redbullcat

Yeah, the ladies love a bit of the Wiz.

It’s still glossy. That immediately makes it feel lower quality. If Samsung had used the same polycarbonate as HTC used on the One X, it would have been fine, and I’d probably have bought the S III. But no, they had to go and ruin it with gloss.

One X.

Again, I didn’t say that. I’m saying that I don’t like the plastic they’ve used, because to me it feels cheap and tacky, like I described above in my comment, and below in my reply.

That’s not what I’m saying at all. I just don’t like the plastic Samsung have used: like DeeeNYC said, “In their quest for apple like profits they went cheap which I can’t help but feel is a big fuck you to their loyal customers.”

I had a Galaxy S and it felt very cheap to me. When I bought my HTC Sensation, I could have bought the Galaxy S II. I had a good play around the S II, and I really didn’t like the plasticky construction. It was glossy (albeit not as glossy as the original Galaxy S) and I just didn’t like it. From the looks of things, I won’t like the S III either, because even though they’ve used aluminium on other Samsung smartphones (the Wave series), they seem incapable of using it here.

The One X’s matte polycarbonate feels a lot nicer in the hand to me. It isn’t slippy, it looks better (Vlad admitted it himself), it’s unibody (which I’m a sucker for; can’t get enough of unibody), and to me, it just generally looks and feels better.

So no, I’m not saying flexibility = poor build quality. I’m just using that as an example that I don’t like the plastic used on this phone.

Overall, how do you like the construction of this phone? It seems very plasticky to me.

OK, clarification: polycarbonate plastic that HTC used on the One X will always be better than the glossy plastic Samsung have used, in looks, feel and build quality.

Didn’t you see how flexible the battery cover was in Vlad’s hand?

The polycarbonate on the One X, aluminium on the Xperia P and glass and aluminium will always be better than plastic.

It isn’t just about the build quality, either: the glossy plastic Samsung have used not only looks cheap, but feels incredibly like a budget smartphone on a regional carrier.

Navigation on Android phones is fantastic. Google Navigation and Google Maps are probably the best in class.

And they haven’t shown off messaging and navigation yet because they’re not finished.

*it’s

There’s no Build Quality category…I’d like to think that this wouldn’t score too highly there, seeing as its a plastic construction.

Still don’t know which I prefer, One X or S III….

Yeah, but the whole ecosystem (email, Docs, stuff like that) isn’t as strong as what Google or Apple offer. It’s all there (SkyDive, Office365, Mailn etc), sure, but I don’t think the average consumer knows enough about them.

tl;dr There’s no incentive for me to move from Google or Apple’s ecosystem to Microsoft’s, but there is an incentive to move from Microsoft’s to Google or Apple’s.

Maybe not on the desktop, but on tablets it should be awesome.

Ha, Metro’s actually really good.

Glasses, then contact lenses, then nanomachines.

They said on their G+ account that they have various solutions for people who have prescription glasses (like me).

If Google play their cards right, this could totally change the game. Go Google!

sigh

Yeah, but they had the 3GS. 3rd iPhone.

It’ll be the sixth gen iPhone, but it it does have a number attached to it (and like you, I don’t think it will), it’ll be the iPhone 5.

I think there’s still a market. I’d like to see a Tegra 3, onscreen navigation buttons, slim, Sony designed Xperia Play successor.

I meant onscreen navigation buttons, as the Galaxy Nexus uses. Sorry I didn’t make that clear.

I meant onscreen navigation buttons, as the Galaxy Nexus uses. Sorry I didn’t make that clear.

Yep, this is what I meant; sorry I didn’t make that clear.

I meant onscreen navigation buttons, as the Galaxy Nexus uses. Sorry I didn’t make that clear.

They should definitely do another one but better build quality and onscreen buttons.

*Android (2.3, 4.0 is fantastic) is maybe a bit worse than WP

Sorry, my fault. Need an edit button.