Yes sirrr!!!
Getting it Friday
$149 on radioshack.
http://www.samsung.com/uk/consumer/m...GT-I9300MBDBTU
Yes sirrr!!!
Getting it Friday
$149 on radioshack.
http://www.samsung.com/uk/consumer/m...GT-I9300MBDBTU
Looks nice, worth the money?
Looks pretty cheap to be honest..
awesome! you won't be disappointed!
Got it already,
Changed my life.
Why are you buying stuff for such a huge company? Surely they can afford it themselves.
On a more serious note, definitely has shitloads of power, so that's a plus, however I really don't like the design, the SII looks much better, it just looks so cheap. Of course if you want a Android phone, there is no other choice really.
He doesn't get it until Friday.. Anyway, a few of my friends have this phone and they all seem to like it, great for the price regardless.Originally Posted by Feedback
Thought you were struggling to pay server costs?
It seems like a nice phone but I wouldnt pay more than like £20 a month for a phone. If I broke it or lost it I would be gutted lol.
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My first android was the Evo4g when i changed my iPhone 3gs and I will never get another android phone, going back to iOS no questions asked.
Why?
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Most of the people shit talking Android or stating they will never use Android again are basing their silly reasoning on the fact that they probably didn't spend any time actually learning the operating system. If they would have really spent even an hour looking through the OS and some youtube mixed in they would realize the options available on an Android are the same and more than any iOS device can produce.
Amazing choice going with the S3, superb product.
Took a few days to get accustomed after switching from my iTouch to an S3 but now I freakin love ICS. However, my dads iPhone 4 is also a good phone.
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About time you got a real phone lol. I suggest flashing a custom rom once they are fully tested for the s3.
Still, touchwiz is fail. Slows updates and gives you ugly / slow / hard to use apps. Pure google ftw, enjoying my Nexus more than any other phone I've ever had. Running jelly bean with Google Now and butter.
I wish I had the guts to install a custom ROM but since I almost bricked my brother's S1 I'm too scared :/
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Who would choose iOS over Android?
Android is pretty much open source, you can do almost anything with a android phone, even use the Unix environment, and even install a distro like Ubuntu, or even Windows XP/7. There is unlimited possibilities with Android. If you choose iOS over Android you're either one of the two. 1) Apple fanboy, 2) too dumb to jailbreak, or not tech sabby.
Having used PC's all my life, starting with the Commodore 64, I know the differences in OS. I have a Android tablet, I'm not saying it's bad, I'm saying it's nothing special, personally I would never advice it to anyone because the people who just want to use a phone or tablet are better off somewhere else, people who do understand the system, won't need my advice.
Why am I saying this?
First of all let me be clear about Apple, they are a greedy bunch of idiots who are just good at marketing.
Second let me be clear about Google, they are a greedy bunch of idiots who are extremely bad for your privacy.
Third let me be clear about Microsoft, they are a greedy bunch of idiots who have massive control over the PC market.
Now if I look at their OS', iOS is very stable, has a huge amount of apps and has that advantage that most developers will develop for it, this includes proper games. Of course Android has that as well, however a lot of high quality titles do not see the light of Android, mostly because there is no profit in non adbased games. So it comes down to being a very stable and fast OS with lots of applications and easy to use. The biggest negative it being Apple of course.
Android is as an OS dodgy at best, it's by far the worst coded OS of the 3, it's slow as fuck when used with similar hardware (if you want a proper experience, you need a dualcore), it's definitely dodgy, cases of phones and tablets rebooting by itself are not close to being as rare as it should and in general, if you don't pay attention, you will get fucked by malware or updates to apps that all the sudden dump a huge advertisement in your screen (you see this with a lot of backgrounds, once they get popular they update the app with advertisements). The big plus of course having a open source OS (if the device creator allows it), easily get everything without paying for it and seeing most of the popular apps released.
Windows Phone is even more reliable then iOS and beats both of them with ease in speed (friend of mine has the Desire HD which is slightly faster then my Omnia 7, however WP7 is just so much faster then Android), with a lot integration of messenger and social network stuff, it saves a lot of battery on heavy users of these services. It's seeing some decent amount of quality titles through the Xbox Live program, including quite a few top games that do not see the light of day on Android, however when you move away from those titles, Android has it easily beat, WP7 is missing also a couple of the 'essential' games due to the OS (very closed off and thus requires quite a bit of rewriting for it to work - this is also where it gets it's stability from for not allowing all the code)
In the end, Android wins this because it got popular, I've shown people my WP7 and they were impressed, I've told them to check them out, but they end up buying the SGS 2 or 3, not because they know it's the best phone for them, but because everyone has them and people tend to play safe.
This doesn't mean Android is just bad, it ain't, but I don't like the hype from it, as an experience computer user and a ex-Windows Mobile user, I know the advantages of such an OS, I've also experienced how completely useless almost every single option that the other 2 don't have, is. Great you can change every bit in your OS, how often do you do that? I'm willing to bet that there is not 1 person here that can name 3 things they can do with their OS, that I can't. I'll give you the first, it's run certain code, this however will no longer be an issue btw with the next version coming out in a couple of months.
Btw the Google Youtube client in Android sucks donkey balls, not only does my client give me more options such as saving videos straight to my phone, but it also actually shows me all the information I need to know, like how large the video is.
In the end, Android is poorly written, as is ICS, the fact that HTC can't get ICS running faster on the Desire HD then 2.3, just shows you that they still can't seem to optimize their OS, their only escape is faster hardware. My phone in the mean time only gets faster with each update.
Because android base applications like Youtube, Facebook, Internet, Games will never run as good as the ones written in iOS. I have no idea why mines just SUCK, Facebook mostly. Even on wi-fi.
Maps is just great in the iOS, Camera, Email application. Well from being an iPhone user and switching to Android at the beginning was awesome because of the huge screen, but when it came to those little details it makes me hate the phone even more. I can't say newer phones aren't good, but trust me, won't ever compare them to an 4S or the iPhone 5 coming out in october.
Android will be hitting it big near the holiday season as well. Jelly Bean with Butter will blow away anything Apple does with the iPhone 5, and by Q2 2013 the iPhone 5 will already be outdated and the next line of Android phones will launch with the next best hardware.
Android is always updated. Apple will never keep up because there is only one manufacturer who can make a phone run iOS. With Android you have companies like Samsung, HTC, LG, and Motorola all duking it out to launch the best and most affordable Android phones. There is no competition with iOS and in time that is why Android, once it has been around for as long as Apple, will come out on top and phase out iOS.
Android is coming out with new functionality while Apple is trying to defend their "omg we're #1 title". Prime example is Android's notification system. Apple doesn't hesitate to take that from Android, however when Android phones take something from Apple they rebuttal with "omg you can't use that we own the patent to squares!"
With the ability to completely customize every aspect of you're phone, you're 30 minutes away from downloading a new ROM and having a completely new phone. The rooting and customization community for Android is amazing. Methods for customization are near flawless and even some phones have software leaked straight from the manufacturer for flashing phones. What used to be a gray area is now one of the biggest perks of Android, and honestly if you're not running a custom ROM on Android then you're not taking full advantage of your phone.
Before the "I shouldn't have to flash my phone to have a good phone" arguments; you really don't have to. Android is great regardless. However, take the performance from the Galaxy S3, multiply it by 3, and put it in to an Android phone that was made a year ago. Thats what flashing your phone can do and its why so many people have fallen in love with Android. Just like you can take a 10 year old PC and boot Linux smoothly, you can take a 2 year old Android phone and flash a custom ROM and have a brand new phone.
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Oh, one more thing. Yeah privacy isn't the best with Google (just as bad with apple, do your research), but the ability to buy a new phone, log in to your Google account, and have everything download to your phone including your email, contacts, and all your apps, make up for any flaws in privacy. Besides, if you want complete privacy then don't get on the internet. Simple as that.
Cell Phone Specials
FUUUU.
Trololol
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was going to get this but I got the Sony Xperia S instead, My previous device was an Xperia Play running a Custom ROM (Xperia S themed) and I've never liked Touchwiz, I currently use CM10 Alpha :D
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Yet 90% of the phones won't see 90% of the updates, of course this is also because Android doesn't blow away with each new version, but doesn't seem to be able to optimize their software.
The fact that HTC doesn't get ICS running properly on the Desire HD, just shows you how poorly Android is written and how each new update, definitely does NOT blow you away. Of course this is no different with Apple, since it just makes your device slower, but at least you get the updates.
So if you excuse my enthusiasm, but considering it took them a year to develop ICS and they did zero performance improvements, I simply have a hard time believing that Android will be "hitting it big".
so...people here wont spend 150$ for such a phone cus its too much for them?
worth the money?
lol...we pay around 1-2k$ for phones such as s3/iphones. also the package of 100$ a month, though it turned to 30 recently on some companies, the phones are still sold for a hella loads of money.
and @keith, i would do it. it might be open source, it might have your customizing needs and all, but its a mobile, a freaking mobile.
im not saying you should use a first generation samsung[those whom never breaks] but the android is pretty much not that useful, even if it can do anything.
you want to make it like your pc, so why not just sit on your chair and start doing w/e you want on your pc? things that are useful in the android which the ios doesnt include are things like the keyboard thingy that lets you write by gestures and google integration.
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