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Samsung Galaxy S III Jelly Bean review: Bread and butter

1 October 2012 | Read the review | Post your comment
Samsung Galaxy S III Jelly Bean review: Bread and butter - read the full textThe official rollout of the Galaxy S III Jelly Bean update has finally started. In the next few weeks it should land on just about every Exynos-powered S III unit out there, letting it have a taste of the latest and greatest from Android...

 

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I manually updated my s3 to jelly bean yesterday as I couldn't be bothered waiting for the ota update... this thing is a beast now...so much faster and smoother, battery life much improved , more personalizations Widgets etc... seems like it's free'd up about 250mb of ram also..
People saying ics owned jb in benchmark do not have a clue... geekbench went from already being the highest (1855)

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  • 2012-10-02 04:06
  • Bqv0

When will jb come here in PH?

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  • 2012-10-02 03:40
  • th9m

Good for Androids. UI looks ok to me.

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  • 2012-10-02 03:17
  • sy95

> In reply to Evil @ 2012-10-01 21:35 from KIdn - click to readuhum yeah, oh and I heard that iPhone 5 has THE best map in the world, soooo much better than the google map, and that 4 inch screen? oh wow who would've thought of that, what an innovation huh?!?

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  • 2012-10-02 03:03
  • vq9}

"Now it will be able to extend its advantage over its quad-core rivals, which are yet to receive the latest version of Android." ....
"The Galaxy S III is now the only Android flagship smartphone to have the Jelly Bean goodies and time works in its favor."

Sad to say, GSMA only consider hTC, LG, Motorala and Sony as S3's rivals. If they consider Xiaomi Mi-Two as rival of S3 then those statements above should be edited. Xiaomi Mi-Two packs quad-core S4 pro and runs Jelly Bean out of the box.

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  • 2012-10-02 02:25
  • v0qy

wtf is this.. ics seems better than jb? how come the phone is downgrading

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  • 2012-10-02 01:50
  • IkYQ

Gsmarena, where is Note2 review? I wanr it so bad...

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  • 2012-10-02 01:43
  • 2IKL

Project [tryhidelag] butter seems to have bloated it.
slower in benchmarks vs ICS
Now That's got to suck.

LOL

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  • 2012-10-02 01:30
  • PZUH

Too bad that we see a lot of "just like IOS6" concerning Blocking Mode.

You could have said instead : just like "many of these auto-profiles apps from Google Play market" (Phoneweaver / Settings Profiles / etc..), that i have been using for almost 2 years now.

I know it's a review site but that shows some missing knowledge about Android platform and hence all those references about IOS and its so large/ questionable catalog.

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  • 2012-10-02 01:05
  • m86k

> In reply to Anonymous @ 2012-10-01 23:42 from v0Xt - click to readIt is freaking less customisable duh

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  • 2012-10-02 00:47
  • pJUn

Ok. Jelly bean it is for my gs3 then. Gunna compare this to my future xiaomi mi2 and lumia 920. Wanted and oppo find5 but i think 5" is pushing it... Maybe next year. My girlfriend is mad cuz I wont buy her the iphone5. Lol my money my decision. Hahahaha

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  • 2012-10-02 00:13
  • jxXT

the best phone got even better .those who have it enjoy it,those who don't just go get one .

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  • 2012-10-01 23:59
  • 3pRD

> In reply to Evil @ 2012-10-01 21:35 from KIdn - click to readtrue. ios6 is much better imho, lots of new features and zero disadvantages.

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  • 2012-10-01 23:42
  • v0Xt

I think you are right when you say "you just get to enjoy the novelties".
There is no real new software. It is all to do with the speed of an experience.
This suggests Android is peaking in terms of real innovation, and whilst I have a Note 1 which is a great camera and good for one on one presentations, and discounting the odd web browsing, there is nothing in Android unless you are a gaming freak.
There is too much emphasis of synthetic benchmarks or so called customisation but no real spectacular software developments.
Come on Google. You are getting boring.

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  • 2012-10-01 23:40
  • y$gT

ICS SGS3 owned JB SGS3 in benchmark results! and JB GNexus owned both in benchmark results! LOL

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  • 2012-10-01 23:39
  • fsf7

> In reply to moe. @ 2012-10-01 22:45 from fXC5 - click to readThat explains that 25 mb update i got todat however 4.1 still uhavailable in my reagion

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  • 2012-10-01 23:14
  • fqkS

Eagerly wating for my SG II :)

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  • 2012-10-01 23:12
  • m{Aa

There is a Polaris office v.4 already available & compatible with Jelly Bean 4.1.

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  • 2012-10-01 22:45
  • fXC5

> In reply to Blankman @ 2012-10-01 20:21 from nGxH - click to readGood point mate, GS2 is the REAL test

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  • 2012-10-01 22:23
  • 0ZqS

> In reply to BananaMan @ 2012-10-01 21:59 from s3Jc - click to readTrue that. Gaming/graphics performance will be a tad worse. However, it's mainly due to Project Butter, which will make the perceived smoothness in everything else better. The new features alone are a worthy reason to upgrade. Hope an Office documents viewer is coming soon enough.

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  • 2012-10-01 22:20
  • N9xA
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