It seems that Samsung went busy reading some forums on the Internet.

Yamaha is wonderful to manufacture motorcycles. I love their motorcycles.

Knowing that the SGSIII may sound even better than the SGSI is priceless.

supercurio, super thank you!

Hearing this (and even just a glimmer of hope for USB audio) is enough to start swaying me back to the SGSIII.

Originally Posted by plosch

It seems that Samsung went busy reading some forums on the Internet.

Yamaha is wonderful to manufacture motorcycles. I love their motorcycles.

Knowing that the SGSIII may sound even better than the SGSI is priceless.

supercurio, super thank you!

Yamaha actually makes solid audio products but the SGS2 was a disappointment in that department

As for Samsung reading up on forums and comments, it's nothing new
There was an article about how the design team for samsung series 9 laptop read up on the comment sections of these tech blogs and used it for the second version

Here is a quote from engadget

Originally Posted by Engadget

As rough as it is being an Engadget editor, watching hot-headed readers run amok in the comments section, it must be that much more agonizing to be a product manager, the guy whose baby gets eviscerated by anonymous people on the internet who really can't stand 1366 x 768 resolution, man. If not for the sake of politeness, you fine folks in the peanut gallery might want to choose your words carefully: Samsung's product team draws some of its user feedback from the comments left here and on other tech sites.

In fact, says Samsung's design team, Engadget's comment section was one of the places it turned when it set out to retool the Series 9. Based on what it found there, a couple things became clear: consumers weren't fond of the shiny plastic bits, and there wasn't much love lost for those launch buttons and port covers either. That explains what we have here: a clean, minimalist machine fashioned out of unibody aluminum (sorry, no aircraft-grade duraluminum this time). The trackpad now blends in with the rest of the palm rest. Save for a small, discreet power button above the keyboard, you won't find any hardware keys. Even the LED lights (all two of them) are tiny.

This attitude seems to me obvious. Let's hope other manufacturers do the same.

Thanks for the info.

Cheers,

Peter

Originally Posted by supercurio

Hi there!

So I'm not the only one happy with the promising audio codec in Galaxy S III ?

I am very glad. This is the only point why i would get this phone. Hopefully it supports USB DAC too.

very glad will definately get one now

Originally Posted by varunkumars

I am very glad. This is the only point why i would get this phone. Hopefully it supports USB DAC too.

Pretty much every smartphone coming out now supports MHL, if I'm not mistaken, especially these halo phones. So I'd say 95% chance.

Originally Posted by Caladbolg

Pretty much every smartphone coming out now supports MHL, if I'm not mistaken, especially these halo phones. So I'd say 95% chance.

MHL is HDMI (meaning: SPDIF) not USB Audio.

Like WM8994 in Galaxy S / Nexus S, except:
1x stereo DAC instead of 2x.

WM1811(Galaxy S3):
ReTune™ Mobile 5-band, 4-channel parametric EQ

WM8994(Galaxy S):
ReTune™ Mobile 5-band, 6-channel parametric EQ



So, does it (WM1811(Galaxy S3)) not result in lesser Sound quality as compared to WM8994 in Galaxy S ??

I see the dimensions of WM1811 are compact as compared to WM8994 though.
WM1811 : 80-ball W-CSP package (4.148 x 3.866 x 0.596mm) vs WM8994: 72-ball W-CSP package (4.511mm x 4.023mm x 0.7mm)
Specs:
http://www.wolfsonmicro.com/products/audio_hubs/WM8994/
http://www.wolfsonmicro.com/products/audio_hubs/WM1811/

I don't see how Galaxy s3 can sound better than Galaxy s. At most it can be on par.

Originally Posted by varunkumars

Like WM8994 in Galaxy S / Nexus S, except:
1x stereo DAC instead of 2x.

WM1811(Galaxy S3):
ReTune™ Mobile 5-band, 4-channel parametric EQ

WM8994(Galaxy S):
ReTune™ Mobile 5-band, 6-channel parametric EQ



So, does it (WM1811(Galaxy S3)) not result in lesser Sound quality as compared to WM8994 in Galaxy S ??

I see the dimensions of WM1811 are compact as compared to WM8994 though.
WM1811 : 80-ball W-CSP package (4.148 x 3.866 x 0.596mm) vs WM8994: 72-ball W-CSP package (4.511mm x 4.023mm x 0.7mm)
Specs:
http://www.wolfsonmicro.com/products/audio_hubs/WM8994/
http://www.wolfsonmicro.com/products/audio_hubs/WM1811/

I don't see how Galaxy s3 can sound better than Galaxy s. At most it can be on par.

Hmm, that's true.

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