Once again. We get a new phone. We sit here and scan the forums for interesting posts, but after a while, the majority of us get sick of reading the forums. I am now relegated to reading the AC Blog news feed and ignoring the vast majority of the VZW SGSIII forum posts. Why? Cause all we ever get is complaining about everything. So, I am starting a thread about things I DO LIKE. Weird concept huh?
1. I love me some of this screen. From the brightness if you want it, to the crisp colors, this phone's screen is off the hook. I also like the texture of the glass as well, because it is so smooth. I mean, more smooth (smoother?) than any other phone I have ever had.
2. GPS is dang accurate. I can sit here at my desk and see which window I am near in my house. If I move throughout the house, I can track myself to just about the perfect position. In a lot of my GPS logging apps I have used can even see when I swerve back and forth on the SIDEWALK on my bike.
3. Tons of room. I don't care what you want to put on this beast, 16 (or 32) internal and then up to 64 external... that is ... umm... umm.... 96 (I did the math quickly, but the joke was good!) GB of potential space. My SSD is only 128 and on there are a couple of 30 GB games. That's a LOAD of storage.
4. I have great battery. It is 5pm my time and I took my phone off the charger at midnight (this morning) making it 17 hours ago, and I'm sitting at 62%. Being the first day of football I have sent 200-300 texts easily. Searched the web a lot and made some phone calls. If you're having battery problems, look into what you are doing to cause them, because I am proof that the stock battery works just fine.
5. I love all the motion stuff. I love that you can turn them on or off whenever you want. I love the ability to customize what you do like from Samsung in the Motion Controls and use none of it if you like as well. See, a lot of manufacturers will include things like the motion control, but not allow you to turn the crap off, so you are just stuck calling your sons teacher by accident if you happen to need to text her and move your phone wrong after it.
6. I really like the Touch UX. It's all customizable as well, so you can use how ever much of it you like. I do enjoy the BLOOP every time I touch something. It cracks me up. And, I'm just enough kid at heart to like fun stuff and not as pretentious of an adult to act like a teenager and wonder what people think of my phone going BLOOP when I hit the back button.
7. I like that I can turn off the menu and back buttons. I keep them off. It's fun. I don't know why. I love it. I don't want to see them turning off and on all the time and then if you want them off they are always thinking it is time to stay on. Like a newborn baby... WTF baby, it's dark, sleep! WTF Baby, it's light out, be awake?! But no, they can't get it right for at least 7 months.
8. I like the camera. I REALLY like that camera. All the stuff we can do with it right now is amazing. The speed it captures and stuff like that is amazing. Not comparable to anything we have to date. Not even some of my good cameras work this well. I do have a SLR that works this fast, but I spent 1000 dollars on just the camera and it captures at this speed.
9. I like the wifi power. It covers my whole house and all the yard as well. I have a good transmitter, granted, but the other phones didn't work as well with this exact same router. I can sit in a spot with my Xoom, my wife's Bionic, and my SGSIII and I'm the only one getting anything on the Galaxy. Cool for me!
10. Along the lines of thought with the WiFi, we got to go straight to the 4G. I'm in a good signal area and I get great connection all the time. At first, I was getting some terrible speeds. I mean, like .2 MB/s and things like that on a download. I wanted to exchange the phone and the guy at the store said "Yeah, there's a stupid default setting that we need to ... and there" - and poof, back up to 22 MB/s down speeds.
11. I love the sound. The speaker could use a bit of amplification... so, go grab a free amplification app and blammo, you're done. The speaker has excellent quality now and I don't mind just listening to it right out of the speaker or hook up my external speaker (I won't say Magic Bullet because I don't want to advertise) and it fills the room with the amp app.
12. This is my first Android device that by default (Yes, I said by default so don't lecture about ROMs that can do it too) can change the background of the phone and the lock screen background independently. Yeah, that's dumb and little, but I like it, and this is what I like.
13. I like S-Voice. Yeah, it's pretty useless for the majority of the things that you could do with it if they were able to go just a little further, but it's rather simple to begin with. All I use it for is to set an alarm or do stupid things with her. I wish S-Voice had a little more personality like Iris does. Iris was fun to talk smack with for a long period of time wasting. The crap I would say to Iris and crap she'd come back with entertained my kids and I a LOT on long drives.
14. I love the actual build of the phone. This sucker is solid. It's sleek (slick too if that's your thing) and it's big and fits in my pocket extremely well still. This is a great phone for form factor. The home button is excellently made as well. Argue if you like it or not, but you can't ignore the quality of the button itself.
15. Since I got my blackberry storm... I think... I have used a flash light app on my phones to use my phone for night navigation. This phone has by far the brightest and the whitest LED of all. My Xoom LED is rather brown or yellow looking and not that bright. This one can light up my entire back yard well and if I turn it on after my wife is in bed I can light up the whole room in there as well. I use TeslaLED for my flash light, by the way.
16. This phone has an amazing ability to use SwiftKey better than every other phone. I had a Fascinate (the VZW version of the Galaxy S if you have forgotten) and it was amazing when I installed SwiftKey and how fast I could get with that app. I mean, I was flying. When I got my Bionic, I had to slow down and be more careful because it couldn't keep up with me. When I put it on this phone I pushed my speed to as fast as I can go and I can light that thing up. I have been doing a lot of typing for my entire life, I type extremely quickly and haven't had to look at my keyboard in over 18 years. That extreme memorization of the keyboard allows me to go extra fast on my phone too. Not nearly as accurately on the phone, but the app fixes my mistakes, most of the time.
17. The customization of the lock screen is nice. All the different crap that you can have but don't have to use is nice. I use parts and add things every once in a while and take things away upon deciding they have lived their worth this week.
18. I like how you can do the home screen settings. The Fascinate (still the original Galaxy S - in case you have forgotten since number 16) had a lot of the same home screen settings, but it always had the little sprocket in the corner to edit the screens. I like that you just do the pinch and off you go.
I am not even going to touch the RAM, the processor, or anything else that is widely publicized.
Please, tell me what YOU love about YOUR phone and lets change the community to happy folks as well as the angry guys who complain because they went to the beach and got some sand on the screen. Dang it, Samsung, the Sand Force Field is not good enough. Jerks.
ENJOY THIS THREAD, don't hate it.
1. I love me some of this screen. From the brightness if you want it, to the crisp colors, this phone's screen is off the hook. I also like the texture of the glass as well, because it is so smooth. I mean, more smooth (smoother?) than any other phone I have ever had.
2. GPS is dang accurate. I can sit here at my desk and see which window I am near in my house. If I move throughout the house, I can track myself to just about the perfect position. In a lot of my GPS logging apps I have used can even see when I swerve back and forth on the SIDEWALK on my bike.
3. Tons of room. I don't care what you want to put on this beast, 16 (or 32) internal and then up to 64 external... that is ... umm... umm.... 96 (I did the math quickly, but the joke was good!) GB of potential space. My SSD is only 128 and on there are a couple of 30 GB games. That's a LOAD of storage.
4. I have great battery. It is 5pm my time and I took my phone off the charger at midnight (this morning) making it 17 hours ago, and I'm sitting at 62%. Being the first day of football I have sent 200-300 texts easily. Searched the web a lot and made some phone calls. If you're having battery problems, look into what you are doing to cause them, because I am proof that the stock battery works just fine.
5. I love all the motion stuff. I love that you can turn them on or off whenever you want. I love the ability to customize what you do like from Samsung in the Motion Controls and use none of it if you like as well. See, a lot of manufacturers will include things like the motion control, but not allow you to turn the crap off, so you are just stuck calling your sons teacher by accident if you happen to need to text her and move your phone wrong after it.
6. I really like the Touch UX. It's all customizable as well, so you can use how ever much of it you like. I do enjoy the BLOOP every time I touch something. It cracks me up. And, I'm just enough kid at heart to like fun stuff and not as pretentious of an adult to act like a teenager and wonder what people think of my phone going BLOOP when I hit the back button.
7. I like that I can turn off the menu and back buttons. I keep them off. It's fun. I don't know why. I love it. I don't want to see them turning off and on all the time and then if you want them off they are always thinking it is time to stay on. Like a newborn baby... WTF baby, it's dark, sleep! WTF Baby, it's light out, be awake?! But no, they can't get it right for at least 7 months.
8. I like the camera. I REALLY like that camera. All the stuff we can do with it right now is amazing. The speed it captures and stuff like that is amazing. Not comparable to anything we have to date. Not even some of my good cameras work this well. I do have a SLR that works this fast, but I spent 1000 dollars on just the camera and it captures at this speed.
9. I like the wifi power. It covers my whole house and all the yard as well. I have a good transmitter, granted, but the other phones didn't work as well with this exact same router. I can sit in a spot with my Xoom, my wife's Bionic, and my SGSIII and I'm the only one getting anything on the Galaxy. Cool for me!
10. Along the lines of thought with the WiFi, we got to go straight to the 4G. I'm in a good signal area and I get great connection all the time. At first, I was getting some terrible speeds. I mean, like .2 MB/s and things like that on a download. I wanted to exchange the phone and the guy at the store said "Yeah, there's a stupid default setting that we need to ... and there" - and poof, back up to 22 MB/s down speeds.
11. I love the sound. The speaker could use a bit of amplification... so, go grab a free amplification app and blammo, you're done. The speaker has excellent quality now and I don't mind just listening to it right out of the speaker or hook up my external speaker (I won't say Magic Bullet because I don't want to advertise) and it fills the room with the amp app.
12. This is my first Android device that by default (Yes, I said by default so don't lecture about ROMs that can do it too) can change the background of the phone and the lock screen background independently. Yeah, that's dumb and little, but I like it, and this is what I like.
13. I like S-Voice. Yeah, it's pretty useless for the majority of the things that you could do with it if they were able to go just a little further, but it's rather simple to begin with. All I use it for is to set an alarm or do stupid things with her. I wish S-Voice had a little more personality like Iris does. Iris was fun to talk smack with for a long period of time wasting. The crap I would say to Iris and crap she'd come back with entertained my kids and I a LOT on long drives.
14. I love the actual build of the phone. This sucker is solid. It's sleek (slick too if that's your thing) and it's big and fits in my pocket extremely well still. This is a great phone for form factor. The home button is excellently made as well. Argue if you like it or not, but you can't ignore the quality of the button itself.
15. Since I got my blackberry storm... I think... I have used a flash light app on my phones to use my phone for night navigation. This phone has by far the brightest and the whitest LED of all. My Xoom LED is rather brown or yellow looking and not that bright. This one can light up my entire back yard well and if I turn it on after my wife is in bed I can light up the whole room in there as well. I use TeslaLED for my flash light, by the way.
16. This phone has an amazing ability to use SwiftKey better than every other phone. I had a Fascinate (the VZW version of the Galaxy S if you have forgotten) and it was amazing when I installed SwiftKey and how fast I could get with that app. I mean, I was flying. When I got my Bionic, I had to slow down and be more careful because it couldn't keep up with me. When I put it on this phone I pushed my speed to as fast as I can go and I can light that thing up. I have been doing a lot of typing for my entire life, I type extremely quickly and haven't had to look at my keyboard in over 18 years. That extreme memorization of the keyboard allows me to go extra fast on my phone too. Not nearly as accurately on the phone, but the app fixes my mistakes, most of the time.
17. The customization of the lock screen is nice. All the different crap that you can have but don't have to use is nice. I use parts and add things every once in a while and take things away upon deciding they have lived their worth this week.
18. I like how you can do the home screen settings. The Fascinate (still the original Galaxy S - in case you have forgotten since number 16) had a lot of the same home screen settings, but it always had the little sprocket in the corner to edit the screens. I like that you just do the pinch and off you go.
I am not even going to touch the RAM, the processor, or anything else that is widely publicized.
Please, tell me what YOU love about YOUR phone and lets change the community to happy folks as well as the angry guys who complain because they went to the beach and got some sand on the screen. Dang it, Samsung, the Sand Force Field is not good enough. Jerks.
ENJOY THIS THREAD, don't hate it.
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