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ETisME
12265 Posts
On April 23 2012 15:48 Caryc wrote: phone noob : does quad core do anything for a mobile phone? =o don't know about this quad core but the nvidia quad core has better battery performance and also processing videos and overall performance improvement | ||
Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51449 Posts
On April 23 2012 16:55 ETisME wrote: don't know about this quad core but the nvidia quad core has better battery performance and also processing videos and overall performance improvement My mate was learning about this in his uni course and was lol'n when i said that the Samsung S3 has quad core, he said he was taught that a phone can ever only possibly use 1core at a time to process due to it being a phone and the capabilities. | ||
disciple
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sharky246
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Doraemon
Australia14949 Posts
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Womwomwom
5930 Posts
On April 23 2012 17:14 sharky246 wrote: isn't s3 the galaxy nexus? since its the sucessor to s2 No. Galaxy Nexus is the actual flagship Android phone that is intended to give you the pure Android experience. The Galaxy S3 is Samsung's spin on Android. | ||
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EngrishTeacher
Canada1109 Posts
Count me the fuck in. | ||
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disciple
9070 Posts
On April 23 2012 14:54 zatic wrote: I just hope it won't really be 4.8" wide. That is too freaking huge for a phone. It depends what they do with the body imo. The One x is perfectly fine and its of similar size. | ||
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Silentness
United States2821 Posts
Does watching Starcraft streams take up a lot of bandwidth on phones? I tried on my wifes phone but streams were prety laggy. | ||
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Mobius_1
United Kingdom2763 Posts
Will have difficulties trying to justify buying it after only having bought SGS2 for like 6 months though, but I'm pretty sure I'll find a way eventually. | ||
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sharky246
1197 Posts
On April 23 2012 17:18 Womwomwom wrote: No. Galaxy Nexus is the actual flagship Android phone that is intended to give you the pure Android experience. The Galaxy S3 is Samsung's spin on Android. what do you mean by actual flagship android phone? And what do you mean by pure experience?spin on android? | ||
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DystopiaX
United States16236 Posts
On April 23 2012 17:30 sharky246 wrote: what do you mean by actual flagship android phone? And what do you mean by pure experience?spin on android? Every software generation or so Google chooses a primary Android handset manufacturer to make a "nexus" phone, that is meant to be the flagship phone (much as Halo is a flagship franchise for the xbox and Metal Gear is a flagship franchise for the Playstation). Unlike most other Android phones, it runs the "stock" android experience- no custom UI or widgets or anything (Touchwiz by Samsung, HTC sense by HTC, etc.)- it just runs stock Android- Ice Cream Sandwich, what have you. Google may have some hand in the hardware (specifying screen size, processor speed, what have you) to indicate what they believe is the best/standard experience for that generation of hardware, not sure. Google will also make sure that it gets the latest software updates when they release it. Google rotates between the primary Android phone manufacturers so as not to play favorites- or so they say. HTC did the first one, the Nexus 1, but Samsung did both the 2nd gen Nexus S and the Galaxy Nexus. The Galaxy S3 is Samsung's spin on Android in the sense that it uses Android as an OS but also has Touchwiz as a user interface on top of it. When a new software update comes out (Ice Cream Sandwich over Gingerbread or whatever), it may not come out on release because Samsung needs to make sure the latest version of TouchWiz jives with it and all that. | ||
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m00nchile
Slovenia240 Posts
On April 23 2012 16:57 Pandemona wrote: My mate was learning about this in his uni course and was lol'n when i said that the Samsung S3 has quad core, he said he was taught that a phone can ever only possibly use 1core at a time to process due to it being a phone and the capabilities. Ok, if you don't know what you're talking about, then don't. Core utilization has nothing to do with being a phone, a tablet or a desktop. It has all to do with programming, if the OS or an app is programmed to utilize more than 1 core then it will, phone or no. | ||
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ETisME
12265 Posts
On April 23 2012 16:57 Pandemona wrote: My mate was learning about this in his uni course and was lol'n when i said that the Samsung S3 has quad core, he said he was taught that a phone can ever only possibly use 1core at a time to process due to it being a phone and the capabilities. that's not true lol | ||
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Womwomwom
5930 Posts
The Galaxy S3 will be Samsung's twist on Android. They take Android, design a phone around it, and put a skin ontop of the Android GUI (TouchWiz). Because Samsung only makes money from hardware, don't expect to get any timely software updates. On April 23 2012 17:37 DystopiaX wrote: Google rotates between the primary Android phone manufacturers so as not to play favorites- or so they say. HTC did the first one, the Nexus 1, but Samsung did both the 2nd gen Nexus S and the Galaxy Nexus. Google makes the manufacturers bid over the job. Then they can essentially do whatever they want while designing the phone...or at least Google's input is seems to be relatively minimal. They didn't seem to mind HTC shoving a HTC Desire into a Nexus One casing. Samsung decided to do some pretty neat design work with the Nexus S and Galaxy Nexus but both times Google didn't pick up on the same annoying flaw that is input loss. On April 23 2012 17:48 Mobius_1 wrote: But if you are able and willing to get your hands dirty, so to speak, you can put custom ROMs on it and it will be so much better than whatever else. The SGS2 has a very good community around it because it is such an accomplished phone, which in turn gives it better community-sourced Android variants out there, hopefully the SGS3 will be as successful and spawn a lively following of developers. This shouldn't be a requirement to make TouchWiz, Sense, or Motoblur not be the sluggish piece of shit it is. The serious lack of balls Google has with controlling Android manufacturers and developers is the one thing that really bothers me. You can point at the great open source community but most of these problems shouldn't be problems in the first place. | ||
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Mobius_1
United Kingdom2763 Posts
On April 23 2012 17:40 Womwomwom wrote: Galaxy Nexus is developed with Google. It has the stock Android GUI without any of the bullshit software manufacturers put ontop. The Nexus phones are generally not perfect, with most of the flaws this time being a result of Samsung (linear input loss AGAIN, initial volume bug, two different software versions in the market) but the software is generally rock solid. You should also actually get updates for the phone since Google has a vested interest in making the Nexus lineup look good. The Galaxy S3 will be Samsung's twist on Android. They take Android, design a phone around it, and put a skin ontop of the Android GUI (TouchWiz). Because Samsung only makes money from hardware, don't expect to get any timely software updates. But if you are able and willing to get your hands dirty, so to speak, you can put custom ROMs on it and it will be so much better than whatever else. The SGS2 has a very good community around it because it is such an accomplished phone, which in turn gives it better community-sourced Android variants out there, hopefully the SGS3 will be as successful and spawn a lively following of developers. | ||
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Ben...
Canada3485 Posts
On April 23 2012 17:30 sharky246 wrote: The Galaxy Nexus is a "Nexus" branded phone, that means (for the most part) it has no manufacturer specific additions like skins or applications, just plain Android. For example, Samsung phones like the Galaxy S and Galaxy S2 have Samsung specific applications that cannot be removed without root access to the phone, and some of these apps are worse than their stock Android alternatives. Phones also can have tie-ins like Beats music and garbage like that. The Galaxy Nexus has none of that. The Nexus phones receive the fastest OS updates of any Android phone because it is what Google tests Android on. By pure experience he means your experience with Android will not be changed (usually for the worse) by manufacturer or carrier added stuff to the phone. Some people don't mind all the carrier/manufacturer added stuff, I personally hate all of that stuff and will now only buy Nexus devices, even if it has to be at a premium.what do you mean by actual flagship android phone? And what do you mean by pure experience?spin on android? | ||
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Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51449 Posts
On April 23 2012 17:38 m00nchile wrote: Ok, if you don't know what you're talking about, then don't. Core utilization has nothing to do with being a phone, a tablet or a desktop. It has all to do with programming, if the OS or an app is programmed to utilize more than 1 core then it will, phone or no. Guess i miss interperated what he said, but what is right is that Quad-Core and Dual-Core are pretty wasteful in mobile phones. Mr Nokia man backs up the thesis. http://crave.cnet.co.uk/mobiles/quad-core-phones-just-waste-your-battery-says-nokia-50007625/ | ||
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Womwomwom
5930 Posts
Its also why Apple didn't bother with a quad core for the iPad 3. Its already buttery smooth doing mundane stuff so why not cram the largest GPU into your SOC design so its good at playing games. Christ alive, Windows doesn't even need a quad core to run smoothly so why does a smartphone need one? I thought we'd finally get away from these numeric spec pissing games in the desktop sector but it seems its just moved to the mobile phone sector. | ||
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m00nchile
Slovenia240 Posts
On April 23 2012 17:51 Pandemona wrote: Guess i miss interperated what he said, but what is right is that Quad-Core and Dual-Core are pretty wasteful in mobile phones. Mr Nokia man backs up the thesis. http://crave.cnet.co.uk/mobiles/quad-core-phones-just-waste-your-battery-says-nokia-50007625/ This just seems like Nokia is butthurt, cause it's not a leading producer anymore. With good design (cpu throttling, shutting down cores while not under load/idle) battery life isn't even a question, it could get slightly worse, but the performance gains are immense. It all comes down to what you want to use your phone for. | ||
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