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"The most feature-rich, most customizable mobile gadget yet" -GSMarena Quad-band GSM Quad-band 3G with 21 Mbps HSDPA and 5.76 Mbps HSUPA LTE connectivity (carrier dependent) 5.5" 16M-color Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen of HD (720 x 1280 pixel) resolution Corning Gorilla Glass 2 Android OS v4.1 with TouchWiz launcher 1.6 GHz quad-core Cortex-A9 CPU Mali-400MP GPU 2GB of RAM Exynos 4412 Quad chipset S Pen active stylus 8 MP wide-angle lens Autofocus LED flash Face, smile and blink detection 1080p HD video recording at 30fps 16/32GB internal storage microSD slot Dual-band Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n support GPS with A-GPS connectivity GLONASS Digital compass NFC support Stereo Bluetooth v4.0 microUSB port with USB host and TV-out (1080p) support, MHL, charging Accelerometer Gyroscope Proximity sensor Standard 3.5 mm audio jack Great audio quality Slim only at 9.4mm 1.9MP secondary video-call camera Doc editor File manager Rich video and audio codec support Huge 3100 mAh battery Large size makes single-hand operation uncomfortable No dedicated camera key All plastic No FM radio (the N7100 has one) Android 4.1 Jelly Bean on board Google Voice Actions is capable of handling SMSs, email, voice call, directions, taking a note or opening a site Google Voice Actions can't toggle Wi-Fi or control the camera (but S Voice can do them) In the contacts department, there are two tabs. One is About and it shows contacts photo and the other shows social updates of the particular contact including Google Talk's When the phone book detects duplicate entries it offers the option to merge them Stand alone call history of relevant contacts A built in Black Caller list A contextual page that pops up automatically at the very instance you pull out the legendary S Pen Touch focus HDR mode Panorama Burst shot with Best photo Share shot Face and smile detection with Best faces Low-light mode Digital image stabilization Scenes and effects Noise in vieos present, though its a second generation Note video capture machine Colors in vidz are a bit oversaturated FullHD videos recorded as MP4 files FullHD videos with a massive bitrate that ranges from 17Mbps to 19Mbps The framerate of HD videos is an amazing 30fps The audio of videos is in stereo at 48kHz rate and a bitrate of about 130Kbps The print option, can print out photos directly through a Samsung printer Wi-Fi Direct and DLNA Bluetooth 4.0 LE (incorporated with Bluetooth 3.0 and the efficient Low Energy mode is included Supports the high-quality Apt-X audio codec It weighs less than the Nokia Lumia 920 No dedicated camera key A mighty 3100mAh battery A non-PenTile screen Front camera takes 1.9MP pictures and 720p video Can add weather tags to a photo (in courtesy of AccuWeather) Video player supports .WMV, .AVI (DivX and XviD), .MP4 and .MKV (H.264) For the video player, Resolution doesnt matter. It plays FullHD files and large files Photos with people's faces; Galaxy Note II recognises faces automatically or you can manually highligt them When a face is recognized in a photo, Social tag brings their status message and you can call or message the identified person in person An option to OCR a photo and copy the text. This is smart if you are a docholic but lacks a scanner and a computer in the range of approach DLNA-enabled. You can play songs and videos (nearby devices) on devices connected to your Wi-Fi network An updated version of the TouchWiz music player Equalizer presets (a custom one present) Sound-enhancing SoundAlive (features 7.1 channel virtualization) Fits in a pocket A 1.9MP front-facing cam Proximity sensor MHL adapter required for HD TV-out and the USB adapter that enables the USB host functionality aren't inclusive in the box Taller but narrower and slimmer than its predecessor The original Note was 178g, the Note II weights at 180g The grid view of the video player; all eight video thumbnails are actually self playing entities Pop Up (video) play which plays videos in a small moveable window. These frames can be played with other active apps on the phone and using pinch zoom you can adjust the size of these frames SoundAlive audio enhancing in the video player Can adjust video brightness, color tone and enable outdoor visibility When connected to an active external amplifier, volume levels are average Stereo crosstalk begins to have business in when a pair of headphones is plugged in If your more concerned about audio output, iphone 5 will be a better option The video player scans for all subtitles and offers a list full of subtitle packs to pick from. Thus the subtitle file doesn't have to have the same name as the video file Office document editor All apps from the Google play store is not optimised to work with Jelly Bean yet Screen recording which is activated by pressing and holding the Home and Volume up buttons records virtual activities that is happening on the screen in the real time including your S pen drawings and audio commentary With Paper Artist you can run color filters over photos and color certain areas with the S pen further There is a record button in the S note app to record what you draw A floating window version of the S note app S Cloud syncs contacts, calendar, S notes, back up logs, SMS, MMS and wallpaper There's a limit to the size of the area you can cache in the Maps app Vector maps of Google Maps are inherent in data efficiency Samsung's Instant messaging service ChatOn S Planner can sync with multiple calendars. It you feel like its cluttered when synced them all, turn off the unnecessary S Cloud can be incorporated with Dropbox (photos and videos) You can even do that S cloud Dropbox merge over Wi-Fi to save data No address searches in the cached maps With S cloud you can choose not to back up some of things that it usually sync Automated S cloud backups can be set with time periods You cannot cache map data all around the world Voice-guided navigation in certain countries GPS receiver takes about a minute to get a satellite lock A-GPS present which is brisk catching prompt satelite locks Network positioning, which is a gross scale for an estimation of your location 3D buildings available for bigger cities Two-finger camera tilt and rotate to get a better view in the 3D maps A very sophisticated "Make available offline (cashing)" option in Maps app An indicator that shows how much storage caching an area will take Cached areas in the maps can be perused later or deleted if unnecessary You cannot cashe a whole country but a city maybe. If the selected area for cashing is bigger than what the Maps app can handle Maps tels the area is too big No folders in the messaging department Tap to compose box is roomy to type The default email app supports multiple Gmail accounts, but lacks a unified inbox The messaging section bears the same traits as phonebook when it comes to "Swiping". A left swipe on a message header launches a new message and swiping to the right starts a call to the sender The titanic texting bed fits on the screen and carries 13 straight rows Gmail app supports batch operations. It means you can archive, label or delet multiple emails A generic email app (beside Gmail app) for managing all other email accounts and it handles multiple POP or IMAP inboxes. There messages are displayed in the original folders that they are created online A combined inbox, all your mails are centralized in a single folder. Enables user to easily identify new mails Handwriting recognition is amazingly accurate A clipboard for both text and images Smart enough text predictions. it scrutinises your emails, Facebook posts, Twitter posts and teach itself whats your writing behaviour is ie mostly used words etc Google Talk too handles the Instant Messaging department "Continuous input" lets feed words by swiping over the keyboard just like Swype The landscape QWERTY eats lot of the screen. Better go for portrait The S note app is equipped with an on-screen keyboard for both handwriting recognition or Keyboard input Can schedule messages to be sent automatically at given times From the list of all scheduled messages, you can cancel or send a message regardless of the set time When you finger to text, it brings the QWERTY and when tapped with the S Pen it launches the handwriting recognition Music square The browser supports double tap, pinch zooming, two-finger tilt zoom, text reflow, find on page, save for offline viewing, request desktop site, Incognito mode and pinch zoom which opens up the tabs view Two finger typing is cushioned in portrait mode, but horrid in landscape An extra row just for the numbers The big screen makes portrait typing comfortable Print option in the browser lets you print out web pages directly from your phone but the option is limited to Samsung printers Its quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE and quad-band 3G but AWS is missing Available with all major carriers The S Note app accomodates handwritten notes, texts, mathematical formulae along with images and voice notes Slow-motion (1/2x) and fast motion (2x) modes Colors of photos slightly oversaturated As you already know, Adobe is officially not supported. But you can still load it and 1080p YouTube videos are played fine The MHL-to-HDMI dongle that you bought for your first Note or S II, isnt compatible with the Note II When you hover over a text field with the S Pen, a cursor pops. You can easily tap to position it there The G-Talk works with the likes of Pidgin, Kopete, iChat and Ovi Contacts An application specific message search that can find any given SMS or MMS search criteria within the message dept among all stored once The MHL also enables USB On-The-Go though the adapter required for that is missing in the box. How it goes? You just plug it into the Note and plug a standard USB cable on the other end and thats it. There goes USB thumb drives, card readers, connecting other phones, USB keyboards, mice and even printers. Actually Samsung-made printers only Ambient light sensor Notification LED The SIM card is not hot-swappable, but the memory card is Strong battery life Can replace the battery without losing NFC because the NFC antenna is on the back cover The diagonal metrics grown to 5.5" up from 5.3" Aspect ratio has jumped to 16:9 from 16:10. A taller but narrower screen The Note II's screen is a 720p and 1280x720 pixels one but the dilapidated used to be a WXGA or 1280x800 pixels one. Overall 80 pixels lost on the way back home You can access Quick Command pad pressing S Pen button and swiping up. Whats the usability of it? You can use "@" sign to launch email, "?" sign to launch a search, "#" sign to dial a number or "~" sign to send a text there.. New commands can be added picking a new function like Bluetooth by selecting from a long list to choose from and assigning the symbol you want. Its that simple but its the Command Prompt of the Daisy Town The S Pen lets catch a part of the screen and that can be used in apps like email and S Note etc S Voice even accepts hand-written queries What S Voice can do? It does search web, make calls, send texts, notification area toggles, answer or reject incoming calls, start the camera and take a photo, control the music player and FM radio and stop or snooze alarms Google Now can answer factual questions Direct Call Smart alert S Pen also practicable in the browser S Voice is on board along with Google's excellent voice commands Talking about GPU (Mali-400) performance (GLBenchmark) it beats the Galaxy S III (Mali-400 and the GeForce- packing Tegra 3) but looses to Adreno 320 of Optimus G and PowerVR SGX 543MP3 in the iPhone 5 In regard of the web performance it falls short behind Apple's iPhone 5 (SunSpider, BrowserMark) but beats all other Androids In Benchmark Pi, the Note II is defeated by the quad-core Krait packed LG Optimus G. The 1.7GHz Tegra 3-based phones like the HTC One X+ would do the same in the due time Geekbench 2 prefer Exynos chipsets than Snapdragon S4 Pro and Apple A6 Quadrant score is lower than the HTC One X The LG Optimus G out performs Samsung Galaxy Note's I[ processing entity. But runs Android Ice Cream Sandwich, lacks S Pen, a jumbo screen, outfits a poor camera. Priced at $199.99 All type of media files can be shared via NFC. The only hitch is you need two S Beam-enabled devices Android Beam's NFC functionality is limited compared to S Beam Chapter preview in the video player which voluntarily detects chapters in the video. It shows a rectangular grid with live thumbnails Three crop modes in the video player to choose from for how the video fits for your likeness in the screen theatre Using contacts' profiles, Buddy photo share distinguishes who they are My Files app with a split-screen interface My files app is launched instantly when you plug in a USB mass storage device, a USB drive, another phone or an SD card etc Smart rotation keeps its screen in effect with your eyes angle neglecting what the accelerometer force it. If practically spoken, when you're lying but holding the phone in the vertical direction it still keeps the screen in landscape orientation Records HD (1080p or 720p) videos and capable of taking high def (6MP) pictures at the same time Pause and re-record in the same video file is available Touch focus during recording is present. There is an AF button to jump back to regular continuous autofocus mode The LG Intuition for Verizon Wireless is the closest rival. Has a 4:3 screen, sub par stylus, a decent dual-core chipset and a lower resolution screen. Priced at $149.99 S Voice can also be used as a calculator Smart Dial You get S Voice and as a bonus Google's which does differ in functionality than its sibling You have to get used to the Home key, its too responsive Flash is missing. Better keep an eye for HTML5 versions of your web sites of preference YouTube works HTML5 games HTC's soon to be released One X+ for AT&T is another quad-core. Ships Android 4.1 Jelly Bean but its Tegra 3 chipset cannot keep pace with the processing power of the Samsung Note II Exynos. But you can still save $100 Security options like encrypting outgoing email and signing it with a private key, are given for each email account you sync Best faces takes 5 photos in burst mode and stores traits of each face in photos. You can pick any of the 5 photos for each person's face clarity at a later period Can import and export contacts to or from the SIM. But they arent displayed alongside the phone's entries Version for United States use the same chip specs as of the global version A headset with few spare earbuds for free A single-LED flash, not dual Deep system and interface integration with S pen A lower pixel density, 267ppi in the Note || vs. 285ppi of the Note | The crosshatch pattern is gone with the PenTile matrix Voice typing is available offline (relevent language packs required) No Android keys on-screen though Google suggests it. Samsung has replaced the hardware buttons with on-screen controls During a call you can take a note, use the keypad, mute, hold the call or add another call to the ongoing conversation After syncing with social networks, the phonebook will automatically merge contacts. You can manually do the same for each contact Using AllShare Play you can transfer or share data and multimedia files to your notebook or PC With AllShare Cast you can stream content to and from a variety of devices including TV or computer over DLNA The battery performance of the US Galaxy Note II varies in accordance with the carrier version The S Pen of the first Note was 10.4cm tall and 5mm thick in dense, the new one measures 11.3cm in length and 7mm in thickness. Its just like a real pen than a typical slim stylus Ripples, water-drop sounds are rife as is the case with most recent Samsung flagships Five customizable shortcuts at the bottom of the screen Three view modes in the app drawer, Customizable grid, Alphabetical grid, Alphabetical list with shortcuts easy to hit Alphabetical list in the app drawer isn't very efficient handling space The Bad News: The dock at the bottom now accommodates five icons but the homescreen fits only four on a row The Good News: The app drawer is a 5 x 5 grid Notifications now display more information and have more advanced controls The Quick contacts; just tap on a contact picture, a pop up menu with shortcuts to call, text, email or Google Talk will appear Can search for nearby POI in the Maps app While in the mail app, turn the tablet landscape wise, the split view is accessible. It sports a list of emails in the left and shows the relevant message in the right S Voice can be maneuvered for looking up factual items in courtsy of Wolfram Alpha. Its the same mechanism behind Siri's answers Even without going online, the maps app will reroute you if you plan routes and divert yourself off the course or detour The RGB sensor is capable of detecting the full spectrum of the ambient light. It can elude artificial light sources cleverly An internet connection is not required to do voice typing. You can enter text by speaking wherever an on-screen keyboard appear Can choose which types of events trigger the LED When you put the tablet (back) on a flat surface, its actualy the camera lens that touch the plain. But the glass is not easily dentable Both 2.4GHz and 5GHz band compatible Wi-Fi support which covers a/b/g/n You can tap and drag in any way to unlock the lockscreen Whats up with the MHL enabled microUSB? It handles charging, data connections, HD video output through an HDMI adapter or USB Host Voice dialing; Just utter "Hi Galaxy" and give your command Not comfortable for one handed use For easy one handed usability, few tweaks are added like QWERTY keyboard, phone keypad and in-call buttons, calculator and unlock pattern moved to one side of the screen. Just let it be left or right Build in Live wallpapers, News wall put up a glamorous slideshow of headlines, Stock wall does the quotes, and Photo wall pull out photos from the Gallery The Galaxy Note II senses when the S Pen is pulled out. It fetches a contextual page with shortcuts to preview thumbnails of your recently ventured S Notes Swipes in the phonebook lets you do a quick dial with a right swipe and send a text message literally with a left swipe Cannot have more than seven home screen panes Full-screen widgets The stylus is not as comfortable as the S Pen on the Galaxy Note 10.1 Can put a news ticker at the bottom of the lockscreen and stay up to minute The news ticker is expandedbale Face unlock, Face and voice unlock There is a tab in the app drawer which enables you to easily pull out widgets to the homescreen panes The camera can be started from the lockscreen by touching the screen and rotating the phone horizontally Widgets are resizable but only some widgets are resizable, not all The dock at the bottom of the home screen houses five shortcuts or folders. Four of them except the shortcut at the far right in the dock (that opens the app drawer) are customizable The Music Hub doesnt recognise album art of the music den of the phone Note || carries a more sensitive digitizer in comparison to the Note |. It distinguishes 1024 different levels of pressure. Its 4 times powerful than its older relative. In the drawing app its clearly felt With Android 4.1 aboard, the widgets will pave the way for the widgets you put there lately. This way, keeping the homescreen tidy, becomes easier When the S pen is pulled out, icons at the bottom of the home deck diverse into a different but relevent set. It also gives you another set of shortcuts in the notification area if you enter the area with the S pen In the browser you get an option to manipulate brightness and colors with four different presets including Automatic brightness. Music to eyes A download shortcut in the app drawer which put up a screen loaded with only the downloaded apps The default task manager boasts a button that brings the Mayan calender to all active apps at once and a shortcut to Google Now Quick Controls menu pops out when you place finger near the left or right edge of the display and its an effective alternative to the buttons on the top Alter. This becomes handy when you use the tablet single handed Can controll brightness without disabling automatic mode Regular homescreen panes distinguishable with dots Dedicated pages are assigned custom icons ie a pen for the S Pen, headphones for the Earphone page etc Pinch to zoom out and easily manage homescreen panes. You can add, delete or reorder them easily Quick glance; when phone is locked, cover top of Note. The screen will be lit and the status bar will be thrown in Quick glance is also triggered when the phone put face down. Thus a battery sucker Default widgets of Dedicated Pages (S Pen page's S Note widget, Earphone page's music and video player control widgets etc) cannot be tweaked to your preferences or some one else's Page Buddy; each Dedicated functional pane can be enabled or disabled seperate Air View; Hovering the S Pen over S Planner events, it can be expanded. Hovering S pen over emails you can preview emails. Hovering S pen over text you can view a preview of the text file. In the same way preview videos. Its a Magic Wand Even specific vibration patterns can be set as incoming call alerts (like you would do a ringtone) choosing from predefined patterns available or making your own MHL port works as a charger port, enables video output (using a MHL-to-HDMI dongle which is not inclusive in the retail box Using accelerometer it even alerts you (beeping) if the stylus is displaced, not put back into the hole where it belongs or your not present near with its beloved stylus Note II's screen can detect the S Pen from a near distance. Walk, Talk and Note Note II is sharper than the previous though its been allocated fewer pixels Mode Change offers two separate homescreen setting patterns that can be accelerated at the same time, namely Standard and Easy. With Easy mode you can do both, place big, easy to handle widgets that cover the functionality in whole and eats the space drasticaly and add regular widgets in the same breath. Thus the Mode change module works as a toggle between playful and work widget environments. Extremely useful when your home panes are filled with single big bad wolf work oriented widgets but you want to taste nasty cluttered Widget panes as well Cannot rename the modes and maximum number of Modes you can have is two You can assign a "Peak Schedule Time" in the email app selecting the days of the week and start and end time points so that it can check out new mails more often during the given peak time period	2G Network - GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 GSM A1428 CDMA 800 / 1700 / 1900 / 2100 CDMA A1429 3G Network - HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100 GSM A1428 CDMA2000 1xEV-DO - CDMA A1429 4G Network - LTE 700 MHz Class 17 / 1700 / 2100 - GSM A1428 or LTE 850 / 1800 / 2100 - GSM A1429 LTE 700 / 850 / 1800 / 1900 / 2100 - CDMA A1429 LED-backlit IPS TFT, capacitive touchscreen 16M colors Multitouch Corning Gorilla Glass oleophobic coating No memory card slot I16/32/64 GB internal storage variants 1 GB RAM WLAN - Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, dual-band Wi-Fi Plus Bluetooth v4.0 A2DP USB v2.0 Autofocus LED flash Simultaneous HD video and image capturing Touch focus HDR 1080p videos @30fps LED video light Video stabilization A 1.2 MP, 720p@30fps videocalling over Wi-Fi and 3G/4G Accelerometer Gyro Proximity No Radio GPS with A-GPS support GLONASS Nano-SIM card support only Active noise cancellation with dedicated dual mics Siri iCloud cloud service TV-out iBooks PDF reader The price is the same as its predecessor, $199, $299 and $399 for 16, 32 and 64 GB versions respectively (operator-locked, US) 7.66mm thick, means 18% thinner Weights 112 gram, means 20% lighter than 4S A quad-core Cortex A6 processor, processing graffics, photo and video is twice as fast as its predecessor An 8MP rear camera. Most disappointed Panorama mode Backside illumination An Hybrid IR filter Five element lens f/24 aperture Dynamic low light mode Sapphire crystal Precision lens alignment The front camera now supports HD videos at 720p and features an aluminium rear sensor A 4-inch 326ppi Retina display A resolution of 1,136 by 640 pixels A 16 x 9 aspect ratio iSight camera for panorama 4G LTE connectivity. For most, it will be the first time with an iphone Its a 4-inch screen, with more icons and stuff, navigation will be easier. Your big thumbs will be happy No black bar "letterbox" effect in HD movies any longer 4G LTE will suck battery heavily Apple folks promise a better battery life. To improve battery life, Apple has dropped few features With the iPhone 5, you get just one glass pane. What a relief! IOS 6 will roll into 4S soon (Sept. 19) Features like turn-by-turn navigation, 3-D maps, Passbook ticket and gift card system, sports-score-spouting Siri will be freely available with scheduled iOS upgrade. Whats your moto? Jump to the latest wagon while its still running? The design wont set industry level standards like previous ones did. Guess who is coming to dinner. Its not "Design", its "Patents" Home screen customization? You must be daydreaming or talking about Android or Windows Regarding notifications, data management and voice recognition, Android still is the king A fifth row of icons on the home screen Your favourite apps will appear letterboxed until they are resized to fit to the new screen size Panoramas that count for 28MP per image. Can take pictures while shooting a video The YouTube icon is missing Smart reminders Now you can reject a call sending a message if you're busy. It also reminds you to call someone back when you leave your office, home (current location) etc A "Do Not Disturb" mode when new messages arrive, they wont either notify you or light up screen. But you can spare calls from your beloved once (can make a list) or cut off repeat calls from same person An Instapaper-style offline reading mode A VIP feature in iOS 6 Mail. VIPs messages will appear on lock screen and will be accumulated in a specific mailbox Pull to refresh (mail app) Its made of aluminum and glass. Not of plastic cans (an anodised aluminium body with diamond cut edges and glass inlays) A better image processor (a 3,264 x 2,448 BSi sensor) Three microphones, including a new beam-forming directional microphone (higher quality of sound) Support for cellular wideband audio for enhanced audio clarity and natural like speech (wideband audio will be supported by over 20 carriers worldwide at the launch) EarPods for better sound quality iCloud tab syncing and photo sharing website integration Smart App Banners (websites will show you their IOS apps when you visit them) Siri will understand better. Likes of sports scores, statistics and trivia, booking restaurants, cinema scenario etc UK is an exception. Its not confirmed whether which Sat Nav features will roll into UK Local search will be available worldwide and more languages will be supported Siri's Eyes Free feature will be featured on steering wheels (Jaguars, Land Rovers, BMWs, Mercs, Toyotas, Chryslers, Hondas, Audis and GM cars, within next 12 months) Fear, you shall not, Guided Access feature lets you disable parts of the screen. Children wont be able to accidentally hit the wrong buttons and amass a pile of bills Traffic information, alongside turn-by-turn navigation (Siri enabled) Sat nav is worthless outside major metropolitan areas in the UK Flyover 3D views of major cities (Yelp will be integrated soon into maps) iOS 6 beta 2 already Jailbroke Passbook, a native new e-tickets app. (lets user carry electronic tickets and it also accomodates tickets update) A strong and native social integration Sharing photos or videos from within Mail available A dedicated Podcast app With iOS 6 Its now not necessary to enter passwords each time you download free apps. Once you link iTunes account your done Passwords also wont be necessary when re-downloading a previously purchased app An in-app purchase protection to curb that iOS 5.1 vulnerability iOS is operator independent when it comes to updates (80% of Apple users use the latest firmware. Only 7% Androids use the latest) Bluetooth 4.0 bridge iPhone 5 is the thinnest and lightest iPhone ever 225 hours of standby time 8 hours of 3G and 4G LTE browsing 8 hours of 3G talk time 10 hours of Wi-Fi browsing, 10 hours of video playback 40 hours of music play It will switch between antennae to catch the network No NFC support (NFC is not only for sending out payments, but also for sharing photos, contacts, videos and many more). Ice Cream Sandwich has built-in NFC capabilities and the app Android Beam No elegant Custom widgets on your home screen No micro USB, Apple rules! No third-party software keyboards. They called him "The King" and he used to "Rock & Roll". But both short lived iOS6 mail app let you attach images or videos only. No Docs no presentations or anything else Not so transparent file hierarchy. Cannot brows (or blow) like an Android With a PC plugged in, you can only access the digital camera (DCIM) folder No Haptic feedbacks Share isnt mighty. With Android you can share with a plethora of services and functions. But with i5 the list is limited. Can use iTunes to transfer media files back and forth No Pen support Can use a third-party capacitive styluses to do what a stylus could do. But capabilities are limited and its not deeply rooted to the system iOS 6 will carry over 200 new features Now Siri knows a lot of new languages (Italian, Mandarin, Cantonese, and more) OpenTable, Yelp, Rotten Tomatoes and few others are now Siri's dates Siri will also tweet for you Now its possible to launch apps using Siri A "tap to post" option and a "tap to tweet" buttonin in the Notification Center Facebook is deeply integrated into the Calendar (Facebook events , birthdays will be featured on calendar) FaceTime now over 3G, not just over Wi-Fi Phone numbers and Apple IDs are now knotted. FaceTime calling without worries iCloud tabs in Safari. Now you can sync browsing sessions across your idevices An offline reading list in the browser Can upload photos directly from Safari to any websites of favour Thanks to few recent integrations Siri now knows more about sports, restaurants, movies etc Siri can make restaurant reservations Siri now delivers movie reviews (bit rotten though) Real-time crowd-sourced traffic data. (automatically re-adjusting routes) "Flyover", gives the whole world a 3D look Turn-by-turn directions. Siri will also guide you to and from places When it comes to public transportation, Siri is directionless The Lost mode (Find My iPhone feature) now carries a "lost mode." This will let you to send a phone number to a lost device (if someone pick it up fortunately@Õ%*#=##) to contact you back A smaller and an improved speaker Three microphones, one on the front, one on the back, and another on the bottom LTE support with 2.4GHz and 5GHz 802.11n Wi-Fi combined onto a single "ultra fast" chip Apple mistakenly offered the legendary Lighting dock for free on its UK site and pulled back the deal when it erupted iPhone 5 won't be able to do calls and data at same time on Sprint and Verizon (but AT&T is an exception). Those carriers dont do voice over its 4G LTE. When a call is placed on a 4G LTE of those two, it recedes to CDMA which cannot handle both data and voice like AT&T does with its 3G (keep reading) Game console quality graphics Game Center, a new Time Shifted Multiplayer mod which enables players to race with a friend asynchronously No street view Connector is 80 percent smaller than that of the iPhone 4S Adapter doesn't work with speaker docks? Wrong!, here is the Apples official statement "The Lightning to 30 Pin adapter supports analog audio output, USB audio, as well as syncing and charging. Lightning to VGA and Lightning to HDMI cables will be available in the coming months" Video and iPod Out not supported by the adapteri (just iPod Out, not Audio Out) 700,000 apps The micro USB is a 5-pin connector, the lightening is 8-pin The old Map chap used Google's massive keyword search. But apple's new venture uses Yelp's database. They say it isnt that good No public transit directions in map Maps has 100 million business listings (80 million business listings for Google Maps) Business listings in Maps are out-sourced from Acxiom Factual and Localeze Business reviews are sourced from Yelp New Dock, faster data connection to computers The ease of connectivity between different iOS products, ceases Cannot use your 4S's Micro-SIM card With iPhone 4, Apple's first retina display, they laminated the display to the glass surface. In i5 Touch sensors are integrated into the screen ( earlier the display and touch sensors were two separate things) Thus a thinner screen. New displays will be cheaper to replace than previous ones Apple acquired C3 3D, Placebase and Poly9 light, only 3.95 ounces. Even an ounce lighter than the iPhone 4S (4.9 ounces) The camera launches itself fast One-finger typing The earphone connector is on the bottom You can flyover (the world) with a two-finger swipe down No burst mode shooting or a Best Shot mode The Rumor was that i5 will have a unibody construction similar to the Macbook Pros and Macbook Airs. Now you got your answer Be an Android faniac. Androids are released almost weekly. Be an iphone maniac, you can sigh and wait for 4 to 5 months (in betwixt) till the new eyephone is released i5 breed was supposed to be the post-PC era? Where Android sucks? Lot of lags, frequent reboot and most times requires resets Battery is not user replasable If you want more memory, just buy the most expensive version. Buying a low memory version and hooking up a memory card must be the most wisest and logical way I guess. Prove me wrong Multitasking? Android lets you set "defaults" for apps you want to use instead of stocks like browser System-wide Facebook integration If you have an iphone 4S, you can get (through update) every feature iphone going to have such as Dedicated signatures for all email accounts, face time over cellular, flyover, offline reading list, panorama, passbook, turn by turn navigation, shared photo stream and VIP inbox etc. So whats the rush? 10-face detection on the rear and single face detection on the front camera Thinnest smartphone in the world (Who said that? Apple said that mom) Just hoist the phone aloft and pan across the panoramic view. You get a seamless panoramic image, suitable for framing "More development went into the plug than did the phone," one user comment caught my eyes 4G LTE networks does not do voice and it only does data. Then how Verizon's Samsung Galaxy S III, a 4G LTE phone, managed to do calls and data simultaneously ? Samsung has an extra antenna. It fetched data from the 4G LTE network at the same time when it used another antenna to do voice You cant swap SIM cards between i4S and i5. The iPhone 5 uses a nano-SIM, and the older iPhones utilize a micro- SIM (large) (Heart) Breaking News! Pricing for unlocked iPhone 5s touch sky, $700/$800/$ 900 Another brilliant comment I found online, "Apple patents the connector, and then licenses the right to make chargers, docks, etc. This way, Apple even gets a cut of the sale of third party accessories. They're cornering a whole extra revenue stream at the expense of the waste and cost to consumers from needing duplicate cables and chargers and so on" Siri still doesnt cater configuration requests, such as "Turn Bluetooth on," or "Turn ringer off" etc, but does book a restaurant through OpenTable etc. She doesnt tweak core settings yet Pictures taken simultaneously while video recording aren't 8 megarpixel shots. They are screen captures of the video itself (aspect ratio is different and the image quality is weak) Flyovers only available for large cities, and again not for all of them Apps do load quicker It gets warm, when using 4G LTE for flyover in the Maps, calls and Facetime etc Considering JavaScript performance and 3D graffics rendering, its twice as fast as the iPhone 4S Its "Facetime", and its posh presentator AT&T; your required to have a specific plan to enable FaceTime over cellular A smartphone is not always about its specs. Its the power of its eco system and the finest components that will never fail you. Iphone's platform was the first of its kind which nearly hammered platforms with (Cr)apps and still stand out of the rest as the best The 9-pin can be plugged in either way. Its reversible Every part of the software is rewritten or retouched The A6 processor is custom-designed to be smaller and more power efficient Sturdy iCloud integration for music playback via iTunes Match No option to open web pages in multiple different browsers Wile iOS 6 is available for any of 3GS, 4, 4S, Siri and Panorama will ride only on iPhone 5 and 4S Autobrightness adjustments performance or Ambient Sensor enhanced. It will find the right brightness balance effectively than an i4 A good update to the iphone 4 and marginal for the 4S Web and iCloud-connected apps loads up faster Restaurants and local stores; Yelp ratings and reviews are briskly shown (not available on Google's Maps app for iphone) Google's built-in Maps search is more posh than the new Yelp one The third microphone takes care of audio improvement, enhancing voice quality, speakerphone quality and adding improved noise cancellation Wideband Audio; none of the U.S. carriers of the iPhone 5 will support it Slow motions are smooth than before A layer is removed from the screen but no harm yet. Its still as crisp and fast-responding as before With new mail app you cannot sync your GMail contacts (use Exchange to sync) Some movies still have letterboxing (shot in the superwide CinemaScope aspect ratio; 21:9) Video zoom ins with a tap on the screen Strict iCloud restrictions Web pages load quickly Shared Photo Streams; you can share photos with friends or make your sisters photos public and take revenge You remember Symbian second edition phones which vomited all apps located inside folders when the memory card was removed and reinserted? (though there was a Python app to cure that) A similar issue exists in the iOS6 which can be observed when sync through itunes to replicate your i4 Ergonomics are not that great The cable looks fragile Connector is not sturdy In the Maps app, traffic stats may go missing Cannot set a limit on data usage (like in Android). LTE can be a pitfall Safari sometimes loads the cached page instead of refreshing it No Viruses or Malwares No fakes that pull user data unbeknown to user Heavily depends on iTunes Custom Vibration alerts It isnt a global LTE phone. LTE roaming is still not possible 44 percent extra color saturation A boyfriend took his girlfriend to a football game. On the way back home, the boy asked how was the game from the girl. "All I heard was quarter back! Quarter back", she replied, "Hello, its only 25 cents!" All folks talk fanatically about how app developers will take the advantage of the added space. Hello! its just 0.5 inches! There are some camera apps that provide Panorama modes but Apple's move is the most fine tuned of all Geekbench score of 1,628, SunSpider scoring an average of 924ms (guardian.com), its the king of benchmarks A Passbook API for custom apps to fork into Maps does show traffic Wifi doesnt keep pace with LTE. Switching to it instead of Wifi will be your first concern (when you discover it) even at an expensive rate. Excessive usage, expensive rates!. A data cap or a bottle neck? Regarding the battery, still Droid Razr Maxx is the king Bookmarks arent visual thumbnails like Android offers. In Safari its just a flat list iPhone 5 as an hot spot, it gives as strong results as an iPad. Now tethering charges and data usage fees Photos added to the Photo Stream appear within 30 seconds Photo Stream isn't as perfect as Google+ Events and furthermore bit dry The very top and bottom of the rear is still glass When compared to other platforms, iOS 6 lacks aesthetics Lens are guarded with a sapphire crystal glass The colors are now more saturated but not too oversaturated like most AMOLEDs. The most interesting fact is, its not so accurate either A nice readability under sun light Superb viewing angles There's distortion with voices when use the speakerphone (keep reading) A slightly weaker signal strength on Sprint when compared to other Sprint devices No continuous focus, only touch focus Support for the videos playback out of the box is limited to videos encoded in MPEG-4 Earpods headphones, feels loose in the ear Videos recorded in low light conditions easily gather noise A capture rate of 24 frames per second though its 29 on paper The black surface may gather up fingerprints and skin oil easily that are difficult to clean Click options in the camera view and select Panorama, iPhone will guide you through the rest and will even warn you if you move too fast headlong The notifications panel lets user post messages to Facebook or Twitter and thats it. Nothing new other than that in the notification area Three microphones and beamforming, the reciever hears a hell out from the calling party World thought Iphone 5 will shake the world or tear it down into two pieces, send a cold shockwave through spines of every man, cure cancer, boil pancakes without real pans, bring back Steve Jobs into life, pay the national debt of Greece, float itself on air without human intervene and finally bring world peace and put an end to all civil wars. Worse, I know few who had plans to set a nuke on fire with it and throw off there inherited worn out grandpa lighters away. As it turns out, all rendered futile The "passes" of Passbook are location-sensitive and shown directly on your lock screen New dock doesnt support iPod Out. Sell your BMW that came with that expensive dock Its "Lightning" but really based on USB 2.0 Wifi a/b/g/n compatible and dual-band. You can drop jammed 2.4GHz to get more from 5GHz The Siri-driven restaurant reservation system is only available in the US, Canada and Mexico No live tiles and widgets. Boring. Now with most smart phones the case is most functions are happening in the lock screen. But with iphone you have to dig deep into apps and folders to have a look into live things NFC would have made the Passbook much better The tactile king is still Nokia's Lumia 800 A friction to the edges and the metal back. Its less likely to slip One layer laid off from the screen. It can be confusing at first The "Panorama" cannot go beyond 28MBs a scene One layer is off and its just like your touching a very sexy Pixelized version of Kate winslet itself with your dumb ass thumbs, only a layer of pixels deep. A screen intervene is null (no, not that saucy still from the ship that sunk leaving her ashore) Its Hanuman! No its Ravan! No its Rama! No actually its iphone's Panorama! Samsung Panoramas forces user to stay focussed! Just kidding. Samsung Panoramas force user to stay in one place and move the camera around. With iphone you can even move yourself. After all its made in states where the freedome is the most talked about thing. With that levels of shooting freedom, they have built the true "Democratic Shot". Siri wont serve cricket In the offline mode of Safari, links remain as links unlike Androids dead links in lethargic PDF like offline docs Web pages are served swiftly You cannot flyover most residential areas and less significant or less storied arenas No traffic warnings Maps lack the infografic layers of Google Maps that can be applied for individual uses Map's loading is swift unlike Google's. Zooming is smooth and image processing is brisk Siri can now easily pick up your words even when the atmosphere is crowded or noisy Siri still dates Google as its still not outdated in the area of search. Siri does Google things if the queries are too stupid and cannot be interpreted herself. Love or hate? The new handset is not for "Lets try it again" attitude. If you disliked the way iphone behaved in the past, you wont like it this time either The greenish hue issue of the display of 4S is fixed Panoramas wont be always perfect. Be prepared to have few freaked out ones Eight Reminders on one screen (it was five on the iPhone 4S) In the Mail app, you can preview 6 mails with one line text of each The extra length spaces for more text above the virtual keys The extra screen height; pop ups will be bearable Apple took 5 years to give that extra 0.5 inches of screen Fits in the pants The extra pixels cover a bit more of faces on phone calls An easier grip The screen is tall but not wide UI still hasn't changed. Looks like a first gen Ipod touch For most, iphone was way ahead of the competition when it was first launched. Now its just catching up What matters most beside its design gimmic is how well it will perform when it comes to cellular and GPS signal strength with all that aluminium trunkage IOS 6 on i4S? On an 800MHz and a 512MB RAM set? It will be bit sluggish Docs will be furnished with more space beside the virtual keyboard Landscape-oriented video playback (larger size and less letterboxing) Samsung's S Beam transfers data between NFC devices Improved call-management tools App and iTunes Stores redesigned Video out isn't supported by that new adapter (a Lightning-to-VGA or Lightning-to-HDMI cable will be required) "An entire city is in the ocean, a farm has been labeled as an airport, highways end in the middle of nowhere and a hospital now covers the entire center of British city Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare's home" Yahoo reports on Maps app Apps that uses Google Maps/data, will be redirected to Apple's new map venture Free turn-by-turn navigation Name your home with a pseudo (any name other than "Home") as a security measure. Otherwise it will be easier for thieves to track you down to your dining room or somewhere more inconvenient Siri isnt AI-the-perfect, you dont have to bother about the context of what you command Siri's dictation isn't perfect (Now I've got two shes that everytime get the opposite of what I command. Wow! They say Steve Jobs is a visionary. For whats sake? They say he had a passion for electronics and used to screw things since he was a child) Details such as road names seems greater Data transmission speeds are reportedly at or above comparable Android LTE devices Switching between 3G and 4G connectivity, the iPhone 5 does an excellent job at finding and keeping signals The Maps app does public transportation directions, but in a different way. When you click on that bus-shaped icon, it directs you to do a search for "Routing Apps" in the App Store and you'll be redirected to a list of apps that offer you public transit information (though non exists at the time) Maps will list some important POIs, mostly gas stations and convenience shops etc You can send texts or emails, or make phone calls with her without unlocking the phone She does weather forecasts and stock prices too Reportedly, AT&T is still honoring grandfathered unlimited plans for those who bought the original iPhone. Better stick with AT&T If it is wires that matters most to you such as Lightning, go wireless "If iphone doesnt do what I want, there is still one option, "Early Termination," when I convinced my wife, she demanded two tickets for the new flick (from Sylvester with Arnold) New Lightning is nearly 20 percent faster than previous solutions. But whether its purely a cable miracle or internal hardware marvel is unknown Video capturing seems to gather more noise than before Public transports dismissed but you can get directions for driving or walking (if you were just confused over all this public transportation missing link) 3D flyover, just a two-finger swipe away Apple executives say the smaller "Lightning" connector allowed it to make the iPhone 5 and new iPod Touch thinner. Now I get it! AT&T has said you'll be able to keep using your existing plan if you upgrade to the iPhone 5 Will Strauss, an analyst at Forward Concepts, which studies chips, says the iPhone 5's all glass and aluminum body precludes it from using NFC Even if your contract is up on AT&T and you have an unlimited plan, you can still get an iPhone 5 and keep the unlimited plan Google slashed the price of its Maps API by 88 per cent The Panorama stitches a 360-degree wide image together. Next time you can send a 360-degree image of your new invention to the kickstarter.com easily Just utter "give me directions to'" to Siri, she will transform herself into a GPS When you purchase the iPhone 5 through AT&T or Apple, it includes a SIM, and you activate it with your number through iTunes. You won't have to swap cards or go to a store either The Apple's Facebook app API is public, so non-Apple apps can share to Facebook too Verizon has a larger 4G LTE coverage than AT&T and Sprint New customers of Verizon can choose only a shared data plan (costs more eventually. If your after Verizon, share a plan with the family members or room mates or you can use multiple devices) AT&T offers customers to choose a shared data plan or an individual "tiered" plan. Better if you're on a budget Your Facebook friends' App Store recommendations will be visible. No need to waste time on forums asking for best apps Older apps run letterboxed (tiny black bars on the top and bottom) Non optimized Apps still work perfectly fine even letterboxed ,especially in portrait mode New 16:9 aspect ratio reduces or removes letterboxing across the screen in landscape mode YouTube videos looks great LTE comes with expensive rates and data caps The landscape 16:9 aspect ratio closes to the dimensions of a standard HDTV screen and most game console screens. Game developers will be happier The bottom is freshly filled with new shiny stuff, the headphone jack, the larger, redesigned speakers, a new type of perforated grille and a tiny Lightning connector port Airplay Mirroring $649 for the 16GB with no contract Maps replaces the lock screen image when the phone's lying idle and when required (for turn by turn nav etc) Snaps are lightning-fast, faster than an i4 You can capture multiple shots with quick tapping. Though its not a multiburst, a triple-tap can shoot three photos. Something that wasnt available in i4 Forget about LTE, international roaming is possible between 2G and 3G Low-light pictures, grainier and lower resolution than images taken in bright-light Slide two fingers up or down on either end of the screen, you can flyover 3Dly Rotate the maps with two fingers Go straight to the north by tapping a compass The virtual keyboard in landscape mode provides more space to t[humb+t]ype The anodized aluminum is the same as that on its MacBook laptop counterpart Lightning port-speaker dock incompatibility Its interesting to see that an updated HDMI adapter will be coming soon, along with a VGA one for projectors and other displays Analog and USB audio will flow scot free. But its a speaker dock, an adapter and your iphone on top of them. How it will look like? Works with USB 2.0, won't work with USB 3.0 or Thunderbolt or even Micro-USB In landscape mode, text gets bigger and thus better because page width stretches out. More words fit on a single line If you go astray up or down, Panorama will tell you to keep in line Ultimate goal of Passbook is about taking consumer activity paperless Three variants to comply with the various 4G LTE networks around. One for AT&T, another for Sprint and Verizon and a third to handle the LTE networks in Europe and Asia When you reach callers via speaker phone, they recieve a clearer call than i4 It's odd. Pages of e-books could feel more stretched In portrait mode, document text may not seem larger iPhone 5 doesn't look entirely different with the screen turned off iCloud Tabs, just like Android's live synchronisation to the Chrome Browser, which will be available with iOS 6's and Mountain Lion's Safari. A simple synchronised list of opened tabs between the devices Will icloud Tabs be available for users of Safari on other non-Apple devices? Still no words When you activate a new iPhone with your existing iCloud account, you can still have your old gold, including photos, apps, settings and passwords for email, calendars, Wi-Fi,and alarm times etc Android or Windows will download your apps but you have to fill in the settings and recreate your alarms and app settings Turning off notifications with iOS 5 notification center was tricky. Do Not Disturb seems to fix that. It allows to easily schedule time From the browser to the photo gallery, there is a share button. Its an universal list which grows, depending on what software and services you have installed (from Facebook to your SMS messenger to Bluetooth transfers and even Pinterest if you install it) On carriers without LTE, the iPhone 5 will run on dual-band 3.5G HDPA+. "I was in NYC at a Wall Street dinner and everyone put their BB's on the table; not a single Iphone. I asked the bankers why and they said, they are in the business of business and not the toy business" one reader of a leading web portal commented	GSM (850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900) 3G (HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100) 4G LTE Touch-sensitive controls Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen 16M colors 720 x 1280 pixels 4.8 inches Mumbo Jumbo display Multitouch Corning Gorilla Glass 2 TouchWiz UI v4.0, fine tuned 1 GB RAM WLAN, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n and DLNA Wi-Fi Direct Wi-Fi hotspot NFC microUSB v2.0 (MHL) USB On-the-go 8 MP cam Autofocus LED flash Simultaneous HD video and image recording Touch focus Image stabilization 1080p video recording @30fps Secondary 1.9 MP cam which captures 720p videos @30fps Android v4.0.4 Quad-core 1.4 GHz Cortex-A9 CPU Mali-400MP GPU Accelerometer Gyro RGB sensor Proximity Sensor Compass Barometer Threaded view Adobe Flash Stereo FM radio with RDS GPS with A-GPS support MicroSIM card support only TV-out (via MHL A/V link) SNS integration MP4/DivX/XviD/WMV Document editor (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF) Swype Predictive text input Stand-by Up to 590 hours on 2G and up to 790 hours on 3G Talk time Up to 21 hours and 40 minutes on 2G and Up to 11 hours and 40 minutes on 3G The whole the concept is 'inspired by nature', Samsung claims. Wanna proof? touch the lock screen and you'll see a little water ripple and a little water drop sound can be heard too. Natural isnt it? All plastic. Feels cheap Lightweight It has an HD screen. But there are few other options at the market at the moment too, like Nexus, Note and One X 309ppi pixel density Good contrast ratio Large display Excellent colour reproduction Colours balanced. The thing doesnt seem so saturated or harsh like previous Super AMOLEDs Bulky for small hands. Not for your dirty reckless sister A more interactive lock screen Touchwiz re-touched The dock at the bottom of the display now houses five favourite items including the app menu S voice needs training to be sharp tuned Notification light The video player supports almost every codec Pop Up Play. You can watch a video with it while doing some other tasks by pressing icons at the corner of the video. A video playing Multi tasker The music player as it is in the predecessor, UI not enhanced AllShare Cast Available in 16GB, 32GB and 64GB internal memory versions. Upto 64GB supported through microSD card. 50GB out of Dropbox and SugarSync also present, a Memorysaur! A larger than before display. Typing served well Three photos manually per second 20 photos in a row (at six per second) in burst mode HDR, panorama, Smile Shot, Beauty Mode and few others present "PlayMovies" from Google present Music Hub Gamer Hub S Beam allows you to send content between phones over NFC at 300Mbps Only Samsung I9300 handsets are capable of handling S Beam S Beam-enabled smartphones are sparse on the market 2100mAh battery LTE, HSPA+, Wi-Fi, a GPS, GLONASS, Bluetooth 4.0, and NFC, all inclusive Samsung's own quad-core Exynos processor, though each core clocked at 1.4GHz, isnt as power efficient as other chips, such as Qualcomm's Snapdragon S4 The polycarbonate smartphone chassis material, the standard nowadays, isnt what you get with this Samsung Galaxy S3 is no exception!. None of the Android devices natively Sync with Outlook's PST file. The only two software bundles which have succeeded in doing so, and correctly, are Microsoft's ActiveSync and the Blackberry Desktop so far Zero shutter lag Backside illuminated sensor Its TouchWiz, updates wont roll in so fast Video-calls Non-PenTile screen, heart broken? The subpixel density is still on par with what you got from the S II A whole new sensor for the camera Build up from glossy plastic, Samsung Hyperglaze coating doesnt improve the feel and the handling of the device. Finger prints not curbed well The design is far from perfect The display settings menu offers four different modes to choose from. Namely, Livelier dynamic, Standard, Natural and Movie. What a flexibility!. Does your ******* offer that? Sunlight legibility is a splendour. However HD Super AMOLED isn't the brightest display around. You get a meager reflectivity which is surprisingly manageable Wide viewing angles (Colors are lost when one reaches the extreme angles though) Icons and text are perfectly clear, when one reaches the extreme angles though colors get a bit distortion Ambient light Sensor No dedicated camera key again microUSB port can be used for both, data connections and charging. USB host MHL, HD TV-out connectivity Have to purchase an adapter to use HD TV-out connectivity You can enable a news ticker at the bottom of the lockscreen The homescreen and the app drawer host only four icons on a row The app drawer houses upto five icon rows Some widgets are resizable Can pinch to zoom out and easily manage, add, delete or rearrange homescreen panes Can't have more than seven homescreen panes. Isnt it enough? The performance of the camera is improved An F/2.6 aperture unlike what we saw in the S2, F/2.65 and a focal length of 3.7 mm against the 3.97 mm of the Galaxy S II. This means bit wider viewing angles and more from your photos Noise is well controlled Higher resolution inclines towards a more unearthly color saturation and the "Result?", images may seem unrealistic Q: What did the big candle said to the small candle on its birthday? A: Your too young to go out! Phone's backlit displays usually go out according to the time you set it to be that way. With Smart Stay, light remains as long as your eyes are glued to the screen. Next time you do something the display wont dim or cut it out in the middle of the _______ When you're fiddling with contacts, reading or writing a message to a contact, and suddenly decide calling is the better option than mere texting, do a "Direct call". Just take the phone close to your ear at the very instance and your done New cool gesture controls, (A) Shake it! It will detect nearby Bluetooth devices, update emails, news or weather apps. (B) Double-tap on the top of the device, you will be taken to the top of a scrollable list. (C) Turn the phone over! It mutes calls, kill media and radio playback (D) A hand sweep across the screen will capture Screenshots (E) Hold the palm against the screen, it will pause the media playback. Yikes!, it will plast a big ugly palm print on the screen though (F) Hold finger against the display and rotate the phone to landscape mode. The camera is accessed from the lock screen At times the responsiveness of the S voice is bit laggy Can grab 720p videos using the front-facing cam S Voice - the voice commando of the Galaxy S3 and the arch nemesis of the Siri. You can voice command it to accept or reject calls, take pictures, set alarms and search the big G etc Pop up play is a thing to consider. It plays videos in separate windows, which is draggable around and resizable. While sinking the Titanic, it will text or surf too An innovative eye-tracking method, "Smart Stay". It will track your eyes when looking at the display, and dim it when you're not When you have missed calls and messages, the "Smart alert" will notify it, vibrating exactly when you pick it up without knowing what was going on while you were fishing away from the phone The average bitrate of the 720p videos that you take with the front cam is 12Mpbs and even they are accompanied with stereo sound too Images even taken in the burst mode, are of full 8 MP resolution S Beam allows you to share all sorts of media via NFC. But it actually uses WiFi to transfer data swiftly Take near full- resolution pictures (these are cropped to an aspect ratio of 16:9) The S voice is reluctant of too much detailed or lengthy demands The Pop up player is brisk enough to handle both videos in a seperate window and other tasks at the other hand With S Beam you can even transfer webpages and contacts S Beam provides only the stock "Android Beam" functionality Truth speaking, S III's actual capturing capabilities are capped at a maximum of 20 consecutive shots. Its said to be capable of capturing full resolution shots at 3.3fps for much longer than what it delivers now HD video recording delivered without any delay During video recording you can also shoot full- res 16:9 snaps The Buddy photo feature automatically recognises people from your contact profiles and enables the Samsung I9300 Galaxy S III to tag pictures accordingly Easier to hold and less likely to slip even when your taking snaps Heavier than the S2 The Smart Stay will drain your battery life The S voice even works when music is playing The S voice wont answer you back Pop up player's seperate video window is very tiny The Pop Up Player is the best bet for video conferencing while doing some essential tiny tasks An optical zoom is absent You wont notice even a slight lag when switching between home screens and launching apps You can pre-configure photos to be automatically sorted out and placed in ideal groups based on such criteria as faces, contacts or location All Share PLay, wireless transfer to all other connected devices The camea app will deliberately choose the best shot from a bunch of photos taken with the Burst Mode, analysing smile detection, blink detection, contrast and blurring Face Zoom, tap on a face when shooting a crowd shot and the camera will zoom in automaticlly. The Social Tag instinctly figure out faces from any pics and automatically offer to text the image to the people featured in the image. But be careful, it wont fix Moods 'Buddy Photo Share', displays social media profiles directly on a photograph when those faces are recognised Flipboard No black version Outdated design Wireless charging Allshare Cast which lets you put whatever is on your screen on a larger display like a TV The Best Shot mode only takes eight photos to choose the best one from The 4G doesn't work with the Exynos. In States they will be selling it with the 4G compatible snapdragon CPU. US snapdragon version is only a Dual Core Wide-angle lens Blink detection Majestic audio quality Really slim Full Flash compatible web browser File manager preinstalled The best JavaScript performance by a phone browser, beats HTC One S, New Apple iPad and HTC One X The Mali-400MP inside the Galaxy S III beats both the iPhone 4S and iPad 2's SGX 543MP2 The Galaxy S III shows the best 3D performance by an Android Future-proof S-Beam doesn't require any setup like Bluetooth The device is already rooted. Custom ROMs will overflow The HTC One X is sugar coated in polycarbonate unibody, screen is brighter, has a non-PenTile LCD and comes as a dual-core Krait processor version as well as a 4G LTE one for AT&T Smart Stay, Direct call, S Beam, Burst shot and S Voice have already set trends The HTC One S has a metalic unibody Announced Optimus LTE2 will be equipped with 2GB RAM and a 4.7" 720p TrueHD screen Huawei's Ascend D quad will bring a Dolby Mobile 3.0 Plus The D Quad XL comes with a gigantic 2500mAh battery Bluetooth transfer rate is 21Mbps WiFi is compatible with both 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands Twin AllShare functions, AllShare Play (to transfer data and multimedia files to your notebook or PC) and AllShare Cast (to stream things to and from different type of gadgets with monitors like TV or computer over DLNA Double tap, pinch zooming, two-finger tilt zoom, all still awaiting your fiddlings in the browser Browser is empowered with Multiple tabs, text reflow, find on page and tabs view The stock Galaxy S III browser plays 1080p Flash videos With the Incognito mode, you can surf the web in rose. It doesnt log history or store cookies Social hub centralizes email accounts, social networking backgrounds and IM accounts SocialHub shows all incoming messages as one list In the SocialHub, messages can be filtered by message source US music dominance is over and King of Pop is officially declared dead. But still you can try dry Yankee Chanks on "Music Hub". You can have 30 seconds long previews of any song before buying any junks which are flavoured with dazzling dumb jackass visuals Readers Hub is gone and here comes the Google's Play Books store Game Hub lets you try-before-you-buy The GameHub houses titles by Gameloft and EA (not available on the Google Play Store) The almighty Polaris Office preinstalled The Polaris comes with a PDF viewer, act as a file manager and also can be integrated with Google Docs or Box.net Polaris editables include, text style, justification, paragraph formatting, bullets and for the first time creating tables Excel file editor includes a formula wizard, option to resize rows/columns, border style, merge cells and few more The advent of S Memo from the Galaxy Note; The Memo app is fully equipped with a rich set of tools and let you do drawings You can buy a specially designed display-friendly ball pen sold by Samsung exclusively for the delightful Memo app S Diary lets attach pictures to the text The built in YouTube app doesnt keep pace with the resolution the stock browser's flash player provide With A-GPS turned off, GPS receiver takes few minutes to get a satellite lock Voice-guided navigation When you plan a route to stride on with the GPS app, Navigation caches the needed maps beforehand and keeps them in stock. So a data connection is only required when you initiate the planning of the path. The Reroute option enables you to detour off the pre determined course without connecting to the Net Can send and fetch contacts to the SIM and from the SIM The imported contacts from the SIM arent displayed along with the phone memory entries Lag in boot The phone book finds and joins duplicate contact entries A kiss from Russia; You can translate just composed message into a totally different language or translate a message you recieved that is natively in Greek to a language your more convenient at During a call, you can take a note, use the keypad, mute, hold the call or add another call to the ongoing conversation if necessary The built in email app handles multiple POP or IMAP inboxes and comes with a combined inbox, which centers all mail in a single directory The native Gmail app supports multiple Gmail accounts, but lacks a single inbox The QWERTY keyboard offers very handy keys that are big enough to strike with fury when your cheated In landscape mode, the keyboard fills up a huge chunk of the display. Compromised! The incoming calls can be assigned a specific vibration pattern from available onces or custom made onces Chapter preview enables user of previewing chapters in videos with lively playing thumbnails All eight video thumbnails in the video player will be playing at the moment your staring at them dumbfounded When Buddy Share fails, you can manually highlight faces and guide it to do the job SoundAlive audio- enhancing also resides in the video player Video player supports .WMV, .AVI, DivX, XviD, .MP4 .MKV Can record radio broadcasts The Radio app lets you save 8 stations as favorites In the Radio mode, you cannot turn on the loudspeaker without the headset hitched. It works as the antenna. You know what it means?, its Mono Smart Dial Voice dialing is powered by S Voice My files file manager reads the memory card and the internal storage but doesnt favour the system drive Volume levels, when hooked to an external amplifier are not that good The music player is accompanied by the sound-enhancing SoundAlive techo, which houses the 7.1 channel virtualization High Resolution, FullHD files, how large or small they are, Galaxy S3 plays them all HDR mode for high-contrast scenes When the Social tag identify a face in a photo, their social status can be seen on screen. You can call or message the person in person too Photos are bit greeny Finds the right white balance even indoors under artificial light circumstances The split view in the message department and the email app, allocates the left side of the screen to a list of emails and messages and the right side to the corresponding message. But still reading from a half of the screen is still a mess Equalizer presets and a custom one Both video player and music player feature DLNA. You can play tracks on your own player and tracks reside on nearby devices through WiFi There is a limit to resizing of widgets. Most widgets are pre defined a minimum and a maximum resizable size The bitrate of recorded HD videos is about 17-18Mbps. There will be no traces of compression Swipes in the phonebook; right swipe for quick dialing or simply left swipe for messaging Click the home key twice, the voice control will be in action Volume rocker Stereo crosstalk will be having business in when you plug in a pair of headphones. But a remarkable overall performance Live Wallpapers; The News wall brings a slideshow of headlines, Stock wall does the stock quotes while Photo wall will fetch photos from the Gallery A smart search option in messages area. It finds the saucy message that your ______ just sent you, if you do the search with the right or exact keywords that your wife may use. It wont get lost in the wild forest of other messages and get caught by wrong hands, audience or draw unhealthy attention A big tap to compose box. Either S Voice or Google's native voice recognition app can be used for texting instead of typing Music square; the new mood fixer The camera uses the same field of view either you're recording 1080p or 720p videos The video subtitle files are well catered. Each time you play a subtitled video you dont have to name the relevant subtitle file so that it bear the same name as the video file. It shows a list of subtitle files that available and let you pick the right one With the Menu key, you can conduct a Google search. But it needs a long press Hold the Home key down for a while, the task switcher will pop up The app drawer features a tab that lets you drop widgets to the homescreen with an ease The zoomed-out view in the app drawer enables the user rearrange pages easily A "Remove all" button in the Task Manager A second clock on the lockscreen, will show off while roaming You can hide apps S Voice is capable of understanding English, French, Spanish, Korean, Italian and German dishes. But better dont go too far. Its still premature When adding recipients to messages, as soon as you type names or numbers, a list of matching contacts names or numbers are displayed Tap on a contact, all the available details are displayed The second tab in the Phonebook shows the accumulated social data of contacts including updates etc S Voice does the work of a calculator too The S voice can be activated by voice. Just try "Hi Galaxy" or "Hi Buddy" (it supports custom made onces too, but put your stinky custom tailored trousers away from it) The S voice can solely depend on voice commands from the very activating. But it severely drains the battery You can S voice and drive but dont drink meanwhile S Voice does search the net, make calls, send texts, do notification area toggles, control the music player, look up weather and traffic , set timers and alarms, snooze them, launch apps, take pictures (just say "Cheese!" when your in the cam app), update social status and look up facts While dictating S voice to write things down, dont overload it with all the fancy command stuff in your head. It will crash on your palm The speech to text transcription doesnt come close to Siri The fact machine; the Wolfram Alpha which empowers Siri's answers, is in charge of handling S voice's factology. In case your curious, it only pulls out the relevant databits out of Alpha and will show you more details only if you have the necessity to have a look at more. It totally differs from Siri which pulls all the information once With the built in Gmail app you can archive, label and delete emails in batch. In inbox, swiping left or right makes it easy to move between messages Can do voice commands right on the lockscreen The video player has three crop modes. Tune in until one fits your taste and the screen most Full fledged PowerPoint presentations are served (and editable too) Task switcher provides a screen shot for each running app No dedicated search button To kill an app in the Task Switcher, all you have to do is swipe the app left or right Can view newly downloaded apps seperate in App Drawer From now on, your editing on a 4.8-inches large HD Super AMOLED display. It will be easier than with any other tiny display to do that Vector maps are lighter. Wont eat much data Kies Air; it connects to Wi-Fi or will create a Wi-Fi hotspot if necessary and hand over you an URL generously. Type it in the address bar of your PC web browser and then onwards, you can manage contacts, messages, compose messages, view images, videos, brows files from your very desktop browser In the app drawer, you can rearrange icons or list them alphabetically No one click access to the task switcher, have to press and hold the home button The Google Play Store is easy to navigate than ever before with easy to scrollable tabs and categories like featured, top paid, top free, top grossing, top new paid, top new free and trending etc Some of the Apps in the Google Play Store has demo videos too You can also figure out how dominant or capable of apps are by checking out comments, ratings and the number of downloads in the Store More Samsung Galaxy S3 pros and cons More Samsung Galaxy S3 Facts, FAQ and Q&A sheet - Most frequently asked questions Samsung Galaxy S3, what users have to say