[Galaxy S III General] Hujbalo:
Still not 100% satisfied with this thing. Get occasional overheating and lag spikes at sporadic intervals. It's been about three weeks with this thing. Up and down impressions. Mostly down.

After owning this thing for about a month and doing some heavy tweaking I have to conclude the overall experience is extremely bi-polar and the net result is really inferior to my 'user case' in comparison to the consistent experience I had with iOS - especially a jail broken iOS device. That just is pure bliss.

This device is great but in my user case scenarios it just doesn't cut it. It may not apply to you, but this is my experience:

Let's do some quick pros and cons

Pros:

-Flexible os, can make it look and feel like you want it to.

-App integration

-Awesome swift key 3rd party keyboard and other apps

-Great routing and built in gps.

-great beautiful large screen deep blacks - smooth to touch and thin light

-direct call smart stay

-expendable storage and removable battery

-a good multitasking interface

-flexible UI allows you to replace core apps if they don't suit you (ie exdialer and go sms to replace sms app, nova launcher so on)

Cons:

-lag spikes

-poor multitasking due to lack of ram. Requires micro managing which is ****.

-gets hot often

-inconsistent performance (sometimes smooth & blazingly fast, other times unresponsive,locks up and requires a reboot)

-occasional crashing

-out of the box was slow had to root to make it responsive after trying a bunch of different roms

-bloat ware

-have to tweak it for weeks before getting it to a usable semi-reliable state.

-fact I had to download 3rd party apps to replace essential ones like contacts and the dialer is sad. Why do the stock ones launch so slow?

-sync music and videos not straight forward

iOS:

Pros

-Reliable

-Quick and Smooth

-Consistent UI throughout OS

-Great memory use and quasimultitasking that doesn't need micro management

-Rock solid stability. Can go without a restart for weeks.

-beautiful design

Cons:

Stale OS

Maps app is equally stale and doesn't do bus routes which is essential

Gps is not reliable and third party apps are expensive 50 dollars plus.

No app integration and sharing options is sad

No widgets

No removable storage and battery

Fairly sterile user experience.

My pick overall?

Overall: I wouldn't use android GS3 if you do a lot of business, multitasking and need a phone to work 100 percent.

I am a heavy phone user working in fashion, entertainment. I'm constantly taking photos, recording videos switching to mail, doing on the fly research and depending on gps to get to my next clients address. The phone struggles to juggle these things if I forget to clear the memory. It just can't handle multitasking well enough. It locks up heats up and dies unless I micro manage this thing.

If this is just for Facebook and sharing stuff socially it's a good pick. In my case I need a rock solid stable device that just works. This doesn't do it for me. It almost does but android at least in the case of the galaxy s3 isn't quite there yet. The s4 maybe? For now, iOS is still superior for my user case.

I'm going to pawn this 3 month old GS3 and am using my iPhone 4 again as it seriously does the job. Maybe it doesn't do stuff withn as much swag but at least it isn't embarrassing me throughout the day.

Sorry for my long rant. I do believe with more ram this thing might do the trick but the experience had made me happy and frustrated like no other consumer device has ever done in my life.

It's funny my process of owning this device had made me an android fan and then do the opposite so many times. Just look at my posts! I love how android allows me to do what I want and I want a give it another chance - just not now.

I will use my iPhone 4 till the next gen of android devices come out and maybe ill give android a second chance. Until then thanks!