Tesmond's Useful Design

Like many with an interest in mobile devices I am curious about what the new Samsung Galaxy S3 will be like. I have viewed may rumour blogs and posts with interest, but I have noticed that a large number of users make the same comment, along the lines of Same old cheap plastic design...  When I first purchased my Samsung Galaxy S (one) phone I loved the plastic backing. The plastic is not cheap, in the sense that it is highly resilient and does not mark easily as numerous accidental drops can attest to. The plastic is very light, leading to my phone being nearly 20% lighter than an iPhone despite the large screen. Being a plastic design it allows for easy removal for replacement batteries etc. The plastic being used is certainly stronger than you see on many cases, and the durability suggests to me that the plastic choice is a more expensive version than they could choose to use. Many people seem to love the ceramic One X or Glass iPhone, or perhaps the aluminium of v...

Well my wife has an iPhone 4 and I have a Samsung Galaxy S.  I am not one of those petty fanboys so I feel I can comment in a relatively unbiased fashion about the differences between the two. Up until recently I felt it was a relatively even contest.  I loved that I could run flash on websites, and that I could run multiple tasks simultaneously, my phone was lighter and thinner than any case enclosed iPhone.  However, I did envy the iPhone's text rendering, as well as the mute switch on the side. There was one feature I thought I would be upset to not have and that was the camera flash.  The lack of a camera flash has not been that big an issue for me, especially as the iPhone's flash really does give everything a horrible yellow hue, which requires post photo filters before the picture is actually usable, in most situations the cameras are equal. However, Samsung recently released Android 2.3.3 on the Galaxy S and this update is amazing.  ...