This I DO like about my Galaxy SIII

[imtoomuch]

I agree. I like the screen as well, but it would have been so much if it used LCD technology. But the colors do pop when you have the screen brightness up.

GS3

Ew @ LCD.

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[p3unit32]

The Galaxy S III is my second Android phone, next to the HTC Inspire 4G. The Inspire 4G left me rather uninspired, and left a bad impression of Android. I have had iPhones since the beginning, well not the first one.

But the Galaxy S III has left a good impression, even though it doesn't run stock Android. To me this phone is impressive in nearly everyway. I really enjoy having the freed to customize the device to my hearts content.

Bottom line, awesome phone and that's coming from the Samsung-SGH-I747 variant. I can imagine what the Samsung-GT-I9300 is like.

GS3

 

[Bond32]

+1 with everything the OP said.... The features on this phone are amazing, can't forget about the "smart stay".. probably my favorite feature of the phone.. Also this is the first Android phone that I haven't felt it necessary to use a custom ROM, the phone works great out of the box and I really enjoy the TouchWiz interface.

One thing, the OP has one complaint about the speaker volume.... Go into the phone app.. Hit menu.. Call settings.. Go to In call sound EQ settings... I'm using the "clear sound" setting and find it to be plenty loud. Also turn on "use extra volume for calls".... when you're on a phone call there's a small circle icon next to the contacts picture that enables the boosted volume.
Gotta love this phone

Good tip. Couldn't have said it better myself, this phone is a winner. Love all the small settings like these. Also glad to see you're over to the s3 Cyber Warrior.

Also not sure if its been mentioned but the notification light is amazing. While it may be the same as the gnex (not sure), I didn't care for the placement on the gnex. All around loving this phone.

Another thing is I have zero need to root or install custom roms. I absolutely love it just plain stock. With the tethering options now it has all my needs.

 

[tlrsax54]

I love this phone. I debated forever between this and the Evo4GLTE and grabbed this one the day after my birthday...I was completely blown away. TouchWiz gets such a bad rap but I actually think it looks really nice. It was easy to root, though all I did was uninstall Samsung apps and leave everything else stock. Looks great, feels great, runs smooth, no problems for me!!

 

[xxx420]

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.

Good post. Could you explain #10 further? What was the stupid default setting the guy at the store changed for you to get better speed? Also, what's the amp app you use to get better sound?

 

[Sailmaker]

Good post. Could you explain #10 further? What was the stupid default setting the guy at the store changed for you to get better speed? Also, what's the amp app you use to get better sound?

Yes, I too would like to know more about "the stupid default setting" mentioned in #10

 

[BasPilot]

Good post. Could you explain #10 further? What was the stupid default setting the guy at the store changed for you to get better speed? Also, what's the amp app you use to get better sound?

It was an option that was a few screens down off the main menu settings.... I don't remember where at the moment, but I will look into it.

As for the next guy, the app I use is called "Music Volume EQ" and it's by K and K designs. I don't know them, so if they get mad I put this up here, they're morons! HA. I use this with my Xoom too, and it cranked up the volume for that thing really well and helped me hear some netflix movies and shows without headphones or the Magic Bullet! Love that stupid thing!



Okay, let me investigate that setting....

Settings > Under Wireless and Network: More settings > Mobile Networks > Access Point Names > ==== at this point my phone was set to Verizon Internet, EHRPD - I don't recognize that at all, and I'm too lazy to look it up this morning (afternoon now)... Set it to LTE - Verizon Internet (which I do recognize)... I'm fairly sure that was the setting we did that day. Don't quote me on this that it is set up default still, or even all of them were, but mine was. So, do your thing.

 

[xxx420]

Cool thanks for the info man.

 

[crackberrytraitor]

Care to explain how to get the apps to the SD?

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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262

Works great for me. I have all my apps on my 64GB SD.

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[crackberrytraitor]

I love this phone. I debated forever between this and the Evo4GLTE and grabbed this one the day after my birthday...I was completely blown away. TouchWiz gets such a bad rap but I actually think it looks really nice. It was easy to root, though all I did was uninstall Samsung apps and leave everything else stock. Looks great, feels great, runs smooth, no problems for me!!

That must have been an insanely hard decision. If I was on sprint, I would have ended up buying both, lol.

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[Crispy]

It was an option that was a few screens down off the main menu settings.... I don't remember where at the moment, but I will look into it.

As for the next guy, the app I use is called "Music Volume EQ" and it's by K and K designs. I don't know them, so if they get mad I put this up here, they're morons! HA. I use this with my Xoom too, and it cranked up the volume for that thing really well and helped me hear some netflix movies and shows without headphones or the Magic Bullet! Love that stupid thing!



Okay, let me investigate that setting....

Settings > Under Wireless and Network: More settings > Mobile Networks > Access Point Names > ==== at this point my phone was set to Verizon Internet, EHRPD - I don't recognize that at all, and I'm too lazy to look it up this morning (afternoon now)... Set it to LTE - Verizon Internet (which I do recognize)... I'm fairly sure that was the setting we did that day. Don't quote me on this that it is set up default still, or even all of them were, but mine was. So, do your thing.

Thx for the info. I checked that setting and it's set to LTE on my new phone. I was hoping this would help fix my signal issues, since it keeps dropping randomly between 4G to 1x.

 

[p3unit32]

Did I forget to mention that this phone is simply awesome!

GS3

 

[Since9600]

This is most def the first phone that I don't think I'll ever install a custom rom on in a long long time. I did have to root though because I love having a custom hosts file (hate adverts) and changing/removing sounds.. Other than that I am stock..

 

[isabel95]

Can you elaborate about what setting needed to be changed as discussed in this point:

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.

 

[BasPilot]

It was an option that was a few screens down off the main menu settings.... I don't remember where at the moment, but I will look into it.

As for the next guy, the app I use is called "Music Volume EQ" and it's by K and K designs. I don't know them, so if they get mad I put this up here, they're morons! HA. I use this with my Xoom too, and it cranked up the volume for that thing really well and helped me hear some netflix movies and shows without headphones or the Magic Bullet! Love that stupid thing!



Okay, let me investigate that setting....

Settings > Under Wireless and Network: More settings > Mobile Networks > Access Point Names > ==== at this point my phone was set to Verizon Internet, EHRPD - I don't recognize that at all, and I'm too lazy to look it up this morning (afternoon now)... Set it to LTE - Verizon Internet (which I do recognize)... I'm fairly sure that was the setting we did that day. Don't quote me on this that it is set up default still, or even all of them were, but mine was. So, do your thing.

There is my elaboration from earlier.

 

[isabel95]

Thank you. I just checked and mine is set to LTE - Verizon Internet.

There is my elaboration from earlier.

 

[rockhopperGS3]

Inside my apartment plenty of windows im lucky to pull down 3-5mbps a mile down the street i was getting 30mbps. Cant believe so much of a difference, verizon needs to either install more towers with 4G or find a frequency that will penetrate as well as 3g with the same speeds.
Mine is also set to LTE though initially it wasent.

 

[isabel95]

Strange difference between wireless and data:

Wireless (via cable provider)
11,459 kbps download; 2935 kbps upload

4G
7683 kbps download; 9,168 kbps upload

Awfully strange that while 4g download is way slower, upload is way faster.

Phone is set to Verizon LTE