![]() I ran Pocket and Kindle(I used VPN to access USA store) and reading a book or an article is not bad, not bad at all! I was surprised by this, but TEXT is extremely legible on the S3. I may be wrong but the GUI feels faster and more responsive than iOS How good will it be if you can send a file over to dropbox and then not have to wait for it, just flip to Safari and continue browsing? With android you can! Think about like Sending a file over Dropbox. I noticed that if you quit an app in iOS that has to transfer something before it tells you it did so, the process is not complete. ![]() backgrounds apps: I know Apple probably does not allow apps to run in the background because it will drain the battery, but this can work so well. Of course, this also means that there will be a ton of crapware and unreliable apps. Due to Apple's policies we dont have VLC on iOS any more. Unlike Apple where they have to check out each and every app. Of course, Google Play has no restriction on the apps. I think for some, it can work as a tablet replacement! You can run a youtube video, keep it on the side and do something else. I do not think you will have problems watching a show on this display. Bigger Screen: Its huge, and if a big screen is what you want, this is it. Personally I think its much better than iOS, "we dont know where the files stored" way of doing things. So if you like actually seeing your files and the directories, Android does it that way. File System: The Android has a full/real file system. This is the reason people migrate from Windows to Mac. Thats enough for me, apps and devices should work for us, we shouldnt work for them. I downloaded the Android File Transfer APP, I made the settings. The S3 (I dont know about others androids), have a problem syncing with the mac. I thought s3 had a blue-ish screen until I started using one, because I always looked at my friend's using one from the side. Also the slightest tilts of the screen can give a different hue shift. Even though the colors are more "vibrant"(tested against macbook+iPad) on an s3, I can see the pixels compared to retina displays. I think iTunes store does the same, but based on your credit card or address not based on your location using the phone. ![]() I am not sure what else you will skip due to this. What does this mean? It means you will skip on very important apps like Amazon Kindle. Google Play: Americans wont worry about this, but if you are not in America you can not access the American store. it feels a bit jittery, with hiccups here and there. I also had browsers stuck unable to load pages. I had the Swift Keyboard(which is rated like almost 5 stars) crashes/unresponsive twice. I think in total I have been using the phone for 6 hours or so. Stutters/crashes: Apps stutter and crashes more than I would like them. I noticed that your thumb can only reach 75% of the screen forcing you to use 2 hands if you want to reach the menu buttons or any tool bar at top. So this phone you should keep holding it very delicately. If you hold the phone from the sides(not normal grip) you will either hit the volume buttons or the "on/off" buttons. Since they are touch buttons(and extremely sensitive), as you use the phone you continuously go back or settings screens pop up, which gets frustrating after a while. The "settings" and "back" buttons are at the bottom vertically, and since the phone is so huge while you try to reach a place in the screen, you keep accidentally hitting those 2 buttons. By bad design I mean wrong placement of buttons. Bad design: This phone is not designed to be used well in the real world. Here is a quick list of positives and negatives for any one on the fence. A friend of mine had an S3 around and I asked to test it out for a few days. I am comparing Android to my iPad iOS, and criticizing Galaxy S3.
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