With heavy use (and by heavy I mean 12 hours of ACTIVE USE per day average), the OLED on my old S2 started showing low level burn-in symptoms after 1 year. I sold it off already, but if I extrapolate that, the SuperAMOLED+ screen should be "dead" by 2-3 years of "heavy" use or 4-5 years of "normal" (5-6 hours a day) use.

Which is on par with the manufacturer estimation.

The S2 SuperAMOLED+ is full RGB, which means it would theoretically DIE FASTER compared to a SuperAMOLED(no plus)HD Pentile screens of similar size and density.

So taking that into account (and minus-ing the fact that we have denser, bigger screens) the S3 screen should last AS long (or maybe slightly longer) then it's predecessor, say 4-5 years of "normal" use.

Granted, it would start yellowing noticeably after the first 2-3 years (due to blue OLED death), but like I said, the estimated "obsolescence" of a modern mobile is around 2 years anyway, so it's fine all things considered.

And who says the screens ain't replaceable? 500 gets you a new screen now, It should be relatively cheaper in the future.

Personally I'm more concerned with the totally "plastic" bodies of the current crop of modern mobiles lol.

Alas, we're already too far into the disposable age anyway. You can't expect too much from anything these days.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Jul 25 2012, 09:22 AM

Careful, if you "off" the notification, you will not be able to hear the notification sound for your SMS. Better to turn off wifi and set network to GSM only

turn off sync...

also the s3 has a very nifty feature that can detect if your present, so it will omitt the setting to auto turn off display and go into standby. It's very practical, and you increase the efficiency and life expectancy of your amoled display usage with zero annoyance of finding the phone in standby when your still using it.


I totally agree with you, however in the end, can they deliver an aluminium body at the same price ? (which i seriously doubt).

In the sense that i rather have lots of good quality features with an ok phone exterior build, vs having a nice exterior, but crappy software features, i will always choose the former but if there was a third option to offer best of both worlds but at a costlier price, i'd choose the former because you get the bang for your bucks.

i've till now used a nokia phone, so i'm very used to these plastiky builds, but that wasn't what annoyed me most about my nokia. it was mostly the lack of features in terms of software and hardware capability which made me hate that phone.

in 2012, lots of these laptops have a front side aluminium cover which makes typing on the laptop nice and cool, and yet they are still very affordable to own. but i'm skeptical whether the smartphone market will be able to offer the same thing at also a reasonable price

not to mention the design. the htc one x, has a nice aesthetic look, but without a replacable battery, seems a bit inpractical.

This post has been edited by Moogle Stiltzkin: Jul 25 2012, 09:28 AM

Hi, I just update my phone fIrmware using kies. It seem like slowing my phone. My phone contact seem to load slow than before. izzit I din installed properly? When I'm leave it to download it just show loading to 13% but when I reconnect to re download again it show my phone is already up to date.

The only "Green" is Notification and PowerSave mode the rest will be turned on upon needed.

My old trusted HTC Desire, on WIFI (when near wifi hotspot/home/office) has no major impact to it. This S3? dont know.... it will, not a lot, but will...

me terbalik... desire...on wifi..no refresh... 12 hours off liao...

Though Smart Stay is nifty, it's not perfect. It likes to screw me over at night and close the display when I DON'T want it to lol.

On a sidenote, most ICS browsers now have "inverted greyscale rendering mode" (aka night mode) built in, which helps to save battery as well (as most websites are light in colour).

Can they? Ooooh, they sure can make aluminium unibody phones at the same price. But profits will be slim, and who wants that?

Plus UNIBODY ALUMINIUM phones will wreck havoc on waves, hence the iPhone's Antennagate (the signal attenuation part, which, to a lesser degree, the metal bodied Nokia E71/72 also suffered from).

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Jul 25 2012, 09:43 AM

same case as in asus transformer prime...

i found that my s3 cannot download any apps from google play after i update the new firmware by using 3g

but if switch to wifi, everything is working fine, anybody experience similar problem? what should i do?

thanks a lot

Celcom? It does that sometimes. Just check if you can browse. If you can there should be no issue.

I VPN to tunnel through this "Play Store Block", when it happens.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Jul 25 2012, 09:47 AM

don't off phone is the best
like this you turn off and on drain more battery
just leave it on + open airplane mode
since you turn off phone also don't want other call you haha

If your WIFI on 27hrs without connection, yes.
if connected, no issues. Me in Oxygen rom, maybe different. [OUT OF TOPIC]

it ends here!



I have turned off all my sync, even my weatherwidget never update..... batt drop 1-2% in 3hrs, looks good to me.
but Damn, this is like going back to Nokia 3310 age... back to basic

Hi there, I am newbies here.

I foundout the Alarm Briefing is awesome, but I am having some problems with the news briefing... can any sifu help me out here?

I set my alarm type to briefing content, and tick all 3 options "Weather" "Today's schedule", "News".



When the alarm sound, I will brief the weather and my schedule, but the "News" part, I only reads out the title.

I can see there's a Yahoo sign on top right and The Malaysian Insider on bottom, does anyone sifu how to modify the "News" briefing function and provider?



This post has been edited by luzifer: Jul 25 2012, 09:53 AM

maxis.

the funny part is that when i use opera to browse, everthing is ok

but when using dolphin, is either very slow or can't browse at all

guys, AllShare Play unable to update? anyone can solve this issue?

how to vpn?

I'll link you to my guide... If I can find it.

It's buried somewhere in V14 of the thread.

Here it is: VPN Guide.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Jul 25 2012, 10:07 AM

how to join contact with FB account?

Any Maxis user experiencing problem with Google service and Facebook?

I only can login using wifi. Using Maxis 3G, line problem. Damn.