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[Galaxy S III General] Sammydr10:
I actually think is a very nice release!

Cant wait for it to come to the US --
[Galaxy S III General] ebatr8:
Being tested by tmo already
[Galaxy S III General] krazygreen:
Nice device, no doubt.

Is it groundbreaking? Don't know yet, we'd have to see some reviews to determine that.

I will say this, development is going to be through the roof for this phone, just as it with the SGS2.
[Galaxy S III General] grawkiller73:
Can't say I agree because most of the devs aren't impressed

Sent from my Hercules on CM9
[Galaxy S III General] jovy23:
When it comes out in the USA, i dont know if im really getting it. Thats what happened when the S2 first came out. It came out around summer 2011 then a couple months later on a october, the tmobile brand t989 was released with upgraded hardware. Maybe the S3 might follow the same route.
[Galaxy S III General] anomy13:
S3 Hardware: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02nIoynGqYg&feature=related

S3 Software: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iknPkDGzsjM&feature=g-all

'Quad-core' is a good marketing term for selling. Minor differences in everyday use in my opinion. You'll notice the difference if you run a benchmark.
[Galaxy S III General] CincoDeDrinko:
I like all the functionality of it.... but I'd like to know from someone who knows:

Will our S2 be able to do all the cool stuff they are showing off with a software upgrade to 4.0.X ? Like the gesture functions, etc... Because our phone can already do most of the stuff they are showing, and the specs are pretty close?
[Galaxy S III General] masamichi7:
Some of the features they show off will be unique to it, because the S3 uses a new version of Touchwiz that the Galaxy S2 isn't getting. Our ICS update is more a minor update, whereas the S3 gets some unique features. Kind of like HTC adding unique features to Sense 4 versus phones with Sense 3.5, even though both are on ICS.

-the ultimate black dragon-
[Galaxy S III General] foreverloco:
If the tmobiles version gets turned into the red headed stepchild like the s2 did with changing the processors I'm just gonna go with the note or jump ship to att..
[Galaxy S III General] Killbynature:
That's touchwiz i wasn't impressed at all. It not even all that special especially since samsung didn't even bother using a15 architecture on their processor. So qualcomm will be in the lead till ti omap is released. The only noticeable feature was picture in picture and that is it. Guess ill be sticking with the nexus line because

all those features are useless. but they can be done with apps which someone will probably do in the future.
[Galaxy S III General] mbernusg:
The pebbles thing made me chuckle lol
[Galaxy S III General] Android Revolution:
Meh. Looks nice, but I'll reserve judgment until it arrives at T-Mobile USA. We'll see if it stays the same or becomes a varient that shares nothing but the name, like this one did.

Sent from the future using my Samsung Universe XXV

"where companies fail, the dev community will succeed."
[Galaxy S III General] Killbynature:
All usa versions will be the step child because no one be using exynos unless you unlock the device go on at&t. All because of lte/hspa+ on tmobile bands.
[Galaxy S III General] foreverloco:
Yea that what I meant buy the international unlocked for att but again I wasn't to impressed with it so I'm leaning towards getting the note and riding it out til the next nexus.
[Galaxy S III General] SevenSe7enSeven:
i dont like how it looks, i also think that it is too big its almost the same size as the galaxy note. It has a 8mp camera hopefully its not the same ones they put in the galaxy s2. that being said only thing left to really know is hows the battery life.

the next nexus will hopefully be a bit better
[Galaxy S III General] fastfed:
I actually love it!

But it only has HSPA +21

No HSPA +42 for us TMO users?

WTF ?
[Galaxy S III General] Killbynature:
Jts actually the same size as this phone. Just remove the bezel space.
[Galaxy S III General] unlvmike:
I agree with OP. Pretty much a let down here. Minor upgrades with some gimmicks. It will be the same story all over for us nerds here who want updates. Sure it has nice specs, but development is going to be slow for 6-9 months after the next OS release for android I probably wont own it, I don't need those specs for anything. All games run perfect on dual cores.
[Galaxy S III General] s1lenz:
false.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/03/samsung-galaxy-s-iii-is-official/
[Galaxy S III General] krazygreen:
Once it's in their hand and everyone owns one, they'll likely be thoroughly impressed.

We're all so spoiled, that a phone with near perfect specs doesn't impress us...what a state of affairs.
[Galaxy S III General] :
No your actually wrong if you would of knew t-mobile bands are 1700/2100 Doesn't use the standard gsm frequency meaning you need to switch out the processor the s4 krait. Second of all if at&t wants a lte only version you need to use krait. Samsung didn't bother to make a lte modem for their quadcore processor. standard 3g hspa+ on at&t will work with the galaxy s3. Samsung already announced usa,japan, countries would be using the qualcomm processor. All lte versions will be using qualcomm processors.
[Galaxy S III General] blitzeratic1:
Samsung seemed to focus more on software this time around. I'm hoping our devs can make that new tw work for our phones cuz in all honesty, I like our s2 design better. Having s3 software in our s2 would be pretty sweet :D
[Galaxy S III General] 2hvy4grvty:
Here's an epic phone that SHOULD work on our tmo network:

http://www.gsmarena.com/huawei_ascend_d_quad_xl-4569.php

Crazy thin bezel, 4.5inch 720p screen, 1.5ghz quad core homebrew based on A9 (not Tegra 3, but claims are ~30% faster and 30% more efficient...), microsd slot, 8mp camera goodies, and.... 2500 mah battery.
[Galaxy S III General] s1lenz:
right, just because the us is getting qualcomm processors for the lte carriers doesnt mean tmob is getting it. Im not trying to be smart but it all seems like speculation right now.

http://www.gottabemobile.com/2012/05/03/samsung-galaxy-s-iii-u-s-launch-month-confirmed/

just throwing it out there
[Galaxy S III General] :
Once again tmobile doesn't use standard frequencies. This is exactly why the processor was switch out. In the galaxy s2 in the first place hspa+21 and it would only get edge if you had the international version on tmobile. Tmobile will need to do the this again unless they finish re framing to get 1900 bands workings or switch out the processor for a capable one to do high speed hspa+ 42 or lte.
[Galaxy S III General] narlynarwhal:
If you're running any emulators like n64 or psx you'll probably notice a pretty nice performance boost. That is if the U.S. version is quad core.
[Galaxy S III General] Hoezack:
Tmo version will be reveled next month. Tmobile, sprint and att will get the galaxy s3. Verizon will not.
[Galaxy S III General] narlynarwhal:
I never really understood how the processor effects what bands the phone's 4g works with. Anyone have a simple explanation?
[Galaxy S III General] :
You won't most likely get better performance out of dual core Krait A15 then an a9 quad core processor. Krait processors perform better since no games probably except multi threaded games on tegra 3. Will start to get the better performance. Problem is no one will bother developing multi threaded apps. There will be no difference standby for quad core will be better and actual usage. Krait processors will be better. If the app isn't multi threaded then it won't take advantage of the quadcore. So for the same task dual core core Krait is better processor using less energy and better power consumption.
[Galaxy S III General] narlynarwhal:
So n64 emulators only use ome core? And would it be possible for people to make multi threaded ps2, dreamcast, or gamecube emulators? I hear those are hard to emulate.
[Galaxy S III General] :
Yes the reason why no one will bother making multi-threaded apps is because simply its a waste of time. Also loss of money for a developer. It would be possible. Extremely time consumer and not worth it in the long run. Even in your computer the processor hardly is ever used unless playing video games Most video games to get the performance and quality are multi-threaded.
[Galaxy S III General] anomy13:
Those days are far away from us. Not to mention the legal issues and lack of controls on our tiny screen. It's just not happening.

Android market barely got the gameboy emulators.
[Galaxy S III General] fastfed:
lol, don't know what you guys were expecting..

I think its AWESOME!!

The screen is a little bigger and the phones not much bigger (big plus)

Its sexy as hell looking, quad core cpu, bigger battery, exchangeable ram/battery (was afraid they weren't going to use that)

Wireless charging,NFC, apparently the camera is a little better than our SII, which is superb, I mean really ,it doesn't get much better.
[Galaxy S III General] Hoezack:
Robert broglia is working on cps3.emu and nulldc.emu
[Galaxy S III General] zander145:
No notification LED still?... I am dissapoint.
[Galaxy S III General] HRodMusic:
question, is it using the same screen technology as the nexus?
[Galaxy S III General] funeralthirst:
yes, it's pentile.
[Galaxy S III General] cashyftw:
Idk if I get it, I'm getting the international version.
[Galaxy S III General] rel500:
Amen to that. Planning on selling my Sensation n Galaxy 2 to get this beauty
[Galaxy S III General] cashyftw:
Put mines on cl for 400 last week with no bites, might go down to 325-350 how much is the international version?
[Galaxy S III General] kcbboy:
sorry but you're wrong. The switch in processor had nothing to do with tmobile being on different frequencies. Tmobile opted to have the snapdragon s3 vs the exynos due to the support for hspa+ 42 mb. They sacrificed the exynos chip for faster data speeds on their network. If they had stuck with the exynos you would have been limited to either 14 mb or 21 mb hspa+.
[Galaxy S III General] 0Tolerance:
Negrielectronics . com has it priced at $700 for pre ordering but you do know that you would only get edge speed on Tmobile with the international one right? At the end of the day if I do get the itch to buy it I'll just head over to straight talk with the international version but highly doubt it. I think the T989 now with ics can hold me over until the new nexus hits.
[Galaxy S III General] fastfed:
I assume the only way TMO would get the GSIII on their floors, is if it did indeed have HSPA + 42

I mean right?

Who in their right mind would get it if wasn't ??

lol I would go to AT&T or Verizon
[Galaxy S III General] funeralthirst:
you make it sound like it's hard to multithread in java. it's super simple. and dual cores have been out for, what, over a year? and we knew they were coming long before that. not multithreading is pure laziness. i don't know where you are getting 'loss of money' or 'not worth it', by that reasoning any update to an app is a loss of money and not worth it.

and i see all the cores on my computers above 50% quite frequently and i don't game at all. that's on my home desktop and work laptop, both with i7s (also my older laptop, but that's core2duo, so not surprising it has to work harder to keep up).

this. the switch was entirely due to tmob wanting it 42Mbps capable. personally, i would have preferred the exynos at 21Mpbs (same with the next gen/s3, i don't even see 21Mbps now, but i'd also like to see more than 1gb ram). though, is it set the forthcoming quad core exynos isn't capable of those speeds or is it still speculation? if samsung isn't doing this with their socs by now they are slacking big time.
[Galaxy S III General] Darkangels6sic6:
I feel in an overall its still a great phone. Definitely top dog at the moment as to be expected. Though some things could've been different.

I don't think everyone would've minded waited for the 2GHz quad core A-15 chip later this year because that would've been ground breaking. Or even the 2GHz dual core A-15. RGB would've been nice then pen tile, but at 720p its still stunning. 12mp would a been good. Also maybe 1.5GB at least ram.

But all in all non the less amazing. Best screen. Fastest chip. Great new camera sensor. Up to 128GB between internal and card. 2100MAH battery. Nearly same size. They seemed to have focused more on software which could be amazing. And nice new features. Also love...made for humans xD
[Galaxy S III General] :
Sorry but the galaxy s2 doesn't have the 1700 band which tmobile uses.. Tmobile uses the 1700/2100 bands for data and voice. 1700*MHz/2100*MHz*UMTSAWS*(Advanced Wireless Services) digital cellular network that cover areas of the continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The Samsung Site even says it's bands. The original galaxy s2 doesn't work on tmobile hspa+ either and it's 21mbs.
[Galaxy S III General] funeralthirst:
that's why the international won't work with tmob 3g, not why the tmob s2 uses the snapdragon instead of the exynos. pretty sure it has to do with qualcomm being the only soc manufacturer to integrate the radio in the soc allowing the higher bandwidth.

and your first sentence was super confusing... it took me a minute to figure out you meant the international s2.
[Galaxy S III General] :
multihreading is already done in android at the kernel level. It's not hard but there no reason when android already does it for you. Developers when selling whatever on the market don't care about making a game optimized for quadcore they want to know can everyone use the game efficiently so they can make a profit.
[Galaxy S III General] Hoezack:
It does have led notification.
[Galaxy S III General] :
You do know as long as the exynos doesn't have the 1700 band it will never work tmobile 3g. Especially when the phone works easily on other carriers in the USA and around the world.
[Galaxy S III General] funeralthirst:
i assume you are talking about each activity is a thread (i actually haven't looked into this, i just assume it to be the case)?

but if you want to please as many people as possible knowing there are multicore socs that will be using your software, writing it multithreaded has no benefit for single cpu (and no hindrance), but a big benefit for multi cpu and it's easy. it takes no optimizing, just using threads, which is nothing in java.

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i'm really curious where you are getting this info, cause everything i've read says the reason we got the qualcomm was due to the bandwidth, not the frequency.

like this:

http://www.extremetech.com/mobile/96267-how-samsungs-chip-change-up-affects-the-t-mobile-galaxy-s2
[Galaxy S III General] keokia:
Exactly what I thought. We'll have to see what it's like when TMO gets it.
[Galaxy S III General] clninja:
Att does the same thing . They butchered the one x into a dual core phone for U.S.
[Galaxy S III General] tigerz0202:
I don't care what processor tmob puts in it, I don't want an unlocked version that only has half the speed capabilities, I want Wi-Fi calling which you won't get with an intl version, or any other version for that matter, I wouldn't leave tmob for any of the other carriers.
[Galaxy S III General] :
I never said it was hard unless your doing something complex.

Samsung didn't impress me either with the galaxy s3. No reason why they don't make pentaband phones now. Maybe exynos 5 will fix it. Ti omap5 and Krait processors will still be ahead till then.

Touchwiz is full of features you don't need only one nice is video playback while surfing the web.

Bunch of useless nature sounds.

A proximity sensor that probably keeps the phone awake at all times.

The hardware is great but Touchwiz just looks for intrusive on ics.
[Galaxy S III General] PJcastaldo:
So crazy how jaded some of you are when it comes to new tech..

I personally think this is an awesome looking device. Yes the processor is based on older architecture but come on.. its a quad core in your phone!.. you will never max it out, at least in the near future. Not to mention the GPU its holstering is a total monster.

Yeah yeah the screen is pentile.. but its an HD SAMOLED... do you really think its going to look bad? No .. the GNEX screen looks amazing..

As far as the software goes, I am a big fan of TWIZ, I believe it only adds what should already be there. T9 Dialer, better contacts app, messaging app, better camera software and the list keeps going, and unlike sense it doesn't totally change the UI, but just alters it.

Then get into the new stuff its offering.. Like a screen that doesnt turn off in the middle of reading!!! wireless charging.. improved NFC and so on...

I vote this is a great device.
[Galaxy S III General] gorillaz1:
I may go this route. Seems like SAMSUNG and HTC are just going to frustrate me.
[Galaxy S III General] s1lenz:
you know I thought that too until I got fed up with tmobile's lack of support for phones (I was coming from a vibrant) and decided to spring for the international SGS2. The level of development for that phone is uncanny. Its not to knock the tmob SGS2 devs, they do extraordinary work with the content they're provided, but its like Christmas every day on those int forums.

Unfortunately I ran over my sgs2 and ascion sent me a tmob sgs 2, but I dont regret buying the int version and dealing with tmob edge. Great experience overall.
[Galaxy S III General] xxKamikazexx:
Ah man I just don't like how the back of it looks.
[Galaxy S III General] iloveandroid16:
The screen is very disappointing, less resolution that the iPhone plus it uses pentile... no thank you. Ill get the note 2 with a 1080p screen.
[Galaxy S III General] s1lenz:
Look I think what it comes down to is that everybody thought that Samsung was going to come out of the gate swinging with something ridiculous since this is "the year of the i5" which will undoubtedly have an A15 chip with a crazy resolution non-pentile screen, a complete overhaul of the phone and iOS 6.

The SGS2 (int version at least) was arguably the greatest phone from last gen. But all it had to do was beat a toc in the iphones tic-toc cycle (ie the iphone 4s).

As loyal Android customers, we want something to brag about for a change and I don't think the SGS3 is it. I think the technology is relatively new, not cutting-edge like it needs to be. Samsung, like every other phone carrying ICS for some reason decided not to use one of the most forward-thinking aspects about ics and get rid of their capacitive buttons to use ICS native buttons for some ungodly reason. The design that is "inspired by nature" is arguably laughable - it looks just like the tmob sgs2 but rounder and with a big button in the middle. The camera is still 8mp.

They've basically given me zero reason to update, and in a year when the iphone is going to go strong, thats a very very sad situation to place your company in.
[Galaxy S III General] scuzzbag87:
U got that right Thers always gonna be some people that can never be satisfied. This is a freaking awesome phone. I'm still unsure if I should ditch this and get the s3 unlocked
[Galaxy S III General] PJcastaldo:
Just saying I seen a benchmark showing 99fps.. worlds faster than anything else out.
[Galaxy S III General] :
Sorry to say Krait is faster at single threaded and multithread operations. the 99 fps wont be used because of vsync which will have it locked at 60 fps. The human can't see faster than 60fps. Don't buy in the quad core hype. Samsung was best to come out with a15 dual core exynos 5 and mali-t604. This isn't much of an upgrade at all. Its faster than tegra 3 well everyone knows nvidia period sucks. Uses more power since its based on an older arc.

Samsung could of added more battery as well at least 2500 mah. The droid razor maxx stuff a 3300mah battery inside without increasing inside to much. What this phone should of been is the galaxy s2 plus.

Good news is that they are using the wolfson again so theirs that but not enough to want to upgrade me and jump ship to their next galaxy. Nexus from now on from me.
[Galaxy S III General] AllGamer:
after reading the official information it's only a Quad band phone not compatible with AWS 1700

it lost the appear to me, i'll stick with my T989 for another year or so until they release an AWS version of the phone

http://www.samsungmobilepress.com/2...e--Designed-for-Humans-and-Inspired-by-Nature

Also, if you already own a Galaxy Note, then the SGS3 is practically the same thing with the only difference being a Quad core vs a Dual core
[Galaxy S III General] monkeypaws:
Im sticking with sgs2 also.
[Galaxy S III General] Rekzer:
It seems more like a minor update. I dont phone game, so a dual core suits me for now. Seems like North Americans are getting the shaft in regards to our hardware to.
[Galaxy S III General] relldroid:
I am also disappointed about the S3 I like 720p front facing camera, but other then that.. its the SGS2 clocked higher. All the hype for this.. idk why but I got a feeling one of these phones are going to dominate,whether its the next nexus or iPhone 5, something is going to wow us all I can feel it

Side note... got my nexus time to flash Aokp
[Galaxy S III General] anomy13:
Agreed.. lol I'm not overpaying for services on rogers or bell :D
[Galaxy S III General] fastfed:
lol @ the camera.. you guys are really losing it!

MP does not automatically mean a better camera, for all we know this camera on the S3 will be better than our GSII, which is ALREADY AMAZING!

It really doesn't get that much better, a little here or there, some nerdy hipster photography major might see a difference, but 99% of the people won't

the GSIII is amazing IMO, and it will blow the I5 phone out of the water

Iphone5 will be lucky to have a bigger screen, let alone, exchangeable battery/memory and so on.
[Galaxy S III General] droid75:
IMO, this article pretty much nails how I feel about the GSIII.

http://www.droid-life.com/2012/05/04/the-galaxy-s-iii-is-a-massive-disappointment-opinion/#more-68690

I'll say this much. My next phone will be a Nexus. No doubt about it.
[Galaxy S III General] scuzzbag87:
HTC sucks

im just gonna say this samsung is, was, and is still the best. HTC sucks only fools fall for that "build quality and design" (notice how google keeps picking samsung to make the nexus mmmhh there must be a reason i wonder why). im going based on facts people. does HTC make galaxy s2's s3's galaxy nexus, galaxy notes all best selling phones and they make a killing at it oh and HTC has garbage build quality may i remind some of u about the screen dust on the sensations, one x screnn issue that shows the colors getting morphed when u press on the screen, chipping on there so called "anti chipping ceramic" on the one S etc. id rather take a 500$+ phone made out of plastic made with precision. im the kind of guy that doesnt care what the phone is made of or how it looks i just want it to be a beast under the hood and samsung knows how deliver that with better chips too tegra 3 loses against sammy chips. as long as samsung keeps pumping out galaxy phones HTC will ALWAYS be 2nd and no the one x is not better than the s3. how can it be better with a smaller battery not to mention its non removeable, no sd slot, smaller screen, crappier cpu (exynos > tegra3 anyday), less badass features, etc. these are facts people
[Galaxy S III General] :
Google uses Samsung for cheap parts. Ti omap because of open source hardware. The phone is Google design not Samsung. Sorry the galaxy s3 is big disappointment. The only phone worth getting is a nexus. I wouldn't be surprised if Google started using certain companies like Asus. For radios and Motorola for batteries.
[Galaxy S III General] zander21510:
I know the screen size is a whole other discussion but honestly the damn screen needs to stop growing...I think the t989 screen is perfect, any bigger you get into the "phablet" realm...sticking with my gs2...
[Galaxy S III General] tigerz0202:
If the nexus is the only phone worth getting then I guess that makes no phone worth getting in my book
[Galaxy S III General] :
The next phones actually worth it will be the Next nexus and the Asus padfone.