News - Samsung reveals mid-range Galaxy S Advance

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Here's a new mid-range smartphone while we wait patiently for the Galaxy S III.

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It’s likely that the World Mobile Congress will also be the platform from where Samsung announces the Galaxy S IIII, its flagship Ice Cream Sandwich-powered handset. Rumour has it that this highly-anticipated (though still unconfirmed) smartphone will feature a quad-core CPU, a 1.5GHz or 1.6GHz processor and a 12 megapixel camera.

(I know, I don't need a quad core phone - but I figure it's still going to be easily usable when it gets replaced in two years time)

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(I know, I don't need a quad core phone - but I figure it's still going to be easily usable when it gets replaced in two years time)

I understand what your saying but with my 1.0Ghz single core X10 already feeling slow I'm not sure (but this might be more a RAM issue I think). The speed of these chips is increasing at an amazing speed. We might in 2014 look back at a Tegra 2 and think it pretty mediocre! 2 year contracts are going to be annoying - I'm desperately hoping to find an 18 month'er but I'm not holding any hope for it!

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I understand what your saying but with my 1.0Ghz single core X10 already feeling slow I'm not sure (but this might be more a RAM issue I think). The speed of these chips is increasing at an amazing speed. We might in 2014 look back at a Tegra 2 and think it pretty mediocre! 2 year contracts are going to be annoying - I'm desperately hoping to find an 18 month'er but I'm not holding any hope for it!

There are plenty through the re-sellers.

Galaxy nexus S is one I am looking at. Vodaphone do it on a very reasonably priced 12 month plan, free phone then around £35 a month IIRC. Or t-mobile for same price, £80 up front then 18 month contract.

add £50-£100 up front and you'll be sorted for the SIII I imagine!

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I understand what your saying but with my 1.0Ghz single core X10 already feeling slow I'm not sure (but this might be more a RAM issue I think). The speed of these chips is increasing at an amazing speed. We might in 2014 look back at a Tegra 2 and think it pretty mediocre! 2 year contracts are going to be annoying - I'm desperately hoping to find an 18 month'er but I'm not holding any hope for it!

I kind of agree with you - I "decluttered" my X10 and it's now running pretty acceptably. Although there was a glitch with Google Tracks that it wouldn't release the GPS - but that's working okay now. No, my point on S3 v's X10 is that the current clutch of rumours have the S3 running a 1.5, 1.8 or even 2.0GHz quad core - so that's four times the cores, each of which is running at least 50% faster than my old X10. Add that to the performance gains in ICS, and I figure the new phone is going to be hellaciously quicker than the old X10, (and yes, I know I could find an ICS ROM for the X10)

Second bit - contracts - at Christmas time I did some figures and worked out that if I bought an S2 "up front" and then got a SIM it'd be about £60/year cheaper than getting the cost of the phone bundled into the contract. Plus - of course - the SIM-only contracts are much better in terms of timescales - e.g. 1 month rolling contracts are widely available. But because it's your phone if you want to change it, then eBay/Mazuma/etc it and buy a new one. Simples!

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Samsung announces the Galaxy S IIII

Wait, what?

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lol @ midrange.