emteecve: guys in d house. Pls which is better, samsung galaxy s3 or nokia lumia 900? Tanx

aze: Guy u just made me break my glasses. Please, l beg don't do this again next time.

1. Samsung Galaxy S3 is the Flagship for all Smartphones. I mean Number 1.

2. Lumia 900 is a SUPERIOR FEATURE phone from Nokia. It is essentially in the same class with phones like Asha 305, 303,Tecno 9, etc.

3. With Galaxy S3, you are good to go without ur lappy and u can achieve alot with it.

4. With Nokia Lumia 900, you must CONSTANTLY be with ur laptop, charger, and many more.

5. Samsung GS3. You don't need ur PC to transfer sumfin to anoda Phone be it Nokia C2. Samsung GS3 can do it via bluetooth.

6. Shamelessly as it may appear, Lumia 900 cannot do bluetooth transfer, it doesn't support mass storage mode and many more. You WILL REGRET EVER BUYING IT. Except they bribe you to USE IT.

jedisco:
Though I use a Nokia phone, I'm not a so much of a blind fan and I appreciate good stuff when I see them.
With WP7.8 lumia 900 may have some minor restraints but so does apple which still sells millions of phones and tablets.
So let me just show you your errors
1.
2. You must be a novice in the smartphone world to call Nokias windows phone flagship a superior feature phone.
3. You should rather list those things you can do with the GSIII that lumia can't achieve. You can also refer to the android vs symbian thread where after 7 pages, nobody could mention any tangible app not on symbian out of the 450,000.
4.
5. Yes lumia 900 may currently have some minor restrictions, but so does apple. And Nokia has promised to look into some of those in future updates.
Next time you want to compare phones, try to list the strong points and weak points of both phones so you don't appear as a fanboy.
Just for the record, I'm not a novice as far as smartphones are concerned so if you want to reply, do your research well or don't bother.

walcolm:


Dude, there's no comparison between the Lumia 900 and the GS3...if you really are not a novice then you will know that Lumia is not even mentioned when the top smartphones are being mentioned.

there are currently only 3 other phones that can compare in terms of specs to the GS3 and they all run android ICS.

Apple is waiting to bring iPhone 5 to get back in the game, BB is waiting for BB10 and Nokia is waiting for Windows8

oh btw, because a phone can run a different version on an app another phone can run doesnt mean they are comparable.
Lumia runs on a single core and has 512MB RAM, that is so 2010 for a phone released in May 2012

jedisco:

I don't want to derail this thread but like I said, if you want to compare 2 phones, take them in totality.

I've been long enough in the smartphone world to understand that its disastrous comparing two phones based just on specs (esp if they run a different OS) if you don't understand what those specs mean.

Take a look at iPhone 4s with 512mb ram. It has never been described as laggy. There is no android phone with similar specs that does not lag. You should understand that some OSes need much more resources to perform basic functions.
You should also see reviews of lumia 900 and they all described the UI as being very smooth and very comparable with iOS in terms of speed.

Look at htc one x, with 1GB ram and quad core but it still has real issues with multitasking. Then also look for videos of belle phones of 512mb ram single core multitasking tens of apps at once with so much ease.

When next you compare two phones, don't just read the specs but try and interpret them.
I could go on and give you phones of 5MP cameras which take better pics than others of 8MP, or some phones with a large capacity battery which doesn't last upto others with lower capacities. Or do you think that Nokia phones have a good battery life because they have the highest speced batteries?

In summary, I'm not here to state which phone is better. If you want to do that, then you should take the phones in totality and also interpret their specs not just doing a haggard job.

aze: Guy 1 advice, search Google with this


101 Reasons Not to Buy A Windows Phone 7.5
actually it has been Updated to 121 Reasons Not to Buy A Windows Phone 7.5

jedisco:

I don't want to derail this thread but like I said, if you want to compare 2 phones, take them in totality.

I've been long enough in the smartphone world to understand that its disastrous comparing two phones based just on specs (esp if they run a different OS) if you don't understand what those specs mean.

Take a look at iPhone 4s with 512mb ram. It has never been described as laggy. There is no android phone with similar specs that does not lag. You should understand that some OSes need much more resources to perform basic functions.
You should also see reviews of lumia 900 and they all described the UI as being very smooth and very comparable with iOS in terms of speed.

Look at[b] htc one x, with 1GB ram and quad core but it still has real issues with multitasking[/b]. Then also look for videos of belle phones of 512mb ram single core multitasking tens of apps at once with so much ease.

When next you compare two phones, don't just read the specs but try and interpret them.
I could go on and give you phones of 5MP cameras which take better pics than others of 8MP, or some phones with a large capacity battery which doesn't last upto others with lower capacities. Or do you think that Nokia phones have a good battery life because they have the highest speced batteries?

In summary, I'm not here to state which phone is better. If you want to do that, then you should take the phones in totality and also interpret their specs not just doing a haggard job.

walcolm:
@Jedisco,

i like the way you're trying to sound intelligent with those simple phrases you throw into your posts i.e see some of them in bold

since your longevity and specialist skills are based on reviews you have seen on the web then you need to know that those reviews are mostly paid for. why wont the Nokias multitask 10s of apps at the same time without any problem? most of the apps that run on NOKIA phones are less than 1MB in size, with only 512MB ram, you can run 50 apps without breaking a sweat. android apps are 10s of MB in size. there are android games that are more than 50MB you seldom find an app less than 2MB in the android store, before you multitask 10 of them you are breaking through more than 50% of available RAM for running applications

if you have been long enough in using smartphones, then you need to know that the only way to get value for the end-users is to compare phones, irrespective of SPECs or OS so that consumers can go to the manufacturer who gives them the most value for their money. Apple was able to become a best seller because the iPhone hardware and iOS was compared to all others on the market and Apple was found to provide the best user experience to the consumer at that time. that has now changed with the recent quadcore handsets hitting the market, Android ICS and now JB OS releases and will change even further when the BB10 gets released if the new iOS doesnt do something drastic

if NOKIA puts LUMIA 900 forward as their flagship, then it has to be compared to the flagship of all other manufacturers irrespective of the OS running on them. as it stands today, the Lumia or any phone running the Belle dont make the cut in everyday demand of the consumer because the standard they bring is low

jedisco:


[s]I saw that when it came out sometime last year [/s]

jedisco:

I can tell you that 98% of it is rubbish. The remaining 2% are minor restrictions which are also present on other platforms like iOS.

jedisco:


The lumia series have managed to double sales quarter-on-quarter since its release from 1 to 4 million which no other phone achieved during their launch. This is quite impressive considering it has been only available in few markets.

aze: Thursday 10th of May 2012. 101 Reasons Not to Buy A Windows Phone 7.5 was published.

Talk anoda lie.



Comparing a ground breaking and legendary smart device with dumbphones like Lumia 900. Iphone is the REFERENCE SMARTPHONE and it is in a class of its own




Shameful as it may look, you join them in the game of numbers. How about this.

I sold 16 pairs of sandals in a school of 1926 kids despite huge marketing overhead and external support.

My two close competitor sold combined 1870 on preorder with little marketing..

I suspect the retailers don't want to push my product.

aze: Guy u just made me break my glasses. Please, l beg don't do this again next time.

1. Samsung Galaxy S3 is the Flagship for all Smartphones. I mean Number 1.

2. Lumia 900 is a SUPERIOR FEATURE phone from Nokia. It is essentially in the same class with phones like Asha 305, 303,Tecno 9, etc.

3. With Galaxy S3, you are good to go without ur lappy and u can achieve alot with it.

4. With Nokia Lumia 900, you must CONSTANTLY be with ur laptop, charger, and many more.

5. Samsung GS3. You don't need ur PC to transfer sumfin to anoda Phone be it Nokia C2. Samsung GS3 can do it via bluetooth.

6. Shamelessly as it may appear, Lumia 900 cannot do bluetooth transfer, it doesn't support mass storage mode and many more. You WILL REGRET EVER BUYING IT. Except they bribe you to USE IT.

jedisco:
I dont understand what you mean by me joining them in a game of numbers.
The fact is that the lumia series which is not upto a year old is doing very well especially if you consider its limited availability and that it won't be updated to wp8. Infact, in some markets its reached upto 15% use and is already affecting the sales of symbian and android.

Maybe you should go back in history and tell me how fast galaxy phones were sold 3 quarters after its release.

And for the record, it wz the 2nd fastest selling phone on AT&T for a full month which is quite impressive for a new phone.
Also everyone knows that nokia sucks at marketing their products and just recently started doing that.

Lastly, if you want to compare the phones (which I'm in no mood to do), you should take them in totality and give reasons not just saying some 'ground breaking king of smartphones' rubbish.

chucky234:
Google can help you with the comparism of both phones.

aze: Since u dont knw, check JUST 3 HEADLINES BELOW

AFTER 3 MÖNTHS,

Nokia Halves
Price of Flagship
Phone
Wall Street
Journal - Jul 20,
2012

Less Than 3 weeks Again

Nokia Lumia 900
fire sale? Prices
slashed to $
19.99 at
Amazon and
AT&T
The Examiner -
Jul 24, 2012



Recent price
drop of Nokia
Lumia 900 4G a
sign of weak
sales?
Technology
Bloom News - Jul
21, 2012


. Three months and with all the 250 million dollars marketing budget, all Lumia phones (900, 610, 710, 800) sold 4 million including the dashed out copies in North America, 600,000 lumias were sold.

Samsung Galaxy S3 sold 10 million in less than 2 months.

jedisco:

I'm not trying to sound intelligent. I'm just telling you what I know.

I don't base what I say on reviews or specs sheet but on real life usability. Infact I've only read the full reviews of two phones- Nokia 701 and 808.
you should have read the full reviews of other phones. that would have helped you make a proper comparison

I don't know where you got that most nokia apps are less than 1mb in size, maybe the last nokia you used was in 2007 but that is wrong and unimportant.
What I was trying to say is that android is built in such a way that it requires much more ram to run smoothly. An app that may take 1mb while running on some platforms will take more than twice of that to run on android cos thats the way the os is.
you obviously dont visit your Nokia store, you should try and see what's in thereandroids are built to run graphics intensive games and apps, the type of depth Nokias are not built to handle hence the difference in app sizes on both platforms

On the issue of 50mb games, I'm not impressed. I wz expecting you to say 1gb to wow me. Like I said, the videos I wz referring to shows the phone running several HD games which are well over 100mb in size and a host of other apps, and still running smoothly.
a device with 512MB RAM cannot run several HD games of 100MB sizes, you really dont know smartphones. if you did, you'd know the implications and effects of the RAM size and app size on performance

Apple became so popular cos they were able to give the best user experience on a phone and not necessarily the best specs. All this talk about quad core means nothing to the average phone user. People want a phone that just works which is what apple gave. ios is still one of the best os around.
apple became the best because they offered cutting edge specs and unmatched user experience at the time. that time has now passed because their specs as fallen behind seriously and only the user experience is what is currently keeping them in competition which is why the iPhone 5 is coming out later this user to bump the specs whilst leaving the user experience pretty much the same.... The only problem is that its overpriced and not too flexible.

What I'm expecting you to say is whether the quad core htc one x is smother than other dual or single core 512mb ram devices
yep the HTC 1X is smoother than any device out there with single/dual core and 512MB RAM.
Afterall SGS III with dual core has proved to be smother and faster than the quad core one x.
only the american version of the GS3 runs on dual core. and they make up for that with 2GB RAM. all other versions run on quadcore and 1-2GB RAM. you should really take time out to know whats happening on other platforms rather than making claims that are not true

I have no problem comparing lumia with other phones, but what I want you to do is to understand and interpret the specs.
i doubt if you really understand the specs you have read
You said the standard they bring is too low. But remember that the last time you were not able to prove that in 7 pages, so why not stick to what you can prove.
what 7 pages are you talking about?

Lastly, if your every move at making the galaxy look superior is by attacking lumia, then you're just a fanboy
i have used blackberries for the last 5 years alongside several versions of iPod, iPod touch and iPad. i'm using an android for the first time this year, who's fanboy am i exactly?.
I expect you to put up the pros and cons of both. Google is you friend, take time to read up before arguing blindly

chucky234: Well Samsung Galaxy S3 is no doubt amazing but to say its flagship if smartphones shows you nothing about phones, I have used the Galaxy S3 for two weeks before selling it to friend to buy HTC One X which is currently the world's most power smartphone. A friend of mine who is a software analyst in California actually adviced me to sell the GS3 to buy the One X,I was relunctant at first but after reading the official comparism I just sold off my GS3 after two weeks of buying.

texazzpete: So hilarious to see these kids arguing among themselves.

Imagine folks comparing different phones and all someone could talk about is the hardware specs. Really?

Bottom line is, the GS3 is the most powerful phone on the planet now, and it's OS (Android 4.0) has a very vibrant ecosystem...it's a very solid buy.

The Lumia 900 is a gorgeous phone with a slick OS. It's not nearly as powerful as the GS3 and there are much fewer apps than the GS3 so that makes the GS3 a more sensible purchase.

But...contrary to what these kids here will tell you, the Lumia 900 is not a bad phone. It's an excellent , slick phone that owners love. there's a reason why the Lumia 900 has a higher satisfaction rating on Amazon Wireless than practically any other phone out there.

4llerbe:

Agbaya!!!

let them argue jooor. don't come and put your own

BTW, Lumia no go see WP8 oo. just thot id chip that in, make una no go dey deceive unaself sha


anyway, pls continue the yarns abeg, my popcorn still plenty

4llerbe:

Agbaya!!!

let them argue jooor. don't come and put your own

BTW, Lumia no go see WP8 oo. just thot id chip that in, make una no go dey deceive unaself sha


anyway, pls continue the yarns abeg, my popcorn still plenty

texazzpete:

Your friend is an idiot...and you were suckered into selling a GS3 to buy a less impressive phone.

texazzpete: So hilarious to see these kids arguing among themselves.

Imagine folks comparing different phones and all someone could talk about is the hardware specs. Really?

Bottom line is, the GS3 is the most powerful phone on the planet now, and it's OS (Android 4.0) has a very vibrant ecosystem...it's a very solid buy.

The Lumia 900 is a gorgeous phone with a slick OS. It's not nearly as powerful as the GS3 and there are much fewer apps than the GS3 so that makes the GS3 a more sensible purchase.

But...contrary to what these kids here will tell you, the Lumia 900 is not a bad phone. It's an excellent , slick phone that owners love. there's a reason why the Lumia 900 has a higher satisfaction rating on Amazon Wireless than practically any other phone out there.

joeydozzy: what are you guys on about here? Op, based on specs alone gs3 should be your best bet but if you are talking about smooth ui, i advise you to go for lumia. Its really boils down to what you want in a phone. The android os is far more superior to wp7.5 but that doesn't mean it doesn't have its own share of lags. Just name what you want and we might help you

@ jedisco, i agree with you but give the op some tips
@ walcolm, you're clearly being sentimental cos i'm an android fanboy but belle definitely has its ups against android. Maybe when jelly bean circulates, i might have a different mindset. Ics lags, ios has the best ui. Nokia sure knows how best to use ram and battery saving ways better. They could teach sonys and samsungs a thing or two
@ aze wtf are you on about
@chucky that guy that told you to sell your gs3 for onex is a novice. The only thing onex got over gs3 is the rgb screen over the ordinary pentile screen on gs3 and maybe the design. It terms of power, gpu, battery, ui and specs,gs3 crushes onex. You can benchmark both and see for yourself

finally to everybody, STOP DERAILING THIS THREAD

joeydozzy: ^^ i leave texazzpete to tidy you. I suggest you modify your post cos you brought stupid reasons