Samsung Galaxy S III Jelly Bean review: Bread and butter

1 October 2012
The official rollout of the Galaxy S III Jelly Bean update has finally started. In the next few weeks it should land on just about every Exynos-powered S III unit out there, letting it have a taste of the latest and greatest from Android...

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  • AnonD-104180
  • LE{
  • 22 Jan 2013

Thanks for this informative post! I was having big troubles with the S3 even before upgrade it to JB. After my supplier company fixed those issues, I upgraded to JB (has worked just fine) and I noticed the battery long time to charge and almost the same battery life and thought it was the device, now I know is an issue with the OS, hope they can fix that, meanwhile I'll find a nokia charger as an advice on a previous comment lol. Eventhough I've decided to not use Samsung devices anymore(at least until my supplier's contract ends) and definitely will go with Apple.

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    • Anonymous
    • t1$
    • 17 Jan 2013

    I recently updated my s3 to jb having lot of problems after update.my phn lagging in processing and opening up of contacts call log and it automatically switchesoff.can I wait for next update or it's better to degrade??

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      • lee
      • N9@
      • 14 Jan 2013

      Updated a week ago in. Nigeria n everything is good to me

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        • AnonD-100379
        • jBu
        • 13 Jan 2013

        simple.answer to all your question switch to ios device I used iphone for 4 yrs and never had these issues but now when I switched to note2 constantly im having speed laging and simple things being more complecated in android device sure they might have more features but when was the last time you used uncommon features .simplicity error free no junk advertising I work go for iphone any day people who havrnt use iphone will hate it but once you use it youll know y people stick with android guyz will never undetstand the rnd which have been put into ios software

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          • tableleg
          • mWX
          • 13 Dec 2012

          Those motional jerks in Galaxy S3 video takes are not caused by the image stabilizer, but by the video camera randomly skipping 1 to 3 frames in every three seconds.

          This is reported by the Finnish Tekniikan Maailma (Technical World) Magazine in their recent smartphone evaluation (iPhone 5, Nokia Lumia 920 and Samsung Galaxy S3).

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            • AnonD-88892
            • IVx
            • 13 Dec 2012

            After been using Jelly bean for about 1 week, i flash my S3 back to ICS due to screen freeze ( call log, Gallery...etc.), battery drain faster. Huge disappointment and won't upgrade anymore until it is fix. Btw, new functions doesn't bring any benefit to user unless the phone is work as fluid as what it should be in ICS.

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              • S3 User
              • XNt
              • 11 Dec 2012

              I belive the issue with phone working slow post update to JB is only in India I too have updated the same and facing problem. the quad qore is just for name it works very slow I reset the phone post upgrade worked fine for 1 days and again same issue. i have checked on other websites as well and only customer form India have faced sush issue. waiting for the next update which is expected by end on this year or early Jan. hope that fixes the issues with the phone

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                • sam
                • vGA
                • 11 Dec 2012

                for Music clearity xperia 'TX' is better or 'S3'...?? & for overall performance like speed, display, camera, extra features, etc etc.... which phone should i buy...?? m dam confused... please help me....

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                  • indraprasad
                  • sSM
                  • 07 Dec 2012

                  I am from india
                  I updated to jb b4 a week......
                  Am too disapointd with the performanc....
                  Seems lik phone has slowed down alot....
                  Guys nyone has a solution fr dis problm.......
                  If no then rolling back to ics ia betr....

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                    • Anonymous
                    • uu5
                    • 04 Dec 2012

                    when do galaxy s2 gets an official jellybean ?

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                      • AnonD-83514
                      • uvm
                      • 29 Nov 2012

                      Today I updated my s3 to jelly bean & I really happy that it really work smooth,fast & no problem with battery drain.Everything is perfect thanks to samsung & google.
                      From INDIA

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                        • Bharath
                        • ut3
                        • 29 Nov 2012

                        I recently update to 4.1.1 (India)on my s3 n since then faced a lot of problems. My battery takes VERY LONG to charge (almost 4 hours from 0-100) and the battery life also has seemed to reduce. Offline typing still isnt working and it says no connection to Google servers. The so-called PROJECT BUTTER works only on screen transition but time taken to open messaging, contacts is slow and for the first time i experienced a lag on a QUAD-CORE phone!

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                          • vinay
                          • vG6
                          • 28 Nov 2012

                          its been 3-4 daya since i updated my samsung galaxy S3 to jellybean and i am really disappointed with the performance.
                          The latest update has slowed down the phn and the screen freezes very frequently. there is a huge delay in even opening the call logs,contacts or making calls.
                          i noticed while making/recieving calls the screen shows the pic and number of the previous call that was made/recieved from the phone...

                          a really huge degradation in performance

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                            • AnonD-68680
                            • ut5
                            • 23 Nov 2012

                            disconnect from the charger..and switch it off and than switch on...and charge it...works normal..now

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                              • AnonD-46226
                              • Pxk
                              • 22 Nov 2012

                              after updated official jb on galaxy s3 it takes 10hours to full charge I'm trying everything to solve this problem but no result please help me to solve my problem

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                                • Kashif
                                • KIC
                                • 21 Nov 2012

                                I m using Samsung S3 n recently got updated to AndroidJB
                                JB is better in some aspects...like
                                1-blocking mode
                                2-re-sizing of popup video
                                3-extended web browsing time
                                but we aspects more from android n Samsung team, need to fix the delay while i opened my contacts or call log menu or even switch between them.
                                Thansk
                                Otherwise its a superb phone n nice update i love both of them

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                                  • uCm
                                  • 15 Nov 2012

                                  The jelly been is better than ics or not this thing meet me dont understand who is the better

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                                    • Anonymous
                                    • t7G
                                    • 10 Nov 2012

                                    Anonymous, 25 Oct 2012Updated to jelly bean. But after such, my charging time too... moreMe too..im from the philippines also..

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                                      • Anonymous
                                      • t7G
                                      • 10 Nov 2012

                                      khalid, 29 Oct 2012after upgrading to jelly bean my phone charges from 10-100%... moreMine to it takes 8-10 hrs to be fully charged after i updated to jb..but i changed my stock usb cable with nokia then it seems normal again..

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                                        • Anonymous
                                        • Hkq
                                        • 10 Nov 2012

                                        Are you guys having problem with official jelly bean?
                                        Coz right now i am with ICS and bit confused after reading comments..