Why my next smartphone will be the Samsung Galaxy SIII

On 1 may 2010 I bought the iPad of Apple. I was thrilled that iOS (operating system of Apple for the iPad and iPhone) was really userfriendly and decided quick after my purchase of the iPad to also buy the iPhone4. A purchase which I even now do not regret.. I’m still using my iPad daily and also my iPhone. I write also about my iPhone because this will change soon. I will explain why my next smartphone is going to be the Samsung Galaxy SIII :

1. Tired of Marketing Apple

When the iPhone 4S was introduced I was very disappointed. I expected a minimum of 720p HD ready front camera. The iPhone4 had a VGA front camera which is not enough to use it daily for video and photos for being printed later. Unfortunately the 4S had upgraded the back camera from 5MP to 8MP but didn’t upgrade the front camera. A reall misjudgement if you ask me as a lot of smartphones at that time already introduced till 2 MP as front camera.

I was angry when Apple crossed the time when they said the 4S was the only capable iPhone to run Siri because of it’s technical design. I was amazed that the jailbreak community made it possible to run Siri on a regular iPhone4. I have tested it and it worked well. It had even more features than Apple’s own Siri. Now I was getting annoyed at Apple who is limiting the usage of my device while it is still technical possible to use it. As technical consultant this kind of behaviour annoys me.

2. Not dependant on jailbreakers

Till now the jailbreak community managed to jailbreak the iPhone but I’m wondering if this is possible in the near future with the 4S as well with the succesor. I was amazed by the fact that Apple removed Wifi Scanner apps from their app store for iOS5 because of a so called danger aspect. With as result that I wasn’t able to perform wifi scans for my customers anymore. I used it to check wifi networks and their channels. Via jailbreaking this was still possible but because I don’t want to be dependant on this I also decide to go to Android.

3. Apps

Almost all apps which I use on the iPhone4 are now also available on the Galaxy SIII. A lot of technical apps like wifi scanning, sniffing, etc.. are available on Android. And let not forget the support of Adobe Flash Player.

4. Hardware

I choose for the Samsung Galaxy SIII because I like the technical specs. 8MP camera for photos with  3.3 photos per seconde. FullHD 1080p video. Frontcamera 2MP for HD ready video, chat and photos. You can expand the memory via microSD in the sizes 16 GB,32 GB (25 euro) of 64 GB. Thee HTC One and iPhones do not have this feature. At last also the quadcore processor, 1280×720 screen, microsd, induction battery charging, etc…

5. Samsung specific features

The features Samsung adds extra than Google on android appeals me. Allshare, for sharing your photos, music and video on your DLNA enabled TV via Wifi. And so on.

What I don’t like?

I find the evolution of Android reacting slow. There is no Siri competitor built in google’s Android. Rumors say this will appear in 5.0 but heh 4.0 is just rolled out and it took months before phones had it. This proces is awfully slow. Samsung has introduced S voice as Siri competitor. The question is how long it will take before Google will after a while getting more strict on policy and usage rules. You can see this with all their services and products. First lure everyone and later make more strict policies. Due to a lot of patent lawsuits new smartphones are not design by designers but by law departments but this limitiation applies for all brands.

Final conclusion

I’m curious how I will like the Samsung Galaxy SIII when using some time. Maybe I scream afster a month and run back to my iPhone4. We shall see. On paper the SIII is a damn good phone…

Computer slow, buy a new one?

Today it’s typical that someone tells that he/she is expert in ICT while in real it’s bit disappointing. They are able to change some setting by clicking but they don’t know what really happens, what happens in the background. A lot of people think that what they see is actually what is happening while in the background a lot of technical services are working on a deeper level. With google as searchengine those people think they found the solution while the cause is mostly something different.

Some competitors tried to solve a performance issue with Windows 7 clients and Windows Server 2008 R2 without success. The problem was that users complain about transferspeed issues while communication from server to clients (100-250 Mb/s on 1Gb/s network) not bad performed. The true issue was the communication from clients to server, this was at a non-acceptable 5-12 Mb/s on the 1 Gb/s network. The PC’s, server and switch all support 1Gb/s. There was something serious wrong and the users complain about a slow network. I would call it slow too, indeed.

All competitors had suggested the most strange solutions, I suspected they all used google in stead of looking at the real problem. They told the customer things like IPv6 (they didn’t use it). advice to disable RDC, advice to disable the receive windows autotuning option and some more silly things. Sounds all technical and complex (=expensive).

The error was in my opinion in the basic settings and really easy to solve. You should follow steps to check the networksettings and find those mistakes easily. That’s the reason why I suspect those people didn’t know what they actually were doing and found complex solution on google and tried those. WINS, DHCP and Netbios over TCP/IP had to be configured well and the result is perfect. The clients do now manage to achieve 700-920 Mb/s downstream (well on 1Gb/s) and upstream doing 400-500 Mb/s. That’s 50 tot 100 x faster !

I told them with buying new PC’s you normally don’t get those kind of performance gains.

Consultancy and maintenance done by competent people give the users back their joy in working with computers. Calculate the time gain which normally in this office every day was lost. Case solved!