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Day 1 on the Galaxy S3 - wow, um... so behind
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This statement alone tells me your just trolling.
More trolling.
Playstore never crashed on me. Flipboard is one of the most responsive apps. I know cause I press launch it often by mistake when I confuse it's icon with FreeiD YouTube player. It always loads up lighting fast and ready to be flipped right away.
Yes, Autobrightness on the GS3 does suck. But I keep my brightness at full most of the time anyways. the battery still lasts me a day.
Let me guess, you pirated low bitrate music.
Music quality is good on the GS3.
Have fun with your 5.
Sorry but as far as LCD displays go, the one x, and atrix HD have better screens than the iPhone 5.
Do these posts not give you the hint that instead of being really dissatisfied with the phone and waxing on how terrible it is, that perhaps, just perhaps you got a defective phone?
Jesus, if you had these problems with the iPHone, you would be rushing to the Apple Store instead of complaining about it on a forum. Try the same thing with the S3
Do these posts not give you the hint that instead of being really dissatisfied with the phone and waxing on how terrible it is, that perhaps, just perhaps you got a defective phone?
Jesus, if you had these problems with the iPHone, you would be rushing to the Apple Store instead of complaining about it on a forum. Try the same thing with the S3
After comparing mine with the store display models, mine is not at all defective.
1) If you can't see the brightness shift and viewing angle inferiority of the S3, you are blind. As a bat. Sorry, we can't all have great vision.
2) Smoothness... wow you guys really are trolling. Ice Cream sandwhich is like 3GS level. Flipboard is like lag patrol. iPhone 4 is way faster than this thing, forget 4S. The 5 feels like a Quad Core laptop with an SSD in comparison, and is on a completely different level altogether.
3) The Audio has a base level HISS. This has nothing to do with GS3's audio quality, just noise filtering. If you plug headphones into an iPhone you get NO backgground hiss. GS3? Background HISS.
Listen to Classical music like I do? YEs, you can hear it in the quiet movements.
The point is that Autobrightness... should WORK. It should not be at lowest brightness in almost all circumstances. It should max out your brightness when you're in the sun. It should only be at the lowest brightness level when you're in pitch black darkness.
I had to use LUX to get Autobrightness working like an iPhone does. $2.99 App that Google's developers couldn't get right.
What I find funny is iDevice people deciding that tiny flaws in an android device make it "trash" but go out of their way to defend an iDevice. They also GROSSLY over exaggerate problems with android. You yuppies forget many of us also have iDevice to compare to so we KNOW WHAT THE HELL we are talking about!
I've always had an android phone and have had my iPad 3 since day one. I'm familiar with iOS as well as android. The garbage you apple people post is appalling.
I've always had an android phone and have had my iPad 3 since day one. I'm familiar with iOS as well as android. The garbage you apple people post is appalling.
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Yup, I guess that means because I am having none of the problems being reported on the forums with my iPhone, no one else's problems exist.
Almost 100% of the people on this forum came from an iDevice and switched to an android. So yes, this guy is trolling. And trolling hard. Anyone that says the iPhone 4 and the 3GS are similar in speed really is trolling hard. I just came from a 4, and the difference is measured in light years. The things he picked out to criticize are the ones that would get the biggest response from the board. I hope the admins do what right here and ban this dude.
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Return your Beats by Dre and get some real headphones. I love the Galaxy S3 for music, it's equalizer is far superior to Apple's. Not saying the iPhone 5 is bad. I love it, just Galaxy S3 music player > iPhone music player.
Not to mention I can adjust the equalizer in the app. Instead of having to go Home -> Settins -> iPod -> EQ.
If you want to see a device with some REAL screen issues I'll show you my iPad 3. It has some serious flashlighting on one side that is very noticeable when scrolling. You want to see something impressive, load up a dark HD video on your S3 and be amazed at the black levels.
Thing is he does make some valid points and this is coming from a long time android user since its inception.
1 . There is a hiss. It's ever so subtle but if you play a song that has breaks in between without any instruments, you can hear it.
2. The SG3 screen is garbage under sunlight. You literally have to put it at its brightest setting just so it's visible. compare a one X at 50% brightness under sunlight with a GS3 and you'll see exactly what I mean.
3. The only real choppiness in Android is in the browser and I really wouldn't call it choppiness. It's more like a jerk. Don't scroll, but flick the screen a little ways and you'll notice how it kinda jerks while moving. Thing is, this is just how android works.
Now slamming an entire OS/phone based on minor flaws is trollish but his claims are not altogether baseless.
1 . There is a hiss. It's ever so subtle but if you play a song that has breaks in between without any instruments, you can hear it.
2. The SG3 screen is garbage under sunlight. You literally have to put it at its brightest setting just so it's visible. compare a one X at 50% brightness under sunlight with a GS3 and you'll see exactly what I mean.
3. The only real choppiness in Android is in the browser and I really wouldn't call it choppiness. It's more like a jerk. Don't scroll, but flick the screen a little ways and you'll notice how it kinda jerks while moving. Thing is, this is just how android works.
Now slamming an entire OS/phone based on minor flaws is trollish but his claims are not altogether baseless.
I would return it. It should not be this way, and you may have a defective unit. Good luck.
Have never noticed that on the stock browser on S3. Chrome has choppy scrolling on Android and iOS.
1. Love my display. just increase brightness and youll be good
2. Jelly Bean is your answer here. and it not samsung its the touch wiz that slows it down. Jelly Bean is fast as hell
3. never happened to me
4. you dont have to. there is a builtin auto brightness in jelly bean and even ICS
5. No problem here I use headphones/bluetooth and no issues whatsoever
Agreed, take it back. I switched over from an iPhone and I love it! I'm happy to not be tied down to Apple's ecosystem. Since I use maps often, I would be seriously bummed with the new map problem in the IP5
How about a closed system with a joke of a maps app and no way for the user to select what he or she would like to use as a default? Right about now open sounds pretty good.
Don't get me wrong, I love the phone (iPhone 5). But I don't trust it. I travel a lot and maps is something I use very often. Having it integrated with my device makes my life easier. When I click on an address from an email or contact, I want to know the info I get is accurate. Copy and pasting addresses to a 3rd party app is not my idea of fun.