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Am I the only one thinking about trading this in for a new nexus or maybe a evo 3d?
because I know they're saying be patient on roms but I've been very patient and this some be :/
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So make a rom or is this just a rant post?
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Go get your EVO 3d already if you really want to test your patience, hopefully you get a 1.5 bootloader too.
Lol i had an evo 3d from day 1 and now its sitting in a box while i use this. Sgs2 hands down better. Get lostkernel with starburst Rom. Epic speed and battery life. Can't compare the 3d screen to the SUPER AMOLED.
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If you wanna wait for the galaxy nexus to release on sprint while dealing with an evo 3d be my guest.
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Get the evo3d. Oh and make your own rom.
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Lol, Evo3D. I had it on release day... Brought it back for Nexus S4g... Got another Evo3D, rooted, rommed...meh. Aside from the giant hardware deficiencies it had, especially compared to et4g, umm, just blah. Synergy rom was the only compelling rom. CM7 still has a long ways to go and the other millions of roms? Pretty much themes. Also, sense? Ugh.
The grass is always greener bro, keep that in mind... But... Be my guest.
Though I will definitely be going the Nexus Prime route. Still debating switching to Verizon or waiting for the Sprint version.
Otherwise just be patient... Things will be fine... Especially once we get a true AOSP base.
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Seems like the only benefits of the nexxus are the screen, nfc, and ics, otherwise 1.2 GHz processor (not sure what chip it is), 5mp camera, 1.3mp front, etc.
Seems like it's not as big of an upgrade as most expected. Once we get ics I'll be happy. I dont see myself utilizing the nfc, and the bigger screen isn't worth however much I'd have to pay. I hope Samsung is on top of the ICS update.
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Seems like the only benefits of the nexxus are the screen, nfc, and ics, otherwise 1.2 GHz processor (not sure what chip it is), 5mp camera, 1.3mp front, etc.
Seems like it's not as big of an upgrade as most expected. Once we get ics I'll be happy. I dont see myself utilizing the nfc, and the bigger screen isn't worth however much I'd have to pay. I hope Samsung is on top of the ICS update.
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The screen (except in fullscreen mode for games that support it and video) will likely be the same size (of active area) or perhaps closer to 4.3" in scale...remember the on-screen buttons. Though the resolution must be stunning.
I heard it was supposed to be the new OMAP platform, but, I don't recall getting any official comfirmation of that.
The FFC I thought was the same 2.0mp that we have. Though the 5mp seems like a downgrade I'll bet that the optics are better. Besides, making the pictures 'bigger' without adding any high-quality detail is pretty pointless.
I don't care much for NFC myself...and the 16:9 aspect ratio I find very irritating...but, remember on-screen buttons...sometimes....
I'm going in for the Official Google Experience, early updates and no horse-**** when it comes to source code (I'm looking at you Samsung with their older-than-release kernel and HTC with their half-of-the-source code). If it is the same as my ET4G plus a little resolution bump minus a couple meaningless megapixels I'm game.
...who knows, it might even support EVDO rev.b that is pointless to worry about. though, if it is an OMAP those are known for their awesome overclockability...
I'm definitely going to get one, but, I'm not going to be a release-day whore like I usually am. This ET4G is a stellar phone as it is and I'm still enjoying it thoroughly.
Go for it, one less person to make threads like this.
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If it comes to Sprint, I'm laying down the money for this phone. I love my Epic Touch but I haven't tried a Nexus phone yet and ICS looks amazing, along with the hardware that comes with the Galaxy Nexus.
I'll be getting rid of this phone to go back to my Nexus S and just hold onto it until the Galaxy Nexus comes out for Sprint. (if it does)
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Yeah man I like flashing roms too.. but it doesnt get much better than starburst rom with lost kernel. My set up runs circles around any phone I have ever owned including the Evo 3d. The screen is bigger on the prime and has better resolution but if you use density changer that really doesnt matter. Other than that it doesnt really have any groundbreaking updates as far as hardware is concerned and sooner or later the software updates will be available on our phones anyway. That being said... I think you should go get the 3d based on the fact that you even had to ask.
So far it seems to be that unless you are an HTC device or a GSM Samsung device or a Verizon Motorola device you are going to be stuck with the proverbial red-headed-stepchild-device so far as development is concerned...Unless you get a Nexus...though there is still a splinter between the carrier models I'll take it. CM7 and MiUi are all I really want as options, everything else is gravy after that...like netarchy kernels.
Perhaps I'm wrong and just paranoid about this becoming the same disaster I saw the Epic turn out to be...a device that wasn't intended to be Android until the last minute (from what I understand). After coming from a long line of HTC devices it's hard not to be paranoid about that. Which is too bad since HTC dropped the ball this round and Samsung is really picking up the slack, finally.
Getting a Nexus device hedges against this...
ICS is optimized for TI OMAP processors
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ICS is optimized for TI OMAP processors
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maybe on the galaxy nexus? That can be easily rectified. It is an open source platform after all
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maybe on the galaxy nexus? That can be easily rectified. It is an open source platform after all
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I read it somewhere on a blog a month back or so. multiple actually. Droid life or Android central or 9to5google.
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When's the nexus coming to sprint?
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When's the nexus coming to sprint?
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Rumored to be released on 13/13/13.
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Rumored to be released on 13/13/13.
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Can't wait for that. Lol.
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Oh my epic has been so jealous. The other day I got a nexus s 4g for my gf and put ics on it. Man I cant stop using her phone and she does not understand what she has in her hand. Using this makes you see how much touchwiz sucks and there is no need for it anymore.
If Google was not whoring itself to anybody and had standards we would probably all have this already.
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Agree... For this to be the best phone on Sprint and one of the best phone on Android, Im surprised we dont have it yet.
I wonder if there will ever be a day when all high end android devices get updated at the same time.
I guess thats what the Nexus brand is for though...
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Oh my epic has been so jealous. The other day I got a nexus s 4g for my gf and put ics on it. Man I cant stop using her phone and she does not understand what she has in her hand. Using this makes you see how much touchwiz sucks and there is no need for it anymore.
If Google was not whoring itself to anybody and had standards we would probably all have this already.
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Sigh......
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Sigh......
The worst part is Google has the nexus but by the time we get if we do it will be September. What's even the point of making ics look the way it does if nobody will see it. When apple has an is update the world knows. Google I would say either does not care or handles it in the worst way.
Average consumer will use android and because of all the crap that the carrier and handset makers do they leave with a bad impression. Its just sad its like Google is its on worst enemy.
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Agree... For this to be the best phone on Sprint and one of the best phone on Android, Im surprised we dont have it yet.
I wonder if there will ever be a day when all high end android devices get updated at the same time.
I guess thats what the Nexus brand is for though...
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You're really surprised the E4GT doesn't have ICS yet? Do you know how long it took gingerbread to get to the original Epic?
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Oh my epic has been so jealous. The other day I got a nexus s 4g for my gf and put ics on it. Man I cant stop using her phone and she does not understand what she has in her hand. Using this makes you see how much touchwiz sucks and there is no need for it anymore.
If Google was not whoring itself to anybody and had standards we would probably all have this already.
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I'm sigh at yet another ics thread
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Sammy is already leaking beta's of the ISGSII
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You're really surprised the E4GT doesn't have ICS yet? Do you know how long it took gingerbread to get to the original Epic?
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can anyone confirm using a Verizon nexus on sprint. Ill give up 4g for it
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Don't envy
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Oh my epic has been so jealous. The other day I got a nexus s 4g for my gf and put ics on it. Man I cant stop using her phone and she does not understand what she has in her hand. Using this makes you see how much touchwiz sucks and there is no need for it anymore.
If Google was not whoring itself to anybody and had standards we would probably all have this already.
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I was trolling through their forums and they are waiting for the OTA for ET4G so they can have ICS with Touchwiz.
Get MIUI and use the black ice theme, pretty much ics minus multitasking c:
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Just played with a Galaxy Nexus. It must have been the special laggy edition. I wish my phone was that choppy.
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Get MIUI and use the black ice theme, pretty much ics minus multitasking c:
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Until aosp roms support 4g I can't use them. The 3g in my area just does not cut it.
To op, there are ics themed launchers in the market. The source was released, so in a few weeks expect to see a ton of launchers based on the actual code.
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Is it me or does it seem like Sprint forgot about it in favor of the new Evo? I thought the Nexus was the first LTE phone for Sprint......
Who cares about the nexus? That thing was already behind the curve when it came out.
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Who cares about the nexus? That thing was already behind the curve when it came out.
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Still a nice phone with full aosp and lots of custom rom support such as CM9. That being said I am fully happy with the my epic touch. Such a sweet phone. Especially once CM9 gets better.
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Still a nice phone with full aosp and lots of custom rom support such as CM9. That being said I am fully happy with the my epic touch. Such a sweet phone. Especially once CM9 gets better.
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Yeah when CM9 gets on par with the NS4G versions I will be all over it
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It will be the first, the Evo 4G LTE still won't be out for another while. The Nexus should be out before then, but like the Nexus did for Verizon, it'll probably come out quietly without the big commercials and announcements.
You mean the phone sprint employees apparently just recieved training materials for?
I bet it hits this month. The EVO LTE will be late May or the first couple of days in June I'd wager.
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I'm way to happy with the SGS2.. I think the nexus would be a step back. Cm9 for our device is about there..
Locked bootloaders turned me off with the evo 3d.. I'm holding off on that SGS3...
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so ICS is going to the SGSIII first and the source code is out first!!! really samsung really????
http://opensource.samsung.com/reception/receptionSub.do?method=search&searchValue=l710
i see us getting jellybean before ICS, well official OTA ICS
Not too long before we get ours then
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No offense but people have been saying that for months. I am just as guilty. Everyone just needs to sit back and wait for the official ota. And honestly OP why does it surprise you that they released to S3 first? Financially think about it, why would samsung put out an update for a phone that is basically old news.
Dont get me wrong I love my e4gt but the s3 has much better specs.
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It doesn't bother me that the s3 is getting it first it bothers me that sprint is the only galaxy s2 that doesn't have it yet both att and tmobile have it
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It doesn't bother me that the s3 is getting it first it bothers me that sprint is the only galaxy s2 that doesn't have it yet both att and tmobile have it
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I totally agree with that statement.
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It doesn't bother me that the s3 is getting it first it bothers me that sprint is the only galaxy s2 that doesn't have it yet both att and tmobile have it
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is the E4GT the only one to have the eMMC hard brick bug?
or the only one it hasn't been fixed? officially?
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is the E4GT the only one to have the eMMC hard brick bug?
or the only one it hasn't been fixed? officially?
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I believe the Galaxy Note has it too (or had).
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I believe the Galaxy Note has it too (or had).
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it did and still does (i believe) but it also only has leaked ICS just like the E4GT. we are talking about the T-mobile and ATT SGSII got the ICS OTA already
Why does everyone care? Isn't that the reason that we are all on this site? To make our phones better then anything that is delivered OTA by Sprint? Sure the ROMs would be even better with source, but many of them are already incredibly good, and probably better then any stock ROM...
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Why does everyone care? Isn't that the reason that we are all on this site? To make our phones better then anything that is delivered OTA by Sprint? Sure the ROMs would be even better with source, but many of them are already incredibly good, and probably better then any stock ROM...
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i dont really care for an OTA but i would like the source. there is so much more we could do if we had it....
Samsung is not holding up the show Sprint is.
It makes business sense. If we had ICS first I can easily see some people not upgrading to the S3. It has a nicer screen, a physical home button and better performance. That's really all it has over our S2.
The performance isn't even necessary, the S2 is still perfectly fast and will last us to the S4 at least.
Isn't the source for the Sprint E4GT out now? http://opensource.samsung.com/reception/receptionSub.do?method=search&searchValue=l710
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why is everyone complaining, just give in and buy a new phone like they want us to lol
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Isn't the source for the Sprint E4GT out now? http://opensource.samsung.com/reception/receptionSub.do?method=search&searchValue=l710
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Thats the GS3
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What really cheeses me is Samsung said they would make sure all gs2 variants must be on ICS before they released the gs3.sprint is making them out to be liars
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Ravaged Pheonix said:
What really cheeses me is Samsung said they would make sure all gs2 variants must be on ICS before they released the gs3.sprint is making them out to be liars
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it could because they dont want to pay for hard bricks....
Didn't sprint just recently get it? I think Sammy had it up until fe11, then sprint made 14 and 18 (I think, don't quote me).
Either way, who cares we want source!! Lol
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I'm quite fond of the Four buttons at the bottom of my S2, I'd really rather not be stuck with just one, as on the S3 (reminds me of the iPhone)..
I also don't mind waiting for the Official OTA, after all, I much prefer a polished and stable release over something that could mess up my phone in anyway (even if it's just minor).
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There's 3 buttons, but the home/ok button works as a mouse like on the Moment. You still get capacitive List and Back buttons.
Just wondering when sprint is going to push the Jelly Bean update to the GS3. I have a friend who got it a couple weeks ago on T-Mobile. Also anybody in the STL area know when we're going to get LTE from Sprint. And how to change Mobile Network to LTE. I have it set to CDMA/LTE I guess that if it's on LTE it will say 4G instead of 3G?
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Rumors say Q4/early 2013 for jelly bean
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To my knowledge no galaxy s3 has gotten the official jelly bean update, i don't think the international had gotten it, and i know no US variation has gotten the official update.
Everything that's it had been out are leaks or ports.
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Hmm when is the s4 coming out?
That is a plausible answer
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I have come to the SIII from an EVO 3D. With all of this talk about when jellybean will come out reminds me of ics for the 3d. So knowing sprint and how history repeats itself, get comfortable folks. It will a while. Not being pessimistic, just realistic to sprints delay habits. Took them greater than 8 months for ics once promised.
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xCovErtWolFx757 said:
Rumors say Q4/early 2013 for jelly bean
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They are wrong
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I have come to the SIII from an EVO 3D. With all of this talk about when jellybean will come out reminds me of ics for the 3d. So knowing sprint and how history repeats itself, get comfortable folks. It will a while. Not being pessimistic, just realistic to sprints delay habits. Took them greater than 8 months for ics once promised.
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Sprint doesnt ebven have the update yet. It is still in testing in samsungs hands
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from what i read it will not resemble the smoothness the gnex jellybean has and look like there's not to much to be excited about. Appy geek app for all the info and video of the official jb I'm not impressed.
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Rumors say Q4/early 2013 for jelly bean
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Damn!That long?
They need to fix Media Scanner issue,it keeps running and getting phones hot,with no permanent solution.
lviv73 said:
Damn!That long?
They need to fix Media Scanner issue,it keeps running and getting phones hot,with no permanent solution.
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My phone does not have that issue.
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My phone does not have that issue.
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You probably have few media files.Put some avi,mkv,mp3,ogg files and you most likely will.
Google "Ics Media Scanner" and see how many people have this problem,not just on our s3 but on every android phone running ics.
Oh and consider yourself lucky,you might not have it now but but it doesnt mean you want get it later.
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Damn!That long?
They need to fix Media Scanner issue,it keeps running and getting phones hot,with no permanent solution.
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Long. Man that's early! E4GT took a year to get ics
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Long. Man that's early! E4GT took a year to get ics
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Yeah i know i got one,lol.That was short compared to og Epic which took almost 2 years to update to gb and its still on gb.
I think i like my Epic Touch little more than my S3 but its crippled because my son threw it in the toilet,so i let him have it,it just needs to be pluged in but everything still works.
From what I'm seeing from the developers, the Sprint Samsung Galaxy s3 will have a functional (not official) jelly bean rom very soon. In fact, it seems they are very very close. The only things that are not working yet are screen rotation, mms, and some browser issues. Seeing how quickly every other issue has been resolved, I wouldn't be surprised to see a working jb rom this week.
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From what I'm seeing from the developers, the Sprint Samsung Galaxy s3 will have a functional (not official) jelly bean rom very soon. In fact, it seems they are very very close. The only things that are not working yet are screen rotation, mms, and some browser issues. Seeing how quickly every other issue has been resolved, I wouldn't be surprised to see a working jb rom this week.
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Those issues should be fixed soon. A birdie told me the update hits user trials in upcoming weeks
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I love how this phone is the same on every carrier
The cm10 nightly ROMs are becoming quit stable. Jellybean butter.
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Long. Man that's early! E4GT took a year to get ics
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November 2011-July 2012 = 8 months. Really 7 since VZW didn't get gnex till December. Two thirds your quote.
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Yeah i know i got one,lol.That was short compared to og Epic which took almost 2 years to update to gb and its still on gb.
I think i like my Epic Touch little more than my S3 but its crippled because my son threw it in the toilet,so i let him have it,it just needs to be pluged in but everything still works.
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Dec 2010 to Nov 2011 = 11 months. Less than half your quote.
Not saying your point isn't valid but you don't do the argument any favors with such hyperbole.
The code differences between jb and ics are much smaller than gb to ics. They'd better have JB out before end of year. No excuse otherwise
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Thanks for the answer guys. Not looking for a rom really since I haven't rooted my S3, yet... When I for my OG Evo I immediately rooted and flashed. It really needed to run better though. I stock sense for the OG Evo sacked. It was laggy and such. But so far. My S3 has been running like a top. Don't see a reason to root and flash, flash yet..... Although being able to tether for free would come in handy. BTW answered the LTE part of my initial question. No news on that one either huh?
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