SIII radio ?

[Wildo6882]

I'm definitely curious, too, and appreciate the input in this thread. I'm waiting to see in-action testing before I try to swap my 4S for one.

 

[GSDer]

A company as successful as Samsung learns from their mistakes....so they would logically go with the very best solution available.

Too bad they didn't go with the 'very best solution' when it came to screen technology.
And I for one wouldn't have complained if they had gone with a 3300maH non-removable battery if the phone was as slim as a RAZR Maxx. But since this is the only new phone available on Verizon before the unlimited data hammer falls I'll be diving into the untested waters of the SGS3 with the rest of you.

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[ProvDev]

To say that the Maxx battery resembles that of a car battery is a bit much don?t you think?

Nope. I though I clarified what I meant in this post.

I could have been more clear Maxx battery (while not overly large in size) is the largest capacity of LTE phones available. The usability of the Maxx is achieved through packing in a lot of mAh not by power efficiency.

I was not insinuating that the Maxx is a large phone... although I will admit my original post could be construed that way. What I meant was the Maxx does not have an efficient chipset. How Moto achieved the lasting battery life was by packing a large mAh battery into the phone.

Personally I will take an efficient chipset with a removable battery (even smaller mAh) over Moto's approach. But to each their own.

 

[Cruiserdude]

Too bad they didn't go with the 'very best solution' when it came to screen technology.
And I for one wouldn't have complained if they had gone with a 3300maH non-removable battery if the phone was as slim as a RAZR Maxx. But since this is the only new phone available on Verizon before the unlimited data hammer falls I'll be diving into the untested waters of the SGS3 with the rest of you.

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I still feel that AMOLED is the future of display technology, and I applaud Samsung for continuing to further develop it. I've heard a few issues about the splotchiness etc, but I would imagine its even better than the SAMOLED+ on my Charge, and that was absolutely beautiful. So I will have to reserve judgement until I see it.

I would love an even larger battery, but I have to say I'm very glad this has a removable battery. As an owner of a regular Razr, I can tell you that not having a removable battery is terrible. On ICS, the phone still gets through most of a day of usage, but not a full one and I always end up having to charge it a bit. This is the bad part, I've got to either plug it up while it still has plenty of charge left and get it back to full, or wait till its almost dead and charge it up about halfway. Either way, its not good for the battery, and I still end up having to wait around on it to charge just a bit more. And as it seems to drain faster when you charge it up from a half charge or so than it does when you go from empty, its typically almost dead again when I get home.

Dealing with all that is a huge PITA, as it shortens the overall battery life, makes me have to wait around and worry about the thing, and still leaves me with a dead phone from time to time. I would expect it would be better if I upgraded to the Maxx battery, but I'd still see the same problem from time to time. Or it'd be just under half charge at night, so I'd hate to charge it yet, but it wouldn't be enough to get me through the next day so I'd have to. Compare this to my Charge, where I had two spare batteries and a wall charger, so I could always have a battery in the phone, one on the charger, and a fully charged one in my pocket. I rarely even charged batteries in the phone itself, and could always drain and fill each battery completely. If it was getting low and I was going out, no worries, I've got a fresh one in my pocket for when it dies. So that was some real peace of mind right there.

Nope. I though I clarified what I meant in this post.



I was not insinuating that the Maxx is a large phone... although I will admit my original post could be construed that way. What I meant was the Maxx does not have an efficient chipset. How Moto achieved the lasting battery life was by packing a large mAh battery into the phone.

Personally I will take an efficient chipset with a removable battery (even smaller mAh) over Moto's approach. But to each their own.

I can say that the chipset is relatively efficient, usually gets me between 8-11 hours or so of decent usage, on LTE all day with no Juice Defender, Smart Actions, or whatever. But I'm really digging the idea of a far more efficient chipset, as well as a slightly larger battery. I don't see it lasting as long as the Maxx, but it should soundly beat the slim Razr. As I said, the past 6 months with the Razr have been decent overall, but the built-in battery has driven me crazy. I demand a removable battery on my next phone, especially one I plan to keep for quite some time.

And again, like many of you, I'm not convinced this is the perfect phone, there's definitely things I wish were different. But all told, I really like Samsung, and this phone looks great. The way Samsung markets devices, it'll be their flagship device for some time now, and even when the Note 2 drops, this will still be the flagship phone (cuz the Note is not quite a phone, just a hair too big). But mainly my hand was forced, as this upgrade was a use it or lose it situation. I'm eagerly awaiting my SGS3, and hopefully it will be a good enough device to hide its few shortcomings.

 

[rbess1965]

Nope. I though I clarified what I meant in this post.



I was not insinuating that the Maxx is a large phone... although I will admit my original post could be construed that way. What I meant was the Maxx does not have an efficient chipset. How Moto achieved the lasting battery life was by packing a large mAh battery into the phone.

Personally I will take an efficient chipset with a removable battery (even smaller mAh) over Moto's approach. But to each their own.

See what you mean and agree with you. I'm hoping that ICS will make better use of both cores and help it to be more efficient since we can't use extra batteries. I must say however that I've not been in a situation where I've needed a second one so all is well here so far. Sorry if I jumped on you there.

 

[davidsnoodles]

I was terrified to pre-order the S3 as I've had really bad signal problems with the Galaxy Nexus. However, some of my concerns have been eased after reading what some of you guys have posted. I'm really looking forward to having a phone that can play music during my entire 20 minute commute to school, rather than the last 10 seconds of my commute lol.