pauldroidr2d2
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IPhone 5: Yay or Nay?
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LOL! drinking the Apple kool aid.
Doesn't it say 4s on the back?
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I'll be switching my s3 which I currently use for work phone for the iPhone 5. I don't see a point in having two android phones when my EVO LTE from sprint for personal use does everything my s3 does. Plus I can get whatever I want for work for free so why not.
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And one other thing, why not go to the iPhone 5 in trade for my s3 when its supposed to boost the us economy jurasitcally. No other phone sells like the iPhone does. That being said there's a reason why ill be staying with android for personal and that's because the os is better than the same old ios
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Apple's lawyers will outgun any other companies in terms of lawsuits. And I can assure u that there will be no blocking of sales in apple's case.
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Interesting question: What exactly was revolutionary about the GS3?
Not much.
The screen isn't much different from the Galaxy Nexus, and only looks like a huge upgrade since they used such a low res panel in the GS2 (when everyone else had moved to qHD panels, they upp'd the size and kept WVGA). Apple had been at Retina since the iPhone 4.
Exynos Quad no different than A6. Both have updated SoC and the S4 has proven you don't need to be quad core to be a top performer, so that's a bit of a wash.
Only enthusiasts will buy 64GB SD Cards (or anything above 16GB, even).
Apart from the updated software/skin (some of which is a clear carbon copy of iOS functionality i.e. S Voice), there is nothing really revolutionary about this device except the fact that it's yet another Samsung Galaxy device they released.
The new iPhone will have a better camera, the build quality will still make the GS3 look (and feel) like a match box, the screen will still be incredible (i.e. better - both the Sony Ion and HTC One X already have better screens than the GS3, and arguably the Atrix HD as well), the sound quality out of the phone will still be superior, and it will still have a more cohesive, less fragmented media and app ecosystem behind it with deep tie-ins to a desktop operating system - something Android lacks (doesn't even have a universal media synching solution).
As for the comments in this thread. The same thing was said about the 4S, and it broke sales records.
Everyone wants you to believe their next phone will be the best thing since sliced bread, but the reality is that none of these flagships are massive upgrades from their preceding devices aside from the obvious things like the SoC. They're all pretty much incremental upgrades, just made to look incredible. You're broken through Apple's marketing distortion field, hopefully you can get through Samsung's soon enough as wellGood Luck!
EDIT: Forgot about NFC. NFC was very promising early on when the Nexus S shipped with it. But Google's deal with Sprint really hurt NFC (here) and that was likely a catalyst for the carriers getting their Isis thing together. Much of the other functionality that NFC provides is a carbon copy of what you can already do with other technologies like WiFi Direct and BT. Trust me not many people are buying those smart tags in carrier stores. The biggest thing about NFC was the mobile payments and with the way Google and the carriers handled that (at least in the US), it makes it worthless for Apple to even bother putting that in this phone. There will likely be more Airlines using Passbook and probably even stores supporting it than NFC here in the next 6 months or so, unless Isis really takes off.
In any case, NFC isn't new or revolutionary and has been in a number of devices (even the GS2) since 2010. However, the HTC Rezound, Amaze 4G, and Vivid all skipped out on NFC for the same reason. It will likely not be a factor here in the near future and unless you have a Nexus device the chances of you having your 18 month old Android phone updated to support whatever flavor of the month payment system pops up then is slim to none.
Was huge for me especially gps in s3 way better than s2,battery life Omg way better, screen much better to me. Games super fliud, the phone way faster, camera way better, overall look better to me, I love wifi direct when me and friends in a party snapping pics... S3 big upgrade
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Almost all of those things were minimal upgrades which is what all u people complain about apple doing. Android does the same thing well the phone makers do at least. Neither is perfect neither is crap. Both have their own place whether its in your pocket or someone else
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once the iphone 5s comes out, maybe, only because then they will come out with some of the updates it really needed. Even then android will probably have come up with something even better so I'd probably say no
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Not in the slightest. I think I love my SGIII even more than before if that's possible.Thank you Samsung!
Interesting question: What exactly was revolutionary about the GS3?
Not much.
The screen isn't much different from the Galaxy Nexus, and only looks like a huge upgrade since they used such a low res panel in the GS2 (when everyone else had moved to qHD panels, they upp'd the size and kept WVGA). Apple had been at Retina since the iPhone 4.
Exynos Quad no different than A6. Both have updated SoC and the S4 has proven you don't need to be quad core to be a top performer, so that's a bit of a wash.
Only enthusiasts will buy 64GB SD Cards (or anything above 16GB, even).
Apart from the updated software/skin (some of which is a clear carbon copy of iOS functionality i.e. S Voice), there is nothing really revolutionary about this device except the fact that it's yet another Samsung Galaxy device they released.
The new iPhone will have a better camera, the build quality will still make the GS3 look (and feel) like a match box, the screen will still be incredible (i.e. better - both the Sony Ion and HTC One X already have better screens than the GS3, and arguably the Atrix HD as well), the sound quality out of the phone will still be superior, and it will still have a more cohesive, less fragmented media and app ecosystem behind it with deep tie-ins to a desktop operating system - something Android lacks (doesn't even have a universal media synching solution).
As for the comments in this thread. The same thing was said about the 4S, and it broke sales records.
Everyone wants you to believe their next phone will be the best thing since sliced bread, but the reality is that none of these flagships are massive upgrades from their preceding devices aside from the obvious things like the SoC. They're all pretty much incremental upgrades, just made to look incredible. You're broken through Apple's marketing distortion field, hopefully you can get through Samsung's soon enough as well
EDIT: Forgot about NFC. NFC was very promising early on when the Nexus S shipped with it. But Google's deal with Sprint really hurt NFC (here) and that was likely a catalyst for the carriers getting their Isis thing together. Much of the other functionality that NFC provides is a carbon copy of what you can already do with other technologies like WiFi Direct and BT. Trust me not many people are buying those smart tags in carrier stores. The biggest thing about NFC was the mobile payments and with the way Google and the carriers handled that (at least in the US), it makes it worthless for Apple to even bother putting that in this phone. There will likely be more Airlines using Passbook and probably even stores supporting it than NFC here in the next 6 months or so, unless Isis really takes off.
In any case, NFC isn't new or revolutionary and has been in a number of devices (even the GS2) since 2010. However, the HTC Rezound, Amaze 4G, and Vivid all skipped out on NFC for the same reason. It will likely not be a factor here in the near future and unless you have a Nexus device the chances of you having your 18 month old Android phone updated to support whatever flavor of the month payment system pops up then is slim to none.
Sniff sniff do I smell an apple whore lol. I found solo many faults in this I can't even comment on them all but I can say this NFC is still taking off well here in Chicago at least two new stores started accepting NFC lol appleheads BTW the sgs3 is one of the best phones out today goofball stop hating
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That's a sweet deal man. I wish I had that perk. I would probably get an I5 as a work phone and use my SIII for personal. Why not, see how each one stacks up against each other.
Just tap the phones back to back
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Interesting question: What exactly was revolutionary about the GS3?
Not much.
The screen isn't much different from the Galaxy Nexus, and only looks like a huge upgrade since they used such a low res panel in the GS2 (when everyone else had moved to qHD panels, they upp'd the size and kept WVGA). Apple had been at Retina since the iPhone 4.
Exynos Quad no different than A6. Both have updated SoC and the S4 has proven you don't need to be quad core to be a top performer, so that's a bit of a wash.
Only enthusiasts will buy 64GB SD Cards (or anything above 16GB, even).
Apart from the updated software/skin (some of which is a clear carbon copy of iOS functionality i.e. S Voice), there is nothing really revolutionary about this device except the fact that it's yet another Samsung Galaxy device they released.
The new iPhone will have a better camera, the build quality will still make the GS3 look (and feel) like a match box, the screen will still be incredible (i.e. better - both the Sony Ion and HTC One X already have better screens than the GS3, and arguably the Atrix HD as well), the sound quality out of the phone will still be superior, and it will still have a more cohesive, less fragmented media and app ecosystem behind it with deep tie-ins to a desktop operating system - something Android lacks (doesn't even have a universal media synching solution).
As for the comments in this thread. The same thing was said about the 4S, and it broke sales records.
Everyone wants you to believe their next phone will be the best thing since sliced bread, but the reality is that none of these flagships are massive upgrades from their preceding devices aside from the obvious things like the SoC. They're all pretty much incremental upgrades, just made to look incredible. You're broken through Apple's marketing distortion field, hopefully you can get through Samsung's soon enough as well
EDIT: Forgot about NFC. NFC was very promising early on when the Nexus S shipped with it. But Google's deal with Sprint really hurt NFC (here) and that was likely a catalyst for the carriers getting their Isis thing together. Much of the other functionality that NFC provides is a carbon copy of what you can already do with other technologies like WiFi Direct and BT. Trust me not many people are buying those smart tags in carrier stores. The biggest thing about NFC was the mobile payments and with the way Google and the carriers handled that (at least in the US), it makes it worthless for Apple to even bother putting that in this phone. There will likely be more Airlines using Passbook and probably even stores supporting it than NFC here in the next 6 months or so, unless Isis really takes off.
In any case, NFC isn't new or revolutionary and has been in a number of devices (even the GS2) since 2010. However, the HTC Rezound, Amaze 4G, and Vivid all skipped out on NFC for the same reason. It will likely not be a factor here in the near future and unless you have a Nexus device the chances of you having your 18 month old Android phone updated to support whatever flavor of the month payment system pops up then is slim to none.
Funny how u say this is a carbon copy of iOS. So Samsung must have a time machine to go to the future and copy iOS 6. Most of the ios6 feature have been in android for years. Who is copying who.
Only reason they will sell a ton is cause apple has all the isheep brainwashed.
Retina isn't a technology just something apple throws out to make it sound special. And I wouldn't want to use it on such a small screen.
And iOS is so limited . Android is much more open and customizable. Also funny how apple was saying only the iPhone can talk and surf the web at the same time. When android already could. And iPhone 5 won't have that. And will prob have it on the iPhone 5s and say they invented it and its the best thing.
Apple copies more and gets away with it. Must be paying some off. Weird how apple wins all the cases in the us(always the same judge, something fishy there). But looses most of the cases in other countries.
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Nay, nay and thrice nay!
I had a Galaxy S2 and got an iPhone 4S as a work phone. There were things I preferred about the way the S2 worked and there were other things I preferred about the way the 4S did it, but overall I thought the S2 was easily the better hardware and android slightly the better OS. I have now upgraded to the Galaxy S3 and this phone blows both of those two out of the water. There isn't one single thing I can think of that the 4S did better. It's hard to say without having seen an iPhone 5, but the upgrade to me looks to have taken up to (or maybe ever so slightly past) the level of the S2 hardware wise. IOS 6 might go some way toward improving the software, but I think android with Touchwiz 4 on top is the smoothest, most user friendly OS out there at the moment, and it'll probably get better with Jelly Bean. I am no Apple hater (I'm writing this on my iPad), but I can vouch that these people who claim iOS is 'lag free' and it 'just works' are talking out of their rears. It is no more reliable than any other OS out there and both my iPhone 4S and iPad have suffered just as much with lag and crashes as I ever did with my S2, and more so than I have so far with my S3.
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I had a Galaxy S2 and got an iPhone 4S as a work phone. There were things I preferred about the way the S2 worked and there were other things I preferred about the way the 4S did it, but overall I thought the S2 was easily the better hardware and android slightly the better OS. I have now upgraded to the Galaxy S3 and this phone blows both of those two out of the water. There isn't one single thing I can think of that the 4S did better. It's hard to say without having seen an iPhone 5, but the upgrade to me looks to have taken up to (or maybe ever so slightly past) the level of the S2 hardware wise. IOS 6 might go some way toward improving the software, but I think android with Touchwiz 4 on top is the smoothest, most user friendly OS out there at the moment, and it'll probably get better with Jelly Bean. I am no Apple hater (I'm writing this on my iPad), but I can vouch that these people who claim iOS is 'lag free' and it 'just works' are talking out of their rears. It is no more reliable than any other OS out there and both my iPhone 4S and iPad have suffered just as much with lag and crashes as I ever did with my S2, and more so than I have so far with my S3.
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Yeah there's always that one person who thinks they know better than everyone else. Guess we're all a bunch of morons because we bought an SIII, went over the specs on the I5 and said to ourselves "wait my SIII already has all this stuff"....
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