Samsung unveils quad-core Galaxy S III with 4.8" AMOLED screen - Page 5

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Originally Posted by Blastdoor 

I'm very curious to see if four cores is useful in a phone. I'm a little skeptical, but I don't know for sure. 

Why? 

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Originally Posted by ljocampo 

 

Hugh is an understatement. Hugh as in we no longer will know if owners have a boner or the phone in their pants pocket. That's if it actually will fit in a guys pants pocket. I hope Apple doesn't start playing this screen size game. I love the iPhone but hate how big and bulky it is. I remember when phones the size of an iPhone would have been laughed at and wouldn't sell because of size. I understand that a smart phone is a different category. But I would guess most people looking for a phone will reject this 4.8" screen IMO. The Fandroids will of course brag "mine is bigger than yours." 

Do you mean "huge"?  Wow.

But Android is OOOOOOPEN!

Isn'ty that the rallying cry of the freetards? Android is so much better than iPhone because you have the freedom to install apps from sources not controlled by Apple.

Sorry, but you can't have it both ways.

As already noticed: the guy on the pic has a giant a hand. And only 4 fingers.
 

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Originally Posted by JeffDM 
I agree, though isn't the sleep button a hardware "out"?

Nope. Sleep/Wake sleeps the system, but when you turn it back on, you're restored to the app from before the last sleep. If that app had locked up, you'd still be stuck there. Sleep/Wake doesn't ever return you to the Springboard, so we need a hardware way to get back there.

They don't have any forums of their own. Seriously, there are Android forums, but they're exclusively help forums. I've yet to find a website for Android (or ANY of the individual companies that make Android devices) that carries the same tone as AppleInsider, et. al.

The name is a direct ape, no question about that. Did you notice that the microphone is… well, isn't it the exact same type of microphone used somewhere in iOS?

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Originally Posted by Nairb 

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Originally Posted by jkichline 

My thumbs are simply not big enough.  I've tried to use 4.5 and 5 inch screens and I have sprained my thumb trying to operate the phone with one hand.  I'll watch movies on my tablet or TV. I don't need a giant phone I can't use.

 I lot of people seem to find this.

 

Personally I never found it a problem. I have small hands for a guy but am well co-ordinated. Most of the less co-ordinated learn to work easily with one hand after a few days, but some still have problems.

Apple has determined that 3.5" is the maximum size for a screen to be useable with one hand.

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Originally Posted by Blastdoor 

I'm very curious to see if four cores is useful in a phone. I'm a little skeptical, but I don't know for sure. 

If you're in the U.S. you won't have to worry about this as the U.S. version will only come with dual core snapdragon processors...

Overal though, more cores is how the CPU manufacturers are increasing processing power and I'm sure we'll even see iPhones with quad cores at some point (I doubt this years iPhone but maybe the 2013).

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Originally Posted by Anim8r 

But Android is OOOOOOPEN!

 

Isn'ty that the rallying cry of the freetards? Android is so much better than iPhone because you have the freedom to install apps from sources not controlled by Apple.

Sorry, but you can't have it both ways.

Not for nothing...but WTF are you talking about? What does that have to do with the Samsung device being underwhelming?

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Originally Posted by JeffDM 

 

Maybe if that was posted on an Android site.  Given how many Android fanatics come to an *Apple* fan site to troll, I'm not sympathetic to this argument.  If Android fans don't want to be counter trolled, maybe it's best not to troll in the first place.

Not for nothing but considering your site has so much Android news that those of us with RSS readers (among other things) constantly see Appleinsider stories on our feeds with commenters referring to us as **insert negative name/phrase/paragraph/lie here" a lot of us felt compelled to come to disspell some of the misinformation.

(edit: religion and politics not welcome here)

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Originally Posted by AbsoluteDesignz 
Not for nothing but considering your site has so much Android news that those of us with RSS readers (among other things) constantly see Appleinsider stories on our feeds with commenters referring to us as **insert negative name/phrase/paragraph/lie here" a lot of us felt compelled to come to disspell some of the misinformation.

I've highlighted what you can NOT do anymore to stop this compulsion of yours.

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Originally Posted by GTR 


Actually, the iPhone comes in two sizes.
The larger one is called the iPad.
The great failure of logic displayed by those defending the Android's 'too big to fit in your pocket screen, non-retina display' screen is that if it's such a deal-breaker, then why are the usage statistics of Android devices so low?
I mean, if that screen is a gift from God, why aren't more of you actually using it?

Oh what nonsense, your argument is absurd.

The iPad is obviously not usable as a phone. It was never intended to be nor ever will be. Large screen Android phones are... surprise surprise, phones. They fit in a pocket, they're easy to hold in one hand, they're light weight, and they make phone calls.

Samsung sells more phones than any other company in the world, and Android is the biggest mobile OS by a mile. So these poor usage statics you speak of are news to me.

Also, for what it's worth, I have an iPhone, not an Android device. I just want a bigger screen, to make typing in portrait easier, to make playing games easier with virtual controls, and to make watching video and browsing the web easier on the eyes. If Apple gave me the choice of an iPhone with a 4.5" screen or a 3.5" screen, I'd choose the larger screen in an instant.

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Originally Posted by kotatsu 
…they're easy to hold in one hand…

Hold. Not actually use. If you're already ON a call and holding it, yeah, that works. But they're not usable with a single hand.

5% is a mile?

Yes, and that's a good thing. Too often, the tone on here is shrill, close-minded, and in many cases hateful. It's one thing to have an opinion. It's something else entirely to attack others constantly for having a different opinion. Unfortunately, too many commenters here do that.

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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil 

 

I've highlighted what you can NOT do anymore to stop this compulsion of yours.

Not have "Android" on my RSS feed?

This site is like a car wreck of misinformation at times...something keeps me from looking away.

That said...the GSIII sucks. Looks, Hardware, Software, Me Too factor...everything.

This was Samsung's chance to do something amazing, revolutionary...etc...

Stupid of me to expect the bureaucratic copycats to do something truly unique.

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Originally Posted by digitalclips 

Now why does it need a Siri like copy, according to all the Android lovers here, when iPhone 4s came out Androids already had a voice recognition system ...

Ask Samsung...Samsung isn't Android...

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Originally Posted by GTR 


Actually, the iPhone comes in two sizes.
The larger one is called the iPad.
 

Really? You can't think of any fundamental difference between the iPhone and the iPad?

Wow, just wow.

dongles don't sell phones.

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Originally Posted by jragosta 

Decent hardware. Too bad the OS is so lousy.

Will you ever stop posting your daily lousy and pathetically crass propaganda? You most probably never ever tried Android 4.0, so please su, kthxbye.

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Originally Posted by Sensi 
Will you ever stop posting your daily lousy and pathetically crass propaganda? You most probably never ever tried Android 4.0, so please su, kthxbye.

It's pretty terrible. And don't act like you're nine.

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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil 

 

Hold. Not actually use. If you're already ON a call and holding it, yeah, that works. But they're not usable with a single hand.

I have no problem actually using the Galaxy Nexus and its 4.65 screen with a single hand... Will you tell me that I am all wrong?

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Originally Posted by Sensi 
I have no problem actually using the Galaxy Nexus and its 4.65 screen with a single hand... Will you tell me that I am all wrong?

How do you reach the entire screen?

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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil 

 

It's pretty terrible. And don't act like you're nine.

So I am acting like if i was "nine" because I am fed up of the constantly childish denigrating propaganda from some people here?

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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil 

How do you reach the entire screen?

Yep, no problem, and I don't have big hands, they are 19 cm long. You get used to it.

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Originally Posted by Sensi 
So I am acting like if i was "nine" because I am fed up of the constantly childish denigrating propaganda from some people here?

The abbreviated "shut up" and texting-speak "kthxbye" was to what I was referring. Your opinion, presented respectfully, is always welcome.

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Originally Posted by Sensi 
Yep, no problem, and I don't have big hands, they are 19 cm long.

That's not a yes or no question…

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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil 

That's not a yes or no question…

Your question was how, I tell you that I have thumb access to every part of that 4.65 big screen with my rather tiny 19 cm/7.5 inches long hands, webcam shot demonstrating that attached to close the topic. :)

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Originally Posted by AbsoluteDesignz 

Not for nothing but considering your site has so much Android news that those of us with RSS readers (among other things) constantly see Appleinsider stories on our feeds with commenters referring to us as **insert negative name/phrase/paragraph/lie here" a lot of us felt compelled to come to disspell some of the misinformation.

So these people are unable to remove this site from their RSS feeds?  How did AI get on their list of feeds?

There is a difference between making a dissenting opinion and offering corrections (which is usually fine) and making comments intended to provoke a reaction on the forum.

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Originally Posted by JeffDM 

 

So these people are unable to remove this site from their RSS feeds?  How did AI get on their list of feeds?

 

There is a difference between making a dissenting opinion and offering corrections (which is usually fine) and making comments intended to provoke a reaction on the forum.

A problem may be that AI -nowadays numerous- Samsung headlined threads usually degenerate into childish Samsung/Android bashing, while most long time yet moderate AI visitors like me don't really understand what Samsung last smartphone, and the following pavlovian bashing, have to do at all with Apple news. :)

Preliminary charts blogged here: benchmarks comparison of Samsung Galaxy S3 with Exynos 4 vs iPhone 4S with A5x dual core and estimates for the new iPhone 5 with apple A6 quad core published: We have got the S3 today just some hours ago and benchmarked with our own PlatIndex®-Suite. Details and methodology will be added later,    we think charts are more urgent in common interest . S3 seems not bad, but also not so strong on performance as hyped out.

@AbsoluteDesignz

I was responding to the story of malware installing on Android devices when sideloading. I assumed the replies would be threaded so I didn't quote the OP.

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Originally Posted by JeffDM 

 

Why don't they call it Samsung-Voice then?

 

Come to think of it, I think a more plausible explanation is that it's a Galaxy S.  But it's hard to give the benefit of the doubt when the company has blatantly aped design language before.

Calling it S-Voice is a bit risky but a little bit of thought will tell you that S is in Galaxy S, as well as S is for Samsung. Then if you think about iPhone 4S having an S, it's LOL.

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Originally Posted by quinney 

 

(R.I.P. Andre)

I hear that his beer drinking ability was the stuff of legend. 

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Originally Posted by Sensi 

So I am acting like if i was "nine" because I am fed up of the constantly childish denigrating propaganda from some people here?

It's not propaganda. It's an opinion. Either way, 4.0 ICS is not horrible, it just isn't good. Android is just bad software. It has been from day one, and nothing has changed other than the degrees of bad.

When you lack culture and vision, bad imitations is the end result. Just like Microsoft with Windows, and now Google with Android.

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Originally Posted by Platanas 

Preliminary charts blogged here: benchmarks comparison of Samsung Galaxy S3 with Exynos 4 vs iPhone 4S with A5x dual core and estimates for the new iPhone 5 with apple A6 quad core published: We have got the S3 today just some hours ago and benchmarked with our own PlatIndex®-Suite. Details and methodology will be added later,    we think charts are more urgent in common interest . S3 seems not bad, but also not so strong on performance as hyped out.

Cool. The brand new quad core S3 is almost 90% as good as last year's iPhone 4S.

(I would pretty much ignore the iPhone 5 since they don't have any idea what it will include.

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Originally Posted by jragosta 

 

Cool. The brand new quad core S3 is almost 90% as good as last year's iPhone 4S.

(I would pretty much ignore the iPhone 5 since they don't have any idea what it will include.

edit: yeah, upon some further research into the GS3 benchmarks, those numbers are definitely suspect and run contrary to what everyone is getting. We're going to need to know their methodology and weighing before drawing anything meaningful out of it.

they say:

If its based on those 3 benchmarks, then its going against what Anandtech is seeing:

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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil 

 

Right, where it will be hit ALL THE TIME by accident.

Certainly cant be any worse than the power button on the ipad

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Originally Posted by msimpson 

I am the average american male height of 5' 10".

 

I find the iPhone fits nicely in my front pants pocket without being too large.  The screen is very readable.  I don't want to carry anything larger.

 

If I did I would bring an iPad.

 

Or I guess I could get some baggy pants...  that hang down and show my underwear. 

Im not an average american, but I am male and shorter than you.

I mentioend at some otehr site, yesterday I was wearing tighish jeans at work.  Not emo skinny legs tho.  I got my iphone4 and my office mates smasung s2..  I can fit them in the same pocket, at the same time, and its not that much of a concern.

If I pull out the samsung and put it in my other front pocket, the iphone actually protrudes more, because it is thicker.  

I don't know what sort of pants you are wearing, but perhaps move up to adult sizes?

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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil 

They don't have any forums of their own. Seriously, there are Android forums, but they're exclusively help forums. I've yet to find a website for Android (or ANY of the individual companies that make Android devices) that carries the same tone as AppleInsider, et. al.

 

That could equally be due to the type of people who buy apple products, versus those who purchase other items, 

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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil 

 

Hold. Not actually use. If you're already ON a call and holding it, yeah, that works. But they're not usable with a single hand.

 

Have you used one?  I have fat stubby fingers.  Galay note is usable, and that is waaay up in size.  The S2 is pretty easy to use with one hand.  This new one will be somewhere in between.

my iphone is extremely easy to use with one hand, but i suffer when typing in portrait.