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fazza

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25th Nov 12 at 10:08

Orange business is awesome as john said.

Will exchange handsets for easy peasy. Do it for a few of my business customers every 6 months or so when there phones are starting to look worn

Steve

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25th Nov 12 at 10:27

I just take my phones to Carphone warehouse for warranty work, the samsung phone will have a warranty with samsung, 12 or 24 months usually

fazza

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25th Nov 12 at 10:41

Only iPhone and Blackberry offer 12 months warranty

3CorsaMeal

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25th Nov 12 at 11:45

Try your SIM in a different phone I just had a SIM card not found and it was the SIM card at fault.

[Edited on 25-11-2012 by 3CorsaMeal]

A2H GO

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25th Nov 12 at 15:42

They tried 3 different sims in it in the store.

Can you blag being a business customer?

Steve

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25th Nov 12 at 18:08

You dont need to blag anything, you have a warranty with samsung, forget orange, just take it to your nearest carphone warehouse repair center

fazza

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25th Nov 12 at 19:44

No you can't blag it Ash

Do as Steve said tbh, most big carphone warehouse have them instore

A2H GO

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25th Nov 12 at 20:16

Bugger, I already left it with the numptys at Orange now.

chrisritch

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26th Nov 12 at 10:31

Be honest Ash, You have been willing this phone to fail so you can kick up a fuss at the first problem and run back to Apple

A2H GO

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29th Nov 12 at 15:51

First problem? I've just added this one to the list.

It's been hard not just getting another iPhone whilst I'm waiting for it to come back.

Been doing a bit of reading up with regards to connections speeds but it's only served to confuse me more.

From what I can gather, O2 are rolling out DC-HSDPA in cities (inc Manchester where I work) which has a maximum speed of 42mbps. The last thing I can find on this is when O2 announced it in May...is this in place now?

Secondly, does the S3 (LTE) support it?

I found this link to the spec which quotes support for 'HSDPA+', is that the same as 'DC-HSDPA':

http://www.samsung.com/hk_en/consumer/mobile/mobile-phones/smartphone/GT-I9305TADTGY-spec

If so, being on GiffGaff (O2) I should get it. Apparently EE's implementation of 4G tops out at 21mbps, so technically I could get better speeds than the current 4G without waiting for it to be rolled out or being limited to silly caps...

[Edited on 29-11-2012 by A2H GO]

John

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29th Nov 12 at 16:55

I've had an extended play with a couple of iPhone 5's I had to setup this afternoon.

Keyboard is at least as bad as the S3, not as good as the one on my 4. Screen is crap against the S3, as a normal user I wouldn't know it was any different, the rest of it is exactly as a 4S so nothing much to say.

Build quality, as always, is great, feels really nice. Shape is weird, it wouldn't be a deal breaker at all but very out of proportion.

1 out of 4 was all scratched, QC still not as good as it should be.

All in all, not a chance I'd swap the S3 for one.

A2H GO

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29th Nov 12 at 16:59

Both my mates have got black iPhone 5's and they both look about 4 years old already, bit like this....

That did do my head in when I had it because I was always conscious about scratching it or even it just wearing through the black coating with use.

[Edited on 29-11-2012 by A2H GO]

John

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29th Nov 12 at 17:01

This was a brand new one I'd just taken out the box, not as bad as that, bad enough that I'd have swapped it.

A2H GO

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3rd Dec 12 at 23:04

quote:
Originally posted by Dom

quote:
Originally posted by Rich H
Gmail app scales email fine for me (ie no need to scroll) with the phone on it's side.

It's HTML/picture-based emails that it won't scale correctly, it's fine with bogo-standard text mail. Although i did think the standard email app scales but it looks like doesn't.
K-9 mail is a decent mail app though + it's free

Finally, it's only taken 7 years

http://vrge.co/11suPOC

Robbo

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4th Dec 12 at 09:57

quote:
Originally posted by A2H GO
Apparently EE's implementation of 4G tops out at 21mbps

no. just no.

This isnt broadband here, both 3G and 4G connection speeds are subject to the number of requests, 100 or 7.2, it makes little difference if there are a lot of people all trying to connect at the same time. Probably some online journal has quoted that they cant get faster than 21.6 speed on LTE but it will be a coincidence as opposed to a cap - per my post in the iphone thread, our policy 2 years ago when i left the technlogy finance team was blanket 14.4 coverage across Europe. IIRC weve now upped that to 28.8 blanket with 43.2 and 56.8 (?) in cities and metropolis' respectively - so the networks are constantly ahead of the phone manufacturers on HSPA

A2H GO

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4th Dec 12 at 12:29

A recent Ofcom speed survey of EE's 4G network confirmed average LTE speeds of 8-12mb.

I thought EE 4G is limited to 20MB on the 1800MHZ Frequency, could just be rumour though.

It will obviously get better over time but if you can get better speeds on DC-HSDPA+ now without paying through the nose or being limited to silly caps then it seems like a better option.

Wasn't aware 3G/4G doesn't slow down the more people are connected.

[Edited on 04-12-2012 by A2H GO]

John

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4th Dec 12 at 12:42

There won't be enough bandwidth at each node (whatever that may be, mast or whatever) for everyone to download at full speed.

For that reason I'd disagree with it making little difference if lots of people are connecting.

Looks like the maximum speed is 40mb but the average is closer to 8.

Robbo

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4th Dec 12 at 12:56

not sure if my point came across as intended, what i was trying to say that it makes no difference if youre connected to a 100Mbps or 7.2Mbps node if a lot of people are doing likewise, as the speed will be crap in both instances, for the reaosn that john said.

hence HSPA+ (DC-HSDPA+) will most likely come out at a realistic 5-8Mbps upon use, hence why Ofcom quoted the average LTE download speeds.

A2H GO

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4th Dec 12 at 21:13

Kyle T

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4th Dec 12 at 21:16

I've had my S3 for a while, not rooted an Android for a couple of years though.

Can I be lazy and ask for a guide and a location for the relevant Kernels/Vanilla OS's/etc?

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A2H GO

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5th Dec 12 at 20:59

Multi window actually looks really good, hopefully we'll get this update this month;

http://www.androidcentral.com/android-412-update-ready-global-galaxy-s3-multi-view-and-other-features-included?utm_source=ac&utm_medium=twitter

jamied

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5th Dec 12 at 21:41

The more I read this thread I realise I am getting bored with my iPhone 5.. Read a review on the note2 today and very tempted to make the change. Had every iPhone since launch but the last 2 have been disappointing and would like a really big screen.

A2H GO

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8th Dec 12 at 09:58

Over two weeks with no phone and still no sign of my S3 from Orange. It's worth having a worse phone just for this shit.

A2H GO

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8th Dec 12 at 20:41

Anyone has this come through for their S3 yet?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnTy7sSi5j4

ShEp

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8th Dec 12 at 22:53

I've had quite a lot of problems with mine

Had it since launch.

I'm onto my 3rd handset now,

Fist one screen flickered A LOT and was un-useable, so it went straight back.

Second had very poor sound quality during calls. Tried various resets, covers etc and it was still terrible,

Third handset, sound quality during calls is terrible, Randomly switches off in the middle of a task. One day the battery will last all day with still 35% remaining, Other days I dont make it to lunch time.

I've given up complaining.