Phones Your thoughts on the Galaxy S III

[onthecouchagain]

Personally, I'm really excited to see what's unveiled.

I predict it'll be somewhere near, or only a cut above, the HTC One X in terms of specs. Hardware-wise, Samsung has only gotten better, and with the promise of using higher quality materials, it'll be interesting to see how far they're taking it.

Software-wise, I'm hoping they take a cue from HTC and really downplay TouchWiz. As big as they've become, maybe they'll even have the guts to tell carriers to not put, or limit the amount of carrier-branded bloatware. One can hope.

Ultimately, though, despite what will be shown, I don't think I can pull the trigger until Apple unveils the next iPhone. Only then, can I make the best decision.

I've bounced between Nexus S, iPhone 4, 4S, and currently the Galaxy Nexus, and I can confidently say that the experience on both platforms have gotten closer and closer in similarity and quality. The differences are becoming relative and preferential. For the moment, Ice Cream Sandwich does a little bit more for my needs than iOS.

It's going to be an exciting year.

 

[b24pgg]

Because that's all people can do.

...or they can just not make assumptions in the first place and wait two weeks for the thing to actually be announced.

 

[Cod3rror]

I don't know exactly what techniques Apple uses to make iOS smooth but I tried the latest and greatest HTC One X, with it's quad core CPU and it STILL was not as smooth in transitions and animations as even the iPhone 3GS.

On the iPhone even stuttering is somehow smooth.

I think they might be using motion blur or something.

 

[iMaconApple]

I'm waiting for it..I have a note running ics runs pretty smooth but some bugs due to not the official release of the OS..I'll be getting the S3 for sure.my second android phone I love the custom stuff you can do to it and make it they way you want it to look like custom widgets/shortcuts ect..iPhone got stale for me after years using it..I think I'll skip iPhone 5 this time even I know it's going to be the major change..it's time for a change for me..who knows my geek in me might get it later after all.. it's good to have both to have the best of both worlds.. iPhone 5/S3 will be the fight of the year lets just all wait till they come out and test drive it and see what's the right device for you

 

[Stealthipad]

How many phones running Android constitute "freedom"? 200? 300? But someone who doesn't like Android doesn't like freedom? You mean the freedom to actually update your phone's OS?

No Freedom to me is being able to do without iTunes. You can set up folders and move files at will where Apple will not let you move some files period and some only with lame iTunes. You can actually name the images you take where with Apple you can only dream of naming later. There are so many advantages and this is what ticks you Apple nut OFF!

I never needed to update my OS on my SG2. It is ashame that you iPhone people need to update all the time. Maybe Apple will get it right one day!

YOU ALSO NEED TO READ: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1360578/

Pull you head out of your "Apple" and see the freedom an Android device gives you!

 

[ledlauzis]

I have MacBook, iPad, Apple TV and I can call myself a Apple fan but I don't have and iPhone.
Why?
I have the Galaxy S2 just because it has larger screen than iPhone and will more likely to upgrade to Galaxy S2 instead of waiting for Apple to release iPhone with screen size that is still reasonable for today's situation.

I don't care about performance and how many cores it has or how good is camera I just need phone with large screen so I can use it in the way I like the most. More about upcoming phone: crazytechlab.com

 

[mrbutters]

It hasn't even been released yet or it's specs made public. How can we have thoughts on it yet?

 

[sk1wbw]

No Freedom to me is being able to do without iTunes. You can set up folders and move files at will where Apple will not let you move some files period and some only with lame iTunes. You can actually name the images you take where with Apple you can only dream of naming later. There are so many advantages and this is what ticks you Apple nut OFF!

I never needed to update my OS on my SG2. It is ashame that you iPhone people need to update all the time. Maybe Apple will get it right one day!

YOU ALSO NEED TO READ: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1360578/

Pull you head out of your "Apple" and see the freedom an Android device gives you!

I don't have to rely on Sprint to give me OS updates. And I think Apple is still selling pretty well, seeing as how half of all smartphones sold last quarter at Verizon were iPhones. And just imagine what the Android fanboys would say if Apple released new hardware with iOS 4.0 or iOS 3.0 on it like many makers do with Android. Releasing new handsets with Android 3.1 and 3.2 or whatever. Really lame.

And naming photos and being without iTunes isn't the "freedom" that Android was supposed to offer. "Freedom" as it relates to software is more akin to what Linux offers. You can "freely" download the Linux kernel and make your own distro and "freely" name it and "freely" distribute it. I'm not exactly sure you can do that with Android, can you? And don't forget the "freedom" of getting malware.

 

[b24pgg]

I don't know exactly what techniques Apple uses to make iOS smooth but I tried the latest and greatest HTC One X, with it's quad core CPU and it STILL was not as smooth in transitions and animations as even the iPhone 3GS.

This attempts to explain why that's the case: https://plus.google.com/100838276097451809262/posts/VDkV9XaJRGS

 

[taeclee99]

No Freedom to me is being able to do without iTunes. You can set up folders and move files at will where Apple will not let you move some files period and some only with lame iTunes. You can actually name the images you take where with Apple you can only dream of naming later. There are so many advantages and this is what ticks you Apple nut OFF!

I never needed to update my OS on my SG2. It is ashame that you iPhone people need to update all the time. Maybe Apple will get it right one day!

YOU ALSO NEED TO READ: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1360578/

Pull you head out of your "Apple" and see the freedom an Android device gives you!

Freedom? What Freedom?

Are you free to uninstall the carrier bloatware from you phone?
Are you free to receive timely software updates from your carrier?
Are you free from device and app fragmentation?
Are you free from UI lag and UI inconsistencies?
Are you free to experience the largest and highest quality app and peripheral ecosystem?

Android is only means freedom for the carriers.

 

[Rogifan]

Huh? I was clarifying what someone was saying nothing more.

I have a 4S. I like it for my purposes but can see why someone would say there is a bit more freedom to do certain things with android.

My bad. I just get so annoyed when people pull out this 'freedom' card as if they're forced to use an iPhone. If iOS doesn't have the 'freedom' someone wants they're 'free' to not own an iPhone.

 

[Yumunum]

I don't know exactly what techniques Apple uses to make iOS smooth but I tried the latest and greatest HTC One X, with it's quad core CPU and it STILL was not as smooth in transitions and animations as even the iPhone 3GS.

On the iPhone even stuttering is somehow smooth.

I think they might be using motion blur or something.

HTC is bad with lag. Like I've mentioned before, Samsung is pretty great at eliminating it. We don't want to make the assumption that all Android phones are laggy. We also don't want to say that all Android phones aren't laggy. (I'm not saying you claimed these things, btw)

 

[Stealthipad]

Freedom? What Freedom?

Are you free to uninstall the carrier bloatware from you phone?
Are you free to receive timely software updates from your carrier?
Are you free from device and app fragmentation?
Are you free from UI lag and UI inconsistencies?
Are you free to experience the largest and highest quality app and peripheral ecosystem?

Android is only means freedom for the carriers.

I had no problems as mine was International and factory unlocked with NO BLOATWARE

Timely Software updates, owned for over a year and never found a glitch, no OS update required. One day Apple might get it right and not required your device get updated all the time.

All the apps I used worked with out flaw. You really need to get out more often!

There was NO UI lag. Infact everything was faster than my iPhone 4S. I can still do a Google sat maps and move it around, shrink and expand it smooth as butter while the iPhone one is STILL trying to generate and for such a tiny little screen! \

It is well know that 80% of Apple app inventory is crap.

Apple is living on it features from 2 years ago when such a tiny screen was average. Siri is stupid 80% of the time and the Cloud is hardly cutting edge.

 

[onthecouchagain]

Freedom? What Freedom?

Are you free to uninstall the carrier bloatware from you phone?
Are you free to receive timely software updates from your carrier?
Are you free from device and app fragmentation?
Are you free from UI lag and UI inconsistencies?
Are you free to experience the largest and highest quality app and peripheral ecosystem?

Android is only means freedom for the carriers.

You just basically took a list of features the iPhone has or does better than most Android devices, then said there's "no freedom" from those features for Android.

... all right.

 

[sosinsurr]

I have both the 4S and SII and let me tell you, the SII is all it's cracked up to be. So I'd expect nothing less from the SIII.

 

[jmpnop]

Timely Software updates, owned for over a year and never found a glitch, no OS update required. One day Apple might get it right and not required your device get updated all the time.

lol seriously? Don't tell me Android 2.3 is better than ICS. This is probably the dumbest thing I've ever heard

 

[nefan65]

That it's the successor to the Galaxy S II, and predecessor to the Galaxy S IV?

 

[j4zb4]

No Freedom to me is being able to do without iTunes. You can set up folders and move files at will where Apple will not let you move some files period and some only with lame iTunes. You can actually name the images you take where with Apple you can only dream of naming later. There are so many advantages and this is what ticks you Apple nut OFF!

I never needed to update my OS on my SG2. It is ashame that you iPhone people need to update all the time. Maybe Apple will get it right one day!

YOU ALSO NEED TO READ: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1360578/

Pull you head out of your "Apple" and see the freedom an Android device gives you!

I had iOS 3.0 running on my 2007 iphone 2g... I doubt that even SGS2 will get ICS before JellyBean is released... Thats the support I would prefer... My 3 year old 2G at that time had almost all the latest software that a year old 3GS had... But you people would never understand that...

The HTC I used after my 2G died was promised 2.2.3 in March 2011... Till November 2011 it didn't get any updates... And mine was an unlocked phone... Not tied to any carriers...

And keep your crap to yourself about "Apple getting it right the first time"... If Android was so right the first time why do they need Froyo and gingerbread and ICS...? lol... Atleast think before you speak.. But I guess the robot got your brain...

p.s.: here for your reference... Enjoy...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_version_history#v2.3.x_Gingerbread

 

[Stealthipad]

lol seriously? Don't tell me Android 2.3 is better than ICS. This is probably the dumbest thing I've ever heard

Where did I tell you that? You are showing a lack of brains

 

[ThatsMeRight]

Let's try this again when Samsung actually announces the Samsung Galaxy S III.

(...)

I have absolutely no thoughts about an unannounced device.

 

[Stealthipad]

I had iOS 3.0 running on my 2007 iphone 2g... I doubt that even SGS2 will get ICS before JellyBean is released... Thats the support I would prefer... My 3 year old 2G at that time had almost all the latest software that a year old 3GS had... But you people would never understand that...

The HTC I used after my 2G died was promised 2.2.3 in March 2011... Till November 2011 it didn't get any updates... And mine was an unlocked phone... Not tied to any carriers...

And keep your crap to yourself about "Apple getting it right the first time"... If Android was so right the first time why do they need Froyo and gingerbread and ICS...? lol... Atleast think before you speak.. But I guess the robot got your brain...

p.s.: here for your reference... Enjoy...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_version_history#v2.3.x_Gingerbread

I am telling you how my SG2 worked and I suspect the SG3 will be even better. Not my fault you bought a CRAP HTC

And it IS CRAP that Apple still has missed the boat. The screen is so small and the OS so old most of the users minds are numb waiting for a REAL upgrade. You keep must be giddy to think that Siri was a upgrade. I think they are getting sued for false advertising!

Apples upgrade are about as good as most of the apps that are so old and outdated they need to be cleaned out of the system, but then that would cut the number of apps that Apple "claims" to have, most are CRAP!

 

[ThatsMeRight]

I am telling you how my SG2 worked and I suspect the SG3 will be even better. Not my fault you bought a CRAP HTC

And it IS CRAP that Apple still has missed the boat. The screen is so small and the OS so old most of the users minds are numb waiting for a REAL upgrade. You keep must be giddy to think that Siri was a upgrade. I think they are getting sued for false advertising!

Apples upgrade are about as good as most of the apps that are so old and outdated they need to be cleaned out of the system, but then that would cut the number of apps that Apple "claims" to have, most are CRAP!

I don't really get why you are so negative about Apple on an Apple-minded forum.

I'm currently using a Samsung Galaxy S II, and I'm using an iPad 3 - and I have used an iPhone 4.

Both Android and iOS have its advantages, and you constantly 'bitching' about everything (if I may put it like that), is out of order. Come with real arguments ("I believe operating system X is better than operating system X, because SOLID-ARGUMENT").

And oh yes, I also believe that the iPhone 4S was in no way a good upgrade (the iPhone 3GS was a much bigger upgrade) - but when you look at the complete picture it's still a very decent device.

 

[entatlrg]

I am telling you how my SG2 worked and I suspect the SG3 will be even better. Not my fault you bought a CRAP HTC

And it IS CRAP that Apple still has missed the boat. The screen is so small and the OS so old most of the users minds are numb waiting for a REAL upgrade. You keep must be giddy to think that Siri was a upgrade. I think they are getting sued for false advertising!

Apples upgrade are about as good as most of the apps that are so old and outdated they need to be cleaned out of the system, but then that would cut the number of apps that Apple "claims" to have, most are CRAP!

Ha ha who fooled you? Whats CRAP is your misleading, false post. Do you actually believe what you write? You're full of anything but the truth that's for sure.

- posted using Siri

 

[Invincibilizer]

TouchWiz is the worst android overlay and it looks too much like iOS and the text is huge.

Going to get a different Android Phone even if GS3 comes out swinging hard.

 

[sk1wbw]

I am telling you how my SG2 worked and I suspect the SG3 will be even better. Not my fault you bought a CRAP HTC

And it IS CRAP that Apple still has missed the boat. The screen is so small and the OS so old most of the users minds are numb waiting for a REAL upgrade. You keep must be giddy to think that Siri was a upgrade. I think they are getting sued for false advertising!

Apples upgrade are about as good as most of the apps that are so old and outdated they need to be cleaned out of the system, but then that would cut the number of apps that Apple "claims" to have, most are CRAP!

Screen size is not a functionality of the OS. Quit equating the two.