Anyone dislike their S3?

[p3unit32]

I downloaded the Swype, so much better! Thanks for the recommendation.

GS3

 

[ArgonNJ#CB]

Other than the occasional hiccup with an app freezing and a soft reboot I had yesterday it's all flying colors with this phone.

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I see Samsung hasn't changed. I had a Captavate a few years back and had the same issues. That phone soured me on Android for quite awhile until I got a Nexus Phone and realized that Samsung was the issue, not Android.

 

[deucalion]

A hateful device

Why I hate the S3 -

Overhyped
Gorilla Glass 2 is a laughable as it scratches more esaily than a baby's skin
The plastic makes it look and feel cheaper than a dollar store item (nice thing to feel when one has spent 680dollars to buy the bloody thing)
The menus are not intuituve (despite what Android fans say - it is not even in the same league as the 4S)
The screen transitions are glitchy and items close and hang on their own with disconcerting regularity
Above all, it is made for people who like to tinker. Not for people who expect immediate business use. I could not get my Lotus Notes to work until my IT guy spent 6hours fooling with the app (on iPhone it was truly plug and play). This is a CLUMSY CLUMSY phone. Everything is tied to Google accounts. I hate that (tis why I disliked Apple, but even Apple has done it in a more elegant manner). Samsumg just doesnt get it.
Plus, I now truly believe (after using the phone) that Samsung is just a hack and a copycat of Apple's ideas (and in buying the phone I support an un-imaginative and plagiarist company)
Lastly, I cannot get it to work with ANY of my 3 machines (with either XP SP3, W7 32bit and W7 64bit) - here is a litany of my problems trying to connect it.

http://forums.androidcentral.com/t-...not-recognize-my-galaxy-siii.html#post2050145

I have never been an Apple fanboy (I disliked them for their heavy handedness). Now I have sworn off Samsung for the rest of my life (and everything they make - phones, TVs, players, computer screens, ....everything...all made by a garbage company)


:'(

Will buy an iPhone 5 to replace this piece of S***t

 

[crackberrytraitor]

Why I hate the S3 -

Overhyped
Gorilla Glass 2 is a laughable as it scratches more esaily than a baby's skin
The plastic makes it look and feel cheaper than a dollar store item (nice thing to feel when one has spent 680dollars to buy the bloody thing)
The menus are not intuituve (despite what Android fans say - it is not even in the same league as the 4S)
The screen transitions are glitchy and items close and hang on their own with disconcerting regularity
Above all, it is made for people who like to tinker. Not for people who expect immediate business use. I could not get my Lotus Notes to work until my IT guy spent 6hours fooling with the app (on iPhone it was truly plug and play). This is a CLUMSY CLUMSY phone. Everything is tied to Google accounts. I hate that (tis why I disliked Apple, but even Apple has done it in a more elegant manner). Samsumg just doesnt get it.
Plus, I now truly believe (after using the phone) that Samsung is just a hack and a copycat of Apple's ideas (and in buying the phone I support an un-imaginative and plagiarist company)
Lastly, I cannot get it to work with ANY of my 3 machines (with either XP SP3, W7 32bit and W7 64bit) - here is a litany of my problems trying to connect it.

http://forums.androidcentral.com/t-...not-recognize-my-galaxy-siii.html#post2050145

I have never been an Apple fanboy (I disliked them for their heavy handedness). Now I have sworn off Samsung for the rest of my life (and everything they make - phones, TVs, players, computer screens, ....everything...all made by a garbage company)


:'(

Will buy an iPhone 5 to replace this piece of S***t

Epic fail. If it scratches easily, than Apple products will be even worse. You have to use all your Apple accounts with the iPhone, just like Google accounts with Android. I let my iPhone obsessed friend borrow my spare S3 for the day and he's never been satisfied with his iPhone (with the new iOS beta) since. Sorry you're in the 0.001 percent of people who didn't think this was an awesome phone. I have little doubt that if the S3 had an Apple logo stamped on the back, you would suddenly love it.

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[mlarc807]

As of this moment I totally hate my S3. I actually just joined this forum in fact in hopes that somebody can help me with mine.

It might be that there is some issue with my phone...where I need a new one but who knows.

I keep losing service, or it randomly with disconnect from my wifi for no apparent reason.
Pandora kept 'stopped working' 30 times in five minutes where I literally had to uninstall the thing.

It will send my texts 5 times to somebody randomly. Sometimes I won't get texts until hours later. Or won't get phone calls either or at all.

Called Radioshack tech support---because that's where I got my phone from. They suggested factory reset. I made sure to save and set all my contacts and stuff to my google account so I wouldn't lose it all.

Did factory reset and even when syncing my google account, still nothing in my contacts.
Tried everything to get my contacts back up and I got nothing.

Removed my google account from sync and factory reset it again.
added google account again w/ sync...still nothing in my contacts.

Finally, I notice that when sending a text and typing in the recipients name...some of my old contacts ARE visible. But they do not show up in my contacts "app"...or when using the phone. Or normally searching through contacts....only when searching a recipient directly in messaging.

Also...it's only coming up with some of my contacts not all of them. I've noticed that the only contacts that are still in there are ones I added to my old phone within the last year. Older contacts that are years old...are completely missing.

Due to all of this frustration I'm at the point where the only things I even like about this phone is the screen size, the camera (to an extent), and the overall speed of the phone.

Also for a phone this expensive it should COME WITH an SD card

 

[deucalion]

Epic fail. If it scratches easily, than Apple products will be even worse. You have to use all your Apple accounts with the iPhone, just like Google accounts with Android. I let my iPhone obsessed friend borrow my spare S3 for the day and he's never been satisfied with his iPhone (with the new iOS beta) since. Sorry you're in the 0.001 percent of people who didn't think this was an awesome phone. I have little doubt that if the S3 had an Apple logo stamped on the back, you would suddenly love it.

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You didn't read the whole thing. Did you? I have had both a "4" and and a "4S" and I couldn't wait to be out of Apple's clutches. I sold the 4S and bought an S3. Out of the frying pan into the fire. It simply is made for tinkerers and fixers. Not for people who expect things that work

You judge too easily without knowing. Dunning - Kruger syndrome?

 

[p3unit32]

The last few post I found interesting, perhaps the issues you are addressing are a result of touch-wiz. I had many of the same issues with my mast android phone, but thank goodness I haven't experienced the issues you all have discussed with vivid detail on my GS3. Although I have noticed glitchy transitions and when the screen goes dim, it flickers a little. But I'm hope jellybean will fix these minor issues .

But should I ever go back to using an iPhone, I will have to have tried using vanilla android first. It was the main reason why I switched in the first place. I was to quick to judge android based on the experience I had with the HTC inspire 4g. But I'm glad the GS3 is working for me, something's are different but that is to be expected. I think Google is moving in the right direction, and is working hard at polishing the software and simplifing android.

GS3

 

[crackberrytraitor]

You didn't read the whole thing. Did you? I have had both a "4" and and a "4S" and I couldn't wait to be out of Apple's clutches. I sold the 4S and bought an S3. Out of the frying pan into the fire. It simply is made for tinkerers and fixers. Not for people who expect things that work

You judge too easily without knowing. Dunning - Kruger syndrome?

I've never had to tinker with it or fix it. I read your whole post. My mother is 62 years old and a total technophobic and has no problem with it.

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[jjb70]

@mlarc807
You've got a bad phone based on your radio issues. I would definitely swap it out.
And to who wrote about misjudging Android based on their HTC handset, kudos to you. Android OS gets bashed too much because of hardware. The majority of handsets are brutal to use IMO.
As for the GS3, if you don't like this phone, you're not going to like Android cause it doesn't get much better than this IMO.

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[reno55]

@mlarc807
You've got a bad phone based on your radio issues. I would definitely swap it out.
And to who wrote about misjudging Android based on their HTC handset, kudos to you. Android OS gets bashed too much because of hardware. The majority of handsets are brutal to use IMO.
As for the GS3, if you don't like this phone, you're not going to like Android cause it doesn't get much better than this IMO.

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Truth!

 

[SideKickM24]

I'm new here, so first of all Hi!
I ditched my iPhone 4 and picked up the S3 (Garnet Red.....Love!!) after plenty of debate and research.
At first I felt I had made a mistake. I was so used to my iPhone ways.
But now, I am so glad I jumped ship and got a S3. I like being able to customize my phone the way I prefer.
Doubt I'll ever go to iPhone again.

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[p3unit32]

I'm new here, so first of all Hi!
I ditched my iPhone 4 and picked up the S3 (Garnet Red.....Love!!) after plenty of debate and research.
At first I felt I had made a mistake. I was so used to my iPhone ways.
But now, I am so glad I jumped ship and got a S3. I like being able to customize my phone the way I prefer.
Doubt I'll ever go to iPhone again.

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Hi, I did the same thing. I had the 4S but like you decided to go for a change. I haven't really looked back.

GS3

 

[deucalion]

I had previously stated.....

"Samsung just doesn't get it. Plus, I now truly believe (after using the phone) that Samsung is just a hack and a copycat of Apple's ideas (and in buying the phone I support an un-imaginative and plagiarist company)"

Jury: Samsung willfully infringed Apple's software patents, Apple didn't infringe Samsung's | The Verge

Perhaps now, the Android fanboys will shut the hell up. Pathetic. They should be punished punitively with loss of revenue as well. A billion isn't enough

 

[crackberrytraitor]

I had previously stated.....

"Samsung just doesn't get it. Plus, I now truly believe (after using the phone) that Samsung is just a hack and a copycat of Apple's ideas (and in buying the phone I support an un-imaginative and plagiarist company)"

Jury: Samsung willfully infringed Apple's software patents, Apple didn't infringe Samsung's | The Verge

Perhaps now, the Android fanboys will shut the hell up. Pathetic. They should be punished punitively with loss of revenue as well. A billion isn't enough

Yes. A Californian court ruled in favor of Apple over a Korean competitor. Shocking. If I provide you numerous links to rulings against Apple by European courts who don't have a reason for bias, will that convince you that Apple's dirty? Probably not, because you're an Apple fanboy who isn't interested in facts.

Good artists copy. Great artists steal. We've always been shameless about that kind of stealing.
-Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs himself apparently thinks Samsung has done nothing wrong.



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[JHBThree]

Yes. A Californian court ruled in favor of Apple over a Korean competitor. Shocking. If I provide you numerous links to rulings against Apple by European courts who don't have a reason for bias, will that convince you that Apple's dirty? Probably not, because you're an Apple fanboy who isn't interested in facts.

Good artists copy. Great artists steal. We've always been shameless about that kind of stealing.
-Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs himself apparently thinks Samsung has done nothing wrong.



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And you, being an apple hater, are no better.

 

[crackberrytraitor]

And you, being an apple hater, are no better.

You'll forgive me if I'm not overly concerned by the opinion of the resident Apple Zealot. I'm genuinely sorry you can't take in any opinion that doesn't glowingly praise Apple. Carry on.

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[JHBThree]

You'll forgive me if I'm not overly concerned by the opinion of the resident Apple Zealot. I'm genuinely sorry you can't take in any opinion that doesn't glowingly praise Apple. Carry on.

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There's a difference between criticizing them and irrational hate. You demonstrate the latter.

 

[deucalion]

Yes. A Californian court ruled in favor of Apple over a Korean competitor. Shocking. If I provide you numerous links to rulings against Apple by European courts who don't have a reason for bias, will that convince you that Apple's dirty? Probably not, because you're an Apple fanboy who isn't interested in facts.

Good artists copy. Great artists steal. We've always been shameless about that kind of stealing.
-Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs himself apparently thinks Samsung has done nothing wrong.



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You don't pay attention, my first post stated I wanted to get away from Apple's high handed way of creating the i-ecosystem. You forgot that. Instead you choose to focus on the poster and not on the issue.

Now, by focusing on the jury instead of the verdict you re-reinforce the view that you choose to ignore the facts by calling me a Apploid. Which is factually incorrect. I dislike Apple, but I hate Samsung and the blind idiots who think Samsung is better than Apple because it is not Apple.

Apple's dirty? Really? Is that why its the biggest company on the planet? Through deception, through cheating? Or by monetizing great ideas (and pulllllease don't tell me that Apple swiped Xerox's GUI).

Face facts you say? You watch this space in the next years how Samsung becomes another has been, while Apple reigns and Motorola under Google tries to truly innovate.

Something Samsung never tried, It is easy to fling blame, deflect blame and cast aspersions on a company and on an impartial jury

Well done Sir, you truly are a an impartial observer.

 

[crackberrytraitor]

You don't pay attention, my first post stated I wanted to get away from Apple's high handed way of creating the i-ecosystem. You forgot that. Instead you choose to focus on the poster and not on the issue.

Now, by focusing on the jury instead of the verdict you re-reinforce the view that you choose to ignore the facts by calling me a Apploid. Which is factually incorrect. I dislike Apple, but I hate Samsung and the blind idiots who think Samsung is better than Apple because it is not Apple.

Apple's dirty? Really? Is that why its the biggest company on the planet? Through deception, through cheating? Or by monetizing great ideas (and pulllllease don't tell me that Apple swiped Xerox's GUI).

Face facts you say? You watch this space in the next years how Samsung becomes another has been, while Apple reigns and Motorola under Google tries to truly innovate.

Something Samsung never tried, It is easy to fling blame, deflect blame and cast aspersions on a company and on an impartial jury

Well done Sir, you truly are a an impartial observer.

As you've stated numerous times how much you despise Samsung, you're obviously far from impartial yourself.

People like Samsung over Apple because they sell products that are miles ahead of the iPhone. I also consider it dirty for a company to patent things they didn't invent and then sue competitors for it. If you truly think that Apple isn't threatened by a company that's gone from 0 to 67 percent of the smartphone marketshare in a couple years, you don't understand economics. Notice they didn't sue Samsung for years, until Android started dominating and they got desperate.

I also think it pretty obvious that the U.S. legal system is a little biased when similar lawsuits everywhere else in the world are, for the most part falling flat.

I consider myself very impartial. I've owned nearly a dozen Apple products over the years, back to my Apple 2gs. I'll use their products again when they start making things that don't suck, rather than suing the competition to prevent them from innovating anything better.

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[JHBThree]

There's nothing irrational about it. Also, prove it

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Grow up.

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