[Galaxy S III General] cbdrift:
I have the 9300T - Even managed to snag the first one from the telecom shop at the telecom hq on victoria st - so yes - its a white one :)

Battery life is awesome - considering when I got my S1 I was getting 4 hours out of a battery due to my playing with "a new toy"

Ok ok ok - eventually after many factory roms it was up to 24 hours - but my useage was not at the level of "crack addict playing with his rocks" anymore by a long shot....

GPS is awesome - fast, accurate and did i say accurate? :)

But I am comparing it to my s1 which was a grey import I9000 on 2deg and it thought I was standing in Korea the first time I tried the GPS.

Audio - well voodoo sound is "coming soon" and until then my S1 is just the best portable audio player I have had with my Grado headphones - I'm looking forward to the S3 voodoo sound update (maybe this week according to Supercurio)

Saw his screenshot of a test version he was running on his new S3 and rooted and clockworked mine in prep :)

Screen seems to dissolve finger prints - it just stays clean and compared to the S1 screen is much smoother to swipe across. I don't seem to have that dots and smudges issue either but some of the guys I work with have that issue but - sheesh - fully low bright in a dark room on a black background?? That's not how I use a phone sorry but its got a 12 month warranty soooooo "meh" :)

Factory rom's for the telecom version - well I've been talking to Nanzen and passed over all the rom details - product codes - rom codes and model numbers i could find on the damn thing - he's going to take a look - but I'm pretty sure there is nothing available until after the first update from telecom - I wish they would put their base roms up for download on kies... Yes there is customisation done to them which is why there are less updates from them... Apparently it sounded pretty major when someone was telling me.

And for giggles - my desktop pc blew up its motherboard the other week (GAWDAMNIT!#@&$*) and now my fastest computer is my S3 - its got two more cores, benchmarks faster and has more ram than my emergency ****ebox Windows XP laptop I'm typing this on :)

I'm quite lucky in that what I do for a job gets me access to a LOT of different cellphones (i have shelves full to play with and test - ugh and support) and the S3 is the one I chose over the HTC One X (which is still a REALLLLLY impressive phone and DOES have some better features) - GPS on the One X was not quite as accurate as the S3 when I checked them from my house - but both are good enough and beat the S1's flakey GPS easily.

I dont like how you cant connect it as a usb portable drive and its only allowing "media" or "camera" connections - even with usb debug turned on - thats kinda sucky.

I asked the Samsung rep why the polaris viewer said "install polaris office from the samsung app" and polaris was not available in this region. Unfortunately he was unable to answer - but it was a surprise to him as well - maybe thats a deal telecom didn't take up? Dropbox's 50 gigs was good tho.

As for custom roms - well all I've found with my I9000 is that usually the battery life was not as good and they have annoyances around things I've come to like in the factory roms - so I'll be keeping the factory setup for a while methinks - unless there is a killer feature in cyanogen that I cant live without. (that new set of arm patches and build tools that double the speed of android might just be that killer feature tho) Voodoo sound will just use root - I'm sweet with that...

I tried that "burst camera lite" app from the store - woah - slow motion freeze frames - and because its so fast - theres very little blur either :)

Tried that on the HTC One X and it was half the speed - tried it on an S2 and it was pretty much as fast as the S3 for pics per second :)

now for a question for people on voda and 2deg

can you please take a look on the box your phone came in and tell me the bands you have on the HSPA line on the back and the EDGE/GPRS line?

mine has:

HSPA 21 down 5.7 up 850,900,1900,2100

EDGE/GPRS 850,900,1800,1900

Altho it looks like the antenna assemblies are removable (for a service person) and may even be swappable between i9300 and i9300t's - the rumors are that its got some jumper pads inside and there may be a slightly different circut to do with the aerial in the way of filtering components. Havnt seen pics yet - but the aerial modules bit makes sens looking at the bits that you can unscrew on the inside of the battery cover...

Anyways - ranted too much and too long - hope this didn't bore you all - have fun and hopefully voodoo sound will appear very soon to let me finally put my S1 down (or turn it into the car mp3 player - heh)