SLURM23blog

Two years have passed since I bought my first smartphone and it has been beyond useful. Unfortunately, my faithful SGS wasn’t able to keep up with the latest apps and the various use cases that I thought up for it. A single processor core and only 512MB of memory just don’t cut it anymore in terms of performance.

Even when running the latest Jelly Bean custom ROMs from XDA the device felt sluggish and lagged considerably. Especially frustrating though, was the odd timing of occasional freezes which seemed to happen just when I relied on it most.

Watch Samsung’s i9305 enter the stage… This amazing piece of technology boasts a quad-core processor, 2GB of RAM, NFC, and on top of it all the lightning fast LTE wireless standard.

The i9305 isn’t just a phone, but a fully-featured and incredibly powerful computing device, small enough to fit in any pocket. The 4.7-inch display has brilliant contrast and vivid colors, but most of all it is just the right size for me. The moment I held it for the first time, there was no going back to smaller screens. And it has a very strong LED light at the back, which is something that I have truly missed on my SGS.

After the obligatory rooting and a week of use I can only wonder how I ever made it thus far without such a device. And what did become of my SGS, you might wonder? Well, let’s just say that my wife is beginning to wonder how she could cope without a smartphone in the first place…