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Need a new phone, iPhone is out of budget. Will be sim free rather than on contract.
Maybe a bit big but wife loves hers.
S2 pretty much as good as you're ever going to need? (and smaller)
If your buying a phone have a look at the nexus 4 on the play store. Won't get a better phone for that price.
Nexus 4 is a good shout, looks like a bargain.
Drop it and the screen will crack
The s4 is set to be announced next week, expect s3's to drop in price.
I loved my S3 but to echo the above wait until the S4 announcement and get an S3 cheap then.
Good plan.
None. Wouldn't be without mine.
The s2 didn't drop for quite some time after s3 came out. As above if you are buying it outright then the nexus 4 is a great option.
Camera on the s3 is excellent, really excellent. Takes better pics and videos than the new Sony that's just come out which trumps it for megapixelidge. Sony is waterproof tho so it wins in that area. S3 does feel light and therefore a little fragile.
I have an S3...and having used it for six months now I can honestly say I wish I'd stayed with Apple.
Just changed frm iPhone to S3 last week - S3 takes a bit of getting used to, but once you've got it, its great.
That said, the S3 seems to do things a bit slower at times but its still a ****ing sweet phone
Get an S3 and start looking into rooting and custom roms. It's bloody addictive but does improve an already cracking phone.
I'm currently using OmegaRom v44.2 with Siyah Kernel.
HTC one or X+, Nexus 4...
Nexus 4
Htc one getting great reviews, especially the camera, but not sure the cost on sim free. S3 great phone all round but build quality wee bit on the plastic side compared to htc.
I'm going for a Note 2 but I do like a big phone...
True, the Sammy is a bit plasticky but most people will put a case on it anyway and the pros of a plasticky back panel (ooer) is the replaceable battery and a microsd slot.
Schvings und roundabouts.
Not as easy to use as old htc desire.
You have to download an app to get the torch to work.
Apps and widgets dissappear and change for no reason.
Keeps asking to download updates a million times.
When asking Vodafone why there app keeps needing updating they give you Samsung's national rate phone number.
On the plus. Its screen is nice and big.
Battery life depends on use.
I work on dusty building sites and have had no issue with reliability.
Just the software.
Got an S3 as my normal phone and an iPhone for my works phone. IMO the S3 wins hands down. It's just a more user friendly phone and not so restrictive as to what you can put on it. It is a bit plastiky but i have dropped it several times and it is still going strong.
You dont need an app to use the torch, have you never looked at the widgets? There's one that gives you a big old "assistive light" buttton!
Really like my S3 and I much prefer android to ios. What cases are you guys using? I got one of the official slim ones but its a bit crap really as its not magnetic and the top gets in the way when folded back for typing on. Could do with something a bit grippier for the back as well as the normal one always feels a bit slippy!
Just get yourself a Note 2 and have an extra-big pocket sewn onto your trouser leg...
(I'm finding my Note 2 excellent - almost replaces the laptop. But then I don't have to carry it around with me!)
Third recommendation for a Note 2. It's just fantastic. Also hardly ever use laptop now. Everyone who sees it is impressed. Doesn't even seem that big now and blows away the Desire HD I came from. The Swype style keyboard is fantastic too!
Note 2 user here too. Fabulous phone, soon get use to size and when you have, everything else seems toy in comparison. Mahoosive battery life too.
love my s3 it is bigger but its thin and lighter than my old iphone 4s so I dont notice any diference when its in my pocket, best phone ive had by far
I have both S3 and Nexus 4 (for work).
I prefer the nexus 4. Just feels newer and nicer. It also gets updates pretty much the moment they are in the main operating system, so you have the latest features and gubbins, which is nice.
You can put sd cards in the S3 though, so if you have tons of music that makes a difference.
Nexus 4 also supports low latency audio, which means you can use fun music making apps and stuff like that if that is in any way interesting to you (it is kind of important for my stuff). Galaxy S3 doesn't, and doesn't obviously seem to be going to.
Joe
S3 here - I love it but can't help wishing i'd got a Note 2.
Just upgraded my iPhone 4 to the S3, can't fault it so far. For a first time smart phone user I suppose the iPhone is easy to get used to. I find the S3 much less restrictive, easy to add photos and videos b dragging & dropping on the PC. Larger screen is much nicer to view.
The lock feature is great when playing videos, my daughter was forever pressing the home button on the iPhone, switching off the video then kicking off! No such problem with the S3.
The widgets can be handy to use and I find the app choice is no problem for me.
Case wise, Otterbox user here. With an SGP screen protector (uses a spray adhesive, really easy to apply and zero bubbles).
easy to add photos and videos b dragging & dropping on the PC
How very quaint.
its one of many ways so you can choose a method that suits you.How very quaint
Got a S3 and love it. Great phone and that's why it's been top of the charts. s4 being announced Thursday but also consider Sony experia Z and the htc one, both really good reviews
Interesting... There's 2 variants of the s4. An octo-core 1.6ghz and a quad core 1.9ghz for the yanks. Apparently the quad core blows the cack out of the octo core.
Great phone missus has just got the htc and I prefer the Samsung flavour of Android personally. Camera awesome dropped it a few times and never broken. All the top ones are up there really.
[quote=aphex_2k said]Apparently the quad core blows the cack out of the octo core.
Really ? I thought the Octa was more powerful than the Snapdragon.
Just received my HTC one yesterday, had htcs for years and had planned to switch to Samsung before they launched this, very glad I stuck with HTC for the one. Built quality is indeed the best of any phone I've picked up, fast enough for me and camera is really good indoors for a phone camera. Best is the sound quality, speakers are very clear but on decent earphones is just fantastic. Just works really well, no glitches so far.
Galaxy S4?
"Samsung Galaxy S4 is powered by either Samsung Exynos 5 Octa application processor with four high-performance ARM Cortex-A15 cores running at 1.60GHz, four low-power ARM Cortex-A7 cores with 1.20GHz clock-speed as well as PowerVR SGX 544 graphics adapter; or Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 APQ8064T application processor 1.90GHz (quad-core Qualcomm Krait 300 microprocessor (Cortex-A9-like with 3 decoders, 11 stage pipeline, VFPv4 FPU, 128-bit NEON accelerator, L2 2MB cache [512KB per core]), Adreno 320 graphics core (unified shader architecture; supports Direct3D 11 feature level 9_3, OpenGL ES 3.0, OpenGL ES 2.0, OpenGL ES 1.1, OpenVG 1.1, EGL 1.4, Direct3D Mobile, SVGT 1.2), 32-bit dual-channel LPDDR3 memory controller, Bluetooth 4.0, Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n/ac, no baseband/modem). It is expected that the U.S. version of the smartphone will be powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 600, whereas Asian and European markets will get handsets with Samsung Exynos 5 Octa inside."
have just this minute pressed "Buy" on a Nexus 4. Been wanting to treat myself for months, but now have a pot of fun tokens in the paypal account....
*is unreasonably excited*
Need to get a tougharse case for it so it doesnt get trashed when working outside. Choosing between :
http://www.mobilefun.co.uk/armourdillo-hybrid-protective-case-for-google-nexus-4-purple-p37766.htm
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http://www.mobilefun.co.uk/ballistic-shell-gel-case-for-google-nexus-4-black-p38315.htm
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