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Let us know your thoughts people :)

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My thought is..if qasdfdsaq doesn't want his S3, I'll take it..half price..as it's used :D

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My thoughts are that its awesome and as well as being very quick its also got no lag on the camera and the photo and video capture are amazing. Can also capture stills while shooting video :-)

Sadly most of the 3D heavy games I had on my S2 don't work on the S3 yet :(

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It's not used yet.

Anyhow, Carphone have just phoned to say my Blue GS3 should be arriving next working day.

I'll believe that when I see it...

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Have you used an iPhone before? Could you compare?

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If I was buying, I think the blue one would be my choice

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I used to have an iPhone 3G, however since then I have had various android devices, a Desire then a GS2.

I do much prefer the look of andoid and the various launchers that most manufacturers have added over the top over the original one. IE Sense and Touchwiz. Samsung have made a lot of changes to touchwiz for the GS3 and some neat little shortcuts mostly involving gestures.

eg swipe across the screen with the side of your hand and it takes a screen shot. Holding the phone to your ear while on a contact or in the messaging app will call that person without pressing any buttons.

While I have an iPad I would never go back to iOS for my phone. I have fallen in love with android too much and how flexable and customizable it is. Don't like the font, simple download new ones from the store.

Don't like the keyboard, go get a new one from the store. There are o many things you can do without even having to root the phone.

Apps wisw android now has almost all the bigs games and apps that were on iOS previously. GTA3 looks so impressive as does Real Racing 2 although RR2 isn't yet compatible with the GS3.

Anything else?

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I thought that at first but after seeing the white in the flesh its ust so nice looking.

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I suppose you don't have an iTunes collection to move across?

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I do have a very large iTunes collection of music, movies and apps but they are either on my iPad or my iPod nano. Don't use my phone for music.

The GS3 also has a fantastic video app built in, it plays everything without any issues, even 1080p HD mkv files! So I sometimes load TV shows or movies onto the phone. Used to do the same with my GS2.

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:tu: I think I can just drag the files across. I like the podcast apps on Android so i'll probably use that.

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Yip, if I ever put new ringtoes or music/movies, its just a case of plugging in so it shows as a USB drive and then dropping the files on to it.

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Yeah, seems like there are a good few applications for music playing as well. Google Music might eventually come out over here and solve that problem as well.

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well you also have Spotify and Samsung just launched their own music service with unlimited streaming.

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http://www.techradar.com/reviews/pho...1078667/review

good review. They like the blue one..but equally read a review just before who liked the white one...maybe both are good :)

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I am also tempted by the HTC One X. I've heard it's a better interface/skin that keeps with Android 4.0's conventions and sprit.

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The stock interface isn't that nice on the HTC One X, but a nice little Launcher would sort this out.

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Sense isn't that special anymore. Samsung stripped back touchwiz for the S3 and it's really good.

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I got it! The Galaxy that is! Going to spend a lot of time getting used to android and the phone. I am going to get a MicroSD Card but need advice, is it worth going for the performance ones or not? Do they make a difference?

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What do you need the memory for?

Mainly Music?

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Music and video.

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I think on a phone the performance cards wont matter too much. I got a free 32Gb card from Phones 4 U as I pre ordered the phone.

Did you get the white one? What do you think so far?

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I must say I'm already a big fan of SwiftKey!

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Loving it so far. Swiftkey is massive, almost worth ditching the iPhone alone. Screen incredible. Interop between apps already better. Need to get used to it more, especially finding a good music playing app (especially one that will let me use Dropbox) but amazing so far.

I love the Google integration. As soon as I had the phone I went on maps, went to put in a location and it already populated it with suggestions (such as my favorite coffee shop) because I had searched it in Desktop maps weeks ago!

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Does anyone know if the S3 can support a 64gb microSD card? I hear some phones can only access 32....

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Yes it can.

http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_i930...s_iii-4238.php

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Cheers!

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I bought a 32GB MicroSD Class 10, the phone my not beable to support the speed fully, but future phones may, so I'd buy the fastest.

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Think I have got used to it now. Using Chrome as main browser. Anyone else have suggestions for stuff to install/set up?

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You should try Dolphin Browser it is great and you can theme it to just how you like it. https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...eUJyb3dzZXIiXQ..

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Is it really that much better? I like that Chrome syncs with my desktop Chrome :)

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I could never get the hang of Chrome on my phone, maybe i just need to use it more though.

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Might be helped by the fact I've known no other Android browser.

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Try Opera Mobile, Dolphin HD and Chrome and see which you get on with the most. :)

p.s Don't forget to setup Dropbox as i believe they give you 25GB free space and it is an awesome way to get things on and off the phone.

edit: I don't think you can currently watch flash videos on Google Chrome Beta.

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If you follow all the steps Dropbox gives you 50Gb free as you have the S3: -)

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That is really good but don't you have to spam the world to get that? lol, shame i don't have an S3(although i think it is too big) and i am stuck with around 5GB which is what they gave me for an HTC Sensation and that is only promotional and will reduce to 3GB next year.

Luckily rumour has it Skydrive are creating a proper Android app so i will be able to use my 25GB with that.

I am surprised Gdrive doesn't blow the competition out of the water like they did when they introduced Gmail and give everyone 25GB for free.

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I've used both.

I can say the white looks great if you're into lighter colours, and also looks great on lighter surfaces - white sheets, tablecloths, sinks, etc. Also on shiny/glass furniture.

The blue is fairly dark blue and fits in well with those in dark clothing (e.g. black suit) or darker places like pubs, bars, black leather sofa or dark wooden furniture. Ironically, it's also more useable in broad daylight, as it doesn't have a bright white frame around the screen to blur your view. Personally, I like it better. Just looks more professional and less like a fashion accessory. Then again I still prefer the black and sharper edges on the S2

Other differences are on the white you have three large black blobs to the right of the earpiece, and on blue you only have one to the left. Finally, on the white version you get an uneven black frame around the screen, between where the screen pixels end and where the white frame starts. How much this irritates you will vary, but it's far less noticeable if at all on the blue.

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Indeed, the Galaxy series has always had very good media format support built-in. However both the S2 and S3 have crappy music players that fail to take advantage of the phones' relatively high-quality hardware.

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I wouldn't. Having used both for some time, the One X is, physically speaking, far inferior. All the faults with the S3 (bar one or two) are software annoyances and can be fixed with an app, skin, or configuration change. Granted, the One X screen looks slightly better out of the box, even though it uses inferior technology, but only because they've put in a lot of optimizations around it (gamma curve, thickness, frame, and lensing).

Keeping with Android 4's conventions and spirit is not a good thing. Compared to the SGS3, it replaces the more useful back and menu buttons with a badly placed back button and a useless task switcher, and you also lose a load of screen estate to an annoying, constantly-there, and non-removable bar that serves as a replacement menu button, and having to reach further to get to menus in ICS apps. Lack of physical home button, top-side placement of power button, slippery back and pointy sides make the whole unit's physical handling and useability far inferior to the SGS3, despite being smaller.

I did a quick comparison test, of the time it takes to get the phone(s) out of my pocket, unlock them, and get to a useable home screen, it took 1.4 seconds on the SGS3 and 4.5 seconds on the HTC One X. Might not seem like much, but take your phone out your pocket 3 times an hour, that's 28 hours you waste over a 2-year contract just unlocking the damn thing.

Oh and the non-removeable battery - using the One X as my main phone required recharging it 2-3 times a day, the same on the SGS3 requires only one charge a day (and it usually ends up with 15-30% left at the end of the day). Anyway, if you're still tempted by the One X - you can have mine, since I'm hell-bent on getting rid of it :p:

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What do you all do to secure your Android phone? I have put SeekDroid to let me track, lock, remotely wipe it from a webpage. I am going to encrypt it I think. Any other suggestons/comments?

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Samsung's built-in software already does everything you describe, and does enough for me so I've not tried anything else.

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Oh, and apparently units of the blue model are trickling into and around the UK already. Carphone have 250 units in their warehouse to be distributed, and a number of pre-ordered units have been shipping.

Looks like Samsung are "drip-feeding" some key markets.

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Hopefully it wont be long before O2 text me saying its in stock for me to collect

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I saw the Blue in an O2 store yesterday, really didn't like it at all. Glad I went for the white.

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Are official cases and screen protectors widely available?

Talking of screens - is it Gorilla glass? Is the handset waterproof/splash proof at all?

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I think the official mesh covers are in a lot of stores. I know Tesco has them in store.

The other official covers are mainly online just now I think.

Its Gorilla Glass 2, even stronger than the previous glass. Not splash or water proof.

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Stephan, how's it like to hold/handle. Compared to the SG2? I have not yet handled one in a shop - just wondering if it's too big.

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It feels much better in the hand than the S2 simply due to the curved 'pebble' shape.

Also even though the handset screen is 4.8" and the S2 was 4.2" the phone isn't actually much bigger due to the bezzle around the screen being so thin.

Here is a photo of my S3 next to my S2. Sorry for poor quality, taken using my iPad 2.

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that really isnt much bigger. I rang local O2 store this afternoon and they say have been told their getting stock till end of June

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No it's not. A lot of places have said it's weaker, but beside the point, Gorilla Glass 2's main selling point is being thinner at equivalent strength.

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ok so thinner but just as strong.
http://www.corninggorillaglass.com/

20% thinner.

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Just arrived... First lot of UK stock.

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2012/06/59.jpg

(Oh and the free tab was the HSPA+ version not the Wifi-only as originally claimed)

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I'm jealous

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same here

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I'm jealous too. Was one of the first orders but cpw messed up my order and cancelled it: -(

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To be honest the tablet is pretty lame, particularly next to the Galaxy S III. Worse screen quality, much slower, much much laggier (particularly with stock launcher) and pretty much inferior in every way other than size. Also only runs Honeycomb. Only thing that isn't worse is 5Ghz wireless receive strength, that on the GS3 is pitiful. But the GS3 often ends up faster thanks to HT mode which the tab doesn't have.

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Ok, I'm less jealous :D

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Feel free to send the tab my way then ;):D

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Feel free to send a pile of cash my way in exchange :P

It's probably going on ebay soon tbh.

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Selling a freebie, thats just wrong :P

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Meh, I'm selling my One X too, that was also a "freebie" (in exchange for a £36 a month contract)

Hell, most contract phones are freebies these days. If it weren't for the tab, I could have got the phone about £250 cheaper elsewhere, so I'm sure CPW are still making a nice wad of profit.

Frankly I'd rather take the cash. Cash doesn't depreciate (as much).

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Well they aren't exactly freebies as you are taking on a contract for a length of time and at a higher price than if it was just for the contract alone.

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Which applies as much to the tablet as it does the phone.

Never really needed the upgrade anyway, but the change of tariff to unlimited minutes is nice, I can stop worrying about the one or two months a year I go mad on phone calls...

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Technicality not as the Tab was a free extra gift to the first 1,000 pre-orders.

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Yeah but the first pre-orders also cost more, so back to your original point, it's not exactly a freebie as I am taking on a contract for a length of time and at a higher price than if it was just for the phone.

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no they didn't. When I first registered for the offer I was getting the phone free at £36 a month and that was the same price after. The Tab was genuinely free. Thats why it was a really small amount available.

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When I registered for the offer it (and the price I paid) was £36 a month + £49 for the phone. A few hours later once all the tabs were gone it was £28 a month + free phone. A day or two so later other retailers had it at £25 a month + free phone + £80 cashback. By release day you could get the phone for £49 on a £21.50 a month contract.

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When the tab was first there I got £36 a month, free phone. Then after the tab offer that price was still there.

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That price was still there, but cheaper prices (i.e. £28 a month) also appeared.

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I got S3 this morning. Decide to get white ne instead of waiting for blue one. Its a good phone. Its hard getting to grips with Andriod after being on iOS for 3 years.

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My phone is currently using 579 of 780 ram, thats when i clear all process

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You shouldn't clear processes on Android. It manages them automatically for you in the background.

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You really don't need to clear the processes. Anroid is very good at managing memory and closing down processes and apps it doesn't need to keep open. If andoid is using memory then it needs to. It doesn't just hog memory for no reason.

There are plenty of sites around giving information why you shouldn't use any kind of task killer with Android.

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I have had a few app crashes, twitter has crashed 2 times

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How to get the phone to let you watch a youtube video while doing something else, i cant work it out?

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You can't.

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it has a feautre that allows you to do that thou, i remeber seeing it on the live launch, so it can i just dont know how to. You can watch a movie or soemthing and read email at same time

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Managed to do it. Its only if your watching a video from the video player or hub

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Yes, only the built-in media player supports it (so far). You cannot do it with Youtube.

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Hopefully you tube will work in future. I have found when taking the back cover off its very thin plastic and each time i take it off and back on again i get scared im going to snap it

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Its not plastic, its polycarbonate which is a lot stronger.

Don't worry it won't break.

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oh ok, it felt plastic

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Easy mistake. I had a gf, who I thought was a bit plastic..she corrected me.."it's sillycon" :D

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Polycarbonate is just a fancy name for certain types of plastic.

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Lol :D

I see

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is it me or is the sound very quiet on everything? i have turned all volume settings up and it seems quiter than iphine did. even music seems quiter

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To be honest..I can't hear anything :)

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lol

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I've found the opposite, it's incredibly loud and much louder than the HTC One X or the S2 before it.

Though I do know Samsung have yet again screwed up the volume controls on the headphone output DAC...

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hmm must just be me then

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It is very loud.

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On the other hand the built-in music player is massively, massively improved over the S2.

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It's the first phone I've come across that can drive my SE535's so loud it's actually painful.

... And ordinary levels for me are already painful for most people.

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Do I really need an s3? It's just a rectangle that does Internet, I already have a slightly smaller rectangle......

My mind says no but my heart says UPGRADE

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After the mild disappointment that was the S2, the S3 feels like everything the S2 should have been. OK, maybe that's a little unfair on the S2, since it was still a great phone. However the S3 fixes a lot of the faults with the S2. I see it more as a "bugfixed" S2 than a major upgrade.

Then again what works for you depends on what you have already. Also the S3's shape is "inspired by nature" and rather un-rectangular.

For most people, going from last year's flagship models to the S3 probably isn't worth the upgrade, but going from anything before that is a pretty big jump. Indeed, my S3 was technically an upgrade on my 2-year old HTC Desire 24-month contract. A lot of people will be coming up to the end of their 24-month contracts for HTC Desires/Galaxy S1's and for them IMO the upgrade is ideal.

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I went up from iPhone 4 and it is a big jump. I had iPhone 3G before that. Like gas said it depends on the phone you had before

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I love my s2, apart from battery life I prefer it to a 4s

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Have you thought about bigger battery?..I just upped my galaxy nexus to a 3500 from a 1750...huge power boost...and bigger backside actually doesn't detract..bit more weight for holding

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I cant believe ive never thaught of that, cheers will wait till the 25th to decide if im going to get an s3 :)

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I got the Seido Innocell battery...gives you a new back cover...though mine is not perfect fit (very very slight rise at one point, but no biggie)

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Ive been trying the TVCatchup app and i have to say the screen looks brilliant

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anyone rooted there phone yet? if so is it easy and what are the benifits?

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While ive been at work ive done some digging and i havne now got sky go on my phone all 100% perfect. and no i have not modded or rooted the in anyway

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Most of the benefits are upcoming, though one main one right now is tweaking the RAM allocations a bit.

And being able to run various apps that require root. If you haven't come across one yet you probably don't need it.

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oh ok thanks. it seems that most of the apps i can just download form other places and install on the phone usuing a apk manager. im not bothered about tweating ram cpu etc incase i damage it

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Yeah, you might as well leave it alone then.

The most useful ones I find are Titanium Backup, Droidwall (firewall) and OpenVPN but the latter two aren't so necessary anymore since Android itself has improved.

I usually only tweak the CPU down anyway to save battery which is totally safe.

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Adblock?

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i think i will leave it, i only used to JB iPhone so i could customize phone but now i can do that without no need to root i think ill play it safe and leave it

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Just been speaking to an advisor over a problem with my DD that Virgin have caused. He has offered me an upgrade now on my phone. Its due in October anyway. I'm tempted by the S3 but he said it was meant to be the 25th June that it was coming out but it has been delayed due to problems with the micro sim Virgin is having. He checked with someone and was told an extra 30 days wait for the S3.

I'm tempted by 4 phones

Galaxy S3
Galaxy S2 I have 2 contracts with Virgin and have the S2 on my other contract and love it.
HTC One X
Iphone 4S (4th Choice)

The phone will be used by my partner and decided to hang on until they are released to change because the S2 has to come down in price and the One X and S3 have to be out to change. He did say the usual that the Iphone is coming to Virgin but will mostly likely be next year. Heard that when I changed 2 years ago.

Phones4U are offering me cashback that would give any of the phones now and buy out the remaining months with Virgin but it means moving networks and the house phone can ring the mobile free of charge, which I think is a major plus to stay with Virgin Mobile.

So its a case of having some patience and waiting until the phones are released.

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Yeah I have heard it has been delayed I might just go for the HTC one X