Samsung Galaxy S3 vs HTC Desire

So here are the differences, starting with a startling one:

Samsung Talk Time: 9 hours

HTC Talk Time: 16 hours

Samsung Processor: 1.5 dual core

HTC Processor: 1.4 dual core

Samsung Display: 4.8" AMOLED(no Gorilla glass?)

HTC Display: 4.5" qHD (gorilla glass 2)

Samsung camera: 8 mp

HTC camera: 5 mp

Samsung size: 5.4" x 2.8" x .3"

HTC size: 5.3" x 2.67" x .39"

Samsung Price: $299-399

HTC Price: $195-279
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Any other significant specs please add.

For me, that battery life is a huge deal, I wonder if one is off? I'd like to hear inputs on the display, the size of phone/size of display is a tossup, I think the S3 is a tad large for me but the phone is all screen, The HTC is not a lot smaller AND seems a lot thicker. Is that how the battery life comes into play? What about the AMOLED vs qHD? I hear the S3 is vibrant but dim. Anyone?

Camera resolution may or may not matter. I have a Nikon S4 6 mp camera that's 7 years old and smokes most modern point and shoots with 2-2.5x the resolution, digital photography is more about the lens to sensor technicals than anything and the sensor itself may even be better to be less MP. The whole camera industry is a crapshoot anyway, the best mfrs often have dogs and vice versa.

Then there's price, if you can get the HTC on sale (195 at VM, limited time) it's significant. If it's 279 while the S3 is 299 (now at radioshack through christmas) it's not.

I also consider production#'s and popularity- I don't want an obscure orphan- no support, no community, no accessories. The S3 has that- will the HTC? Has anyone heard that HTC is in trouble? Is it true?

And the wild card... Radio Shack no-contract just released the S4. ($550). If VM gets it too, will the S3 price plummet, possibly below its $250 black friday levels? They're due for a new Android flagship, aren't they? $550 is too rich for me but the point is that evens the price for the S3.

I'm getting a new phone this week. I have choices.

 

Got the S3, the "popular phone" benefit already realized.... walked out of radio shack to the 99c only store, wasn't looking for them but found cases and screen protectors for 99c. Bought 3!

 

On the sound the S3 is VERY loud however it's just one speaker and pointed away from you so it's not really optimized... but again shockingly loud for what it is.