[Galaxy S III General] chrcol:
You know after getting an S3 I think a thin phone = bad.

Picking up my ace is pretty easy as the sides are thick, lots of phone to grip onto.

The S2 gets harder to pickup.

The S3 is hard enough to pickup that I have to be careful, I cant do it too casually or I drop the phone. the sad thing is the middle part of the phone isnt that slim, they just did it at the edges for style, but it make sit less practical to use.

If the s4 is even thinner then I dont like the way phones are going, larger width, height but thinner. Thats a unnatural shape to hold and put in pocket.

If they made it thicker, it means easier to pickup, better build quality (probably) bigger better battery, and probably also bigger physical buttons so changing volume, using power button easier.

Now for another comparison from s2 to s3.

Remember the likes of samsung need us to buy new phones so they stay in business.

The galaxy s2 has internal rom memory. Seperate to sdcard.

It dedicates 528meg to the rom. This means samsung roms are under that size for the s2, this in turn means smaller nandroid backups as well. On my s2 I have a few roms on the sdcard, and a few nandroid backups and still have nearly 9 gig free on the sdcard.

the s3, samsung went into overdrive on bloat, the tripled the rom size from half gig to 1.5gig, also that got moved from ondie memory to a sdcard so now is using the sdcard space. I did notice immediatly when I got my s3 that a samsung rom runs slower on the s3 than it does on the lower model s2, and it also uses more ram. The fatc its tripled in size probabl has a lot to do with it and that internal rom which is on a ondie chip is faster to access than a sdcard which the s3 uses for its rom. The s3 wastes further space which a oversized 1 gig cache partition. On my s3 I have 4 roms on the sdcard and 3 nandroid backups, this filled up the sdcard combined with the other changes. Its as if samsung increased wastage and bloat to justify selling better hardware to handle that.

---------- Post added at 08:34 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:23 AM ----------

well I have come from an ace, compared to that the s3 has tons of ram.

The problem the s3 has is samsung tripled the rom size from s2 to s3. this affected ram usage as well. A samsung rom on a s3 uses more ram than a samsung rom on a s2 does.

However a AOSP rom doesnt have any ram issues. over 400meg free often. But I still overall prefer samsung roms due to the nice styled toggles and shutdown screen (with jkay), the control jkay gives and the battery life. battery on the s3 drains pretty fast on AOSP at least it does on my phone, especially with wifi on. However I only tested a 4.2 aosp rom, trying a 4.1 AOSP now. Also I hate the AOSP dialer. So for no I will likely be sticking with neatrom or chaos. Most likely neatrom as that runs faster than chaos.

---------- Post added at 08:39 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:34 AM ----------

on paper i9305 is clearly better but 2 things made me not get one.

In the uk the i9305 is treated like platinum by the vendors, in some places a i9305 costs more to buy than a s4. The reason is they have old s3 stock to shift and they dont want to drop that in price by much so instead they inflate the i9305 price. Also i9305 is rare here as well which contributes to the price.

the other reason is that the i9305 clearly has less dev content available for it roms etc. and because the s4 is also released that overshadows it so the i9305 is unlikely to get a big userbase.

I actually think most smartphones are very overpriced, only got the s3 as my sister owed me cash and I made her get a contract to give me the phone as she looked unlikely to pay me back in cash. The cost of an s4 or i9305 is out of my league.