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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] caffeinepills:
I have noticed this as well. I have started seeing them more often.

It's odd, when the iPhone 5 was released, I saw them everywhere as well as people bragging about it. (At work) Now I have started to see more 3's. Also have had a few friends switch back to Android after the 4S as they didn't really see any benefit to the iPhone 5.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] james0tempe:
iTunes is #1 on the list of reasons I have moved away from Apple products. It is the reason I retired my Macbook Pro and didn't replace it with another Mac. It is no small part of the reason I switched to Verizon from AT&T, and the reason I now have a Samsung phone. The concept of "wishing FOR iTunes" is foreign to me.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] PsiPhiDan:
+1

iTunes sucks! I use WinAmp for my music.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] kench33:
What is your reason for iTunes being bad?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] andrewk7750:
Well for me itunes has been just slow and unresponsive, but that was when i was an apple fanboy.. I don't know how it is now but i doubt it's gotten any better :p
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] malo1m:
I think its funny all of these iphone people I know have all switched to the s3. Some love it...but I notice the older gen are not getting it. One quick tutorial and they love it. So far I have witnessed 7 converts with one wanting to go back abd try the i5.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] JoJo2211:
I absolutely love the latest iPhone (I don't care which it may be). For example on launch day of iPhone 5 I stayed up until midnight to purchase not 1, not 2, but 5 iPhone 5's... you know why? Not because I'm a fanboy but because of the RESALE value of the iPhone. I ordered each for $434 (64GB AT&T model these sell for more) for a total of $2130. Guess what I did the same night? You guessed it, I put them all on eBay for $1300 each. :) I put a buy-it-now on it for 10 days because I knew the iPhones sell out with in 3 or 4 days from from its launch so 10 days would be perfect for those fanboys DYING to get their hands on the 'latest' iPhone and would WILLINGLY pay an arm & a leg to get one. So I then went to bed and and heard cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching, and cha-ching, I woke up and saw all 5 of them were sold & paid for. I sold 2 of them to some international buyers (with US addresses of course.. if you thinking its not safe, you are wrong) and the other 3 were US buyers. The next day I shipped out all out and I had a total of $6100 (after final value fees, paypal fees, and shipping fees) and change in my pocket (well in my paypal account). I then simply bought 5 unlocked GSM Galaxy S III's for a total of $2900 ($580*2).. WITHOUT the fear of the phones having 0 US warranty. :) All are working great so far despite the "sudden death issue". But even if it occurs, I'll simply buy another one because I still have $3200 from the sale :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] PsiPhiDan:
Brilliant! You make me want to do the same next year, ha ha.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ganGeee:
leggo samsung s3 ftw
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] kiddoc89:
I'm loving my S3 and spent alot of time comparing it to the iphone 5 before deciding to go with (had the same BB for 4 yrs waiting for a decent phone to come out).

I don't see as many S3's as iphones but I do see more android phones thatn iphones by a large margin. There are so many to choose from and many of them are really good phones as well. I can not recall where I read it but I believe that Android phones in general have become the #1 world phone.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] sRDennyCrane:
God bless ya. I love capitalism.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] randomvar:
It's time for people to wake up... For them to finally realize that the iPhone isn't the sun...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] b4silver:
We buy shiny products and sells them for ridiculous prices to the fan boys. Merica!

My Nexus 10 is better than your tablet. Hah.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] sRDennyCrane:
Try more fiber in your diet.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] malo1m:
Did you have to get a line for each phone? I also thought the unlocked gsm s3 was in the 800.00 price range...am I wrong.

Otherwise that is one sweet transaction! I am thinking once our contract is up in a year we are going monthly...and buying our phomes.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] TXI Kaze:
While I understand the resale value, I have to call you out on the fact that you haven't been able to purchase more than two iPhones at once until December 5th.

That being said, yes, it's definitely become the "it" phone. I see GS3's everywhere I go lol
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] tghockey07:
That's why I got it. It was a rushed preorder decision, that's for sure.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] romyg:
Yea. It's awesome to have people stop and ask if that's an SGS3!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] droidstyle:
the s3 was the "it" phone, now "its" the note 2.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] TXI Kaze:
The s3 has the note 2 beat by about 14 million in sales lol
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] kench33:
S3 has been out longer. Note 2 can catch up to the s3s sales
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] aptisme:
My wife and two teen daughters are iPhone users, while I use the S3. My teen daughters now see my phone as the "it" phone. They say things like "how did u do that", and (with a hint of anger) "I'm sorry my phone is not advanced as yours dad!", where as my non-tech savvy wife loves the simplicity of her iPhone. She says stuff like "I don't need all that crap on my phone". But I must say, she was pretty jealous when I put the newest SynergyRom with multiwindow on my S3.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] dirtfoot:
I have the s3, bought one for my girlfriend, talked an iphone user to switch to it. And he loves it. And about 3 other friends have it. If I had the money I would switch to the note 2, but I have yet to even see one in public use.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] tu3218:
Yeah this is definitely not true. While the note 2 is an amazing piece of hardware, its not the sgs3. Mainly because the sgs3 has been around longer, has had more advertisement for longer, and a phone size that can comfortable for all.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] sRDennyCrane:
I have a Nexus 7... no need for a Note. My SIII is a great phone, but honestly? If my Razr Maxx hadn't lost Flash video, I'd still be rocking that.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] TVThemeGuy:
I just saw an ad for Priceline today in which the Priceline Negotiator (William Shatner) has a secret daughter. The point of the ad is that Priceline now has an app... and the phone used is a Samsung Galaxy S3 (in white)! :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDSnjfxu_Ig
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] xdsho:
I still see iphones more common than any other device, but I have seen a ton of S3s in the last month!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Crimsonshadow774:
I've personally seen a lot more S3's than iPhone 5's. Still more 4's and 4s' out there though.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] JFrawls:
I still see hoards of iPhones out there. But recently at work three co-workers have gotten the GSIII, one Red and 2 Blue. One person even being in his 60's lol

The only annoying part about more people having the phone is they constantly as me how to do things on it.:eek:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] DroidBabe:
I see a ton of iphones everywhere. But I also see a lot of gs3. I think its the first android phone that I see a lot of. I have yet to see a gn2
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Gibscreen:
I was waiting for a table at a restaurant. Saw a group of 6 teenagers. 5 had iphones and the last one had a GS3. Oh the humanity!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] :
I live in Grand Rapids, and most of people here use iPhone. But most of the people here are old. Really old.

I went to Miami few days ago, and every other phone was an S3, and I was happy to see that.

I love it when I show multiwindow view to my iSheep friends, and they are like WOWWWW is this only for Samsung? and I'm like YEAHHH *like a boss*
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] moparfreak426:
I see iPhones everywhere all the time... Most androids i see are galaxy s3s thoygh

Sent from an Apple killing JellyBean
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] andybfmv96:
Been seeing diehard iPhone fanboys swapping to the s3. My friend swapped. I've seen a few others in school have the phone. A bunch of people in malls. And everyone I talk to that sees my phone knows exactly what phone i have.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] xdreaper15:
I have the luxury of working at a certain electronics-'shack' and sell a great deal of phones. If a user comes in with/looking for an apple product I am obliged to let them contiue to be naive. BUT all the others I try my best to sell the GS3. When I show them how mine is rooted and custom ROMd they usually are immediately interested and hooked. IFK how many times I've used it as a selling point.

And NO I don't just sell them the phone for commission, I think I'm doing the people a service by leading them towards the Holy Grail that is our phone.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] JoJo2211:
I had all 5 lines due for upgrade. So as long as you're eligible for an upgrade you can go ahead and order. The S3 WAS around $700 on ebay when it first came out in late may. But I didn't buy mine until October, by that time you could get the S3 brand new from ebay for under $600.

---------- Post added at 10:51 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:49 PM ----------

Actually I pre-ordered FIVE iPhone 5's on October 14th at midnight... on the same account. I had all 5 lines due for an upgrade. I last did this 2 years ago with the iPhone 4.

---------- Post added at 10:59 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:51 PM ----------

Another thing I want to mention is not only did I make a profit of $3200 from teh sale of iPhone 5's but I also was able to CANCEL data on the phones and get data for dumbphones so that saved me $30*5 - $10*5= $100 on my monthly bill. I get HSPA+ for the data and thats about 6Mbps down which is faster than most peoples wifi! And did I mention the data is UNLIMITED? When I'm out and about, I can watch HD youtube videos for however long I want without worrying about GOING OVER MY data limit.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] CB620:
Yeah I noticed it. Right now you only see the i phone or the Galaxy. It's starting to become neck and neck but I'm sure the i phone is still ahead in some aspects. I'm just glad people are starting to catch on to android and starting to realize it's better than the i phone in many ways.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I717
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] wioneo:
Honestly that was a big part of why I got the phone. Being popular means more attention from devs, and not having to deal with roms from years ago like with my D2.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jumpedapplesship:
I recently switched to the S3 from an iPhone 5 last week.

I am starting to like the S3 more and more as I get more comfortable navigating around the OS.

I really am enjoying the screen size vs. the iPhone 5.

I am not sure if it is because Android is more transparent than IOS with what each app is allowed to do when you download it, but it seems some of the permissions are pretty invasive for a lot of the apps.

The other frustrating part is all the extras installed on the phone.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] buhohitr:
With 2gb of ram, you have a choice to keep them plus download a tons more or just disable them, so you don't see them anymore..pretty easy for an android phone huh? Another option is if you like root, just use Odin and with a few clicks you have a pure stock with root and from here on you're god...uninstall any system apps you like or just freeze them with Titanium backup and re enable as you like...just too many options with Andorid!!!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] fbcalidude:
Definitely the s3 is the it phone right now. I I had to decide between I phone 5 or the s3 and im loving my s3
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Killer Doc:
I've been convincing a lot of my coworkers to get the GS3 over the iPhone. So far everyone is loving theirs and I have to agree the GS3 is the it phone.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jayochs:
anyone else notice the gs3 is becoming that stock smartphone in commercials and ads now? no longer the iPhone. The new priceline commercial has the gs3 with the girl from big bang theory... and there's another commercial with a blue gs3..can't remember.. obviously Samsung is blacked out on the top lol but yeah, that's a HUGE shift since every stock phone in ads was always the ugly iphone.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] sRDennyCrane:
...blacked out on the top?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] kench33:
They are removing the Samsung lettering on the top of the phone in commercials
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] sRDennyCrane:
Gotcha.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mikec86:
Turbo Tax app commercial!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] TXI Kaze:
This. Even if the letters are blacked out, people will see the phone in store and be like "oooh, that was the cool phone I saw! I want it!"
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] aescbrya:
Oh yeah...everyone wants a piece of this...I bet galaxy s4 will be something incredible
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] sRDennyCrane:
The S IV will be evolutionary, not revolutionary. I'd expect a 1080p screen, faster processors, and a little thinner... then just minor upgrades to all else.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] TXI Kaze:
Re: Have you noticed S3 as the "it" phone now?Have you noticed S3 as the "it" phone n

Depends if they implement the new flexible displays with the new "plastic" instead of glass.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Danno131313:
The S3 is a fantastic phone. Somehow, my friend still set out to buy an iPhone 5 after every attempt to convince him otherwise...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] sRDennyCrane:
They'll probably just use Gorilla Glass 3.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] croppz:
Hopefully they dont use the 8 core. Theres absolutely no need for it right now.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] moparfreak426:
There may be no need... But the bragging rights and dang if the full potential of that thing was unlocked we'd be running nasa with our phones

Sent from an Apple killing JellyBean
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] JoJo2211:
Samsung makes their own chips, therefore they can afford to put any number of cores they want on their phones. I feel this is also one of the reason why Samsung will not die as fast as Nokia, RIM, (Apple*) did.

*They're still doing well but Samsung has stole so many customers from them that they will soon become extinct (unless of course they make drastic changes to that flat & boring iOS).
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Addiso:
If I were apple, I'd fire Tim cook, he's the main reason. Just saying.. sorry for the off topic lol
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] funnyperson1:
If you read the details, it isn't really an eight core chip. Only four cores are active at once. You have four powerful cores and four low-power cores. The idea is that you only use the A15 cores when you need them for games or heavy processing.

This is a smart idea and could help this chip become more efficient than current quad and dual core processors.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] suptt14:
Just a testament to how awesome the S3 is! Getting converts left and right within my group of friends, and I love it
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Libertarian73:
The GalaxyS3 is definately making a show on television, and I see them out in the wild all the time here over the last 3-4 months. The size, the clarity of the display, the choice of customer ROMs, it's too good to not be popular.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] sRDennyCrane:
Funny, my S III has a Qualcomm CPU in it...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Durhammer:
I had a Verizon upgrade in December 2012 and was really torn between the Droid Razr Maxx HD and the DNA. Ultimately it came down to the fact that the S3 has a huge developer community, replaceable battery and storage, and a slim form factor. The only thing I wasn't huge on was the cheap feel of the back, but a Ringke case made this black slab a beautiful thing to behold. Sometimes the battery isn't what I'd hope, but the trade off for the (more expensive) Razr Maxx would be a poor camera, which was not worth it. I like this thing a lot, even though it's older than what I almost bought instead.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] zerocool79346:
Because you want LTE. I forgot the US is the only market Samsung is active in right?? I mean because there's no way the other 95% of the world counts is there?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Loading...:
My experience is really strange when it comes down to OS breakdown. 90% of my entire family and relatives use android but the majority of my friends have an idevice. All of the android smartphones I had in the past, my friends would always call it a 'droid' for some ignorant reason even after I kept correcting them. I was OCD about this and kept getting pissed off when they called my phone a droid. Anyways, since I got the S3 they started to refer to it by its name and always wanted to play with it because of its massive screen size compared to the iphone. I even got some of them to use their upgrade to the S3 and they love it. Its amazing what the S3 and samsung in general has done to the Android community.

Side note: I did get my mom an iphone5 earlier last month because it is her first smartphone (+ the lightning cable really allows the phone to charges insanely fast) and it will serve as a learning devices until her next upgrade. I had a iphone 3G as my first smartphone device and i loved it, then i discovered android...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] sRDennyCrane:
Hello and welcome to the Verizon Galaxy S III forum. I suppose your angst would be a little better placed in a Samsung forum for a phone that doesn't have a Qualcomm CPU.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] zerocool79346:
Haha i mostly like using sarcasm to get across points. It offends a lot, but most laugh when they realize.

Besides this has all been a moot point since the announcement of the Galaxy Note 2 nearly 4 months ago.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] sRDennyCrane:
I'll keep that in mind if I ever want to buy a phablet.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jessicahll:
Mmy husband has an iPhone and asked me recently why I love the phone when I'm constantly changing things. I told him that's exactly WHY I like it.

A PP said not everyone likes to "****" around with their phone and I can tell you that I know plenty of Android users who haven't rooted or flashed anything. They're completely stock and have no issues.

The fact of the matter is Android has a larger market share worldwide. It's only really in the US that Apple has such a significant foothold. I was at an educational conference and talking about technology with the CEO of a company that allows teachers to upload videos and podcasts for flipping their class. He said that even though everyone is pushing for iPads in class, an Android tablet is a better way to go because of its more open ecosystem.

While I can see the benefit of having an iPhone -- no learning curve when you upgrade -- I would get soooooo bored.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] uabtodd:
I bought my daughters nexus 7's for christmas and took them out to get them set up and get some of their favorite games installed and load some of our videos on that they like to watch on my phone. I noticed that the stock video player on the nexus 7 doesn't play many different video formats, basically only mp4 files. The stock touchwiz video player on my galaxy s3 has played every file I have thrown at it with no stuttering and no problems. I was wondering if there was a way to get the video player from my phone onto the nexus 7, would it be possible to use titanium backup to back the video player up and just install the apk on the nexus 7s, or is it more tied into the touchwiz ui than just the video player apk? I know I can use mx player, or another one from the play store, but honestly, I have never found one that outperforms the stock galaxy s3 video player.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] marcodif:
Yes! Thank you!

I agree 1000% percent. I have some free MKV files that came with purchased movies. I was able to copy them to my Galaxy S3, as well as AVI's, and it played them flawlessly, not conversion, just like I would play these on my Windows PC or Playstation. I too dont want to install some app from the market and additional codecs to try and get my MKVs to play. But I did try, and it doesnt work. This tells me there's something in the Samsung S3 VideoPlayer app that can play these videos, and that means it should easily be able to run within Nexus 7. I too am trying to find the valid VideoPlayer.apk to try and install it on my Nexus 7. Have you tried that yet? Let me know if you do get it to work. I really love my Nexus, but a few things irk me. No support for Adobe Flash, the video camera app is set to 480p but found posts where you can turn on the ability for 720p, and this, playing MKV and AVI files.
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] clewer:
Hi!

I have a big problem that was caused by my own stupidity. I tried updating my phone to CM9, but I didn't install the nAa kernel first. What I have now is a phone that is completely useless. I can't enter CMW recovery, the phone doesn't stay in flashmode, it does enter, but then it just proceeds to the bootscreen with the Sony Ericsson logo. From there, I can't enter recovery, and I can't even turn off the damn thing.

So basically I can't recover my previous firmware, I can't reflash the phone, I can't do anything! Please, help!

Thanks in advance!

Clewer
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] clewer:
Well, I tried a gazillion times, and I was finally able to enter SEUS, and start updating, I'll update you guys on the progress!
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] Lambo6:
It should work with SEUS or the repair option in pc companion. :p good luck
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] shelooga:
This is a stock DE-Odex ROM de-bloated, with some AOSP themeing.

Android-looking as possible while keeping the TouchWiz features working.

I call it Jerky Bean for many reasons

Thanks to imnuts for the Stock rooted package from which this derived from http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2035404

Thanks to Adamoutler for... well... everything he did so amazingly quick http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2043636

Thanks to AndreiLux for the kernel and allowing me to use it in this found here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2048013

Thanks to hairdewx for the all apps in multiwindow http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2028535

Thanks to dsixda for the kitchen making this fairly easy http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=633246

Thanks to forever loco for icons used in this theme including parts of the status bar. Tons of icons from years of themes so if I missed you let me know

Thanks to monstaX for his tutorial http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1809649

I try to keep the system as functional as possible but remove as much as possible. This may or may not cause instability using certain functions. Flash at your own risk.

Know issues: VZW Backup Assistant Plus in Settings causes a FC. ill try to get it out of there.

Basics

4.1.1 Stock Rooted Deodex Debloated

3.0.36 Perseus Kernel Alpha28

Some AOSP Theme, black status bar

Wifi notification gone, WIFI TOGGLE ADDED. finally

Wifi Tether works, may add toggle to status bar

Many UI noises removed including camera(reboot may be required for ringtones to show, also, camera noises are required by law in some states. check your nearest map if you dont know what state youre in)

some Cyanogenmod alerts and rings

removed live wall papers, boot animation

other things

YOU MUST BE ROOTED WITH AN UNLOCKED BOOTLOADER AND RECOVERY. FLASH AT YOUR OWN RISK

IF IN TWRP, WIPE DATA/CACHE/SYSTEM, FACTORY RESET, INSTALL FILE, REBOOT, ENJOY

IF CWM, LET ME KNOW, HAVENT TRIED IT FOR THIS YET

DOWNLOAD:

http://www.4shared.com/zip/tftSn-CZ/JB12-29Build.html

Samsung Email Included. delete under system/app/SecEmail

Google Talk Included. delete under data/app/Talk

After flashing and setting up your settings, account... whatever... i recommend flashing one of the profiles AndrieLux has on his site, link above

OLDER BUILDS AND OBSOLETE SEE POST # 9

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