[Galaxy S III General] E:V:A:
Ah, Pandora has opened another box!

The Samsung Galaxy S III

(And its potential problems)

So given the history of Samsung phones, since the release of their Galaxy S + the many variations thereof, we can expect a whole bunch of things to go wrong (very wrong) with this new device. Samsung has not really proved any competency in neither quality control (QC) nor customer service (CS). In fact they have been rather disastrous in both these regards. So where does it leave us? I leaves us with a very high probability that many...many things could go bad in their new "flag-ship". (100 year Titanic anniversary?)

So I bet a beer that at least two of the following things will be broken or problematic:

8MP Camera will suffer from "pink-spot syndrome" and we will not get any camera-firmware updates that is of any improvement. Why? Because Samsung doesn't know who produces their cameras and "never knows what comes in the box". So they will put the blame on their own subsidiary company who makes (cheap copies) of the Sony camera-sensors (CMOS) and try to pass them off as their own Samsung. If indeed the camera-sensor is good they will blame Fujitsu (who will probably provide the camera processing module.)

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Night time photography will suck, because flash is poorly designed in combination with camera, and without flash the video-mode will just not cut it in low-light areas. Auto-focus problems!

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You will want to protect your new phone with a protective housing, since it will be neither water-proofed, nor shock protected by design. Then you will find your friends not wanting to call you because the phones advanced noise-cancellation (NC) circuitry has not been properly tuned to accommodate for a protective housing, essentially putting the circuitry in "tilt" mode, causing a wide variety of problems extending from unbelievably annoying echos for the person who calls you, or for you, or too low volume, or just generally bad sound for any or both sides of the conversation. (Who said that you actually wanna talk on your phone?). The list can go on...

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Weird unevenly colored areas (yellow tint) on your screen.

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Extremely poor battery life. 4 CPU cores and only god know how many other internal application processors (modem, graphics, MHL, NFC, PMIC) constantly sitting on edge trying wake up as soon as it "hears" or "sees" something, will drain battery whether Sam like it or not.

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Poor GPS reception, because Samsung QC technicians only tried it from their perfect office, so didn't bother to tune the GPS configuration files to make them fix fast in any geographical location.

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Will easily grease, scratch or crack screen, since not using hardened Gorilla Glass nor oleo-phobic treatment.

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Will automatically shut-down in humid, hot (or cold) climates.

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Will have a very buggy baseband (radio) firmware, if it is based on a new and widely-untested chip like the Intel XG-716. Causing dropped calls, poor reception and/or other data-problems. In worst case to being able to properly receive or send SMS.

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Will still have a stock SMS sending limit of only 10 multiple-SMS's.

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Will be very difficult to root. Was rooted by Chainfire before entering market!

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Will not provide for unbrickable mod or booting OS from external source.

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Will keep all internal chips and documentation secret so that none other than some corrupt Samsung Service/Company representative can repair your phone. All chips are available in the Service Manual.

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Have poor Wifi connection, because of interfering RF circuitry that is too complicated, even for Samsung technicians to handle.

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When having any problem at all, you will be offered to send your phone for service that may take up to 2 months for returning back in your hands. (Usually with no improvement.) The true Samsung Take-it-or-leave-it CS policy. "It's your own fault, since you didn't have to buy this phone."

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Causing the Linux Kernel developer society a nightmare, by introducing new and poorly written hardware drivers, without providing proper specifications (because of 13), often written by inexperienced programmers.

Well that pretty much sums it up. Did I forget something? I'm sure I did, any time Samsung releases something amazing, there will be problems we cannot imagine.

Oh, I think I forgot to say that I like (some) Samsung devices...because I don't have a choice, now that not even my old Nokia is Nokia anymore.

So what can you do, to protect yourself?

BEFORE BUYING, DO THIS:

Have your shop representative put a protective cover on your phone. Then have a friend that you can call and who can call you in various noisy and silent situations.

Take pictures in many different and low-light conditions. (All cameras work great in bright conditions, but many suck in low-light without flash.) Try the low-light focus on near and far objects. Does it focus easily?

Take some pictures of a "natural" and evenly white or bright gray wall. Check pictures for "pink-spot".

Take some photos with flash and check the resulting colors.

AFTER

BUYING, DO THIS:

Take many, many high-resolution pictures of the inside of your phone, and post them somewhere here on XDA, so that we can help you when your phone eventually goes dead or "funny"!

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