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So as my old thread kinda pointed out before, the Samsung slider Verizon was getting was awfully similar to our Epics in appearance. And guess what? it is real and it's being released soon. So what I found to be interesting about it is that it runs on the exact same hardware as the Epic! Well, that is, excluding the processor -__- while we have a single core 1ghz processor, the Verizon slider will sport a dualcore 1.2ghz processor. The real reason behind this post is this: this to me sounds like the closest sibling our Epic has in the Galaxy S family thus far, so with the processors being the only real difference, will we be able to port anything from it over to the Epic and/or will their source help us in any way to further advance development on our Epics? Hmmm...
http://www.mydaily-gadget.com/news/...g-stratosphere-fcc-release-date-verizon-specs
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Well, that one would hurt. So, they have a stable, problem free Cingerbread on that phone already? EDIT..it doesn't say that's going to be dual core for certain. They are comparing the stats of the Galaxy S2
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Well, that one would hurt. So, they have a stable, problem free Cingerbread on that phone already? EDIT..it doesn't say that's going to be dual core for certain. They are comparing the stats of the Galaxy S2
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So there still might be some hope for us afterall. The mandatory 18 month support deal google is enforcing now means that this Verizon slider will hopefully get up to ICS, and if we can hopefully find something useful from it ( like port some of its ROMs, kernels, use some of its source) then we might have a shot at extending the Epics "life" right? I'm being hopeful because as bad as I want to jump ship to a new device, I'm not ready to give up my physical keyboard just yet.
EDIT: ok, just reread it JC and your right. As of now, all the hardware specs coincide with our Epics, the processor it will be porting is yet to be announced. It does say it'll be a "budget phone" in another article I read, so considering high end devices at the moment are sporting dual core processor 1.2ghz and up, I'm willing to be it will also be a 1ghz single core like ours
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Well, that one would hurt. So, they have a stable, problem free Cingerbread on that phone already? EDIT..it doesn't say that's going to be dual core for certain. They are comparing the stats of the Galaxy S2
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Unfortunately I wouldn't doubt it. The Galaxy S line(Not 2) was handled horribly. We should have been like Samsungs personal nexus line with support and updates, but not a single phone got that. Which isn't bad in all truth. But it could have went better with ICS coming soon.
Also aren't we still within 18 months? It's been a year but not too much over it.
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Yeah especially if we were basically Samsung's testers for Gingerbread on another similar device. I don't know enough about development to know if ROMs could be easily ported from it
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Everything I saw about the stratosphere showed it to be exactly like the epic, just for VZW. Been waiting for it as my girlfriend has VZW and her renewal is this month. And the leaked pics I've seen of it show 2.3.4, so maybe if we're lucky we'll see the source for that and can put something together from it if we don't see official GB released by then..
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Unfortunately I wouldn't doubt it. The Galaxy S line(Not 2) was handled horribly. We should have been like Samsungs personal nexus line with support and updates, but not a single phone got that. Which isn't bad in all truth. But it could have went better with ICS coming soon.
Also aren't we still within 18 months? It's been a year but not too much over it.
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The 18 month support policy wasn't being enforced until just recently so our Epic's, I'm guessing, won't get further than GB (officially speaking of course) Korey also stated that GB would be the final "dying breath" of the Epic support wise. So this could be our final chance at a big helping hand in development...
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Highly doubt this will be relevant at all. Thinking there will be similarities in driver code is akin to thinking there was going to be similarities in our epics and other galaxy s's. And we all know how well that turned out.
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Highly doubt this will be relevant at all. Thinking there will be similarities in driver code is akin to thinking there was going to be similarities in our epics and other galaxy s's. And we all know how well that turned out.
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Well what this handset has that the rest of the other handsets dnt is the hardware keyboard which I heard was a problem devs had a rough time with considering the other galaxy s counter parts had no hardware keyboard. Also, the rest of the hardware matches perfectly, all we need is the processor to be announced. I'm thinking this handset will help us out a bit somehow, but then again, I'm no dev, so take my "hopefulness" with a grain of salt
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QUOTE=squshy 7;17522647]Highly doubt this will be relevant at all. Thinking there will be similarities in driver code is akin to thinking there was going to be similarities in our epics and other galaxy s's. And we all know how well that turned out.
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Try not to get too excited, the article that the op posted mentioned that that this phone may be Verizons gsII contender. The only thing that may be similar is the cameras. Then again that's what we said about the nexus s...
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QUOTE=squshy 7;17522647]Highly doubt this will be relevant at all. Thinking there will be similarities in driver code is akin to thinking there was going to be similarities in our epics and other galaxy s's. And we all know how well that turned out.
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Try not to get too excited, the article that the op posted mentioned that that this phone may be Verizons gsII contender. The only thing that may be similar is the cameras. Then again that's what we said about the nexus s...
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The camera will be different(1.3megapixel ffc) we have a .3megapixel
The keyboard however will be the same, 4 android butttons 4 capacitive android buttons 4" screen, the 5megapixel cam the same.
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I think it will be similar. Verizon rehashed the Evo a little less than a year later. Verizon only has 1 dual core 4G phone. Finally, Verizon said they weren't getting a GSII variant and if this was dualcore, it would probably be considered a GSII variant just like the epic is.
Well they also have a better screen because they have a super amoled plus instead of a super amoled so they don't have to deal with weird subpixels.
Epic 4G, is that you?
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Well I guess best we can do at this point Is hope we can pull some dev off this device. But hey. hope is better then nothing.
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Well I guess best we can do at this point Is hope we can pull some dev off this device. But hey. hope is better then nothing.
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Yeah, that would work as well. In any case, even if their source or porting any of their stuff doesn't help us, their device community would still be of great value to us.
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http://phandroid.com/2011/09/22/sam...-pictured-in-the-wild-and-shown-off-in-video/
this is the canadian version but close to ours.
pretty cool , cant wait!!!
I'm be honest I like the back of the telus version better than the tmobile back. It's looks much more nicer seems to run blazing fast for qualcomm processor.
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Have they actually given a tmobile release date? I watch all the different forums and havent seen one.
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Allegedly, release date will be announced on Monday.
thanks hopefully its tuesday!!!
sweet!!!!!!!! SGH-T989
nice !!!!!!!!
oh man... they replaced the metal door for a high quality plastic door on the final production model
i was really looking forward to that shiny metal door as shown on the pre-release models.
it's nice to see the latest 2.3.5 GB loaded
although i'm undecided about the chrome band, it does looks really nice, but does it fades away?
Cool...But something about this phone says dont get it dam so many choices of new phones
The phone looks pretty fast. For the few seconds he actually clicked to get to about phone. To show the android version that's running. A lot of people saw the the benchmarks of the exynos processor and assume that the qualcomm processor is inferior for not scoring that high. I think most forgot that this phone also showed the benchmarks also which were identical to the Samsung Galaxy 2.
http://phandroid.com/2011/08/17/tel...ured-along-with-impressive-benchmark-results/ seems to me that processors are identical almost.
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Quadrant means nothing
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Mine is better. And whats with the omission of the gs II logo on the back? Small feature but necessary. I enjoy flipping my phone over and seeing it. Plus, the chrome dents easily. I had dents alllll around my vibrant's chromepiece.
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Quadrant means nothing
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We all know that but a lot of people on xda don't know that. It's slowly but surely becoming a troll site. I'm still getting the phone since I'm tired of htc phones already.
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Ehh it's cool, but it "probably" will lack updates with is a no go..
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Ehh it's cool, but it "probably" will lack updates with is a no go..
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Manufacturers don't lack on updates to be precise carriers lack on updates. If certain carrier bloatware doesn't work on your device because an update. Your update will be delayed if everyone would get updates from strictly Google everyone would have updates. If samsung wants to push this as a galaxy 2 they probably already have updates in store for this device as well as the other variants. Touchwiz has gotten lighter than sense. It doesn't take over your whole phone like htc sense does. Let's not mention the facts that qualcomm processors have a tons of support due to past htc devices. The processor in the hercules is almost identical to the touchpad and sensation. Look how much development the touchpad has gotten. Look at the sensation development. Just because you have 15-20 devs on one phone doesn't always necessary mean the development is good. We could only have 1 dev but he could push of quality roms and kernels. ROMs won't vary much anyway mostly stock roms and cm7 kang roms and miui.
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Manufacturers don't lack on updates to be precise carriers lack on updates. If certain carrier bloatware doesn't work on your device because an update. Your update will be delayed if everyone would get updates from strictly Google everyone would have updates. If samsung wants to push this as a galaxy 2 they probably already have updates in store for this device as well as the other variants. Touchwiz has gotten lighter than sense. It doesn't take over your whole phone like htc sense does. Let's not mention the facts that qualcomm processors have a tons of support due to past htc devices. The processor in the hercules is almost identical to the touchpad and sensation. Look how much development the touchpad has gotten. Look at the sensation development. Just because you have 15-20 devs on one phone doesn't always necessary mean the development is good. We could only have 1 dev but he could push of quality roms and kernels. ROMs won't vary much anyway mostly stock roms and cm7 kang roms and miui.
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Okay, but what does this have to do with T-mobile pushing updates?
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Okay, but what does this have to do with T-mobile pushing updates?
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Its comes with 2.3.5 all the other updates aren't really that big till ice cream sandwich which we are guaranteed to get.
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There is no point of buying this phone just get an HTC phone pretty much guarantee same hardware just different screen now if it had exynos I wouldn't really care about support like that it just bothers me when I think about the devs
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There is no point of buying this phone just get an HTC phone pretty much guarantee same hardware just different screen now if it had exynos I wouldn't really care about support like that it just bothers me when I think about the devs
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The only thing is the same is gpu maybe and processor. Exynos is a beast but it's not the only processor that is capable.
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The only thing is the same is gpu maybe and processor. Exynos is a beast but it's not the only processor that is capable.
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But those are main things that we use in everyday use do that's like original galaxy not having humming bird equally good but just not it
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i dont know if Jasonhunterx is a troll looking to get a rise out of everyone or just the most negative person in the world? havent firgured that out yet?? or hes samsungs worlds worst fan
This is good news for us. The update is only for the International model of the Galaxy S2. With an official ICS release on hardware identical to ours, the talented devs over here will have something stable to work with. Check out phandroid for more info.
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http://phandroid.com/2012/03/08/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-owners-gt-i9000-getting-android-4-0-in-two-days/
Just providing the link even though I really doubt it...
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http://phandroid.com/2012/03/08/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-owners-gt-i9000-getting-android-4-0-in-two-days/
Just providing the link even though I really doubt it...
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You do know that the details are also on Samsung's website as well right?
THought we get a ics update a month later? The china leak is fine until samsung release the notes ics. Hopefully a better leak will get released.
Wasnt the leaks for sgs2 used to patch up cm9 alpha build for note? I wouldnt expect stable until the notes version is released.
Until I've seen at least one more N7000 leak I doubt we're less than a month away from getting the ICS update.
I would expect to see at least 2-3 leaks for the Intl version before the real thing is released...
Here is the link to Samsungs anouncement for the SII
http://skp.samsungcsportal.com/integrated/popup/FaqDetailPopup.jsp?seq=422548&cdsite=ph
That's one thing I miss from iOS: instant updates. None of that waiting and uncertainty BS.
Galaxy Note FTW
so.I make a page on facebook:Samsung where is my ics?
FU-Samsung-Where-is-my-****ing-ICS
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Tweet
SamMobiles:
BREAKING: Samsung denies #ICS update tomorrow! #SGSII (Information by other websites are wrong says Samsung)
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Lol, I agree with the uncertainty it sucks big time. But, but wtf all of the Android phone company's does the same thing. The big mystery about Android is just that we never know what to expect, we might even get an alien biological phone from Google here next
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Worder why you guys talking about Galaxy SII in this forum, this is Note forum
because if GS2 gets ics,note will be next one.
And the big news is?? Both get ICS sooner or later
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And the big news is?? Both get ICS sooner or later
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Just stop, please.
Samsung denies it's own statement..
Samsung denies 10th release date
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Samsung denies it's own statement..
Samsung denies 10th release date
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Yepp, read it few seconds ago...you were faster
Is that portalsamsung.com a genuine samsung website? It doesn't seem so to me
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Why do you guys want the Samsung ICS? It has touchwiz....
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Why do you guys want the Samsung ICS? It has touchwiz....
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Then nobody shud have bought galaxy in the first place?
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You will find that Samsung have since released a statement saying march 10th is not actually confirmed so this post is now nonsense unfortunately. no date has yet been set for the release.
As someone has already mentioned I see! Didn't notice that before posting.
'im thinking about switching to AT&T next month, my wife wants the stupid iPHONE and I was kind of thinking about the Samsung galaxy skyrocket... Any one refer me to a better phone with AT&T?? Our should I wait till I get my free upgrade at the end of the year with t mobile??
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Wait after May 3 to see what Samsung announces for the Galaxy SIII. That phone and the HTC One are the best phones from AT&T for Android.
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I heard something about the s3.. Ok thanks for the info, I saw the "one" on AT&T website but it was preorder... I guess I will wait and see, thank you for sharing your info!!
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'im thinking about switching to AT&T next month, my wife wants the stupid iPHONE and I was kind of thinking about the Samsung galaxy skyrocket... Any one refer me to a better phone with AT&T?? Our should I wait till I get my free upgrade at the end of the year with t mobile??
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htc one-x from atnt
htc one-s from t-mobile
samsung? pfft.. iphone? you gotta be kidding me
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'im thinking about switching to AT&T next month, my wife wants the stupid iPHONE and I was kind of thinking about the Samsung galaxy skyrocket... Any one refer me to a better phone with AT&T?? Our should I wait till I get my free upgrade at the end of the year with t mobile??
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Get her a flip phone and say suck it up. Haha
And don't get that POS if you go to AT&T. Get the One X
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is it easy to root and s=off that b*tch?
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is it easy to root and s=off that b*tch?
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I'm sure it is compared to Samsung.
I know with Samsung phones, there's more software involved and flash counters and etc.
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I'm sure it is compared to Samsung.
I know with Samsung phones, there's more software involved and flash counters and etc.
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I never tried rooting a Samsung, thanks for the info!
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I never tried rooting a Samsung, thanks for the info!
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I never have either but i almost got my hands on a second phone which was a Samsung and I looked around in the forums and it looks pretty complicated
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I never tried rooting a Samsung, thanks for the info!
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Rooting and Modding with Samsung devices are so annoying... lol
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Lol.
No,no,no.
Believe me,it takes less than 5 minutes once you have the drivers,etc...
HTC...now thats a pain in the ass.
But if you go to at&t its the note,or the one X.
Pass on the skyrocket (though it seems slighy better than tmobiles t989).Tmobile is just one S,t989,amaze.
The Samsung galaxy nexus is only $399 unlocked via google playstore.
Here,buy my amaze or t989,and ill get the nexus.LOL.
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Lol.
No,no,no.
Believe me,it takes less than 5 minutes once you have the drivers,etc...
HTC...now thats a pain in the ass.
But if you go to at&t its the note,or the one X.
Pass on the skyrocket (though it seems slighy better than tmobiles t989).Tmobile is just one S,t989,amaze.
The Samsung galaxy nexus is only $399 unlocked via google playstore.
Here,buy my amaze or t989,and ill get the nexus.LOL.
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What's Odin for?
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What's Odin for?
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Odin is the program you need to use with Samsung devices to root and flash different modems and what not. i gotta admit, sometimes it is better than flashing a PD15IMG.zip but still...what if i'm nowhere near a computer?
So far I'm liking the galaxy s2.....
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Odin is the program you need to use with Samsung devices to root and flash different modems and what not. i gotta admit, sometimes it is better than flashing a PD15IMG.zip but still...what if i'm nowhere near a computer?
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Yea that's what I thought it was. That's why I view it as more complicated
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Why not wait for sonys new phones? Sony has really good build quality and the ui isn't bad at all.
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Im sure youll love the S2.
The skyrocket is better than tmobiles hercules.
Wait 2Weeks for the one x.
As far as AT&T goes,everyone I know is able to get a signal where I dont.
Tmobile has gotten crappy.
But at&t is just as ****ty customer service wise (I suppose).I know I hated them with the home phone(10 yrs ago LOL).
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Im sure youll love the S2.
The skyrocket is better than tmobiles hercules.
Wait 2Weeks for the one x.
As far as AT&T goes,everyone I know is able to get a signal where I dont.
Tmobile has gotten crappy.
But at&t is just as ****ty customer service wise (I suppose).I know I hated them with the home phone(10 yrs ago LOL).
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if i'm ever going to get the Galaxy, i'm definitely going to get the International version. hate how the U.S carriers screw them up and such... ruins the whole point... i have an international version of the Original Galaxy S, GT-i9000, and if it weren't for it being international... i'm not sure how i can stand it lol. International ftw!
Yeah.im leaning towards internat versions for next major purchase.but if the note or sgs3 or the onex comes to Tmobile,then thats good enough for me for the next 2yrs.
But if google will sell the next nexus and not depend on a carrier,shiiiit.google/Samsung will rule the market with that one phone.
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If google did that,the carriers might jack their prices up.
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Going to get my new phone in the AM, and I have a dilemma..
My wife is getting the SIII..that's a known factor.
I however am torn between SIII and NoteII...main problem being they aren't carrying any NoteII's at Radioshack right now, have to order them, and no telling how long it will be until it comes in (maybe by monday, maybe later).
Should I go ahead and get the SIII or wait for the NoteII? Anyone have any ideas on how the development community is going on these devices? From my eyes they look about the same...but honestly haven't had the time to do an in-depth research for it..
Your opinions would be appreciated.
I'm almost in tha same boat as you but mine is Note 2 now or wait for the S4. If I had to choose between those two i would go S3 from what I kno a lot of the devs from this went to that phone so it would be familiar names there and I'm sure the community is bigger but I haven't look to much into myself jus an opinion
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I know xboxfanj went to the Optimus G. But most of the other devs went to the S3
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Note 2! it will change your LIFE!
Well wouldn't you know it, I went to upgrade on the 23rd, and the Note II promotion had ended on the 22nd...jumped from $199 to $299...so had to opt for the SIII I wish I had been able to catch that promotion, but the SIII is pretty amazing, and my GOD the number of ROMs to try out are just mind-blowing, I think I'm on my 6th or 7th right now, and still have another 4 to test..development over there is crazy!
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I know xboxfanj went to the Optimus G. But most of the other devs went to the S3
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We don't have much yet. LG sources can be messy but cm should be close.
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I have the s3 and note 2. The note 2 is amazing how but the seems to be more development for s3
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We don't have much yet. LG sources can be messy but cm should be close.
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I don't know if I should get the Note 2, the Optimus G or wait for the next line of flagship devices from Samsung.
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I don't know if I should get the Note 2, the Optimus G or wait for the next line of flagship devices from Samsung.
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Probably wait. Then decide between the s4 and HTC one. They're so close now that it's dumb to buy something older.
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Probably wait. Then decide between the s4 and HTC one. They're so close now that it's dumb to buy something older.
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Ahem (just bought the SIII)...
No seriously, I bought the Epic when it was old (actually paid more for it than I did the SIII), and had it until, well, last thrusday...I bought the Asus TF101 right after the Prime launched...I don't like buying 'new' hardware, you never know what kind of bugs are going to be discovered for it. And the SIII launched last May, still quite new, at least to me
In the case of the Prime, it was a disaster and was quickly reissued as the TF700T and phased out..and my TF101 is still kicking hard..
Also, I am not a dev, so I'd rather buy a device that has a dev community already well-established. Something to consider, how long do you want to wait until someone discovers a root exploit and gets a good ROM on your device, unlocks the hotspot, and OH CRAP here's an OTA that bricks your device at worst or at best breaks root and you have to wait again to get root established before development can resume..
On the other hand, all your friends will think you are cool for the first month when you have a brand new, just-launched device that no one else has...I don't have many friends, so I go for the tried-and-true. Not the shiny-and-new.
I bought the Note 2 and returned it after a week. Happily back on my Epic now. lol
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Ahem (just bought the SIII)...
No seriously, I bought the Epic when it was old (actually paid more for it than I did the SIII), and had it until, well, last thrusday...I bought the Asus TF101 right after the Prime launched...I don't like buying 'new' hardware, you never know what kind of bugs are going to be discovered for it. And the SIII launched last May, still quite new, at least to me
In the case of the Prime, it was a disaster and was quickly reissued as the TF700T and phased out..and my TF101 is still kicking hard..
Also, I am not a dev, so I'd rather buy a device that has a dev community already well-established. Something to consider, how long do you want to wait until someone discovers a root exploit and gets a good ROM on your device, unlocks the hotspot, and OH CRAP here's an OTA that bricks your device at worst or at best breaks root and you have to wait again to get root established before development can resume..
On the other hand, all your friends will think you are cool for the first month when you have a brand new, just-launched device that no one else has...I don't have many friends, so I go for the tried-and-true. Not the shiny-and-new.
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You're on point with that, I agree!
Sesquipedalian said:
I bought the Note 2 and returned it after a week. Happily back on my Epic now. lol
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The OG Epic just can't be touched, especially with the amazing devs and this community!
I'm bout to get the note 2 but still have my og epic for a wifi phone
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Dude, I love my og epic but lets be real, the note 2 is a beast.
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S4 is coming out this month it looks like and may is nexus 5 if s4 has octa core I'm getting it if not then I'll wait for nexus 5
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epic559 said:
S4 is coming out this month it looks like and may is nexus 5 if s4 has octa core I'm getting it if not then I'll wait for nexus 5
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Any launch dates on the S4?
DynamicN said:
Any launch dates on the S4?
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Last I knew it was being released the 14th of this month.
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Get the Optimus G, best phone I've owned to date and has better specs than both the SIII and the Note II. At a glance you may say I'm wrong but do some in depth research and watch reviews on each phone and you'll agree with me.
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freedomfighter2006 said:
Get the Optimus G, best phone I've owned to date and has better specs than both the SIII and the Note II. At a glance you may say I'm wrong but do some in depth research and watch reviews on each phone and you'll agree with me.
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S3 and note2 maybe but not the s4 and nexus5 android 5.0 key lime pie should be on both
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