Finally how is Galaxy s3?

Here is the story

I have been waiting for my first android for months now.. why because I wished to buy best flagship phone.. and wanted to buy sony.. but unfortunately... sony is too slow.. still no news for TX launch date in India.. Just talked to sony guy in it's store.. they have not even received mail regarding it.. and sony has not even added in it's web site as coming soon.. so it will take at least 30-45 days to launch and that too it will priced more then ion which is currently selling at 36K.. so it will be more expensive

So now I am considering Galaxy s3.. It is good phone.. I passed it because of design and had hunch sony will release soon.but sony is damn to slow

.. so guys what do you think.. I am not much into looks. anyway today I saw s3 first time and checked it for few minutes & I loved it..

To me s3 looked little girly design with those round edges but it is not ugly..

need to confirm about it's build quality.. heard problem regarding it.. is it true?

Nothing new about sony, they always launch the device late. Like New Xperia Ion right now with old scorpion processor. Their flagship device remain that it should be launch early by editors. If Sony Xperia TX launch this diwali, it would be priced around 38-40k. Though it would be come with ICS and will get Jelly bean in future. Many reviewer complained about the camera picture quality of 13MP sensor. It appeared grainy and dull, though it may fix till the lauch. Today's best android camera is of galaxy s3 and htc one x. Xperia S/Ion doesn't even stand in top 5 camera phones.
And after three four months of Xperia TX launch samsung will be ready to show galaxy S4 with key lime pie (may be this feb '13 like galaxy S2 in feb '11). If your budget is 40k better to extend to 45k and get new iPhone 5 this diwali. But still you want an android phone for today galaxy s3 is the best choice, it would cost you around 35k in market, selling like hot cakes as the best smartphone till date in India. Take a look on HTC One X too, its the second best device with better screen (IPS S-LCD2) and camera (2.0/f aperture). It will cost you around 32-33k. One more advice, after reading this some sony fanboy or salesman may come to argue. But all I told you is truth and you will get to know if you read reviews and many critics. Hope you will get a good phone.

Yes, I am closely following every detail news article on Sony TX and even I heard problem with it's camera.. and I don't expect that in Flagship phone.. TX (Hayabusa) was suppose to launch in Q3 2012 so was expecting this month but still no news and am fed up with waiting... Don't know why and don't ask but I do not prefer HTC phone.. just dose not give same feel even when I wish to get it. Frankly never used HTC phone. so not considering HTC one x.. and other then looks s3 beats HTC right,..

I was checking s3 and heard it's build quality is not good and many broke it(body) and had bad experience with samsung service center.. so need to confirm that.. I am buying Flagship & it should not face any problems.. For jelly bean s3 is getting this october..

Apple phones are too expensive against what you get... And I hate that same ui which it has from First Generation.. and I love customizing my Phone.. which in Iphone is not possible.. this is only reason for not buying that .. yes plus External card not available on Iphone.. checked few sites and read you can get Iphone 5 16GB at 40K .

@climbx

The TX is already on sale in China since more than a week and will hit UK by the last week of this month. From the info I have the T/TX will come early October in India. Pricing is expected to be similar to the Ion and not 40k.

Anyway, the S3 is a good phone no doubt. And I think build quality issues have been solved in the latest batch, so if you can't wait you better go ahead with the S3.

Also HTC One X+ will be coming out soon too, with updated Tegra 3 Quad Core and 4.8 inch screen, you can wait for that too.

P.S. One honest advice, don't buy a phone now. By March next year there will be devices that will put the GS3/One X/TX/Iphone5 to shame, so I would say get an S2 now and then sell it next year to buy the 2013 flagship phone of whichever brand you prefer. If you buy now,(be it GS3/OneX/IP5/TX) it will be outdated very soon.

so you think I should wait for Tx. so october at least .. waiting for next generation phone is not a great Idea.. as that will be next year.. june-july almost an year.. and Don't laugh but I am waiting for now more then or 6 months as I did not wanted to buy last generation phones like s2..so now it is high time and have lost my patience but still can wait for october at best for TX.. If it come so..

SO which will be better between TX and S3?

Hmmm. In that case get the S3.

Between TX and S3 we cannot say for now, let the reviews come out.

Tx is only for Asia.. In uk T was suppose to launched and I believe it was launched in first week of September it self.. I remember it was 5 September..I guess I can wait till end of month if it is to be released in October then we will hear for it soon

and are you sure build quality was improved in newer batches..

tx defeats s3 in very few segments like

Krait processor and better looks other then that.. s3 nails TX... what you guys say..

I guess so, the build quality issue was present in early batches and Samsung rectified it later.

What areas do you think the S3 nails TX ?

Btw both in UK as well as China, the TX is cheaper than both One X and GS3 by quite a significant margin.

well I believe sony has realized their mistake for launching-announcing. so many phones in every segment.. For instance they know they can't sell Tx at iphone price and ion is already there at 36K so now that have to wait so they can drop prices and then launch TX. other then ion there is also acro S where will that fit ..and if SL is launching then add that too in list. same happened with Miro.....why will some one buy Miro when you can get live at lower price plus just add little more and get Ray.. Miro and tipo is the worst decision they have made .. sony needs to do proper marketing else they are doomed. plus in that entry level segment .. J is yet to make it's place.

Off-topic to our discussion but tipo is unusable from personal experience..

s3 vs tx

1. s3 has amoled screen with .3 inch larger against sony TFT
2. according to early report tx camera is very grainy and bad..against s3 8px is very good and I love Burst mode and taking images while video recording.. I need these feature from years.. (considering ion camera ) critics say problem is with hardware and not software.. sony is stretching to much as there is same sensor in iphone, samsun and sony... but only sony moved to 12-13 MP.
3. s3 Blutooth 4.0 vs tx 3.1
4. s3 1.9 Front camera vs tx 1.3
4. samsung many extra camera features
5. samsung smart stay which is very usefull
6. well samsung screen justfies extra battery but still 300 MHZ more then TX.

Please don't talk about those benchmarks.. I am surprised sony announced the phone when they had not final the hardware.. you can see old tx white paper that shows old s3 processor..and then new whitepaper was released saying it has s4 chipset
same thing with GPU all benchmarks(Gsmareana) said all three handsets has adreno 225.. but white paper always said 220.. so that benchmark are in vain...you can not consider that at all.

And last don't forget samsung is quad core.. it will show it's power... and they are power efficient.

Well get the s3 then

When are you getting it ?

I can and want to buy it now(today this evening).. but I guess should give little more thought as it is not cheap.. so hopefully next week if I got time or confirmed next saturday..

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Congrats in advance

@rider

Kindly add the words "punctuation" and "formatting" to your dictionary. I hope you understand what I mean to say.

Note will be there in a week or 10 days I think, so why not get that?

Note 2 with 5.5 screen is too big to carry . or use as phone..

R

Get the iPhone 5.

^^ Read this from my previous post.

clmlbx said:
Apple phones are too expensive against what you get... And I hate that same ui which it has from First Generation.. and I love customizing my Phone.. which in Iphone is not possible.. this is only reason for not buying that .. yes plus External card not available on Iphone..

S3 is the fastest android phone available. But also has one of the ugliest designs ever.
But since you don't care about the design S3 is the best choice

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I wouldn't really say that, in the flesh it's not bad really.

Not sexy but doesn't really look ugly either. It's decent enough.

^^
Maybe, Its like beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

But compared to S2, design of S3 is just awful IMO

^

Well I totally understand you since you own the Xperia Arc

You don't need to say anything more

GS3 is indeed ugly compared to Arc.

photos do make s3 look ugly.. but I checked s3 and it is in no way ugly. It gives a good look & feel in Hand.

just FYI I am using Nokia 5235 on CFW.. so you all can understand why I need phone so urgently.. and I am a power user..

Guys have not bought till now as I am waiting for an holiday.. so I can use it after buying it instead to wait for weekend.. ..no Holiday tomorrow.. so now have to wait for saturday.. but I am watching & and reading comments.. as much I read I am getting scared about it plastic Body.. I don't know what to do ... but I do know there is not better phone available so.. now my mind is playing games with me..

Guys Good News!.. finally I bought GS3 Yesterday. At 34K.. more info later..

congrats pics please

... If i had money i would anyday go for s3

clmlbx said:
Guys Good News!.. finally I bought GS3 Yesterday. At 34K.. more info later..

wow.. u got it cheap.. may I know the outlet ? place ? thanks

theserpent said:
congrats pics please ... If i had money i would anyday go for s3

Pics coming soon. :grin:

.. even I waited and collected money for a long period of time.. and had lot of patience.. .. I had bought Nokia 5235 in 2010.. and I had decided then that my next phone will be Flagship.. so started saving from then .. But this Year I started earning .. so it it was quick

perplexed said:
wow.. u got it cheap.. may I know the outlet ? place ? thanks

I live in Indore and bought from a Samsung store near by

nice pricing. congrats.

guys facing little trouble in S3.. well Phone is running perfectly well. but Ram usage is very high.. I noticed.. my ram usage when nothing was installed was 500+mb. and now it uses 90% of ram..

what I know It has 1Gb ram out of which 780 is available and rest is used by system.. .

Now I don't think I am using 700+mb Ram..

Let me tell you what apps I have used and are always running..

Yahoo mail
Gmail
Skype
What's app
viber
Facebook app
Facebook messenger app
fring

few more (no games till now) but above must be running always

so now I don't think all this should cross 300Mb but it is more then that please tell what is wrong.. I read many have faced this problem.. but I could not find any solution... This is my First android so please share everything in detail.

one more thing I want to know how to close any app forever until I start it. specially the list above.. because as soon I kill task it just restarts.. have already installed advance Task Killer

install fast reboot and use it when you think the mobile is slowing down. it'll free ram.

and you can't stop an app. the system will stop it if ram is less. Don't use task killers.

why not task killers..

T

Galaxy S3 is for 30k now at Honeshop18

cause you can't kill apps. most will restart. simply use fast reboot. works lot better than task killers.

I don't know how and why those apps are always running! Well some of them close pretty fine and never restart unless you manually do, like YMail, GMail, Skype etc. But obviously you need to have Push notification and Auto Sync disabled.
And I always use ATK. In the poor way Android system works I gotta use them, again, you need to build a proper Ignore list, otherwise things could go messy.

techlover said:
Galaxy S3 is for 30k now at Honeshop18

It is out of stock buddy.. check it..

Ok Fast reboot is Good but I need to know where this much ram is being used. their is no way I am using it... and system ram is already not included..

T

clmlbx said:
It is out of stock buddy.. check ..

it was in stock when i wrote the comment..may have got out of stock in this time

well may be but I checked that on sunday itself or I guess on saturday night & it was out of stock.

M

clmlbx said:
why not task killers..

dont worry about RAM unless your mobile is slow..ICS is optimized for using as much RAM as possible..what is the use of having 1 GB RAM if you use only 300 MB..dont check RAM and cpu usage like we check in desktop...

also dont force kill apps ..dont use task killer..these are not good for ICS/JB.for more info regarding task killer check xda and other site...

as this seems to be your first android ,install some good games (cut the rope,temple run,dead trigger etc) and enjoy ...

check digit forum for suggestion for more games/apps..

Ok for now but yes my phone Is not getting slow for now, even after using all apps. But I am worried their will be problem when I start playing games

randomuser111 said:
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@rider

Kindly add the words "punctuation" and "formatting" to your dictionary. I hope you understand what I mean to say.

Sorry i can not just deal with it!!