The combination of samsung galalxy s 3 and Jelly Bean may brings best phone opperchunity to buy.
What do you think?
DR.vimlesh said:
The combination of samsung galalxy s 3 and Jelly Bean may brings best phone opperchunity to buy.
What do you think?
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I'm running CM10 on my SG3 and even with bugs and a long boot time (due to VZW), I'm loving it. It's super fast and Google Now has already impressed and can only get better.
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I have now Htc desire running gingerbread using custom rom and I want to buy a new phone , and I'm thinking of buying samsung galaxy s2 based on its reputation, will this idea be good or not as they both are running the same os and price of samsung galaxy s2 is kind of expensive.Does it worth.Thanks in advance.
galaxy s2 is much better compare to desire and s2 is now running with official ics. so if you got the right deal just go for it, else if you are not in a hurry to purchase and need something better wait for s3
you should wait for the launch of galaxy s 3 and buy the s2 then. the price will go down.
desire is an old phone, upgrade now to SII. SIII will be out in 8 - 10 months, and couple more for prices to get stable. thats a long time plus it will be as expensive or more when launched.
Get the GSII because it's a brilliant phone. It's still ahead of the competition, you can get a variety of great & stable roms and themes - and it's affordable now. Then change it 2 years from now with a cheap SGIII . . .
I have an SGS2. I realize the SGS2 has been a pain to develop for because it has no Nexus brother with similar hardware (I'm not talking about the i9100G, the regular GT-i9100).
However, since it's the most popular Android phone in the world, and the Note shared the same hardware, and now the i9300 uses Exynos SOC again, I see that CM9 got up and running on the SGS3 surprisingly fast. I'm not sure where in dev they are, but it seems most of the major features are working. Would I be incorrect to say that SGS2 development helped a lot with preparing the SGS3?
If this is the case, would it be safe to say that jumping from SGS2 to SGS3 wouldn't be a big loss in terms of losing custom rom features. In particular I'm just concerned with CM9. The nicer screen and a notification LED are certainly very important to me.
If you like stock roms or flashing rom then you might get the the Nexus instead, its made for development purposes. The Nexus is way ahead of the S3 in roms availability, and I'm not talking about S3 roms that just rehash Samsung stock firmware. There is a CM10 preview (as of writing) and its running pretty stable.
On performance side, once you run Jelly Bean on Nexus compared to CM10 on the S3, there isn't really much of difference, the S3 might win in some instances. They both can handle 720p MKV videos smoothly. The S3 does have a more powerful GPU so if you mainly play games on your phone, then get an S3. Running FPSE emulator on the S3, I got up to 500frames per seconds in games, that's faster than my in PC. Also the S3 camera is so much better. But if software is your main objective than I'd say get the Nexus, unless you want the Samsung proprietary features.
I had to choose between keeping the Nexus or the S3 and I sold my Nexus, but I will most likely sell the S3 once the new Nexus phones arrive.
Buy sgs3 and flash cm10 to it, it's development goes very fast, one new build per day.
I quess that sgs3 cm9 has same features that on sgs2 cm9.
eksasol said:
If you like stock roms or flashing rom then you might get the the Nexus instead, its made for development purposes. The Nexus is way ahead of the S3 in roms availability, and I'm not talking about S3 roms that just rehash Samsung stock firmware. There is a CM10 preview (as of writing) and its running pretty stable.
On performance side, once you run Jelly Bean on Nexus compared to CM10 on the S3, there isn't really much of difference, the S3 might win in some instances. They both can handle 720p MKV videos smoothly. The S3 does have a more powerful GPU so if you mainly play games on your phone, then get an S3. Running FPSE emulator on the S3, I got up to 500frames per seconds in games, that's faster than my in PC. Also the S3 camera is so much better. But if software is your main objective than I'd say get the Nexus, unless you want the Samsung proprietary features.
I had to choose between keeping the Nexus or the S3 and I sold my Nexus, but I will most likely sell the S3 once the new Nexus phones arrive.
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not much point in going nexus over my sgs2 except for software i figure, but the sgs3 is quad with much better battery life too.
i would certainly wait for a next generation nexus but we're still 4-5 months away... heh, and the past 2 Nexus phones seem to be the last of their era... the Nexus S was the same as a 6month old SGS1, and the GNex was about equal to an SGS2 except for the better screen.
Current development will stop Jelly Bean released soon by Samsung .
See XDA tomorrow .
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I'd like to ask everybody if it really worth buying this phone. I have enough money to do that but shall I do that or buy some other phone?
Wait for LG, it's x2.5 more powerful, i guess
DoR2 said:
I'd like to ask everybody if it really worth buying this phone. I have enough money to do that but shall I do that or buy some other phone?
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After owning the s3 for about 2 months. i can perfectly say that this is the best android phone available right now. If you want a phone thats will knock out every other mobile in the market get the s3.
I would suggest waiting for the release of the updated version of the S3 which has LTE (international version) and 2GB RAM compared to 1GB on the current i9300.
If you don't care about LTE and the extra 1GB of RAM, it's still worth waiting as the current version of the S3 should fall in price.
I have used Galaxy S , S II and SIII. Each one is worth every penny spent on it.
No existing device is better than SIII.
I you want to wait there will always be a qeue of more powerfull device coming and you will never be able to decide.
I had been with my S II for exactly 9 months when the S III was released. I wrote here on XDA that I'd never move up to the S III because it wasn't worth it...
... that lasted until I played with the phone for 5 minutes in a store. I bought mine in the same day and don't regret a bit.
Get it, man! It will be the best phone you'll ever have.
Get it. I love my S3. Waiting for jelly bean.
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I've used SGS I, skip the SGS II, and now using the SGS III.
(Monster) Specs aside, the one thing why I decided to go with SGS III, and not it's competitor, is because I know it'll be a popular device like its predecessors.
From my experience using SGS I (a device I bought 2 years ago) popularity also contributed to your phone "lifespan". No official ICS or JB for i9000, but because it's popularity you'll find abundant custom rom with gazillion tweaks, mods, and kernel for it in community support forum like XDA.
Beside's that, I'm already quite familiar with the SGS environment such as the 3 magic combo, Odin, etc. Too lazy to learn from the start if I chose another phone :laugh:
Wait for the i9305 (S3 international Lte)
It will probably be a bit pricier than the current 500€ for the i9300 but comes with 2GB Ram and an additional Lte modem.
Btw the i9000 has Jellybean through Cm. Just not official crappy-touchwiz jellybean =)
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d4fseeker said:
Btw the i9000 has Jellybean through Cm. Just not official crappy-touchwiz jellybean =)
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Yes that's what I meant on my post before, no ics & jb from samsung but alot of custom one from community, but didn't type the "official" part . Already edited that one
Hi,
The S3 LTE is now getting to a good price after the S4 release but is it still a good buy? The problems I see is that it will not get updates and if it does not get updates I suspect that there will be apps that is not possible to run. I have a phone about 2-3 years and I do not play that much on it but I need a stable, fast and flexible phone.
It is possible to install custom rom but there is really not anyone that will work perfect because Samsung is not releasing there code. Also, there might be even less roms to choose from when talking about the LTE version.
It will not be bought on contract.
Is the S3 still a good buy?
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SnowJim said:
Hi,
The S3 LTE is now getting to a good price after the S4 release but is it still a good buy? The problems I see is that it will not get updates and if it does not get updates I suspect that there will be apps that is not possible to run. I have a phone about 2-3 years and I do not play that much on it but I need a stable, fast and flexible phone.
It is possible to install custom rom but there is really not anyone that will work perfect because Samsung is not releasing there code. Also, there might be even less roms to choose from when talking about the LTE version.
It will not be bought on contract.
Is the S3 still a good buy?
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I will highly recommend u to buy s4 because more roms more fast stable but if its very expensive u can still go with s3 and u can flash custom roms or just wait for samsung to bring the s4 features to s3.. Hope it helped:fingers-crossed:
xXPr0XNinjaXx said:
I will highly recommend u to buy s4 because more roms more fast stable but if its very expensive u can still go with s3 and u can flash custom roms or just wait for samsung to bring the s4 features to s3.. Hope it helped:fingers-crossed:
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Pleas explain, how can S4 be worth about 277 EUR more then S3? And why should there be more roms for S4? Have Samsung decided to releas there code?
Hi all
I currently own a Galaxy Note N7000 but ive got the chance to upgrade to S3 I900 from O2 (uk).
To all you experienced users is it worth upgrading to S3 or would S4 be a better choice?
I am a bit of a flashaholic between CM/AOSP and touchwizz but i prefer touchwizz.
I only want to root and debloat, so is the S3 still future proof for a while yet?
cheers
Depends on how much the upgrade costs, S4 is minimal specification increase over S3 and smaller user base at present (so not as much support on xda).
First thing you'll do is turn off all the fancy gimmicks, if the S4 is much more expensive then I'd stick with the S3.
jock11 said:
Hi all
I currently own a Galaxy Note N7000 but ive got the chance to upgrade to S3 I900 from O2 (uk).
To all you experienced users is it worth upgrading to S3 or would S4 be a better choice?
I am a bit of a flashaholic between CM/AOSP and touchwizz but i prefer touchwizz.
I only want to root and debloat, so is the S3 still future proof for a while yet?
cheers
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I900 is not SGS3 .
Future proof always depends upon what the future brings .
JJEgan said:
I900 is not SGS3 .
Future proof always depends upon what the future brings .
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yeah sorry my typo, meant to say I9300.
looking at the specs n7000 has same amount of ram as the I9300, but i assume suppose
it has quad-core 1.4.
bottom line is i can get s3 cheaper than s4, but will the s3 be better performing than my GN1?
cheers
i9300
If you are the fan of Big Screen and SPen features you must go for Note 3
If not S3 (i9300/i9305) will be the winner for support, ROMs, Kernels.
For S4 some users have a feeling of orginal ROM is smoother than any custom rom. But S4 has more RAM, more CPU Power, Full HD AmoLED, Bigger Battery.
I love custom ROMs and Kernels with Max Tunables so I am sticking with i9300 S3.
My feelings but your choice.
kadiremrah said:
If you are the fan of Big Screen and SPen features you must go for Note 3
If not S3 (i9300/i9305) will be the winner for support, ROMs, Kernels.
For S4 some users have a feeling of orginal ROM is smoother than any custom rom. But S4 has more RAM, more CPU Power, Full HD AmoLED, Bigger Battery.
I love custom ROMs and Kernels with Max Tunables so I am sticking with i9300 S3.
My feelings but your choice.
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yeah, i seem to be heading towards S3, its cheaper and although S4 has more ram both seem to be faster than my GN1.
Also after reading XDA, seems more flashing options for S3 at the minute.
What it comes down to for me is performance, as long as it performs better than my GN1, I think i will go for S3.
cheers