Fans and haters alike would have you believe that either the SGS III kills the One X or visa versa, turns out that in different ways both are best. Surprisingly the One S with the Snapdragon S4 does very well in some of the reviews even coming out on top in a few. This will make for some interesting devices come the S4 Quad which is slated for release sometime in Q4 2012.
I have read most of the reviews (Engadget has a good one) that are available on the net and discounting the obviously biased ones, the new Exynos Quad is a fine chip powering its way through the benchmarks giving some seriously impressive numbers (supercomputers passed 150MFLOPS in about 1975-76).
Super computer speeds (10^8 = 100MFLOPS) (thanks Wikipedia)
From the various reviews, it looks like the Mali400 GPU in the SGSIII isn't really a match for the Tegra 3, but the Exynos is a better CPU. There is a lot to like about the SGSIII but not more so then the One X.
I feel the main thing holding back the SGSIII is the stupid TouchWiz 4 skin. HTC Sense 4 is no longer the bloated pig that the older versions were, it is much closer to stock android (why the manufacturers don't just ship stock is beyond me). TouchWiz is clunky and old looking where Sense looks sleek and polished.
Well that and the fact that it is f-ing huge, these are supposed to be portable
computers, and not in the way that a laptop is portable, but a pocketable computer.
I want a hybrid of the SGSIII and the One X in the form factor of the One S, and this is probably asking too much. Maybe when the Snapdragon S4 Quad arrives. I want the microSD slot from the SGSIII but the proper ICS buttons from the One X/S. I want the user replacable battery from the SGSIII (or bigger) and the forward looking UI from the One X/S, or better yet stock android. I want the IPS screen from the One X at 1280 x 720 but in the size of the One S but it should be Gorilla Glass 2 like the SGSIII. Both phones have 1GB of RAM, this is probably enough, but by year end I expect to see phones coming out with 2GB.
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