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Sorry, but I'm going to strongly disagree with your assertions here.

I owned an HTC One X (AT&T-branded) briefly (about a week) and most of my co-workers have Android phones. One of them had the Galaxy SIII. The screen sizes are almost identical. The actual battery life achieved was roughly the same.

Everyone agreed the One X has the better screen; the blue tinge on the SIII (thanks to pentile) was quite noticeable, especially in flesh tones in photos.

There were only three ways in which the Galaxy SIII was obviously better than the HTC One X:

  * twice the memory (2GB vs 1GB)
  * sdcard expandable
  * camera (SIII's clearly superior)



Customers generally don't see an entire selection of working Android models. They see a plastic card representing the screen for most of them and maybe 1 working one that the salesman is using.

If you walk into Walmart and compare One X and Galaxy 3 the only reference you get for the quality of the screens is that the 4.8 inch Galaxy S3 is a bit bigger then the 4.7 inch HTC One X.


Every Verizon and AT&T store I've been into had an entire selection of working Android models.

The Wal-Mart I last went into didn't have any working phones at all on display, so why anyone would go there to see what they're like, I don't know.




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