At least on my device, the back cover felt cheap and flimsy.
But more importantly, that PenTile screen just looked terrible to me. I constantly noticed a faint checkerboard pattern in bright surfaces. None of my friends see it, but it drove me insane. Am I the only one to notice that?
To be fair, you have to be < 2 centimeters from the device to see the pentile on the SGS3 due to the resolution (and at 2 cm your eyes will hurt. Mine do.)
I had a SGS (pentile), SGS2 (no pentile), SGS4 (pentile), various iphones (no pentile) and others.
I can only see the pentile on the SGS.
If that's not enough, I score 21 on EU visual tests (maximum is 20, above is/are bonus points for exceptional vision)
I believe the only jokes here are this post and the parent :P
I don't understand people who say this. My friends have pentile phones, and say they don't notice, but I looked at a GSIII, and it was immediately obvious to me. The screen looks sort of grainy, and the colors are all weird.
I prefer Android, so I've been holding out for a high-end one with a great camera and a non-pentile screen. If there isn't one this year, I might have to switch :(.
The color issue doesn't have much to do with pentile, that's why. Yes colors are interleaved, so it sounds like it would be logical - but that's not the case
The SAMOLEDs from Samsung have weird colors because some colors get used faster and their intensity diminushes over time.
On the S3 and S2 (which has NO pentile, still has weird colors) you can mitigate it in the color profile settings
On the S1 there are tools to completely fix the colors, yet it's a low rez pentile display. While you can see the pentile matrix on this one, specially well if close, you can't see the color difference once calibrated. There's just no way.
There's no "grainy" effect that I can see tho. The resolution's just too high to see it at normal distance (on the S3 that is. Definitely something you can see on the S1.)
Uh, sorry, but at "normal" viewing distance (a foot or more?) I can tell the difference immediately. In particular, the blue tinge of the pentile display is immediately obvious when viewing pictures of people on twitter / facebook.
The HTC One X, in this regard, is the superior phone. In all other regards, the SIII is (to me).
At least on my device, the back cover felt cheap and flimsy.
But more importantly, that PenTile screen just looked terrible to me. I constantly noticed a faint checkerboard pattern in bright surfaces. None of my friends see it, but it drove me insane. Am I the only one to notice that?
Apart from that, not a bad device, though.