Agree with some of the other posters here. Nothing wrong with liking the Samsung phones (I'm personally not a fan), but what's the point of posting about it on an iPhone forum on a Mac website?
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A 4 inch screen is definitely not the ideal size for a smartphone
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No, but I didn't think apple would introduce a non-retina iPad mini with old hardware and try to sell it like it was so amazing. Especially after all these years of flaunting their retina display, they're selling point is you can hold it with one hand?
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The OP was just comparing his experience with an iPhone and an S3. The only problem is it should've been posted under the other device/OS section of the board.
Samoled is terrible. Color reproduction is ideal? Are you joking? Samoled is way over saturated and has anything but an ideal color reproduction. Moreover, it is unable to display whites, they are more like blue, burn in problems are a common thing on amoleds, it also destroys battery when it displays anything but dark colors. Compare that GS3 screen to the iphone, or HTC one x, and they destroy it in brightness. When i had my GS3 i found that the screen was very dim even on the highest brightness setting. It is unusable in sunlight.
The only thing that samoled has is the black color reproduction, but that is it. Rest of the technology is mostly negatives.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that the iPhone's screen is the best, I'm saying that the samoled has way more negatives and should be avoided until amoled technology addresses those issues.
Well first off coming from a GS3. I can say that the retina display is alot better then the GS3 screen. While its true you cant really see the pentile at times, with red texts you see heavy pixelation on red text and it looks pretty bad. The screen is no where near as bright as the retina display, and the GS3's display reflects like crazy.
The colors do look nice though and the true blacks on the Gs3 is extremely nice. But i much rather prefer the retina display anyday. Its sharper, brighter, and perfect for one hand use
For me personally, the S3 is just enormous. What I liked about the 4S and still with the 5 is that they slip into my pockets, particularly my shirt pockets, and I don't even feel them there. The S3 and pretty much every other Android phone has a huge screen, and that's great for a lot of people. But for me, I am looking for compact and unencumbering.
The OP definitely has valid points for him or herself. As such, the thread title should have read, " A 4" screen is not ideal for me."
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On a side note . . . Go San Francisco Giants!!! 3-0 Humm Baby!
Yes, the S3 looks gigantic next to the iPhone 5. Clearly there's no way this brick of an S3 would be able to fit into someone's pocket. You'd definitely need a fanny pack or something to carry this monster of a device.
ok, look. If you like the S3, then have fun with it. we simply don't care.
you must be a Samsung employee
/thread reported to mod, needs to be moved to the 'alternatives forum'
LOL enjoy your subpar app store - less apps, quality compared to ios apps is a joke, apps not designed for all androids, glitchy, etc.
Have fun with your battery life - you'll be lucky if you get a day of use and when you ask for advice on android forums they tell you to turn off pretty much every feature on the phone to get decent battery life or root it and flash custom roms. my ip5 got 2 days of battery life out of the box.
Enjoy never getting updates - once the gs4 comes out your phone will be forgotten and never updated. Have fun with your glitchy OS. the iphone 4 came out two years ago and it just got ios6 apple always supports its products.
oh by the way two years from now my ip5 will have a resale value twice as high as your gs3. trust me you will regret this switch.
edit: im not an apple fanboy but i just dont like droids although i wouldnt mind a bigger screen. If the iphone didnt exist i'd get a note 2 but androids battery, app store, and OS pushes me away.
Have fun with your battery life - you'll be lucky if you get a day of use and when you ask for advice on android forums they tell you to turn off pretty much every feature on the phone to get decent battery life or root it and flash custom roms. my ip5 got 2 days of battery life out of the box.
Enjoy never getting updates - once the gs4 comes out your phone will be forgotten and never updated. Have fun with your glitchy OS. the iphone 4 came out two years ago and it just got ios6 apple always supports its products.
oh by the way two years from now my ip5 will have a resale value twice as high as your gs3. trust me you will regret this switch.
edit: im not an apple fanboy but i just dont like droids although i wouldnt mind a bigger screen. If the iphone didnt exist i'd get a note 2 but androids battery, app store, and OS pushes me away.
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I agree with u F123d that Apple likes to place marketing spins on its products - yet, in the past five years or maybe slightly longer, apple has had considerable marketing momentum. Thus, frequently apple will cut a little in the specs in order to be able to ensure reliability, mass availability of technology, and safeguarding potential canibalisation of its other products (also, they ensure they achieve a considerable profit margin, as well).
I also have the sense that having the same resolution as the iPad2 on the iPad mini is a considerable movement to near retina, without quite making it to retina status. I agree that some people are disappointed that apple did not go far enough with the resolution on the iPad mini, yet I sense apple may have determined that they could not have released retina at a proper price point, or maybe as a business decision was that they believe to release a retina at a later date would be more profitable. Test the ipad mini market with version 1, 1st, then milk us for more upon releasing a retina version. I accept that as business, and personally, I do not feel exploited by such profits that Apple makes.
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I agree. 4" is NOT ideal. It should be 4.3"
I love my iphone but I have to rant on the hypocrisy of the whole "perfect for one hand" iPad Mini/iPhone 5 excuses. With phones we are to believe any bigger is for mutants. but then the iPad Mini page shows this gigantic caveman hand displaying how this 7.9"iPad can easily be held in one hand. If handling a Mini is that easy with one hand then I'm not convinced that 4.3" phones wouldn't work.
Ive used 4.3" phones and while I dislike non-iOS operating systems, the hardware is entirely manageable. But with the iPhone 5 then the 4" screen feels like a compromise because you've got the difficulties of a taller screen (top row items are a bit awkward to reach) without the benefits of a wider screen (keyboard is still cramped).
Id love to spend a day in the Apple labs just to play with a 4.3" prototype and try to figure out why they felt that 4" was such a superior size.
I love my iphone but I have to rant on the hypocrisy of the whole "perfect for one hand" iPad Mini/iPhone 5 excuses. With phones we are to believe any bigger is for mutants. but then the iPad Mini page shows this gigantic caveman hand displaying how this 7.9"iPad can easily be held in one hand. If handling a Mini is that easy with one hand then I'm not convinced that 4.3" phones wouldn't work.
Ive used 4.3" phones and while I dislike non-iOS operating systems, the hardware is entirely manageable. But with the iPhone 5 then the 4" screen feels like a compromise because you've got the difficulties of a taller screen (top row items are a bit awkward to reach) without the benefits of a wider screen (keyboard is still cramped).
Id love to spend a day in the Apple labs just to play with a 4.3" prototype and try to figure out why they felt that 4" was such a superior size.
Uh, right, because we all live in some Apple-ruled totalitarian regime and we have no idea what other options are out in the world.
Get out of here with this stuff. Seriously. I mean it's fine to share your opinion, but then you just come across as a troll in the rest of your posts. Great, so you got an S3 and you like it. I'm happy for you. I tried an S3 and I would never switch. Now go over to the Android forums and play with your newfound buddies.
News for the OP. Apple engineers are smarter than you.
And with that out of the way, having seen the enormous difference between the Samesung G screen and the iPhone 5 in direct sunlight, I know which way I would go if I had to make a choice. I find myself using a phone in daylight a lot more than appreciating the depth of black while watching a movie.
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Lovely photo which shows exactly why the Samesung screen is inferior in daylight, thank you.
And with that out of the way, having seen the enormous difference between the Samesung G screen and the iPhone 5 in direct sunlight, I know which way I would go if I had to make a choice. I find myself using a phone in daylight a lot more than appreciating the depth of black while watching a movie.
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Yes, the S3 looks gigantic next to the iPhone 5. Clearly there's no way this brick of an S3 would be able to fit into someone's pocket. You'd definitely need a fanny pack or something to carry this monster of a device.
Lovely photo which shows exactly why the Samesung screen is inferior in daylight, thank you.
I have both and I like them both. The S3 I find generally easier to use on a day to day basis because it's physically bigger. I don't like the screen as much though and it's near impossible to view outside. It does eat battery but then again it updates my Twitter and Facebook etc. feeds in the background.
The iPhone is a nicer device to own, it's beautifully made, and the screen is bright and vivid. Despite the fact that it has lower paper specs and benchmarks than the S3 in my experience it runs faster. So fast in apps like Pulse that the pages don't build but they just appear.
These are probably the two best phones out there just now. They're both great. It's really down to personal choice. And if you can't chose and you have cash to burn, have them both!
The iPhone is a nicer device to own, it's beautifully made, and the screen is bright and vivid. Despite the fact that it has lower paper specs and benchmarks than the S3 in my experience it runs faster. So fast in apps like Pulse that the pages don't build but they just appear.
These are probably the two best phones out there just now. They're both great. It's really down to personal choice. And if you can't chose and you have cash to burn, have them both!
Yes, because everyone sits under direct sunlight all day to use their phones. As I mentioned earlier, LCD > amoled, but a 4" LCD leaves a lot to be desired.
I thought they said you can hold it with one hand (implying it's much easier to do so over the bigger one).
Then what of all the Apple loyalists on here and them saying that 4 inches is the perfect size? Will you demand equality?
How would you feel with a phone similar in size to the iPhone 5 but with a 4.3" screen on it?
I think people are getting phone size confused with screen size. A 6" screen isn't too bad if its edge to edge.
Yes, the S3 looks gigantic next to the iPhone 5. Clearly there's no way this brick of an S3 would be able to fit into someone's pocket. You'd definitely need a fanny pack or something to carry this monster of a device.
Have you used both? Asking seriously. I traded my 4S for the S3 and before I put the 4S into my front pocket on my lab coat at work. I had to change that for the S3 because yes it is larger and it would've fallen out of my front pocket if I bent over, so I put it in the lower pocket. Not really a big deal, but there's a good size difference here...Not to mention I feel obligated to use a case with the S3 because it felt so fragile.
Plus the feel of the S3 in front jeans pocket is noticeably different than the feel of the Razr M in pocket. Both fit no problem but there's a different feel and a large area of my thigh ist tightened down from the S3 but not as much with the M.