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Don't buy them if they are not all over TV, galaxy s was everywhere the s2.on the other hand, well, its not so popular
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I dont really care if it's not that popular.. its a bad ass phone.. I don't think theres any other phone I'd rather have

ummm.... what?
are you saying that there is no ads on the SGS II? Have you seen the tv ad making fun of the iphone?

iwasblown said:
Don't buy them if they are not all over TV, galaxy s was everywhere the s2.on the other hand, well, its not so popular
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Ummm you know its been on back order from tmobile customer loyalty since early December right? That usually means its kinda popular.

Samsung has been outselling apple... I doh?
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You must not watch TV. All three versions are all over the TV. Maybe you live under a rock!
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This is terrible advice. Don't buy something that isn't popular? Really? If I had gone by that rule I'd never have bought my HD2 or my Evo View & I'd have missed out on two excellent devices. Just because something is popular doesn't mean it's the best.
Here's some advice that everyone can follow- do your research, go to the store & play with different devices, and buy whichever one you like best.

iwasblown said:
Don't buy them if they are not all over TV, galaxy s was everywhere the s2.on the other hand, well, its not so popular
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excuse us for not following popular trend and buying into apple's half assed over priced crap
we arent as "creative" as you applers because not all of us use the exact same phone
thanks.

A while ago Engadget had an article on the best smartphones for the four major carriers and used this for the cover. It's definitely popular..
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Hd2 was one of the most popular phone at T-Mobile and it SUCKED for the AVERAGE CONSUMERS.
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iwasblown said:
Don't buy them if they are not all over TV, galaxy s was everywhere the s2.on the other hand, well, its not so popular
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Well, I don't think thats a good advice, my advice is before buying a phone like the galaxy s2, look for issues about it in the internet and try it out before you buy it.
I regret saying that Engadget's article about the screen issue wasn't that noticeable and they had it on a really dark place etc. Now i'm noticing that every darn day.

myunitisz said:
Hd2 was one of the most popular phone at T-Mobile and it SUCKED for the AVERAGE CONSUMERS.
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Cause the average consumer is dumber than dog ****.

Windows mobile is a slow and laggy phones. Phones should be released so they don't need to be hacked. It should be because the owner wants to. That's my opinion on it
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You know this is one of the most selling phones in the world right.... Right? Samsung has put millions in marketing and made a version for every major American carrier and is attempting to sell more than the original.... You are aware of that right? So you started this thread to be flamed.... Correct?
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This guy hasn't responded to a single post in his own thread. Obviously just trying to light a fire in the forum. CLOSE!

This has to be the best phone I've ever owned. I just upgraded from the sensation and it doesn't compare this phone is a monster. Don't need to root either after the update
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I got gotten damn it lol
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If you have not purchased one yet. I would suggest the GNEX. It has exceeded my expectations and ICS OS is pretty nice.

I would agree Nexii are amazing devices. But when I choose a device I take a look here on XDA, see what the development community is like and then i will get it

Samsung's Continued Lazyness isnt going to stop

http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/21/samsung-galaxy-tab-7-7-review-verizon-wireless-lte/
Why roll a new tab out with Honeycomb?
Why????
There Software Dev Team is f***ing lazy

I seriously doubt a multi-million dollar organization is "lazy".
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You were raped by a Samsung Rep as a child weren't you
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I seriously doubt a multi-million dollar organization is "lazy".
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Just look at freaking apple, they rather sue somebody than try to be innovate !

netnerd said:
Just look at freaking apple, they rather sue somebody than try to be innovate !
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Mhx believes apple is the answer to androids problems
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nrm5110 said:
Mhx believes apple is the answer to androids problems
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oooooo no he didnt

Seems like Sammy is just flooding the market with everything they can. Must be some sort of corporate strategy to it rather than anything to do with the devs.
Maybe saving ICS for their most expensive devices to try to help them sell more?
I'm sure there is an ICS build for that tablet waiting and ready in the dev dept, just as I'm sure there is a stable, usable ics build for the Skyrocket that they're holding out on in the hopes of selling more Galaxy Nexuses...

mhx said:
http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/21/samsung-galaxy-tab-7-7-review-verizon-wireless-lte/
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Anyone else notice that they have this brand new tab face down on the cement?

droid512 said:
oooooo no he didnt
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Ooooooooh yes I did lol
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netnerd said:
Just look at freaking apple, they rather sue somebody than try to be innovate !
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Is this a joke? A business runs on a lot more than innovation. Pay attention in school.
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There are other manufacturers like Motorola who are worse, Samsung is one of the best carriers in the world. If you don't like them you don't have to buy their products
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Pete1612 said:
There are other manufacturers like Motorola who are worse, Samsung is one of the best carriers in the world. If you don't like them you don't have to buy their products
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Are you a George Bush follower? Just wondering. With the if your not with us, get out mentality.
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Are you a George Bush follower? Just wondering. With the if your not with us, get out mentality.
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I think he is just saying quit crying like a little girl to him
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aaronv89 said:
Is this a joke? A business runs on a lot more than innovation. Pay attention in school.
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Yep money lawyers and awesome theifs LOL no your right but in an industry like this innovation is key one must change and adapt to needs of the time apples general theme thus far has been to slow down competition instead of adapting they have battled and wasted tons of money and with little to no success they are sweating and know they have to do something soon.
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nrm5110 said:
Yep money lawyers and awesome theifs LOL no your right but in an industry like this innovation is key one must change and adapt to needs of the time apples general theme thus far has been to slow down competition instead of adapting they have battled and wasted tons of money and with little to no success they are sweating and know they have to do something soon.
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Apple is the considered the top brand in the WORLD. There are literally riots to get hands on an iPhone. They just released the new iPad.... People are literally sitting in their homes with a wad of cash waiting for Apples next product to just throw their hundreds or even thousands of dollars at them.
What I'm trying to say is that Apple has achieved superior brand recognition. If you understand the life cycle of an industry then you will understand that Apple isn't going anywhere for a while. They aren't sweating, they basically created the smartphone, apps, and tablet industries. So please don't tell me they aren't innovative.
The truth is that android will never be as popular as iOS. Maybe someday sales will surpass Apple but there isn't one company that is going to be as powerful as Apple when it comes to phones or tablets.
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aaronv89 said:
The truth is that android will never be as popular as iOS. Maybe someday sales will surpass Apple but there isn't one company that is going to be as powerful as Apple when it comes to phones or tablets.
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then why are you here?? go play with your apple!

aaronv89 said:
Apple is the considered the top brand in the WORLD. There are literally riots to get hands on an iPhone. They just released the new iPad.... People are literally sitting in their homes with a wad of cash waiting for Apples next product to just throw their hundreds or even thousands of dollars at them.
What I'm trying to say is that Apple has achieved superior brand recognition. If you understand the life cycle of an industry then you will understand that Apple isn't going anywhere for a while. They aren't sweating, they basically created the smartphone, apps, and tablet industries. So please don't tell me they aren't innovative.
The truth is that android will never be as popular as iOS. Maybe someday sales will surpass Apple but there isn't one company that is going to be as powerful as Apple when it comes to phones or tablets.
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Wrong. Apple didn't invent any of those markets, they only made them appeam to the masses. The reason apple is so successfully is that there market strategy has always been getting regular people to buy tech that otherwise only people on this forum would use.
Brand loyalty and a lack of innovation will only get u so far. People will sooner or later catch on to the fact that the price premium for specs that are always months behind current competitive flagships of other companies.
I honestly believe that yes, people will continue to use iphones, but now that their is a genuine mature competitor, the markrt will change.

Actually sale of android devices have surpassed apple at times and they innovate nothing anymore they lead on a name alone and people to afraid or stuck in their own ways to try something new I pad 3 bigger resolution and better graphics processing that's your third Gen update cool.... please
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to try something new I pad 3 bigger resolution and better graphics processing that's your third Gen update cool.... please
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you forgot the HEAT! didnt people complaing about ipad3 overheating?

Its minimal and manageable I don't see that as a problem
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GS3 ROM for SGS2 Skyrocket?

Not sure if anyone has brought this up but I would be interested in seeing a full port of the GS3 TO THE SKYROCKET! I don't know of any deb's working on this but it would be phenomenal! I being kinda new would be more than willing to test and or assist I am getting pretty familiar with how to customize stuff bUT being taught
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I'm working on it on and off as is remf4i
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Um... accidently hit submit but in being taught I think I could help! Also I have been thinking of buying a GS3 but in looking at the specs all that seems different is a slightly larger higher Res screen an s4 processor and correct me of I am wrong but 2gigs of memory? Doesn't seem like enough to jump ship!
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I meant dev's not deb's!
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The latest SkyICS rom takes many parts of the GS3 including the new Touchwiz, S-Voice, and the 50GB Dropbox bonus. As mentioned, others are working on it as well.

So just curious any of you feel jumping to a GS3 is worth it?
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I'm not jumping ship I know we can run anything it can
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I'm not jumping ship I know we can run anything it can
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Agreed
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I was recently trying really hard to jump ship, is it really not worth it? I know the skyrocket is the best sgs2 there is, and it's better than the nexus or any iPhone
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It pisses me off how all Samsung really did was update apps. Wow. And I agree completely that we can run whatever it can, because it is still just going to be a dual core processor too lol its really kinda sad how little they added to it...when the note gets ics its going to have better specs and the gs3 is just going to have more ram lol
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It would be really interesting to see if Samsung/AT&T will include some of the features of the SGS3 in the official ICS for our Skyrockets. Time will tell, may even show up in the next ICS leak !!!
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I was practically trying to sell my kidney to get one, but after staring at it for a while I'm really not that interested anymore. Will be first in line for next nexus phone. And I'm absolutely grabbing that nexus tablet end of this month if it's not just a rumor. I hate waiting but come september supposing apple is on time with its new lineup, I'll be getting a free iPhone 4, 4s, and iPad from my family who is upgrading so I'll have plenty to sell/trade then.
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Sold s3 for a iphone 4s let me tell it freaking slower witn all that specs it cant beat my 3gs and s voice is a joke...
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fwdkiller said:
Sold s3 for a iphone 4s let me tell it freaking slower witn all that specs it cant beat my 3gs and s voice is a joke...
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Oh yea... At least the S3 has spell check.

fwdkiller said:
Sold s3 for a iphone 4s let me tell it freaking slower witn all that specs it cant beat my 3gs and s voice is a joke...
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Please please get off this forum your all over bashing anything android if you like apple so much go away
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fwdkiller said:
Sold s3 for a iphone 4s let me tell it freaking slower witn all that specs it cant beat my 3gs and s voice is a joke...
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Steady trollin'

Not trolling, i had s2 for 2 yrs it's the slowest phone ever made kept crashing and the new s3 isn't any different android needs alot of work custom roms doesnt fix half the problems u cant fix something that's meant to be broken..
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Oh and i dont get me started on the battery life either it makes my 4s look very good even with 5 batteries for it....
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fwdkiller said:
Sold s3 for a iphone 4s let me tell it freaking slower witn all that specs it cant beat my 3gs and s voice is a joke...
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I have a question.... Why are you on this forum exactly? You are using an iPhone to post to XDA, you're signature gave you away. If you look closely, this is technically an Android forum where we are currently discussing importing one ROM to another phone it has nothing to do with an iPhone whatsoever. Wait I thought you couldn't add custom roms to iPhones? Oh wait, you can't! Look man, even if you have multiple phones, apple or Android, you don't have to come on here and talk crap. Many developers, invest there time to fix things that are broken they don't get a check for this unless is through donations. Stop talking crap bro it doesn't look good on you.

+1 if you're just here to brag about your "superior iphone" and bash android you should just leave

Can't we just get along?

Took this picture at work, and thought wouldn't it be nice.
On a side note, joined XDA 2 years ago today. Went from DX to Bionic to S3.

depends how you look at it.
Fresh on the scene: Apple+FB alliance against Google.
A part of me wonders what these companies could achieve if they were all butt buddies and teamed up...what they could achieve together....and a part of me has to accept that there must always be casualties in creative-destructions
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As much as I respect the things Apple has accomplished as a company, I sincerely dislike the way they handle business. They technically do work with Samsung right?
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This was funny. Thanks
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sams27 said:
As much as I respect the things Apple has accomplished as a company, I sincerely dislike the way they handle business. They technically do work with Samsung right?
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The nature of their relationship is like... "frienemies"
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Samsung makes like 10% of their sales to Apple, so its a close relationship otherwise. Although if they grew a pair, now would be a time to "complicate" the relationship because the iPhone 5 would be quite delayed, killing their sales, and some of the fan base who are looking to upgrade soon.

ngocdao said:
The nature of their relationship is like... "frienemies"
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I had a "frienemy" once. I later beat the crap out of him.
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sams27 said:
I had a "frienemy" once. I later beat the crap out of him.
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So you're Apple
He was Samsung
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ngocdao said:
So you're Apple
He was Samsung
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I suppose. I can't help but to feel offended by your comment sir lol.

sams27 said:
I suppose. I can't help but to feel offended by your comment sir lol.
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Oh it wasn't a comment. I thought you were giving me a puzzle to solve. lol
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hollywoodo said:
Samsung makes like 10% of their sales to Apple, so its a close relationship otherwise. Although if they grew a pair, now would be a time to "complicate" the relationship because the iPhone 5 would be quite delayed, killing their sales, and some of the fan base who are looking to upgrade soon.
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10% wouldn't make a huge deal to Samsung, the best thing they could do now is hit Apple where it hurts the most: cripple their iPhone 5 production without much prior notice by not selling them parts, and we'll see who the ***** is then. I wish one of Apple's supply companies would put them in their place so they can see how dependent they are on other companies even though they keep sueing them. Apple doesn't make anything on their own as far as hardware like Sammy or Moto do, so they wouldn't get very far if others started treating them the way Apple treats others, then they'd figure out how dependent they really are. Someone's knocking on the door, I better go it's probably the Apple police looking for people that don't blindly think they're great, lol.

newuser134 said:
10% wouldn't make a huge deal to Samsung
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Tell that to their shareholders also a contract is a contract. Would u welcome another lawsuit? One I would think could easily won?
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Tell that to the thousands of factory worker who albeit already live under the poverty level, that they no longer have a source of income to support their families.
10% is big bro, and HUGE for a company like Samsung...who reported 40 Billion revenue in Q1....
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Problem is they have a contract with Apple, and unless they are willing to break that contract and without a doubt get sued with absolutely no hope of winning, they won't do that.

ha-ha that's just not going to happen.

iPhone 5

Man does the new phone look boring and same old, same old.

Now to see how far HTC pushes the ITC...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/10/apple_htc_patent/
For those that don't want to click, HTC is seeking to ban the iPhone 5 in the US due to the fact that HTC owns 2 patents relating to connecting a device to a 4G or LTE network.
Realistically, they'll probably just use it as leverage against Apple for something else rather than have an all out ban on importing the devices; but it will be interesting to see the result.
For the phone specifically...I agree *yawn*. 4 inch screen, big deal. 5 icon rows, whoopie... Absolutely nothing new in that department.

Sammy is also gonna strike at apple with its 12% of the world's LTE patents
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liquidzoo said:
Now to see how far HTC pushes the ITC...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/10/apple_htc_patent/
For those that don't want to click, HTC is seeking to ban the iPhone 5 in the US due to the fact that HTC owns 2 patents relating to connecting a device to a 4G or LTE network.
Realistically, they'll probably just use it as leverage against Apple for something else rather than have an all out ban on importing the devices; but it will be interesting to see the result.
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I hope HTC/Samsung sue the heck out of Apple for how they've been acting.
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For the phone specifically...I agree *yawn*. 4 inch screen, big deal. 5 icon rows, whoopie... Absolutely nothing new in that department.
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I know, oh god. It's basically a 4 inch iPhone 4s.

It's a piece of crap. Iphone 5 can't even be compared to Skyrocket, no way it would match up with S3 or Note 2 :laugh: Only Ifans would consider this icrap as an "evolution".

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...5 icon rows, whoopie... Absolutely nothing new in that department.
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Whoopie? Really? 5 icon rows may seem like no big thing to you but I'll have you know that Apple has a patent on the number "5". So nobody has the right to use 5's without Apple's permission.
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Locoman_ said:
Whoopie? Really? 5 icon rows may seem like no big thing to you but I'll have you know that Apple has a patent on the number "5". So nobody has the right to use 5's without Apple's permission.
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:laugh:

You guys are cracking me up. Like it's actually a bad device or something.

aycockonxion said:
You guys are cracking me up. Like it's actually a bad device or something.
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It is, it's just an iPhone 4s xl with lte
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In b4 thread gets locked.
I would have to think apple has taken into account the lte threats and has side stepped the patents in a sneaky way.
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aycockonxion said:
You guys are cracking me up. Like it's actually a bad device or something.
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How is it a good device is there something innovative or revolutionary
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orlandoxpolice said:
In b4 thread gets locked.
I would have to think apple has taken into account the lte threats and has side stepped the patents in a sneaky way.
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According to the articles I've read about the HTC case the only thing they've done (for that specific case) is ask the judge to invalidate the patents...

Not much changed since 4S, but people will buy it anyway.

Kenneth.Torres said:
It is, it's just an iPhone 4s xl with lte
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And an A6 processor. And a much better camera. And a different design. And a different connector.
And so.. how is it just like an iPhone 4S? Aside from the little silver picture of an apple on the back..
Seriously you guys.

That's it though, its faster and and has a better camera. That is expected from new phones. Nothing is exciting about the new iPhone.
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Skillfulshoe said:
That's it though, its faster and and has a better camera. That is expected from new phones. Nothing is exciting about the new iPhone.
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And the S3 just blew everyone's socks off.

aycockonxion said:
And the S3 just blew everyone's socks off.
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I was left depressed by the s3 actually I want MOAR POWAH
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orlandoxpolice said:
In b4 thread gets locked.
I would have to think apple has taken into account the lte threats and has side stepped the patents in a sneaky way.
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And the S3 just blew everyone's socks off.
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Agreed, the S3 was the same. nothing exciting

I was a little late to the smart phone era. The main thing that got me to the iPhone a while back was the fact that you could jailbreak it. At the time, in my opinion, and personal knowledge, Apple iOS had the apps and the features that I wanted in my professional and personal life. Since then, the manufactures, developers and community like this forum have taken the high end android based phones far pass anything Apple could put out. I want to break my phone so I can get a SIII or something just to keep testing out all the awesome things coming out. Keep up the work guys!

Illnevertell said:
I was left depressed by the s3 actually I want MOAR POWAH
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I'm givin' her all she's got, Cap'n!
But seriously, when (if?) there's an S4, it really does need to be a significant upgrade from the S3. Why spend all that money for a new phone just to get a little bit more RAM, a little bit faster processor, and a few other very minute improvements? I was ready to sell my SR to get an S3 just before they announced it, but I decided not too because it was so underwhelming. Based on today and *trying to be a reasonable individual* I think that, compared to the jump from SR to S3, the iPhone 4S to iPhone 5 is a pretty good upgrade.