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I'll throw in my opinion on the S3 right now. I got to use it for a few months (Maybe 4-6? I have bad memory
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It's honestly waaay worse than the Esteem IMHO. It has absolutely terrible battery life (I could usually make it 3/4 of the day, and I was on a ton of different roms and tried everything.)
It also has questionable build quality. It's mostly made out of cheap plastic that makes it feel cheap, as well as making it extremely slippery and easy to drop (and because it's cheap plastic, it'll break no problem xD) Also, the screen was nothing amazing. It was cumbersome to use and the physical home button sucked. I had 4 replacements and all of them were about the same.
I eventually came close to telling them to ***** * ****** *** ** ***** ******. They said I could just get another phone. I got the Droid DNA and I absolutely love it. It's the best phone I've ever used. Battery life easily gets me 2-3 days, it performs amazingly in games (Dead Trigger maxed graphics w/ Tegra 3 effects enabled no lag -- You can edit an XML file. It's not limited to Tegra at all xD)
The screen is beautiful, as well as the camera, and the build quality is stunning. It really feels like you're holding an extremely high quality phone (Holy ****, I just heard some really loud thunder)
Oh, and the signal has improved massively. I got very weak 3g and almost no bars with the S3 at my house, and I get good 3g/occasional 4g and half-bars with the DNA (keep in mind, I'm in the middle of no-where)
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Sorry for the rant, but I like people to know my opinion.