The mobile data service turned out great.I suspect if you weren’t on o2 it might have been a different story though I have no evidence of that.
The upload capacity did come under a bit of strain. It started at round 1.6 megs and dropped to 0.85 megs at half time but that is still good going.
I only really had 2 problems. One was with WordPress for android – it didn’t like the panoramic photo I included in the post.
The second was battery life. I hit the s3 hard with a lot of internet use and photographic activity. I was at the millennium stadium for two matches. By the second half of the second match the battery was running low so I switched off as I needed to make phone calls afterwards. This still wasn’t bed. After roughly 4 hours of pretty solid use I was down to 24% battery power remaining.
The catering at the ground was a different story – It was sIxquId for a sandwIch! My son queued for 45 minutes for a pizza only to find they had run out when he got to the front of the queue. This was during the first match! Whoever the caterer was I don’t have anything good to say about them.
It dIdn’t spoil the overall enjoyment of the evening which was a super family affair. The caterers could have taken a lesson from McDonald’s where I fed my son afterwards. It seemed as if the whole of the 70, 000 present at the ground went there. The queue went down quickly and it felt that those burgers were being served at speeds Usein Bolt would have been proud of 🙂
Posted using Samsung Galaxy S3.
2 replies on “Millennium stadium postscript – 3G data performance & Galaxy S3 battery life”
I will be at the Olympic Park a week today to see some Athletics. I am facing the same battery issue with my iPhone. Due to travel issues between the Midlands and London I will be away from a certain 3 pin plug for over 24 hours (I am travelling by coach, there may be a socket on board but I can’t rely on it). I have 3 spare external batteries that I will be taking with me. I have no idea if this will be enough. My trusty Nokia 6310i will be the backup.
I’ll be there too that day – at the high diving with a fine network equipment company called Cisco