Apple iPhone 5 vs. Samsung Galaxy S III: All rise

25 October 2012
When we review phones we try to put them in context, and tie everything up with a snapshot of the market and the closest alternatives. Now, we usually keep droids and iPhones separate because honestly they just don’t mix. But every now and then...

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  • Apple fan for death
  • SaV
  • 13 Dec 2012

iPhone has an excellent build quality and a very very simple program (iOS) and the android has a disorder os no in order like a farm.the iPhone has also a simple designe who make him a premium top modest phone.smsung is laughing on you it is plastic worded than nokia who agree ?

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    • Nono
    • tui
    • 13 Dec 2012

    alex, 11 Dec 2012Really well im a Samsung fanboy welcome to my world where S... moreChildish comments....try use iphone 1st than talk...get someone who using iphone and get advice.....

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      • Rechard
      • P@T
      • 12 Dec 2012

      AnonD-46560, 07 Dec 2012Oh really? Mr Joker, i mean MadJoker (your username).... We... moreThat why I don't use IPHONE.

      IOS has alot of App as you said 700k app but can use only its hardware(Only one manufacture)

      Do you think that you are living in one box?

      We are not living a lone in this world.
      I am not even proud of IOS.

      Android only one but can use a lot of manufacture hardwares.

      which one is better ?
      Which on is the good leader?
      Now it is Solidarity era. Not living in Hitler period.
      You cannot live alone.
      I don't like Apple.

      Even the charger also differ from other.
      One day it will fail when everyone understand its marketing strategies.


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        • Liohomongertortoratt
        • jY@
        • 12 Dec 2012

        Lenn, 09 Dec 2012Galaxy 3 blows Iphone 5 out of the water. Maybe next year t... moreAgree 100%.

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          • Liohomongertortoratt
          • jY@
          • 12 Dec 2012

          Galaxy win. Apple got so good that they have nothing to upgrade. I'm impressed with the galaxy!!! ;)

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            • AnonD-88355
            • 6Cx
            • 11 Dec 2012

            the iphone was never the the best phone i have ever
            used samsung,sony,asus,and google are the best!

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              • applefan & fandr
              • uEB
              • 11 Dec 2012

              AnonD-46560, 07 Dec 2012Oh really? Mr Joker, i mean MadJoker (your username).... We... moreuser-experience?? statifaction?? oh really?? ios really lacks that. what can you do with it??? come on, open your eyes don't just see apple whatever is the best.

              yeah, i like how the application developer develop their apps first in iOs. because when it succeed, they may continue their works because android is more complicated, and more devices. if developer going to develop android first, they wont get they standards and confuse because android got different os architecture on each brand.

              what i like iOS device from first iphone until these days is a fluidity. you using heavy apps but you can just exit it like that. i love that :D

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                • alex
                • 9Fm
                • 11 Dec 2012

                AnonD-46560, 07 Dec 2012Oh really? Mr Joker, i mean MadJoker (your username).... We... moreReally well im a Samsung fanboy welcome to my world where Samsung is the worlds number 1 smartphone maker,seller and number 1 technology company by revenue. When it comes to innovation Samsung always leads the way the icrap 5 has no innovative features like Smart Stay, S-Beam or Smart Select. The Galaxy S3 is twice the phone the iphone 5 will ever be and even though the design of the iphone 5 is better only an idiot would take a phone because it looks better. I mean u might as well go buy a great looking house but when u get there its problems galore so my conclusion is buy an iphone its the same as a toy. Buy a Galaxy S3 and get a robot. Simple choice, if your not an itroll.

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                  • xxxx
                  • uvj
                  • 10 Dec 2012

                  AnonD-84374, 06 Dec 2012no matter how many times you losers comment iphone cant eve... more@madjoker:say whatever about iphone vs s3,that s3 is better,bigger,etc.but just think once again when you mention laptops and computers.samsung WINS????!!!!HAHAHAHAHA.What a BULLSHIT!!!!Sony is already miles ahead of samsung in laptops.Apple and Sony are the best developers of computers,be that a desktop or a laptop.Plus you can get windows on all Macs.

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                    • oindrila
                    • t}S
                    • 09 Dec 2012

                    Iphone5 is better than s3

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                      • Lenn
                      • AEu
                      • 09 Dec 2012

                      Galaxy 3 blows Iphone 5 out of the water. Maybe next year they'll be able to touch the Iphones together, ha ha.

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                        • Anonymous
                        • mVx
                        • 08 Dec 2012

                        i phone is better than samsung s 3

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                          • kirk
                          • 9xB
                          • 08 Dec 2012

                          AnonD-46560, 07 Dec 2012Oh really? Mr Joker, i mean MadJoker (your username).... We... morestatus symbol? ur proud to let people know ure rich? it answers most of the questions iphone haters ask. i bet you don't even care what the phone even does for you. you just want to show off to ur buds how rich you are. that's a really really sick thing you have going on. rotten to the core. have you watched the news lately? wake up and ask people if what you just said is something to be proud of. that's what i hate most about gold diggers and social climbers.

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                            • AnonD-86930
                            • n15
                            • 08 Dec 2012

                            I think the gaming section has missed an important advantage of Android devices over iPhone. It is able to run all kind of emulators (without any hack like a jailbreak) and flashgames which gives it access to an immense pool of games.

                            And the lack of an accessible filesystem makes many workflows anything but easy to use. Its not just "freedom", it hinders workflows and often has you take a lot of steps in comparison to Android (and hopefully other mobile OSes)

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                              • Cocaineinmyveins
                              • QyT
                              • 07 Dec 2012

                              Awesome review

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                                • thgun
                                • 3Dp
                                • 07 Dec 2012

                                Hi hi had the iphone 4s then switched to the Galaxy S3. To be honest as I own an ipod touch, to me it was just ia hyped up version of a touch with phone caperbilities. I like both but I prefer my S3 to the Iphone when it comes to accessability. Apple are to limmiting, restricting in what you can do with a mobile. Ok the iphone is easy to use simple basic functions. Ok for anyone new to a smartphone but would they pay the price. I've been a nokia user for years and always had a Symbian handset since the launch of the 7610 .To go from that to an iphone its like a downgrade when it comes to what you can do and fuctions installed. (Compare the first iPhonein 2007 with that of the Nokia N95 launched at that time and see what you get) Also upgrading like I do, quality over quantity is not my thing. Oh and if your friends don't do apple then your stuffed apart fron phone calls and sms/mms and email. Neither handsets are perfect and theres always going to be another one around the corner to rival that so get used to it I have.

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                                  • AnonD-46560
                                  • t1$
                                  • 07 Dec 2012

                                  AnonD-84374, 06 Dec 2012no matter how many times you losers comment iphone cant eve... moreOh really? Mr Joker, i mean MadJoker (your username).... We iPhone 5 supporters are loosers?? Well yes i am an apple fanboy and i have enough reason for being so. No, i don't own an iPhone 5, but IT'S TRUE THAT iOS IS WAY AHEAD FROM ANDROID. Popular apps like instagram and angry birds (and many many others) were first launched for iPhone and they are still called iPhone apps which are later made available for android. Many android users who were iPhone users earlier have admitted that same apps have looked and felt much better on iPhone (it's my own experience too). Apple app store has over 700k apps and has marked 25 BILLION downloads almost 6 months before Google play.

                                  Now the biggest point: THERE ARE MANY smartphone makers who make android phones, so many android phones launch every year even samsung itself launches so many galaxy series phones; but Apple launches JUST ONE iPhone every year... Still iOS is 2nd most popular OS (Of course Android is 1st cause as i said, there are hundreds of phones from several manufacturers)... So being MOST HYPED SMARTPHONE and 2nd most popular phone in the world in spite of just 1 phone a year..... Are multi million iPhone users all over the world all LOOSERS???

                                  And trust me my friend, many including me have felt, said and agreed that, iPhone creates a much better user experience, a solidness, a satisfaction, feeling of being status rich, IT'S A HUGE STATUS SYMBOL..... Why it is so over-hyped?? Cause it somewhere deserves of being SO... :)

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                                    • Anonymous
                                    • f32
                                    • 06 Dec 2012

                                    iphone cannot even bluetooth from one device to another not even iphone to iphone, where as samsung can, all the apps that you get on iphone you can get on the new samsung aswell even viber.
                                    i wont go back to use any other phone than samsung s ranges

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                                      • GS junior
                                      • wMH
                                      • 06 Dec 2012

                                      Iphone 5 is the best.........

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                                        • AnonD-84374
                                        • utb
                                        • 06 Dec 2012

                                        no matter how many times you losers comment iphone cant even come close to the king of phones "s3" even though it released 6 months b4 applein may 2012/smartphones ...apple couldnt even come close to the tech that s3 has any ways having said that apple is losing and facing heat from all directions from samsung weather its laptops computer s or moblie/phones they might last for a few more years