Got my Galaxy S3 today

[_Hecate_]

Tell that to the iSheep.

I went from the iphone 4 to the S3 and I'm loving it. Each OS has its perks. I've never had to restart my iphone and within the first week my S3 had to be restarted. Never got spam from app store, must have downloaded some dodgy software and received spam. ios has great multitasking feature which andriod is lacking.

[driesd]

How do you find the data usage on the Galaxy S3?

[Ecco]

I went from the iphone 4 to the S3 and I'm loving it. Each OS has its perks. I've never had to restart my iphone and within the first week my S3 had to be restarted. Never got spam from app store, must have downloaded some dodgy software and received spam. ios has great multitasking feature which andriod is lacking.

Not good to hear the phone had to be rebooted - definitely a negative to be monitored. Please let us know if it reoccurs regularly.

Regarding spam from the app store - I have never received an unsolicited email from googles market. I would be careful with my email address and dodgy apps. Plenty dodgy apps out there.

Regarding multitasking - i think you not using the S3 properly or maybe let us know what you could do on iOS in terms of multitasking thats lacking on the S3.

[_Hecate_]

Not good to hear the phone had to be rebooted - definitely a negative to be monitored. Please let us know if it reoccurs regularly.

Regarding spam from the app store - I have never received an unsolicited email from googles market. I would be careful with my email address and dodgy apps. Plenty dodgy apps out there.

Regarding multitasking - i think you not using the S3 properly or maybe let us know what you could do on iOS in terms of multitasking thats lacking on the S3.

The reboot only happened once so far. I think it was one (cant recall the name) of those apps that replaces the touchwiz fucntionality. It made my phone very slow so I uinstalled it.

The spam was due to Jewel quest, its not email but it gives this star notifications that you've "won" something.

With the iphone switching between your email, web browser and any other app was seemless. But when I'm busy with an email and want to quickly do something else like google a fact. It creates a draft, so you are not always back where you were when you started. The webbrowser also reloads everytime rather than just keeping the content.

I do think I need to learn a lot about andriod still. Didnt see a tips and tricks thread here...can anybody point me to something like that?

[zululami]

I got my Galaxy S3 32GB white today.

Here are some of my thoughgs in the first 2 hours:
1. damn the screen is pretty
2. damn its fast
3. where do I disable this damn bubble sound, I am getting seasick.
4. goodbye standard widgets and shortcuts. except you weather/clock widget, you can stay.
5. Hurray, the exchange email supports HTML rendering
6. why no USB hard drive mode .
7. comparing with old HTC Desire... S3 is thinner, lighter, bigger battery, bigger screen, all good then.
8. excellent samsung did not partition the storage like HTC does. sorry HTC, the dumbest thing you ever did was limit the application space to 160mb (50mb usable) for apps.
9. 1000mah charger. I better take this one to the office for fast charging there. My non Samsung chargers will only charge at 600mah. Will use that one for overnight.
10. need moar HD live wallpapers. need to ensure jealousy induced clenching of teeth at the office tomorrow. will go to black background after a few months.


feel free to ask me any questions, or have any ideas what I should try with it.

Look what you've done now... I am due for an upgrade later next month and I was gonna get it then... Now I want it now...

[Nokkie]

Performance wise... Can you actually feel the difference between the S2 and the S3 speeds??

[Ecco]

The reboot only happened once so far. I think it was one (cant recall the name) of those apps that replaces the touchwiz fucntionality. It made my phone very slow so I uinstalled it.

The spam was due to Jewel quest, its not email but it gives this star notifications that you've "won" something.

With the iphone switching between your email, web browser and any other app was seemless. But when I'm busy with an email and want to quickly do something else like google a fact. It creates a draft, so you are not always back where you were when you started. The webbrowser also reloads everytime rather than just keeping the content.

I do think I need to learn a lot about andriod still. Didnt see a tips and tricks thread here...can anybody point me to something like that?

The android section of this forum has some stickys you can check out.

Also check out XDA for more specific stuff for the S3: http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1563

On my HTC desire i dont have the issue when switching between mail and browser. Might be ICS thats automatically taking you out of your partially created email or a time issue, where it does this. I trust when you switching apps you holding the home key, rather then pushing the the back button. If you hold down the home key, you should be able to see all apps which are running.

[Fudzy]

One thing that I've become used to on my iPad is pushing the the big button twice to bring up tasks. I keep finding myself doing the same thing on my S3 and bringing up S Voice, I can't wait for a mod to change that functionality.

[CraZee]

Fantastic phone, got mine yesterday.
Keeping an eye on the data usage though

[Krypt0n1te]

One thing that I've become used to on my iPad is pushing the the big button twice to bring up tasks. I keep finding myself doing the same thing on my S3 and bringing up S Voice, I can't wait for a mod to change that functionality.

Just disable it

Go to s-voice -> settings -> launch s-voice -> untick.

[Pe-Killer]

I got mine yesterday Loving it except for the screen that gets dirty very quickly.I need a protective cover.

[genetic]

One thing that grates me on both the S2 and S3 is the inaccurate rendition of colour - it's all very blue!!!

[Fudzy]

One thing that grates me on both the S2 and S3 is the inaccurate rendition of colour - it's all very blue!!!

ICS theme?

[Fudzy]

Just disable it

Go to s-voice -> settings -> launch s-voice -> untick.

Yeah I know how to disable it, I don't want to do that as I use Siri to dial when I'm driving. I just want the functions swapped.

[Rocket-Boy]

One thing that I've become used to on my iPad is pushing the the big button twice to bring up tasks. I keep finding myself doing the same thing on my S3 and bringing up S Voice, I can't wait for a mod to change that functionality.

I got used to that too, on my desire HD you hold down the home button to bring up the multitasking menu, isnt it the same on the S3?
Waiting impatiently for mine to arrive :/