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[Galaxy S III General] Journyman16:
Thanks to XDA, mine works better tyhan the day I bought it... *innocent look* :D

I guess it depends why one buys a phone - for those who attach an ego to it (I have the fastest/latest/biggest/coolest etc.) it may be a very big deal for Samsung to obsolete their phone in short order. There's even a subject for it, with lots of studies. It is called buyer remorse and the only known treatment is to stop browsing the categories of product you have just bought.

Or do better research perhaps - it was clear back in June that Samsung would be bringing out models with more RAM and internal memory as well as better chipsets. I waited until the 16GB version came down to a price I could afford (got mine in August for AUD $459) - while I waited I learned what I could and kept browsing the offerings for all companies to see if they would come out with anything to change my decision - none of them had the features of the S3 and my fallback position was to by a GNote like my wife has.

I remember buying a 386 PC just before the 486 was released and I felt upset for a bit about buying too early - till I saw the price of the new 486's. Then I was happy. *grins*

I can't justify $1000 for a phone, no matter how cute it is, and the 16GB S3 does more than any phone I have ever had AND it got me interested in Android.

Deep breaths OP, and just think, in another 6 months the S4 will be out and you will be upset about having paid out for the 32GB LTE S3.

Or you could sell your S3 and put the money towards buying the new wetdream version and keep doing it until they run out of new models...
[Galaxy S III General] x92:
Many people are saying technology move quickly, new phone come along...

But is S3 LTE a new phone? No, it's just a different variant with slightly better specs.

Why release LTE version now instead of concentrating on S4? Why don't put LTE on i9300 right from start? They have put LTE, 2GB Ram on Korean version of S3 from the start, why don't do the same for international i9300? All iPhone 5 model got LTE when most countries don't have LTE capability.

I seriously felt that samsung purposely do this just to get more sales and fame.

All what they are doing now will hurt the resale value of their current phones.

I'm not a person who like to get into game of owning the best smartphone. But if I want to get something, I will get the best (version/kind) out of it.

It's like I did advance booking of an air ticket. One week before boarding, I realised I got the economy class ticket and I had paid more for it. I actually can get first class at the same price but there's nothing I can do as airline don't provide refund. Both first class and economy class customers reach the same destination. The differences is that first class seat is double the size of economy class which is more comfortable. First class customers also served with free box of jelly bean once on board while economy class customers got to collect it after first class customers got their. If I'm able to choose again, I will definitely buy the first class ticket.
[Galaxy S III General] Infy_AsiX:
Its simple though. Its not worth it because developer support will be greater on the original. The 4G is attached on a separate chip not with the SoC which will kill battery and further in combination with the quad core. There's no battery upgrade, so the only worthy upgrade is the RAM.

Personally 4G is an expensive luxury I can do without as it didn't provide real use to me while being poorly integrated so far.
[Galaxy S III General] LJE:
Your analogy is a bit off...

You paid full price but was guaranteed a flight (home).

It's all about supply and demand.

Of course you could wait until 2 days before the flight and then hope to get a ticket a lot cheaper but there's a chance you will be staying in a hotel for a few nights until you can get home.

As for phone companies, it's all business. They SHOULDN'T give us everything in a phone that they've been working on for the last 14 months.

They need to give us upgraded phones without putting ALL their latest technologies in it, that way they keep bringing out better phones for us to buy, and we keep buying them allowing them to keep bringing out new phones.

Samsung aren't stupid. They bought out a great phone (a couple of phones) before the latest iPhone. Then during the release of the iPhone, they announce their latest phone and specs. They timed it well.

The alternative is to bring out a phone with everything you have....

A year later, squash it and stretch it out. Claim it's 2x faster, put in a failed map app. And sell it too the fans.
[Galaxy S III General] Swagtabulous:
I bought my S3 on the 1st of June from the Samsung retail store in Malaysia, only cost me S$830. Your S3 is... overpriced?
[Galaxy S III General] Andrewtst:
To OP, if you want forever phone Top 1 forever, go change phone every month.
[Galaxy S III General] KMino:
Just woke up read this thread and expected my phone to be obsolete.

Can still make calls here, email, surf the web. What went obsolete?

Supply and demand...

Why you think the iPhone 5 got only a 8MP camera? Not enough 12MP cams available.

Or we got only 1G of RAM? Probably because there wasn't enough and Samsung was busy shipping memory to Foxconn for the iCrap 5.

I bet the SGS 3 LTE Quad core 2G Ram was the original design. Until supply and demand issues hit them. ;) So many different models of the 9300 doesn't make sense. As it's cheaper to manufacture one model...
[Galaxy S III General] aseanity:
This is true.

This is Samsung clearly market tactic.

First introduce best phone on the market because at the time no 2gb ram phoneon the market, no competition so why they offer?

Now, LG , Xiao mi, I phone coming up.that is the reason to pack with better spec to boost their selling.
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
If you're surprised over the fact that Samsung spits out cellphones in this rate, why do you have a Samsung phone at all?
[Galaxy S III General] keizero:
Well, I think it's just a matter of perspective, really. I bought mine a couple months ago because I needed the phone to replace my two years old SGS I, not just because I wanted it. And personally I considered myself to be "think over and over before you buy" person.

So, realizing there'll be a newer, shinier, better, tech and gadget, sooner or later, I consciously chose SGS III as my companion for the next year or two. Not gonna regret it one bit. Besides, no LTE in my country (yet) :)

But seriously, I get you, man. There'll always be marketing strategy such as this.
[Galaxy S III General] disclaimernotice:
Are you saying that Samsung should only release crappy phones until the galaxy S4 is ready? That would be stupid. As consumers, we should be happy that there is a new 'best phone' for android every few months, instead of once a year like Apple. This benefits us because we can buy a new phone whenever we want and not wait for some overly hyped annual release.
[Galaxy S III General] got-petrol:
I think jellybean is finished for the i9300 has been delayed.. they have released the jellybean sorce code for the i9305 so if it's finished for that why not i9300
[Galaxy S III General] Szadzik:
And how may places actually have LTE? I see not reason to buy the newer version. NEither the RAM, nor LTE is going to make much difference to a really good phone already.
[Galaxy S III General] g3rm3n:
When Samsung designed the new generation of galaxy in this case S3, In first time they must decide about if this model would have LTE ( in all models ) or not , because this is not restyling and then they determine upgrade models plus with 1 gb more of ram and other minor updated
[Galaxy S III General] LBTaylor1984:
Personally I think the S3 is fine, LTE is in it's infancy and by the time upgrade time comes around it will be a worthwhile technology, sure the iPhone has it now, but if the reception is as patchy as F, then it's not really worth worrying about. The S3 is perfectly capable of running JB, and tbh prior to it's announcement there wasn't alot wrong with ICS.

What I do object to was the colours, I didn't want White as it's Apples colour and Blue, blue? not my thing at all however I got it anyways, then they mentioned black and grey and I wasn't impressed two neutral colours I would have loved.... However where I live phone contracts are like 24 months minimum 18 months. So I'm stuck with Blue for 2 years. I try not to think about it as I get urges to sell it.

Anyways i'm watching HTC closely and well, Windows 8 aswell. The future could be very interesting.
[Galaxy S III General] robogo1982:
In my opinion, 3G is fast enough for me, 1 GB of RAM as well... I don't need the LTE battery hog at all :)
[Galaxy S III General] Ariozo:
Been old for myself for some time, but not much out there to get till now. From next week to December a few fun toys will come out tho. :)

Ip5, note2, lumia 920,lg G..

So myself will be fine till January at least..

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[Galaxy S III General] Geordie Lad:
If they release JB on i9305 first then they can get fools who already have i9300 to buy it just because some people are sadly so desperate to have the latest thing they won't wait a few weeks for the i9300 to be upgraded.

And Samsung knows a lot of people are like that so obviously they'll cash in on it.
[Galaxy S III General] da.trute:
Do we not feel the OP has had enough of a bashing?, once bitten twice shy and all that, please close the thread.
[Galaxy S III General] jbluzb:
Technology is really fast evolving. If you want to have the best benchmarks for bragging rights, you can change phones every two months. When choosing a phone, always assess your needs, requirements and not based purely on benchmark results.
[Galaxy S III General] ghampton10:
I agree to an extent. it is annoying. People are saying dont complain, its because technology moves so fast.. not in this case though. lte and ram have been around for a while. they just chose not to release them in the i9300. good business ploy to get new users after the initial buzz has worn off or even capture some people tossing up whether the iphone 5 is worth it.

I bought an s3 2 months ago and the lte 2gb ram version comes out here tomorrow i believe. A little annoying, but im happy with what i have still.
[Galaxy S III General] 0semaj0:
for ****s sake...OP this is the art of business...surely if you can afford a SGS3, you surely should have the maturity and common knowledge to understand the depreciation value of technology...you're such a minge!
[Galaxy S III General] da.trute:
4g in the UK

If this new version is going to have 4g capability is might be in some way connected to the UK are moving to 4g earlier than expected to prevent the Iphone5 having all the fun?
[Galaxy S III General] the2rrell:
i do believe they had the 2gig LTE version ready to go. but had the original version as well......
[Galaxy S III General] Smartie36:
Sorry to tell you but I don't consider my s3 to be obsolete, it does everything I need it to do and alot more considering there's lots of features I've not even used yet!
[Galaxy S III General] got-petrol:
There's nothing any body can do just enjoy you phone nobody else now's it's lacking a gig of ram
[Galaxy S III General] the2rrell:
Im going to show Samsung my Dissapointment.......Im going to buy the NOTE2

Haaaaa take that Sammy!!!!
[Galaxy S III General] :
SGSIII is still an awesome and powerful device so I don't really care about the Note 2 or the SIII LTE! :D
[Galaxy S III General] Geordie Lad:
I don't know why people whine on about lack of ram because every other Android I've used you got to reboot every few days to keep the things running fast. But I've never used a phone that uses it's ram better than S3 and almost never need to reboot unless I did something to f**k it up.
[Galaxy S III General] JiiNDER:
Aside from all this OP bashing. All of you with a i9300, are you going to get the i9305 or stick with what you have?
[Galaxy S III General] Nosterius:
I'll stick with my I9300 at least 1 year. Here in Italy LTE it's just in beta testing with some operators and at the moment I really don't have problems of ram that could make me think to buy the new toy from Samsung :o Usually I skip 1 or 2 generation of smartphone...when I'll feel the gap between my s3 and the newcomers than I'll buy one of them.But this isn't absolutely the case :thumbup:

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[Galaxy S III General] Galactus:
Going to wait until a device based on cortex A15 comes out and gets reviewed.
[Galaxy S III General] alankstiyo:
my phone is not obsolete, it's still running smoothly, and it has better specs than most of the phones around there.

also, dude really? would you say the SGS3 US varianr is obsolete against the i9300 cause of the specs??? Samsung and any company makes a difference between markets and they have to upgrade a phone as the time passes, that's just normal.

if you want to QQ about having an obsolote thing go to the PC world, any video card gets old in just days but ppl kee them for a while since it does a lot of good things
[Galaxy S III General] delsus:
Sticking with my I9300 until my contract runs out in 2 years, when the whole country is covered by LTE, the newest Galaxy which will be LTE is out and all the LTE bugs have been squashed.
[Galaxy S III General] Danmikee:
The phone is still amazingly fast and I've only had minequality less than a month my ram rarly goes past that 500mb marker I had a 16gbp memory card plus the **** that come on the phone and 4g lte yeah there ain't Many data plans out that won't run out by the second week of having it because the lte will just stream data like wifi well a lie there but almost as quick you won't even realise how much data you use until data cut off lol the blue I gother is lovely I hated Samsung but I think that they are doing themselves proud besides the s3 lte will be obsolete in a matter if few months

Sent from my mind through my device
[Galaxy S III General] MasterThiefGarrett:
Obsolete no freaking way!!

Although I probably WILL get the S4 whenever that comes out ;)

Man I've been in iPhone too long (2 years after the Galaxy S i9000) and I'm SOOOOOOO glad to be back on Android :D :good:
[Galaxy S III General] Geordie Lad:
After being with Apple for so long it's gonna take a while to get your IQ back up to normal levels because owning an iPhone is like flicking the off switch in your brain.
[Galaxy S III General] yo_7:
In my conuntry (chile) and in olmost all other countries is the best phone you can buy (we dont have SGN2 or GT-i9305 yet)
[Galaxy S III General] delsus:
We don't have them in UK yet but they are round the corner.
[Galaxy S III General] AkodoToturi:
the only thing im not happy with my i9300 is my zagg shield. and cant seem to find a perfect casing for my lifestyle/taste.

ohh and seeing this made me unhappy :(

I envy them on their creativity.

And... you said it yourself, its a market strategy. You bought it? You dont like it? Sell it, and buy a i9305.
[Galaxy S III General] disclaimernotice:
Another problem with the OP's logic is this:

I mean, the Galaxy Note 2 has better specs than the S3, but I didn't see anyone whining about the S3 being obsolete due to that. If the note 2 had been called the S3+, then I'm sure people like the OP would be complaining all day.

If the S3 LTE had been given a different name, like the Galaxy X or whatever, then he probably wouldn't have minded. But just because it is still called the S3, it suddenly makes the original S3 obsolete.
[Galaxy S III General] darl722:
So far i'm more than satisfied so whats the big deal? If you want, you can sell your phone and buy the latest one: do it each time a new and better phone comes out. No more whining.
[Galaxy S III General] disclaimernotice:
In fact, Samsung's release of the S3 LTE is a good thing, because that means that they'll have to include more than just ram upgrades in next year's Galaxy S4.
[Galaxy S III General] razorjumper:
And your point is?
[Galaxy S III General] Smartphoner:
Just sit back and enjoy!

It's not the end of the world when u recognize that ur smartphone became old fashioned, technology moves so fast, and we have to get along with it.

I don't find it annoying, on the contrary, getting a new phone and clouding ur stuff in everytime is always orgasmic and joyful, so y don't u make it a frequent habit, although expensive.

Always consider that there's no gain without pain!!
[Galaxy S III General] jpitch2415:
I've had lte and 2gb ram with the att version and switched back over to the i9300 in my opinion the 2 GB wasn't even noticeable
[Galaxy S III General] Shudder123:
until LTE becomes the default, i'm not gonna upgrade the i9300. i just got it 4 months ago and have another year and 8 months to go on the contract. probably by that time all the phones out will be on LTE and the galaxy s3 will be a dinosaur :laugh:
[Galaxy S III General] lukesky:
Wow my IQ just dropped a few points reading OP's post.. Congrats man, I'd love to read more of your retarded whinging...
[Galaxy S III General] 0semaj0:
doubt the OP bashers would...bash the OP then go and buy the LTE variant lol. unless such OP bashers are detrimental ****'wits influenced by their hypocritical logic...

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Im out of my 8 XDA Forum "thanks" today...but just wanted to say..."thanks" (will thank you tomorrow)...
[Galaxy S III General] ehredman:
gs3

What RAM does the current I9300 have? I thought it was 2GB?
[Galaxy S III General] jbluzb:
1gb the us version has 2gb
[Galaxy S III General] Tomatoes8:
The iphone 5 just beat the Dual Core variant of the GS3 in the speed test on pocket now. Which isn't too surprising. What was funny though is when the iphone displayed letter boxed Youtube videos and when he took forever to close all the apps on the iphone 5.
[Galaxy S III General] Mafioso:
[troll]

Atleast if I would had bought the iphone 5, I would have the latest and greatest phone for 1 year... boo Samsung

[/troll]
[Galaxy S III General] Potato tomato:
You will use just as much data as normal using LTE. The difference is the speed. Perhaps you would download more if you had a quicker speed as in you might try and download more films. But other than increased demand.. You'd still use the same amount.
[Galaxy S III General] Arsaw:
No, actually you would have the latest and greatest phone for rest of your life if you buy iphone5 :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S III General] Mafioso:
lol, no dude, iphone 5s/6 will launch after a yr :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S III General] Arsaw:
Doesn't matter because obviously iphone will still looks exactly the same for many many years to come.
[Galaxy S III General] clouds5:
That was to be expected... No worries though your s3 will continue to work and be awesome. Don't ever buy a phone because it's new though. Buy phones because they offer all the features that you need.
[Galaxy S III General] Mafioso:
if people who loved iphone started caring about its looks/features they would have shifted to sammy a long time back already...its all about the number or the S (@ss) moniker at the end :laugh:
[Galaxy S III General] disclaimernotice:
Very true. Just like how the OP is complaining about this new S3 just because it's now the S3 LTE edition.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Mato7:
Hello,

Yesterday I rooted my samsung galaxy sl i9003. Today I update it to jelly bean and after that I did the factory reset. When I tuned the phone on it cannot tunr on properly. It is loading OS or jelly bean and nothing it is loading and loading...

Please help.

Thanks.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] camf3xu:
what does the new update entail? and what would i have to do to get it? or is it being included in the roms? sorry...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mustbepbs:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1889063

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1888595

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1886249

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1889765

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1888817

Just in a few seconds. Please use search next time.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] rlatjs17:
A wild OTA update thread has appeared. again... Delete I choose you! Use search attack! "Its super effective"
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] camf3xu:
sorry i dont check the fourms every day or even regularly. i looked but couldnt find an existing thread, and search brought up nothing but old topics..
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Zalithian:
Oh... really?

I can tell you have searched very thoroughly before posting.
[HTC EVO 3D] tammyjustin:
So I'm s-off wire trick, jbear hboot 1.5 I believe?, I'm wondering should I update to the lates radios firmware hboot etc....or am I already not sure, what are the benefits? I'm seeing a lot of roms requiring updated stuff

Thanks you guys are great

I just read something about jbear 1.58? Mine says jbear1.5 I thought after the wire trick it flashed 1.58 or is there in updated one
[HTC EVO 3D] coal686:
I personally am running the latest firmware and radios since as you said, many roms are calling for them. I used the one from Freeza without the hboot: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=26563118

I would also downgrade to hboot1.4 since all ROMs boot on it except for those running the newest stock kernel (which most aren't by default).

Imagika FTW... with Tapatalk 2
[HTC EVO 3D] tammyjustin:
Thanks man
[HTC EVO 3D] tammyjustin:
As far as the hboot do u have a link as well? And I just rename it put on ad card and get to bootloader?
[HTC EVO 3D] coal686:
Ramjet posted them all here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=30014044

The rest of the thread has good info about the different hboot versions that mpgrimm wrote, so you may want to red it.

Oh, and yes, rename to PG86IMG.zip, and boot into bootloader. This holds for both the hboot and freeza's firmware zip.

Imagika FTW... with Tapatalk 2
[HTC EVO 3D] tammyjustin:
Thanks just one more thing, flashing a new hboot won't turn my s-off to on will it?

I just want to be safe I don't want s-off or have to unlock again
[HTC EVO 3D] coal686:
You will keep s-off. The bootloader may say Locked, but that's irrelevant since still being s-off is what's important. You don't need to unlock.

Imagika FTW... with Tapatalk 2
[HTC EVO 3D] tammyjustin:
Thanks man, done bothering ya
[HTC EVO 3D] coal686:
Not bothering me. You actually give Thanks for helping so it's a refreshing change from most. :thumbup:

Imagika FTW... with Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] james_lpool:
I tried this card before and the unit didnt seem to find it, it just showed at the bottom saying can be removed, but when i went to storage it wasn't there.

i put the card in my laptop and used guiformat to format it as fat32 but it shows as 29gb and not 64. the packaging says 64gb, am i missing something or do i have a wrong card in my packaging?

james
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] junrider:
Look at the card to see if its a 32gb or 64gb. Use a laptop/pc and reformat it using exfat and see how much memory is available. I had that same problem when I I inserted in the

note, I did use EaseUS Partition Master to format to FAT32 and worked fine. Then I manually updated my firmware on the note N8013 and I was able to format through the note and back to exFAT.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] james_lpool:
It said 64gb on the card and the packaging, i have sent it back to amazon for an exchange, i had also formatted the card with guiformat as fat32 and it still showed as 29gb free. even after formatting it as fat32 my note 10.1 still wouldn't see it
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] junrider:
Have you tried formatting fat32 using a different software such as the one I mentioned on my previous post? What 10.1 note do you own and it's build number?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] james_lpool:
i own the n8010
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] junrider:
Im not familiar on which is the latest update on the N8010, but you should post your build and maybe someone can help if it needs an update or do a search here on the forum. The only thing I can help with is eliminating if your sdcard is defective, but since you already returned its hard test it now.