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[Casey]

I find my kindle to be kinder on my eyes.

I use the Kindle app with the brightness all the way down. Also at night you can reverse it so it's white text on a black background.

 

[Flipmo]

I hope all this hype doesn't leave us with a dud.

 

[S O F I]

i'm excited now.

 

[Casey]

RE: Olympics, You simply can't beat that level of promotion. Apple must be shitting themselves, when it comes to S3 VS iPhone 5, we don't know jack about either but the S3 has already won with that manoeuvre alone. May 3rd unveiling in London, this is gonna be huge.

 

[THEV1LL4N]

Yesterday I made two tech calendar entries and i've never done this before.

1) SGS III event
2) Release date of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

 

[masta247]

masta, can you just let me know when a new best android phone comes out? I can't keep reading long posts with processor codes i don't understand.

Apparantly June, but it'll definitely get announced on the 3rd of May. But, while the hype is huge there are some worrying rumors:
http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s_iii_may_not_be_a_major_update_over_the_s_ii-news-4104.php

Still rumors though. I hope that it's going to be awesome because the hype and expectations are just too high for Samsung to disappoint.

 

[Pittsey]

If the S3 is a disappointment, I am going to change my contract to a cheap £10 a month sim only deal and buy a Galaxy Note. Then I'll wait and see what 2013 brings.

 

[Casey]

Apparantly June, but it'll definitely get announced on the 3rd of May. But, while the hype is huge there are some worrying rumors:
http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s_iii_may_not_be_a_major_update_over_the_s_ii-news-4104.php

Still rumors though. I hope that it's going to be awesome because the hype and expectations are just too high for Samsung to disappoint.

I can't believe sites are seriously still posting that obviously fake picture.

Anyway, those rumors are likely untrue. Samsung knows that the S3 is their biggest moment yet, that's why they didn't unveil it at MWC. The S2 is the device that solidified them as the best phone manufacturer bar none, and the S3 has to be equally mindblowing. And I'm certain it will be.

 

[THEV1LL4N]

Are These the Real Photos of the Samsung Galaxy S3?
http://www.youmobile.org/blogs/entry/Are-These-the-Real-Photos-of-the-Samsung-Galaxy-S3-

 

[Pittsey]

If it is... It's not very pretty.

 

[masta247]

It's been said that if it's the real SGS3 hardware it's just a generic cover, because they wouldn't want to leak the design. I hope it'll be very different from the SGS2.

 

[Casey]

I call fake.

 

[masta247]

http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s_iii_test_unit_shown_on_video_specs_and_all-news-4126.php

http://www.gsmarena.com/sample_photos_samsung_galaxy_s_iii_test_unit_hit_the_internet-news-4127.php

This looks less fake than anything else but I hope it is. It would be the A9 quad core The rest would be nothing new compared to the Nexus. That would suck. This wouldn't even make the Galaxy S3 the best phone on the market right now, and we know of better upcoming phones from Sony and LG. This would be the first Samsung that isn't a trend setter, and Galaxy S phones have always been the best devices on the market for almost a year, which is when a new one would come out.

I hope that these are fakes or that Samsung's trolling. Either that or the design is so cool and revolutionary and that's why they're hiding the real thing.

 

[Flipmo]

Vietcong propaganda.

 

[masta247]

Official, from Samsung's Facebook:



 

[Casey]

The rounded corners look niiiiiiice!!!

If you look at the test unit, you can see how those same rounded corners are there but there appears to be some sort of case around it.

 

[masta247]

Yeah, I hope the design will be much better though and most of all that those bezels around the screen turn out to be far thinner.
I wouldn't be much disappointed if this turns out to be closer to the real thing:

 

[S O F I]

yeah, seriously, talk about phoning it in on the design. that's a serious bummer.

 

[THEV1LL4N]

I prefer the Samsung logo at the top.

 

[THEV1LL4N]

Does anyone think that the next Nexus phone for Jellybean will NOT be released around November?

I'm in two minds about getting the Samsung Galaxy S III (when it goes cheaper) and the next version of the Nexus (hopefully by Samsung again). Having said that, it depends on the specs and we don't have anything concrete yet about either one. I'm thinking that like the SGS II, the SGS III might be a better/cheaper choice than the Nexus that came after it (this time with a JB update akin to SGS II with it's ICS update).

I'm not holding my breath on the T-Mobile G2 (HTC Vision/HTC Desire Z) getting CM9 (ICS).