Thankfully, both are software related issues which can be addressed. It does look like they didn't bother too much about the QWERTY in portrait mode because of the space restrictions, and also because many people are very comfortable with the T9. Browser, well, they didn't even bother touching that part of the code. I finally got to try this device hands on, and it is otherwise a gem on the multimedia front. The camera is freaking awesome. My 3 year old Sony digicam, which cost 17K in those days, pales in comparison - no kidding. The zoom in the camera mode is super smooth, and super fast. HD videos that I carried along (mkvs) played smooth, speaker is loud, though not sure if it is the loudest I have ever heard.
S3 is definitely much faster than S1, but there is a hint of a lag, however, that minor lag is something I have noticed even in the Desire and the iPhone 3G. What impressed me (again) is Symbian's ability to multi task. On my N5800, I sometimes open up Push Messaging, GMail app, SMS, Call Logs, the odd Prince of Persia game, Opera Mini and the default Web browser. To top it I receive or make calls with these running in background. No complaints whatsoever using these applications or switching between them. It is another thing the menu becomes slower as I increase the number of applications. S3 takes this a step forward with what I think are more appealing tab peaks for the background tasks, along with the ability to close them without switching - very similar to Windows' Aero feature.
Extremely strange how they (forgot to?) include a flash with such a high end device!
