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Anyone used both iPhone 5 and GS3?
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I thought he was trolling. lol iOS 6 has its share of issues and I love the SG3, but the iPhone 5 has probably the best screen/accurate and rich colors as any I've seen.
Not credible. ip5 has the best screen, better than S3. Battery life is good. Its a very fast phone, no lag.
Let's be honest, the screen is it. The SG3's battery is better, the phone is also just as fast. Forstall et al dropped a turd of a OS on a remarkable piece of hardware.
Primary different is the ability to use it with one hand and what to do with the phone when you're not using it. ie pocket, even talking with it.
IMO, the S3 is huge. Feels like a tablet. Why not use an ipad as a phone. Great screen. Lots of room. Videos look great.
... because its too big.
ip5 is sized so that you can use it with one hand. S3 requires two hands to type on it.
Other than that, having owned both, the ip5 is more reliable. Typing is more accurate even on the smaller screen. S3 adds lots of features, some are cool, some are stupid. Tilt to zoom? Shake to update. Word to wake it up is a neat idea but usually didn't work for me. Siri much better than S-Voice.
I've owned Android for 3 years. I'm tired of having to manage memory and processes. S3 has nice tools to help YOU manage it. On iOS you don't have to manage it. No runaway processes like on Android. Vendors don't maintain their phones for long. Motorola announced they've given up on updating a promised phone. HTC hasn't released ICS for almost a year. I don't know Samsung's reputation for updates. But they're generally a company with poor business ethics. I'm always amazed that folks defend them. Must not know much about the company and its CEO.
Sounds like BS to me. I've seen small handed girls text one handed on a gs3 so your fact just became a stinky armpit opinion.
The iPhone 5 requires a magnifying glass to read text...yeah.
Talk about exaggerating things. Saying that the S3 feels like a is nonsense. I can use it quite comfortably with one hand, I can easily move around the phone, pull down the notifications, type on it, scroll through RSS Feeds, emails or Google+ posts or even dial to call someone. I can also quite easily reach any of the phone's buttons with one hand since they are very conveniently placed.
i have both
only plus about the gs3 is watching videos is pretty awesome but otherwise iphone 5 wins in about every category
battery life on the iphone 5 is a big winner also as the gs3 gets like 5 hrs of battery unless u disable all the widgets nfc and bluetooth
only plus about the gs3 is watching videos is pretty awesome but otherwise iphone 5 wins in about every category
battery life on the iphone 5 is a big winner also as the gs3 gets like 5 hrs of battery unless u disable all the widgets nfc and bluetooth
I get by with my S3 through the whole day on a single charge and I have widgets, wifi, gps, notifications, sync and vibrate on all the time along with all the motion features like smart stay and direct call. And I have no battery management app like Juice Defender installed.
Battery life is actually one of the things I like the most about this phone.
The iPhone 5 screen is still pitifully small. That half inch really adds very little difference. I can't believe that's enough to satisfy iPhone users who wanted a large screen. I wonder how many are settling because they have no choice.
phones are meant to be portable products
4.8 inch screens is basically a small tablet
I had the Galaxy S3 for AT&T for 2 weeks and loved everything about it, sometimes I could go 2 days without charging the phone and I use it all day at work. I had to return it because I needed to see what the iPhone 5 had to offer.
I don't play games at work, I use wifi and have everything off - just iMessage, email and use safari. When I get off work I have around 18% left...
My home button is also less then perfect, it doesn't feel solid like my 4/4S. Not sure if I'm going to return it and get the Galaxy S3 International version or the Galaxy Nexus 2.
I and millions of other people have no portability issues with 4.6-4.8" screen devices. Really is a non-issue.
If your prefer smaller screens, all good, mate. Just saying, the portability issue is one from imagination.
Sure, they must be portable and have a reasonable size so as to be able to be used as a phone, but the device size must also take into consideration everything that it can do, not just the phone functionality. The 4.8" screen of the S3 does that wonderfully while still keeping the size reasonable and portable, so as to be able to use it as a phone. The S3 fits nicely into my relatively tight jeans and I can use it comfortably with one hand too.
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Definitely, coming from an iPhone 4 to a Galaxy S3, for my part I can't imagine going back to a smaller screen. I can see why some people prefer the iPhone's size, it is really not for me.
satire, I assume
I have a friend who does not like Apple very much and defends android and Samsung GS3 a lot, but he never told me about the need to occasionally manage memory and processes in Android and the possible color issues on GS3 that some people have mentioned here. I do not know much about Android and this thread has given me some ammunition
The only impression I have about GS3 is playing around with it at a store. Somehow, it does not feel like a premium phone to me. It may be unkind, but it felt a bit Toys 'R Us 'ish as a first impression. Aren't there better Android phones both from a hardware perspective and software perspective. Why is this GS3 is being held up the gold standard for Android?
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Tried my friend's SIII.
Nice screen but too big.
Also he had to turn 4G off in order to preserve battery. After about 30 mins of playing this game...his battery went down 10%...and thats basically new because he just got the phone a day before.
Nice screen but too big.
Also he had to turn 4G off in order to preserve battery. After about 30 mins of playing this game...his battery went down 10%...and thats basically new because he just got the phone a day before.
The portability issue isn't imagination but it is overblown somewhat a lot of the time. The iPhone is very easy to wield with one hand, whereas its a struggle to reach certain parts of the screen on the S3 without shifting your grip.
The S3's size never did bother me though
Is that a portability issue, though?
If you're talking separately and generally about one-handed use, I'd agree there are some adjustments that need to be done to reach certain areas, but I'd say that "issue" is overblown as well. If you measure exactly how much farther one has to reach, we're typically talking about mere millimeters. It's doable.
And the tradeoffs of a larger screen far out-weight this importance of easy one hand use. (Personally, I had to do shifting too when I handled the iPhone 5, especially since there's no dedicated back button. To move backwards, I always had to reach the top left. I don't see iOS users complaining).
I still feel the iPhone 5's screen is pitifully small. You really don't get much out of that extra .5".
1) It is interesting that you say Vendors dont maintain phones for long , especially when Apple almost kills its devices in 3 years. I am pretty sure 3gs is almost absolete by now
2) What do you mean manage memory and proccesses? Even on iOS you have to shut down apps and restart some times?
Presence of app icons in the multi-tasking tray does not mean they are running. Most often they do not. ( one dramatic way to show that is, even after a full power off/on, they are all there ). There is some myth about getting stuff out of that multi tasking window to improve performance. Very rarely, so rare I do not remember, that you want to get rid of some apps.
In some cases, you have to do that in case the app can run in the background and you want that app to do a cold start. But that is app functionality and not iOS.
The S3 is wider. Maybe not too much wider, but your hand has to cope with that extra wideness twice: once for your fingers to grasp/balance the phone and the second time for your thumb to reach whatever you need to tap on.
The S3 is significantly harder to use one handed, no doubt about it, but it's still easy enough not to cause problems IMO.
Not to nitpick, but it was released June 19th 2009 which is interestingly exactly-ish 3 years and 3 months before iOS 6.0 came out. (September 19th, 2012)
From ArsTechnica:
Not all of those restrictions are due to insufficient hardware; Apple plans obsolescence just like Android phone manufacturers do.