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[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Arcadia310:
I have the pebble blue and I think the front of the phone looks great. But the back... meh. Has a really weird color and looks completely different than the front.

This phone is FAST. Holy cow. The screen isnt as good as the One X but its an improvement from the Nexus.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] theraffman:
Just about ever phone I have had gets hot if you use it while charging, both my iPhone 3gs and 4 would get so hot they would shut off, or burn my ear (not currently burn, but hot as hell). That's why I like having a removable battery, I haven't plugged my infuse to charge it, in almost a year... I own my own business and am practically attached to my phone from 6am until 8pm.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] daraj:
I have the blue. It's fast but finger magnet big time. You cannot turn off LTE unfortunately and it's doesn't have FM radio on board and yes it does gets warm on the buttom
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] xstayxposix:
Also wanting to know this. Was disappointed with the SGS2 audio hardware, I am hoping they went with Wolfson.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] neyenlives:
Are you sure LTE cant be toggled? In settings, wireless, networks, system selection and there might be a CDMA ONLY option and a CDMA/LTE. Of course for you it would say GSM instead of CDMA. CDMA is Verizon tech.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] daraj:
Positive. That feature is not present on any of at&t's phones. They simply want everybody off of their EDGE/3G network to their LTE network.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] naturefreak85:
As far as I knew, all Galaxy S's were Micro also.....
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] LNJ:
They were. The Captivate and Vibrant were anyway!
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] r3a1ist:
There will be a toggle soon. There will also be a flashable radio for hspa 42 on the at&t version and lte on the t mobile version. The hardware is there and the software will be too. These are all personal restrictions outside the phones capabilities by the carriers.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Uncle Hungry:
I will tell you, this thing multi-tasks like a champ. I just opened an app from yesterday and it's still in the same place that i left it.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] merick1283:
Giant step up from Galaxy S I

So far this phone is everything I wanted and more for the SIII. A few weeks back my captivate's power button gave it up so I had to install a few apps to work around it. This device couldn't have released at a better time. It's size is perfect, and the speed is like jumping in a Porsche when you were rockin a mustang. Can't wait for all the great stuff the devs will unleash upon this great phone!
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] A.VOID:
After very poor stock calendar apps on previous galaxy's, I'm super impressed by this one. The lock screen alert is fantastic! Huge improvement.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] louvass:
Got mine(blue) yesterday. I must say very impressive device, nice improvements and the screen is beautiful... Not 1 complaint !
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] jkforce:
Wolfson DAC

Can anyone of you lucky people confirm if ATT version of SGS3 has wolfson DAC?
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] lensgrabber:
Real world battery life for LTE users please. Any microcell users? Curious how the microcell works. I've been using one for a couple of years and it keeps my sanity while at home. Poor signal without it.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] ExTREmE99:
thanks! hopefully like someone said, there will be a way to toggle off LTE.

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how will there be HSDPA 42? i thought most maxed at HSDPA 21
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] A.VOID:
Real world won't be legit until we cycle it a couple times. Mine is pretty poor at the moment. Moderate to heavy use and down 56% in 5 hours. On wifi and no lte coverage here.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] EugeneR:
Have a question. Somebody succeeded to set Google Voice as default voice mail provider? Tried several times, causes phone application FC. Manually set forwarding numbers to GV, but it should work as it is supposed to...

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S III
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] entropism:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1724826

Literally on the same page as this thread
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] neyenlives:
Everyone keeps ignoring this question.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] djkinetic:
I read on the Sprint board a few days back that the US Variants all have the Wolfson DAC confirmed by a Samsung rep at one of their launch events.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] zmore:
It hasn't been confirmed or denied yet whether the U.S. variants have the Wolfson DAC, but supercurio has stated that he'll only be working on voodoo sound for Exynos which does have it.

It really doesn't matter, though. I'd bet $100 dollars that most self-proclaimed audiophiles would fail a blind a/b test.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] neyenlives:
Right, and then we hear opposite. This is insane how hard it is to verify even with people holding the phones....
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] ewingr:
Initial thoughts after 24 hours...

Battery is NOT doing too great. 6 hr 22 min: 34%

The 'slide finger across top' to change brightness is not there. Very sad ;-(

Performs very well. :-)

Lots of apps open, 663 MB of memory still available

I also miss the search button

Looks very nice.

Google Voice is only app that has been problematic setting up (bombs on configuration), but have done a work around and it is working (I think...no texts yet).

Volume is good, including speaker phone

That's about it for now.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] nr2134:
Looks like View By "Content in device" is not sticking after restart and I get a list of all the workstations at my job in the gallery.

Ringtones blow, all nature based. Not fond of Zedge so might have to make my own.

Otherwise, not too bad. Some stuff I still need to get accustomed to.

If you want to disable the AT&T Address Book when accessing contacts, go to Settings/Apps Manager/All and find AT&T Messages. Click on it and disable.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] bobbydsiu:
Couldn't agree more, then again I've always thought Samsung had the worst ring tones. If we had root I could copy the ones from my girlfriends One X, I like those when I had that phone.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] zmore:
You don't need root to rip or add more ringtones, btw.

Rip 'em from /system/media/audio/* which you don't need to be root to access. And as long as you have an sdcard, just drop 'em on there in a media subdirectory.

media/audio/ringtones

media/audio/notifications

media/audio/alarms

media/audio/ui

also, iirc, if you put a ".nomedia" file in there, music players won't pick 'em up as music tracks.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Juicy Cooch:
I am LOVING my white S3. Looks amazing.

I don't like the back piece, feels like cheap plastic and I'm afraid of breaking it whenever I take it off. Love the camera. S Voice pisses me off. Been playing around on it all day! ;)
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] altitude909:
OTG rocks on this thing, exfat support, just plop my USB drive with all my movies and I'm off !
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] 3_D:
Back piece is actually very strong. You can bend it all the way back without it breaking. Incredibly flexible.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] pvc_:
Review

I got mine on Thursday and switching from Captivate, the first thing I noticed when I opened the box was how light and thin this phone actually is. I was initially concerned about its large size, but I'm starting to get used to it. The speed difference is night and day. I can confidently say there is no better phone out there at the moment. Hopefully for a long time.

I am concerned about the battery though because while it lasted the whole day yesterday with moderate use, today it's sitting at %75 after 2-3 hours of literally no use in power saving mode. Maybe I didn't fully charge it...

Pros:

Everyone knows the pros for the most part. Fast, large amount of RAM, sdcard, removable battery, smart stay (works well), 4g LTE and the list goes on.

I love the power saving option. While it slows down the phone on quadrant benchmarks to about half its potential, you get more juice for daily marathons.

Cons (more like whining):

The home button is a bit too narrow and too firm to press it while you are holding the phone with one hand.

Scrolling with one hand is slow and awkward and despite the fast cpu, you do occasionally get a bit of a lag. You will get more lags when using power saving.

It does get a bit hot even when you are not doing anything out of the ordinary. Maybe that's because of 4G, but not quite certain at this point.

The back cover is fairly easy to install, but you somehow always worry that you might break it. With my captivate, doing hard resets by removing the battery was quite simple as the cover came off nicely, but with this removing the battery is the ultimate last resort. Of course I don't think I would need to do as many hard resets with this...

I found the settings a bit hard to get used to even though I'm fairly technical and hold a degree in CS. The settings seem to be too spread around. Like you won't find the call settings in the settings menu; you'll have to open the phone app and use the menu key. For less experienced users, configuring this phone might be a pain. I wish you could just go the settings section and find everything there.

Google wallet doesn't work because obviously att doesn't like it, but that's a different story. Also, not too happy about the lack of FM radio. Not everyone has unlimited data. Google voice mail doesn't work out of the box.

My sdcard didn't work straight out of my captivate. I had to transfer everything to my pc, do a full format of the card (took hours; wish I had done the quick first), then put the data back on it to get it to work.

Sorry about the long essay; I just wanted to share some stuff you won't find in typical reviews that potential buyers might be interested in.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] mattism78:
I am really disappointed about the lack of FM radio. I use it daily on my SGS2 international. That might sway me from purchasing honestly.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] iam_ultrasonic:
I hate the physical home button!
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] zmore:
BTW - you never NEED to do a physical battery pull. Pressing and holding volup+power (or volup+home+power on sgs3) for about 5 seconds has the same effect. I've flashed a new ROM nightly on my Captivate at least once a week, and when things went wrong, a battery pull was never necessary.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] pvc_:
Thanks, Good to know. Like I said, on Captivate it was so simple that I never thought twice about doing it. I even developed the habit of playing with its lock, which is gonna be tough getting over.

Speaking of bad habits, I miss the sliding door on the usb port too.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] theraffman:
Is it the same style of back piece that is found on the sgs2 and infuse? On my infuse, you just peel off the back, its a thin plastic but super flexible... I love it, so easy to do battery swaps. I'm hoping the sgs3 is similar.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] zmore:
Yeah, the sliding door on the usbport was nice, but honestly, I only ever used it when I was concerned about rain or sand getting there, but there are plenty of other uncovered ports...
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] stan.s:
Very well. I just did a 80 mile round trip for some errands, using navigation, blue tooth headset, playing music. Used the SVoice to control it. Music cut out and returned when navigation directions were spoken and calls made. 20% drop in the battery.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] faulkton:
Loving the phone except two issues:

Stupid thing wont automatically connect to my cordless phone when i turn on bluetooth. I've been using a panasonic link-2-cell cordless phone on my Captivate for over a year and it worked great. I turn on bluetooth and all cell calls ring on the cordless.

When i turn on bluetooth on the s3, instead of just connecting to the cordless phone it gives me a notification that it's there and i have to manually connect. Really annoying to add an extra 4 steps for such a simple task.. wtf?

The other thing pissing me off is that svoice doesnt work if the s3 is connected to bluetooth cordless phone. It cant hear any of my commands.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] entropism:
For the google voice issue, here's how to get it working perfectly:
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] djkinetic:
Yet another reason to hate TouchWiz....AOKP/CM9 can't come fast enough for this phone.:crying:
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] topgun303:
This is probably the best phone ever. I say **** I phone. Bigger screen is son much better for everything we do with smartphone now days. I have Samsung big tv and now I got Samsung phone. I wonder what's next from Samsung. I maybe a new house lol.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] divinewisdom:
just got my phone this morning.

-had to do a battery pull after playing with it for 30 mins, when to restart phone, then it would not turn on for some reason.

-clicking the home button to go home seems slow to me, its not instant

- was at starbucks, the att wifi bs started to connect to the phone and caused all sorts of slow response

-coming from the Nexus, it needs getting use to with the hard buttons and lack of some of the functions

overall a good phone.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] jkforce:
Home button being not instant is intended because of s voice. (Double click goes to s voice so phone is designed to wait for half second just to make sure you are not double clicking) i think i heard from one of reviews that if you disable s voice or something, that issue can be solved. Perhaps aokp or cm9 will be much better on this issue but i think it does not bother me as long as it has intended purpose. So maybe someone with the actual phone confirm it. I am still waiting for my phone from stupid pre-order.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] RampageRR:
The slow response to home button pressing is due to S Voice. It waits to see if you're going to press it a second time, causing the lag. You can turn off S Voice to see the difference.

I believe you can disable the auto connecting to AT&T Wifi as well, but I don't have the phone yet, so I can't tell you where to look.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] americasteam:
Disable Launch S Voice in the S Voice app if the delay bothers you.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Randomacts:
What did you have to format it to?

Can we just leave it as the default exfat?
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] divinewisdom:
I tested it, disabled S-voice, the home button response faster. thanks!
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] nr2134:
So far this might top my N95 when I first got it as the best phone I owned. Besides losing all my Chrome bookmarks after a couple reboots, this phone has been solid. I'm glad I still have those saved in IE. I guess it's a known bug so backup your bookmarks from Chrome.

Signal, call quality and battery destroy my Skyrocket.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Monoman67:
Went from an EVO 4G on Sprint to GS3 on AT&T and so far I am impressed with the overall look, feel, performance, etc.

My only complaint initially is why the heck did they put the Visual Voicemail app (AT&T Messages) two screens to the left of the main screen and not activated ... not much indication of that is where to get your voicemail and I don't think it uses Swype/T9 keyboard.

I'll try things mostly stock for a while first. :-)
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] PersonOfKnownOrigin:
Wifi sucks. Bad connection or whatever, it takes too long to do anything over Wifi. Battery life isn't great. Cell Standby is at 38% right now.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] tecz0r:
Having used the phone for a little over a day, I have to say that it is hands down, the best phone I've ever owned. I'm still shocked at how little lag is on this device. It takes everything I throw at it and asks for more. Absolutely incredible.

I owned the International Galaxy Note before owning the ATT S3 and suddenly, it hit me. THIS is what I wanted the Note to be but unfortunately, even being a great device, it fell short of my expectations.

I'm also very happy to say that S3, in my opinion, has finally matched, if not, outdone the smoothness that iOS offers on iPhone 4S. Although I can't be happier be off the Apple boat, I always envied how smooth the system was. Very pleased to say that S3 is bringing its A game against iOS in every way.

This is also the first time using LTE on any device and I have to say that I'm very very pleased with. Theres something about being able to watch any online streaming video in HD without ever worrying about "buffering...," atleast for me. I hope everyone else is having as great of a time as I am with their new phone.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Lorimere:
My family has had our phones since yesterday. Wife and daughter went white, I went with the blue. Both of them look really nice. (hapy I went with the blue, love the color).

Best phone I have ever used. Every thing is quick and seemless. multi-tasking works great. Had no problem pair the bluetooth in my car (which sounds awsome!).

Screen is wonderfull. Love the samsung contrast as always. Being an older guy, if the pentile is there my eyes are bad enough to where I don't notice it at all.

The only issues I had were:

1) Blue is a finger print magnet. But since I put the body wrap on the back, it made it more grippy and a lot less finger print prone.

2) It downloaded like 30 pictures from my google plus account and set each one as a separate album in the gallery. Which sucks.

3) Wifi doesn't seem to be as strong as in past phones. Signal is quiet a bit worse around my house.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] outz:
that sucks... i sent the galaxy nexus back due to the extremely weak wifi. makes me a bit nervous to get an s3.

i wonder if the htc one x has strong wifi?
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Sher The Love:
Battery doesn't seem all that great. I'm sure once a few updates are released, it'll get better.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] pvc_:
I'm pretty sure I did a FAT format, and then formatted it again in my captivate.

btw, ATT Wifi app can be disabled like most other att apps, which is very nice if you don't wanna root your phone.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Lorimere:
Its not horrible. I have never had a problem with it being unable to connect for example. But it is a bit weaker than the evo I was using before. But the evo also had one of the best wifi radios I have ever used.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] outz:
hopefully it's better than the nexus. i was unable to maintain 1 bar while at my desk during work... we've got quite a few cisco ap's and every other phone i've owned had a full/strong signal. i tried 2 nexus phones and both wouldn't hold on to a signal there.

thanks for letting me know!
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] neyenlives:
I would be interested to know how it compares to other recent Samsung devices, Nexus, Charge(Captivate), etc. Is the new Samsung radios in general better or worse than prior radios? Because they have always been weaker that say Motorola.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] phositadc:
why is cell standby so high? Should be less than 10%.

-Sent from a GSM Galaxy Nexus (RAScream+Trinity).-
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Aridon:
Anyone able to compare cell signal strength to other devices?
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] NA 521":
I just disable S Voice and the home button is still not instantaneous. It is no different than with S Voice on.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] itechscs:
My wife's one x is about the same as my inspire which imo is a tad on the weak side.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] 20blks:
My cell standby is super high compared to others I've seen
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] jasapper:
Thanks for that! It was annoying the crap outta me, especially since it never seemed to complete the "subscriber verification".

+1 Sooo much better that I won't be using a 3rd party app anymore.

I read a different post where a few people had found a workaround by creating a new 3G-only APN... haven't tried it yet myself but sounds interesting. So far after 14hrs the battery is at 48% w/ LTE on the whole time and hefty screen time and other use.

So far this phone freakin' rocks!
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] davidstech11:
I am really liking the (LTE) GS3. So far the biggest thing I am not liking is how apps are NOT allowed to get transferred to the SD card. Its messed up that they didn't get that working. And the Samsung Reps blaming Google for not having it in ICS sounds like straight BS.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] robstunner:
It weaker than my one x. I'd get lte on the one x at home but with the sgs3 I'm only getting hspa.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] r3a1ist:
Just had the nexus which is the next in line of current Samsung superphones. Wifi is more powerful on this phone. That's confirmed. I will be testing t mobile 4g and at&t 3g on it. I can't compare at&t 3g cuz i never used it on the nexus but I got like up to 7mb/ download here on t mobile 4g so we'll see.

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2 gb's of ram, this thing can play everything u got in the background and u won't notice. U gotta keep up with that with more than oh my phone feels a little slow.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] robstunner:
I dont think that has much to do with the cell radio
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] cyberdentist:
Played with it for a day now. Love the fluidity and am glad they are improving the touchwiz UX. I really wish the folder style was not 'Gingergreadish !'. I love the ICS folder styles.

Anyone know if i can get ICS type folder style on S3?

Also, wish Samsung would do better exchange integration into their phones. It works but never syncs subfolders :(. I have to use Touchdown to overcome this.

Svoice is like Siri now, not as useful but fun.

I really wished it didn't have microsim. I could have used Nexus S as a backup :(

I have the Blue and though not disappointed, it looks dull. My wife got the white and it looks excellent and no fingerprints!.

Overall very impressed!

C

PS: I previously owned iPhone 3G, 3Gs, Galaxy S4G and am currently migrating from nexus s to S3.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] pdubcramp:
Get a sim card adapter on Amazon ;)
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] junglizste:
Me too.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Sher The Love:
I never realized it until comparing with my nexus s just now, but the screen is very dim at Max brightness and definitely has that pink tint....