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[Casey]

/\ Have you heard about this new network called Giff Gaff? They've been advertising it a lot on TV.

Anyway, my friend has it and they give him unlimited data for £10 a month, and something like 250 minutes of calls.

It sounds very interesting. Since Google is selling devices directly online again, when my contract is up later this year I might just buy the next Nexus unlocked and do that.

 

[Pittsey]

Mhy mate is unlimited with Three. He reckons where he uses it he gets good signal. He pays £10 a month and did 70 gig last month. lol. NZB4droid or something was the app he mostly used.

 

[Pittsey]

Ordered my S3. There is a shortage on Blue. I refused to have a white phone. Fuck knows how long I will have to wait to receive it.

 

[THEV1LL4N]

/\ Have you heard about this new network called Giff Gaff? They've been advertising it a lot on TV.

Anyway, my friend has it and they give him unlimited data for £10 a month, and something like 250 minutes of calls.

It sounds very interesting. Since Google is selling devices directly online again, when my contract is up later this year I might just buy the next Nexus unlocked and do that.

I've heard of Giff Gaff. I thought that with GG you get more free allowance when you refer more people.

 

[THEV1LL4N]

I might consider this if I get a tablet.

Am I right in saying that tablets only accept micro-sims? The websites are not very clear as to what sims tablets need (sim only if you already have a tablet), and it's difficult to find data only sim deals. On GG it was on the front page. Easy.

 

[THEV1LL4N]

WARNING! Factory reset could permanently disable Google Wallet on your Smartphones
http://www.youmobile.org/blogs/entr...tly-disable-Google-Wallet-on-your-Smartphonet

 

[Casey]

Looks like the new tablet may be named "Nexus 7" and ship with Android 4.1, which might be Jelly Bean.

 

[Flipmo]

Good news for us residing in Canada.

The Samsung Galaxy S3 will come with 2GB of Ram.

So here’s the deal: the two handsets will have identical 1.5Ghz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 chips, but the Rogers/Bell/TELUS/Virgin version will be LTE-capable whereas the Wind/Videotron/Mobilicity version will have that portion of the baseband disabled (it will be compatible up to 42Mbps over DC-HSPA+). Both variations will come with 2GB RAM and 16GB of internal storage, but the LTE models will have the option (presumably at a later date) of a 32GB model. Yes, you read that right: 2GB RAM! Hit the break for the full specs:

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Processor:
- Snapdragon S4 Dual Core 1.5 GHz Qualcomm MSM8960 Chipset
- OS (Shipping): ICS 4.0.4
- Data: LTE (SGH-i747 variation) and HSPA+ 42 (SGH-iT999 variation)
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Dimensions: 136.6 x 70.6 x 8.6 mm
- Weight: 133g
- Memory: 16/32GB internal memory (SGH-i747)/ 16GB internal memory (SGH-iT999)
- Expandable microSD up to 32GB
- Display: 4.8 HD Super AMOLED 1280×720 (306ppi)
- Connectivity: NFC, Bluetooth 4.0, DLNA, WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n, MHL Video Out
- Camera: 8MP Rear-facing, 1.9MP Front-facing
- Battery: 2100 mAh
Other:
- TouchWiz with Motion UX
- S Beam
- AllShare Play enhance functionality
- MP3/ACC+/WAV audio player
- DivX/Xvid/MP4/WMV/H.263/ H.264 Video Player​

Everything else looks to be the same as the international variant. Sure, it’s a bit disappointing that we won’t be getting any Exynos Quad love in Canada, but as the benchmarks show in our One X review, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon S4 chip is a winner. ​

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[Pittsey]

Out of order, man.....

 

[masta247]

2GB of ram, Snapdragon S4. Lucky bastards. That phone will be more powerful than my ex laptop, more capable than the HTC One S thanks to more ram. That's funny, since America and Canada got their SGS1 and SGS2 much later than the rest of the world, and in less-cool variations. It's a redemption.

edit: I'd worry about one thing though - it's probably the S4 with Adreno 225, which is inferior to the international SGS3's Mali GPU. The difference is significant here. Unfortunately S4 Snapdragons won't come with Adreno 320(which should be much faster than Mali 400) until late summer .

 

[Flipmo]

Yeah, we're usually fucked when it comes to specs + we generally get it much later. This is maybe the first time we get better specs. The fact that it's 2GB and Snapdragon S4 pretty much got me sold on my hardware upgrade. Coincidentally enough, it's released here on the 20th of June - my bday.

 

[Casey]

Damn. Lucky Canadians. Still, it's about time you get something good. I remember being in Canada in the Summer of 2009 and the G1 had only recently hit stores when I had had mine for over 6 months already.

 

[Casey]

I suspect the USA may be getting the 2GBRAM/S4 processor variant also, on at least one carrier.

It will be interesting to see how the benchmarks compare.

 

[masta247]

Some will be in favor of S4, some in favor of Exynos. Pure CPU-power benchmarks will mostly be in favor of S4, GPU benchmarks will (if it's Adreno 225) be in favor of Exynos. Now as far as system benchmarks go, it's hard to tell but I don't think there's going to be a significant difference. Depends on what will get tested. Clearly S4 is a newer-tech processor but the Exynos chipset packs a lot of Samsung's upgrades despite its older CPU architecture so it can still hold its own.

Now I'm curious, because ZTE have leaked the first A15-running phone:
http://www.gsmarena.com/zte_athena_appears_in_spy_shots_puts_ics_in_62mm_package-news-4321.php

 

[Casey]

It appears that Asus are going to release a tablet that dualboots Android and Win8.

http://www.talkandroid.com/114240-a...idForums+(Android+News,+Rumours,+and+Updates)

 

[Casey]

Google beat the shit out of Oracle in that lawsuit. Judge ruled completely in favor of Google Suck it Ellison!

 

[THEV1LL4N]

I was going to ask people's opinions on the whole thing.

I read somewhere a while back that Android might have to be translated into C++ and what that would mean for app developers. I'm sure that if this happened they'd have to translate the java code to C++ (maybe?). Hopefully this'll all be settled now.

 

[masta247]

Oracle sucks balls.

 

[Casey]

Oracle sucks balls.

I felt the whole case was simply Larry Ellison trying to score some points for his late bum-buddy Steve Jobs. They were very close friends.

 

[masta247]

Ok guys. I need some advice. I have an Xperia Arc and I have no problems with it (but wouldn't mind something running ICS smoothly, and a new toy at the same time) and I'm thinking whether it's worth it to upgrade to HTC One S right now. I'd have to get it unlocked and then sell my Xperia Arc. That would cost me about 200$ in total for a faster device (and a bit slimmer).

What do you guys think, should I wait it out until something even better comes out so I could justify the upgrade more, or do it? I'm not tied with contracts so I upgrade whenever I want to, I just have to pay the difference and take time to sell my ex phone.

I ask because I've been thinking about this for quite some time now. Reasonably thinking I wouldn't gain that much but I like the One S and it'd be a new cool toy, lol. I was thinking about the SGS3 too, but I think it's too big after all and.. I don't like the design.