After going for a birthday card for my wife and ending up with a Galaxy S3, I though I would do a new user review after a couple days of use.
after charging the phone and putting it on the allowed list for my WiFi. I signed into googleplay account thingy. Within seconds all my app's were downloading and within 10 mins I was up and running.
Even though it is bigger than the S2 it doesn't feel like it when in the hand. The curving of the body helps this.
The screen is of course bigger than the S2 and is very nice, especially the transitions between screens for your apps.
It runs like a lightsaber through butter but there is one little feature I love the led notification light that tells you when you have missed something.
Im sure I'll find others things as I explore it both good and bad.
But inital impressions are very good

Got one myself today, looking good so far.

Cool

White or Blue?

(strangely, I was asked this question by a cashpoint machine yesterday...)

Jon

I went blue, love the screen just need to get some sort of protection for it.

Starting to get to grips with the S3, took a bit of getting use to after the Desire. So missing Sense but adapting well me thinks.

I like Sense.

Forgot to mention, my S3 has picked up a fault, at the moment I can’t hear or be heard when making or receive calls, no dialling noise and no voices. Sometime when making a call there is a long pause and then I get an instant out of service message and I lose signal. Signal comes back after a few minutes, when I try again same problem.

I’ve done a reset, a full factory reset and a firmware update but no joy. So the phone’s got to go back to T-Mobile….. DOH!

You're holding it wrong

Probably...

Getting an SIII as company phone. The boss wanted me to get an iPhone, said I prefer something else and as I just ordered 2 SIIIs for Support, I got to order one for myself as well.

The same thing happened to me yesterday, whilst using the wife's iPhone... turns out that I was holding the phone upside down

As an aside, this is one of the big ergonomic failings of the current generation of smartphones and the iPhone 4 in particular, because it's extremely symmetrical.

There are basically four ways to hold a phone - right side up & right way round, right side up & wrong way round, wrong side up & right way round, wrong side up & wrong way round.

Only one of those ways - right side up and right way round - is actually what you want to do to use the phone. With most smartphones, there' s no obvious orientation changes or marks that allow you to know 'blind' whether you've grabbed it the right way when it's on your pocket or bag. Every time you pick it up, you've got a 3 in 4 chance before you use it you've got to re-orientate it in some way (or wait for the internal sensors to swing the screen 180 degrees for you, which is often slower than doing it yourself). With most Phones the back is at least a different material than the front but with the iPhone 4, even those are identical.

It would be ergonomically much better if the phones were asymmetrical in a way which would allow you by feel to always pick them up the right way. The back & front should feel different and ideally the top and bottom should too.

Or..... be able to use your smart phone for calls which ever way you pick it up or hold it!








You heard it here first Apple hands off.

I guess the argument is that you have to look at the phone to answer the call with touch-screens, so perhaps it matters less? On my olde Nokia, the answer button is dead centre, so it's quite easy to answer a call with the phone upside down (but not back-to-front).