I have it, and I think it's exceptional. But it's my first smartphone and I have no intention of rooting it, so I can't offer opinions in that area. I was initially fine with the default keyboard but now the predictive text is just annoying me to the point where I think I'll get Swiftkey or Swype. S Voice is useless but that's a small issue.
I kinda am tempted to try and switch from my 4S to this, I haven't had a droid since I sold my X to switch back to iOS. I guess I'll wait on what the 5 looks like and go from there. I get bored easily lol
It's a great phone. I love it so far. Stock Samsung keyboard kinda sucks though.
Sickest phone ever
rooted, synergy 1.3 rom, swype beta keyboard. Love it. Awesome phone. Coming from a 4" I was a bit concerned about the size but now I hold my old fascinate that I gave to my son and wonder how I used it for so long, lol.
The Sunday Ticket app doesn't show full screen. It will play on a quarter of the screen while the rest is blank.
I haven't had this issue with Sunday Ticket on previous Android phones. Is this something specific to the S3?
I came from a nexus running jelly bean and hated the s3 to the point of going back to the nexus.
Its a huge upgrade over the x but its not even close to how smooth a pure bread nexus runs on jellybean.
You will hate the keyboard and I suggest downloading jelly bean keyboard from the market and use that instead and the browser locks up with Facebook and a few other apps seem to run laggy and you will get a forced close here and there
You can root it with ease but there is basically no 3rd party support yet since it has the locked boot loader.
You can get around it with a double boot hack and run custom Kern els but there is nothing out there that is even good enough for a daily driver yet.
I go back and forth from my s3 and nexus and I'm typing this now on my s3 running cm10 and have been waiting weeks for an update.
3g is slower than dial up and 4g is almost as fast as normal 3g on this build and I can't receive any MMS texts and the cell can't detect its number along with a bunch of apps that don't work right or don't work at all.
Not even tube works right.
If you use an upgrade you will lose your unlimited data.
I paid full retail for my s3 and if you want to keep the data plan I would grab an s3 off craigslist vs paying 300 on an upgrade
I never had unlimited in the first place, yeah it sucks to lose something like that but i'm mostly on wifi anyway and I have never even come close to 1GB. Yes it would be useful if you're a business person and constantly checking things everywhere you go but I'm a college football player haha, not much time for much and I'm usually in places with wifi
Definitely try this out, from what I've seen it's a solid phone. I got 11 hours of battery life out the box with the power saving mode on right when i turned the phone on.
and yeah, I hated the predictive texting but it's gotten better to type with and the keyboard messes me up some times. I might try either the regular android 4.0 or something else soon.
Also, does anyone know if you *228 and try and update the phone, if it takes 4gLTE away? I seem to have lost it after i did