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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rickoslyder:
I think I'll upgrade to S4. Not a fan of HTC one M7 and Xperia Z is definitely eclipsed by S4.

Brutally murdering someone I met on XDA with a sharpened iPhone and some semtex butt plugs just because they asked me to using Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Crest+:
nice thread
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] IamIrene:
Nope, wait s5 better
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] donalgodon:
Where's the "Hell no, I'm buying something that isn't made by Samdung" option?

I'd pick that, since I got burned by defective SII and SIII eMMC. It wouldn't surprise me one iota if SDS crops up in the S4 also. Lesson learned.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EcPercy:
Skipping S IV. There is nothing it will offer that is worth an upgrade so soon after S III.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fromaron:
I'll keep it for awhile. The best phone ever and it will be strong for years.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sachs:
YES....2gb...etc,,,etc....smoother than s3 with only 1gb.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] azrieqb:
I think we should wait for another 6 month. Just to make sure there's no sds issue on s4. Lol. Nway, my s3 is nearly reach 6 month mark and still no problem. Guess I'll get it the same time I got my s3.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] expertzero1:
im getting the s4.

keeping the nexus 4 for klp.

The battery life is horrendus on the nexus 4. Drains so quick its not even funny.. lol

With exynos 5 and 2600 mah. Battery life should be around the note 2. Note 2 battery life was awesome.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ali4796:
waiting for another release of S Series,

maybe S 5

but if this concept becomes true, i will buy it as soon as possible.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Geordie Lad:
Only thing that interests me is using it with gloves because could help a lot at work, But I've been sticking the tips from some of those cheap capacitive gloves onto my work gloves and works fine, and apart from that I see no reason to give up my S3.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] endrit9:
No not that much difference it isnt just bout specs

S3 will have all s4 features soon they look alike.. and 1 thing i wont forget by samsung is the sources
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] barondebxl:
I'm actually liking the S IV more and more when i read about it and watch vids.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rockler:
I really like the software improvements in the SIV, those features will be released to SIII with a software update, maybe. :fingers-crossed:

I will keep the SIII for a year maybe...The SIII is still a beast, maybe the next Galaxy :D
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slaphead20:
Pffft........I'm waiting for the S6.....even better ;)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ThilinaC:
Nope,my S3 is still around 4-5 months old and this year if I upgrade again it will be Xperia Z not S4 & I don't see a point upgrading S3 this much sooner either.It performs more than enough for now,for at least around another year & half S3 should be a beast.There is nothing in S4 that wow'ed me like S3 or Xperia Z did when those were announced.I don't need floating touch or online translator app(for that we already have google) + we will get most of new features in S3 after some time via upgrade hopefully :p

And I don't need a 8 core processor in my phone,hell 4 core i5 760 is even more than enough for my gaming rig.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] otester:
I usually upgrade every year, but here's why it's a no from me this time around...

(AnTuTu scores)

Galaxy S1 (~3000)

Galaxy S2 (~6000) (200% increase from S1)

Galaxy S3 (~16000) (267% increase from S2)

Galaxy S4 (~21000) (130% increase from S3)

So unless you want it for DC-HSPA+ / LTE (which I'm not going to see any time soon), it's probably not worth it.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] beaver2233:
lol.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] barondebxl:
LMAO OH My...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Saturny:
I'll upgrade. The specs are sweet.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slaphead20:
Must admit I will be very tempted to upgrade in a few months when all the "must have" boys have kindly tested it for me like the good little lemmings they are :D
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Geordie Lad:
Power isn't everything... And I wouldn't say no to a phone just because it isn't 3 times faster than the previous.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gaspernemec:
I am staying here...atleast till noteIII :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ZeizenKii:
Specs isn't everything. S3 is well supported by well known developers across xda. My s3 runs smooth with 1704 mhz OC and i dobt have any problems. Plus emmc problem is already fixed. Whereas the s4 may arise from problems from previous released phones like s2 and s3. S3 is a powerful yet balanced phone. It suits my daily needs. Yeah, s4 is a beast with its 8 cores and i wouldnt be surprised if its also the beast it is when it drains your battery. Wouldnt buy s4 just for show. My s3 is more than in par with it as of now. Plus, features of s4 will most likely be ported to s3. We're talking about sources here and experienced developers. From my point of view. The only difference i see about the two is not the performance. But the size of the display of the phone itself. :D no for s4.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] expertzero1:
From s1 to s2 is 100%

You mist be talking about 2x, 3c etc
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] otester:
Yeah I derped, should be...

100%

167%

30%

lol, that makes it look even worse.

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If they dropped the price to compensate I'd agree.

Power isn't everything?

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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcbyte_it:
I'll keep my SIII but will be waiting for the next official JB 4.2.2 with all the nice software features from S4
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sxi200:
I'll be getting one ASAP. Just wish it still had a curved screen like the S3.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Z3US911:
will go for S5!

S4 doesn't worth update! nothing special!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndreiLux:
Antutu scores jumped from 12500 to 16000 for version 3.0 of the benchmark when it got released a few months ago. The S4 also supposedly has 25k. Your comparison is wrong.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bungadudu:
If Id have the money to spare of course !

It is clearly better than the S3 !

On the other hand if the S3 had 2gb RAM.... (providing all the software features will get ported to it)... nope, I wouldn't consider upgrading it to the S4.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] i9100g user:
Yes i am upgrading from s3

Hardware difference between s2 and s3 was small but from s3 to s4 is more.

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

Dont click,you might regret , I won't be responsible if you brick ur head
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mwazeer:
Why people here not consider to upgrade from s3 to s4 one big important hardware advantage s4 will have is 4g comability wich s3 9300 not have. Mobile without 4g after some time is useless as 3g will become outdated after sometime.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] terranoid:
I like the S4 and i would have bought it but i am on 24 month contract.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jayc1980:
Me too, so I either wait for the S5 when my contract is up or take advantage of some hard up person willing to sell theirs for the price I can sell my S3 for :D

Any devs willing to part qith their S4 for small change???:p

sent from my gt19300 ltd omega edition
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CaraMuuu:
SGS IV is cool. HTC One is cool also. Xperia Z a little less cool, but Sony is doing great towards the community and developers... So... I think I will wait for next Sony or next Nexus.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Madarox:
The gs4 is amazing but I didn't even spend 6 months yet with my gs3.If samsung updated the gs3 with KLP,I won't likely upgrade anytime soon.I might actually stick with my s3 2 more years if it still functioned properly.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] papakaliati:
Will propably stick with S3 for now, unless gf decides to get a new phone in which case ill get s4 and give her s3 :D But if you have 2 year contract with s3 i dont see a reason to buy s4. And no as someone said before S4 insnt a bigger upgrade from S3, S3 from S2 was, mainly for the screen alone in S2 was a bit Luckaster . (i owned S2) . But S3 screen in today standars is just fine tbh ...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MattBooth:
Three are rolling out LTE this summer for free :D

http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/49663/three-4g-lte-free-2013

Which means if I can get an S4 cheap enough (my friend can get VAT free trade prices) then I will be grabbing one. You know how sucky my landline is :(
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danielholm:
Sv: Will you upgrade from your Galaxy S III ? Vote!

I'm keeping my S3 until it dies. And then I'll get the device with best support for Ubuntu Touch.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dlutz8:
Moving on from my S3 loved the Samsung galaxy S2. Hope to love the S3 the same way but I'm moving on. Samsung isn't improving the innovation, just up the size.

I am a Google Nexus fan currently :)

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] metroplis:
no.. i am happy with my s3.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mkabani:
I too will stick with my s3. Over the past 3 years ive changed 3 samsung phones and i realize the s3 has been the best by far. Unless i get a decent exchange on the s4, s3 it is.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] otester:
Even using optimistic figures it's still behind.

Galaxy S2 (~8000)

Galaxy S3 (~16000) (100% increase from S2)

Galaxy S4 (~25000) (57% increase from S3)

Lucky for you.

I live in the sticks, I'll never see LTE :crying:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] i9100g user:
Lol guys you are comparing such pathetic synthetic benchmarks on a pre release software :D

If you love these benchmarks so much then I will raise that 57% to 150% once I get some custom kernels running with final software:D

No doubt s4(A15x4) improved way over s3(A9x4) compared to s2 (A9x2) in terms of cpu /gpu.

sent from an Galaxy s3 GT I9300

Runninag perseus kernel 33.1 , XELLA 4.1.2 leaked build

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

Dont click,you might regret , I won't be responsible if you brick ur head
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] otester:
I hope I am wrong, give me more of a reason to let that money in my pocket burn :cowboy:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CoLFC:
I'll upgrade for definate

The SIV looks mint to me :cool:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MattBooth:
You get better HSDPA speeds than me!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slaphead20:
*blatantly not true.jpg*

And now for the truth ;)

You're stuck in a contract or can't afford to upgrade so it's sour grapes all the way :p
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] diego9016:
Upgrade from Galaxy S3 to Galaxy S3S?

Nahh, i'll pass
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rickoslyder:
Nothing new? I don't know if its sarcasm or just blatant stupidity, but in case its the latter - compare the two specs tables and that alone will show you the difference. Not enough? Look around for a video/article comparing both cameras and their options/modes.

Brutally murdering someone I met on XDA with a sharpened iPhone and some semtex butt plugs just because they asked me to using Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] petko1523:
Definitely No
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zoot1:
Slappy you are having a field day... Aren't you??
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slaphead20:
*loving it .jpg* :D
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zoot1:
Keep it up...this s***t storm is going to get messier....your cool head and sense of humor is indispensable..
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slaphead20:
It's nice to be appreciated :D

Meanwhile over in general someone is trying to troll me :D
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dr.mitesh1987:
Will wait for s5 not 5s lol
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mchu6am4:
Maybe not...

Well this is my assessment, Excellent hardware, excellent software/features, ultimate flexibility but unfortunately the physical design/build materials extremely disappointing!!! :mad:

Just as much as I care about the power(hardware) I also care about the quality and looks, unfortunately it doesn't quite do it in the looks department...it's like having a Porsche engine in a Skoda shell (no offence to skoda owners)!!

I think it's a decent upgrade from an s1 or s2 but not from the s3...I'm keeping my options open until physical units of experia z, htc one and s4 appear..but it's not looking good for Samsung for my business this time round!!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] worf_1977:
I will wait till my current contract ends, and once ended, we will see if i upgrade my S3 to S4 or not...

Let's let people complain about their new terminals!!! LOL

Sent from Hell thanks to Android
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] otester:
Men care about performance, if you care about looks then maybe you need a pink phone to match your handbag? :laugh:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dean-xXx:
Personally i'll keep my s3's and i will upgrade when s5 will be out. For me ...like many others around who doesn't use the s3 not even for 50% of its real power, the s3 is more than enough. I used to upgrade every year, but this for me personally and for users like me, it just doesn't worth. Looks same to me. And none of the ,,upgrades'' will make me use the phone more than i'm using my s3's. And of course we will get the updates with most/all new features for our s3. :D
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faddys123:
Only want the s4 because of 2gb ram after that I'd wait a couple years to get another galaxy depending on the next one :P
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spoxone:
No. I got my S3 on 2 June 2012...after 3-4 months modding and other ****..i was bored with this... so i only use it for musik, Calls, Sms, FB, Whatsapp. Nothing more.

I don´t need a newer Device after 1 year..thats only money waste for me. And a Status Symbol for other ppl^^
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iridaki:
This statement is wrong on so many levels...

I am a woman and I do care about performance and I rarely carry a pink handbag, if at all. Also I know many men who actually like owning beautiful things and there's nothing wrong with that. Let's not add the gender parameter in this already complex discussion.

iR¡D@k!* ? from i9300 via Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slaphead20:
^^^^^ moderator pulls short straw and has to keep an eye on this mess!

Well said by the way, glad you nipped that sexist rubbish in the bud!

*quickly hides pink phone case* :o:D
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tovagulet:
Lol, nope

When its time to change my S3 it will probably be with the S6
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Galactus:
S2 - Certain camera firmware had a bug which caused it to drop FPS when using auto focus during video recording.

S3 - Launcher Redraws and apps closing due to poor memory management (and a load of other build issues which luckily, I have not come across)

S4 - ????????

Hopefully the S4 won't have any defining flaws. I'll upgrade in June me thinks. If its over £500 though.................No
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Autodroid:
No i will not upgrade to SIV, cause it's almost similar to SIII but with new hardware and software. I was hoping for a new look and design.

The software, i am sure it will be ported to SIII sooner or later.

Quadcore is good enough for me, sure i would welcome an extra gb of ram but not enough to make me upgrade.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dr.Luigi:
Skipping IV,

Going for the Galaxy 5 or perhaps 6, Depending on how good my phone is till then ^^

Depending on how they will be, The phones over a year-2 years, What goodies they would have then ^^
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] otester:
Do you lick carpet?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nayliz:
I'm very happy with my S3. I'll pass this one and wait for maybe the S5
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] worf_1977:
Another reasin for not upgrading to S IV, os that every S-Feature is only a software "issue" that surely will be ported to our S II sooner or later...

You will see ;)

Sent from Hell thanks to Android
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lew87ys:
I have only had my galaxy s3 since october and i am still loving it at the moment so i wont upgrade anytime yet.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jay794:
Hell yes, the S3 is nice but the S4 looks epic!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] barondebxl:
Same here.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clarkgable:
I'm upgrading to the HTC One, and if I wasn't, I would just stick with the S3. The S4's extra size and apps don't entice me enough and I would be surprised if a few of the new s apps don't find their way to the S3 in a future update anyway . In my opinion, new Samsung buyers will be more excited about the S4 than current S3 users. But then, that's only my opinion.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thegh0sts:
wouldn't upgrade to the HTC one cos of the firmware lockout.

S4 will see how the snapdragon version compares to the exynos version and whether qualcomm will release the source code for the processor cos samsung won't for exynos.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ttzero13:
S3 is enough for now
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hansonator:
Yes, but only because since I had the screen on my S3 replaced after it was run over by a car it is quite wonky and vibration barely works anymore. I would have been quite happy with it for quite some time if not for that. I have a free upgrade, just cashing it in earlier than I wanted to. Also this will end the GT-I9XXX streak, will have to be N. A. SGH-XXX.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gsw5700:
It's a timing issue for me, all down to when s4 is stable and has good reviews and the price has maybe dropped. If I can still get a reasonable price for my s3 I'll probably upgrade (but want to look at new HTC one too)

Sent via TCP/IP
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slaphead20:
Exactly this^^^ for me, trying to find the optimum time to upgrade based on 2nd hand sale price/New price/settled development......not worried about source code, if I want aosp I will get a nexus, but I really feel TW is coming of age now, ......and I never thought I would hear myself say that! ... ....now about the appearance Samsung??? :D
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] miwanr:
No, I won't. I just bought my S3.

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boomboomer:
Samsung are in danger of repeating the mistake HTC made at the top off their arc, releasing phones just for the sake of market image and fragmenting their user base.

The S4 is, at best, a incremental progression in the development of the 'perfect' phone. It doesn't move their market domination much farther forward, other than gaining the must have segment for a short while.

What it does do is split users, where a large base can prolong the life span of a handset and enables more units to be sold for zero development cost. There is a drop off in consumption, which can be offset by only releasing new handsets with much larger technological jumps.

I chose not to buy the S3 G4 model, although it was available for the same cost, for the same reason I won't be buying the S4 - only a large user base makes for the perfect phone, no matter what the hardware. Take the HD2, long past it's obsolescence but still going strong and sought after entirely due to it's user base.

At the moment the S3 is just reaching it's peak of development, by users, the new model will only stunt that peak but without creating an alternative instant user base because the model is simply to similar to the S3 to generate any huge desire to own it.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s4nity:
I think s4 specs were good....Anyone agrees with me?

But then eightcore processor... is that what the people really want? Lol

Would be curious to know how good will the s4 sell...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chavdar:
jup, the specs are nice. Those 2 GB RAM can be quite handy.

But the leap from S3 is just not so great - it is still tempting with the Octa core and that nice 1080p display, but most of the other stuff is SW, and I am sure it will land sooner or later on our S3s.

I still haven't made my mind, but the S4 seems more reasonable update of the S2 rather than the S3.

I suppose I will wait for a bendable S3 :laugh:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shashank H:
Don't have much money :(
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aspot72:
Absolutely agree with you. So for me the HW part is very important, but will hold on till S5 as needed new design.

In this section apple and Samsung are equal. ..
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] harise100:
I will upgrade, but I'll wait 'til Google I/O.

The S4 is still top on my list!

I don't see a reason to hurry...

... but there is a Jeremy clone in my family who tells me constantly that I need a new phone... ;)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hasanalikhattak:
no i am gonna keep my s3 because samsung is bringing almost all features to s3 so no need to buy that big device!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jay Ssj:
indeed, haha! i was planning to sell my gs3 and buy gs4 from us but then realised that if i face the same problem as i did on gs3 with emmc then i am fked...

Damn samsung!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jlieu:
Indeed i will upgrade, but out of budget....lol
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dr.Luigi:
Well i might do note 3,

Depending on how much it will cost, How big the screen, What features.

If note 3 is like S4, nothing special, i guess i will go with S5 / note 4 :P

Not all that sure yet, But pretty sure that it will be a S5 next.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d4c:
S3, still got about a year on my contract till I am due an upgrade. Will see what is out around then.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Glebun:
Hoping to get the ASUS Padfone Infinity
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GizinBLN:
reasons why im gonna get new phone are as following: lags are killing me, battery life sucks hard , i paid a lot of money to get perfect phone and what did i get is this, im disappointed , but its still 100 times better than gnex which i just couldnt stand.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] btemtd:
I always buy my phones Outright from my freind which gets them wholesale... I hate being locked in .... So definatley. going to get it...

brief history : lol

S3 > S3/LTE >S4
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m.garz:
still contemplating between the s4 or the upcoming note3.. hmmm..
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KruseLudsMobile:
This is the first phone I have not had to root in order to get the performance I needed. The battery is still an issue but I carry a spare with me. I actually have a discounted upgrade available but I am going to wait for the next phone with no physical home button (probably the next Nexus branded phone). I use a bluetooth keyboard and mouse sometimes with the phone and the virtual buttons work much better with that kind of a setup. The bigger the screen the better as well. I may want a phone with a screen slightly larger than the Note II.

Sent from my 32GB Verizon Galaxy S III (SCH-1535) - stock (unrooted) JellyBean ROM with SanDisk 64GB MICROSDXC - USH-1 using XDA Premium