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Im switching from my iphone 4 to a galaxy s 3. There are so many advantages to switching. Anyone else want to express their relief about letting go of the apple ecosystem!
I switched from the iPhone 4S to the International S3. Had the 4S since release date. Got the S3 a few days ago. Had been using an iPhone since 2007 when the first was released.
There are pros and cons to each system. I think both are great.
Android is a more open system. I definitely like that.
I have both iPhone 4s, Note, HTC One X, SG3 and I only keep the iPhone and the SG3. Both systems is good. The Note when upgrade to ICS sucks. HTC One X battery sucks as well. SG3 by far has the best battery which can let me use it for whole day. iPhone is still my main business phone and the SG3 is for fun and development. My company developed Android TV box and ODM for people to put their band on it.
Could you guys help me I need help transferring my music from iTunes to my S3?
Brianaro said:
Could you guys help me I need help transferring my music from iTunes to my S3?
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I suggest "Isyncr" from the google play store.
Great great way to transfer iTunes collection.
It is playlist based but a lot more reliable than Double Twist in my experience.
Transfer iphone to S3
Hi, I transferred from Nokia to Iphone when the first iphone appeared and have been with Apple ever since my last one being the 4S.
I wanted a larger screen though for browsing, watching films and reading books on holiday. I tried the note but found it too large so went for an S3.
I am really pleased with the move, the S3 is just as slick and fast, if not faster. Has much better battery life and a lovely large screen.
When I first got the S3 I tried via Kies to sync to my outlook files but it was rubbish so i started again and used the Transfer non-Samsung backup data option on the Kies main basic information page.
This located my last Iphone 4S backup and transfered my contacts with photos, calender, birthdays, notes, photos, videos and all my music that was on my phone. It worked brilliantly.
So I suggest anyone changing to backup their iphones and use Kies to do the transfer.
Brianaro said:
Could you guys help me I need help transferring my music from iTunes to my S3?
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I use "itune agent" to transfer files from itunes to any mp3 player that isn't apple
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Samsung has partnered with this company to make the transition from ios to your new gs3 painless, the app is called easy phone sync, can sync everything from music to contacts.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...wxLDEsImNvbS5nYWxheHlzeW5jLmFuZHJvaWQuYXBwIl0.
I went from GS2 - iPhone 4s - Xperia S - HTC One XL- GS3 i9300
This is my personal ranking
1. GS3
2. GS2
3. iPhone 4s/Xperia S - tie
4. -
5. HTC One X
I have an iPad but I knew from the moment I bought it I had to use non-Apple services whenever possible so as not to get locked in. I use Kindle rather than iBooks, my Google account and Dropbox rather than iCloud. Just makes things easier to switch later
After many years using iPhone, I'm now using S3 and I'm loving it.
I also bought an iPad in case I miss iOS somehow. The only thing I miss is an app like Infolock or IntelliScreen, mainly to change the clock style and be able to make calls directly from lockscreen. I tried MagicLocker, LockerScreen 7 and WidgetLocker, but none of those is works flawless. If you have a password protected lockscreen those apps won't work very well.
I think the combination of an iOS tablet and an Android smartphone is perfect, at least for me.
I switched from the 4s to the skyrocket about two months ago.
I wasn't sure if I liked it more until I tried the skyics ROM. Once I found this ROM I don't think I will ever go back!
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I switched from iphone 4s to SGS2, and then from the s2 to the S3. Damn I feel no regret and I can't imagine using iphone again. Even I've got a new ipad and Apple TV (basically for Netflix and mirroring my ipad).
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The iPhone andnApple stuff is a very tight and reliable Eco system. For example my wife has a 4S, she took a bunch of pictures today, I'm on my iPad right now and the Photostream has all her pictures on my iPad right now for me to look at.
I took pictures on my GS3 and I have them auto upload to Dropbox, but then I have to sync them to iPhoto.
The GS3 is the best Android phone I have used, but like my buddy and I were talking about, the GS3 is the best Android phone of the moment. It seems that Andoid phones come and go, but the iPhone stays the same and is a pretty dran good device. The problem is the OS is too easy and boring for anyone that comes on this site. The screen is small but both will be updated in the coming months.
Right now I am enjoying the great battery life and niceness of my International GS3, but I am missing my iPhone too.
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After many years using iPhone, I'm now using S3 and I'm loving it.
I also bought an iPad in case I miss iOS somehow. The only thing I miss is an app like Infolock or IntelliScreen, mainly to change the clock style and be able to make calls directly from lockscreen. I tried MagicLocker, LockerScreen 7 and WidgetLocker, but none of those is works flawless. If you have a password protected lockscreen those apps won't work very well.
I think the combination of an iOS tablet and an Android smartphone is perfect, at least for me.
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I am also using the same combination and it works fine for me. I also came from 4S. This is not my first Android phone though. I have used HTC desire, Samsung Galaxy S, Samsung Galaxy S2, and Samsung Nexus. My wife has HTC one x at the moment. I have also own every single iPhone since original. I don't know what the fuss is all about and why one of them (apple and android) has to be bad. Both are good for me however the small screen of iPhone is not good enough to play games who has on screen controls.
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I am also switching from the iphone 4 whenever my new s3 come to BB. I can't wait! I'm so tired of this little screen on my iphone and all the boring features.
I love my new iPad and I enjoyed the iPhone 4s. Keeping my GS3 though and will most likely sell my iPad once I find a windows 8 tablet that can effectively replace my laptop, desktop, and tablet. The pro version of the surface looks like it might just pull it off too. We shall see.
But I plan to purge myself of all Apple because I don't like the way they patent everything.
Will probably end up regretting selling the iPad once Kingdom Rush 2 comes out though. Haha
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I love my new iPad and I enjoyed the iPhone 4s. Keeping my GS3 though and will most likely sell my iPad once I find a windows 8 tablet that can effectively replace my laptop, desktop, and tablet. The pro version of the surface looks like it might just pull it off too. We shall see.
But I plan to purge myself of all Apple because I don't like the way they patent everything.
Will probably end up regretting selling the iPad once Kingdom Rush 2 comes out though. Haha
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LOL! good idea i have owned a 4 and then got the galaxy s D the difference is massive the 4 is slow and wayyyyy to small the camera also wasnt as good as on my galaxy s i9000 the galaxy s series b**** slap the iphones from there years galaxy s iphone 4 s2 iphone 4s and OBVIOUSLY The s3 kills the 5 i willl never touch that steve jobs crap
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LOL! good idea i have owned a 4 and then got the galaxy s D the difference is massive the 4 is slow and wayyyyy to small the camera also wasnt as good as on my galaxy s i9000 the galaxy s series b**** slap the iphones from there years galaxy s iphone 4 s2 iphone 4s and OBVIOUSLY The s3 kills the 5 i willl never touch that steve jobs crap
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I don't necessarily agree with your last point since the iPhone 5 isn't even out yet lol... I HAVE seen what they are potentially offering though in iOS 6 and unless iPhone 5 is going to add a million bells and whistles to that I feel iOS/Apple truly are now lagging behind Android in innovation. Jelly Bean will be on the radar by that time too. And that could add even more awesomeness to Android.
Agree with an earlier comment too. iOS is far too boring for the kind of person that browses this site.
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As with all apple products...... they are over priced and over hyped. IPhone is good for someone who could care less about doing any sort of modifications to their phone. I find ( generally speaking) tech geeks like android and the mindless masses like iPhone. (No disrespect LOL) they both have a demographic but personally I'm android all the way!
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Hi
i would like to know some of your opinions if you have both the Galaxy Note and also a Nexus 7
i have had my note for almost a year now - generally all pretty good
but for some things i am thinking about the nexus 7
maybe for a bigger ebook reader - kindle / BBC news / Flipboard etc- i have a lot of books which would benefit perhaps on a bigger screen
Tegra 3 - one of the reasons why i would like the nexus 7 - some games can only be played on a tegra 3 device - i am not a really big game player but sometimes would like to play Horn, Dark meadow and the other tegra 3 only games which cannot be played on the Note
general web browsing / ocassional movie watching when out and about would be nice on a bigger screen
i live in europe so google voice is not available at this time - so i wont really use it for any phone calls - maybe skype but ocassionally
i am trying to establish how much of a use it will get in order to see if its worth to purchase it..
please share your useages and experiences with owning both
Actually I have both items, G Note and Nexus 7
I bought the Nexus 7 two months ago, and the Gx Note last week.
Since I bought the Note, I've never used again the Nexus 7 (I'm selling it)
I've downloaded some Tegra Only games and only tried them for a while and never played again.
The Nexus has a bit bigger screen than Note, it is more fast and the touch responsiveness is better, but I prefer to have a decent "All In One" device like the Note (with a good replaceable battery and micro SD slot whith tons of films in it) than having to carry with another device only for a "little more of screen"
I have both too. But I find the Note to be slightly better for everyday use. It's decent sized and runs games (that I play) perfectly fine. Screen is a bit small (as opposed to the 7) for web browsing, but that's something I can live with. On the other hand, the nexus 7 screen is right in the middle of the Note and a 10" tablet. For certain apps, if I run the phone version on the 7, the UI's too big (big buttons, big text); but if I run the tablet version of the app, texts are often too small to read on the 7 inch and some buttons are harder to press as they've been resized to fit the 7" screen. Sorry for my english but I think you get my point.
Now that we have jelly bean running on our exynos powered phones, the whole performance argument doesn't fly. Pretty sure the note outperforms anything with a tegra 3, despite having half as many cores. Exynos ftw!
Apple innovates and Samsung copies, huh? Tell that to my Galaxy Note.
I have the note and 2 nexus 7 had 2 more but sold them, the nexus is much faster (all are running paranoid android 2.5 ROMs if I were going to read , check emails , look up something on the internet it would be no question the nexus 7, if I wanted something small / more portable to check something quick then the note is better plus if need some to make phone calls without being linked to another device ie. Tablet talk then obviously the note is your choice, even though I don't use the note as a phone anymore I would never sell it
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Hi There,
I have a Nexus 7 and a GN. The Nexus is lightning fast, and a real pleasure for games or as a e-reader. I use both devices every day, and I love both.
I use my Nexus for navigation in my car (with car mount). The GN sits in my console, connected to BT for calls.
The one thing I do find is that the Nexus connects to GPS faster, and the nav app (Waze) seems snappier.
Whilst I do love the Nexus 7, as it is an amazingly capable tablet for a very respectable price, there is very little point in any 7" tablet in my opinion so long as you own any of the newer Android devices that often employ a 4.5+ inch display and especially if you own a phone/tablet hybrid such as the Galaxy Note. In my personal opinion, a tablet should be around the 10" mark like the iPad. It is just a nice size for greater productivity, whilst still maintaining greater portability than a laptop.
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Now that we have jelly bean running on our exynos powered phones, the whole performance argument doesn't fly. Pretty sure the note outperforms anything with a tegra 3, despite having half as many cores. Exynos ftw!
Apple innovates and Samsung copies, huh? Tell that to my Galaxy Note.
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My Note is running the leaked 4.1.1 rom and the nexus the stock 4.1.2 from google and the nexus is a lot faster than the Note
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Hi There,
I have a Nexus 7 and a GN. The Nexus is lightning fast, and a real pleasure for games or as a e-reader. I use both devices every day, and I love both.
I use my Nexus for navigation in my car (with car mount). The GN sits in my console, connected to BT for calls.
The one thing I do find is that the Nexus connects to GPS faster, and the nav app (Waze) seems snappier.
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Same here - have both and am pleased with both. Use the Nexus 7 more for movies and books.
thank you all for this feedback and opinions
a lot of good points have been made here regarding speed of the nexus, size and usages what you have
from what i have evaluated certain tasks are better suited on the nexus and other tasks are more geared towards the note..due to its size etc
lots of things to think about here....
I have Note and tried nexus. Just doesn't feel big enough and had other limitations that didn't help. My Note and Transformer prime work a lot better as a combo for me.
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I have a Galaxy Note and a Nexus 7. Although its a nice device i hardly use my nexus 7 as my Note can do everything it can (except the tegra3 specific games) but theyre not really that good tbh. Nexus 7 with Jelly Bean was much smoother but i have since installed super nexus rom on my note and theyre pretty much the same now.
My Nexus is mostly a home device for me until I get my hands on the 3g version then i will bring it out and will be doing mostly my surfing and emails with it. My Gnote is mostly just phone calls and occasional quick surfing, whatsapp, Facebook, etc.
I reckon a tablet and phone have their own specific uses and each supplement the cons of the other. Everyone should have both!
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First of all hi to all of you, I am new to the xda forums and a proud owner of a galaxy note which will soon get a custom rom .
I was also thinking about buying a Nexus 7 mainly for reading ebooks but I am unsure about the display quality - isn't the notes super amoled far superior?
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First of all hi to all of you, I am new to the xda forums and a proud owner of a galaxy note which will soon get a custom rom .
I was also thinking about buying a Nexus 7 mainly for reading ebooks but I am unsure about the display quality - isn't the notes super amoled far superior?
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I have both aswell and happy with both of them. One would expect the screen quality of Gnote to be better due to the super amoled tech it uses but in reality it have black clipping issues which make watching low quality videos a problem.
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is the Galaxy Note S-Pen working on the Nexus 7 ??
if yes - how is the experience - same as the note or better /worse
I too have both. I love everything about the Note (previous phones were Nexus One followed by Nexus S) except what it's missing... the Nexus experience. The Nexus 7 reminded me what I'm missing. My wife inherited my Nexus S and I still envy her smooth clean experience with a phone that's 2 years old. She has JB with Google Now and all the goodies... I sit here with a beautiful 5.3" screen, and incredibly powerful hand held computer, but stuck on ICS. When will we get JB on the Note (Samsung is in no hurry.They want to sell new phones)? I considered rooting and installing a rom, but after following this forum since I purchased my Nexus One, I decided to stay stock. Too many problems.
After much thought I've decided to sell my Note and will pre-order the Nexus 4 as soon as it hits the Play Store. I will never buy a phone or tablet again without it being pure Google.
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is the Galaxy Note S-Pen working on the Nexus 7 ??
if yes - how is the experience - same as the note or better /worse
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No.
I have, had both. Love both.
kasus said:
First of all hi to all of you, I am new to the xda forums and a proud owner of a galaxy note which will soon get a custom rom .
I was also thinking about buying a Nexus 7 mainly for reading ebooks but I am unsure about the display quality - isn't the notes super amoled far superior?
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Blacks are a lot blacker with the note but I was surprised that the nexus looks much sharper and detailed. Maybe is my lame screen protector not sure.
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Although I am in love with the galaxy nexus, I miss this phone terribly. The build quality, the keyboard. Though a better screen would have been nice, this phone served me more than well as my first android
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Ok, a little background. Been moving phones like crazy in the last 4 years. Djeez XDA and big boy toys, you're all to blame
I now have a Nexus 5 32GB next to my Note 1 which I just have to flash roms (yes, I am that crazy)
To be honest I love the form factor of the Note and I am very disappointed in the Nexus 5. How can you make a phone that has a bad speaker to start with, a seriously bad video stabilization in my eyes, rattling buttons, hardware gps connection issues, yellowish display ....
Are there any people here that switched from a Nexus 5 to a Note 3 and do you want to share your opinion about it?
Or are there people that dislike the Note 3 after a while?
Go for it....u will love it...go for n9005.
Wish u good luck.
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Hi mate I did the exact same swap from nexus 5 to note 3. Love nexus devices but was massively disappointed in the 5. Everyone goes on about vanilla android but I love touchwiz.
Software and hardware wise the note 3 is a clear winner in my eyes. Battery is alot better than the nexus which is expected due to the size I guess
I love the big screen both for size and quality. Also the advantage of having the memory card option for storage.
I think it is a good move, I am bit of an android/samsung fan boy but I reckon the facts speak for themselves regardless of opinion.
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I made the switch from a nexus 5. After years with Android I was really hankering after a pure Android experience. I loved the Nexus 5 when I first got it but I have to admit I found vanilla android a bit boring after a while. Build quality was an issue too for me. Love the note 3. Battery life. Performance. Screen size. S pen, which I do use a lot. Touchwhiz is lookin old though, would really like it if we got the new look on the s5. Knowing Samsung like I do I'll be surprised if we do. Anytime this year anyway. And you see that takes us back to the Nexus 5. Updates! You choose which is more important to you.
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I tried LG G2 and after few days I returned it because of bad quality of body, speaker and mic. Note is much more better.
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Hi mate I did the exact same swap from nexus 5 to note 3. Love nexus devices but was massively disappointed in the 5. Everyone goes on about vanilla android but I love touchwiz.
Software and hardware wise the note 3 is a clear winner in my eyes. Battery is alot better than the nexus which is expected due to the size I guess
I love the big screen both for size and quality. Also the advantage of having the memory card option for storage.
I think it is a good move, I am bit of an android/samsung fan boy but I reckon the facts speak for themselves regardless of opinion.
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Seems like exactly the same reasons why I would move to the Note 3.
Now that I modified my car radio so I can finally play music over Bluetooth so the 32GB - OS - APPS doesn't cut it anymore. Especially when travelling in remote countries.
I've never had an issue with my S1 S2 S3 or note 1 except for the GPS in the S1 which was a hardware contact design issue.
All my HTC devices have gone in for warranty with a lot of (insert not so nice word here). So no more HTC.
I thought going to the Nexus 5 was going to give me the joys of a vanilla latest rom but I am disappointed in the lack of stuff that google build into it and especially the top specs hardware which just don't seem to be top in the real world.
So probably will have to sell the N5 to fund the Note 3. .... now what will I tell my wife ... again. :silly:
I've had an S2, S3, S4, Nexus 4, Nexus 5, also iphone 4s and 5. I'm now on the note 3 and I can safely say I think it is the best of the bunch by far.
I know it is easy to say because I have the device but you can also see that I have experienced a number of recent devices. I had to buy my Mrs A note 3 when I got mine
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I've had an S2, S3, S4, Nexus 4, Nexus 5, also iphone 4s and 5. I'm now on the note 3 and I can safely say I think it is the best of the bunch by far.
I know it is easy to say because I have the device but you can also see that I have experienced a number of recent devices. I had to buy my Mrs A note 3 when I got mine
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That's what makes it dangerous I think :angel:
For the price you really can't beat the nexus 5. In almost all other aspects the Note 3 (I can only speak for the N9005 which I own) is the better phone.
I briefly switched over to the nexus 5 and did enjoy aspects of the vanilla software as well as the development scene. However after a few days I began to miss certain features of the Note 3 software and really missed the screen, pen and battery life. Speaker is much better too.
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Agree nexus 5's are good for the price, Nexus phones generally nearly always are. However I wasn't happy with the speaker, screen, camera or build quality which has really put me off the nexus brand.
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I've heard about lags concerning the Galaxy S5, that's the reason why I stick with the Nexus 5.
Is the Galaxy S5 laggy like the S3 was? I had an S3 and it was pretty much a pile of cr#p.
Now I have the Nexus 5 and It is really great, never lags, but... I love Samsung. And I'm willing to get an Galaxy S5.
Does it worth it?
Thanks!
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I've heard about lags concerning the Galaxy S5, that's the reason why I stick with the Nexus 5.
Is the Galaxy S5 laggy like the S3 was? I had an S3 and it was pretty much a pile of cr#p.
Now I have the Nexus 5 and It is really great, never lags, but... I love Samsung. And I'm willing to get an Galaxy S5.
Does it worth it?
Thanks!
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My previous phone was a Nexus 5 and it really worth the upgrade for me. For me the 16GB Nexus 5 wasn't enough and the battery life was really bad ( compared to the Galaxy S5). My unlocked international SM-G900F doesn't have any problems. It is smooth and fast.