News - Samsung's GALAXY S III smashes Android pre-order records

[HEXUS]

Both Vodafone and Carphone Warehouse reveal it's the fastest selling device of 2012.

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[cheesemp]

4.8" screen - how small - my notes 5.3" and I soon got use to it. I don't know how iphone users cope with a 3.5" screen! I do think in the long run 4.5"-5" is about the right size for a smartphone (The notes just a tiny bit too big to use one handed sometimes but I usually cope).

[Lord Midas]

4.8" screen - how small - my notes 5.3" and I soon got use to it. I don't know how iphone users cope with a 3.5" screen! I do think in the long run 4.5"-5" is about the right size for a smartphone (The notes just a tiny bit too big to use one handed sometimes but I usually cope).

This.

My Note is one the finest pieces of tech I've every owned. Utterly superb.
I'm kind of hoping that that Android 4 release for the Note will also contain the additions that the SIII is running. Like lift to ear to call someone, the screendimming/undimming when you look away then look back. That kind of thing.

[aeonf242]

About CPW opening early, complete rubbish....I had a text message saying such then an apology saying I could collect on May 30th between 4pm and closing time 5.30pm.

[Roobubba]

I'm still on contract with my S2, and very happy with it - but will certainly be lining this up in a year and a bit (or the S4 by then?!) when my contract nears its end. But I would NOT be getting anything ever EVER again from carphone warehouse. I bought the S2 for my wife from there, and their customer service when I found out they were taking money from my account months later was absolutely appaling. Disgusting company, buy elsewhere!!

[crossy]

We wonder now, just how GALAXY S III sales will stock up against Apple's iPhone 5, which is expected to be released late this year.

Anything less than a hypegasm that measures on the Richter scale I think will be seen as a "failure" for the iP5. However, I've seen folks (baa!) saying that they're planning on putting in an iP5 pre-order as soon as companies are accepting them. Pretty gutsy (or monumentally stupid) bearing in mind that there's no hard and fast info on the iP5 yet.

4.8" screen - how small - my notes 5.3" and I soon got use to it. I don't know how iphone users cope with a 3.5" screen! I do think in the long run 4.5"-5" is about the right size for a smartphone (The notes just a tiny bit too big to use one handed sometimes but I usually cope).

It's not the size that matters, it's how you use it! (old joke, but then again, so am I)

I was really, really impressed with the Note when I had a "play", that digitiser it's fitted with is excellent. If you need to do sketches etc on the move then it's going to be ideal - e.g. if you wanted to brainstorm ideas with someone else.

The overall size though was just a tad too big for me (I want something pocketable) so I pre-ordered a GSIII. Hopefully, it'll arrive to Amazon's ETA of 30th - I can't be bothered with CPW's pricing nor having to wait for (according to xda-devs) a collect time/date that seems to change by the hour.

Finally - as suggested on xda-devs - maybe GSIII owners are the Android sheep, going to software features over hardware excellence. But it's lunchtime now, and that lawn outside is looking tasty...

[rinoz]

Baaa....cough.....cough... well looks like I'm one of those Android sheep! (sounds like some mad scientist experiment!)
I've pre-ordered the SGS3 as a contract upgrade but did seriously consider the Note, agree the digitiser is great & is a nice phone to use but just a bit too big. I looked at the HTC One X too but didn't like having no sd slot & non-replaceable battery.

Okay the hardware on the SGS3 might not be up to some peoples expectations but that's mainly due to the hype and the amazing amount of different hardware specs that was floating about, some of it just wishful thinking.

As with the suggestions from the xda-devs well IMO software and hardware have the same importance. No point in having fantastic hardware if the software running it is poop!
I'm currently using a HTC HD2 (WM6.5) which I have had for over 2 years, it's only got a 1ghz processor & 448mb ram but thanks to the great xda-devs it's now running a SD version of ICS 4.04 which is fast and smooth.
It won't be long when some xda-dev will get hold of a SGS3 to customise.

[crossy]

I looked at the HTC One X too but didn't like having no sd slot & non-replaceable battery.

Ditto here. I've got a 64GB uSDXC card undergoing H2testw testing that's destined for my GSIII (SIM free for me because I'm changing phone carrier too), at which point I'll be retiring my old iPod 80GB 5th Gen. I've heard good things about the Wolfson DAC in the GSIII so I figure this is a good time to "rationalise".

Okay the hardware on the SGS3 might not be up to some peoples expectations but that's mainly due to the hype and the amazing amount of different hardware specs that was floating about, some of it just wishful thinking. It won't be long when some xda-dev will get hold of a SGS3 to customise.

Oh so true - although I quite fancied the idea of the ceramic case and the A15-based quad core processor. There's also talk on xda that chainfire is planning to do some kind of Tegra3 emulator for the GSIII, so it can run TegraZone games - don't know the details (I'm a mere phone user) but it sounds fascinating.