[epicness4G]

cool. i dont use contracts so i always have to pay full price but i use pre-pay tariffs so it gives me the freedom to change carrier whenetver i see a better deal i wonder if we'l ever wish we had the 2gb ram..

Well if we had the exynos chip plus the 2GB of ram then it would be a very powerful handset.

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[funkylogik]

wow it would be a beast

[epicness4G]

wow it would be a beast

I bet you the new note will have those specs

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[funkylogik]

yeah exactly what i thought man plus the 4g antenna

[epicness4G]

Yup but im very pleased with my s3
Im new to android coming from a 4S

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[funkylogik]

well u chose a great first android lol ive never had an iphone. theyre not really as popular here as in US. theyr kinda seen as poser phone for people with more money than sense lol

[epicness4G]

Well i think here everyone gets them just cuz of popularity.. im a manager at best buy mobile which is pretty much "car phone warehouse counter part of the US. And when i ask people why they want an iphone. They dont have an answer.. androids can do so much more, the only thing that the iphone figured out was the ecosystem...

Most people here think that an android phone is a cheap phone.. when in reality high end android phones cost as much as the iphone if not more.

I love my sIII dearly. I still have my iphone 4S and when i put my sim back in it i was like ewww.. put it right back on my s3 lmao

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[epicness4G]

Oh and also having the i9300 means i get all the updates faster than the carrier counter parts here... woohoo can't wait for jelly bean!

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[badelhas]

Oh and also having the i9300 means i get all the updates faster than the carrier counter parts here... woohoo can't wait for jelly bean!

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Did you ever get 50Mbits LTE coverage to notice a real difference in surfing between the 2 phones? From 12Mbits to 8Mbits you dont really notice any difference, of course...What about battery, does the international version last much longer because its only 3G instead of 4G? What I do in all my phones is disconnect the 3G, only beeing in 2G, except when I want to to go to internet....this way my batteries last 3 times more. I did not yet get my S3 (my company also ordered it but Vodafone is taking a lot of time to send it, grrrr!) so I dont really know the Android OS yet, is it possible to put a shortcut in the home screen, so we can change from GSM to HSPA very quickly?

Regarding Quad-Core AND 2Gb of ram (along with LTE support) there is a SHV-E210K Korean Version of the S3 that has it all, check it out:

By the way, it looks like Jelly Bean (with the much expected "Project Butter" and "Google Now" ) is finally coming to the Galaxy S3 in just a couple of days (29th August):

(see last paragraph)

I wonder if only the unlocked version will get it then and if the carriers versions will take much longer to get it...I am surely looking for that project butter thing: 60fps animations looks tasty

Cheers

[Dreissig]

where do u live mate?

I live in the United States. O E thing I do notice is that I get updates pushed to me a couple of days after the UK gets them.

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[epicness4G]

Did you ever get 50Mbits LTE coverage to notice a real difference in surfing between the 2 phones? From 12Mbits to 8Mbits you dont really notice any difference, of course...What about battery, does the international version last much longer because its only 3G instead of 4G? What I do in all my phones is disconnect the 3G, only beeing in 2G, except when I want to to go to internet....this way my batteries last 3 times more. I did not yet get my S3 (my company also ordered it but Vodafone is taking a lot of time to send it, grrrr!) so I dont really know the Android OS yet, is it possible to put a shortcut in the home screen, so we can change from GSM to HSPA very quickly?

Regarding Quad-Core AND 2Gb of ram (along with LTE support) there is a SHV-E210K Korean Version of the S3 that has it all, check it out:

By the way, it looks like Jelly Bean (with the much expected "Project Butter" and "Google Now" ) is finally coming to the Galaxy S3 in just a couple of days (29th August):

(see last paragraph)

I wonder if only the unlocked version will get it then and if the carriers versions will take much longer to get it...I am surely looking for that project butter thing: 60fps animations looks tasty

Cheers

Well I've only had it for about a day so in terms of battery I really need more time with it to tell the difference..

I'm sure us sim free GT i9300 users will get the OTAs faster than our friends with carrier phones..

Thanks for the good info though!!

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[epicness4G]

One more reason to love the gt i9300

FM radio.. the us counterparts don't have a stock FM radio app.. it doesn't stream so no data and no extraneous battery drain. Brilliant!!!

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[funkylogik]

thought id buwp this thread since its hopefuly jellybean week

[Dhendy91]

Is there a development forum for the international s3? I can see them for the American versions but not for the international one. Am I just being blind?

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[funkylogik]

ps. if any mods read this, could it be made a stcky please? or even a new gt-i9300 thread.
there arent enough of us to have a sub-forum and i enjoy chattrng to my north american brothers anyway so just a sticky would be nice since theres a lot of gt-i9300 specific issues

[funkylogik]

Is there a development forum for the international s3? I can see them for the American versions but not for the international one. Am I just being blind?

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lmao great minds think alike mate i wouldnt want our own forum but a sticky thread would b nice eh

[funkylogik]

who do we ask?

[Dhendy91]

Well over xda there is a thread for requesting new forums. Buy over here maybe ask a mod?

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[funkylogik]

ive always found xda a bit pretentrous and as youve probably seen from me, i like to keep a human side to my posts lol

[Dhendy91]

ive always found xda a bit pretentrous and as youve probably seen from me, i like to keep a human side to my posts lol

Yea that was my reason for coming over here as well as being on xda , plus I have years experience with android now right up to making my own ROMs and apps so wanted to help people out but a lot of people are to scared to post on xda in case they get called a noob .Where as there seems to be a nice atmosphere over here.

That being said xda makes no bones about the fact that it is there for the developers first and some people just expect to be spoon feed without reading Or do any of the effort of looking for the answer themselves first. So sometimes it is deserved

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[funkylogik]

yeah totaly understood mate
well youre gona be a useful dude around here lol. shhh though, dont advertise yourself as an androexpert or your PM inbox will explode

[Dhendy91]

yeah totaly understood mate
well youre gona be a useful dude around here lol. shhh though, dont advertise yourself as an androexpert or your PM inbox will explode

Haha definitely not an expert! Just know my way round the operating system and a couple of lines of code. But yea really liking it around here!

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[alexcolka]

Hi, i'm Alex from Ecuador, using the int'l version of the S3 from Claro Ecuador. This is great phone!
Cheers,
Alex

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[TeamPlaya]

I'm in the US running the I9300 on ATT. I'm getting my OTA updates.

[funkylogik]

hi and welcome Alex and Playa :]