I asked around many of my friends who are using the Galaxy S3 who had recently updated their S3 to Jelly Bean. Many of them having same issue as mine. Freezing, delay, laggy after upgraded to official Jelly Bean on their S3.  It should be a great news to have Jelly Bean running on S3. In fact, the great news brought problems and problems behind it. The jelly bean ROM getting lagging and instant delay. It happened randomly and restart doesn’t help at all. To be frank, the “faster” Jelly Bean on Galaxy S3 is poorer in overall performance, comparing ICS. It doesn’t fit the fact of smoother and faster as what Google claimed.

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HTC unveiled One X + officially today. HTC One X +  obviously is the extension version of HTC One X. In fact, it has faster processor, 1.7GHz Tegra 3 Quad core processor compare to its successor HTC One X with 1.5 GHz Tegra 3 Quad core processor and it was claimed 67% faster than One X. The most obvious differences between HTC One X +  and One X is faster processor (1.7GHz Quad), longer battery capacity storage (2100mAh), bigger internal storage option (64GB) , better front camera (1.6MP) and lastly more advance Android OS (Jelly Bean). It will be available in Europe and Asia in October & November 2012. Price is remained unknown. Check out the technical specification after the break.

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Samsung Galaxy S3 i9300 international version is now waiting for the official Jelly Bean update. Samsung has started releasing Android Jelly Bean to Poland Galaxy S3 version. However, there are a lot of Jelly Bean custom ROM released into the market and forums. In this period of time, many custom ROMs are very much improved and well tweaked by the developers on the overall performance. I would say it could be performed better than the awaiting official Jelly Bean from Google and Samsung. If you decided to go for custom ROM on Galaxy S3, I would recommend custom ROMs below.

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Samsung has released the latest Samsung Kies for Mac which compatible with the latest 10.8.2 OS X Mountain lion release.  I used to check my Samsung Galaxy S3 update via Samsung Kies. In fact, I frequently check Galaxy S3 Jelly Bean update in these few days after the official android 4.0 jelly bean being released in Poland. I believe Asia International I9300 Galaxy S3 should have the update in these few days too, probably. Well, in case you use Mac and has lately upgrade to OS X 10.8.2 mountain lion, you will need the updated Samsung Kies to check out the latest update. Too bad, Jelly Bean is still NOT available yet ^^

Get the Samsung Kies download link after the break.

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iPhone 5 has its own new features of taking panorama photos. However, taking panorama has been embedded in android OS for some quite some time which is earlier than iOS6 on iPhone 5. I missed it out with my Samsung Galaxy S3. My Galaxy S3 also can take panorama picture which it very interesting indeed. Panorama picture means a combination view from different angle or degree. Basically, the theory behind is combine few different snapshots in a picture. I have make one example, check it out after the break. See the simple tutorial how to take your Panorama photos with Galaxy S3.

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After a long wait, finally iPhone 5 is released today in Sans Francisco, US officially. Well, the specification of iphone 5 is more and less match with the leaked version with taller, 4 inch screen, new headset and come with iOS6. For those whose contract is almost ended with telco, it is time for you to upgrade and choose one of the best smartphone as your next new gadget. No doubt, Samsung Galaxy S3 is the best Android-based smartphone for now and surely you will compare it with the latest unveiled iPhone 5. Let’s check it out the comparison below.

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Samsung is great in providing best Android cellphones hardware, Galaxy S3 is one of them. Besides hardware, Samsung putting a lot of effort on software applications to support their strong hardware like customized TouchWiz launcher, Samsung Music Hub, Samsung Apps store & much more. Today, in order to compensate the delay of Jelly Bean to Galaxy S3, you are deserved to get 3 paid apps for FREE in Samsung Apps Store, Asphalt 7: Heat Modern Combat 3: Fallen Nation and Shadowgun: The Leftover. It costs USD$0.99, USD$6.99 and USD$4.99 respectively. Login to your Samsung App Store and download it now!! I may lose the chance tomorrow..

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Erm.. it is time for me to change a new look on my Galaxy S3, so do you. Take a time and break with these 30 best relaxing wallpapers for you Samsung Galaxy S3. There are also compatible to other android cellphones like Sony Xperia series, HTC One series and Samsung Galaxy series. I have zipped the wallpapers to 15MB and the demo pictures below has been resized. Enjoy the high quality of all these wallpapers. Wish you enjoy the wallpaper collection. Feel free to drop your comments.

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Wifi tethering normally use to share your smartphones 3G/4G service as Wifi to other devices. Your Samsung Galaxy S3 works as a modem to broadcast the 3G/4G internet signal to your other devices like laptop, computer, iPad, other Android devices, iPhone as long as they can receive WiFi signal. Wifi Hotsop tethering is a great feature and you can use it without rooting your Galaxy S3.

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Terminate/kill or close running applications and disabling it are 2 different things. Bear in mind, disabling an application will make it disappear though you restart your android phone. In order to use the disabled application, you have to enable it back. Terminating a running application is only killing it in this moment or when it is inactive and it will be running back when you turn it on or automatically turn on back by itself. In stock Samsung Galaxy S3 ICS ROM, the task manager is built-in feature and it is easily accessible and help you kill the unnecessary running applications.

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