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[Galaxy S III General] omer7:
I also upgraded from HTC One S two weeks ago. And sometimes i repent why did i buy this phone. (Dont take it wrong plz), but i cant believe it is/was the flagship phone of Samsung. It is even slower than htc one s. It lags. And i sometimes have to restart my phone everyday.

I think 1gig RAM for this phone is too less, which is causing issues. U open 2 to 3 apps (including one heavy app), go back to 1st one and it will again restart. If i knew it i wud have bought note 2 or nexus 4 instead of this phone.

Hope this phone becomes better in next updates.

Edit: Good things about this phone are fast processor, better battery life, some good software features, good cam etc.
[Galaxy S III General] egopatagonico:
I think you don't have good Rom

Try another and look for a good combination with kernel.

Not only Stock exist!

Swypeado w my fat finger
[Galaxy S III General] GR0S:
Nexus 4 vs S III

I read many reviews and still can't decide: sell s3 or not.

S3 have slighly better camera, that's all.

Nexus 4 have much better software, slighly better CPU, much better gpu, not sure about battery, but Snapdragon will be at least same as exynos.

Nexus cons are only: no sdcard (I don't really use it) no OTG (never used it)

Help me decide. I will sell S3 for around $400-450, and will buy nexus for 500$ + 50$ for cases, protectors, additional USB cables.
[Galaxy S III General] sdlopez83:
This is a galaxy s4 thread v s3. Do you mean the galaxy s4?
[Galaxy S III General] omer7:
Title of this thread says, GS III Vs GS 4 (or any other phone) comparison. :)
[Galaxy S III General] drakester09:
And you have an American variant, what are you doing here :p

It says or any other phone.

On topic: I was in the same dilema but in the end I decided for the Nexus, it has stock Android, latest updates, 2 GB of Ram, better processor and chipset. Much better community support and better aesthetics.

Disadvantages: no card slot, no removable battery, worse battery life (it seems), camera is slightly worse.

Overall not a bad bargain since I got mine over a $25 difference for my S3. :D

The Nexus will be supported for a couple of years, we can't be so certain about Samsung.
[Galaxy S III General] sdlopez83:
Oh right, wasn't trying to be a ****. Just thought he may of meant the other.
[Galaxy S III General] zedman169:
I think Samsung have been pretty good with upgrade support on their phones.

The S2 was released roughly Feb 2011? Its now April 2013 and they are still supporting it with the JB update.

My previous phone before my S3 was a HTC Desire HD, their support was absolutely lousy and I was so upset that they never provided an ICS update for it.

Personally I couldnt live without my 64GB microSD, I'd stick with the S3 if I were you ;)
[Galaxy S III General] xavierfox42:
Yeah, for me a removable battery and SD card slot is an absolute necessity. I won't buy a phone without them. I've seen my friends become so sad enough times after their iPhones dies for the day and they sit next to an outlet in a cafe charging for an hour for a few more minutes alive.
[Galaxy S III General] topcat07:
If you were buying now would you buy a s4 or S3. The S3 is £200 cheaper for me across a 24 month contract but I am worried about the ram not being able to cope in 12 months time as all other phones are starting to put 2gb in? Will s3 be supported for updates for 2 years?
[Galaxy S III General] tolis626:
You're wrong in saying the S3's RAM won't be able to cope in 12 months.It couldn't even do so last year ;)

For me it's definitely the S4,unless you really need these 200€.
[Galaxy S III General] topcat07:
Seems bloody expensive for a extra 1gb though!
[Galaxy S III General] omer7:
True. This is the only week point of SGS III, ram is too less. 1Gig Ram in flagship phone :(.

Only if it had 2Gig of ram, it wud have been the best phone and one could easily keep it for another 2 years.

Gt-i9305 (if i m not wrong) has 2gb ram.
[Galaxy S III General] NightOrchid:
Dont get me wrong, Im not complaining about the frequency of firmwares :), but when you look at samsung filling the gap with mid range devices such as the "Mega" and the "Mini", which are just re-released S2s and Notes, are samsung not falling into the HTC and apple trap of throwing all their money into 6 month "Filler" devices instead of really using that money and time to iron out and improve the S3, such as using the S-Beam to project high end gaming, movies or music to a device on a TV or system to realliy use the quad core and MALI, without the need of a media server and router, but use the money to put the device in the box with the phone.. instead of devs hacking emulators.or something simple like fix the Lag I mentioned earlier.

Surely, its better to build an amazing device once a year/18 months than to churn out renamed older devices and waste money on new firmwares for them, just confuses people and also, puts doubts in peoples minds that the amazing device they bought 3 months ago isnt worth anything, or even worse.. it has a flaw, because if it was worth anything.. why are they not developing it.. so the developer doesnt care about the device or you, its worthless.

IMO, its better to develop or work with what you have.. and who knows.. by developing it further you may find something that device hardware and newer software can do, that you never knew exsisted until you developed it.. and it may blow the competition out of thew water... but who knows if developers never try.

Just a thought
[Galaxy S III General] Rodriguez711:
I think you're right, every device a company releases to the market should be supported with software updates, I'm really enjoying the new features my S3 is getting.
[Galaxy S III General] slaphead20:
Just a wry observation.....I do have a chuckle when I see people stating their opinions on how Samsung should become successful.....have I missed something?:confused:........last time I checked they were doing pretty damn well ;)

As for maintaining that wave, they are as commercially aware of the fact that consumer choice ebbs and flows as anyone else, .......that's why they manufacture so many different things ......lose a bit of ground in one area....it is but a little itch to a company with their finger in so many pies
[Galaxy S III General] NightOrchid:
If i was passing an opinion on how I think Samsung should float their stock or sell their shares, i could understand your statement, but come on, Why not have an opinion or a suggestion to a company I gave £350 of my money too for a service or goods :).

Without consumers ideas, opinions and suggestions, how will they know what we, the customers want or would like to see in the future.

I love my S3, best phone Ive ever had, especially since they added Multi-window support and Ide like to show my appreciation by offering up ideas about how they can improve it further so I feel so proud of my device, ide of given the £500.. because theyve made it so awesome that it still continues to blow me away in 12 months time after their development team took some of my money I gave them and built an awesome add on and firmware to support it, instead of using my money to build a re-named device whose hardware came out 2 years ago.

So, yes.. opinions and ideas are good.. it tells them what we want and what we'd like to see:).
[Galaxy S III General] slaphead20:
The chances are they release those devices to use up surplus chipsets etc from previous models, .....why bin half a million chips when you can sell them in a cheaper price point phone
[Galaxy S III General] NightOrchid:
Thats a fair point, never thought of the recycling side.. I dont work in manufacturing, so can these not be melted or broken back down for materials to make new chipsets ?, i have a feeling they cant.. but im not sure
[Galaxy S III General] setspeed:
Don't sell your S3 for a Nexus. I bought the N4 outright when it first released, but it had so many faults/drawbacks that I returned it and kept my S3.

Issues with N4 (at the time, don't know if they're fixed, don't care):

Poor touch response - I would tap or swipe and it just wouldn't register. This was very apparent in scrolling apps like browser, where you just felt disconnected from the page.

Washed out screen colours - I thought perhaps my eyes had just been ruined by AMOLED, but I put the N4 next to a friend's HTC One X and the N4 screen still looked like sh*t in comparison.

16GB max storage - I thought I could live with it, until I actually had to. I couldn't.

Buzzing sound from earpiece all the time, worse when on a phone call. Known fault affecting many handsets. Poor electrical shielding. This was completely unacceptable in a brand new piece of electronics.

Glass back, easily broken.

The good about N4:

The software.

2GB RAM.

That's about it.

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Anyone care to remind me about the latest Moto X Phone rumours? I'm swaying towards replacing my S3 with an S4, but really wouldn't mind some Moto hardware with stock Android!
[Galaxy S III General] gavin-phelan:
I swapped a galaxy nexus and s3 for a brand new nexus 4 and im not regretting it
[Galaxy S III General] ixon2001:
Just sold my Nexus 4 after having it for just a month, coming back to the S3 as i really miss all it features it had plus better camera & video to, which i do use alot.

Not gonna bother with the Galaxy S4 this time around, as i personally don't think it offers all that more over the S3, alot of the S4 features we get on the S3 at some point, plus the S3 is selling now for around £300 less & will easily last another year even with only 1gb of ram.

The Nexus 4 is a good phone don't get me wrong, but it just not for me.

I'm happy to stick with the GS3 until this time next year, and hopefully the Galaxy S5 will offer alot more than what the S4 has to offer over the S3.
[Galaxy S III General] comabanana:
heh interesting i'm selling S3 to buy a N4 :laugh:

is really quite specifically what someone wants i like stock jb without samsung bloodware :cowboy:
[Galaxy S III General] ixon2001:
Well you might be happy with the Nexus 4, it just wasn't for me, stock Jellybean is good, roms from likes of Paranoid Android are excellent on this phone also kernels from Franco ect are also very good aswell.

But there is alot of things on the S3 i miss like the camera which im sorry to say isn't as good, pictures quality was ok, but video recording is shocking to say the least on the Nexus 4.
[Galaxy S III General] Racinghart91:
:eek:
[Galaxy S III General] mimi_atmam:
:confused:
[Galaxy S III General] POLO_i780:
Wouldn't touch a Nexus 4 after owning a GS3, but that's just me. IMO, N4 is a downgrade in many areas including functionality, Camera, and memory. I also don't see the point in getting a N4 when there is the GS3 LTE available if more RAM is what you want, unless price is a huge factor, but with GS4 nearly here, the GS3 LTE will be available at a bargain.

Personally? I'm getting a GS4 as my GS3 broke, the GS4 may not differ much in looks but the New larger HD1080P display, A15 Cortex CPU, PowerVR SGX GPU, newer 13MP Camera, sturdier build, and larger battery make it worth it for me to get it instead of getting a GS3 LTE or Note2.
[Galaxy S III General] drakester09:
And it's an upgrade in many areas. It's arguably better in other aspects which you might not care. (I have bought both devices)

The real point here is that S3 is a more consumer oriented phone. N4 is simply how Google intended to showcase Android at an amazing price point. I got the Nexus because in the end I prefer stock Android rather than TouchWiz. I like both devices and each have their own strengths and weaknesses.

It is unfortunate that not everyone is getting the better S4 version that you describe. Most of the world will not get that... :(

Ps: recently I have been using an old S1 as a music player and it's IMHO better than the S3 in that role, both Wolfson chips are amazing but the S1 seems to have a better output (with Voodoo).
[Galaxy S III General] i9100g user:
PHOLED is a type of OLED

But very power efficient.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphorescent_organic_light-emitting_diode

sent fromXperia sT21i

Everything stock
[Galaxy S III General] :
Obviously it will look good. But I believe that it's also something about marketing buzz. Samsung is the only company now to use AMOLED screen in their flagship phone. Rest all use IPS or certain varieties of LCD. LCD, though good, is fast becoming a 'commodity'. Apple, HTC, LG all use almost same type of screen. It would be tough for anyone to differentiate based on screen alone. Samsung, with AMOLED allows them to stay apart from the crowd. You can identify a AMOLED screen with that saturated colours and vivid display. Now (over) saturation is not fault of the AMOLED, but how Samsung calibrates it at this point. It's a good thing from marketing perspective.
[Galaxy S III General] thekoRngear:
I am using SAMOLED phones (since Wave) for over 2 years. And AMOLED's vibrant and saturated colour somewhat fits my eyes. That "over" saturation that people complains actually very much liked by me.

Though I really did not like how it has gone (over)saturated in the leaked XXUFMB3 JB 4.2.1 firmware.
[Galaxy S III General] :
There's something about AMOLED displays which makes it very 'lively'. I am not sure about the exact scientific reason, but it does look very different from all other displays when you look at it.
[Galaxy S III General] bala_gamer:
apart from the very few manufacturing limitations and issues(which produces black patches) amoled is the cup of tea for me.. i prefer amoled screens to lcd screens . Hopefully we end up with led in s4.
[Galaxy S III General] sdlopez83:
THought the Xynos processors have a locked Kernel. I would stay away from this if its the case. Can anyone confirm the kernel lockage on xynos processors?
[Galaxy S III General] Chillz88:
They arent locked. .. u can flash any kernel you want on the go..

Tapatalkedddd...!!!!!
[Galaxy S III General] expertzero1:
man i want this now
[Galaxy S III General] Bob Barnsen:
Me too men.

Even though i'm not as excited as i was when the S3 was announced.

Also i would like more inovation in the features, and not just better hardware that is pretty much overkill for a smartphone. Like 8-core CPU or FullHD resolution on that a small screen. It's good that they are able to improve those things further, but new features i would like more :) :)
[Galaxy S III General] Amritttt:
What will be the release date for Galaxy s4?

Sent From My Galaxy S3
[Galaxy S III General] drakester09:
It will be announced on March 14th, no idea about release date yet.
[Galaxy S III General] Thin_Bezel:
I'm pretty sure at the end of the march or the beginning if april
[Galaxy S III General] DSA:
Do you work for samsung then?
[Galaxy S III General] i9100g user:
Rumors say April for Europe,Asia after that and May for U.S .

Nothing solid but rumors:thumbdown:

sent fromXperia sT21i

Everything stock
[Galaxy S III General] bungadudu:
They want it out in the second half of april (a month after the announcement), but... probably it'll be the beginning of may.
[Galaxy S III General] expertzero1:
April will be the launch date. :) will hit Major markets. Europe,us etc

How do I know? Someone from a company that makes 500 bill lion yearly who is a high up in the chain :)
[Galaxy S III General] pikul:
Thats what i think, also a better body because in hand my S3 feels really cheap next to my One X, im going to sell it as soon as both the S4 and the One come out so i can pick the best one :)

Sent from my HTC One X or my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] daleski75:
Cancelled my htc one pre-order due to htc seemingly taken away the long press back for menu from the firmware since it was shown off so decided to play it safe and come back to being a galaxy user (had the S2 and loved it)

Roll on march or april then :)
[Galaxy S III General] pikul:
Yeah that sucks, i love s2w thats a really cool feature :cool:

Sent from my HTC One X or my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] sdlopez83:
By saying pretty sure I can tell it is an assumption. :)
[Galaxy S III General] lamkhatoco:
I like Samsung Galaxy S3.
[Galaxy S III General] Davidralc:
Hi,

I'm thinking if i should buy the GS S4 or S3 LTE

Currently i am still using blackberry and it sucks really bad in terms of performance

Moneywise, i can force myself to afford S4 but will need to save up for months ( still in uni )

I don't think the new specs in S4 will impact me that much, so i'm thinking of getting the S3 LTE

The S3 LTE price is only 400 bucks as well at kogan.

What do you guys think?

Thanks!
[Galaxy S III General] i9100g user:
If you have money then go for s4, then s3 lte is also good, but i recommend S4

sent from an Galaxy s3 GT I9300

Running perseus kernel 33.1 , XELLA 4.1.2 leaked build

:D xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1784401

The other side of XDA :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S III General] radeonxt:
what i hate about samsung phones i've owned or even other brands is the fact that they put the speaker at the back.

i want it on the sides, stereo mode left & right speakers both on one side because most videos will be watch via landscape mode not portrait mode.

showcase the nice vid and audio to your friends wow!

then you get tired holding the phone you put it down, they get dismayed by the muffled sound. duhhhh samsung!
[Galaxy S III General] united45xda:
can't wait to have S IV software based features ported to my S III, or maybe am just dont know that somebody already done some of S IV to S III:rolleyes:
[Galaxy S III General] neldiogo:
Just tried a Galaxy S4 and that new camera interface is really nice. Will we get it on s3 ?
[Galaxy S III General] wednesday13:
Your gs3 broke? So why u getting a Samsung
[Galaxy S III General] Jaxx89:
I hear some features of the S4 like the smart pause, smart scroll etc... will come to the S3 too officially.

I hope it is true coz Samsung is still making us S3 users wait for JB 4.2
[Galaxy S III General] mrbully:
+1 here!

Come on Samsung, stop making us S3 users wait for 4.2!! :D

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+1 here. Looks really nice so long as it can work properly on S3? :confused:
[Galaxy S III General] GideonB234:
Personally after owning two devices with 1GHz Single Core processors, the S3 flies and handles everything I do pretty well

I do miss the smaller screen sizes of my old phones though because typing one-handed is a lot easier on a 4" screen :P but besides that I'm loving my SIII and I'm pretty sure that it will still be a popular phone for years to come

The back cover is pretty flimsy though and I always feel that I'll break it when I take it off, anyone else think this?
[Galaxy S III General] Mutley-BR:
I agree with this vision...

For me, the real point is that we can personalize both S3 or N4 in any way... But is fact who likes pure Android the N4 is better.

[]´s!
[Galaxy S III General] ixon2001:
Anybody else think now we have the S4, updates for the S3 will start to slow down, how long will Samsung make us wait for 4.2.2 May/June or even longer?
[Galaxy S III General] jonny68:
The HTC One is definitely where it's at and simply put is without doubt the king of smartphones
[Galaxy S III General] harise100:
No! :p
[Galaxy S III General] needandroid:
remain with s3 ( + exteded 300 battery) or move to htc one??? thats the question...

i'm really interessed in music experience that it could be offer
[Galaxy S III General] Theobias:
S3 :D
[Galaxy S III General] cirwell:
great
[Galaxy S III General] Ishan Sardar:
um pretty happy with my i9305...i mean it has quad core processor and 2GB ram + LTE and from what I know most of the features from

Galaxy S4 is coming to Galaxy S3. Now why would u buy a S4? unless ofcourse money isn't a thing for you. That's just my opinion.
[Galaxy S III General] omer7:
Galaxy S3 with 2gig RAM r quite okay. But intl versions with 1GB ram have some multi tasking issue. Like if u go back to some app it will re load. I m gonna purchase N4 today. Wil keep S3 as well in case i feel some issue with nexus 4. Othwrwise i ll sell S3 (just coz of its 1gig ram which sometimes become a big issue for me).
[Galaxy S III General] harise100:
The I9300 is definitely missing 1 GB RAM.

On my shiny new S4 multitasking is wastly improved. :D

Even though TW has reached a whole new level of "bloatedness". ;)
[Galaxy S III General] Moopow:
i agree that the 1GB will be problem in terms of multitasking ... i have the international version and i did experience that issue before i rooted the phone .... after rooting i no longer have the multitasking problem thanks to customs roms which have some bloatwares removed ,....

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my potential issue now with some of the s4 features that will be passed down to the s3 is if the quad core processor will be able to manage the s4 features that have been built to run on the 8 core processor.... do you guys think it will be able to run smoothly ???
[Galaxy S III General] omer7:
More than CPU, i think 1GB ram wud be an issue. With all S4 features, the available ram may become even lower than what is available right now (though i m not sure, but this is what i feel). What do u think?
[Galaxy S III General] Ishan Sardar:
if the processor doesn't betray us with the new features of s4 i think i9305 users are safe with extra 1 GB ram...what do u think? i mean quad core isn't just ur regular processor and it aint even old. do you think with the quad core and 2GB ram the i9305 users are safe?
[Galaxy S III General] omer7:
Yeah true. If processor works fine, i9305 users shd not have issue IMO. Coz even S4 has 2 gig ram.

i9305 users wont be having any issues even right now with multi tasking.
[Galaxy S III General] Moopow:
I agree with you...
[Galaxy S III General] stevae:
i agree with this on a stock phone. but with many of the custom rom's out there, they take much better care of the system, with no bloatware on them, and better techniques to save ram. so i believe that with a rooted phone, running a custom rom, most of the s4 components will run on the s3
[Galaxy S III General] dodgebizkit:
Yes 1gb ram is a real limitation.

I'm not upgrading to a 2gb phone so I'm waiting to see what happens with the nexus 5, I like tw apart from how laggy it is and the crappy launcher easily replaceable, so if the nexus 5 doesn't wow then I'll go for the note 3, supposedly octacore2ghz and 3gb ram.

Ive finally decided to go for a custom s3 ROM, is there a thread I can go to describe my needs so people can advise me on a good ROM?

Sent to you watchers of illusion from my castle of confusion.
[Galaxy S III General] ahmed534:
there is no good or best ROM ! You have to try some of them (the well known ones maybe) for your daily usage and finally keep the one that suit your needs
[Galaxy S III General] drop_by:
S4 is a beautiful beast, but i9305 should still be able to keep up in terms of performance
[Galaxy S III General] Bodoma:
Has anybody used both an S3 and a Note II and can give me a comparison of their experiences with them? I don't know if I want to go for the S4 or wait for the Note 3.
[Galaxy S III General] mtdrdn:
i couldn't resist to buy a sgs3 for 260euros (4weeks old)... 600 is simply to expensive for the sgs4.

in my eyes, there is no reason to invest so much money due to the fact that the price drops that fast.

we are at a point where sammy's devices are like fifa... it will be every year a little bit better.

sure the sgs4 is a great device, but the upgrades probably won't be that mindblowing in the future. we've already reached a point where a higher resolution makes no sense at all.
[Galaxy S III General] ftcs:
S4 is a great machine, but i don´t think that worth the upgrade from S3
[Galaxy S III General] i9100g user:
I honestly think S4 would be a great upgrade for S3 users and they won't be disappointed and I think S2 to S3 wasn't a great upgrade but S3 to S4 is bigger upgrade
[Galaxy S III General] hityo:
I was playing with it yesterday, i must say i wanted one really badly but to justify the costs from a s3 is maybe not worth it...