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| Thread ID: 130027 | 2013-03-24 07:27:00 | Asus Nexus 7 v Samsung Galaxy 3 | B.M. (505) | PC World Chat |
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| 1333876 | 2013-03-24 07:27:00 | Excuse my ignorance on these things, but what will a Nexus 7 32GB do that a Galaxy 3 32GB won’t, and visa versa? :thanks | B.M. (505) | ||
| 1333877 | 2013-03-24 07:31:00 | Only difference in capability is the size of the screen really, specs are very similar. Also a nexus 7 doesn't have a rear camera and the cheaper models don't have cellular capabilities. | dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1333878 | 2013-03-24 08:10:00 | Don't believe even the cellular models of the Nexus 7 can make calls and receive texts. Apart from that, if you go for the cellular version of the Nexus 7, they both should be able to do the same things, apart from recording photos and videos. | Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1333879 | 2013-03-24 08:21:00 | Android Jellybean on the Nexus 7 is also the "vanilla" Android, the way Google intended it. I've never been a fan of how Samsung theme their Android phones. | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1333880 | 2013-03-24 20:06:00 | The nexus 7 is a small tablet and the S3 is a phone. So hardware wise there are some differences. They both run android though (like iPhone and iPad mini pretty much - except the iDevices don't run android) The Galaxy however has the android software 'modified' (customised) by Samsung, it's not very good. They have some really good (actually some of them are pretty darned amazing) features they add but whoever designs the UI needs to be shot, and whoever develops their code should be forced to shoot themselves. The UI is ugly as hell (IMO) and their actual ROM has poor performance. If you're not really interested in the actual "phone" side of things (calling/texting) then you should go for the nexus. If you're up for the challenge, putting a custom ROM on the S3 will make it amazing ;) sadly you do loose some of the nifty samsung features, but you probably won't miss them that much. |
The Error Guy (14052) | ||
| 1333881 | 2013-03-24 20:10:00 | I agree, I think android would benefit from a more consistent experience if manufacturers stopped adding all their customisations on top of it or at least made them optional apps that could be removed without rooting the phone or installing custom ROMs. Like a lot of consumers when I pay a lot of cash for a phone I'm not comfortable taking the chance of bricking it with custom firmware. I tried it on my galaxy with mixed success but only after I'd owned it for a year and in the end went back to stock ROM and didn't really find it any worse to use. However, I own an S3 running stock 4.2.1 and I've had a play with a colleagues nexus 7 running 4.2.2 and honestly both are fast and smooth and easy to use and can run pretty much all the same apps without any real difference. So again I say, the true difference is the size of the screen, the cellular features, and the rear camera. the rest is largely cosmetic and a matter of preference. I also have a transformer T300 running 4.2.1 so I can see the difference in approach of 3 manufacturers running similar OS versions on similar hardware. They look quite different initially but you quickly find they are all more similar than different. |
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