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[Casey]

What're the prospects looking like for the best Sprint phone between now and October?

Galaxy S3 is already out on Sprint. Other than that, I have no idea. New Nexus device may launch in November though.

 

[dilla]

Galaxy S3 is already out on Sprint. Other than that, I have no idea. New Nexus device may launch in November though.

Fuck. I go back in January and November is too far to go without a phone starting in August. May have to do the GS3, then. Or the Sprint EVO?

My mom didn't like her Galaxy Nexus so I may get the iPhone and switch with her since I was the one that told her to go for Nexus when my sister and dad went for the 4S and told her to do the same. I think I could handle the phone well.

How much better is the S2 or the S3 than the Galaxy Nexus?

 

[masta247]

S2 isn't really that much better than the Galaxy Nexus. They are similar, though the S2 has better camera and battery life. The Galaxy Nexus is a Google Experience device though.

The S3 is significantly better though. Much faster, better screen, battery, camera.

 

[Flipmo]

Galaxy Nexus is like having sex with a cute model.

The S3 is like having sex with two pornstar without a rubber. Much more fulfilling and exciting.

There you go. Now you know.

 

[masta247]

^ I'd say that the S3 is safer though

 

[dilla]

But are Google Experience phones still worth it when we have CM now? I think Casey was talking about it a while back. Meaning getting an S3 or an S2 seems better than getting a GalNex but the issue becomes whether the next Nexus device is worth waiting for and whether its specs wil trounce the S3 or merely be better on paper? And if it isn't a Samsung Nexus device, I would probably do the S3 then.

 

[Pittsey]

I think the hardware Samsung puts out is far better than the Nexus devices. I imagine the next Nexus device will be less well spec'd than the S3.

 

[masta247]

I doubt a new Nexus device would be so much better than the Galaxy S3. Judging by experiences it's going to be very similar at best.
Technically they could pack a Cortex A15 quad core at that time but chances are very slim.

If you like CM then I suppose the S3 is going to get supported for at least as long as the Galaxy Nexus will be officially supported.

 

[dilla]

I doubt a new Nexus device would be so much better than the Galaxy S3. Judging by experiences it's going to be very similar at best.
Technically they could pack a Cortex A15 quad core at that time but chances are very slim.

If you like CM then I suppose the S3 is going to get supported for at least as long as the Galaxy Nexus will be officially supported.

Might have to do the S3 then. We'll see. I don't think internal space matters too much. Have they done away with the SD cards in newer devices?

 

[Pittsey]

Might have to do the S3 then. We'll see. I don't think internal space matters too much. Have they done away with the SD cards in newer devices?

The S3 has an SD card slot.

 

[dilla]

Good deal. Does anyone here actually have an S3? Haven't really been keeping up with this thread too often.

 

[Pittsey]

Good deal. Does anyone here actually have an S3? Haven't really been keeping up with this thread too often.

Me and Flip... or, if you prefer.... Flip and I.

 

[dilla]

Cool. CM10 doesn't have nightlies yet, does it? Seems like I've been on CM9 nightlies on my TouchPad for forever now.

 

[masta247]

I dislike facebook integration so much. I didn't uninstall the Facebook app on my phone just because I tend to check my messages once in a while. Also even if I threw it out there would be processes left because its integrated deeper in the UI :-(
Seriously, the Facebook app shouldn't come preinstalled and there should be no further integration.
The app keeps turning on by itself. It eats up CPU power and RAM.

 

[Casey]

Cool. CM10 doesn't have nightlies yet, does it? Seems like I've been on CM9 nightlies on my TouchPad for forever now.

There are some CM10 nightlies, but only for a handful of devices.

 

[ARon]

I dislike facebook integration so much. I didn't uninstall the Facebook app on my phone just because I tend to check my messages once in a while. Also even if I threw it out there would be processes left because its integrated deeper in the UI :-(
Seriously, the Facebook app shouldn't come preinstalled and there should be no further integration.
The app keeps turning on by itself. It eats up CPU power and RAM.

The app sucks. I started using the mobile site and it works fine

 

[dilla]

There are some CM10 nightlies, but only for a handful of devices.

I know we shat on quad core devices because of how impractical they could, theoretically, be, but now that I'm actually in the market for a phone,

 

[Pittsey]

Getting closer to some Jelly Bean on my S3....!

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1779426

 

[masta247]

I know we shat on quad core devices because of how impractical they could, theoretically, be, but now that I'm actually in the market for a phone,

We didn't shit on quad core devices per se. We shat on quad core chips vs more efficient dual and single cores. This doesn't change the fact that the SGS3 is one of the fastest devices out there.
Anyway, most American SGS3 devices have a dual core Snapdragon S4. Both chips are very fast, the dual core S4 is better for singlethreaded apps thanks to much higher performance per core, the quad core Exynos is faster for multithreaded ones (there are only a couple of those yet) but also packs a significantly faster GPU.

 

[dilla]

We didn't shit on quad core devices per se. We shat on quad core chips vs more efficient dual and single cores. This doesn't change the fact that the SGS3 is one of the fastest devices out there.
Anyway, most American SGS3 devices have a dual core Snapdragon S4. Both chips are very fast, the dual core S4 is better for singlethreaded apps thanks to much higher performance per core, the quad core Exynos is faster for multithreaded ones (there are only a couple of those yet) but also packs a significantly faster GPU.

I knew I had read the S3 having a quad core somewhere. I checked Sprint and they had it listed as a dual-core. I forgot that even with the S2, there were different chipsets which varied by carrier. Makes sense.

So since the Sprint version is dual-core, that's even better then.