Samsung Galaxy S3 a love letter.

I will state that this is a fanboi post. I love my Samsung Galaxy S3. I use to love my iPhone 4, but this phone is so much better. As a big user of google products it has made my life a whole lot simpler. The phone integrates well into my gmail account and is linked to my google calendar  This allows me to access and alter my calendar on my Acer 501, S3 and pc. While this seems like a minor benefit I remember the trouble I use to have syncing my PDA with my two computers. Having widgets allows me to use my phone much more like a PDA then my old iPhone allowed. I can flick between my agenda, calendar and emails, access myfitness pal app and post on my facebook. I also like the design of the phone, it reminds me of a smart phone and seems more business like then the iPhone.

I am also extremely happy to be rid of itunes, as a big audiobook listener I was worried that I wouldn't be able to effectively manage my audiobooks. This has proven not to be an issue. I use an app called smart audiobook and keep my audiobooks in a separate folder on the phone. Unlike the iPhone all I need to do is drag and drop, I can run MP3s, WMA and will convert other formats. I also use Beyond Podcast to manage my podcast subscriptions, mainly econtalk.

With the highly publicised problems Apple is having with Maps, it's important to note that Google's Navigator is fantastic, it has a 3D view and links with the phone contacts. I found a family members address using the whitepages app, added them to my contacts and then selected them in the navigator. Easy no need remembering address or manually copying them.

I did find two things disappointing. Battery life is short and the phone struggles to get through a fall day of heavy use. I would recommend having a mico-usb cord at the office. The other was the lack of a spellchecker, consider this is an inbuilt feature of android 4.0, it's removal is just dumb. I have replaced the standard keyboard with swiftkey which has mostly solved this problem.

On a final note, I am aware that most of the things I am doing with this phone I could do on my iphone but I have just found it easier and more customizable on android then on iPhone. I guess I just love freedom.