Apple has their work cut out for them this year. This phone will probably double the sales of the S3. It may not appeal to diehard iPhone fans, but I can really see this appealing to Android fans or for people like me wanting to stay with an iPhone but desperately wanting that larger display. You may not like the innovations but you have to admit it offers some. 

Lower priced?  Maybe marginally, all those phones were 600+ dollars to buy outright (brand new)...

You might find this surprising, but you can't determine a person's intelligence by the phone they choose to buy.

Did any one notice that the S 4 is looking more like a scaled up iPhone 4 than even the S 3?  The top and bottom edges are more straight than the slightly rounded S3? 

You should stick to what you know. You don't seem very familiar with Android high-end phones. You should take a little time to familiarize yourself before making blanket statements, particularly those that are easily disproven. Samsung falls down in several areas, but failing to offer any updates for it's Galaxy line isn't one of those.

 

As for the S4 announcement I was underwhelmed. At least Sammy's president was right that it was going to be more about software than hardware. What I found interesting is that several of the features sound like the rumored additions to Android itself in the upcoming Key Lime Pie version.

In this case, yes you can. A few phones beat the s4 ON EVERY METRIC.

But why THAT display and not an as big but better (or equally good) display of a better phone like the new one from sony or from htc?

 

Notice the Samsung Galaxy S III is not one of them, I guess they sell on hype alone, not user satisfaction.

Cut to faces of the audience, after the presentation:

 

 

Well, for me at least the HTC DNA which my friend has is a very nice phone but it only comes in 16GB or 32GB with no option for a micro SD slot. I could buy the S4 32GB for probably $299 and buy a 64GB SD card for about $45 for a total of 96GB or pay $299 for the 32GB HTC and always be limited to 32GB. That is the big differentiator for me.  I also like think it has a far better camera and CPU than the HTC DNA. There is no Sony phone on my carrier so not even an option. 

Edited by gwmac - 3/14/13 at 5:51pm

This survey is totally useless.  Its title tried to trash iPhone 5.  But the S 3 is not even in the top 5.  So it fails to show any comparison between the Android OS and iOS. 

Where do you get the price  that S4 32GB for $199?  Out of your own mouth? 

Strangely enough, seem to be a lot of Samsung experts on this pro Apple forum but I'll throw in my 2 cents.   For those who say HTC and Sony should be ahead, HTC has nice phones but they have done a poor job at keeping Android up to date and their battery life sucks.  From the early reviews I've seen, The HTC One is not looking good in that department either so I'm ruling it out despite the fact that Zoe looks pretty cool.   As for Sony, they have the camera that will probably be in the next iPhone (and is the same one going into the S4 I believe) but they screwed up with the software on their latest Experia which turned me off of buying it.  

 

Say what you want, I passed on the SIII as I have a Galaxy Nexus now and have been quite happy with it but I'm probably going to step up to the plate for the S4.  The MHL 2.0, the camera, dual recording and the smart gestures (the auto-rotate turn off while lying in bed is a nice carry over from the SIII), ability to use the phone with gloves on, 5" HD screen + the ability to add a memory card are what sold me.     Samsung definitely went with the software route on this announcement - the Android forums are seem to be a bit annoyed at that and many people are saying that HTC has won them over for this round.

 

Yeah, the presentation wasn't as slick as what Jobs would have done (who was known to rehearse insanely for these product launches) but then again, I don't judge a product based on the press conference and I would bet that most people here don't either (despite the fact that it seems to be important to the purchasing decision somehow - Always found the Apple crowd odd in that regard).

 

It will be interesting to see what Apple is going to push out for the iPhone now that they are being forced to rush their product cycle in order to keep up.

You comprehensively fail to understand.  You can not measure or infer a person's intelligence by what phone they chose to buy.  I know intelligent people who don't care whether they have the latest, greatest or technically best if what they have fulfills their needs.

Btw, also want to point out that there are many Android 'experts' on here who profess to know a lot about the OS but based off their comments, it is painfully obvious they have not touched the OS in 2-3 years (or maybe they played with the phone for 20 seconds at the store). 

 

Makes for funny reading for sure.  I won't name names but you know who you are.  Thanks for the chuckles.

While Facebook is a privacy nightmare, you can't base your privacy comfort with an organization on their published privacy policy, you have to look at how trustworthy the company is overall. On that basis, you shouldn't trust Google with anything and you should do whatever you can to block their spyware (I.e., Google Analytics) in your browsers.

I saw the entire presentation.  A lot of gimmicks but not practical: translation, cloud sync only works if data plan is cheap enough, voice recognition is more promise than reality.  Some good ideas: dual camera taking photo/video simultaneously - dont know if the processor is fast enough to handle that, wifi song sharing, wifi gameplay probably depends on the game software.  The glove friendly, if it works, is very good for people in cold area.  Wonder how many of these features are copyrightable. 

The new Galaxy S4 looks like it has a few interesting features, but I was less than impressed overall. I'm still not sold on build quality. Even as a guy that's over 6 feet tall, I don't like the way the Galaxy phones fit in my hand. And I've had so many issues with my wife's Note II tablet to make me distrustful of Android OS. Apple may not be perfect, but the quality is second to none (This is from a guy who still uses his 10 year old iMac G4 on a daily basis) and the fit and finish are the best around. I love my iPhone 5, and still use my original iPhone as an ipod and Sirius/XM receiver. I'd love to see some new features in the next gen iPad and iPhone, but I don't think that Apple has a lot to be worried about from this new Samsung phone! BTW....what was up with that terribly hokey Samsung key note? It looked like a really bad Academy Awards ceremony or something! WOW!!

I don't think it is the size of the iPhone five that is the problem. I think it's more of iOS. it looks outdated and scale. This is one of the reason why I moved to android. iOS just have a bunch of icons on the screen and this is not enough for me. That shit is way too simple. The user interface need to change.

But people are spending:

 

a) 700 dollars

b) 2500 dollars ( 2 years)

 

on a phone! They "don't care"? So they just close their eyes and choose one? That's being stupid. Everyone that bought an s3 was stupid. EVERYONE. fact. They had better phones on every metric for the same money or less (running android) and the superior iPhone.

 

They were stupid.

 

A research from a company with website that doesn't work. Maybe you should find more reputable sources of smartphone satisfaction surveys. They all list iOS and the iPhone as number ONE.

The title should read "Samsung Challenges Apple's iPhone with new Galaxy S IIIS".

 

So are we supposed to be dealing with people setting/walking around and waving their hands now?!

 

That was brutal and cringe worthy when at the end the MC try to get the audiences to clap for the actor.  This is a keynote for a phone that need to be shown what feature it have but it was lost in between those awful actor acting out how to use the feature.   I rather have a keynote where the presenter actually take their time and explain each feature. 

Yawn. 

 

I think your best bet is to accept defeat.  These type of people believe what they believe no matter how much contrary evidence is shown to them.   In fact, I'm thinking he's just trolling you or perhaps he's being irrational because of how often the word Samsung shows up on this site these days?

 

Nobody is as good as Jobs.  For that matter, Tim Cook cannot match up as well.  I simply could not understand what the Samsung executive said in his presentation.  I don't think that it is necessary for him to do the presentation.  He should give just the short overview and let the American executive to do the rest.  Or better yet, he should speak to his phone in Korean and have it translated into English.

I guess for platform popularity we'd have to look at market share stats, which tend to vary somewhat by seem to indicate an overall trend:

 

 

 

 

Apple investors are happy tonight. No real change in phone appearance means no innovation, right? HTC wil be pleased, and everyone they sell Apple gets $8.

I am in the cyber security area, and I wouldn't touch chrom or any other Google product. For example, Chrom, even in private browsing still collects your surfing habits and the places you visited, and how many times you visited, and the list goes on. This information is stored on their servers and with little effort (because you're a Google faithful, you'll at some point would have logged into your Google account) they can tie you with what you did. Scary stuff.

And there aren't people that spend that much on iPhones? Probably more so than any Android phone. You say you like to have decent conversations but calling people stupid for the phone they chose isn't a good way to start a decent conversation. All your remarks are inciteful and then you wonder why people are on the attack. You always talk about 'metrics' but here's a news flash for you, most people don't give a flying fcuk about metrics. So if you kindly please, STFU about them because no one cares.
Edited by dasanman69 - 3/14/13 at 6:15pm

So about that battery life???

So what is the diff between the SG4 and Note2?

The stylus.

This has been discussed at length on AI.  There are surveys that found that iOS devices consume far more ad impression and video playing than Android device users.  So what do these three times more Android device owners do with their devices? 

you can hire savy engineers, you can hire cool designers but at the end of the day - if you still use a shite typeface like this, then something is missing in

your DN, freckin A. (applies to google too)

Google is terrible about privacy. They are the only major company who has been fined multiple times for purposely violating consumer privacy. In one case going as far as to hack Safari to track users who selected do not track anyway.  They can not be trusted, AT ALL!! Their purpose is to gather data on you.  The problem is if they are willing to hack another companies browser what else are they doing?   

Maybe you are missing the point - one doesn't need all the power on that phone! But like Jragsota mentioned - I guess they for crummy Android OS they need dedicated cores to recover for errors! LOL

Just a wake up call for Apple that they do not need an 'S' model. Apple needs the iPhone 6 at their next launch.

 

So if I buy an iPhone 5 today, how old is the software that comes with it?