't work on any rom I tried.
[Galaxy S III General] btemtd:
Me either. Did not work at all.
[Galaxy S III General] bala_gamer:
Did you guys tried disabling kiesexe memory fix? If not do try it.

《spilled from dragon jellybean rom》
[Galaxy S III General] sak500:
Care to elaborate mate?

BTW dont care about LTE or any other network since I dont use network data as it's exorbitant here and useless. I use wifi for anything related to net and hardly use FB to have any urge to keep checking when outside my house. But i do care about extra RAM so prob will trade/upgrade S3 with S4 next year.
[Galaxy S III General] demlasjr:
@sak500: bala_gamer is talking about this: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1812668

@bala_gamer: It's a nice suggestion, but some of us still want to use kies and/or doesn't have root access :)

@mingocr83: Doesn't work mate. Pura vida !
[Galaxy S III General] EdgaBimbam:
it was loaded fast because he had fast internet connection and what about loading with slow internet+website with a lot of flash+pictures?

Dude i'm not complaining and i own same s3 as you. Just stop saying that 1gb is same/better than 2gb ram.....I wont go for 2gb ram because im not so geek to change phone so often for me 1gb is enough. But stop stating that 2gb isnt owning 1gb ram.....

have a nice day
[Galaxy S III General] jgalvez21:
not like u can see the pentile unless u get close , weird RGB of note have is own color issues. i hope burning is fixed.
[Galaxy S III General] demlasjr:
Bingo ! What's better, 1 kg of apple or 2 kg of apple ? Off course, 2 kg are better. Every single additional apple counts, I agree 100%.

All I tried to say is.... 2 gigs in S3 makes it better and I hate too that Sammy did this to us as I would like to have 2 gigs too. However, the 1 gigs version is very good too and there are almost (only microscopical) issue with it. Meanwhile we have no issues with the 1 gigs, we shouldn't complain and buy the 2 gigs version. Instead selling the intl. S3 just to buy another S3 (of course, you need to sell it cheaper than in market and buy one more expensive than the one and market + shipping), you rather wait for S4 or S5. The 1 gigs version is doing it's job very well. There are plenty of 512 mb ram smartphones and working just fine. 1 gigs is the trending now, even iphone 5 have 1 gigs. Right now the differences between a 2 gigs and a 1 gigs S3 are very very small.

Having 2 gigs into a phone is the trend of 2013-2014 and I'm sure we will already have the new Samsung Galaxy those days ;)
[Galaxy S III General] bala_gamer:
Remove the permissions for kiesexe file in system/bin directory . It did gave me some more memory . This will also disable using kies.but who cares about kies ;)

《spilled from dragon jellybean rom》
[Galaxy S III General] sak500:
How about freezing it via TB?
[Galaxy S III General] bala_gamer:
the original thread is there somewhere in the dev section afaik. try freezing it, let me know the feedback :)
[Galaxy S III General] MattBooth:
I don't see why not. The framework will be very similar. It should only really be the kernel that's different, and one or two apps optimised for 4G.

For example, the Vertumus theme in my sig ought to work.
[Galaxy S III General] Galactus:
deleting kiesexe definitely free's ram for other apps to load in to memory. All I want now is for animations to be as smooth as on the GNexus, windows stutter all the time
[Galaxy S III General] slaphead20:
going to sit on the fence here and wait and see, do some maths, and see if financially an unlimited lte package could feasibly replace having normal phone contract + home broadband cost....now that does interest me as long as tethering is allowed then it might be a possible option for me, being a tight fisted git! :D
[Galaxy S III General] uv.mrcool:
are you on dli8 ??

after freezing kiesexe i am getting very smooth animations without forcing GPU rendering on dli8 :good:
[Galaxy S III General] btemtd:
the I9305 is definitley smoother and I cant wait to get the 32gb version within the next couple weeks I was playing with it at the shop today. All I can say is WOW beautiful smoothness even with the carrier apps and bloatware it still had 1.4gb free ram. I recon I could get it down to 1.1gb free ram with all my apps. That leaves just over 1Gb to load even more apps or heavy games, animations, heavly animated websites etcc.. This thing should never have one single jerk. And the titanium grey looked Classy YUM C U soooon :P..
[Galaxy S III General] Galactus:
Yeah that worked, thanks :good:
[Galaxy S III General] Madarox:
Quick question:Will this model be available everywhere ? like is it going to replace the original model ? Or it will be available for countries with LTE networks only ?
[Galaxy S III General] demlasjr:
As I heard, this model will be available in Germany (Vodafone) and Australia (as I heard, so not sure). Probably later will be available in countries like UK and the Scandinavian countries as they have LTE. Probably, there will be available on websites like Amazon.
[Galaxy S III General] Steve113:
Can someone please shed more light about the s3 LTE versions sold in Australia by Optus. Are they carrier specific or unlocked?

I.e. If we import one of those are we able to get rid of the bloatware from the carrier and flash it with an international Jellybean version of the GT-I9305?
[Galaxy S III General] Madarox:
I see...I don't quite like online purchasing so I guess I will stick with my I9300:p
[Galaxy S III General] btemtd:
For the public they are not unbranded yet but off course if you buy one on a plan you can always reinstall a blank rom and remove bloatware, Only Optus and Virgin have them now on contracts ONLY. In a week or so you will probably be able to go the the samsung store Sydney and buy direct for $900 or if you know the right people now you could get them lol. There is no company selling them outright yet. You have to wait to even think of importing unless you find someone that is selling one second hand and is willing to post it for you, which is a hard call. And there is Only 16GB available right now. You can get 32GB version in a couple weeks IF you know the right people, but in a month or so I think some shops might have it or it should be out and you would be able to buy them outright.

I am waiting for my friend to return from overseas on the 9th October.... he is my mobile phone guy, His job is repairs sales accessories etc.. he will get me my titanium 32gb I9305 :).. Cannot wait as I played with one in the store I loved the over all feel of the jellybean on that phone just felt SOso smoooth.But right now patience is the key I know for me even that is hard i am so tempted to just get the 16gb version, but I am telling myself to wait for my friend as I will get it much much cheaper off him and a 32gb version.
[Galaxy S III General] ygvuhb:
which lte band using in euro?
[Galaxy S III General] demlasjr:
Yup. Just enough for the next 2 years. Better keep the money for the S4 or S5 instead ;)
[Galaxy S III General] leftheodo:
I wouldn't trade the development section of my international GS3 for another gig of ram and lte. This version might sound nice but it won't have the variety of roms,kernels,themes etc that the non lte version has. I agree that Samsung should have included the 2gb of ram in the first place. :mad:
[Galaxy S III General] kevindd992002:
Why not? Or are you saying that it needs months to have the same development status to that of the non lte?
[Galaxy S III General] demlasjr:
With over 20 millions users, I guess the international version will have much more development than the LTE. Much more people have the intl than will have the lte :) I kinda agree with leftheodo
[Galaxy S III General] kevindd992002:
Now I understand :) Besides the difference would be so small and LTE is still very premature as well especially in our country.