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

I have a funny feeling that quite a lot of people are going to be slightly disappointed :p

The only true advantages (which you will notice by a decent bit and will be much handier) that I can see the GS 3 having over the HTC one X is;

- better camera
- removable battery and better battery life
- SD slot
 
Nexus18 said:
I have a funny feeling that quite a lot of people are going to be slightly disappointed :p

The only true advantages (which you will notice by a decent bit and will be much handier) that I can see the GS 3 having over the HTC one X is;

- better camera
- removable battery and better battery life
- SD slot
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That's worth waiting for alone!! I think the SGS3 is going to be an absolute cracker of a phone release.

The SGS 2 was groundbreaking and has stayed in a top spot against many other higher spec'd phones, I believe Samsung will deliver something epic and all the HTC One buyers now will be a bit gutted they didn't wait!

No SD-Card slot is completely not on for me. A Mini-SD does not take much room in a phone! You can't push cloud data unless the mobile internet network is up to it. Do we think that the UK's current ****-poor 3G network is good enough to work with 25Gb of Cloud storage?? No chance!! We still need SDs!!!

This is the reason I'm not buying a HTC One at all ... if the Samsung SG3 doesn't have one then well the field is wide open!
 
Begbie said:
I have pretty much no phone at the moment.

I really really don't want to wait more than 2 weeks really, it's killing me having no phone.

C'mon Samsung.
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Get a cheap android phone as a temporary solution, then keep it as an emergency spare afterwards. Everyone using Android should have an emergency spare, I found that out the hard way.
 
Unfortunately it seems like a catching trend with phones and not having removable storage, especially since the introduction of Android 4.0 that encourages an internal memory design.
 
Richdog said:
Get a cheap android phone as a temporary solution, then keep it as an emergency spare afterwards. Everyone using Android should have an emergency spare, I found that out the hard way.
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I have my trusty samsung omnia I use the now. But its soooo poor now that I hate using it to the point I cant even be bothered going through the hassle of saving numbers or even texting people back on it.

The screen has went dodgy, which doesn't help.

Battered and bruised, lasts weeks without charge so great for an emergency phone though.
 
yeah not happy with the lack of SD slots on phones, this was one thing we had over apple! why can't juts be purely for storage, just read access or something? films and music only pffffffff
 
Begbie said:
I have my trusty samsung omnia I use the now. But its soooo poor now that I hate using it to the point I cant even be bothered going through the hassle of saving numbers or even texting people back on it.

The screen has went dodgy, which doesn't help.

Battered and bruised, lasts weeks without charge so great for an emergency phone though.
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Thats why im saying get a cheap Android phone. All your contacts etc are synched on the Google cloud, so it means that all of the contacts you save go onto your new phone, and if your new phone goes missing you automatically get all the contacts etc on your old emergency phone. Its a no-brainer imo.
 
Begbie said:
I have my trusty samsung omnia I use the now. But its soooo poor now that I hate using it to the point I cant even be bothered going through the hassle of saving numbers or even texting people back on it.

The screen has went dodgy, which doesn't help.

Battered and bruised, lasts weeks without charge so great for an emergency phone though.
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Is that the problem where it just gets really badly aligned? As in so badly aligned that you can't even get through the screen realignment test thingy?

That happened to mine, and there is a solution for it that lets you realign the screen.

What I did was use a registry editor, and changed the MaxCalError value at
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE->HARDWARE->DEVICEMAP->TOUCH. It defaults to 7, and you can try using incrementally bigger numbers until you can realign successfully (after a soft reset). I think mine usually worked at a value around 10 or 11, but some people recommend 14. (Mine kept going out of alignment again every few weeks, but at least it was usable this way).

If that's the not the problem, though, I guess that's no help at all :)
 
Intratech said:
Production started, ready to ship.
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If that's the case then I assume we are waiting for either a world wide launch being held up by some red tape in one of the countries, or Samsung want to launch nearer the Olympics to tie in with that.

Either way I think they are slowly losing customers who would have gone from one of the previous Galaxy devices to an S3 but have got fed up waiting or just don't know about the S3 and have gone for a One X / S instead.
 
Not that I can't or won't wait, but agree with RobP above, Samsung aren't helping themselves now by releasing NOTHING yet. Potential customers who know nothing about sgs3 will buy other phones.

Nothing as in any news (as well as the actual product ;)
 
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Thing is though Samsung know that there are always people about to upgrade / renew their contracts. The GS2 has been a massive success and if they don't stray too far from the same formula they will believe the GS3 will be too. I read somewhere the pre orders for the GS3 were thought to be 10+ million (no source for that or any great belief it's credible however). Point is I doubt Samsung are that they worried that HTC will steal all their customers. I think there may be something in the Olympics thing and that would also put it closer to the iphone5 launch which would also give it greater focus.
 
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