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What can you do with S3 that you can't with an IPhone

sean76 said:
What I can do with my S3 that my iPhone couldn't do is have my S3 on WiFi with no apps running and know for sure that even with no usage that my S3 will drop about 25% with no usage within about 2 hours.

My iPhone definitely couldn't do this...lmaooo!!!
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Sean...when are you going to listen to me & go get a new battery. I truly believe you've got a bad battery my friend.
 
sean76 said:
What I can do with my S3 that my iPhone couldn't do is have my S3 on WiFi with no apps running and know for sure that even with no usage that my S3 will drop about 25% with no usage within about 2 hours.

My iPhone definitely couldn't do this...lmaooo!!!
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Download Better Battery Stats and see what wakelocks you have plaguing your phone.
 
One thing i can do on an iPhone but not (currently) on my S3 is drop music and video files onto the phone via cable from my MacBook!
 
Ches111 said:
TASKER!
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Yes this is pure class. Been stealing ideas from an XDA thread. One guy mentioned something which I researched and got to email me a photo of anyone who gets 2 failed pattern lock attempts on my phone. Try that with any other platform.
 
What I can do on my s3 that I can't do on an iPhone is flash a custom Rom to my likening, have the icons I want only on my screen, have android os, have a phone worthy of beeing my phone:cool:
 
SUroot said:
Yes this is pure class. Been stealing ideas from an XDA thread. One guy mentioned something which I researched and got to email me a photo of anyone who gets 2 failed pattern lock attempts on my phone. Try that with any other platform.
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Now that sounds cool!
 
With wifi direct, you are never without wifi ;)

Yeah, transferring a lot of files or big files will take longer, but I don't do that, so it's not a big deal for me.
 
The things that drove me nuts about iOS were small control issues that would creep up in everyday use. For example, opening PDF files. No big deal, right? Almost EVERY productivity or office app can open a PDF file. But therein lies the problem. In iOS, the OPEN WITH option only has room for about eight apps, and they appear in the order you have installed them with the most recent first. Needless to say, with iOS, Apple knows best, so you have no control over how this list is sorted or populated. This means that if you have a go-to app for document viewing (Goodreader is awesome on iOS), it gets pushed down the list as other apps are installed. Once it's off the list of eight, the ONLY way you can get it back on is to delete the app and reinstall it. How ridiculous is that?

In Android, I get a full list of apps compatible with the file type until I decide to limit it to a default of MY choice. And if I decide I want to change that default choice later on? No problem.

That's just one example. The glitches are scattered all across iOS where there is no viable workaround.
 
Def the expandable memory is greatly overlooked.
Not to mention having micro sub port for connection.
Flash
Flash
Oh, and did I mention flash?
 
One thing i can do on an iPhone but not (currently) on my S3 is drop music and video files onto the phone via cable from my MacBook!
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Why can't you do this? It works on my Mac Mini...

Downloaded Android.com

Then plug in the phone..Choose Camera (PTP) from the drop down menu and a finder window pops up with the phone's folders. Drag and drop...
 
SUroot said:
For that particular one, no I don't think you need root. You can always return from root. I agree, its not without risk but the process of rooting itself if pretty safe.

Very few of the tasks tasker can do need root. One that I found today that did, I nicked off the same guy in the XDA thread, was turning off pattern unlock on a known wifi network. That needed root. Thats the only one I have that I think does.

Tasker is well worth the money. In fact, you dont even need NFC tags if you have tasker. I cant thin of a use for them. Anything I would use an NFC tag for, I can trigger in other ways.
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Only one I can think of is car tags. I know you can use geofences with tasker, but a car moves so that's no good :P
 
Haven't got a car myself, but If I had, I'd probably want to "dock" and would use that as my trigger :p
 
SUroot said:
Haven't got a car myself, but If I had, I'd probably want to "dock" and would use that as my trigger :p
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There's no trigger in a dock other than power. So, Tasker would have no way to differentiate between car and home. Something that I saw someone else use was a BT connection, but I don't use BT.
 
File browser
Multitasking
4g
Large screen
Swap battery
Sd card
More intuitive controls and ui with the back and menu buttons
Alternate keyboard and home screens
 
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