***The Official Samsung Galaxy S III Thread***

Robbo said:
On this forum for example, I can read it zoomed out in portrait at a reasonable distance. It's not so nice on the Nexus, and impossible on other phones, aside from the iPhone due to how it bumps up text size.
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O'rly :p Seems to be pretty sweet on my S2:

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High res is nice to have - but it's really only a few places where it's actually useful.

And my point is: Pentile 720p @ 4.8 inches/ 300+ppi is nothing to be sniffed at - at all.
 
Robbo said:
I understand that, but reading the rest of my posts you surely understand the point I was making?
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That you are are in fact on Apples payroll and are performing some kind of undercover pro-Apple brainwashing excercise whilst masquerading as an Android user? :p
Yes yes that much has been obvious for months!! :D

Cover = blown.
 
kona786 said:
High res is nice to have - but it's really only a few places where it's actually useful.

And my point is: Pentile 720p @ 4.8 inches/ 300+ppi is nothing to be sniffed at - at all.
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I haven't sniffed at it? I think it's great on the Nexus, if the S3 is even better as you seem to think it will be then it will be excellent.

Rimsy said:
That you are are in fact on Apples payroll and are performing some kind of undercover pro-Apple brainwashing excercise whilst masquerading as an Android user? :p
Yes yes that much has been obvious for months!! :D

Cover = blown.
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Errr. :p
 
Why are CPW trying to sell you the world plus dog with the phone? They tried to sell me insurance, case, car charger, MicroSD card, screen protector and something another. The girl sounded worried when I told her I just wanted the phone, she insisted on me hearing out the accessories they offer as I might just want one. This is why I hate buying things over the phone, so much easier over the internet.
 
Just to be clear - not taking any shots at anyone or you robbo...

the vibes were - it's pentile, which makes it a lot worse than RGB. At this ppi - the effect of pentile is next to negligible. RGB would have been the icing on the cake - but the screen will be super as is. Saying the screen on the One X is hands down better is IMO not true - both have their strengths and weaknesses.
 
kona786 said:
Just to be clear - not taking any shots at anyone or you robbo...

the vibes were - it's pentile, which makes it a lot worse than RGB. At this ppi - the effect of pentile is next to negligible. RGB would have been the icing on the cake - but the screen will be super as is. Saying the screen on the One X is hands down better is IMO not true - both have their strengths and weaknesses.
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I know!

This is what I said in my Nexus review about the screen, if you remember:

A lot of people have bought this device for the 720p SuperAMOLED screen alone, however, the SAMOLED technology isn’t identical to the variation found on the Galaxy S II. There are well documented distortion issues on older SAMOLED screens, small text can be difficult to see due to the lower DPI and this can create problems in some situations. Thankfully, this issue has now completely vanished with the 720p SAMOLED on the Nexus. I’d love to tell you that the sharpness is on par with the iPhone 4S screen – but it isn’t – not quite. The difference is fairly tiny but you can and do still notice it.

The rather extreme contrast found on the SAMOLED+ has been toned down to friendlier levels and the blacks appear exactly the same. The viewing angles are pretty much identical as well – if they bother you.

The Nexus screen is considerably larger than the Galaxy S II and certainly the iPhone and you really do notice it. I threw a few movie trailer MKV’s on there and the quality is absolutely incredible. The 1080p picture was pin-sharp and looked fantastic. Outdoor performance is pretty good as well, no better or worse than anything else really.

At low brightness, the screen does exhibit a grainy effect due to the pentile matrix being used. However, to put a positive spin on this, it makes white backgrounds look a lot like paper, similar to the Amazon Kindle screen. I actually quite like it in a strange way, though it should really be counted as a flaw. The auto-brightness was very aggressive to begin with, but since the antenna bug fix update (ITL41F), it has improved a bit and it generally does a good enough job.
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No knocking pentile there! As I've always said, for video watching it really is the bomb and for that, I'd take it over the HTC screen any day.

Unfortunately I don't do much of that though. People in general do seem to hate pentile though, the poll on XDA is evidence of that.
 
Intratech said:
Why are CPW trying to sell you the world plus dog with the phone? They tried to sell me insurance, case, car charger, MicroSD card, screen protector and something another. The girl sounded worried when I told her I just wanted the phone, she insisted on me hearing out the accessories they offer as I might just want one. This is why I hate buying things over the phone, so much easier over the internet.
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Pathetically trying to rip us off selling the same stuff we can get on Eb for in some cases, screen protectors, 1000s% more, it's all about the margins.
 
Intratech said:
Why are CPW trying to sell you the world plus dog with the phone? They tried to sell me insurance, case, car charger, MicroSD card, screen protector and something another. The girl sounded worried when I told her I just wanted the phone, she insisted on me hearing out the accessories they offer as I might just want one. This is why I hate buying things over the phone, so much easier over the internet.
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Had the same thing when i bought the One X the other day from a CPW shop.
 
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