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Title: Review: Samsung Galaxy S III
Post by: Simon on June 04, 2012, 13:26
Samsung’s place at the smartphone industy’s top table is well earned. Its last two flagship handsets have been exemplary, and it has slowly but surely built up a fanbase only Apple can claim to rival.

The Samsung Galaxy S III, as the firm’s biggest launch yet, has a lot to live up to, and this is one of those rare devices that actually lives up to the hype.

The Galaxy S III ups the ante in a number of significant areas, none more so than its display. It’s 4.8in in size, up half an inch from the 4.3in of the Samsung Galaxy S II, it matches our current A-List champion (the HTC One X) pixel for pixel with an HD resolution of 720 x 1,280, and our first impressions are that it’s breathtakingly gorgeous.

Read more: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/smartphones/374950/samsung-galaxy-s-iii
Title: Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S III
Post by: Rik on June 04, 2012, 13:36
You're drooling again.  ;D
Title: Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S III
Post by: Simon on June 04, 2012, 13:43
:letch:
Title: Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S III
Post by: Clive on June 04, 2012, 14:33
Calm down dear!   :laugh:
Title: Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S III
Post by: sam on June 04, 2012, 23:36
Sounds good but I really don't see the point with this constant upgrading. This phone won't really be that game changer they want. It's an incremental upgrade really.
Title: Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S III
Post by: Simon on June 05, 2012, 00:03
Indeed.  I think I've invested too much in Apple to switch now anyway. 
Title: Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S III
Post by: Rik on June 05, 2012, 05:51
I agree with you, once you buy into Apple, it makes no sense to change, the cost is prohibitive.
Title: Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S III
Post by: TR on June 05, 2012, 09:38
My galaxy s2 is brilliant and takes outstanding photo's with it's 8Mp camera. Also done away with my aspire notebook as the GS2 is lightening quick  :thumbs: My OH has an apple and it's so slow compared.
Title: Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S III
Post by: Clive on June 05, 2012, 18:53
It's outrageous! All you can think of is a new phone while I've lost the charger for mine and it's going to cost me £1.50 for a new one!  Won't someone spare a thought for us poor pensioners?   :bawl:
Title: Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S III
Post by: Simon on June 05, 2012, 19:04
How can you lose a charger the size of a brick?  ::)
Title: Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S III
Post by: sam on June 05, 2012, 19:21
its probably lost somewhere in the boot of that Jag.... *Yet again Clive leaves himself wide open*
Title: Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S III
Post by: Simon on June 05, 2012, 19:40
Well, I certainly wouldn't leave some dodgy £1.50 charger from China plugged in unattended!  :)x
Title: Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S III
Post by: Clive on June 05, 2012, 22:17
The boot of the Jag was the last place it was seen and I've conducted a thorough search to no avail.  We took it to London over the weekend but I don't remember seeing the charger at my son's apartment.  Mrs Clive is very annoyed with me for being stupid enough to lose it.  Thank goodness for Amazon! 
Title: Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S III
Post by: Simon on June 05, 2012, 22:24
Mrs Clive is very annoyed with me for being stupid enough to lose it.

:laugh: 

That's probably the most amusing thing I've read today!   :)x
Title: Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S III
Post by: sam on June 06, 2012, 08:36
The boot of the Jag was the last place it was seen and I've conducted a thorough search to no avail. 

Nail on the head.
Title: Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S III
Post by: sam on June 06, 2012, 08:36
:laugh: 

That's probably the most amusing thing I've read today!   :)x

Indeed! lol
Title: Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S III
Post by: Rik on June 06, 2012, 09:11
We must buy Clive a boot tidy.  ;D
Title: Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S III
Post by: Simon on June 06, 2012, 13:06
Mrs Clive has one already, but it's stupid.  :laugh:
Title: Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S III
Post by: Rik on June 06, 2012, 13:52
 :laugh:
Title: Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S III
Post by: Clive on June 06, 2012, 17:11
No bloody sympathy HERE!    :bawl:  Don't need a boot tidy because I keep it empty apart from the spare tyre and wheel changing equipment.  Oh and an electric tyre pump which I had as a free gift from Argos.   :laugh:
Title: Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S III
Post by: Simon on June 06, 2012, 17:23
... and the phone charger.  :)x
Title: Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S III
Post by: Rik on June 06, 2012, 17:33
Somewhere...  :devil:
Title: Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S III
Post by: Simon on June 06, 2012, 18:56
Probably in the secret compartment when he hides all his money.  ;D
Title: Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S III
Post by: Clive on June 06, 2012, 19:10
Found it!!   :blush:  It was just 2 ft away from me with my TomTom charger.  I'd put the TomTom in the boot and the chargers on a shelf on my desk.  I just went to charge the TomTom and there it was!  When Mrs Clive returns this evening she will probably kill me.   :bawl:  £1.50 down the drain! 
Title: Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S III
Post by: Simon on June 06, 2012, 19:13
:laugh:
Title: Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S III
Post by: TR on June 06, 2012, 22:15
  £1.50 down the drain! 


Can you not get charge back  ;D
Title: Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S III
Post by: Clive on June 06, 2012, 22:36
 :clever2:  I may as well have confessed to being a serial killer as far as Mrs Clive was concerned when she returned home.   ::)
Title: Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S III
Post by: Simon on June 06, 2012, 23:25
:lol2:
Title: Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S III
Post by: Clive on June 06, 2012, 23:28
Why can't women be more rational?   :crazy:
Title: Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S III
Post by: Rik on June 07, 2012, 03:54
They are, Clive, but in a different way. ;)
Title: Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S III
Post by: Clive on June 07, 2012, 12:01
Amazon, with its usual efficiency delivered my new charger today.  So I now have a spare.   :)x
Title: Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S III
Post by: Simon on June 07, 2012, 13:45
One fine day, Mrs Clive will ask to borrow it.  ;) :devil:
Title: Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S III
Post by: Clive on June 07, 2012, 14:37
Oh it's a shared phone. We don't have individual mobiles.   :laugh:
Title: Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S III
Post by: Simon on June 07, 2012, 14:43
Do you never go anywhere separately? 
Title: Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S III
Post by: Clive on June 07, 2012, 14:46
Rarely.  But we have two cars just in case we feel the urge.   :)
Title: Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S III
Post by: Rik on June 07, 2012, 14:57
 :laugh:

Keep a spare phone in the car and fulfill all you urges at once.  ;D
Title: Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S III
Post by: Clive on June 07, 2012, 19:16
Nonooo - keep up Rik.  I don't have a spare phone- just a charger.   :laugh:
Title: Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S III
Post by: sam on June 07, 2012, 22:52
numpty! just keep one in the car.
Title: Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S III
Post by: Clive on June 08, 2012, 10:56
That would have a detrimental on my fuel consumption.   o:)
Title: Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S III
Post by: Rik on June 08, 2012, 11:01
Only if you left it plugged in, Clive. ;D
Title: Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S III
Post by: Clive on June 08, 2012, 11:33
The extra weight Rik.   :)
Title: Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S III
Post by: Simon on June 08, 2012, 11:43
Plus there's all the pills he has to carry around.  :o:
Title: Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S III
Post by: Clive on June 08, 2012, 15:39
How else am I going to stay alive to see Halley's comet in 2061?   :dunno:
Title: Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S III
Post by: Simon on June 08, 2012, 17:17
:lol2:
Title: Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S III
Post by: Rik on June 08, 2012, 17:29
How else am I going to stay alive to see Halley's comet in 2061?   :dunno:

Cryogenics? ;D
Title: Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S III
Post by: Clive on June 08, 2012, 17:37
A bit too cold for me Rik. 
Title: Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S III
Post by: Rik on June 08, 2012, 17:47
You'd hardly notice after the first 24 hours. ;)
Title: Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S III
Post by: Clive on June 08, 2012, 17:54
The first 5 minutes would be the worst.   :laugh:
Title: Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S III
Post by: Simon on June 08, 2012, 18:28
At least you'd be stiff without little blue pills. :o:
Title: Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S III
Post by: Clive on June 08, 2012, 22:52
I prefer the smaller beige ones.  They last much longer.  :laugh:
Title: Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S III
Post by: Simon on June 08, 2012, 23:48
I haven't a clue what you're on about!   ;D
Title: Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S III
Post by: Clive on June 09, 2012, 12:30
 ;D