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I think the Google Galaxy Nexus, HTC One X and Samsung Galaxy S3 are superior to the iPhone 4S. Apple will need to come up with a very cool iPhone 5 to regain the lead in my opinion.
1. They won't. But people (especially Apple themselves) will declare it the best thing since sliced bread anyways and it'll sell millions. Maybe they'll "invent" something else others have had for years and brag about innovation again. Maybe they'll finally increase the tiny screen size and claim they always wanted to do it. We'll have to wait and see.
2. The Galaxy S3 is a nice phone, (I own one myself) but it's nothing revolutionary really. There's very little difference between it and other Androids, it's basically just a incremental upgrade of the Galaxy SII. I don't get why people who were always rabid Apple fanbois are now suddenly going on about how awesome it is where they were previously saying how crap Android phones are and trolling with "ZOMG who needz functionality anywaize when you have purdy peecshures ololololololololol".
Actually I think I do know. It's the massive marketing campaign Samsung put out rather than the quality of the device itself. They're pulling an Apple.
thijei
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iPhone finally replaced by Galaxy S3 as the best smartphone in Stuff magazine. Never thought I would see the day. Finally some common sense prevails. And this from a former Apple fan
Now I can buy the mag again
LOL! This is something I've also seen with these mags. No matter what: Apple is the best. And now all of a sudden it is changing. But I guess the new iPhone will again "earn the top spot because it is sooo cooler than hot".
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kingrob
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iPhone finally replaced by Galaxy S3 as the best smartphone in Stuff magazine. Never thought I would see the day. Finally some common sense prevails. And this from a former Apple fan
Never thought I'd see the day!! Maybe ol' Toby (editor) was fired?
We already brought this up last year, when Stuff magazine would put the iPhone first, no matter what.
Might start reading it again now.
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http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthr...Africa-when-Apple-fanboyism-just-goes-too-farNever thought I'd see the day!! Maybe ol' Toby (editor) was fired?
We already brought this up last year, when Stuff magazine would put the iPhone first, no matter what.
Might start reading it again now.
AfricanTech
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LOL - little bit of credibility seeping back in
Although, I find Stuff magazine too light - tend to skim over the surface
Although, I find Stuff magazine too light - tend to skim over the surface
cerebus
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My feeling, Apple missed a trick with the 4S. The 4 was hands-down the best phone for the year that it was available, but over the past year we've seen 1280x800 screens becoming the norm and Google stepping up the design game quite a bit.
It's hard to hold an S3 and a 4S next to each other and not feel that somehow you're getting MORE in the 4.6" phone. I don't think people are necessarily all actually wanting a 4.6+" screen but it's a perception thing, a knock-off-your-socks that the 4S doesn't have so much.
I kind of think that it will retake the lead again though, just based on the mockups and rumours I've seen. You can knock me for it but it's lining up to be a pretty magnificent device. And it would be sheer ignorance to think that Apple would just 'incrementally' bump it. They never do that; even the 4S from a specs pov was a significant move forwards from the 4. New rumour is that it will be an 1800mhz LTE exclusive.
It's hard to hold an S3 and a 4S next to each other and not feel that somehow you're getting MORE in the 4.6" phone. I don't think people are necessarily all actually wanting a 4.6+" screen but it's a perception thing, a knock-off-your-socks that the 4S doesn't have so much.
I kind of think that it will retake the lead again though, just based on the mockups and rumours I've seen. You can knock me for it but it's lining up to be a pretty magnificent device. And it would be sheer ignorance to think that Apple would just 'incrementally' bump it. They never do that; even the 4S from a specs pov was a significant move forwards from the 4. New rumour is that it will be an 1800mhz LTE exclusive.
Um, neither of those is 4.6"....
cerebus
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4.8 sorry. Was talking off the top of my head.
I've actually always been on both sides of the fence, but I got bored with iOS because of how stagnant it is and tightly controlled by Apple hence I went full Android.
I'm more talking of the media (for example Stuff magazine, Engadget etc.) The most hardened Apple fanboy publications/websites that have now suddenly decided Android is the bomb-diggidy. Where in reality nothing has changed much, it's purely because of hype. Android is the same as it ever was, and the phones are slightly more technologically advanced every 6 months, as it has always been. It's pretty clear that these types just have no minds of their own. They just say whatever is trendy at the moment is "the best smartphone". Android has always offered a lot more functionality and freedom and before that, so did Symbian. (I will admit though that Apple beat Symbian hands-down in the looking pretty department) It's just that the fanboys that pretended iOS was so awesome, and now they're not anymore for some reason.
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kingrob
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Wait for the new iPhone to arrive and see them lose it!
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kingrob
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Until recently, any iFruit product would be number 1 in its class, irrespective of the competition.
So I imagine all the Stuff employees sitting there with their ifruit products and snug in their own little walled garden & apple-made perfect world. Schweet.