Galaxy S3 Mini...
12 October 2012, 12:27 AM
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Galaxy S3 Mini...
Lol! That's about all that's needed to describe it!
Can't wait for the apple v android banter to start.
Where's my popcorn!!
Can't wait for the apple v android banter to start.
Where's my popcorn!!
12 October 2012, 07:53 AM
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But it is losing the 720p display isn't it?
Is it still keeping the quad core processor?
And also I wish they would release it in black.
Is it still keeping the quad core processor?
And also I wish they would release it in black.
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12 October 2012, 10:18 AM
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Basically the main things in nutshell:
smaller res screen than iphone 5
front and rear cameras lower res than iphone 5
quad core binned (which iphone 5 performance is similar to) for dual core
Samsung says theres a market for a smaller device - correct thats why millions bought an iphone 5 - the new mini just doesn't seem to come close!
smaller res screen than iphone 5
front and rear cameras lower res than iphone 5
quad core binned (which iphone 5 performance is similar to) for dual core
Samsung says theres a market for a smaller device - correct thats why millions bought an iphone 5 - the new mini just doesn't seem to come close!
12 October 2012, 11:22 AM
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It's very difficult getting better performance from a smaller package. Don't be too hard on Samsung, at least they're trying and now they have the iPhone 5 they've got a blueprint.
13 October 2012, 08:34 AM
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And what price is the s3 mini going to be sold for? That is the key question really isn't it? If it is anything like the original S3, they are having a laugh! 
13 October 2012, 10:24 AM
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13 October 2012, 10:39 AM
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Basically the main things in nutshell:
smaller res screen than iphone 5
front and rear cameras lower res than iphone 5
quad core binned (which iphone 5 performance is similar to) for dual core
Samsung says theres a market for a smaller device - correct thats why millions bought an iphone 5 - the new mini just doesn't seem to come close!
smaller res screen than iphone 5
front and rear cameras lower res than iphone 5
quad core binned (which iphone 5 performance is similar to) for dual core
Samsung says theres a market for a smaller device - correct thats why millions bought an iphone 5 - the new mini just doesn't seem to come close!
the S3 mini is a midrange handset so will be aimed at a different market and for a lot less than the S3.It's a very good move by Samsung really and is most likely aimed at those who cannot afford a top end handset but this will give them something close.
13 October 2012, 10:52 AM
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The S3 is the iPhone beater and it does that quite happily the S3 mini is a midrange handset so will be aimed at a different market and for a lot less than the S3.
It's a very good move by Samsung really and is most likely aimed at those who cannot afford a top end handset but this will give them something close.
the S3 mini is a midrange handset so will be aimed at a different market and for a lot less than the S3.It's a very good move by Samsung really and is most likely aimed at those who cannot afford a top end handset but this will give them something close.
Yup, the Galaxy beats the iPhone at having a bigger screen. This handset needed to be released because of the size of the human hand and the fact that no one could ever do anything with the battery eating 'old school' processor in the S3 Maxi.
13 October 2012, 12:17 PM
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Battery eating old school processor? WTF planet are you on Jack?!
You are talking about Apple's latest handset then? the one that had complaints within the first day of battery life lasting 4 hours! You must be, as the Galaxy S3 lasts a damned sight longer than that
Also, considering you use the same core type as the S3, old school means that your wonderous marvel from Apple is a pile of poo according to you, yup you have just splattered yourself with **** pie
Nice work Jack
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You are talking about Apple's latest handset then? the one that had complaints within the first day of battery life lasting 4 hours! You must be, as the Galaxy S3 lasts a damned sight longer than that
Also, considering you use the same core type as the S3, old school means that your wonderous marvel from Apple is a pile of poo according to you, yup you have just splattered yourself with **** pie
Nice work Jack
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13 October 2012, 03:33 PM
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Out of the box the battery life of the Samsung is terrible and always will be terrible or worse unless you're not using it.
Same processor… weak Tony, weak.
This is the first time I've jumped on an Android thread and I have to say I'm loving it so far. I can sort of understand why you lot love to regurgitate gutter news stories but I'm not sure I'll stoop that low.
13 October 2012, 04:38 PM
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Rather than starting a new thread for this question.
How good is giffgaff,i was thinking of ordering a sim instead of hooking up to a 24month contract.It says it uses the 02 network,is it any good or maybe i'm better off staying with 3.
How good is giffgaff,i was thinking of ordering a sim instead of hooking up to a 24month contract.It says it uses the 02 network,is it any good or maybe i'm better off staying with 3.
13 October 2012, 04:54 PM
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Giff Gaff is ok. It's cheap for a reason though. User-based tech support, and some outages this last week that affected network.
That said, despite getting what you pay for, invariably it's more often good rather than bad.
Got a Giff Gaff on both my daughter's iphone, and a £5 goody bag on my iPad (data only).
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That said, despite getting what you pay for, invariably it's more often good rather than bad.
Got a Giff Gaff on both my daughter's iphone, and a £5 goody bag on my iPad (data only).
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13 October 2012, 05:38 PM
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So you've tweaked your S3 so it can win a ***** waving contest, one you said was worthless before you could up your score by adding this rom take away this root and some other garbage no one but a sad fandroid wants to understand.
Out of the box the battery life of the Samsung is terrible and always will be terrible or worse unless you're not using it.
Same processor… weak Tony, weak.
This is the first time I've jumped on an Android thread and I have to say I'm loving it so far. I can sort of understand why you lot love to regurgitate gutter news stories but I'm not sure I'll stoop that low.
Out of the box the battery life of the Samsung is terrible and always will be terrible or worse unless you're not using it.
Same processor… weak Tony, weak.
This is the first time I've jumped on an Android thread and I have to say I'm loving it so far. I can sort of understand why you lot love to regurgitate gutter news stories but I'm not sure I'll stoop that low.
standard setup on an O2 phone, no roms, no tricks, no tweaks, standard 
go chew some lemons As for same processor, did you not read what I said? the core on your wonderful Apple A6 is (as it looks) pretty much the same as that of the A9, or if you want, it looks and performs very similar to an overclocked core on an A5X, as ive said in previous posts
as you dont seem to understand, the biggest plus is the memory bandwidth, shame it doesnt make the core processing chip any quicker, the top 2 figures show how well that is done on my print, so you can see, the quad core 4412 chip is considerably faster at processing than the A6, wonderful eh?
13 October 2012, 05:57 PM
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Add another £2 and you get unlimited data.
New prices come into effect 16th November I believe.
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13 October 2012, 06:22 PM
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My mistake, there are so many variations of android and Samsung phones it's hard to keep up. I just thought it was the latest one as although that's an ugly looking operating system it wasn't as bad as some.
Please stop selling people on the processors being the same, they're far from it, even you add (as it looks) and you're the biggest know it all on this forum. This is a processor developed for use in one, maybe two devices, not something with big numbers picked from a catalogue. There's a huge difference especially when your hardware runs your operating system.
Please stop selling people on the processors being the same, they're far from it, even you add (as it looks) and you're the biggest know it all on this forum. This is a processor developed for use in one, maybe two devices, not something with big numbers picked from a catalogue. There's a huge difference especially when your hardware runs your operating system.
Shows you know nothing then Jack standard setup on an O2 phone, no roms, no tricks, no tweaks, standard go chew some lemons
As for same processor, did you not read what I said? the core on your wonderful Apple A6 is (as it looks) pretty much the same as that of the A9, or if you want, it looks and performs very similar to an overclocked core on an A5X, as ive said in previous posts as you dont seem to understand, the biggest plus is the memory bandwidth, shame it doesnt make the core processing chip any quicker, the top 2 figures show how well that is done on my print, so you can see, the quad core 4412 chip is considerably faster at processing than the A6, wonderful eh?
standard setup on an O2 phone, no roms, no tricks, no tweaks, standard go chew some lemons As for same processor, did you not read what I said? the core on your wonderful Apple A6 is (as it looks) pretty much the same as that of the A9, or if you want, it looks and performs very similar to an overclocked core on an A5X, as ive said in previous posts
as you dont seem to understand, the biggest plus is the memory bandwidth, shame it doesnt make the core processing chip any quicker, the top 2 figures show how well that is done on my print, so you can see, the quad core 4412 chip is considerably faster at processing than the A6, wonderful eh?
14 October 2012, 07:47 AM
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Giffgaff tariffs are changing next month, still good value though. £10 will get you 250mins, unlimited texts and 1GB of data.
Add another £2 and you get unlimited data.
New prices come into effect 16th November I believe.
www.best-payg-deals.co.uk
Add another £2 and you get unlimited data.
New prices come into effect 16th November I believe.
www.best-payg-deals.co.uk
14 October 2012, 09:14 AM
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My mistake, there are so many variations of android and Samsung phones it's hard to keep up. I just thought it was the latest one as although that's an ugly looking operating system it wasn't as bad as some.
Please stop selling people on the processors being the same, they're far from it, even you add (as it looks) and you're the biggest know it all on this forum. This is a processor developed for use in one, maybe two devices, not something with big numbers picked from a catalogue. There's a huge difference especially when your hardware runs your operating system.
Please stop selling people on the processors being the same, they're far from it, even you add (as it looks) and you're the biggest know it all on this forum. This is a processor developed for use in one, maybe two devices, not something with big numbers picked from a catalogue. There's a huge difference especially when your hardware runs your operating system.
The base architecture of the chip is the same, they both use the ARM7v, the difference is in the build of the CPU itself, where as the 4412 is a quad core (ie 1 processor with 4 cores) the A6 is a dual core (1 processor with 2 cores, see the difference?).
Also there are 3 GPU's on the A6 compared to the Mali 400 in the S3.
The mini on the other hand wont use much of either, its using an Ericsson 1ghz processor (dual core) rather than a quad and is going to be roughly half the cost of the S3.
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14 October 2012, 01:28 PM
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Tony - move the goalposts - Burns. I can't be arsed looking through your earlier posts, I'm just amused by how far you're prepared to change your point in order to score points.
The iPhone 4S is faster than your Samsung at the type of task these devices are used for, end of. And if you do find an app that uses all four of your old school CPU's you better hope you bought a spare battery.
The iPhone 5 uses custom chips, perfectly matched to both hardware and software, it's a winning combination that Samsung will never be able to achieve.
The iPhone 4S is faster than your Samsung at the type of task these devices are used for, end of. And if you do find an app that uses all four of your old school CPU's you better hope you bought a spare battery.
The iPhone 5 uses custom chips, perfectly matched to both hardware and software, it's a winning combination that Samsung will never be able to achieve.
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Tony - move the goalposts - Burns. I can't be arsed looking through your earlier posts, I'm just amused by how far you're prepared to change your point in order to score points.
The iPhone 4S is faster than your Samsung at the type of task these devices are used for, end of. And if you do find an app that uses all four of your old school CPU's you better hope you bought a spare battery.
The iPhone 5 uses custom chips, perfectly matched to both hardware and software, it's a winning combination that Samsung will never be able to achieve.
The iPhone 4S is faster than your Samsung at the type of task these devices are used for, end of. And if you do find an app that uses all four of your old school CPU's you better hope you bought a spare battery.
The iPhone 5 uses custom chips, perfectly matched to both hardware and software, it's a winning combination that Samsung will never be able to achieve.
15 October 2012, 05:50 PM
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