Just ordered the EVO LTE. Have the old EVO 4g, but apparently dropping your phone in a cup of beer isn't good for it.
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Just ordered the EVO LTE. Have the old EVO 4g, but apparently dropping your phone in a cup of beer isn't good for it.
trandfer music Into winamp desktop software on your computer then synch that with your phone's winamp app.Quote:
Originally Posted by bmg97
Works kike a charm
I know. It's a somewhat older after market pioneer unit that previous owner of her truck installed. It worked fine with my iPhone and her Blackberry (which she just replaced yesterday with a Galaxy to further enrage Gameface).Quote:
Originally Posted by iceman
Screen on the Pioneer shows "memory full" error when you attempt to pair. I was going to do some research to try and figure out if there's some bluetooth compatibilty issue with older devices.
I liked my iPhone I've had two of them. So has my wife. Having spoken to several people with the S3 and played around with one myself for a while I decided I liked it so bought one. So hardly a fanboy merely a purchaser. I did have to exchange it for a replacement a couple of days in, after it refused to boot/continually froze, as far as I can tell that is not a widespread issue and is not dissimilar to an issue I had with the iPhone.Quote:
Originally Posted by systemoverblow'd
I just ordered the 5 today. Moving on from RIM.
I think my patience may have just been paid off with the new Photon from Motorola. Android, sweet looking keyboard, front facing camera for video conferencing and it is a World phone for when I am on the road. http://www.motorola.com/us/consumers...WT.mc_ev=click
Anyone had both the iphone and S3? What's your preference? The only smartphone I've had has been Android.
The wife and I are due for new phones and will be buying one or both of them. I'm leaning toward the S3 (partly because I don't want to wait another month). Is the touch sharing thing on the S3 make buying two of those between us a good idea? I'm coming from a smaller LG Optimus which fit nice in the pocket. How's the S3 for size?
I really need to get in the shop here soon and hold them, but just wanted to see what tgr world thought.
I haven't considered any other phone other than iPhone since iPhone 1. However, I'm 95% sure that I'll be replacing my iPhone 4 with a Galaxy S3 on Wednesday. I've done the research and played with both. The S3 is just too cool too ignore.
If anyone happens to have a TMobile or ATT smartphone they are not using or getting rid of soon shoot me a PM. Lost my nearly new Galaxy Blaze last week :nonono2:
Jibij, the phones are cool but the battery is driving me nuts with my Nexus. I had been working around it, grabbing bits of charge here and there, in my car, wherever, but twice recently I went to zero and I needed my phone. Maybe the S3 is better? If not, think hard about your usage patterns.
The battery is my biggest concern with the S3. However, it looks like with apps like Juice Defender that it's pretty manageable. Worst case is that I buy an extended life battery and have a slightly thicker phone.
Here's some comparative info I found:
"Battery life on the Samsung Galaxy is better thanks to its 2100mAh capacity, compared to the 1750mAh of the Nexus. You should get around 2 more hours of talk time with the S3 than you would with the Nexus."
Well more is better than less and I haven't had huge problems, just a couple of kinda critical ones recently. If it's better, and you're willing to pay attention to it, fine. It should be great.
But don't use any of the cool stuff on the phone if you don't know when you can get back to charging it, it takes a lot of power to run that big screen. But you gotta pay to play in this world, so be it.
Thanks, I think I'm there with ya.Quote:
Originally Posted by jibij
I just heard that the s3 will most likely be available on black friday for $50 for those renewing 2yr contracts. Wish I had the patience since that is much better than $200.
There are some things on all these phones to help save battery life. I used to have push enabled for my emails every 5 minutes. Now, I only get emails when I check.
Next, turn off wifi when you aren't using it. Your phone will constantly be checking for a signal. Same goes with bluetooth.
With a little management you can see definite battery improvements. If you do all that and your battery still sucks, well your battery sucks.
I listen to "tunein radio" at least 4 hours a day, along with web surfing, emailing, watching YouTube and playing games all for the same period. Radio is playing and ill do one of the others at the same time. I am good for the whole day, but I certainly need to charge every night. Right now I am at 41% and will be down to 20 by the time I plug in and hit the hay.
I got an s3 about a month ago. All of my previous phones have been stupid so my point of reference is skewed, but the s3 is impressive. As long as I start the day with a mostly full battery, it's fine for my purposes. Wouldn't say that I spend a lot of time on battery intensive stuff though. The quick chargers do a good job - I can add around 20% to the charge on my 15 minute drive to work.
I have been the exact same way and just bought the GIII about 2 weeks ago. I couldn't be happier. It felt good to get away from the iphone. Takes some getting used to but I really like it.Quote:
Originally Posted by jibij
my battery use is kind of similar on my s3 but I leave push emails on, same kind of result but I also stream to my TV which chews a bit.Quote:
Originally Posted by systemoverblow'd
I'm stoked, the phone options at the moment are stupendous
Agreed! Pretty much any flavor of smartphone out now is pretty amazing to where we were just a couple years ago.
Couldn't be happier with my new rugby smart. Mil spec tough. Waterproof shockproof dustproof. Great sound great battery life. Not the most advanced phone out there but its damn tough.
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Downloaded Juice Defender last night based on this thread and I've already seen tremendous improvement with my S3 battery: thanks.Quote:
Originally Posted by jibij
Anyone have 100% success with the S3 with regards to group text conversations? I use Go SMS Pro which works 95% of the time, but some iPhone messages still come through individually as opposed to in the group text.
i thought juice defender was obsolete on the S3 and it's software? At least I've had nothing but great battery life without it and just making sure bluetooth is off when not being used
I'm really happy with the iPhone 5 I got on launch day last month. I was really torn, I was bored of iPhones and really wanted a Galaxy Note II, but I just got turned off by the shit all my Android-using friends had to deal with, and, aside from the big screen, nobody was ever able to tell me wtf an Android phone would actually do for me that was any better than what my iPhone does.
Seeing you guys talk about getting a day out of a GSIII kinda makes me glad I got what I did. I can forget to plug my iPhone in at night and I'll get through another day with battery to spare, even on an LTE connection with push emails and all of that. Admittedly I don't use it that heavily, but I generally have an hour or more of calls and at least the same of web browsing in an average day.
First time using an Android so I have no prior experience with juice defender, but it's definitely saving me a bunch of battery life on my S3. Go to bed with 40% or so now rather than 15%, if that.Quote:
Originally Posted by b dubya
Yeah I just installed it a couple days ago after jibij mentioned it and it seems to be helping some.
I have an S3.
Don't drop it.
Work gave me an iPhone 5. Its a piece of shit.
aren't you married with a kid? that's a plus, right?
the price differences across networks are nuts now.
Maps.Quote:
Originally Posted by Max Archer
Navigation.
SD memory cards.
Much larger screen (GS3).
Send pics directly to Facebook.
I have both an iPhone 4 and an Android device (HTC running Honeycomb). iPhone is my primary device as well as a test device. The Droid is used solely for testing mobile apps. Shameless spam - our mobile apps are for avalanche safety - see www.ullrlabs.comQuote:
Originally Posted by gatorboy
Here are some things that make me like iPhones more than Droids.
Unless you need public transport routes, current iPhone maps/nav work just fine. Expect a quantum improvement in mapping for iOS shortly. If you gotta have public trans schedules now, you can download/use Google Maps to the iphone
Onboard iPhone GPS is way superior to any Android app.
There's fewer useful apps available for Droid versus iPhone. That's because writing apps for Android is a PIA due to all of the device configurations.
iOS has onboard voice-text capability without a cellphone signal. That's not available in any current version of 'Droid - gotta be able to talk with Google's servers.
Max SD card available in Galaxy s3 is 32GB. Because of the way some apps store stuff, swapping cards around can be perilous.
You can buy an iPhone 5 with 32gb for the same price as a Galaxy S3 at ATT
I don't know if its still a problem with version 4.X, but older versions of Android are famous for gumming up internal storage - I have to do a complete wipe/reload about every two months because of this known issue.
iPhones just work. My iPhone has locked up once in three years. My Droid crashes about once a week.
The GS3 has a bigger screen but is also a lot bigger overall than an iPhone. And i'm not a Facebook fanboi so I don't care about directly sending pictures.
My $0.02 - YMMV
My S3 takes a 64 gb SD and has 16 on board, so a total of 80gb.
I'll tell you what phone now! The one in your hand. You don't need a new phone. With my old crappy iPhone 3 I can do everything I need.
Jerry Reed
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The new maps and nav are actually really good, it's just the search that sucks. That'll change with the next update, though. I've been really impressed with the GPS, it's super accurate, fast, and works when you're outside the data connection as long as you did the route when you had data. Really impressive battery performance while GPSing too.Quote:
Originally Posted by gatorboy
I guess SD cards are cool if you want to put a whole bunch of porn vids on your phone or something. I've never had space issues.
Large screen isn't much of a benefit during the 98% of the time you're trying to walk around with the thing in your pocket and not actually using it.
iPhone can send pics directly to FB.
I think Android phones are cool but they're not really that practical. I know a ton of professional devs and they all HATE Android.
Bingo!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Max Archer
So the big screen is only a benefit when you're actually using it? huh.Quote:
Originally Posted by Max Archer
I have an $8 dolla wally world trak fone...200 min card, expires Feb '13. Dislike the cellys immensely. WTF did we ever do before them? Only bitch is the lack of payphones now. Seriously. Why? Ya, I get the work thing and agree. But the random I need to be surfin always... Erik-the-Red didn't need no GPS mother fucker, why should you? I bet you fukkers want the libraries shut tight toooooo.
Non sequitur, agreed.
is this thing on? Fucking computers, wtf, who needs these things...bullshit with random strangers because yer afraid to talk to real people in life...did I type that outloud? Shit...wait'll my hair pie rant. Gotta decouple the horse and buggy first, be a sec, can't put'er away all wet.
WWWhat?!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Åsgard
What's impressive is that you puke out a post that makes you sound like a Clampett, but somehow you figured out how to put that funky little circle over the A in your name (Swedish?). Go fig.Quote:
Originally Posted by Åsgard
Swedes are born knowing how to do that.
And a burden when you're not. It's like a fat pow ski - yeah, it's awesome after a 3' storm, but if you ski hardpack groomers 98% of the time it sucks.Quote:
Originally Posted by iceman
You dirty fuckers. I am Norwedge, well, 1/2, don't be pullin' yer puds and that Swedish wool over me eyes.
Tell me I am wrong. Buncha dumshits walking around with this that or the other fucking phone AND earphnes up the arse... the dependency on such a superficial thing is mind blowing, to me....
learned helplessness, is all
Anyone seen Walleee
next generation of kids are fucked...and not in a good way...oops, inner Sandusky coming out....helpless, helpless, heeeelpless...
/tasteless pater