iPhone 5

[bitWISE]

It's not a phone, it's a 10.1" tablet, hence the 'Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1' name. You're confused with the 'Samsung Galaxy Note', which is the 5.3" smartphone. Yeah I understand the naming scheme is a bit confusing. My phone is a HTC Sensation.

A woman in our office has the Note phone and its so god damned huge. She's really thin so it was funny to see her try to stuff a tip of it into her pocket after a meeting.

[Eraser]

The Galaxy Note II has a 5.5 inch screen

[0psys]

I went into a phone shop today to play with an S3, and I originally saw the note and mistook it for that. I thought I'd made a huge mistake before I realised it wasn't an S3.

S3 didn't seem to huge as a result, though.

[plained]

at first when i got mine i was all "this fucking thing is big"

now after ive used it for a while i'm real happy with the useful screen size

[xer0s]

Oh fuck off plained

[Tsakali]

at first when i got mine i was all "this fucking thing is big"

now after ive used it for a while i'm real happy with the useful screen size

the S3 is the same screen width as the evo, just a bit larger on the height... so to me it didn't look all the drastic of a change... if I was to upgrade, which I'm not.

[0psys]

Can anyone share awesome Galaxy S3 stuff with me? Some apps that the iphone doesn't have, or let me know about features that the iphone doesn't have in general?

I played with one today, and the PIP was brilliant, very useful.

How is battery life, though? What's it actually like to use as a phone on a day to day basis?

What's it like as a business handset? Does it have push for emails, and can I link multiple email accounts, etc? Does it have any dicent, intuitive, easy to use organiser software?

[shaft]

If only there was such a device that you could easily sync and organize all your dates, contacts, reminders, and notes into one central cloud to be accessed from multiple locations.

[losCHUNK]

lets get down to to brass tacks, if you acquire an apple product that wasn't stolen then you are a whore (and not a very good one), no excuses

/from an apple owner

[Giraffe }{unter]

Because of work I live by my smartphone, my SLA for email response is usually 15-30 minutes during my 18 awake hours of the day. Since my first Motorola droid in 2009 I've been a fan and had my chance to use many of them as a main phone for at least a few weeks/months.

-Motorola Droid
-HTC Incredible
-Motorola Droid X
-HTC Thunderbolt
-HTC Incredible 2
-HTC Rezound
-HTC Incredible 4G
-Motorola Droid 4
-Samsung Galaxy Note

and a few others I may have missed I've also had the opportunity to play with almost all of Verizon's Droid offerings and some of the more notable ones from AT&T, but not for longer than an hour or 2.

I dismissed the original iPhone after using it for only a week I hated the way it handled corporate email and notifications. I have been a hater since...

...Until the iPhone 5 hit my desk.

I received it on launch day and struggled with trying to hate it throughout the following weekend, I caved and made it my main phone. They seemed to have gotten it right this time. The iPhone feels like a more unified experience, don't get me wrong the droid does most of what the iPhone does it just seems like the iPhone 5 does it a litter better.

The biggest things for me was the keyboard, it is far superior to any droid keyboard I have ever used, I spend a good portion of my day responding to professional emails and it was downright painful on most of my droids. (galaxy note and hardware keyboard Motorola models excluded), Location based reminders are insanely useful. (get this when I arrive to lowes, do this when I get to work, grab this when I am at my parents house, etc)

Also being a major google maps and navigation user on the droid. I used the navi almost daily even on well known routes just to avoid traffic, I don't see any major issues with the Apple maps in my daily use YET... then again I travel in a heavily populated NY NJ area.


Begin flames in 3, 2, ...

Does it have push for emails, and can I link multiple email accounts, etc?

Yes and it handles the accounts well allowing you to control what and how you sync each account. Example you can mail, contacts, calendar from exchange, mail only from outlook.com and mail and a specific calendar from google.com, etc...

Battery life could make a full day almost 2 with checking email often, sporadic browsing as long as you are lite on phone calls.

[0psys]

Hmm, the keyboard is quite a big thing for me, I already get annoyed by Apple's, and I have to admit that it's largely excellent.

Hopefully the S3 is closer the Note than the other phones you've mentioned.

Fucking hell I hope so, I just want a phone that does a few things well, I don't really care about the frills.

[mrd]

Tip for battery life, hit it onto airplane mode if there are periods where you aren't expecting calls, etc. or just don't care. Aside from the screen, the radio is the largest battery draw.

[EtUL]

lol if ur battery sucks turn off all the phone features

[Eraser]

I actually hated the iPhone keyboard, mostly because the letters on it are always in upper case, even when writing in lower case. It had me thoroughly confused. I have to admit though, that this is probably a case of getting used to it. Then again, i also missed the hold-key-for-alternate-characters function as well.

[Eraser]

lol if ur battery sucks turn off all the phone features

Screen is the biggest drain though. Lowering brightness can help a lot as well.

[losCHUNK]

Or just turn off the phone

[0psys]

I just cancelled the S3, as I've just learnt the S3 LTE comes out next Friday and has 4g and 2gb of ram. I'll have me some of that; the 4g network launches in the UK at the end of the month.

[Tsakali]

lol my area is finally getting 4G next nonth but it will be LTE, so my EVO won't get to enjoy it...fucking Jews, I knew they'd get me to upgrade somehow

[0psys]

Turns out the Lte was already available. Posting from it right now. Keyboard isn't great. Cost me 450 offline, which was 50 cheaper than advertised I think. Seems pretty nice.

[Don Carlos]

because your chosen hardware is nVidia and Intel, not Apple, then you are not a sheep, thus completely casting the consumer whore shackles from your very being. Kudos.

noone mentioned tarring. you know jesus was black right? tsk, that's asking for a swift smiting. insulting sheep is pretty harsh too, poor buggers. they don't do blindly as told by the venomous suggestions of serpentine advertisement campaigns and pretty pretty lights - they'd need a scary dog to chase them to carphone warehouse, not go shuffling off there like wanton shopping zombie conZumers.

phones are a hobby now though? splendid. tell me more on how one requires a particular iteration of a brand of phone for entertainment purposes

The owning of a particular piece of hardware is not a hobby, it is what it can do and also what you do with it that counts. Owning trainers is not a hobby, running is.

As other people in the this thread have mentioned, I use my phone for making calls and texting people, emails, taking pictures, reading, playing the odd game, browsing the internet, listening to music etc etc.
Now, if we look at the argument you have presented in that you purchasing equipment to better enjoy your hobby is entirely justified, then we can only conclude that my purchase of a phone which is capable of doing the list of things above, is one of utter genius. Email is not a hobby granted, but gaming is and my phone can run games of impressive quality AND with added bonus of not being stuck behind my desk. Yes, I can game in a park in the sun or on a bus or on my lunch in work if I am feeling ignorant. Reading, and I am sure you will agree on this, is also a hobby. Listening to music is a hobby. Browsing the internet, for the most part, is a hobby. The device I have purchased manages to do all of that, and all of that extremely well. Yes is a brand, Apple, but I am pretty sure that your ASUS graphics card with an nVidia chip set plugged into your MSI motherboard running your Intel processor all have brand names attached to them too....?

Just for illustrative purposes, I have taken a picture for you of what I would need to carry around to be able to do the list of things I have mentioned vs my phone.

[0psys]

Turns out the Lte was already available. Posting from it right now. Keyboard isn't great. Cost me 450 offline, which was 50 cheaper than advertised I think. Seems pretty nice.

[Tsakali]

having issues already i see

[EtUL]

Lol did it damage your brain when you posted from it?

Droids fail at posting you heard it here first.

[+JuggerNaut+]

Turns out the Lte was already available. Posting from it right now. Keyboard isn't great. Cost me 450 offline, which was 50 cheaper than advertised I think. Seems pretty nice.

Try swiftkey. I've tried quite a few in the last couple of years and that is the best k/b, IMO. Works great on the S3, although I prefer tying in landscape.

[0psys]

Thanks, I'll check it out. I think it could also just be a transitional thing. Four years with an iPhone keyboard isn't going to be forgotten in an afternoon.