{"id":7873,"date":"2012-06-09T15:12:35","date_gmt":"2012-06-09T14:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=7873"},"modified":"2012-06-09T22:29:24","modified_gmt":"2012-06-09T21:29:24","slug":"two-year-changeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=7873","title":{"rendered":"Two year changeover"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been two years since I adopted the Nexus One as my mobile phone handset.<\/p>\n

It has been a happy two years.<\/p>\n

Apart from when I dropped it.<\/p>\n

And broke it.<\/p>\n

And had to live without it for six whole days.<\/p>\n

It has seldom left my side and rarely been switched off (apart from when I’ve been onboard flights).<\/p>\n

But with the passing of two years comes the opportunity of a free upgrade.<\/p>\n

I’ll roll my tongue around my favourite words once more…<\/p>\n

‘free upgrade’.<\/p>\n

Mmmm, that feels nice; that’s my favourite kind of upgrade – the free kind.<\/p>\n

Well, after a lot of prevaricating about the bush (three minutes) I decided to change manufacturer and choose, as my free upgrade, the Samsung S3.<\/p>\n

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This little baby.<\/p>\n

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Except it isn’t little; the surface area dwarfs that of most other handsets.<\/p>\n

No complaint from me on that, though it does still fit nicely in to my shirt pockets.<\/p>\n

And it is thinner than most other handsets on the market.<\/p>\n

But the big improvement seems to be battery life.<\/p>\n

Well, the big improvement *after* speed, because the dual-quad processors make the phone eye-wateringly fast.<\/p>\n

Yes, the battery life is a significant improvement on the Nexus One. I’ve had my S3 switched on for 25 continuous hours and the phone has only used 15% of its battery.<\/p>\n

And that’s 25 hours which includes significantly large amounts of time which have been engaged in heavy email, internet, and Twitter activity.<\/p>\n

So yeah.<\/p>\n

So far so very excellent.<\/p>\n

Well done Samsung for giving me a nice new phone that continues to offer me all of the usual Android goodness.<\/p>\n

This is nice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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