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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  • 02 Oct 2012

Sanna , 02 Oct 2012This is not the Flat and Boring Wp.True, the flat and boring WP is smoother :D

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    • Michael
    • Ui{
    • 02 Oct 2012

    Galaxy Nexus already had the Jelly Bean update le

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      • Anonymous
      • nx2
      • 02 Oct 2012

      What About the rest of the phones? SGS2 / Galaxy R

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        • Sanna
        • M1w
        • 02 Oct 2012

        This is not the Flat and Boring Wp.

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          • donskie
          • n2K
          • 02 Oct 2012

          I updated mine via odin but i could not get offline voice support, it says couldn't reach google server, anyone having this problem?

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            • killer droid
            • qas
            • 02 Oct 2012

            AnonD-58527, 02 Oct 2012Project [tryhidelag] butter seems to have bloated it. slow... moredude you are a real h*ter. Wp is c**p and will not sell. Ugly tiles ya*k. Take a good look at The perfect os h*ter. Wp is not even a option it's between android, ios and black berry and the new bb10 will destroyed Wp chance in the market. I have an S3 and proud of it But bb10 is like Meego and I will buy one when it's going to sell. Because of the ui of bb10. Wp has the ugliest ui ever. It's so damn ugly ya*k!!!!!!!! WP8 will not make it like the other version. 1-Android 2-ios 3 - bb10 4 -bada. Yo see wp is not even there in term of number. Hail Google.

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              • Anonymous
              • t1{
              • 02 Oct 2012

              AnonD-58527, 02 Oct 2012Project [tryhidelag] butter seems to have bloated it. slow... morehey who ever u are just do not post here like mad, go to windows phone pages & post there.
              Throwing MUD on others is not good idea.
              So do not irritate others.

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                • Mike
                • Bgd
                • 02 Oct 2012

                Woo hoo! Waiting for the update then.

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                  • Bill
                  • UFD
                  • 02 Oct 2012

                  JiNkeEz, 02 Oct 2012"Now it will be able to extend its advantage over its ... moreThe Xiaomi Mi-Two will have very limited availability. I'm pretty sure that's why GSM Arena didn't consider it. :-)

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                    • AnonD-74148
                    • Iab
                    • 02 Oct 2012

                    AnonD-7818, 02 Oct 2012When will jb come here in PH? u can update ur phone to jelly bean by using mobile odin... ive got my gs3 updated to jb a day after the release in poland...

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                      • Iab
                      • 02 Oct 2012

                      so amazed with the updates... thumbs up sammy!!!

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                        • Anonymous
                        • FFh
                        • 02 Oct 2012

                        [deleted post]Actually he's right in the way. JB compensate lag by taxing more on the GPU. Where's everyone saying it will totally boost performance? From it appears, it didn't do anything or maybe made it worst by constantly eating more resources. Looks like this was a backward a$$ way to compromise a.k.a project stutter.

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                          • Anonymous
                          • Bqv
                          • 02 Oct 2012

                          I manually updated my s3 to jelly bean yesterday as I couldn't be bothered waiting for the ota update... this thing is a beast now...so much faster and smoother, battery life much improved , more personalizations Widgets etc... seems like it's free'd up about 250mb of ram also..
                          People saying ics owned jb in benchmark do not have a clue... geekbench went from already being the highest (1855)

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                            • AnonD-7818
                            • th9
                            • 02 Oct 2012

                            When will jb come here in PH?

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                              • Denzo
                              • sy9
                              • 02 Oct 2012

                              Good for Androids. UI looks ok to me.

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                                • prima
                                • vq9
                                • 02 Oct 2012

                                AnonD-15123, 01 Oct 2012iphone 5 is so much faster and better than galaxy s3 uhum yeah, oh and I heard that iPhone 5 has THE best map in the world, soooo much better than the google map, and that 4 inch screen? oh wow who would've thought of that, what an innovation huh?!?

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                                  • JiNkeEz
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                                  • 02 Oct 2012

                                  "Now it will be able to extend its advantage over its quad-core rivals, which are yet to receive the latest version of Android." ....
                                  "The Galaxy S III is now the only Android flagship smartphone to have the Jelly Bean goodies and time works in its favor."

                                  Sad to say, GSMA only consider hTC, LG, Motorala and Sony as S3's rivals. If they consider Xiaomi Mi-Two as rival of S3 then those statements above should be edited. Xiaomi Mi-Two packs quad-core S4 pro and runs Jelly Bean out of the box.

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                                    • tam
                                    • IkY
                                    • 02 Oct 2012

                                    wtf is this.. ics seems better than jb? how come the phone is downgrading

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                                      • AnonD-69266
                                      • 2IK
                                      • 02 Oct 2012

                                      Gsmarena, where is Note2 review? I wanr it so bad...

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                                        • AnonD-58527
                                        • PZU
                                        • 02 Oct 2012

                                        Project [tryhidelag] butter seems to have bloated it.
                                        slower in benchmarks vs ICS
                                        Now That's got to suck.

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