which phone is better?
S3 seems to have better specs
but nexus will receieve the jelly bean update? not sure if S3 will
S3 seems to have better specs
but nexus will receieve the jelly bean update? not sure if S3 will
i have a question. i'm upgrading from my LG ally in a week (thank god). Its been a great phone once rooted, overclocked and using custom ROM I want to know which phone i should get,
Galaxy Nexus Set Your Location
or
Galaxy S III
Set Your Location
need opinions, thanks
S3. Hardware gap is too much between the Nexus in my opinion. S3 will definitely get Jellybean at some point or another. The question will come up, in 6 months or so, will the S3 get the next iteration of Android (KLP?) vs if the Nexus will as well.
I currently own a Nexus S, and am due for upgrade in 2 weeks.
I was originally torn between the G Note, GS3 and G Nexus. The fact that the GS3 does have handwriting recognition was enough to knock the note out of contention for me. Although I do like the size, and I do like the S-Pen, I just won't make the use of it. It is a pity that the Wacom digitizer didn't make it into the GS3.
So now it is between the GS3 and the G Nexus. And this is where I am torn.
I have never been a fan of TouchWiz, although the reviews of the GS3 says Samsung have gone a long way in trying to sort this out. So I am less worried about TW now.
Moving on to the core OS - the G Nexus is due to receive Jellybean soon, but is it? I am a little bit wary considering the hash that was made of the OTA update of ICS to the Nexus S, receiving it well after the G Nexus was released with it as stock. In fact, not long after my Nexus S updated to ICS, so did my bro's HTC. So was there any real benefit? And how long before the next Nexus phone, there must be one due soon.
The S3 definitely has the better tech, and will most likely get JB eventually. So that is what I am leaning too - but I am still undecided.
i think your problem with receiving updates with the nexus phones is your using the carrier versions
"Google will be pushing out Jelly Bean to the Google Nexus S, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus and the Motorola Xoom by mid-July. The software development kit will be available for developers starting immediately."
notice the nexus s will get it right away assuming your using the true google nexus s
notice those are all the true nexus devices, not the carrier versions..........the gnex buying outright is 350$ right now, and you actually get updates strait from google, where as with the s3, you'll be waiting
Android Community 16-03-2012 said:Rumor: Nexus S Ice Cream Sandwich update restarting soon
We got quite a response when we noted that owners of the Samsung Nexus S were more than a little upset that the official Ice Cream Sandwich update was months overdue. Now Engadget claims an anonymous source saying that Google intends to sestart the long overdue OTA software process in “the next few weeks”. Take it for what it’s worth (and without a confirmed cource, it isn’t worth much) but it’s at lest a ray of hope that those who paid for Nexus hardware and timely software will finally get their money’s worth.
As noted above, owners of the Nexus S and Nexus S 4G have been frustrated with Google and Samsung’s glacier-paced response to their complaints. The official Ice Cream Sandwich update began in December for GSM models, but was halted almost immediately for more bug fixing. Three months later, the vast majority of Nexus S owners (and all Nexus S 4G owners) are without an official upgrade path to the latest version of Ice Cream Sandwich, a feature promised to them when they bought the phone, unlike other models that are already seeing updates.
There’s always the option of rooting the phone and installing a custom ROM, and indeed, many do just that to take advantage of the Nexus’ large developer community. But they shouldn’t have to: as a developer phone, any device with the Nexus label is supposed to get updates “as fast as humanly possible”. Between this slow response for the Nexus S and a seemingly lowered level of support for CDMA devices like Verizon’s Galaxy Nexus and XOOM, previously high levels of excitement for the Nexus program are steadily dwindling among Android enthusiasts.
which phone is better?
S3 seems to have better specs
but nexus will receieve the jelly bean update? not sure if S3 will
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