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what DON'T you like about s3

maybe some of you need to read up on what cheap plastics does now a days. honda and toyota ship cars with plastic valve covers and manifolds, because it dissipates heat faster and doesn't corrode, its flexible which in turn wont break as quick as say.... glass, which is on both sides of the iphone, why? cause they know accidents happen and thats not just a screen and digitizer to get replaced, a back to.
umm, with the battery, i had mine on 100%, listening to music, i rode a bike 42 miles today, over 9 hrs, took a few texts, updated facebook, uploaded to instagram, all on 3g at that, maybe go bitch to your provider that you have a bunk battery because ive been reading screen on 100% of the time, with 100% brightness, youll get 6-8 hrs.

the rest is user error. im sorry to rant but this is a great device, and if you want to rant about an iphone, please, go to another forum on how glorious it is to have an innovative device which just now got updated, so please, please, stop comparing an ANDROID to an IPHONE, because the two will be different, well, except for the way they look from apples stand point.


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no wobbely buttons here, great battery life, i average 8-10hrs, and i use my phone for everything (except for this cause im swapping movies) i can see my screen fine in sunlight, maybe turn off auto brightness or stop shinning the sun in your eyes? my gps is awesome (sprint) and has never "lost" its signal, and i live on the bottom floor of a 4 story appt (service provider? area?) oh, and my radio is awesome, i have yet to drop a call, or miss a text..... i really have a hard time believing someone would even put up a thread like this, almost trollish if you ask me, because then this starts, where people compare 2 different devices, and with such there will be no true winner.


bottom line, if all of you are upset with your decision, get off the pc/mac/phone, post it on here or craigslist or ebay, and get the phone you think is superior.
 
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I can't seem to iron out a rather annoying niggle - my default vibrate is the horrendous 2 second constant buzz. It's annoying as hell. I've created my own and set it as my notification - but it doesn't seem to change for my emails, google talk, etc.. Is there a way around this? I'm on Checkrom V5!

Apologies for the repeat, but does anybody know where I'm going wrong with this?
 
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Actually none are "BS". I have been around here a long time, discovered and posted the first fix on the epic GPS (sticked here for a long time) and owned many many phones since the late 1980's.

I am actually noting issues the S3 is well known for.

Battery life is really pretty bad. It is worse than most androids. The screen on the s3 is great, but samsung cutting corners on battery really shows.

The s3 GPS is definitely on the bottom 25% of super smarts. Sat hold, and SNR is on the worse end of the scale tested, and in real life GPS hold and accuracy is lower than phones in its class.

Build quality. It isn't just the back cover. it is the buttons are wobbly, the placement is also poorly engineered and eveyrone who has used a s3 knows this.

The external speaker is about certainly the worst of any supersmart premium phone on the market. that is a stone cold fact.

I own an s3, and i think you are missing the point of the thread. These are issues samsung should address or that buyers should consinder. It is a "cons" thread. Denying problems discussed here, on xda and in professional reviews is silly.

There are dozens of pros to the s3. The OP asking for what people find deficient is legitimate because for some people those cons are an issue and for most of us (me included) the pros outweigh them. But dont come in and deny known issues.

"Well known for" ?

Sorry I don't have any of the issues you mention and I don't think the issues are universal.

I've seen over 3 days out of a battery, not often admittedly but it always lasts over 2 days. Show me an android device that does better ?

GPS is just fine, works perfectly. I understand the S2 was a bit iffy, are you sure you aren't getting confused ?

For the billionth time plastic does not mean poor build quality. I have no problem with the build quality or the fact it uses plastic.
Buttons on my S3 aren't wobbly. Placement is not a build quality issue and in any case I don't see whats wrong with where they are ?

I never understand why everyone whines about the external speaker. I can't remember the last time I used the speaker on a phone. I just played some music and speech through mine to test it (because I never have) - sounds clear enough to me, what is your issue with it ?

I'm not saying the phone is perfect, nothing is perfect but I don't think your assumption that your dislikes apply to everyone is correct.
 
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Every single one of them is BS!


- The back cover is a bit cheap but that is all.

Buttons wobble all over the place and the main screen glass on most devices has different gaps on each edge to the outer plastic.

- External speaker is just perfect, couldn't ask for better tbh.

Clearly you have never heard the external speaker on an iPhone 4S then its like comparing Skull Candy (Galaxy S3) to AKG (iPhone 4S).
 
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copy + paste function absolutely sucks. It's so so bad and samsung should be ashamed.

- text message formatting is not to my liking. I really don't like the whole speech bubble thing. I just want line by line or at least clean squares.

- the default ringtones/notifications are all extremely lame
x2 on these, especially the copy & paste functionality.
 
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maybe some of you need to read up on what cheap plastics does now a days. honda and toyota ship cars with plastic valve covers and manifolds, because it dissipates heat faster and doesn't corrode, its flexible which in turn wont break as quick as say.... glass, which is on both sides of the iphone, why? cause they know accidents happen and thats not just a screen and digitizer to get replaced, a back to.
umm, with the battery, i had mine on 100%, listening to music, i rode a bike 42 miles today, over 9 hrs, took a few texts, updated facebook, uploaded to instagram, all on 3g at that, maybe go bitch to your provider that you have a bunk battery because ive been reading screen on 100% of the time, with 100% brightness, youll get 6-8 hrs.

the rest is user error. im sorry to rant but this is a great device, and if you want to rant about an iphone, please, go to another forum on how glorious it is to have an innovative device which just now got updated, so please, please, stop comparing an ANDROID to an IPHONE, because the two will be different, well, except for the way they look from apples stand point.


now, back to the topic.
no wobbely buttons here, great battery life, i average 8-10hrs, and i use my phone for everything (except for this cause im swapping movies) i can see my screen fine in sunlight, maybe turn off auto brightness or stop shinning the sun in your eyes? my gps is awesome (sprint) and has never "lost" its signal, and i live on the bottom floor of a 4 story appt (service provider? area?) oh, and my radio is awesome, i have yet to drop a call, or miss a text..... i really have a hard time believing someone would even put up a thread like this, almost trollish if you ask me, because then this starts, where people compare 2 different devices, and with such there will be no true winner.


bottom line, if all of you are upset with your decision, get off the pc/mac/phone, post it on here or craigslist or ebay, and get the phone you think is superior.

Did you miss the part where many of the posters here have said how much they like the phone, aside from their identified issues? The OP created this thread for users to discuss their dislikes, maybe you missed that part too. If you think this thread is "trollish", perhaps don't contribute and instead find another thread that points out nothing but sunshine for you.
 
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- copy + paste function absolutely sucks. It's so so bad and samsung should be ashamed.

Being fixed in Jelly Bean.

- text message formatting is not to my liking. I really don't like the whole speech bubble thing. I just want line by line or at least clean squares.

Fixed by installing a 3rd party messaging app such as Handcent SMS.

- the default ringtones/notifications are all extremely lame

This is to be expected.
 
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