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[Galaxy S III General] superbonto:
greetings everyone.

I have a 2 month-old i9300, i used LG L9 before.

With the money i had back then, my choices were GS3 or Nexus 4.

But in the end, i picked GS3, my considerations are:

- expandable memory is a must. 16 gb is too small for me, and if i did something wrong with the internal memory, not everything would be vanished

- better camera performance and better battery life. L9, GS3, and N4 they all have around 2100mAh battery, but in real life usage, though L9 has lesser specs, L9 drains the fastest; and GS3 performs better than N4 (based mostly on online reviews :p )

- i like AMOLED better than LCD. the deep blacks are... mesmerizing.. :D
[Galaxy S III General] Dark Emotion:
Thank you for your post, I am actually considering the same two phones. For me 16 gb is enough but battery life is important . Then again, Nexus receives Android updates so fast and SIII so slow. I always liked and hated Amoled at the same time because of the blacks and burn in.

I can't decide.
[Galaxy S III General] thekoRngear:
Samsung just posted about Their Unpacked Event #2 on FB. They said Note the Date. ;)
[Galaxy S III General] d0nGsKiE:
s4 is nice but s3 is enough...hehehe
[Galaxy S III General] chrcol:
"Samsung Galaxy S 4

Samsung Galaxy S 4 is not available in your country.

"

LOL whats with the regional limitation?

Although s4 has no radio so no go anyway.
[Galaxy S III General] gheezydroid:
the sprint s3 vs sprint s4, the s4 a little more than 2 times faster than the s3, but really not to the human eye. Rooting and modding the s3 will improve performance and reduce lag using comatose mod.
[Galaxy S III General] neymre:
i think s3 is better than s4
[Galaxy S III General] chrcol:
agreed
[Galaxy S III General] anakara:
I think s3 is very good. If update 4.3 :)
[Galaxy S III General] TigerCourage:
S3 vs S4... S3 takes the pictures 2x faster (while my S3 with latest software took 2 photos, my friend's i9505 managed to take only one shot with latest software). And has more available storage. Those 2 are the deal breakers for me.
[Galaxy S III General] neymre:
:good:
[Galaxy S III General] neorobi:
i think the s4 is a step into the future of next gen smartphones.. there are a lot of improvements, apple worried about =)
[Galaxy S III General] milad2002boy:
+1
[Galaxy S III General] sdlopez83:
Theirs is going to be announced soon. They have to change that screensize.
[Galaxy S III General] Joiiny:
S3 is not better than s4, but s4 is full of unneccessary apps etc.
[Galaxy S III General] sdlopez83:
But you are on xda you can change those apps easily.
[Galaxy S III General] Joiiny:
Of course, this is why my even my S3 runs Slimbean, but when you buy one of these you pay for hard and software so you have to compare both.
[Galaxy S III General] chrcol:
does s4 have 4.1.x roms and fm radio tuner?
[Galaxy S III General] Brotuck:
S4 does not have a radio.

The good thing is that the I9505 has a google play rom now. No more toutchwiz... :)
[Galaxy S III General] :
& I hope that they'll continue to do so
[Galaxy S III General] wyouflf:
i like s3, it's enough...

i like s3, it's enough...:laugh::highfive:
[Galaxy S III General] copyer:
Hi, I got the gt- i9305 and no fm radio app..

Does it have the hardware to use fmradio?:confused:

Never mind , found an answer.:laugh:
[Galaxy S III General] emtee_skull:
Please forgive me if this is the wrong thread to post this.

I am trying to make a decision about which upgrade(Verizon) for my wife. She has a droid charge. The choices are S3 or S4. I can get the S3 for 29.99 and S4 for 149.99. As far as I can tell from reading the S4 does have a little more horsepower under the hood and the screen is better. But modding is currently halted until someone can unlock it. The S3 modding/custom rom seems to be going strong.

Battery life is the most important thing for her. I know S4 has a little more in battery. But with modding surely batter life can be improved with the S3.

Coming from a Droid charge I know the S3 will be a big improvement(just about anything will)

Is there and reason she should take the S4 and spend 120 extra bucks?

I just want the opinions from folks that are more experienced with this phone(S3), where the rubber meets the road kinda thing.
[Galaxy S III General] i9100g user:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1846277

Correct thread to post.

S3 is good but of course S4 is better,I think note 3 would be the better choice (screen size maybe a problem though) but battery life etc would be better on note 3.
[Galaxy S III General] emtee_skull:
Thanks for the reply and link. I'll head there. Note 3 wouldn't be an option. She likes to use my phone for everything but as a phone. She doesn't like the size. I tried to fly the option of giving her my note 2 and using her upgrade for the note 3 for me. It wont float.
[Galaxy S III General] chrcol:
Having now seen s4 in real life I got some more comments.

So the S3 has a design flaw where the edge of the phone isnt at right angles, instead its a like a bendy circular design for style. MEaning the edgss are very narrow and hard to pick up the phone of something like a table.

I did the same with the s4 (which is more like my s2 and ace) and its way easier to pick up, the owner of the s4 tested with my s3 (so to see if he had same opinion) and he agreed, his s4 is way easier to pick up of a table than my s3. So the s4 wins on design.

I mentioned to him also about me accidently hitting the soft buttons as they too close to the edge of phone and someetimes also side of screen for same reason as also the s3 doesnt have a raised edge like older phones, but he said he has the same issue with the s4 as well on that one. Although in my opinion the s4 looks like the soft buttons are higher up away from the bottom so I think it wins on that one as well.
[Galaxy S III General] daleski75:
That would of gone nicely when I had a bright Orange Audi TTS!
[Galaxy S III General] Chillz88:
Its fake for sure .. I have seen a render almost the exact same as it a month ago..

But still it doesnt mean that they would use an improvised s3 design, 3 more days..

Tapatalkedddd...!!!!!
[Galaxy S III General] :
Both of them are correct.

Octa

is a brand name. So, we have 8 cores, out of which 4 are "big" cores and 4 are "small" cores. The system/OS won't have detailed knowledge of the CPU structure. This would be handled by the drivers/kernel. Power management software would schedule what tasks gets to run on small cores or on big cores. Also, they would switch cores when performance demand increases. All this would be transparent to the Android OS.

Switching and migration of cores plays a big part in the big.LITTLE architecture. If needed, there can be a cluster-migration or just a CPU-migration. At this time, it's expected that most of the switching would happen through CPU_migration. In this mode, a little and a big core is "paired". The OS views each pair as a logical core. However the big.LITTLE software/driver will be able to migrate between the big core and the little core based on demand/priority.

Someone like AndreiLux should be able to explain on this properly.

I believe that most apps/benchmarks will

view

it as a quad core SoC. It's not their fault. It's just designed to work that way.

As software improves, we should be able to use a MP model (Heterogeneous Multi-Processing). This can be implemented with a simple OTA later (that's what ARM says anyway).
[Galaxy S III General] uvaman:
Sammobile insider confirmed GT-I9502 DUAL SIM exist :)

"The person who posted the images said that the DUAL-SIM version is, at the moment, only for chinese network provider “Unicorn”. The person person who posted the images had I9502ZNUAMB1 firmware installed and Samsung is currently testing I9502ZNUAMB5 firmware with I9502CHUAMB5 CSC."
[Galaxy S III General] Odia:
"Unicom"
[Galaxy S III General] AndreiLux:
The big.LITTLE chip consists of 2 groups (clusters) of CPUs, one with quad A7's, one with quad A15's.

There are two sensible methods of operation, one is the In-Kernel-Switcher (IKS), the other one is Heterogeneous Multiprocessing (HMP) At the beginning the device will ship only with the IKS enabled, if we'll ever see HMP working in an official kernel is to be seen.

The IKS switches between pairs of A7 and A15 CPUs depending on load, much like how current DVFS governors switch between frequencies. Only here we switch between the one of the two pairs. All pairs are independent of each other in terms of switching. You can have whatever configuration of A7-A15-A7-A15 to only A7-A15-Offline-Offline.

HMP on the other hand is vastly more complex in its functionality, and has access to all 8 cores at once. The problem with this is that the system needs to know where and when to use which core. This brings a new order of complexity in the scheduling algorithms. In the end however it offers a mechanism much more versatile than the IKS. However because it is much more complex, it took longer to finish. The power management group at Linaro only finished and published the code for this 3 weeks ago back in February.

The IKS is a simple and quick solution which was already finished quite some time ago, as it didn't need much re-architecturing of the kernel.

And of course, Perseus on the S4 will have HMP enabled ;)

And by the way: some very credible pictures leaked from China:

http://www.gsmarena.com/galaxy_s_iv_i9502_photos_leak_is_this_the_final_design-news-5672.php

I like the design.
[Galaxy S III General] daleski75:
Ran the imei number through a checker and it comes up as an iPhone 4? Could these screenshots be faked like chillz88 stated?

http://www.imei.info/?imei=004999010640000

Also to check I put in the imei number of my Lumia 920 and the correct phone and information showed up.
[Galaxy S III General] bala_gamer:
am i the only one who feels the design is kinda good???

but here is the puzzle,the screen size is increased only by a .2 inch when compared to s3 !!!! but it looks very lengthy... defenitely fishy and odd.

@ andrei

so with hmp enabled.. how about the possibility/need for overclocking :D

and also we already heard news about thermal throttling and touching the max power barrier, do you think enabling all cores would be a wise decision?
[Galaxy S III General] i9100g user:
That was something I wanted to hear:D

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[Galaxy S III General] tolis626:
The possibility of overclocking will be there.The need won't be but who gives a crap?We're gonna do it anyway!I can't wait to see that monster running at 2GHz :D

As for the design...It's too S3'ish.By itself this is not bad,but after a whole year and given the hype Sammy's built,I seriously doubt that they'd use the same "old" design.I too like the S3's design though,so a similarly designed phone with some improvements would be awesome in my opinion.Improvements should be a thinner bezel to accommodate the larger display without increasing he phone's size,better spaced menu and back buttons,and getting rid of that "hyperglaze" piece of crap plastic.A textured back like the S2 with an aluminum rim on the side would be far too awesome.
[Galaxy S III General] bala_gamer:
The side is metallic afaik and also the textured finish is there, I like it.

Only 2ghz? Naaaa:D the stock itself is 1.8, I need some more smoke:D

《posted from s3》
[Galaxy S III General] tolis626:
I consider anything above 2GHz to be in the 2GHz range,so I meant reaching 2.xGHz.I hope for something like 2.2-2.4,but I tend to believe 2.2 will be the limit.I mean,if you look at Sammy's history the S2 came out with 1.2GHz CPU and was able to reach a little over 1.6GHz and the S3 came with a 1.4GHz CPU and was able to go up to 1.8GHz.Not that his means anything,but I don't want to get my hopes too high.

As long as it fries my eggs while benchmarking,it'll be enough...
[Galaxy S III General] i9100g user:
Why do we need to go above 2ghz for benchmarks:confused:

But for benchmarks it would be better to get all 8 cores working instead overclocking those 4 cores.Benchmarks like antutu favour devices with more cores ...and benchmarks like antutu don't bother me anymore.

But if I want battery life I will rarely use those A15 cores, A7 cores would be used for most of the time.

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[Galaxy S III General] yahyoh:
[YOUTUBE]YzkfC7--jog[/YOUTUBE]

:cool:
[Galaxy S III General] thekoRngear:
Just like the previous part, this part emphasizes heavily on the screen technology, no doubt about that.
[Galaxy S III General] yahyoh:
PHOLED+ Octa = best battery ever :D

http://www.sammobile.com/2013/03/11...oled-but-what-is-pholed/#.UT3aYRC4330.twitter
[Galaxy S III General] daleski75:
Thats pretty impressive if the rumours turn out to be true then this phone is shaping up to be one hell of a device irrespective of the design.
[Galaxy S III General] jamal2367:
New News : Galaxy S IV Photo Leaked

Galaxy I9502 with Dual-Sim Slot Version with Android 4.2.1 .....

Link : Galaxy S IV Leaked Pics

Source: Source with Photos
[Galaxy S III General] juicytuna:
From my understanding of this and the previous PHOLED article, we are at currently at the PHOLED R stage with the SGS3 and will be moving to PHOLED RG with SGS4. They are yet to develop a phosphorescent blue material with a long enough lifetime.
[Galaxy S III General] uvaman:
Ur late few hours :)) There is new PHOLED thing already :)

I would be happy if we are going to see PHOLED RGB from the table in S4, Ultra PHOLED RGB could be for Note III
[Galaxy S III General] jamal2367:
is this real or fake ? :)
[Galaxy S III General] yahyoh:
Ask Samsung or wait 3 days :laugh:
[Galaxy S III General] jamal2367:
i have checked the imei Number from the Leak photo

is a Iphone 4
[Galaxy S III General] bungadudu:
Word is that even though htc one has a smaller battery, it does resist better (longer) throughout the day the day than the S4....
[Galaxy S III General] Chillz88:
Resist?. Which S4 battery result are u talking about??

Tapatalkedddd...!!!!!
[Galaxy S III General] daleski75:
That threw me as well specially if he means the unreleased Galaxy S4
[Galaxy S III General] uvaman:
According to some sites S3 amoled power consumption is around 1,000 mW and from this table where are now or which S4 will be used?

PHOLED R, PHOLED RB, RGB?
[Galaxy S III General] juicytuna:
From what I've gathered;

S3 = PHOLED R

S4 = PHOLED RG
[Galaxy S III General] nasty159:
Yeah that doesn't mean anything. And where did you see the IMEI number? I couldn't see it anywhere in leaked photos.

Guys I think this is the final design. For a couple reasons.

Firstly if you look at the promotional banners for the unpacked event here:

You can see here that the 4 is looking metallic. The leaked pictures show metallic or aluminium sides.

Also if you look at the background of that photo you can see that pattern. The same pattern is found on the front of the S4s leaked design.

I think this is the real deal.

Last year for the S3 the banner looked like this:

We didn't see any design leaks that looked similar to the promo banner.
[Galaxy S III General] :
I am not exactly sure if it's true.

PHOLED is supposed to be used for the first time. The traditional OLED as used in GS3/Note2 had fluorescent organic materials. PHOLED uses phosphorescent materials.
[Galaxy S III General] juicytuna:
Not true. phosphorescent green is new to Samsung but it has previously been used in the Sony Vita and Motorolla Droid RAZR . See here.

Phosphorescent red has been viable for quite a while, green became viable last year, and they still have lifetime issues to solve with blue before it becomes viable.
[Galaxy S III General] skivnit:
if it is indeed real i will just skip the S4..as i'm very disapointed with the form factor..i don't complain about the plastic, however having the same phone again is not for me..it is becoming like the iPhone now :(
[Galaxy S III General] bala_gamer:
same phone? lol are you going to use the phone or keep on looking it ? ;)

better graphics, better cpu, better screen, better memory, better battery, new software features. not only s4, htc one too has all these compared to its prev gen phones.
[Galaxy S III General] thatscooldude:
Whatever it has, the rumored device looks like the same phone it was one year ago

Talk about innovation.
[Galaxy S III General] harise100:
AW: Samsung Galaxy SIII vs S4 (or any other phone) comparison

It's almost certainly a fake, but what do you expect to be innovative?

An egg shaped phone? Or triangular?

Sent from my GT I9300
[Galaxy S III General] i9100g user:
I can see the dots too...if you zoom in

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---------- Post added at 10:55 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:52 PM ----------

http://www.sammobile.com/2013/03/11/samsung-galaxy-s-iv-to-feature-a-3d-camera/

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[Galaxy S III General] thekoRngear:
Agreed. People would not have complained that much for almost identical form factor of the iphones over years if it had reasonable amount of innovation inside the shell. Comparing the (rumored) almost same shape factors and then declaring to not have it just because it lacks innovation in the designs where it has innovation in almost every hardware and software sector is something that I would not have done.
[Galaxy S III General] Chillz88:
The fact that the galaxy s4 will have dots was speculated by a lot of tech sites because of the 4 in the dotted background in the s4 launch pic even before the chinese pics .. so this might still would have been faked by some chinese guy who simply read tech sites and might have just made a it believable by taking a gs3 lookalike and adding texture to its back and front

.... or he was holding a disguised prototype..

I bet there wil be a lot of faked or convincing pics in the next 3 days..just as when the s3 was launched

Tapatalkedddd..!
[Galaxy S III General] yahyoh:
i still don't get it how the phone is gary from front and the back cover is white :silly::silly:

and the back cover still look sucks ( i really hope its fake ) :(:(

Samsung need to stop using hyper glaze finishing if they think its premium...its not :/
[Galaxy S III General] bala_gamer:
Last year it was under some protective body which covered the design but these leaks doesn't have any mask like that either it should be a real deal or totally fake.but the overall length makes me think it might be fake. Do you think its a bit lengthy?

《posted from s3》
[Galaxy S III General] yahyoh:
for real guys just open this image on ur PC and zoom in on the text ( its really look photoshopped IMO )

edit: another one :D
[Galaxy S III General] jamal2367:
Here:
[Galaxy S III General] yahyoh:
it just me or the left side look not dotted :cyclops::cyclops::eek:

Edit : the right side look matt but the left side look shiny O_o
[Galaxy S III General] daleski75:
you can just see the dots on the left if you look closely.
[Galaxy S III General] i9100g user:
Bottom right corner looks same though maybe there isn't enough light on left side:screwy:

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[Galaxy S III General] jamal2367:
comes from the light probably
[Galaxy S III General] Chillz88:
The people who buy android are buying it for the innovations it brings in every department..whereas iphone buyers just need to see an apple logo.. Another fact is that the iphone design is good and loved by many whereas samsung design isnt..

So iphone being apple wont mind mind using the same design.but samsung bringing out the same design when their android counterparts look more than decent might not be overlooked like apple

I agree too.. might be disguised one or real or just faked...

It does look long.. but the thing I noticed is that the led indicator and the sensors and the front cam are located to the edge of the phone near the bezel.. shouldnt it have space around it so that its components can easily fit around it and be lodged in between the screen edge and the bezel?? Why would samsung make them such a tight fit around the corner?

Tapatalkedddd...!
[Galaxy S III General] android_geek_here:
Whatever phone S IV is, no matter what it'd look like, no matter what - Samsung has nothing against it now a days. They're aiming at 100 million sales of S IV.

Three more days!

DAYS!!! Y U NO PASS QUICKLY :D
[Galaxy S III General] yahyoh:
http://www.patentbolt.com/2013/03/samsung-will-try-to-one-up-the-iphone-with-a-new-3d-camera.html

:D:cool:

S Orb :p

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IMO photoshopped :eek::eek:
[Galaxy S III General] loyonyart:
SIM-Cards

I think these are fake.

But i would like to see the 3D-Camera option in the next Galaxy S Device :laugh:
[Galaxy S III General] Crosswind96:
Only a few days left till it's getting announced in NYC. I'm not sure yet if I'm going to change phones cuz I love my current one :b
[Galaxy S III General] xManMythLegend:
Odd question.. Does Samsung ever give away anything like a coupon or planning to do any relevant giveaways in NYC Thursday?

They have some times square thing but it its anything like MS it'll amount to a whole lot of who cares.
[Galaxy S III General] bala_gamer:
Just saw a teaser image released my Samsung USA, it syncs with the leaked image

《posted from s3》
[Galaxy S III General] Chillz88:
Link?

Tapatalkedddd. ..!!
[Galaxy S III General] bala_gamer:
here you go

http://www.phonearena.com/news/Samsung-tweets-the-clearest-Samsung-Galaxy-S-4-picture-yet_id40729
[Galaxy S III General] Chillz88:
Looks like an s3 with a small difference in the location of the logo. Looks like the chinese pics were almost true.. it uses the same design as the s3

.....
[Galaxy S III General] Turbotab:
Some are saying the Samsung logo is the earphone grill:), given the placement of logo that could be true, as it doesn't leave much space for a grill.

Source Samsung Mobile US Twitter.
[Galaxy S III General] Chillz88:
Maybwe its samsung messing with our heads.. they might be teasing us with a galaxy s3 and removing those speaker grills and other stuffs in the coming teases to show what the galaxy s4 has??. Wishful thinking:p that pic seriously looks pebble blue to me unlike what the tease jeremy shows us with the black and white biscuit....

Or maybe its just samsung usa putting out a pic which they think the galaxy s4 wil look like.. to say that the unveiling of s4 is close enough

Tapatalked...!!!
[Galaxy S III General] nasty159:
LOL are you kidding? People that desperately don't want it to be the same design are just holding onto false hope. Give it up fellas the S4 is going to be a bigger S3. Especially now with that teaser pic. Doesn't take a moron to work it out.
[Galaxy S III General] Turbotab:
They did give us a tease picture of the actual Galaxy Nexus, shortly before launching it, so they have got history. I strongly suspect it will have a S3 flavor to it, given their other recently released designs.
[Galaxy S III General] expertzero1:
They didn't release a pic for the gs3. So I'm going to say that's not the s4 at all in the pic. It doesn't make sense at all to release a pic days before the event. Why show that its a gs3 design LOL. Come on now.

I'm guessing its going to be somewhat rectangular based on the unpacked invitations/flyer that has the countdown timer. It looks a lot like a phone to me.

Edge to edge display. Rectangular.

Last years flyer had pebble blue and white in it.

Just my guess.