Semi-Official Samsung Galaxy S3 Discussion

[ilkhan]

I'm with you on that one. I really dislike the whole "camera bump" that ultra-thin phones these days have. If you can make the entire phone a uniform 7mm thick at all points, awesome. Do that. But if it's going to have a camera bump, as far as I'm concerned make the entire phone the thickness of the camera module and give me a bigger battery.

This.
And make sure there is a microSD while they have volume to fill.
And if possible better optics on the camera.

 

[Bateluer]

Rumor is Samsung is planning unified global launch for SGS3. They learned their lesson with SGS2 launching so late in the all important US market. I think they're taking the page out of Apple's playbook and keeping everything tightly under wrap til they're ready to ship soon after the product unveiling. I don't expect paper launch. I bet we'll see the product available for sale soon after similar to how Apple does their launch.

You believe Samsung has enough clout to get the Us carriers to actually take the 'stock' SGS3 or are you betting on different variants for each? More than just radio differences, I mean.

 

[poofyhairguy]

Why are you guys so eager to jump the boat when getting new phones?

For me it is the influence of this forum!

 

[soccerballtux]

I want every carrier to use Sprint's branding--Samsung Galaxy S™ II Epic™ Ultra 4G Touch Extreme!

yeah crazy name

 

[WelshBloke]

If samsung can pull of what moto did with the razr maxx im all for it, can't believe that thing is only 9mm thick and has double the battery life.

Yeah about 9mm or so is "thin enough". After that it just seems like doing it just to one up other manufacturers.

 

[WelshBloke]

This.
And make sure there is a microSD while they have volume to fill...

And this. I didn't think it was such a big deal but now that 64gb cards are available and 128gb ones turning up soon its more of an issue.

 

[QueBert]

imho I'd prefer as much on board memory as possible, I have about 25 apps on my Android that won't allow me to move them to the SD card. And since I don't have much internal storage I can't even have them all installed at the same time. While an SD card's definitely nice, I'll take 8/16gigs built in with no sd over 1 gig internal with an even 32 gig sd.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

imho I'd prefer as much on board memory as possible, I have about 25 apps on my Android that won't allow me to move them to the SD card. And since I don't have much internal storage I can't even have them all installed at the same time. While an SD card's definitely nice, I'll take 8/16gigs built in with no sd over 1 gig internal with an even 32 gig sd.

but the thing is you're not allowed to use all 8/16gigs for apps anyway. only like 1gb of it is accessible for apps. this is how my nexus s works. the other 15gb is "sd card"-like

 

[QueBert]

but the thing is you're not allowed to use all 8/16gigs for apps anyway. only like 1gb of it is accessible for apps. this is how my nexus s works. the other 15gb is "sd card"-like

I didn't know that, ugh what an absolutely stupid system.

 

[ponyo]

but the thing is you're not allowed to use all 8/16gigs for apps anyway. only like 1gb of it is accessible for apps. this is how my nexus s works. the other 15gb is "sd card"-like

Not on Galaxy Nexus.

 

[WelshBloke]

imho I'd prefer as much on board memory as possible, I have about 25 apps on my Android that won't allow me to move them to the SD card. And since I don't have much internal storage I can't even have them all installed at the same time. While an SD card's definitely nice, I'll take 8/16gigs built in with no sd over 1 gig internal with an even 32 gig sd.

GS2 has 16gigs internal and an SD slot. It would be disappointing if the GS3 had less.

It's just the apk that goes in the app storage so it's surprising your running out of space.

 

[ponyo]

I didn't know that, ugh what an absolutely stupid system.

They do sell iPhone and Galaxy Nexus. If you don't like how your current phone does things, you can buy the above phones and quit bitching and complaining. It's not like Google forced you to use your current Android phone.

 

[WelshBloke]

They do sell iPhone and Galaxy Nexus. If you don't like how your current phone does things, you can buy the above phones and quit bitching and complaining. It's not like Google forced you to use your current Android phone.

Plus this thread is about the GS3 and I'm going to push the boat out and guess it will have ICS as well.

 

[lothar]

but the thing is you're not allowed to use all 8/16gigs for apps anyway. only like 1gb of it is accessible for apps. this is how my nexus s works. the other 15gb is "sd card"-like

It's usually HTC that does that crap with their Android phones.
My Samsung Galaxy S II has no such stupid limits.
In fact I checked all major Samsung phones released in 2011, none of them besides the Droid Charge(which essentially was a 1 year old phone rehash when released) does that.

HTC Sensation XL: 16 GB storage (8GB Useable)
HTC Evo 3D; Internal Memory: 1GB Useable (4GB eMMC, 3GB reserved, 1GB user-addressable space)
HTC Sensation: Storage 4 GB (1 GB user accessible)
HTC Evo4G: Storage 1 GB ROM (358 MB free)
HTC myTouch4G: Storage 4 GB (1 GB user accessible)
HTC Desire: 512MB FLASH ROM (150MB free for App storage)
HTC Nexus One: 512MB FLASH ROM (200MB free for App storage)

To give HTC possible credit, I don't see such limits on the Rezound.
HTC has been the abuser of that system. They're too cheap to provide quality NAND for their phones.

Yes, I see your Nexus S does this also.
Nexus S(released in 2010): 16GB iNAND (partitioned 1GB internal storage, 15 GB USB storage)

 

[YoungGun21]

I'm hoping the US carriers call it the SGS3 and that's the end of the story. No more idiotic names please.

I don't care what they call it as long as they release it in a decent timeframe. I don't want to wait a whole year for this

 

[sour07]

I want every carrier to use Sprint's branding--Samsung Galaxy S™ II, Epic™ 4G Touch!

Yes, I love my Epic 4g Touch! Coming from a T-Mobile G2x the switch was amazing and no throttling my speeds...for now anyways:whiste:

 

[WelshBloke]

It's usually HTC that does that crap with their Android phones.
My Samsung Galaxy S II has no such stupid limits.
In fact I checked all major Samsung phones released in 2011, none of them besides the Droid Charge(which essentially was a 1 year old phone rehash when released) does that.

...

Unless your SGS2 has some sort of funky partitioning scheme it has a 2gig app storage area and roughly 12gigs of storage space.

 

[lothar]

Unless your SGS2 has some sort of funky partitioning scheme it has a 2gig app storage area and roughly 12gigs of storage space.

Wasn't listed on Wiki and XDA info I read...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/Main_Page

I copied all the info about all phones I listed word for word from there by clicking the individual links, reading about the hardware, and doing a copy/paste word for word:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/Main_Page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Android_devices

If I'm wrong, I'll gladly fix my post but those 2 sites were my sources.
I don't see anything about storage limit/app storage(or "user accessible" as HTC calls it) anywhere there.

 

[MrX8503]

That whole SD thing is so annoying. It should be 16GB min for everything, apps, music, photos, videos, etc.

If the specs of the SGSIII are to be believed, its going to be a fierce fight between SGSIII and iP5.

 

[kyrax12]

That whole SD thing is so annoying. It should be 16GB min for everything, apps, music, photos, videos, etc.

If the specs of the SGSIII are to be believed, its going to be a fierce fight between SGSIII and iP5.

Samsung always is going to push the boundaries with their galaxy S lineup every generation up.

It is obvious they design the Galaxy S line up to compete with the going Iphone generations.

 

[lothar]

This won't be my next phone.
I don't want any RAZR "thinness" nonsense. I'm not on any contract and I will be skipping this gen of phones entirely and waiting for better batteries/LTE chipsets unless I find something for cheap on Slickdeals/Hot deals or something. I certainly won't be peddling Craigslist or eBay for them.
Summer-Winter 2013 for me. Whatever Samsung Galaxy series or Nexus phone that will be out then...Leaning towards Nexus.

 

[prism]

I'd hope with the GS2's worldwide success that Samsung can take an Apple-like stance towards the carriers and say "We've switched the radios inside our phone so it works on your carrier. That's it. Lick my bootheels." I guess that remains to be seen....

The only reason they're making it as thin as possible is to market it that way. Unfortunately for powers users, "thinnest smartphone available" is much more appealing than "longer battery life" for the average skinny-jean wearing hipster.

 

[Mgz]

I'm tired of waiting for GS3 so I jumped ship to a GS2 one month ago, my previous phone was HTC Desire, a 2010 phone that still feels very solid in 2012, but I lost it somewhere in the movie theatre , so .

seriously HTC screwed it big time after the Desire

 

[WelshBloke]

Wasn't listed on Wiki and XDA info I read...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/Main_Page

I copied all the info about all phones I listed word for word from there by clicking the individual links, reading about the hardware, and doing a copy/paste word for word:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/Main_Page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Android_devices

If I'm wrong, I'll gladly fix my post but those 2 sites were my sources.
I don't see anything about storage limit/app storage(or "user accessible" as HTC calls it) anywhere there.

Sorry was at work and it was hard for me to get back to you.

If your rooted you can grab an app called DiskUsage from the market, it gives a really nice graphical view of how big your folders are. Grab it and look at your App Storage bit that should show you what size you have.

TBH 2gigs is more than you should ever need as its only the APKs that are stored there and they are pretty small. Thats why I was surprised when Quebert said he had run out of app space.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

give me 9mm and 3000 mAh battery, and I think we'll all be satisfied. 7mm is too thin to hold. I have an iPod Touch that's ~7mm. It's only usable with a case.

I don't care what they call it as long as they release it in a decent timeframe. I don't want to wait a whole year for this

It's not so much about the naming as the fact that they should keep all the SGS3's the same. I know the SGS2 lacked a notification light, and the Sprint one brought a LED, but it'd be nice if we just had the same external, and the only thing that needs to be added is a CDMA radio for the CDMA carriers, but to me AT&T should be good to go on 850/1900. LTE brings more fragmentation, and if anything it'll be harder to have one worldwide model.

However, my complaints stand for 3G. In the 3G world, the international version could've easily been made to work on AT&T (well the SGS2 works fine), and if they included AWS frequencies, T-Mobile would've worked with say a pentaband radio.

I would like Samsung to just take the approach that Apple did with their CDMA+GSM radio and just make it work. Also do not yield to idiotic carriers like Verizon who do not let you use it on US GSM networks.