don't jump on that galaxy bandwagon, its gonna be almost impossible to find a BNIB S3 For anything below 40k anyways....just pree the Moto G for 30k, awesome phone at an even more awesome price and its specs are on par if not better than the s3 and it has extreme water resistant capabilities.
look at this video below of the moto G being underwater for 30 minutes and works normally!!!!!
FREAKING WATER RESISTANT!!!!!!!!
<![CDATA[<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/IVaTKG5q4YI&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/IVaTKG5q4YI&rel=1</a>]]>Motorola Moto G vs Galaxy S3: Design and buildPebble-like is how we would describe the Moto G's design and build. It feels nice in the hand with its rounded soft touch rear cover. The phone is well made, robust and feels like it should cost a lot more than it does.There's little going on with the design. Silver power and volume buttons sit on the side and the two ports, headphone and USB, sit at either end of the handset.
By contrast the design of the Samsung Galaxy S3 is like a bigger S2. The Home button is a too thin and narrow and we'd much rather a full set of touch buttons but you can't have everything. The buttons and ports are spread out around the handset with Power on the right, Volume on left, microUSB on the bottom and the 3.5mm headphone jack on the top. The buttons are easy enough to reach and have a nice action, although we would prefer the Volume rocker to be a little larger.
The Samsung Galaxy S3 is very thin and light for such a large phone at just 8.6mm and 133g. It is comfortable to hold, partly because Samsung has reduced the bezel size keeping the dimensions down as much as possible.
It's a really big phone and though it's comfortable to hold it is sometimes difficult to use, having to stretch across the large screen with one hand simply due to its size. This is coming from a user with quite large hands so we fear that for a lot of users the device will be just too big for day-to-day usage. We can't help but feel the Galaxy S3 has too much of a plasticky feel, mainly brought about by its flimsy removable rear cover which effectively peels away from the back. This is a let-down.
Despite the overwhelming use of plastic, the Galaxy S3 feels well made. The thin metal rim running around the edge gives the phone good strength, offering only a small amount of flex when put under strain. The one-piece glass front feels especially nice so ignoring the rear cover it's a good effort.
Overall then, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. These are both well-made phones. We prefer the Moto G: you may differ.
Motorola Moto G vs Galaxy S3: Hardware and performanceThe Moto G doesn't have flagship hardware but it does have a much higher specification than you'd expect from a phone which costs this little. The Moto G comes with a nicely sized 4.5in display which has a 720p resolution. That means a pixel density of 326ppi which, would you believe it, is the same as the iPhone 5S. Unheard of value for a phone this price. Colours are punchy and the viewing angles great.
The Galaxy S3 screen is stunning and comparable in quality to the one found on the HTC One X. It has a high pixel density of 306ppi where individual pixels are not distinguishable offering astonishing levels of detail. Viewing angles are very good; we found reflections in the screen more of a problem.
Super AMOLED technology means colours a bright and punchy while blacks are very, well, black. It's partly what makes the screen have such an impact on the eyes but users wanting a more natural look will probably find the screen a bit garish.
A quad-core 1.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor coupled with 1GB of RAM produces fairly nippy performance in the Moto G. We've not noticed any major lag and overall performance is great for a budget phone. This is another area where the Moto G punches above its weight.
The Galaxy S3 by contrast is powered by Samsung's own Exynos 4 Quad processor: a 32nm chip based on the ARM Cortex A9 quad-core architecture and has a clock speed of 1.4GHz.
Strangely Samsung hasn't specified the amount of RAM but our benchmarking app tells us that it has 1GB.
In the GeekBench 2 test the Galaxy S3 managed a score of 1659, which these days looks a little poor, but this is to forget the S3 remains a great performer. When it made the Galaxy S3 Samsung managed to achieve the kind of smooth performance previously only reached by Apple's iPhone. It's the kind of situation where we struggled to make the Galaxy S3, er, struggle.
For example, the phone can play video content in a pop-out window while you do other tasks. If you want proof of performance then there you have it. Other demanding tasks such as scrolling and zooming on a desktop version of website just happen with no lag; the processor puts up no fuss whatsoever.
The biggest lag we found was the short delay between pressing the power button to wake the handset up and the screen coming to life. But even then the delay was minor.
These are both top performers.
Motorola Moto G vs Galaxy S3: Battery lifeMotorola touts 'all day' battery life for the Moto G and this is certainly the case in our testing. The Moto G will last a day and if you are a light user then you'll probably even get a couple of days from the handset.
Despite having a removable rear cover and being able to see the 7.7Wh battery pack, you can't actually remove it.
Samsung has fitted the phone with a whopping 7.9Wh battery promising rival beating battery life. Similar high-end smartphones we've seen have typically lasted a day before needing to be charged, but the Galaxy S3 lasted an impressive two days.
Of course the battery life will vary from user to user, though. Anyone who watches a lot of video content or plays games on the phone will likely find it needing a charge each night while others may see it last a few days if it's only used for the odd text message and phone call.
On account for battery life these devices are pretty evenly tied.
Motorola Moto G vs Galaxy S3: Storage and connectivityBoth handsets have 16GB of memory built in, the s3 has the option of a micro SD expansion but the Moto G has help in the storage department in a whopping 50GB of free Google Drive cloud storage. That's on top of the usual 15GB so with the Moto G you'll have a total of 65GB.
Beyond Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS and the typical microUSB port, there's not much to differentiate the two.
Motorola Moto G vs Galaxy S3: CamerasAt 5Mp for the rear and 1.3Mp at the front, the Moto G cameras are mid-ranged at a budget price. Both cameras perform pretty decently, especially when you consider what you're paying for the phone. You can even shoot in burst, panorama and HDR modes. Video can be shot in 720p HD quality and there's an unexpected slow motion recording mode.
Motorola has tweaked the camera app so you can touch anywhere on the screen to take a snap. Luckily you can still control focus by switching it on in the slide out menu.
Like most modern smartphones the Galaxy S3 comes with dual cameras. The rear facing one is rated at 8Mp and has an LED flash while the front camera is a 1.9Mp shooter which can record HD video at 30fps.
We found the results to be good but we haven't been blown away by the quality. Most pictures were sharp and colours were suitably saturated. One thing the camera coped well with was pictures in a dimly lit room.
The camera app launches quickly and is easy to use. It also has various handy features including HDR, a burst mode which can shoot up to 20 images and Best Shot which takes eight photos and chooses the best one.
We'd call this a score draw: both the Moto G and the Galaxy S3 have excellent smartphone cameras.
Motorola Moto G vs Galaxy S3: SoftwareAndroid 4.4 KitKat is available for the Moto G Unlike the s3 which is stuck on 4.3 jellybean. The interface is largely vanilla, which is good, but there are a handful of Motorola flavoured additions. Motorola Migrate helps you bring all your content such as photos, videos and text message history – as long your old phone was Android. Motorola Assist helps to avoid disruptions when you're in a meeting or asleep which we've found extremely handy.
Other than this, there are the all the Google services which you'd expect to find on an Android phone and you can do what you like in terms of customisation.
The new improved version of TouchWiz is much better than previous versions with a sleeker and more modern look. There is a maximum of seven home screens which you can cycle through continuously. As usual with Android smartphones you can customise the interface with different widgets, wallpapers and app shortcuts.
At the bottom of the screen is an app tray with four slots for your most used apps and a shortcut to the Apps Menu. We like the notification bar which gives easy access to various settings such as Wi-Fi, Volume, Power Saving mode, Music player controls and, obviously, notifications.
Both the S3 and the Moto G run recent (ie good) versions of Android. Samsung does add a lot more customisation to its own flavours of Android, but we leave it to you to decide whether this is a good- or a bad thing.
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