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Please note the summary is obviously about the "International" version of the Galaxy SIII.

Actually, Canada which is the country this benchmark was made in, also has faster Android phones.

Selecting (out-of-the-country) phones for this benchmark which have slower processors was most likely a deliberate choice on their part. It's a well known fact that if you post negative news news about Apple (it doesn't matter how big you are), or post negative reviews, you and all your colleagues at your company get blacklisted from their VIP events and most importantly, you and all your colleagues (including your bosses), also get blacklisted from receiving any "freebie" review devices.

Add a speaker on one end of the display, and some buttons on the other end, and it's going to be at least 5" (127mm) high, which is also pushing the limits for convenience.

Tell that to the millions who bought the Samsung Galaxy Note. And while that resolution may be a bit much for printed text, written text or images may come out much more accurately.

I may be way off-beam here but I think Android is open source and IE isn't.

You think very wrong.

I remember someone had a /. sig with a link to a feature request for Android that users could simply choose which permissions they want to allow an app to have at installation. I think this was the link: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3778. It seems to have a lot of support, but apparently we need more!

I also found this one too: http://androinica.com/2011/05/cyanogenmod-nightlies-secures-android/. I didn't read the link in much depth, but apparently it can do just what you describe if you root and install Cyanogenmod

your experience is atypical. task killers are well known to reduce battery life, degrade performance, cause instability, and to just generally be a silly thing to do. Everyone from the Android development team to ROM hackers to multiple "experts" say the same thing: Don't run a task killler. Don't take my word for it...

http://geekfor.me/faq/you-shouldnt-be-using-a-task-killer-with-android/

http://www.droid-den.com/android-guides/android-guide-should-i-use-a-task-killer

http://androinica.com/2010/05/07/google-and-cyanogen-comments-imply-task-killermanager-apps-are-pointless/

http://lifehacker.com/5650894/android-task-killers-explained-what-they-do-and-why-you-shouldnt-use-them

http://androidspin.com/2010/05/25/why-you-dont-need-a-task-killer-app-with-android/

etc...

"Unexplained things happen every so often, which don't really phase me as a seasoned computer user, but would drive my mom bats."

And this is exactly why I ended up with an iPhone.

It started simply enough, I bought a Motorola Q. Worse... Phone... Ever. Crashed often and nothing worked on it because while it ran Windows Mobile the Q didn't have a touchscreen so I'd have to search for special Windows Mobile programs that didn't require touchscreen input and without a Windows Mobile app store that provided to be almost impossible.

This lead me to upgrade to a HTC Mogul, a touchscreen with sliding keyboard running Windows Mobile. That was better but finding good programs that didn't crash was difficult, there was no Windows Mobile store and it wasn't designed for fingers since it used a stylus.

Next came the BlackBerry Curve. Great phone, amazing email access (better than iPhone), but beyond email it didn't really do anything right, tiny buttons to dial with, phone was slow, offered few apps and the decent apps were pretty expensive ($5-$10+) and there were almost no free apps or demos.

Enter the iPhone. Required a carrier switch but that ended up being a good thing since AT&T turned out to be much better than my previous provider. iOS was amazing, no more crashing, phone functionality was much better than Windows Mobile or Blackberry, and navigation was much easier. Tons of great apps for cheap (99 cents) or free, and most of the paid for apps offer free demos. App store allows real user reviews.

Really it's the apps that make the difference with the iPhone. There's currently over 300,000 apps, 63 from EA and even classics like Final Fantasy made by Square Enix. Android just don't have the pull iOS does to bring the big names to the table. I don't care if the iPhone's CPU is 600mhz or 1000mhz, I bought a smartphone for apps, not to brag about my cpu speed.

I have a feeling as soon as the iPhone shows up on Verizon we're going to see a 10% jump or higher. I also think price has a lot to do with it: most the people I know buying Android did so because Android is free while iPhones are $200+, there has never been a free iPhone with contract. But the 3GS is now only $50 so we'll see if that helps, and I know some people are saying "that's the old one, I want the iPhone 4!" but I guess they forgot about the reception issues. I'd buy a 3GS or wait for iPhone 4GS.

That would be a bug affecting android 2.2 or higher which causes text messages to go to the wrong place.

Before it was released, it was supposed to be $200 too... I'll believe that price point when I see it.

You were saying.

They've already set up distribution and a June release date which means this thing is already in production. Archos has been producing Android tablets for a while (as well as other OS's, note: not Windows) but prices have been pretty high. So, the $200 ARM netbook market seems to be opening.

CSV files?! What? For syncing stuff you use SyncML.

And in the E65, to sync you just do "Menu -> Connectivity -> Sync" and you create a new Sync profile, and input the connection settings.

As for the HTC, I'm not sure, but maybe you have to wait for Synthesis' client: http://androinica.com/2009/11/25/synthesis-syncml-client-for-android-coming-in-2010/

Gahhh! You're falling into the same trap as Gruber. Android does not have to aim for the Porsche market, you don't have to *beat* the iPhone, and this isn't a zero-sum game. Google's mobile OS has the potential to be *the* main platform for high and medium-end phones, and possibly low-end ones as well.

Ask yourself why Android is so attractive to so many phone manufacturers? It allows them to dramatically lower the Bill of Materials and the R&D budget. They no longer have to worry about developing and maintaining their own operating systems, they just need to tinker around the edges. This is a huge cost saving.

Furthermore, if they're in the business of licensing the phone OS, such as HTC with Windows Mobile, then Android phones are a no-brainer. It enables them to lower the cost of producing the phone (the B.O.M.), meaning their customers - the phone carriers - can offer those phones free on relatively low cost contracts to the end-users.

And just wait until you can pick up an Android-powered smartphone for $99 without a contract e.g. the HTC Click or a Samsung device. That's likely to happen to 2010. Android at 3% and it's a failure? I don't think so. This one's a slow burner.