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Samsung Galaxy S III (new flagship Android phone from Samsung)
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Dead Prince
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unsure if want but i got me a full upgrade though. woot. decisions decisions (only if it comes to sprint)
oh shit is that S Iri?
i think it looks better then anything they released before.
Combine that with a large removable battery, a microsd slot and a bootloader that is sure to be able to be replaced, and the pentile screen negatives are overriden vs the HTC One.
SIIIiri
Combine that with a large removable battery, a microsd slot and a bootloader that is sure to be able to be replaced, and the pentile screen negatives are overriden vs the HTC One.
SIIIiri
I think they saw how popular the Note was so they thought bigger screens were what people wanted.
Zombie James
Banned
That design looks terrible, imho. Easily one of their worst. And fuck PenTile.
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The Everyman
well it should be faster, have a better camera, have a better battery, have a bigger screen, and the eye tracking sounds neat
Banana Kid
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So it's a Galaxy Nexus with a bunch of extra software bullshit on top?
No thanks.
No thanks.
-Pyromaniac-
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but it wasn't THAT popular was it? At least not enough to make your damn flagship phone so big. I know it shipped a lot of those but yeah....I don't know.
Its also got expandable memory and can use an extended battery. Its a tough call between this and the OneX, but this very clearly has every edge over the Nexus, only benefit the Nexus has is vanilla Android. Everywhere else it gets topped by this.
Those 5million werent shipped, they were sold, so yeah, it did do that good.
none of those features will work on an AOSP rom, which is the only thing I'd run on it since touch wiz is still as gaudy as Sense
knowing that the screens are the same I think I'd still get a nexus over this. Camera and memory and battery are better and tempting though.
-Pyromaniac-
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link for confirmed sold and not shipped? Everywhere I go says shipped.
Also 5 mil is nothing compared to 30+ mil the S2 sold isn't it...
FlyingTeacup
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i'm not a fan of the chrome sides... and the roundness.
they are trying hard to make the s3 not looking like the iphone.
I love the design of xperia s and the screen is good as well. sony did the screen for one x.
but the rest of the hardware is very meh, especially the cpu
Waaaay too iOS-ish for my taste.
But I guess if you are already used to Samsung's customizations you should feel right at home.
It's basically the exact same size as the galaxy nexus. Half a millimeter longer, a milimeter wider, but 0.3 mm thinner.
Bluemercury
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Probably dead by then....
-Pyromaniac-
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and the galaxy nexus is really lighting up the charts
I disagreed with it then as well but the nexus phones are never really big sellers anyway.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...s-says-a-lot-about-the-future-of-smartphones/
And 5 million sold is since its launch in like November, whereas 30 million sold for the S2 is since March of 2011 when it launched. And last I checked it wasnt 30 million either, it was 20 which is a pretty big difference. Also, consider how many carriers the Galaxy Note is on in the US/Canada. Very few, while the S2 is available everywhere, even on TMobile you can buy one.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2400625,00.asp
Top that off with the phone still being about the same size as the Nexus because they reduced the bezel, and they seem to have more than enough motivation to go this way IMO.
-Pyromaniac-
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conference is still going
and the galaxy nexus is really lighting up the charts
I disagreed with it then as well but the nexus phones are never really big sellers anyway.
Well the Galaxy Nexus is the perfect size, so it's all good.
forknknife
Banned
Glad I didn't wait and got my Nexus, the button ruins the nice glass front and the rest of the body looks very bland compared to the nexus. I'm just jealous for the, for sure, better camera.
lol
The design kinda reminds me of a larger Samsung Galaxy Gio
The Gio design is basically the S2
-Pyromaniac-
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still don't think 5 mil is enough to push it onto your flagship (the ideology I mean)
also yeah 30 mil was combined galaxy sales at the time I believe, 20 mil for s2.
shinshoryuken
Member
I don't even think vanilla android is a benefit anymore. The galaxy nexus has a bunch of issues with slow update that doesn't even fix them.
There's a feature where it see's your eyes and turns on the display when you're looking at it. I'm assuming that the camera's are on all the time but I'm sure you can turn this feature off anyway.
Its a bit more than that.
I would also like to add after now owning a gs2 and a galaxy nexus, vanilla android is overrated. Touchwiz adds alot of functionaliy and to me is still smoother and faster than stock ics.
The Faceless Master
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i really don't like that blue ... and white phones are a turnoff for me...
The fact that they'll want you to buy the Note 2. Same reason Siri doesn't work on an iphone 4.
They said it will release the 4G version for NA, Japan, and Korea in the summer sometime.