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It would be good to have variety but I rather have high-impact resistant plastic than uni-body metal any day. Better for heat, drops, weather, weight , replacement easier, etc.
Besides Apple with it's never stopping troll-train will try to sue them because they "invented" aluminum or any other metal it could be made out of.
Hopefully they will do a good job with it because my Galaxy S and Ip4S need a replacement. | |
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| |  cdruGo ColtsPremium,MVM
join:2003-05-14
Fort Wayne, IN
kudos:7 | Re: This will be excellent. said by kerya666:It would be good to have variety but I rather have high-impact resistant plastic than uni-body metal any day. Better for heat, drops, weather, weight , replacement easier, etc. I'd debate the weather, weight, and replacement easier points. Drops maybe depending if you're looking at survivability or minimizing superficial damage like nicks, scrapes, and scratches. But in what way would plastic ever be better than metal for heat? I see a lot more metal heat sinks then I do plastic ones. | |
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| | 4.99"? They should come out with a 10" display phone. | |
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| | | Re: 4.99"? Technically - its called the Samsung Tab 10.1 - just doesn't come by default with a SIM card - you can use Skype.
Similar, Google Nexus 10. | |
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|  Simba7I Void Warranties
join:2003-03-24
Billings, MT | Why 4.99"? So Apple doesn't sue them for using 5". | |
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| | | For real who wants to hold a freaking Notepad to your ear..?? I can't understand what the fascination is with these HUGE Phones. | |
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| |  BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | Re: 4.99"? Ok first it's not any bigger than the current GS3. There will be just less space around the edge of the phone.
Second some of use have large hands. My current phone is 4 inches and even holding it sideways it's still a pain in the butt to text.
Thirdly and old flip phone fully open is a lot longer than even a Galaxy Note II which is 5.5 inches. | |
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| | | | | Re: 4.99"? I couldn't agree more. Many people just see the size but never pick it up for actual feel. I have both a Note 1 and iPhone 5. I at times miss not using my Note for some things.
When it comes to texting my Note can text very easily in vertical mode. | |
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| | |  AVDRespice, Adspice, ProspicePremium
join:2003-02-06
Onion, NJ
kudos:1 | said by BF69:Second some of use have large hands.
I have fat fingers and bad eyes.
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| | | Would be nice to see a Note 3 with a 7 inch screen and the future 5S with a 6 inch screen.
Honestly seems rather boring nothing really new or exciting  | |
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| | BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | Re: 4.99"? said by Jamest :Would be nice to see a Note 3 with a 7 inch screen and the future 5S with a 6 inch screen.
Honestly seems rather boring nothing really new or exciting
Actually you could fit a 6.1 inch screen on the current body of a Note II if you used edge to edge screen. I'm not sure what else they should put in a smartphone that would be "new and exciting" to you? | |
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|  tc1uscg
join:2005-03-09
Saint Clair Shores, MI | They did. The Galaxy tab 2 10.1. Using skype, your good to go and if you get a new 802.11ac device, you can make calls within a few hundred fee of your house. However, moving downthe street might result in dropped calls.  (I know, been there.. ) | |
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 LinklistPremium
join:2002-03-03
Longport, NJ
kudos:5 |  And what carriers will it be available on initially?
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| Re: And what carriers will it be available on initially? said by Linklist:And what carriers will it be available on initially? Didn't see that info on the links provided.
So far the S2 and 3 have been on the big 4 and some regionals so I would figure this to be no different. These are big sellers. | |
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 trparkyApple... YUMPremium,MVM
join:2000-05-24
Cleveland, OH
kudos:2 | Looking forward to this phone... I'm really looking forward to this phone to replace my aging Samsung Galaxy Nexus. | |
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|  LightSPremium
join:2005-12-17
Greenville, TX | Re: Looking forward to this phone... It does seem old doesn't it I still love mine though.. | |
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| | trparkyApple... YUMPremium,MVM
join:2000-05-24
Cleveland, OH
kudos:2 | Re: Looking forward to this phone... The 1 GB of RAM in the Galaxy Nexus is really starting to make it show its age. | |
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|  pnjunctionTeksavvy ExtremePremium
join:2008-01-24
Toronto, ON
kudos:1 | I'm still rocking my original Galaxy S.
Having the latest Android versions ported and tricked out by the CyanogenMod and the rest of the community has helped sooth the upgrade itch until now but I am definitely jumping on the S 4 unless it spontaneously combusts in reviews. | |
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join:2001-10-16
Spencer, MA | 5" display too big, too prone to breaking 5".. oops I mean 4.99" display is just too big. the large screen also makes it far more likelier to break in the event of a short fall. | |
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| | | Re: 5" display too big, too prone to breaking I hope when you buy something at store when it's say $1.99 you go 2 bucks oops i mean $1.99. | |
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| Simba7I Void Warranties
join:2003-03-24
Billings, MT | It is not. It also depends on the type of screen.
All my phones are in OtterBox Defender cases, so I don't have to worry. I dropped my Captivate from 4 feet standing straight up (on purpose to prove a point) onto a solid granite slab and it did nothing to it. It bounced and landed without a scratch or any damage to the case or the phone.
Although the look on the potential customer's face (after he said "Don't do it!") was priceless. I'm suspecting he got one immediately.
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|  aaronwtPremium
join:2004-11-07
Woodbridge, VA
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| said by wdoa:5".. oops I mean 4.99" display is just too big. the large screen also makes it far more likelier to break in the event of a short fall.
Why do people keep dropping their phones? A 5" screen should be no more difficult to keep from dropping than a 4.3" screen.
In ninteen years of using cell phones, I've never had a screen break. But apparently I'm also not dropping my phone on a regular basis like it seems like some people do. | |
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|  BonezXBasement DwellerPremium
join:2004-04-13
Canada
1 edit | said by wdoa:5".. oops I mean 4.99" display is just too big. the large screen also makes it far more likelier to break in the event of a short fall.
never owned a galaxy have you, gorilla glass is tough as hell.
galaxy S3 screen is 4.8inches, S4 is only going to be .19 inches bigger. they might also do the same buffer-rubber around the screen. | |
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| | | | Re: 5" display too big, too prone to breaking well is not as tough as some might believe check this out
»youtu.be/36U-hOhTNIw | |
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| | | BonezXBasement DwellerPremium
join:2004-04-13
Canada
1 edit | Re: 5" display too big, too prone to breaking saw that, notice i mentioned a rubber buffer on the screen, since most of the damage was because of edge impact.
watch?v=J4zQKeAEqsQ
different angles
which is easy to fix(and what they did with the phone5)
kind annoying watching other "tests" where situations are blatantly different(anyone seen squaretrades beer-bottle test ?) | |
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| | | | | | Re: 5" display too big, too prone to breaking still the screen on the sG3 is not as thought as they make it out to be. Also theres tons of test video proving that, not just this video. Nothing bias when the same bottles hit the iphone and nothing happen is not like the emptied it out so it won't damage the iphone 5. heres another one and it comes from Android authority and even then proved the sg3 does crap easily:
»youtu.be/6M5q5TRuAsY | |
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| | | | | BonezXBasement DwellerPremium
join:2004-04-13
Canada | Re: 5" display too big, too prone to breaking they might not have been purposeful bias, but drop angles being that far apart on 3 tests is a bit much. | |
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| | | | | | | | Re: 5" display too big, too prone to breaking By who? an Android loving site that proved that the SG3 glass sucks. Look thats Samsung fault for not using real Gorilla glass and not the cheap version. | |
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| | | | | | | BonezXBasement DwellerPremium
join:2004-04-13
Canada | Re: 5" display too big, too prone to breaking said by Eddy120876:By who? an Android loving site that proved that the SG3 glass sucks. Look thats Samsung fault for not using real Gorilla glass and not the cheap version.
they did use gorilla glass, just didn't implement it correctly(should have been slightly thicker, and a rubber gasket added to the outside edge to absorb impact). the iphone5's glass is .90mm thick, can't find numbers on the SG3 glass but it definitely feels thinner(more flex under pressure).
i was talking about the beer bottle drop video, there's 3 tests where the phones are under different stresses, first is the drop where the Iphone was a straight vertical drop onto it's bottom, and the SG3 was dropped at an angle. second was the soup cans neither were dropped in the same way and didn't really impact either phone solidly, and the beer bottle test, SG3 bottle was dropped corner down on the screen, they might not have intended bias in that one, but it sure as hell looked like it. | |
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: 5" display too big, too prone to breaking Still even if we eliminate that bottle drop there still other test that show how badly Samsung use the glass on the phone. Even to the point that once theres a hairline crack across the device it stop receiving input. Had they done the SG3 with the same standards than HTC or even LG their phones would look and work better. | |
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 ropeguruPremium
join:2001-01-25
Mechanicsville, VA | Hopefully on Verizon... As it will be the perfect timing for my end of contract with Sprint in May. This gives some time to see what all the bugs and issues will be before I have to decide on a new phone. | |
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Simba7I Void Warranties
join:2003-03-24
Billings, MT | Drool.. Oh ya, this is definitely my next phone. I'm buying it outright and gettting an ST SIM card for it, though. | |
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aaronwtPremium
join:2004-11-07
Woodbridge, VA Reviews:
·Verizon FiOS
| What will the battery lie be like... with and eight core processor?
I'm still tempted to buy the 5" HTC quad core phone.
I'm still not sure about getting a Galaxy. A coworkerer has one and there are some things I like aout and some I don't. I guess I've been used to using the HTC phones the last few years. | |
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|  scavioPremium
join:2001-07-14
Melmac | Re: What will the battery lie be like... The processor has 8 cores, but it's four A15s (high performance) and four A7s (lower power). It's the whole big.LITTLE thing that ARM is pushing that supposedly will help with battery life. | |
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| | trparkyApple... YUMPremium,MVM
join:2000-05-24
Cleveland, OH
kudos:2 | Re: What will the battery lie be like... Recently uncovered rumors state that it will not be an octa-core CPU in any shape. It will be simply a quad-core CPU with nothing special about it.
At least, that's what current rumors have at the moment. | |
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| | |  kv2009
join:2009-09-14
Kenner, LA | Re: What will the battery lie be like... said by trparky:Recently uncovered rumors state that it will not be an octa-core CPU in any shape. It will be simply a quad-core CPU with nothing special about it.
At least, that's what current rumors have at the moment.
I wouldn't say "nothing special". The word has it that Samsung has issues with heat in their Exynos chip, so that's why they're switching out early production models with the QC Snapdragon 600 chip. It's a quad-core AND it powers the new HTC One. Have you seen those benchmarks? Plus, they say it will be much better on battery life than their previous quad-core chip, now dubbed the 400. But with everything manufacturers say prior to release, it should all be taken with a grain of salt. But if true, there's a lot to be happy about with that QC chip.  | |
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| | Yes! This means my cheapskate ass can start looking into a Galaxy S3 in the next six months for less than the going price of $400+.
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|  jay608Going Nucking Futs
join:2007-01-22
Chicago, IL | Re: Yes! I'm with you on that. My wife told me to get one when she just upgraded. I told her no. | |
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MadtownPremium
join:2008-04-26
Madera, CA | Will Cricket get it? I hope Cricket will get it. | |
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| | | Re: Will Cricket get it? the only reason why it not came out yet. is the screen. they have had a hard time making it (yield wise) | |
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 atuarreHere come the drumsPremium
join:2004-02-14
College Station, TX | RE I was hoping the Note 3 would come out at the same time but probably not. I have an S3 and a Note 2 and I prefer the notes, and will just wait for the new note. | |
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|  Subaru1-3-2-4Premium
join:2001-05-31
Greenwich, CT | Re: RE said by atuarre:I was hoping the Note 3 would come out at the same time but probably not. I have an S3 and a Note 2 and I prefer the notes, and will just wait for the new note.
I'm stuck because I'm looking at getting a new phone next month and stuck between the SIII and note 2..
knowing this phone is going to be $$$ maybe the note 2 might have a price drop as well before I get into another 2 year contract.
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| | atuarreHere come the drumsPremium
join:2004-02-14
College Station, TX | Re: RE said by Subaru:said by atuarre:I was hoping the Note 3 would come out at the same time but probably not. I have an S3 and a Note 2 and I prefer the notes, and will just wait for the new note.
I'm stuck because I'm looking at getting a new phone next month and stuck between the SIII and note 2.. knowing this phone is going to be $$$ maybe the note 2 might have a price drop as well before I get into another 2 year contract. Note 2 probably won't see a major price drop until the Note 3, which if it comes out in March, that would happen, but seeing how the Note 2 just came out, I do not see it happening, but don't quote me on any of this, as that stuff is all subject to change. | |
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Samsung
Stahp! | |
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 DragasoniWe're All Mad HerePremium
join:2001-12-14
Palm Bay, FL | Tempting I'm torn between the Galaxy S4 and iPhone 5. My iPhone 4 has been flawless while the few Androids before it were total junk. Buggy, slow, lagging, random rebooting pieces of crap.
Still, I'm thinking about giving Android one more chance. Honestly, I'm tired of iTunes and tiny screens.
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| kv2009
join:2009-09-14
Kenner, LA | Re: Tempting Android has come a long way since FroYo and Gingerbread. Plus, launchers that some manufacturers throw on top of Android can cause serious annoyances that have nothing to do with Android itself. Like the old Motorola UI....dear lord was that bad. | |
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