****The Official Note III Thread****

I am 90% sure they will follow the S4 route in design/dimensions vs the S3 and I am 110% for that because the S4 feels and looks orders of magnitude better than the S3.

8mm thick is a whole 1.4mm thinner than the Note 2, that's amazing if the battery capacity remains high as well (I'm sure it will).
 
To think I once ummed and ahhhed between the note 2 and the s3. I love my note 2 (despite all the jip I get for its size) and will be keeping a beady eye on this release.
 
i'm wondering if this will feel like an upgrade from a note 2 though. i mean when i first got my note 2, it was such a change over my galaxys2. will i get the same feeling from the note 3?
 
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i'm wondering if this will feel like an upgrade from a note 2 though. i mean when i first got my note 2, it was such a change over my galaxys2. will i get the same feeling from the note 3?
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If it's thinner as the article suggests then it should do as well as the supposed build quality.
 
i've never found the n2 thick tbh.

as samsungs sales have shown, we're getting to the point (or already reached it) where incremental updates won't do. where intel hit this point in late 2006. IMO, from the note 2, sgs4 onwards we are going to need a bigger selling point than a tiny bit of a ghz jump, a little bit more ram.
 
My contract is due this December. Do you guys reckon that the Orange/EE shop will have the Note III available by then? I'm just a bit concerned because the Galaxy Mega has been around for a while now and neither Orange nor EE lists it on their web sites. I was going to get a tablet but can't now due to unforeseen circumstances, so I'm just going to get a big phone instead hence the Mega or Note III.
 
tomos said:
i've never found the n2 thick tbh.

as samsungs sales have shown, we're getting to the point (or already reached it) where incremental updates won't do. where intel hit this point in late 2006. IMO, from the note 2, sgs4 onwards we are going to need a bigger selling point than a tiny bit of a ghz jump, a little bit more ram.
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Yeah but what else is there? More speed, higher numbers/better specs is pretty much the only thing that differentiates phones.
 
Proper oled screens and incredible cameras I would guess are the next big things? Tiny bezels, better batteries, extremely thin...all things I'd consider a significant upgrade.
 
im tempted as long as it isnt any bigger than the 2 (or at least a tiny amount)

will all depend on the battery, my hope of the X phone being good has taken a hit recently.

will also depend on the NLED being RGB obviously
 
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Proper oled screens and incredible cameras I would guess are the next big things? Tiny bezels, better batteries, extremely thin...all things I'd consider a significant upgrade.
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What's improper about Samsung's current OLED screens?

Phone cameras are limited by their physical size, so I would say you're never really going to get an "incredible" phone camera in a slim phone.

That's why SLRs are so large because the physical size of the lens and sensor makes all the difference to the image quality.

Either way though, they're still just hardware upgrades.
 
This is what the Note 3 has to live up to for me:

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That media server is an hour of Bluetooth streaming music to the car
 
I expect the battery life to be a decent bit better.

Everything else is more or less a given going by the note I/GS 2 and GS 3/note II and knowing what Samsung are like in general i.e.

- same camera setup as the GS 4 so better "overall"
- 1080P SAMOLED screen so a lot better, not just res. but the newer panel that the GS 4 uses so better calibration, better power efficiency etc.
- same CPU, 3GB RAM so there won't be much difference in real world usage
- more or less the same dimensions, personally still can't see them making the bezel much thinner as the note II bezel is already very thin, unless they remove the logo, which I highly doubt :p

Regarding this, they will either have to have a much better "backbone/structural" support or/and keep the phone the same thickness due to the size of the screen in combination with a very thin bezel and the SAMOLED panel being thinner as if they don't, I think we will see a lot more reports of the AMOLED itself cracking (quite a few GS 4 users at XDA etc. have had this problem without even applying much force/pressure + several other threads [or it could just be down to a bad batch or two....])

- same design and material, finish etc.
 
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Had a feeling Samsung would do something like this :(Given the galaxy s4 range etc. (not confirmed but I wouldn't be surprised if it is true) Although I would have thought that they might not have gone down that road in the end due to the disappointment/annoyed comments across the news site for all the different gs 4 devices, not meeting their expected sales/profit etc.

Hope they don't, just shooting themselves in the foot if they do:

http://www.phonearena.com/news/There-could-be-four-yes-four-Samsung-Galaxy-Note-III-versions_id45030
 
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The Note 3 is certainly looking like an interesting proposition. If Samsung come out with multiple versions of the device, Samsung will be shooting themselves in the foot as the Samsung Galaxy S4 range is already polluted enough with differing versions.

If the footprint is the same as the the Note 2 and has bumped up specs, despite my smallish hands I most certainly would be interested in picking one up but would have to try one out in a shop prior to buying one.
 
Samsung can try out what ever strategy they want lol, they are raking it in.

HTC made something like $65m profit last quarter, Samsung $8.3bn :D

I'm still waiting for Samsung to release a smartphone with a stunning design made out of premium materials.
 
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