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That's lame if true, but it could always be possible that Verizon is only counting the amount of RAM that's actually usable for applications, rather than the whole amount. On the Epic 4G I believe only 325 MB of RAM is used for applications, and the rest is reserved for the system.
phandroid.com/2010/08/27/leaked-samsung-fascinate-equipment-guide-gives-full-spec-run-down/
I think they are referring to 384mb that is usuable ram, since it's stated that there is 512mb total.
It definitely has 512 total. Maybe only 384 usable by eclair. Rest assure this will b just as awesome as the other galaxies. I've had D1, Dx DI, D2, Eris. And I'm using the captivate right now and it blows all of them away. Ill b taking back my captivate and getting the fascinate the day they are available BC att sucks ass. Tried them when my vzw ran out and that was a big mistake. U get what u pay for, and with Verizon that's the beat service in the united states. Can't wait for this phone
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There is 384M traditional DRAM and 128M OneDRAM in hummingbird SOC.
http://dev.odroid.com/wiki/odroid-t/pds/FrontPage/s_blockdiagram.jpg
Whats confusing is all the material related to the device seems to explicitly state that the Fascinate DOES have less on-board ram.
Verizon is the only one who officially mentioned the RAM in the specs.
So it's very likely all the galaxy s phones have the same RAM size.
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Whats confusing is all the material related to the device seems to explicitly state that the Fascinate DOES have less on-board ram.
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Are you planning on flipping to the Galaxy?
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Are you planning on flipping to the Galaxy?
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Yeah, Im pretty positive this will be my next personal device. I have confirmed it does indeed have less physical ram compared to the other Galaxy S phones. In spite of this, I will definitely be buying another one once it officially drops. I have been very happy with the fascinate the past couple days.
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Yeah, Im pretty positive this will be my next personal device. I have confirmed it does indeed have less physical ram compared to the other Galaxy S phones. In spite of this, I will definitely be buying another one once it officially drops. I have been very happy with the fascinate the past couple days.
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I'm a new user who is deeply interested in getting the samsung fascinate for verizon but i still have some doubts that maybe you could help me clear up.
A couple questions I would like answered if possible,
1.) You have confirmed it does have less physical ram, how was this? Are you sure its not 384RAM + 128OneDRAM = 512 total? Please go into detail if possible.
2.) "You have been very happy with the fascinate the past couple days" Does this mean you are currently testing it?
Thanks for any info!
Maybe it is all just a misunderstanding, and it really is just the formatted size, but they are pretty clear when they say 384 megs of ram, not 384 formatted. The other phones are mentioned as having 512. Its even said the fascinate is at a disadvantage. Look it up. I dont have anything to post and I am not a tester, no sorry. I meant ive been happy with its performance as a phone(Galaxy S) is all.
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Maybe it is all just a misunderstanding, and it really is just the formatted size, but they are pretty clear when they say 384 megs of ram, not 384 formatted. The other phones are mentioned as having 512. Its even said the fascinate is at a disadvantage. Look it up. I dont have anything to post and I am not a tester, no sorry. I meant ive been happy with its performance as a phone(Galaxy S) is all.
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Look, lets settle this here. Look at the picture and it says 512mb flash/384mb RAM. Compare that to explanations of RAM for other phone products. That's 512mb flash RAM with 128 used by......... VIDEO. Every computer without a dedicated video card says the same thing. Go look up video cards with dedicated memory and video cards with shared memory. Obviously Sammy's video cpu uses 128k or RAM and they bundle that with the actual RAM of 384 to say 512. But all Galaxy S have only 384k of Ram to use.
I don't think Samsung has ever officially revealed how much RAM the PowerVR SGX 540 uses, but looks like the cat is out of the bag now. No wonder this Video card is such a beast. I wish i could put it in my laptop.
Ok well I want a fascinate so I looked into this issue. I have a friend with a captivate so I downloaded android system info from the market as well as android hardware info. When looking at the max ram available on the captivate, which is documented at 512, the max available ram was 325. If the fascinate has 384 then we are at an advantage. I'm happy will someone with access to a vibrant test this. I will screen cap and post pics
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To the three posts above, THANK YOU SO MUCH. My god I have been waiting for a definitive answer the past week or so.
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To the three posts above, THANK YOU SO MUCH. My god I have been waiting for a definitive answer the past week or so.
THANK YOU
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hardware wise, these phones are nearly identical. While its possible they would screw with the RAM, it's not likely considering how tightly the O.S. it integrated into it. The only phone that had a significant part of its Structure changed was the EPIC, which for some odd reason will only have 1 gig of internal FAST STORAGE. I don't think this will be a killer for the unit, but still odd.
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hardware wise, these phones are nearly identical. While its possible they would screw with the RAM, it's not likely considering how tightly the O.S. it integrated into it. The only phone that had a significant part of its Structure changed was the EPIC, which for some odd reason will only have 1 gig of internal FAST STORAGE. I don't think this will be a killer for the unit, but still odd.
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keep in mind too that the Fascinate is CDMA while the Vibrant and Captivate are GSM which are big hardware differences. Possibly one of the reasons why they have 16GB onboard memory and the Fascinate/Epic are only 2GB/1GB on board respectively.
http://www.droid-life.com/2010/08/30/samsung-fascinate-comparison-charts/
This is my source. See what i mean?
LegionTHEFecalExcretion said:
http://www.droid-life.com/2010/08/30/samsung-fascinate-comparison-charts/
This is my source. See what i mean?
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Well that proves it. The droid life chart is crap and inaccurate. It claims 512k ram for the captivate, yet my stock captivate is less than 350k.
Are you surprised that unofficial charts are inaccurate?
That chart is from an official VZW training document. Trust me. Thats not something droidlife whipped up, that came FROM samsung and vzw. Its about as official as you can get. Ive seen these before, and thats when I started this thread, not becuase of the phandroid post (I dont read phandroid). So now that these are finally out in the open, the internal Galaxy S comparison chart is what I have been referring to.
Hey guys.
I'm buying a Samsung Galaxy S tomorrow and I was presented two choices: the 8 GB european I9000, unbranded, and a 16GB T-Mobile Vibrant (which comes with a free 16 GB SD card, for 32 GB total). Both are unlocked and the same price. 3G frequencies are the same, so I'm down to design and minor differences.
Which one you guys, who are by far more experienced with those models than me, think I should get? I don't know if I'm asking in the right forum, but I think it's kind of a general question right?
Is the T959 reliable to get 2.2 and the GPS fix and stuff? I think "update-wise" the i9000 would be a better choice, but I don't know.
Thanks for your attention!
So with the Vibrant unless a front facing camera is a big deal to you.
There are many good Froyo roms on it already with working GPS.
The issue is I don't think I feel confident enough on my skills to flash a custom ROM for the Vibrant. I'm kinda of even worried about rooting it, since I had bad experiences with flashing things before and bricking them (damn you, Nokia), so I was thinking about keeping it "original".
Would it still be the better choice even if I choose to keep the official ROM? I was kind of worried about the bloatware software there seems to be on the T-Mobile version, with Avatar and all these useless apps, and there's now way to get rid of them without rooting, so...
Where are you going to be using the device? What country/countries?
The I9000 has much better ergonomics, in my opinion. I own an I9000M and a T959D, and the three-button layout on the I9000 is FAR superior in terms of usability to the 4 button all-capacitive layout on the T959.
I don't care who you are and how agile you are, you spend a great deal of time fighting with inadvertent/wrong keypresses on the 4-button devices, with the Search button being a particularly bad offender.
The I9000 also comes with a working FM radio, front facing camera, and "generic" support from Samsung so you're not tied to a slow moving US carrier for updates (and they are the slowest in the world, just about, short of Canada).
The loss of 8gb internal storage is a bit of a hit, but it's not the end of the world, especially when you consider most other Android devices (HTC mostly) released in 2010 had like 2gb or less internal storage to start with, and they get along just fine.
That said, the T959 is still one heck of a device, looks a bit less like an iPhone thanks to not having the big button, and should "wear" a little better since all the buttons are under glass.
I'll be using it in Brazil, most of the time. Here we have the I9000B with DTV tuner and stuff but it's crazy expensive (double the price I'm paying to import a phone with all taxes paid, I mean... it's really out of question, and our carriers are doing awful stuff with it. Most notably, one of them removes Gmail and Google Maps).
I was thinking just about that, about hitting the capacitive buttons so often that usability would have a hit.
The updates coming straight from Samsung would be a nice advantage, then? since T-Mobile didn't even give a ETA for froyo yet, right?
Well, so I think I'll be going the I9000 way and buy a SD card to compensate the lsos of storage. You're great, guys. Thanks a lot for your help!
Neither, wait for the Nexus S
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Neither, wait for the Nexus S
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+1 . some good phones coming out soon.
Just up for an upgrade and wondering what phone is better than the samsung galaxy s i9000m from bell ? Is there a certain model everyone tries to make this phone into ? I would like something with a flash next time around , otherwise happy ....thank u for any ideas !!!
Not sure there is anything better in Canada.
Well, maybe. Is there an 850 band Nexus S?
I would wait, if you could, for this year's dual-core phones.
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anything that turns on.
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Just up for an upgrade and wondering what phone is better than the samsung galaxy s i9000m from bell ? Is there a certain model everyone tries to make this phone into ? I would like something with a flash next time around , otherwise happy ....thank u for any ideas !!!
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define the word "better."
better is some aspects maybe but in terms of over all, none!
get Fascinate or Captivate.
Not a upgrade but a safer bet on Galaxy S.
It'll be few months before we see anything better than Galaxy S in canada.
Go with the Samsung S Captivate.. I left my i9000m for it.. and love it NO SD issues.. and the GPS works alot better as well... also you can flash all the i9000 Roms to your captivate as well.
Although there have been a few new handsets launched since the Galaxy S i9000, (High-End Devices) I don't see a phone that is really "superior" or "better" than it.
If you take the Nexus S: No expandable space reminds me of my iPhone days -.- But in terms of CPU it is (minimum) better than the Galaxy S and has a Camera Flash.
HTC Desire HD: I simply don't like it, huge screen but just an upscaled Desire version of Android, nothing compared to the Galaxy S SAMOLED screen. But that's just my opinion.
-> In my opinion the Galaxy S with all current modded ROMs available seems to be equal compared to the current phones.
i9000t from newegg.com (think they are out of stock now) or from expansys.
get the 850mhz 8gb internal memory version.. no problems with sd.
Nothing is worth the $$ now, just wait for, at least, dual core or some real upgrade.
IMHO, galaxy S is pretty much the best out there, with JL2, you have a pretty solid device, apparently fixes the SD issue and, if it doesn't, your device is under waranty.
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Just up for an upgrade and wondering what phone is better than the samsung galaxy s i9000m from bell ? Is there a certain model everyone tries to make this phone into ? I would like something with a flash next time around , otherwise happy ....thank u for any ideas !!!
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unfortunately none
even the Nexus S is below the I9000M
specially for NAM (north america bands)
the next best thing is I9000T 8 GB internal instead of 16 GB
ok , was just looking for somewhat the same phone with a flash for the camera really
I'm using the desire z now. I find that it looks way sexier and is faster out of the box. When I rooted my galaxy s and put darky's rom on it that's when it started operating at the same level as the desire z does with no tampering. Plus gps is ten times better and so is call quality. That's just my opinion though. There are also other points to consider as well. Battery life of the galaxy s is better then the desire z. The camera on the galaxy is is also a bit better even though the desire z has flash (flash is mostly useless on any camera though). I also don't find touch wiz as annoying as sense but I just put launcher pro on it myself. The desire z can also connect to a computer without having to fidle with any drivers and the syncing software for htc is so much better. If I need to get something from my friends computer I can finally just connect my phone via usb, could never do that with the galaxy s.
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I'm using the desire z now. I find that it looks way sexier and is faster out of the box. When I rooted my galaxy s and put darky's rom on it that's when it started operating at the same level as the desire z does with no tampering. Plus gps is ten times better and so is call quality. That's just my opinion though.
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And the Z ways 3 times as much!
The screen is also 3 times as crappy!
No HTC is better than or sexier than Galaxy S or Nexus S!
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unfortunately none
even the Nexus S is below the I9000M
specially for NAM (north america bands)
the next best thing is I9000T 8 GB internal instead of 16 GB
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why go 8 GB when you can get the Samsung S Captivate that has 16gb and has no issues with internal SD.. Gps works better as well... and works on north america bands.. and you can flash the i9000 roms to it as well as the Captivate roms. I would go with it.
This is what I did I left my i9000m for the Samsung S Captivate and have not looked back. and no-one mistakes the Captivate for an iPhone.
i am going to see if bell sells the captivate , by any chance is there a camera flash?
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i am going to see if bell sells the captivate , by any chance is there a camera flash?
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Bell does NOT sell the Captivate (it's exclusive to Rogers) and I am fairly certain that it does NOT include a camera flash.
ok thx , i guess i will stick with the galaxy s than til dual core phones start comin out , just wish they gave us a camera flash
the Captivate is a Samsung S phone.
Epic 4g
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As all of you know the Atrix is only available in US & Canada and most of the rumors point to may/june release date .
Today i read at gsmarena that the Galaxy S II will be supporting a 1.2 Ghz dual-core processor ! .Then i looked at the specifications and they were pretty much attractive like the 4.3 SAMOLED+ screen , the 32 GB memory and the 8 MP camera !
What really made me go through the phase of confusion is that the Galaxy S II is coming to europe this month or the beginning of may
My question is if you were in my situation what will you choose and does the atrix deserve all the waiting ?
The atrix is good, and has its quirks, but so does every phone. All the problems of the atrix are well-known.
As for the galaxy s2, may I remind you of a little incident with the last generation? Specifically something pertaining to GPS?
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I do remember it , actually my sister is suffering from this problem right now along with some other problems like the filing system .
The problem is that i'm waiting for the atrix for a pretty long time and i read a lot of articles about impressions and reviews for the device so you know that a man in my position well have his doubts , especially when i still haven't got a try of the device.
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As all of you know the Atrix is only available in US & Canada and most of the rumors point to may/june release date .
Today i read at gsmarena that the Galaxy S II will be supporting a 1.2 Ghz dual-core processor ! .Then i looked at the specifications and they were pretty much attractive like the 4.3 SAMOLED+ screen , the 32 GB memory and the 8 MP camera !
What really made me go through the phase of confusion is that the Galaxy S II is coming to europe this month or the beginning of may
My question is if you were in my situation what will you choose and does the atrix deserve all the waiting ?
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Dude.. I think the Samoled screens are incredible when it comes to color *but the reality is they look all nice just because all the color is oversaturated*.
Resolution will be same old crap, phone will be thin but with a crappy finish.
Now the the real real real thing you must think about... Samsung has crappy quality control. Guaranteed. I urge everyone who reads this to look up i9000m corrupt SD in google and you will find the polls here on XDA on the ridiculousness of the lack of interest from Samsung to do anything and even admit a mistake... and B, their way of addressing this so called "issue" after 7 months post release.
If you want to know the horror stories i had to live with the i9000 and how finally after my 3rd phone died, i simply decided to go out and buy a new one... just ask and I'll tell you more
500 bucks down the drain and eventually, I managed to get it to boot a semi working filesystem. It chewed up one brand new SD card, gg.. and now i gave it to my wife because all it does is look pretty and make calls.. also lets not even mention their horrible commitment to updates and more importantly their crappy choice in filesystems (related specifically to the i9000).
By the way, in case you do not know. The i9000 is the Original Galaxy S..
Yeah, people can ***** about motorola all they want, I'll NEVER be buying samsung again..
PS: Most people say the Nexus S redeemed samsung, but its a pretty known fact, google set the spec sheet and phone workes great because its an i9000 with all the quirks already ironed out and of course running AOSP gingerbread.
yeah... GG
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1024557
I enjoy my atrix very much. Even with the locked bootloader the psuedo roms are working fine until we get that bad boy decrypted!
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it really depends if the galaxy s2 will have the same problems as the original. the two main problems i had with the phone that made me sold it was the gps never working right and not very accurate when it does. The other is reception/deathgrip i mostly use my phone in a low reception area, 2-3 bars at best, and every time i pick it up it would always drop down to 1 bar or edge and would constantly drop calls. I couldn;t make a call longer than 5 mins before it would be dropped if im in a low reception area.
all the problems with teh atrix is pretty minor compared to these imo. if samsung fixed these problems and super amoled plus screen is as good and some are saying then i will consider it, it was nice to have all those roms and mods(assuming the bootloader can be cracked)
im also skeptical on the build quality. all teh galaxy s phones felt pretty cheap with teh captivate being the best of the worst...
I suggest you Galaxy S2 while Atrix is now a troubles maker by many issues.
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"Troubles" Like what?
I see a couple of Wifi posts and the lag seems to be fixed by launcher pro?
What other troubles?...
My Atrix is being returned to AT&T in about 10 days. I'm hoping to get a SGSII.
If I was in your position, I would wait till I could play with both of them. Because I like to do a lot of web browsing and text related stuff, I almost always choose the phone that has the higher pixel density and/or higher resolution. It just makes reading small text so much more pleasant.
I guess this only matters to people with sharp eyes, who like reading small text though.
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I thank you there, for our daily lesson in grammer.
Stay away from samsung android phones. Samsung can help very screw up the os. I had a galaxy s and bought an atrix out of pocket, best thing i ever did.
Samsung lured to us about when they would update to 2.2 for 6 months. And their android ui is very ham fisted. Don't go samsung.
Does the Galaxy S ll have a Nvidia Tegra dualcore processor? No. LOL. But Cyanogenmod would be really nice to have. And I know it will get it. Oh well.
gachiennuocmam said:
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This post is an example of a fail Chinese to English translation.
It won't be long after release for us to know whether GPS works well on the SGS2 or not, and whether the phone has any other quirks. Things like this, such as Atrix touch and other issues only take days to come to light on XDA. (The touch issue would really piss me off, I hope they fix that for Atrix owners soon, too bad Bell will delay any fix for months like they do any update).
I'm satisfied with resolution of the i9000m SD defect in my case. They repaired it, it works now end of story. I have doubts about how you managed to kill 3 i9000's that don't even really have reported hardware issues...(or did you you say the $500 was down the drain but you managed to get it working again?) With an unlocked bootloader comes great responsibility.
The major upgrade with samoled+ on SGSII is that it is RGB, no longer pentile. Hardly 'same old resolution' when it will now have double the Red/Blue subpixels with full 800x480. Compared to qHD RGBW pentile it will have ~10% more total subpixels and 48% more R/G/B subpixels (since it only has 480x270).
The thing that will keep my away from pentile in the future is how crappy solid primary or almost-primary colours (just R/B in SGS case) look with effectively half the resolution.
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As all of you know the Atrix is only available in US & Canada and most of the rumors point to may/june release date .
Today i read at gsmarena that the Galaxy S II will be supporting a 1.2 Ghz dual-core processor ! .Then i looked at the specifications and they were pretty much attractive like the 4.3 SAMOLED+ screen , the 32 GB memory and the 8 MP camera !
What really made me go through the phase of confusion is that the Galaxy S II is coming to europe this month or the beginning of may
My question is if you were in my situation what will you choose and does the atrix deserve all the waiting ?
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If the Galaxy S II comes to AT&T then why the hell would you get the Atrix??? lol
well unless you don't want to wait.
I wanted a SGS II, but couldn't wait so I bought the Atrix.. I like the fingerprint scanner, plus when a dual core optimized update drops it shouldn't really matter too much... IMHO...
I want to thank all of you guys for telling me about your opinions .
I guess i'll follow the GS2 forum to see if the GS2 have technical flaws like GS did .
The more the technical flaws decreases the more the possibility of me buying it increases .
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Does the Galaxy S ll have a Nvidia Tegra dualcore processor? No. LOL. But Cyanogenmod would be really nice to have. And I know it will get it. Oh well.
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The GS2 will come in 2 versions . One with Nvidia processor and the other with Exynose processor .
Feeling really duped being a UK owner. (Still annoyed at UK Xoom update farce)
What is worrying is that according to this article http://www.phonesreview.co.uk/2012/...s3-us-carrier-availability-jelly-bean-update/ it's because Samsung are worried about the hardware for jellybean.
Sent email to Samsung ... not expecting reply :
I see you are joining the ranks of Motorola when it comes to letting down UK buyers (refering to the ICS update for UK Xooms). I have just seen that while we have 1GB of RAM you are increasing this to 2GB for just about everyone else - mainly for the forthcoming update to jellybean. Does this mean we wont be getting Jellybean?? Or if we do is 1GB going to be insufficient to get the most out of what we were led to believe was the best phone on the market.
Are we going to be offered an upgrade?
I have only had this phone 2 weeks and already feel like I have been duped.
Regards
i very seriously doubt the 2gig ram was because of Jelly the Bean
i mean the Nexus is slated to get it.....it only has 1gig right. so that meanssssss
exactly!!!!
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Feeling really duped being a UK owner. (Still annoyed at UK Xoom update farce)
What is worrying is that according to this article http://www.phonesreview.co.uk/2012/...s3-us-carrier-availability-jelly-bean-update/ it's because Samsung are worried about the hardware for jellybean.
Sent email to Samsung ... not expecting reply :
I see you are joining the ranks of Motorola when it comes to letting down UK buyers (refering to the ICS update for UK Xooms). I have just seen that while we have 1GB of RAM you are increasing this to 2GB for just about everyone else - mainly for the forthcoming update to jellybean. Does this mean we wont be getting Jellybean?? Or if we do is 1GB going to be insufficient to get the most out of what we were led to believe was the best phone on the market.
Are we going to be offered an upgrade?
I have only had this phone 2 weeks and already feel like I have been duped.
Regards
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All s3 with 2GB ram will only be dual core, all s3 with 1GB ram will get quad core.
you decide what you want.
Even the Nexus S is getting jelly bean.
The 2GB of RAM is because the S4 processor in those phones is more memory hungry.
It has nothing to do with Jellybean.
At all.
We have known for a while now that the American versions are getting 2Gbs because of their CPU/GPU.
Your phone will run JB just fine.
This will answer why .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSicyj9hbwc&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Like people said, the better processor will balance out the lower RAM.
RAM is for keeping things in a handy place that the device can quickly recall, to save it delay of reopening and closing things constantly. An S3.4x (I'll use this as shorthand for quad core) will reach its memory limit faster than an S3.2x, having to put things in swap instead. But the S3.2x doesn't have as good a processor: it wouldn't be able to cope with reopening/closing applications as well as the S3.4x can.
Also, since processor power consumption is not linear, but exponential, the S3.4x can keep all the processors at half the speed each of the S3.2x's would be, when it does need to reopen apps. This will consume less power than the dual core would performing the same task.
So yeah, a 1GB version can't keep remember as many things as the 2GB one. But the 1GB version will finish tasks faster giving it less to need to remember.
Yeah the Korean version has both. But imagine what that will cost! It has that on top of a TV tuner (one which won't work outside South Korea by the way).
Ummm ... I was so angry I didn't read the part about it only having a dual core ...lol. I feel better now.
Lesson learned ... read WHOLE article in future!
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Lol I'm in America and bought the international quad. 2GB will barely ever be used
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Yeah 2GB is damn useless for now, I always have at least 100mb free whatever I'm doing, Android ram management is impressive. Maybe it will change in the next years but for now it's useless but maybe quadcore will be a must have in the next years and dual core will not be enough who knows, anyway since int version will have the best support (official support and dev support from the community) that's the one for me, GPU and audio chip made helped me to decide. Both are almost equal imo.
Seriously guys. That story is bull****. Do you really think that Samsung, the maker of the last two nexus phones and last years best/best selling phone, didn't know about the requirements for jelly bean??
Seriously??
The f*ckin nexus s is getting JB, it has 512mb of ram, 360mb usable.
That story is crap.
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Feeling duped as a UK buyer? Dude we get the better cpu, gpu and dac. Honestly doubt that 2gb would make much difference.