Comments on: Next Galaxy S III dummy photographed

By: tspx23

tspx23 — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 06:54:00 +0000

the screen size is 720×1280 or 9:16. the buttons are taking up some of the pixels.

By: Ben Millen

Ben Millen — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:10:00 +0000

Note 2 that was meant to say:-)

By: Ben Millen

Ben Millen — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:09:00 +0000

Tbh looks cheap and nasty to me. Probably an uneducated kirf. Ill wait for the official announcement. Although I have a note so not that interested. I want them to announce the note :-)

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:16:00 +0000

Not one single web report I have found which focus on these “dummy phones” has cleared up two big questions that immediately occur to me. First off, when tech magazines say these dummies house the S III hardware, do they mean the screen also? And if so, why has no one commented on its aspect ratio? Some say we’re to get a 4.6″, others claim 4.65″, and still more assert 4.7″ or 4.8″. Why does no one seem to care, or realize, that a 4.7″ at 9:16 is much smaller than a 4.7″ at 3:4? The only sites I have found that even speculate on the aspect ratio automatically assume 9:16 is what we’re going to get (actually, they all say “16:9,” because they are confusing their phones with their TVs). And yet, has any of the evidence confirmed this? Just by looking at the leaked dummy pics, the screens all seem much wider (horizontally) than 9:16 would be. Also, Tinhte Vietnam showed us a resolution of 720 x 1184. Again, this would not be 9:16, but closer to 3:5, if you do the math. I do not know if the screens we are seeing are final, or are even the same size as each other, but I just wonder that no one has looked into this. Instead, these tech magazines all just copy each other’s stories a million times over. Just thought it might be something to think about, Slashgear.

By: Billy Moffat

Billy Moffat — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 03:58:00 +0000

It looks more like the Honeycomb menu button than the ICS button, which seems odd. The move would be welcome since a lot of applications still require the menu button and the implementation of the black bar in the One X looks horrible, and the Nexus makes it too hidden in my opinion. That said, if the best selling Android phone running ICS (probably) is going to advertise the menu button so visibly, it might slow development of applications that use the action bar instead.

Also of note, did anybody else think that the screen in the other picture (not shown here) looked particularly good?