LG Optimus G v Samsung Galaxy S III: Beast wars

27 October 2012
LG is trying to recapture some old glory and released the first phone with Snapdragon S4 Pro - a next-generation chipset. The Samsung Galaxy S III has been out for several months now, but is still one of the best Androids on the market. Together...

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  • 29 Oct 2012

[deleted post]If GsmArena will wait for LG's update to JB then it will take half a year for that. Or maybe even longer.

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    • 555
    • v0e
    • 29 Oct 2012

    time to wake up from trap of samsung brand, purely comparing s3 & g, it is greater than s3 such as q-slide 13mp camera, video zoom-in etc.

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      • asdfsdfadf
      • 3IT
      • 29 Oct 2012

      optimus g is great choice but there ar no in my city yet! lg come or else! :P

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        • lover
        • q}H
        • 29 Oct 2012


        oh no... s3 was owned!!

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          • Anonymous
          • 2mC
          • 29 Oct 2012

          It should be LG optimus G vs Asus padfone 2 !!

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            • YuYu Alsalmi
            • 6tx
            • 28 Oct 2012

            LG Optimus G & Samsung Galaxy S III are both amazing devices
            Only apple is bad
            "nough said"

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              • Anonymous
              • 0Us
              • 28 Oct 2012

              Haters gonna hate! LG's back!

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                • Dan
                • sp3
                • 28 Oct 2012

                "Two people holding the phones cannot differentiate between their speeds."

                this is said earlyer by a very down to earth man. +1 to you sir, you have made my day!

                Aside from my personal feelings today I'd like to point out something related to the statement of one being unable to notice a difference in speed between phones.
                The older tech dudes among you remember well how computers were evolving back in the "Moore Law" days. From year to year you got to do more stuff with your computer, and more and the even more. Within 15 years we went from PCs running win95/Pentium to quad-core beasts runing winXP and the win7(and that not so succesful Vista) and the posibilities went from being able to see a few pictures on the internet to having cloud storage, videocards that rival supercomputers in raw power etc.
                In the PC world the year-to-year development of hardware stopped right at the time when the raw power of the computer was enough to make things move on the screen without observing any lag.(it didn't "stop" but has slowed considerably - the 1thread performance is no longer within the "law").
                PC industry can do the same things it does today even on 5year old hardware without the user noticing any big difference. The only true performance increase that I've seen in the last 6years (since Intel Core2Duo) is the SSD.
                The Handset industry is about to hit the same point the PC industry hit about 6years ago -- the point where the hardware can run any software without the user notincing any differences.
                The Exynos5 is rumored (as said here) to be crushing all other competition (apple included) in benchmarks and along the other A15 designs will mark the point in history when we stop the spec race and begin the feature race. It is my belief that next year will mark the turn point where the software will be "free" from hardware restrictions -- a 5" 1080p display with 60fps while doing "anything" is more than enough for any human ... but so were 2kB of memory back in the 70's :)

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                  • Nexus
                  • Hxi
                  • 28 Oct 2012

                  Just wondering LG optimus g has the same camera unit as Xperia T and Xperia still has better camera than optimus g?! Even though the camera knida looks like an 8 mp not 13 mp.

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                    • Anonymous
                    • vuF
                    • 28 Oct 2012

                    boren, 28 Oct 2012Goodbye Samsung, Hello LGWhy would you make out you own a samsung? One only has to google smbr to see your cobstant trolling of samsung products....

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                      • Anonymous
                      • vuF
                      • 28 Oct 2012

                      I can get a sgs3 outright for under $500 which is why i am getting it for my wife... Me? I have a Note 2 which is currently the best available device

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                        • Anonymous
                        • vuF
                        • 28 Oct 2012

                        duh, 28 Oct 2012how is siri on ur 3gs?Actually android has google now which has been proven to work better than siri.... Unless you want silly answers that amuse 12 year old girls?

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                          • Ted
                          • IV5
                          • 28 Oct 2012

                          to b frank, with almost the same amount spent, i'll rather get a Note2! a real beast! not to mention the wonder of the S-pen! Lg Optimus G? they havent update my O2X yet, not to mention there will b no JB for O2X.... so beware for those who r interested in the Optimus G, they will tell u that the JB update is on the horizon but take it from the many O2X owners, their 'coming soon' is a few years long! so think twice & thrice!

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                            • Ted
                            • IV5
                            • 28 Oct 2012

                            z, 28 Oct 2012thank goodness i picked i5 over S3. dont need to worry abou... morebut ur iP5 when launched is already outdated! that's the problem! not to mention way way overpriced!

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                              • Ted
                              • IV5
                              • 28 Oct 2012

                              lg hater, 28 Oct 2012I own LGO2X and i hate lg to the core. No LG phone for me ... morecant agree with u more! i hate LG phones too!

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                                • lg hater
                                • vGu
                                • 28 Oct 2012

                                I own LGO2X and i hate lg to the core.
                                No LG phone for me in future.
                                LG sux...

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • Lh}
                                  • 28 Oct 2012

                                  z, 28 Oct 2012thank goodness i picked i5 over S3. dont need to worry abou... morei think you'll find optimus g has better hardwsre than iphone5. its only been 1 month

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                                    • sgs2
                                    • uu4
                                    • 28 Oct 2012

                                    duh, 28 Oct 2012how is siri on ur 3gs?I dnt use iphone....i hav sgs2...kinda old but it gets d job done in most cases.....

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                                      • Dr. Jason
                                      • vGt
                                      • 28 Oct 2012

                                      Anonymous, 28 Oct 2012LG will be ahead of Samsung always. If they launch a device... moreWAS LG Optimus 2X better than Galaxy S2 ? Nope.

                                      Is LG Optimus 4X HD better than Galaxy S3 ? Nope.

                                      LG optimus G was launched 4.5 months after galaxy S3..and thats a pretty long time. LG OPtimus G should be wiping the floor with S# but that is not happening. Instead it barely managed to beat S3 , and the performance difference is noticeable only in benchmarks. Two people holding the phones cannot differentiate between their speeds.

                                      Add to that crappy LG update schedule and shitty phone service ...you get the aswer why LG is behind Samsung ,Apple,Sony, HTC and even Nokia for that matter.

                                      NOTE : SAMSUNG LAUNCHES TIMELY UPDATES.

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                                        • YbM
                                        • 28 Oct 2012

                                        thank goodness i picked i5 over S3. dont need to worry about outdated hardware every 2 months.