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Feeling Good :) (Galaxy S III Announcement)

I wonder what version of ICS it uses? Will it become available to the GNex?

I do not find the feature of keeping the screen on very useful. I just use a 2 minute delay to turn the screen off. When I am done using the phone it is easy to turn the screen off manually with the power button.

I do not like the physical HOME button.

I wonder if the accessories will work with the Gnex?
 
I wonder if the signal strength issues have been fixed in this new phone?

Also, wish it had the battery capacity of the RAZR Maxx.
 
JamesSJ said:
I wonder what version of ICS it uses? Will it become available to the GNex?

I do not find the feature of keeping the screen on very useful. I just use a 2 minute delay to turn the screen off. When I am done using the phone it is easy to turn the screen off manually with the power button.

I do not like the physical HOME button.

I wonder if the accessories will work with the Gnex?
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I think the SIII is supposed to ship with 4.0.4. However, I think whatever the SIII has will be old or current software compared to the GNex. No device should get a more up to date OTA update faster than the GNex. Now, if that statement will hold true (which it should), remains to be seen.
 
Haha, I was feeling good about the GSIII announcement too. When I was reading the blogs about it's actual specs, I thought, are you kidding me? What a disappointment. Don't get me wrong, it is a better phone than the GNex, but not by a long shot whatsoever. Here's some of the misleading rumors that contribute to my disappointment:
  • 1080p screen
  • 2 GHz quad core CPU
  • 2 GB of RAM
  • 1080p video capture at 60 FPS, OK, that one was a little far fetch'd
  • Bezelless --- don't really care about this one, just would have been cool to see
Although the SIII announcement makes me happier about my decision to go with the GNex, it'll be interesting to see what happens with the iPhone 5. That may be a much closer match than we anticipated.
 
Still prefer my Gnex over the S3.....the S3 looks ugly imo...wel the front at least isn't half as gorgeous as the Gnex's front side....the lack of hardware buttons, make the Gnex have the best possible front design currently available imo. The S3 front also looks weird....the screen looks a lot broader, but that could be my imagination. Have to take a good real life look at it when its available.

Overal the specs weren't mindblowing....the only thing worth noting were the special S voice and gesture features.....But my concern is to the batterylife of that thing. If it continuously has to listen to notice when you want it to wake up....won't that drain batterylife fast? Otherwise that is an AWESOME feature...one of the few things that makes it really stand out.
 
The_Chief said:
My thinking is this: if Samsung could release a gem of a phone like Galaxy Nexus in December 2011, and then show us such a quantum step forward in just 6 months with the Galaxy SIII...
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The SIII looks awesome, but is it a quantum leap forward? It's essentially the same 720p display stretched .15" and has a 1.4 quad core processor. Other than that, it's the GNex with a 2100 mAh battery.

I'm just hoping that we'll get some Majel lovin' in the future.
 
I once heard "Once you go Nexus" and I think it's true.

The only other current phone I was really excited about was the One X with the S4 - even with the fixed battery etc.

But a locked bootloader? Come on now HTC, you made a promise to the community :(

I don't understand this obsessive control over the user experience, and it's going to damage our entire society. We're going to turn the internet into cable tv service and that's the most horrifying future I can imagine.

LET PEOPLE PLAY WITH THEIR DEVICES. Let us change them, hack them, modify them and hold people accountable IF they break it or something in the process. There are precisely ZERO good reasons to lock down devices. Heck, you could require hoops be jumped through to unlock something but it darn well better be possible.

My device is mine. Not Microsoft's, not HTCs, not ATTs. Mine.

I am an adult, an intelligent one at that, and resent being told what I can and cannot do.

And that is why I don't think I'll buy a non-nexus device. If I do, it will have an unlocked bootloader...
 
I'm glad I got a Nexus. Can't beat unlocked and pure android (no skin). I have no envy for the SIII. Even the screen is no better, and in some report, I've heard not quite as good as the GNex.

In any case, I'm hoping the next Nexus is a non-Samsung. Hopefully back to it's roots with HTC. But I'm feeling Motorola (if/when the google merger happens) might become the next Nexus.
 
charliecc said:
For me, SD card and camera quality would be the nice to haves over the Nexus. I don't need a quad core processor in a phone.

The 1080 amoled PLUS was never going to happen, that was obvious given where they are with screen manufacturing at present. I thought there was a possibility we'd see a 720 PLUS, but the pentile at 720 ain't too bad.

My question is where do they go from here or maybe a year from now.


  • Quad core is pretty much all you'll ever need in a phone.
  • They may go to 1080, personally I don't see the point, 720 is fine, but let's say they go 1080, then there's def no point going further.
  • Screen size has maxed out, 4.6 - 4.8 inches is pretty much max size for a phone.
  • Storage will obviously always go up, but that's a minor upgrade.
  • Camera quality in terms of sensor, that's prob where there's room for most improvement (new Nokia), but it's not as if pics are terrible at the mo.
In a few months we'll be at the limit of what's required of a mobile phone, if the S3 hasn't pretty much just defined that limit. So where do we go from the above specs, someone is going to have to take it in a whole new direction, or the software is going to have to really stand out.
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Well Samsung makes the ridiculously high resolution screen for the ipad 3, a 1080p phone screen is harder but certainly not impossible for them. But in terms of features they went for evolution this time, instead of revolution.
 
The only thing I wish the Nexus had that the SIII has is the buttons. We cant fully utilize our screen because the on screen buttons take up so much space.
 
SharpBarb said:
The only thing I wish the Nexus had that the SIII has is the buttons. We cant fully utilize our screen because the on screen buttons take up so much space.
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If for nothing else, rooting is worth it for that. On both LiquidSmooth and AOKP ROMs you can remove the buttons. There's an app called LMT that makes your back/home/menu buttons pop up.

Browsing the web button free is the way this phone was meant to be used.

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kg2128 said:
Well Samsung makes the ridiculously high resolution screen for the ipad 3, a 1080p phone screen is harder but certainly not impossible for them. But in terms of features they went for evolution this time, instead of revolution.
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But that screen on iPad is LCD not AMOLED. Going higher resolution in AMOLED is harder, especially with non-pentile pixels. Honestly I didn't really expect 1080p screen because they are not there yet manufacturing wise and there is no point in going above 400ppi on phone screen. That's overkill in sharpness and power consumption would be big concern. I think 720p HD screen will be sweet spot for phones for some time.

Pentile HD screen is only disappointment in GSIII. None of rumors/leaks had any clue on this and everyone was expecting Non-pentile HD AMOLED Plus because there were couple of reports Sammy finally began production of HD SAMOLED+. Maybe they didn't feel power consumption is good enough yet with Plus screen. But for most consumers it wouldn't really matter much.
 
Sandroidfan said:
But that screen on iPad is LCD not AMOLED. Going higher resolution in AMOLED is harder, especially with non-pentile pixels. Honestly I didn't really expect 1080p screen because they are not there yet manufacturing wise and there is no point in going above 400ppi on phone screen. That's overkill in sharpness and power consumption would be big concern. I think 720p HD screen will be sweet spot for phones for some time.

Pentile HD screen is only disappointment in GSIII. None of rumors/leaks had any clue on this and everyone was expecting Non-pentile HD AMOLED Plus because there were couple of reports Sammy finally began production of HD SAMOLED+. Maybe they didn't feel power consumption is good enough yet with Plus screen. But for most consumers it wouldn't really matter much.
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I have to say I don't see pixels at all on my GNex. Of course I don't have the best vision. I understand the GNex has a better ppi due to the smaller screen though.
 
AntimonyER said:
I have to say I don't see pixels at all on my GNex. Of course I don't have the best vision. I understand the GNex has a better ppi due to the smaller screen though.
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That was my point. I can't see pentile pixels on my Gnex HD screen either unless I look through microscope like Engadget did. Certainly not issue for 98% of consumers that are non tech gurus.
 
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