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Re:Galaxy S3: Did Samsung just out-iPhone Apple? by sid05 on Friday May 04, 2012 @02:15PM (#3929615)
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 ?

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Re:Galaxy S3: Did Samsung just out-iPhone Apple? by varelse on Friday May 04, 2012 @02:21PM (#3929636)
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...

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