Samsung Galaxy S3 vs HTC One X - Page 6  

I'd probably buy a One X if it was on Verizon.

That is why I am going with the Htc X One also. The S3 is nice but it looks exactly like the S2 and S1 pretty much nothing new in design really . Its just plain jane. The Htc really stands out. I have the S2 now....btw

It's not out yet.

As far as storage goes, I can see why that could be a deal breaker for some. It doesn't bother me at all due to the free 25 GB of drop box space that came with the HOX. The S3 may get some free space too, but either way for me it's pretty much a mute point as far as I am concerned.

As for battery life goes, I have yet to need a mid-day charge and I use the phone quite a bit on long breaks between class at uni. In all fairness I am running the leaked, updated software and have been since day one so I cannot comment on how battery life was on the original ware. You also have to take into account that the HOX with the S4 gets much better battery life than the Tegra 3 version. If you look at anandtech's review of the AT&T version you can see that it comes in just behind the iphone 4S in constant 3G browsing time at 9.6 hours and delivers over 5.5 hours of constant LTE browsing time. That is more than enough time for my needs.

I think saying the HOX feels like a brick a little unjustified. I mean everyone is entitled to their opinion, but if you think it feels like a brick then the S3 being only 0.3mm thinner, a couple mils longer/wider a few grams heavier will surely feel like a brick too. My point is that in the dimension/weight category they are nearly identical.

To me it looks as if Samsung was going with a tried and true design, I am not knocking it at all, it works. However, I like the fact that HTC is pushing the envelope a little bit with the design of the HOX. It just appears more modern and fresh to me. This is the same reason I left the iphone a couple years ago, the design just started to feel stale to me and I wanted something new. Don't get me wrong, I am not saying that the HOX is ground breaking or anything, just that it was time for a bit of a refresh and I feel they pulled that off rather well.

Towards you final comments: the problem is that you said in the beginning that you wanted to create this thread to give an unbiased comparison between the two phones when you are clearly biased towards the S3. Granted I have my bias as well, but I did not start the thread stating otherwise...
Edited by torquejunky - 5/21/12 at 9:29am

S3 gets 50GB free dropbox space. One of the biggest selling points for me.

i dont knw whats creating all these stupid discussions on display
HTC ONE X SLCD 2 is better than Sammy GS III SAMOLED (dont believe? try out the ONE X in a store urself)
ONE X display produces faaaar more natural colors than SAMOLED just like iP4 but muuuuch much better ,tested it in a store against SGS II. SAMOLED even though an eye candy but no way its better than ONE X display because SAMOLED kinda produces artificial colors....after looking at ONE X display even my iP4 display is looking like.....meeh, its just pleasure to watch ONE X in action(LIVE).Hope Apple comes with something more better than this with iP5....

That is a great selling point. I don't feel like I will ever need that much space, but then again I can remember when a 1GB HDD was "freakin huge"
That being said, I really like drop box so far, especially since you can set up only to sync only while on a wifi connection.

Just speculating here, but from what I have read the S3 display will be very similar to the GN, if that is the case then I will have to agree with your sentiments about the display on the HOX being better.
The HOX display is definitely better than the one on the current Galaxy Nexus. I was just looking at my classmate's GN a few hours ago. When looking at either separately, they both look great. However, when you place them side-by-side for a direct comparison there is no doubt that the HOX display is definitively better. Text is crisper and the over-saturation of color on the GN, while being less apparent than previous Samsung SAMOLEDs, is much more evident when looking at both. Again I just have to state how sick the viewing angles are on the HOX. If it were humanly possible to read text while viewing it from an 85° angle, the HOX display would afford you to do so.

We already discussed displays. One X is the best display for sale in phones at the moment, and the S3 will NOT beat it. I'm probably buying an S3, but there's no way it will. It is the same basic setup as the Nexus, slightly smaller gap in the subpixels. Will get trumped hard by the One X.