You could attach videos and photos to e-mails, that was completely false. And convince me why I would ever want a file management system on my phone? SD cards can be glitchy (I know, I've used several) and all my storage is built-in. Widgets, with the only real exception of a weather widget, are useless because the large majority of the time you'll be launching the app anyways. Do you use widgets in windows 7 or Dashboard on OS X? Because I frankly don't. And if I ever wanted to do extreme customization or do whatever you said I would just jailbreak. IMO Jailbroken iOS > Android.
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so do you think the iphone5 puts the galaxy s3 to shame?
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You could attach videos and photos to e-mails, that was completely false. And convince me why I would ever want a file management system on my phone? SD cards can be glitchy (I know, I've used several) and all my storage is built-in. Widgets, with the only real exception of a weather widget, are useless because the large majority of the time you'll be launching the app anyways. Do you use widgets in windows 7 or Dashboard on OS X? Because I frankly don't. And if I ever wanted to do extreme customization or do whatever you said I would just jailbreak. IMO Jailbroken iOS > Android.
Ok, you clearly use your phone the way a 10 year old would. Stick to the iphone, right where you belong. Leave the big boy phones to the rest of us
SmartStay and Pop-Out Video are painfully gimicky. S Beam is just a glorified Android Beam. And fine, go ahead and call iOS incompetent and inadequate, but that seems rather harsh considering how many advantages iOS has over Android.
Listen, guys, I wasn't trying to start a flame war. I never said the iPhone was better than all Android phones and that iOS was definitively the best mobile OS. You like Android and I get it, I think that's great. I was just chiming in with my two cents, there's no need to take it so personally and try to argue.
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Ok, you clearly use your phone the way a 10 year old would. Stick to the iphone, right where you belong. Leave the big boy phones to the rest of us
You mean time-efficiently? Nice totally vapid response. Why do you guys always have to try with the weak little insults followed by smug smileys? You're too predictable, it's kind of amusing.
Likewise you can look at any iPhone forum and find boatloads of threads/posts saying My screen has yellow spots or my battery dies after 3 hours pr my iphone is hotter than the sun. It's the minority. People are quick to moan when there's a problem but the majority are fine and you hear nothing.
Ok, you clearly use your phone the way a 10 year old would. Stick to the iphone, right where you belong. Leave the big boy phones to the rest of us
As an Android fan, your response was not productive. I think you are correct in the conclusion for zbarvian to stick with iPhone, but I wouldn't say he is childish or that you are not being obnoxious. Zbarvian should stick with the iPhone because he doesn't enjoy tweaking and customizing his phone. You do. I do. Not everyone does.
Also, it's obvious he has an affinity for apps. Apple has the best app store. That's one of the few, in my opinion, reasons to go iPhone. His reasons seem well thought out so I don't see the problem here.
Thank you for proving to me that some Android fans have the capacity to co-mingle with iOS users. I really had lost hope there.
Its not that the iPhone is for him. Thats all good. It is the fact he said any highend smartphone was better than the GS3. That just isnt correct because it also includes other Android phones for which he doesnt enjoy customizing. You dont prefer it....fine. I dont prefer the iPhone but i never say it sucks either.
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Its painfully awesome. It isnt gimmicky for me. It just works
Still holding strong. I never said "mass exodus". I said the biggest exodus to date.
Have you seen the many articles out there calling the iPhone the same ol' phone?
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Honestly, this is not constructive debate. It's ok to make fun of the iPhone, but its not ok to make fun of the user for saying "the iPhone is enough for me".Ok, you clearly use your phone the way a 10 year old would. Stick to the iphone, right where you belong. Leave the big boy phones to the rest of us
Well, I have no idea about that then. I don't have a S3 or HTC One XL or any of the new phones. I have a Nexus so I can't speak for the others, but I highly doubt it's worse than all high-end phones.
Even if he is talking about locked, unrooted, stock OS versions of the Android phones, I don't think S3 loses. Although, I don't know what models he considers "high-end".
What's wrong with saying the iPhone sucks? People say worse things about the other OS's.
I have a small wifi problem. When I turn wifi on my phone automatically connects to the 2.4GHz band of my dual band network. If I connect immediately to my 5GHz network it works fine, but if I stay on 2.4GHz for a few minutes I have to turn wifi off and on again before I can connect to 5GHz.
The HTC desire was a brilliant phone, but it felt like the battery door was going to snap whenever I removed the back cover. Flexible plastic is clearly better imo.
Touchwiz adds lots of good features in the S3 actually. I would question if you've actually used it when you make a statement like that.
Touchwiz adds the "smart" features: -
Smart stay (screen stays on while you're looking at it)
Smart alert (phone vibrates when you pick it up and it has notifications)
Smart call (lift the phone to your ear when viewing a contact or message to call that person)
It works with Samsung Dive, a service which lets you locate your lost phone, remote lock/wipe it, flash a message on the screen, play an audible alert, etc.
You can use voice commands to control certain apps, for example "snooze" and "stop" when the alarm is going off, "answer" and "reject" when the phone is ringing, "shoot," / "cheese" and "smile" in the camera. "smile" takes a photo when the subject smiles. Then there's "play," "stop," "pause," "next" etc in the music player and fm radio apps (which the iPhone incidentally doesn't have
). The learning curve with Android is most definitely a little more difficult than iOS, but for all the customisation and power Android gives its worth it imo. Some people would disagree, you're probably one of them. Once you actually learn how to use Android it becomes easier to use on a day to day basis because you can customise it to your very liking. If you're constantly on Facebook, put a widget on your home screen. If you're constantly turning wifi and blue tooth off/on, you can do so from the notification bar or by putting widgets on your home screen.
Also, with a little bit of learning and setting up an app called Tasker, you can completely automate nearly everything your phone does. I've set mine up so that when I connect to my cars blue tooth it turns volume up to max and starts Spotify for me. You don't have the power to do things like that on iOS.
Smart stay is not painfully gimmicky. It's a very innovative, useful feature. If Apple came out with it you'd be claiming it was a feature made by god himself.
When I'm reading articles on my nice big screen, it's actually really nice to not have to keep tapping the screen to stop it from dimming and turning off. It improves the reading experience in a subtle but pleasant way - something Apple tends to be quite big on.
What the iPhone has taught all of, including Google and Samsung (and even Nokia, Microsoft and RIM), is that as long as you offer a reasonably sized touch interface, then it's all about the software.
So the real question is of iOS, Android and Metro, which puts which to shame.
Then, of course, shame on Google for ripping off iOS so blatantly.
So the real question is of iOS, Android and Metro, which puts which to shame.
Then, of course, shame on Google for ripping off iOS so blatantly.
Hardly...
If you call catching up to existing technology putting S3 to shame then yeah....
Basically all Apple did, is what they do best, they took their existing design, took ideas and tech that was already in play, and modified their phone to make it work nicely ( I am assuming it works nicely).
When I say catching up:
LTE
Larger screen (not by much I will add).
Panoramic photo ability
UPgraded chipset
Finally removed 2 glass slabs enabling the design to seem revolutionarily slim and light. well if you remove 2lbs of glass from a device of course it will be light (I am exaggerating a bit, but you get the idea).
How is this even possible to put an already thin, light, fast device with all of the above mentioned items to shame?
If it integrates well with photostream and all of the Apple software that does this (including ease of back up and restore) can be considered a super feature then yes, it puts the S3 to shame in that respect.
If you call catching up to existing technology putting S3 to shame then yeah....
Basically all Apple did, is what they do best, they took their existing design, took ideas and tech that was already in play, and modified their phone to make it work nicely ( I am assuming it works nicely).
When I say catching up:
LTE
Larger screen (not by much I will add).
Panoramic photo ability
UPgraded chipset
Finally removed 2 glass slabs enabling the design to seem revolutionarily slim and light. well if you remove 2lbs of glass from a device of course it will be light (I am exaggerating a bit, but you get the idea).
How is this even possible to put an already thin, light, fast device with all of the above mentioned items to shame?
If it integrates well with photostream and all of the Apple software that does this (including ease of back up and restore) can be considered a super feature then yes, it puts the S3 to shame in that respect.
Too add to your features, don't forget all the camera options. Burst mode, no shutter lag, etc.
