Samsung would be onto a real winner (for me) if they just:
- loose the hard home button and go with all capacitive like the one S/X or on screen buttons
- use an aluminium body or nicer looking plastic like the X, which also feels nicer to touch (they can use great materials or/and finish them to a high standard as we have seen from their windows phones)
- design a nicer looking mobile, the GS 3 corners are too curvy, the note II corners are much better, the camera/flash/speaker area on the GS 3 looks crap (IMO), again as we have seen from the windows mobiles, they are capable of designing very sleek looking devices
- complete overhaul of touchwiz, loose the cartoonish/toy colour scheme, organise their apps and give the apps/UI a unified feel throughout like sense/stock android. Much like what Motorola have done, I actually think Motorola's skin is near enough perfect now, feature rich (not as much as sense or touchwiz though) with a stock android look throughout (I wish all OEM's would include an option to be able to use their skin theme or stock ICS/JB theme)
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