Re:Galaxy S3: Did Samsung just out-iPhone Apple?
by varelse on Friday May 04, 2012 @12:33PM
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Probably not: my Galaxy Nexus started out promising enough with only a few annoying issues but in the 4 1/2 months I've owned it, I've watched it become almost as much of an unresponsive brick as my late Droid G1. And while we're at, they have yet to release ICS for my Samsung Galaxy 10.1. Google/Samsung/I don't really care anymore are all falling flat on their faces pretending to support these devices and that's their real downfall.
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Re:Galaxy S3: Did Samsung just out-iPhone Apple?
by CountSessine on Friday May 04, 2012 @02:43PM
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Yes, mostly the same experience here with the GNex. Beautiful screen and I dare say a superior web browsing experience to my iphone 4S (if for no other reason than the extra pixels), but lots of random rebooting and other annoyances. Also, I missed visual voicemail and being able to buy songs right on the phone (not many options in Canada, and none that work on Android).
Re:Galaxy S3: Did Samsung just out-iPhone Apple?
by sid05 on Friday May 04, 2012 @02:15PM
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I've had my GNexus since January. Still fast and responsive here.
I wonder if certain usage profiles of varying demographics degrades a phone over time analagous to Windows XP needing a reformat every now and then. If unresponsiveness is your only problem I wonder if a factory reset would do it any good ?
Re:Galaxy S3: Did Samsung just out-iPhone Apple?
by varelse on Friday May 04, 2012 @02:21PM
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I could certainly do just that and when I find the time to do so I will (around the same time I jailbreak my 10.1 to install CM once the camera support works). But this is a consumer device, not some sort of hacker's toy and that means (IMO of course) that different rules apply here. And that's where Apple gets it right: my fiancee's 2 year-old IPhone is as responsive as the day she got it.
PS A factory reset on my G1 last year restored its responsiveness for a day or two. Sigh...