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Samsung Galaxy S3 revealed!

its finally revealed to the public!!
4'8 inch 720p Super Amoled HD display
1.4ghz Quad-Core
8mp Camera with LED Flash. 1080p Video Recording.
theres more but ill update later.
here is a link: http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/3/2996780/samsung-galaxy-s-iii-specs-software-pricing
HTC One X or S3? lemme know ur guys thoughts on this!!

Sounds like the US model will be lte.. probably getting the dual core kraits like the One S/X Att model. I have the One S, the only advantage to me would be removable storage of the S3. I prefer smaller screens and the One S form factor is awesome. I think this year's releases from both HTC and Samsung look promising.
I guess the last point or question would be Touchwiz or Sense? I have always prefered Sense if It's not vanilla aosp.
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What an ugly device...I'll pass.
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Dual core for the USA? Really? Sad. I was prepared to make the jump. Oh well. Better luck next time Samsung.

Its quad core for USA isn't it? It'll just use 21 mbps
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g1user101 said:
Its quad core for USA isn't it? It'll just use 21 mbps
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For tmo it might use the exynos, LTE versions might use the S4 because of qualcomm still not working with some manufacturers the do LTE on other SoC.
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Who's going to jump ship?
I'll jump ship when they release a S4 Version if ever.

4.8 on the screen!! hell no!

g1user101 said:
Its quad core for USA isn't it? It'll just use 21 mbps
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That would make me jump ship, but I have seen multiple reports stating it will be dual core for T-mo because t-mo is more concerned with the high speed data.
I guess it is wait and see at this point. We can hope.

The tegra is the only cpu that has issues with LTE from what I've seen. Every other chip should be fine.
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jcbofkc said:
That would make me jump ship, but I have seen multiple reports stating it will be dual core for T-mo because t-mo is more concerned with the high speed data.
I guess it is wait and see at this point. We can hope.
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What does the processor have to do with internet data?

buru898 said:
What does the processor have to do with internet data?
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Take the T-Mobile Galaxy S II for example. The original Exynos processor found in the international Galaxy S II wasn't compatible with the full speed 42mbps HSPA+ that T-Mobile has, so T-Mobile opted for a Snapdragon S3 instead.
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g1user101 said:
HTC One X or S3? lemme know ur guys thoughts on this!!
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G2X
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this a hilarious video I must say, but good at the same time...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KPdmaEsRYg

mt3g said:
this a hilarious video I must say, but goon at the same time...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KPdmaEsRYg
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I didn't realize a phone could have much nature in it. o.o shows what I know.
Pin it to Win it.

I.R.Chevy said:
I didn't realize a phone could have much nature in it. o.o shows what I know.
Pin it to Win it.
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I watched the video the first time with no audio and didn't realize all the nature in it until I listened to the dude talk... after that I thought it was hilarious.
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mt3g said:
I watched the video the first time with no audio and didn't realize all the nature in it until I listened to the dude talk... after that I thought it was hilarious.
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Yeah that Guy is something else lol....
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"Designed for humans"
Who else is it designed for? My Car?

nitrogen618 said:
"Designed for humans"
Who else is it designed for? My Car?
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Transformers phone. XD
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I coulda swore that HSPA+ was receiving 1.4 Quad core and LTE was receiving 1.5 Dual.

SGS3 just released in 28 countries.

Just saw the breaking news on android spin. Although it's not yet released in the United States, it's good to see that Samsung is sticking to their promise of releasing the SGS3 world wide this summer. I'm thinking that the T- Mobile release date in June may actually be true.
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Ya after they **** up everything.
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dave2metz said:
I'm thinking that the T- Mobile release date in June may actually be true.
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June 20, per Tmonews

subzerold said:
Ya after they **** up everything.
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Lol, that's right, after they T-Mobilelize it
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subzerold said:
Ya after they **** up everything.
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Trolololol. I don't mind the bloat as long as I can get rid of it.

aranurea said:
Trolololol. I don't mind the bloat as long as I can get rid of it.
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let's not for get it may have the screen issues because of the processor... it won't have exynos .
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iloveandroid16 said:
let's not for get it may have the screen issues because of the processor... it won't have exynos .
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You mean, the fine ladies and gentlemen at T-Mobile will release a version of the long awaited sgs3 that's TOTALLY different from what Samsung released to the wild?
What if the [email protected]#%!
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lawalty said:
You mean, the fine ladies and gentlemen at T-Mobile will release a version of the long awaited sgs3 that's TOTALLY different from what Samsung released to the wild?
What if the [email protected]#%!
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Every big USA carrier will have it then because no one is getting the exynos pocessor. All lte versions.
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Killbynature said:
Every big USA carrier will have it then because no one is getting the exynos pocessor. All lte versions.
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Personally I'm not getting the g3 because I think it's a rip off but if I were to get one. I would get the international one...
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iloveandroid16 said:
Personally I'm not getting the g3 because I think it a rip off but if I were to get one. I would get the international one...
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Btw... what really did Samsung upgrade????? The camera.......same 8 megapixel as we have... the screen.... um it uses pentile which is horrible for clarity..... the processor... US carriers will get the quadcom s4 which is still duel core... if anyone buys a g3 I think their an idiot... I'm waiting for the iPhone 5 because Sammy has disappointed me.
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S4 krait snapdragon is a15 which has 40% more per core performance than standard a9 in exynos. The gpu in the exynos is better. But the CPU is weaker. Performance will actually be the same now unlike last year Samsung galaxy s2 fiasco. All phones will have vsync on so you will be locked at 60 fps regardless of what processor you have. Development should be unpar with the exynos since the USA will have s4 and international exynos. A15 dual core has the performance slightly Better than quadcore a9. Regardless of benchmarks.
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aranurea said:
trolololol. I don't mind the bloat as long as i can get rid of it.
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so true!! +1 to that.....

Killbynature said:
S4 krait snapdragon is a15 which has 40% more per core performance than standard a9 in exynos. The gpu in the exynos is better. But the CPU is weaker. Performance will actually be the same now unlike last year Samsung galaxy s2 fiasco. All phones will have vsync on so you will be locked at 60 fps regardless of what processor you have. Development should be unpar with the exynos since the USA will have s4 and international exynos. A15 dual core has the performance slightly Better than quadcore a9. Regardless of benchmarks.
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Unless Samsung uses the Exynos 5 dual core. That thing is a beast. I prefer that rather than a quad core Exynos 4.
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iloveandroid16 said:
let's not for get it may have the screen issues because of the processor... it won't have exynos .
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Who said they won't use an Exynos 4 dual core or an Exynos 5 dual core. The late problems were only with the Tegra based processors. Exynos 5 is based off the Tegra but it is vastly different and barely even resembles it.
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aranurea said:
Who said they won't use an Exynos 4 dual core or an Exynos 5 dual core. The late problems were only with the Tegra based processors. Exynos 5 is based off the Tegra but it is vastly different and barely even resembles it.
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No way it can be based of tegra because nvidia is closed source almost everything. Tmobile will have a s4 krait and 2 gigs rams Samsung Canada has confirmed it so has tmonews. The 2 gigs ram and a15 processor. Make the phone a beast.
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Then I call bullsh*t. Why would I buy a barely upgraded phonr.?
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iloveandroid16 said:
Btw... what really did Samsung upgrade????? The camera.......same 8 megapixel as we have... the screen.... um it uses pentile which is horrible for clarity..... the processor... US carriers will get the quadcom s4 which is still duel core... if anyone buys a g3 I think their an idiot... I'm waiting for the iPhone 5 because Sammy has disappointed me.
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that's stupid. tmobile is changing their towers to include the 1900mhz spectrum, just buy the int'l version of the s3, problem solved. Cpu makes a big difference in how clear the screen is/photo quality. I had an Epic 4G Touch with Sprint (has the dual core Exynos) before coming to T-Mobile and it was a lot better than this phone in just about every way, the screen's colors were more vivid, there was less noise in photos, image quality was incredible, battery lasted longer, even images taken with the front facing camera were nicer, response times were faster. Cpu makes a big difference. Have fun with the iPhone, not that anyone cares about how Samsung disappointed you.
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aranurea said:
Who said they won't use an Exynos 4 dual core or an Exynos 5 dual core. The late problems were only with the Tegra based processors. Exynos 5 is based off the Tegra but it is vastly different and barely even resembles it.
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because exynos cpus lack the LTE support that the qualcomm chipsets have.

Does T-Mobile plan to have LTE?
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aranurea said:
Does T-Mobile plan to have LTE?
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Eventually they will.

encrypti0n said:
that's stupid. tmobile is changing their towers to include the 1900mhz spectrum, just buy the int'l version of the s3, problem solved. Cpu makes a big difference in how clear the screen is/photo quality. I had an Epic 4G Touch with Sprint (has the dual core Exynos) before coming to T-Mobile and it was a lot better than this phone in just about every way, the screen's colors were more vivid, there was less noise in photos, image quality was incredible, battery lasted longer, even images taken with the front facing camera were nicer, response times were faster. Cpu makes a big difference. Have fun with the iPhone, not that anyone cares about how Samsung disappointed you.
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because exynos cpus lack the LTE support that the qualcomm chipsets have.
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The difference was no one seems to get this Samsung actually optimized the software around exynos. The Samsung Galaxy S2 with qualcomm processor was ported software. Not as well optimized as the exynos. Samsung was in a rush to get the phone released in the states. Samsung knowing LTE is the big thing in the USA. Will optimize both phones equally now. Especially if the phones are being released so closely towards each other. Even the developers in the Samsung Galaxy s3 forum are saying that the 2 gig krait cpu is the better phone. A9 dual core to a9 quad core is not much of an improvement. Krait actually is and it keeps up with the best with less cores. Until true a15 cores come out.
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So the GS4 wont have an Exynos 5?

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/144778-atom-vs-cortex-a15-vs-krait-vs-tegra-3-which-mobile-cpu-is-the-most-power-efficient
Just been reading this, are we expecting too much from the GS4 to have this chip in it?

slannmage said:
http://www.extremetech.com/computin...-which-mobile-cpu-is-the-most-power-efficient
Just been reading this, are we expecting too much from the GS4 to have this chip in it?
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Samsung does a great job keeping secrets. Tomorrow we will know for sure
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I'm looking forward to the news about the S4 tomorrow. It's only my 2nd chance at an android phone. The S3 is sweet so far, I see it everyday as my gf has the phone.
I think samsung is going to surprise everyone tomorrow or I will just go with the the Note 2 lol
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If it's a snapdragon and an adreno 320 then it's already failed because there are loads of phones like that.
They surely wouldn't advertise the octa chip if it wasn't going in the GS4. However the A7 mixed with the A15 seems like a little bit of a cheat, I bet it uses the A7 95% of the time or the A15 cores are heavily throttled because it looks like they drain battery like mad, especially in a smart phone.

slannmage said:
If it's a snapdragon and an adreno 320 then it's already failed because there are loads of phones like that.
They surely wouldn't advertise the octa chip if it wasn't going in the GS4. However the A7 mixed with the A15 seems like a little bit of a cheat, I bet it uses the A7 95% of the time or the A15 cores are heavily throttled because it looks like they drain battery like mad, especially in a smart phone.
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Hey its a huge step up from my current phone the HTC ThunderBolt. I just don't want to pay more than 200 for it though
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ShapesBlue said:
Hey its a huge step up from my current phone the HTC ThunderBolt. I just don't want to pay more than 200 for it though
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Well With the carriers thinking about removing the subsadised phones that may be cheap coming real soon.

zelendel said:
Well With the carriers thinking about removing the subsadised phones that may be cheap coming real soon.
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I'm hoping so. My upgrade is due late June/July.
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The international version of the S4 will have the 1.6GHz octa-core exynos processor and the US version will have a 1.9GHz quad-core Snapdragon processor
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itzkpanda said:
The international version of the S4 will have the 1.6GHz octa-core exynos processor and the US version will have a 1.9GHz quad-core Snapdragon processor
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No surprise that they will have different processors.
Normally the USA tends to get the lesser or not the best available
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ShapesBlue said:
No surprise that they will have different processors.
Normally the USA tends to get the lesser or not the best available
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Yeah :l
1.9GHz quad isn't bad, but when comparing it to the octa-core, it feels like we're being left out. And i believe the exynos octa-core is supposed to be substantially more battery efficient(?)
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itzkpanda said:
Yeah :l
1.9GHz quad isn't bad, but when comparing it to the octa-core, it feels like we're being left out. And i believe the exynos octa-core is supposed to be substantially more battery efficient(?)
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Haven't done my research on that. Sounds about right
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I'm not gonna bother upgrading, both HTC and Samsung aren't exciting, was just disappointed between them.
Exynos = 3G only
Snapdragon s4 pro = LTE
Only LTE isn't coming out till the end of the year in this region.......... wtf were they thinking?
The HTC One is another no micro sd, no removable battery, ****ty camera, sense mess of a boring phone. People say how good it looks........ looks like any other boring HTC phone to me, just like the GS4 looks like another boring Samsung GS3 variant.

Comparison I9500 and i9505

Hi,
For those who are interested in knowing precisely the difference between the i9500 and the i9505, GSM arena made a very complete review of the differences:
http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s4_i9500_vs_i9505-review-930p3.php
As it turns out... not very different only a few performance differences and the i9505 has a slightly better battery performance, and primarily required due to lack of production capacity of the Octa chip...
Enjoy !

That's old news buddy.
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The oldest news thread in XDA till date...lol

Fail.
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What they miss to mention, and which is probably the most important point is that i9500 Octacore is unusable. I had it replaced 3 times and it still crashes on a regular basis. The 9505 is a completely different phone in comparison.

ldjalal said:
What they miss to mention, and which is probably the most important point is that i9500 Octacore is unusable. I had it replaced 3 times and it still crashes on a regular basis. The 9505 is a completely different phone in comparison.
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I never had mine replaced and it works perfectly, and never crashes.
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Mithrandir007 said:
I never had mine replaced and it works perfectly, and never crashes.
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+1 here

+1 here as well
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According to one review i read, the 9505 quad gets 18hrs talk-time and the 9500 octo gets 11hrs take-time, that is quite a difference.
John.

Tinderbox (UK) said:
According to one review i read, the 9505 quad gets 18hrs talk-time and the 9500 octo gets 11hrs take-time, that is quite a difference.
John.
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Only because it uses the lower powered CPU during talk times.
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Guys I have a question regarding the last line of OP. It said the snapdragon variant was required due to production shortage of S4 Exynos. My question does that mean with the increase in Exynos version production the snapdragon variants will be produced less?
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thekoRngear said:
Guys I have a question regarding the last line of OP. It said the snapdragon variant was required due to production shortage of S4 Exynos. My question does that mean with the increase in Exynos version production the snapdragon variants will be produced less?
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Since you are in XDA, the point is not,which of the 2 versions are more famous but which has better support.And so far we know,that Samsung doesnt help developers to its processors.Also, the ge is for snapdragon edition!

We already have a dedicated thread for Comparison -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2334012

Disturbed™ said:
We already have a dedicated thread for Comparison -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2334012
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Please use the thread in the quote above
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[Poll] I9500 vs I9505 Popularity

Hey guys, I wanted to compare the amount of people who have the I9500 Exynos Model to the amount of people who own the I9505 Snapdragon model to see which is more popular on xda.
1-------I9500
2-------I9505

im sure you can tell by comparing how many threads are in each sub forum. i would say i9505

lookitzjohnny said:
im sure you can tell by comparing how many threads are in each sub forum. i would say i9505
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Thats what im thinking and thats just sad...seriously samsung couldn't make one model noooo they had to make 500 thousand models.....now not everyone can try the same things on their phones and it would be more "fragmented"..

You don't need the poll, it's a known fact Samsung have manufacturered more I9505 devices than I9500s, and that will be reflected on this forum.
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Pagnell said:
You don't need the poll, it's a known fact Samsung have manufacturered more I9505 devices than I9500s, and that will be reflected on this forum.
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I dont think it wil bother anyone.....and im trying to compare it here on the xda because the device that is more popular will probably be the one with more roms, mods, tweaks, etc,

Yes just look here in the forums. The i9505 is much more popular and has a lot more ROMs and mods.
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Obagleyfreer said:
Yes just look here in the forums. The i9505 is much more popular and has a lot more ROMs and mods.
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Thats just GREAT lol does anyone know how hard it is to port a rom especially between these two devices since they are similar cant the rome be made for both at the same time?

I own the i9505. I guess this model is more common in usa and europe where you have support of 4g. In the rest of the world i9500 is much more in use

i9500 is bit faster in processing but i will go for i9505
I have i9505 and its super stable!!! and better gaming

arnob_xperia said:
i9500 is bit faster in processing but i will go for i9505
I have i9505 and its super stable!!! and better gaming
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im pretty sure its not better in gaming

nabil alami said:
im pretty sure its not better in gaming
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Run 3D Mark and we'll compare again....

Easton999GS said:
Run 3D Mark and we'll compare again....
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comparison isnt about the numbers but about the actual result but anyways non of them are laggy so...

nabil alami said:
im pretty sure its not better in gaming
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Qualcomm devices (be them Samsung or otherwise) outnumber Exynos by a large margin. Game compatibility is inevitably better as a result.
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nabil alami said:
Thats just GREAT lol does anyone know how hard it is to port a rom especially between these two devices since they are similar cant the rome be made for both at the same time?
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Both phones have completely different chipsets and the sources from samsung for exynos are crap.

Does anyone know if the 0/ folder bug was fixed in the latest cwm v1.0.0 version?

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Obviously the device with LTE wins no matter what chipset. Carriers seems to want it why shouldn't you? Like you have a choice
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chickentuna said:
Obviously the device with LTE wins no matter what chipset. Carriers seems to want it why shouldn't you? Like you have a choice
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Well actually i have the i9500

Really? A poll between these two?

titus1 said:
Really? A poll between these two?
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ya...problem?