Even though the Galaxy S III has been out for several months, it continues to be a very hot item among buyers. Among those planning to buy a Samsung smartphone in the next 90 days, a full 69% say they’ll be getting the SGS3. Interestingly, 23% say that they’d rather get the Galaxy Note II phablet, clearly indicating an increased interest in bigger screens. Indeed, 27% of respondents said they want a phone with at least a 5-inch screen. All said, 21% of consumers in the market for a smartphone say that they’ll get a Samsung in the next 90 days, compared to the 13% the last time ChangeWave did the survey. The iPhone is still on top at 50%.

You would think that with this surge that we’d see an equivalent surge in Android. That’s not necessarily the case. The same survey is showing that just 48% of Android users are “very satisfied” with their phones, compared to the 71% of iOS users. Interestingly, 53% of people with Windows Phone 8 devices say that they’re very satisfied. That’s only marginally better than Android, but it does show that WP8 has promise. Nokia’s gotta like that, especially since its “Very Satisfied” rating also increased to 56% this quarter.

Given this rise in Windows Phone and in Samsung, you’ve got to think that the combination of the two in the Samsung Ativ S would be the biggest winner. Maybe it just needs a GNote II-sized display.

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Heading into the holiday season last year, everyone said that the Kindle Fire was going to be a huge draw, and it was. Now that we’ve had some time to recover from our new year’s hangovers, it seems that interest in Amazon’s cheap Android tablet is really starting to wane. Now, why would that be?

This comes from a report published by ChangeWave. In December, four percent of those surveyed said they were “very likely” to buy a Kindle Fire, but that figure has been cut in half to two percent in January. The “somewhat likely” crowd dropped from 13% to 10% over the same period.

Of course, this could be due to two very typical phenomena. First, demand for almost anything drops after the holidays. We’re all broke from all that shopping. Second, a lot of people really did buy the Kindle Fire over the holidays, so they obviously aren’t interested anymore in buying another one. To be fair, 54% of Kindle Fire owners are “very satisfied” compared to 49% of other tablets, though iPad owners still lead the pack at 74%.

The good news for Amazon, though, is that the Fire is doing exactly what it needed to do: offer kindling to ignite more purchases through Amazon. They say that 29% of Kindle owners are expected to spend more money at Amazon than they had before, compared to 19% of non-Kindle owners.

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