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joanana: eating pop corn waiting for the next item!!!!

there iv done the hardware.

do we still need to do the software?

http://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=4238&idPhone2=4578


[size=14pt]SALIENT DIFFERENCES[/size]

SAMSUNG I9300 GALAXY S III
vs NOKIA LUMIA 900


SAMSUNG I9300 GALAXY S III
LTE (regional)


NOKIA LUMIA 900
---------------


SAMSUNG I9300 GALAXY S III
Weight 133 g



NOKIA LUMIA 900
160 g



SAMSUNG I9300 GALAXY S III
Touch-sensitive controls




NOKIA LUMIA 900
---------------



SAMSUNG I9300 GALAXY S III
Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
720 x 1280 pixels, 4.8 inches (~306 ppi pixel density)





NOKIA LUMIA 900
AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
480 x 800 pixels, 4.3 inches (~217 ppi pixel density)



SAMSUNG I9300 GALAXY S III
Corning Gorilla Glass 2




NOKIA LUMIA 900
Corning Gorilla Glass



SAMSUNG I9300 GALAXY S III
microSD, up to 64 GB,



NOKIA LUMIA 900
No


SAMSUNG I9300 GALAXY S III
16/32/64 GB storage, 1 GB RAM




NOKIA LUMIA 900
16GB storage, 512 MB RAM





SAMSUNG I9300 GALAXY S III
HSDPA, 21 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps




NOKIA LUMIA 900
HSDPA, 42 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps



SAMSUNG I9300 GALAXY S III
Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, DLNA, Wi-Fi Direct, Wi-Fi hotspot




NOKIA LUMIA 900
Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n



SAMSUNG I9300 GALAXY S III
NFC Yes




NOKIA LUMIA 900
----------------------



SAMSUNG I9300 GALAXY S III
microUSB v2.0 (MHL), USB On-the-go




NOKIA LUMIA 900
microUSB v2.0



SAMSUNG I9300 GALAXY S III
8 MP, 3264x2448 pixels, autofocus, LED flash
Simultaneous HD video and image recording, geo-tagging,
touch focus, face and smile detection, image stabilization





NOKIA LUMIA 900
8 MP, 3264x2448 pixels, Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, dual-LED flash
Geo-tagging




SAMSUNG I9300 GALAXY S III
Video 1080p@30fps
Secondary 1.9 MP, 720p@30fps





NOKIA LUMIA 900
720p@30fps, video stabilization
1 MP, VGA@15fps



SAMSUNG I9300 GALAXY S III
CPU Quad-core 1.4 GHz Cortex-A9
GPU Mali-400MP[/b]






NOKIA LUMIA 900
1.4 GHz Scorpion
Adreno 205

is this the same one in the iphone? @ texazzpete




SAMSUNG I9300 GALAXY S III
Standard battery, Li-Ion 2100 mAh
Stand-by Up to 590 h (2G) / Up to 790 h (3G) )
Talk time Up to 21 h 40 min (2G) / Up to 11 h 40 min (3G)





NOKIA LUMIA 900
Standard battery, Li-Ion 1830 mAh (BP-6EW)
Stand-by Up to 300 h (2G) / Up to 300 h (3G)
Talk time Up to 7 h (2G) / Up to 7 h (3G)
Music play Up to 60 h



SAMSUNG I9300 GALAXY S III
Battery life 43h endurance rating





NOKIA LUMIA 900
38h endurance rating





SAMSUNG I9300 GALAXY S III
- MicroSIM card support only
- S-Voice natural language commands and dictation
- Smart Stay eye tracking -
- Dropbox (50 GB storage)
- Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic
- TV-out (via MHL A/V link)
- SNS integration
- MP4/DivX/XviD/WMV/H.264/H.263 player
- MP3/WAV/eAAC+/AC3/FLAC player
- Organizer
- Image/video editor
- Document viewer (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF)
- Google Search, Maps, Gmail,
YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Picasa integration
- Voice memo/dial/commands
Predictive text input (Swype)



NOKIA LUMIA 900
- MicroSIM card support only
- SNS integration
- [s]Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic[/s]
- MP3/WAV/eAAC+/WMA player
- MP4/H.264/H.263/WMV player
- Document viewer/editor
- Video/photo editor
- Voice memo/command/dial
- Predictive text input

jedisco: Now to your question- when comparing cars (just like phones) you focus on the entire build (hardware) and not just a single option like fuel consumption. This is exactly what you're doing with all this your talk about ram and processors.
And finally, if everything has canceled each other or all other things are equal then I would consider the car with better fuel economy as better.

So don't mirror on just one option, look at the product in everyday usage in combination with peoples preference.

Im actually looking forward to you doing this exact comparison

Erm but is this not what errbody been tryna tell u? (some cat even posted the gsmarena specs vs page)

pls do this for us.

start with the hardware, bit for bit.

move to the software on both fones

then on the total package.

then conclusively show us how "looking at the product in everyday usage in combination with peoples preference." the Lumia trumps the SGS3.

incidentally, now you say you did'nt say it was better? Oh francis of assissi!
then what have you been saying? that the SGS 3 is better?

SMH

jedisco: It looks as though tex has taken you on the matter. I'm on my phone, but let me try and get you a reply.

buhahahaha

before you waste NL Space, kindly answer this question:

[size=14pt]A hyundai requires 4 liters of fuel to get to Ibadan, whilst a BMW requires 10 Liters. Therefore, the Hyundai is a better car compared with the BMW?[/size]

That Hyundai sits the same number of people as the BMW, does the same job, has the same addons such as A/C, Radio, etc.

Can you rightly say, that the Hyundai is a better car compared with the BMW?

at least you know the little most folks know about cars

Oshe Jare @ Lynx

@ Suntemi all correct sir!!

take over ke, i cant fit to try sef. take over the baba olowo thread?

http://www.youtube.com/embed/5wIAwyDFYJE


hilarious. poor quality tho

debosky: Rambo is going to have a great season for Arsenal - last season was his first full season in the EPL, especially on the back of a long term injury. Dunno why many gooners fail to realise that.

continue deceiving yaself.

inshort, diaby sef is going to have a great season

who has seen this?

http://gigapixelfancam.com/fancams/soccer/emirates/20120727/eng/

pretty awesome eh.

but the OPON on this gal ehnnn,

the dome no get part 2. if dis one headbutt person na 1 way ticket to yonder o

SIGH!! Tex has started again.

let me remind you that this thread is SGS 3 VS LUMIA 900

Not WP vs Android.!! sure the argument delve on the OS a bit but im sure we can all see that the assertions of our lUmia loving friends that the[b] LUMIA IS BETTER THAN GS3 [/b]is what i oppose, ...... and you did prior to realising this is yet another opportunity to tackle 4llerbuntu!!

Well i know your baiting as usual, and im not biting. dig up the old thread and lets resume if thats what you wanna!

texazzpete: You've come again with your revisionist arguments. First you say WP7.5 doesn't save states and doesn't resume from where you left it. Now you claim it saves states but needs to reload.
Do you even know what the phrase 'Save states' means?

Thats it!! Outside, lets take this outside. mano-a-mano! wtf!!! how u go come downgrade my swagger like dat.

I said multitasking. i never said it does not save states. if you decide to be generously wide with your definition of multitasking (understandable given your Apple roots ) then goodluck to you.

we both know thats not multitasking.

texazzpete: Multitasking in WP7 may not be 'TRUE MULTITASKING' per se, but it's an implementation almost exactly the same as what is used in iOS. You can talk on and on about 'true multitasking' but the vast majority of consumers don't care about that. The iPhone sales prove that. Don't forget that Symbian and Windows Mobile had true multitasking way back when Android was still independent of Google.

Lol @ Bolded. when will you stop trying to soil my good name in order to hang me on NL? you are bent on being my nemesis but u cant fit!!

ok so now that we are agreed on that point, Yes the average consumer [b]probably [/b]dont care, BUT HOW DOES THAT ENTITLE SUCH A RETARDED statement that a Lumia is better than SGS 3?

Next thing you know some cat will start a thread and tell you BB Bold 5/Porsche is better than SGS3 simply because he uses it and he does not care about the crapberry remixes flowing on it!!!

How is the fact that a fone suits your middling, pedestrian need equate to that phone being the best of its class?

That means my Nokia 3310 Torchlight upgrade is the best in the world. it NEVER lags, does what a phone should do. infact i challenge you to tell me why the SGS is better than my 3310. what type of fuckery is that!!!

texazzpete: I use the words 'Windows Phone 7.5'. Everyone should know that means Mango/Tango.

mango/Tango, Zobo etc. yeah right. like between me and you and 95% of NL actually even recognize a lumia on sight, much less the os version on it.

fact, Nokia released a crippled Mobile. Fact Nokia put it on life support and have been doling out all the things it needs to wake up incrementally. How the F am i or anyone expected to obligatorily keep up with Nokia's patching and mending?

Let them come back when they have a product that is at par with the rest of the competition. then we revise.


FACT IS: LETS FACE IT, THOSE CHAPS ARE THE ABSOLUTE BEST AT THE MOBILE GAME. DESPITE YOUR RESERVATIONS I STILL MAINTAIN IF THOSE GUYS HAD GOTTEN INTO THE ANDROID GAME THEY WOULD BE CLEAR WINNERS.

THEIR HARDWARE IS UNRIVALED, AND I DARESAY THEY WOULD DO A MUCH BETTER JOB AT THE SOFTWARE THAN SAMMY OR HTC EVER COULD. just look and that gorgeous N9 baby....... sigh!

texazzpete: This is just as daft as claiming that if the Galaxy S2 was such a good phone, why did Samsung bother increasing the specs for the S3?

Prolly in your haste to put me down you missed this lines from Mr Jedisco: "See there are basically two ways to solve memory issues on phones. One is to increase the ram stupidly,"

hence my point was if Samsung increasing the RAM was stupid, then why the fook is Nokia also increasing the RAM for WP8 devices?
anyway, points like that i should not have answered i concede. by doing that i just made it seem valid. Like i said the chap does not really know what he is talking about. he is acclaimed on symbian threads, he ought to stick there. the other chap there is absolutely good at symbian and does not go about talking crap over the boards

texazzpete: I don't understand this. The GPU is being used for UI hardware acceleration and rendering complex 3D games, just like on the iPhone. A whole buttload of the top games on iOS and Android aren't available on WP7 but there are loads of graphically impressive 3D games.

Sure there are. but you concede that there are more on Android and Iphone? and hence that surely could be a reason for the increased RAM specs, therefore the RAM is not just being increased stupidly?

Bro, there is only one spec for WP7 fones, everything straitlaced.[size=14pt] YOU, [/size]have variously complained about fragmentation on android and how there are so many different devices with various specs.

developers have to cater for the various specs, hence is it not logical that the manufacturers increase hardware to accommodate the varying software? This reminds me of the albatross of the earlier versions of Sense and Touchwiz. Those mods contributed A LOT to the "slow" grief being heaped on Android. You and i know stock Android even as far back as 2.2 was lag free!. so when the same manufacturers compensate for their crap it makes the Flagship inferior?


You see the argument is not that the way the OS operates are better or not. its the simplistic and flawed assertion that one fone is better than the other because one has reduced specs, and this point was introduced by jedisco when he said the specs are stupidly increased.

you know very well that if android operated with the same limitations as on WP7, it would outperform it all day everyday!!!
The phones areon different Levels of evolution.

i repeat my analogy about the cars. A hyundai requires 4 liters of fuel to get to Ibadan, whilst a BMW requires 10 Liters. Therefore, the Hyundai is a better car to the BMW? does this make any sense to you?

texazzpete: Well, it may be better for his needs. It's cheaper than the GS3, looks way better than the GS3, better sunlight readability, and frankly, the UI looks better than Touchwiz.

Another massive pro for the Lumia 900 is its far better offline GPS navigation functionality. Nokia Drive pretty much wipes the floor with anything on Android.

Nokia Maps yes.

But have you also considered that a 3310 may be better for my needs and cheaper, i think it looks better, more portable, legible in the sunlight, and the UI is simple and looks better, even my grandma understands it. therefore I HEREBY DECLARE THAT ITS A BETTER PHONE COMPARED WITH THE SGS 3!!!

WHAT TYPE OF FUCKERY IS THIS, SOMEBODY NEEDS TO GET SHOT

StarBoard: for once debosky is actually correct.

YIMU. correct ko, coneect ni


dem no wan pay big money, arsenal want big money. na player go suffer am noni.

he will continue his old contract for 1 season. he will be given the eboue treatment if and when he plays.
he will not put his heart in the game anymore.
he will chop bench.
next season he will leave on a free and find out only pple like fulham or bayern are interested and at a lower wage.
dreams of glory are out the window

so how is debosky right?


ANYWAY NEWS REACHING ME FROM Debosky, my correspondent for dobosikiy sports network is that Van PEE has been sold to Juventus, signed, sealed, delivered!!
now we can all move on....

texazzpete: C'mon now, so even you are not immune to spreading FUD?

Windows Phone 7.5 (which practically every Windows Phone device runs) has multitasking...implemented in pretty much the same was as Apple's iOS. The last 5 opened application support resume from a 'dehydrated' stage. Just press long on the Back button and it shows a card carousel of your last 5 opened applications. They'll resume from where you left them.

For many consumers, that's a good enough implementation of multitasking. Sadly they havent been able to get many essential apps like Skype to run in the background. lame.

WP7 apps will ALL work on WP8. Stop spreading misinformation na! You guys keep trotting the same WP7 'limitations' list that has been significantly whittled down in WP 7.5 Mango and tango updates. WP 7.8 will bring much more functionality too.

There are large games on WP7.5. They run just fine on 512MB RAM. Last I checked, there's no game on Android that's a visually splendid as Infinity Blade 2...and it runs fine on a 512MB iPhone 4/4S. NOVA 3 runs very well on a 4S too...

As i've said to someone else before, the Adreno GPU in the Lumia 900 is equal in performance to the GPU in the iPhone 4...and that runs Unreal Engine and Unity games pretty well.

No they dont. they do a save state and exit. u go back to the cards, it starts the app, loads up its saved state and continues. there are countless articles on this shyte bruv. SO YES< GETTING APPS TO RUN IN THE BACKGROUND LIVE IS WHAT I MEAN, LIKE THE SKYPE EXAMPLE!!!!!!!!! how does this mango implementation differ from the one on the much maligned BB?

That is not regarded as TRUE MULTITASKING, which is my point and which will require more RAM. Android allows this hence the reason why manufacturers put in more RAM, something which my friends here are busy slagging off without understanding it!

SO I'M NOT SPREADING FUD. i think me and u need another of our threads now!


and are you talking about mango, tango or apollo or whatever name is it your people call them ? i delibrately tie my arguments to mango. its apollo that actually nukes a a lot of the kinks and i know these ones do not have any access to the updates.

WP8 actually steps up to the plate, but then guess what! it is going to support more RAM and more CPU Configs!!! so much for the 512 mb argument. if it was so ok on 512, why would they be improving hardware specs.


The GPU is the same with that in iphone yes i agree, IS IT BEING USED IN THE SAME WAY THE ONE IN IPHONE IS BEING USED? NO!!!
can it be used, I do not believe so. not at this moment. maybe with future updates.

NOVA,INFINITY BLADE run on the same hardware in a IPHONE, do they run NOW on a LUMIA? cos it seems i may be out dated


These cats start a thread comparing these phones NOW, not what they MAY be capable of doing. then they tell usits better than SGS 3? WTF!!

and you also forget, the nuccas arguing on this thread DO NOT KNOW NADA ABOUT THIS. dude prolly aint even seen the fone before

Fact though is that even though i don't want to make this personal.

the truth is you @Jedisco are making sweeping statements with wildly offbase generalizations about technology that you do NOT UNDERSTAND.

i get the fact that from a gullible end user's perspective the LUMIA is such a beautiful solution, but then what sets it apart from for example the K850i or the Nokia S60v5 phones? i daresay a good number of symbian phones are actually in truth much much better than the LUMIA in that regard.

so yes, the lumia is a fine phone, yes its smooth etc etc. but so is my nokia 3310. it also has all the apps i would need. it never lags. does what i want it to do.


if not for the leeway companies have to tag their products any name they want in the guise of marketing, phones like the LUMIA do not actually qualify to be called TOP OF THE RANGE [b]SMART[/b]PHONES.

i repeat, there is nothing smarter in the LUMIA than say SOny Ericsson K850i. there is no difference underneath. just the casing and design differs

as for the RAM, the reason for the large sizes is that APPLICATIONS use the RAM. and the Bigger and More Intensive the app is, the More RAM it requires. its similar to the RAM on PC thingy. Photoshop, Video Editing, Autocad tools. 3D modelling tools require more than your average 2GB RAM on windows. funny enough linux runs on as little as 512MB. those apps are not available on it. That would not entitle me to claim that its better, even though pple often do.., like you are..... its FUD



which takes me back to the point i was trying to get across to you before, the reason your WP7 fone seems so smooth and great on that spec of hardware is because there are no apps on that platform sufficient to task it. And the OS itself is not even designed to be able to actually be stressed. The developers dont even bother because the platform itself is very limiting. the APIs are limited and mostly not available.

and to make matters worse, WP8 is like a new re-write of the whole shebang. WP7 apps wont work on wp8, WP8 apps wont work on WP7.

so when you claim the RAM does not matter, or does not make it better, you are comparing apples and oranges. [size=12pt][/size] you are qualified to say that when you run the same number of apps that are equally multi-tasking on both phones. the people who made WP7 are not stupid, they deliberately keep it locked down so you dont. ANDROID GIVES YOU CARTE BLANCHE.


so you see, clearly it does not seem you actually know what you are talking about. get the 5 largest games on that platform and open them at once and see if the fone lags....... oh i forgot, the stupid LUMIA CANNOT EVEN [b]TRULY [/b]MULTITASK.


if android was limited to doing one thing at once too, it would not need more than 384MB RAM. (thats the size on the first android smartfones, and they run ICS and JB too, like the xperia X10i

jedisco: See there are basically two ways to solve memory issues on phones. One is to increase the ram stupidly, the other is to optimize the os to be resource efficient and then increase the ram or core speed if need be.

I don't know about you but I prefer the 2nd option.

Bros the OS does not need the RAM.

matter of fact if you actually took time to learn what goes on on android, you would know that it follows the linux model of caching apps in RAM for faster access and running. that way it has TRUE MULTITASKING without unnecessary Work.
it may interest you to note that this is the defacto "best practice" mode in tech now and even microsoft have implemented this in windows 8.


thats in contradistinction with your Nokia WP7 thingy that does not multitask at all. you exit an app, it closes. no save states, etc etc.

and for the impact. what was the issue with android before ICS really was that there was little or no hardware acceleration on the GPU. so it seemed to lag when multi apps were utilizing the processor for rendering at once, hence all the bull-crap talk about lag.

that has been solved in ICS and even made better (butter project) in jelly bean. therefore right now Jelly bean is equal to and even better than IOS in that regard, tho im pretty sure IOS 6 will give it a run for its money.

i already did. check ur email

make i find trouble

So Drogba leaves and moves to China. A few weeks later China clean up in the Olympic diving medals. Coincidence?
Figures why they had to get the dude

Dude, do you dream about shakespeare and D.O Fagunwa daily?

tumababa: wanna install mountain lion on ur windows pc? u can now try it out the easy way....

http://www.redmondpie.com/how-to-install-os-x-mountain-lion-hackintosh-on-a-pc-tutorial/

been considering setting up a hackintosh for ages just for kicks tho cuz i can never thrive in that ecosystem. na d drivers issue dey dissuade me.



btw u pple want to start your own pirate network abi? smh.

google drive, ubuntu one etc. sacrifice buy space and presto u can upload and share links amongst urselves.
now that dropbox is just useless for bois


just dont be foolish enuf to post download links anywhere online directly else dem go take ur acct down.
think its much better that all dis sharing site wahala

lynxnoon: contact me for all these and more

08125769608

cheers

come since you buy iphone na im u don dey disturb my TL with foursquare mayor of oshodi tinz, my guy take time!!
hian. worst of all sef, u no dey see better places chop mayor na oshodi, nafdac, isale gangan, abule dis and dat!
wetin?


dude do u remember the name of that od app wey i dey use share wifi for windows way back. the other alternative to connectify?
i cant remember d name and e get one guy wey dey disturb me cos connectify dey give am issues

AjanleKoko: Na wa for RVP.
- offers himself to Barcelona. Answer is NO.
- Offers himself to Real Madrid. Answer is No.
- offers himself to Chelsea. Answer is NO.
-offers himself to Man Citeh. Answer is NO.
. . . finally, offers himself to Man United. Answer is . . . Tick Tock, Tick, Tock!!!

u go tire for advisers na.

the bloke just fall everybody hand. at this point im willing to bet he wont go anywhere, will eventually turn round to issue an apology to the club and the fans, see out the one year. then move to schalke 04 or somewhere equally weird like that.

by this time next year he will not have the same stock na, and new stars go explode. all the big clubs will be looking elsewhere by then.

i actually thought the dude had a deal lined up already before his rubbish press release, mumu. wenger will not bend his ego this time, lai lai. they pay up else he stays. lose lose for all, but more for him

big miscalculation

Ok so this was the thread mr jedisco was referring to?


erm ok, so to cut to the chase, the summary of your postulations is that SYMBIAN is better than ANDROID?

thats not worthy of argument. End of.

dude go and buy that samsung solar panel netbook
best battery life ever. like 8-9 hrs

but be sure say only browsing o, cuz na only 1 gb ram and win 7 don chop like half standard

omodapson: Poster, you should know what you want in a phone, don't you? Set your priorities right and go for what suits your daily needs. What's the use of a house you can't live in?

All these cores in phones are only made to confuse average users. If you want to join the bandwagon, then go for what the multitudes are going for. But if you want a phone for your needs, I would advise you go online and search for extensive reviews of phones you have in mind.

Most of the people on this thread who are shouting Lumia and SG3 have not seen or smelled those phones in their lives. Don't be deceived, go for functionality.

there is the crux of the matter.

its not by mere specs listing.

but the part where you have also missed the boat is: Don't be deceived, go for functionality

where and in what area is the LUMIA more functional than the SGS 3?

i dont want rhetoric. i have both phones in close proximity. i don't own a LUMIA, (not that foolish with my money) but i am staring at one here as i type. i also have access to the SGS 3, and i also own two other android phones (very conversant with that platform)

Can you or anybody kindly point out where and how the LUMIA is better than the SGS 3 or even 2 (lets drop the bar kindly) in functionality!


i put up a large list a few posts back. refute it.
matter of fact, the few WP mango phones that managed to overcome some of those flaws like sd card, equalizer, were manufacturer improvements by HTC.

unfortunately, the NOKIA ones are pure MS stock.


[size=18pt]POINT OUT THE FUNCTIONS THAT LUMIA TRUMPS SGS WITH[/size]

[size=15pt]WP7.5 (Mango) LUMIA OS LIMITATIONS

I WILL REMOVE MOST OF IT ANYWAY. MY POINT FOR POSTING THIS IS NOT TO BASH THE PHONE OR OS, BUT TO CHALLENGE THE LUMIA LOVERS TO PRODUCE A SIMILAR LIST OF WHAT LUMIA CAN DO THAT THE SGS 3 CANNOT, OR ANY ANDROID SEF[/size]


1. No true multitasking - all apps are frozen in the background except for some built-in apps like Zune player.

2. No Divx/Xvid video codec support. Zune will convert with loss of quality.

3. No mass storage mode.

4. No micro-SD card support.

5. No filemanager. Directory system is totally opaque.

8. Limited to 800x480 resolution.

10. Need to edit an MP3 file with strict constraints to be used as a ringtone.
11. Cannot set static IP address so no connection to ad-hoc networks.
12. No VPN support for this “corporate enterprise” phone.

14. Totally closed OS, cannot sideload apps outside MS Marketplace.

15. System font size cannot be changed.

16. Images and photos cannot be renamed in the phone.


18. No centralized notification page.
19. Alarm clock cannot work when phone is turned off. All Nokia Symbian and Meego phones can do this.


21. Only photos allowed as email attachments, documents not allowed.

23. Cannot stream audio from video to Bluetooth devices (No A2DP profile).

24. Tiles are fixed size and for many functions is a waste of space.

26. Very limited customization option.

27. 3rd party apps cannot put notifications on the lockscreen

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30. Wifi- hotspot and internet tethering not integral features in the OS but need to be provided by manufacturer on a case by case basis.
31. No HDMI output (Lumia specific)

32. No support for lossless audio format like FLAC and WMA lossless

33. Generally force users to use IE, Bing and SkyDrive by shutting out competitors or tying OS features to them.

35. Cannot be upgraded to WP8 (Apollo)

USABILITY ISSUES
36. No always visible status bar for battery life, signal strength, carrier, 2G/3G wi-fi, Bluetooth status.

37. Taskmanager has no option to shut down apps you don’t want running in the background.

38. Search and Back button cannot be de-activated in apps or games and easily touched by accident.

39. Lockscreen need to be activated to show missed call/sms notification.

40. No way to close an app except pressing back button all the way to the first screen.

42. Cannot create and save playlists on the phone.

43. Playlist can only be edited when you are playing it.

44. Cannot search your music collection on the phone, only in the Marketplace

93. Cannot set all contacts offline (no calls) except for a designated list – a downgrade from Symbian.

DUMB AND DUMBER
94. One volume control for all functions including media playback, ringtones, alarms, notifications.

95. Wi-fi disconnects when screen sleeps.


97. Can only enter one mobile phone no. for each contact. Mobile nos. entered in other fields will not accept sms.

99. Phone cannot be charged when off.

100. Need to be plugged in to wall charger to sync wirelessly with Zune (a funny definition of wireless).


103. Phone can be rebooted without entering security code

105. Cannot be charged up when battery is flat. (Lumia specific)


FEATURES EVEN DUMB PHONES HAVE BUT WP7.5 DOESN’T
107. No bluetooth file transfer.

108. Cannot handle USSD codes necessary for prepaid users to obtain services.

109. Cannot filter call history into Missed Calls, Received Calls, Dialled Calls, Recent Calls, etc


111. Does not show call duration in call history.

113. Call history does not group calls by contact.

114. Call history does not show the time of call for calls older than current day.

115. Cannot set custom sounds for different types of notifications.

116. No ringer profiles.

117. Cannot send/receive contact as a csv file.

118. Cannot backup contacts to PC, only to SkyDrive

119. Cannot backup sms at all, not even to SkyDrive

120. Cannot save contact to SIM card.
121. Cannot change alarm ring tone or use a MP3 file.
122. Cannot set alarm snooze interval.



IN THIS DAY AND AGE, A SMART PHONE FLAGSHIP HAS THESE LIMITATIONS?

don't get me wrong the phone is perfectly beautiful (if you life tiles) nicely built etc, but on which level can you begin to compare this POS with the SGS 3?

GIVE US A LIST OF THINGS THE LUMIA HAS OR CAN DO THAT THE SGS 3 CANNOT

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** FEATURES **
1. Support HTTP / HTTPS / SOCKS4 / SOCKS5 proxy
2. Support basic / NTLM / NTLMv2 authentication methods
3. Individual proxy for only one or several apps
4. Multiple profiles support
5. Bind configuration to WIFI's SSID / Mobile Network (2G / 3G)
6. Widgets for quickly switching on/off proxy
7. Low battery and memory consumption (written in C and compiled as native binary)
8. Bypass custom IP address
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10. PAC file support (only basic support, thanks to Rhino)
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* transproxy - transparent proxy for HTTP: http://sourceforge.net/projects/transproxy/
* stunnel - multiplatform SSL tunneling proxy: http://www.stunnel.org/
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This one?

KazeKage1: Ok guys, i need your help desperately, my wifi at work uses a proxy with authentication(username and password,which i know). I've tried to use Autoproxy(which worked when there was no authentication) but that hasn't worked for me .

as far as i know, which kain yeye fone you dey use wey u no fit set wifi proxy?

on my fone, stock ROm i can set proxy for the wifi na!!!


option one.
use the secret menu for your fone enter radio settings and set it. na d same place dem dey set DNS

option two
tweak your build.prop file.
consult your nearest guguru for you fone model for the right lines


option three
buy another fone. and thrwo that one away. nansense

Option four.

Flash a CyanogenMod ROM.
this is one of the little things that you take for granted running CM. the pple wey dey mod those ROMs no mad na, they do it for a reason.

option five
check play store.

infact how can you tell me there is no app capable of solving your ish on the market.

https://play.google.com/store/search?q=wifi+proxy&c=apps

u go chop cane o!!!!

Option 6
Go and sleep. and throway that apruka fone. na aba u buy am?

KazeKage1: No kwams, no one has agreed to take my issue up. Enjoy y'all

what issue? gaaan sleep joor.

u and all these your techlified issues

chucky234: You were one of the first people to buy SGS3 in Nigeria but I was one of the few people that imported the SGS3 into Nigeria,do you see how stu:pid you are?
You claimed to have used all iphones,SGS3 and One X without evidence, but I said I have used them and you can find evidence on the NL phone ad section. I have been importing high-tech phones for over five years and has been one of the consistence sellers on NL for the past three whole years,I just bought 20 pieces of the Samsung galaxy pocket from Samsung at the rate of N18,900 per unit then decided ti sell them out to NLanders for N17,000 per unit.
I have sold laptops on NL at unbelievable prices that's because I was the West Africa sales manager for an American tech company for three years and you foolishly think my appointment was a fluke.
So tell me what makes you think you know jack about tech
You keep talking about 2gb RAM and GPU and CPU, benchmark and yet claimed to know shit about tech,I still repeat that the One X is a better phone. If you mention benchmark PI then take the One S as it flop both the One X and S3 in that regard.
All your empty ideas were copied from the internet where junkies analyzed phones they never thave the opportunity to use,my argument are solely based on user experience.
Sure, the S III has a bigger battery (2100mAh), but
the Exynos chipset clearly lacks the extra
power-saving core of Tegra 3 while the One X has a power-saving fifth core to backup its battery which guarantee a long usage duration.
The polycarbonate boby of the HTC One X eclipsed the glossy plastic body of the S3, the HTC sense UI is amazing.
The music experience on the One X with the Dr. Dre beat audio earpiece is unrivalled not even the Samsung TouchWiz can beat the Sense UI, the 3D performance of the One X is also better than the One X and S3.

SENSE is NOT amazing...... pls don't. pls

One X does NOT have better battery life compared with SGS 3

The Processor in SGS 3 (International version) SHATS on the one in One X hands down. power saving core fifth my arse
if you claim to know about tech as you claim then you would know that those Tegra 3 processors are a big let down and disappointment

Beats By DRE? dude YOU KNOW NADA ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT!!!!!. jesus, do you know thats just a equalizer profile and is available on practically every custom rom on xda?


you failed to tell us why ONE x 1gb RAM is BETTER THAN SGS 2gb RAM



AND FINALLY, are you our in-house father christmas? you bought galaxy pocket for 18, 900 and sell for 17, 000? really? thats nice of you

IF you have some ONE X Units to sell, and this thread is spoiling your market, let it be known and we will remove the thread. all this Gorillaz CHest Thumping Argument cannot turn logic and commonsense on its head na mr oga. FFS even the real devs that tinker this fones hold the SGS 3 as the android pinnacle.

jedisco: 2. Coming to the issue of apps. Since the last time android users after 7 pages were unable to give useful apps not present on symbian out of their 450,000 (apart from current absence of online video call), I became very weary about this app stuff. Especially since the symbian guys were giving cogent reasons and some useful apps. My conclusion is that majority of those apps are cheap repeations, viruses or spam.

Moreover, I've gone though threads of favourite android, symbian and bb apps and I begin to wonder where all the thousand apps are.

So I've come to a conclusion that once a certain point is reached in the number of apps, most things left are just recurring decimals. The only exception maybe some games. I take this point to be the 100,000 mark which wp has reached.

Moreover, wp market place has more apps for any given phone than symbian. So thesame rule should apply here


Although I don't use a windows phone, I've been to wp market place and I think I'm quite impressed with the number, quality and speed of growth (which BTW is faster than that of android)

At this point, you completely lost the plot.

this is illogical argument at its best. and its completely flawed and so untrue. so you visited the android market but was not impressed? but the WP market impressed you? the apps in WP market do what exactly? farting apps ? ringtones?

how the Fook do you expect anyone to list all the apps on android? and precisely how many apps do you think the average user will install at any given time?

To clear your confusion, the catch phrase is "there is an app for that". that is the issue, not this FUD you are spreading.


for any given thing you intend to achieve with your phone at the material time, is it possible? yes or no. that is what sets the ecosystems apart.
its a non-starter comparing apps on WP to ANY ECOSYSTEM, even BADA



incidentally, your much vaunted WP7 is playing catch up, which even microsoft acknowledges. lots of everyday mundane stuff are actually very deficient or impossible on that platform. for example, does it now have a decent youtube application?

maybe you should check the list of "features" that WP 8 will add and see that there is not 1 feature that is unique or not ALREADY on ios and android.




as for performance etc. the first question is, is your Lumia even capable of running things that will task its performance?
how many games capable of taking a phone to the limit exist on WP?

BTW since the flagships are being compared, why do you keep citing old android phones that came with froyo and gingerbread as benchmarks? is lumia better or smoother than any ICS or JELLYBEAN phone?


sure the specs game is not where it ends, but what you are doing is equivalent to claiming that a Hyundai Sonata is better than a BMW because ...... whatever. fill in the gap.......
they are not even in the same league!



even more amazing is that this phone that you claim to be a flagship or Nokia/MS WP is being given out for almost free, how can a flagship on firesale be at par with one with millions in pre-order? before they put lumia on sales, how many units were they selling?

apparently, you seem to think the whole wide tech world that has put SGS 3 at the top of the food chain are ignorant abi?