said by trparky:Well... obviously the S4 will be more than the S3 will be because they are probably going to lower the prices of the S3 just to try to move what devices they still have in the warehouse. This much I know. But, the question is... will the S4 be priced similarly to how the S3 was priced when the S3 came out?
I am by no means an expert on the ins and outs of the Android market, but I would not be surprised to see the S IV priced $50 to $100 more than the current list price on the S III. They'll soak the first adapters for every last penny they can get and then start dropping the price down towards the current list on the SIII when and only when demand starts falling, at least that would be my guess.
Rumor has it that the S4 will have a quad-core CPU in it. The S3 only has a dual-core CPU.
I think most, if not all, S IIIs currently being sold in Europe are quad-core. Dual-core, to the best of my knowledge, is US market only.
I have a Galaxy Nexus right now and that only has a dual-core CPU in it and it's starting to show its age in the sense that some of the most mundane tasks seem to make the phone become sluggish.
When I buy this phone I'm going to be obviously locking myself into a two year contract so that means I'm going to be shackled to the phone for that much time. Obviously I wouldn't want to be stuck with a phone that's obsolete and slow some time in the future.
I currently have an S III and I'm not worried about it becoming behind the curve any time soon. Course, I don't do lots of gaming on it or even watch many videos. As it is, my limit is with the pipe -- give me 4G or work through my home LAN which has a high speed connect and I might as well be using my laptop; 3G I can definitely see the slow-down on operations needing remote data access. I've downloaded some huge map files via the home LAN and it sucks them up at almost the same speed as the laptop.
If you're having problems with sluggishness, you might want to examine memory usage on the Nexus and see what you can do to cut it down. My old GARMINfone (which was pretty much obsolete when I first got it) was just poky if I had enough free memory but would slow to a crawl if my memory usage got too high. (It also had a memory leak which meant a full restore and reload to solve the problem, not something I ever enjoyed to say the least.)
So if the S4 is going to be out soon and you had a choice, which would you choose? Wait for the S4 or grab the S3? I just don't want to be stuck with a paperweight a year from now.
Well, I've got the S III for about six months now and I'm quite happy with it -- of course, YMMV.