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Yesterday, I preordered myself a Samsung Galaxy S III. Should get here in about two weeks. It will be my first smartphone too.

Anyone else order it, have it already, or want it? Excited for it?

Discuss!

Which carrier?

I'm getting an unlocked / unbranded one. Prices are kinda high right now. So I'm going to wait a little longer. I think Samsung got at least one thing right with the SGS3.. consistency. This is the first Galaxy S that has the same form factor for all carriers. We should start seeing a better selection of accessories and cases now.

RobertF64 saidWhich carrier?

AT&T

my friend bought it yesterday and i was using it for like 2 hours. you don't know how awesome this phone is.

Wonderful - genuinely makes life easier plus an amazing camera

i would have thought that they would have updated the camera to 10mp.
it is an amazing phone aesthetically as well. Just beautiful. I want it.
My friend paid 550 euros for it brand new. no contract or anythng. 100 euros cheaper than the stores.

No doubt a great first smart phone. If you're a techie that like to tinker, then Android will be to your liking.

I have the first version Samsung Galaxy S Tmobile carrier, I bet the S III will have tons more features! I don't like the battery life though, mine last about 5-8 hrs top! Hm, not sure how the S III battery life will be.

That phone is so damn sexy

Just got one, still trying to figure it all out... Awesome phone!

I'm holding out for the i-5 in October (I hope).

I seldom trade phones; still on the same one since 2004.

Why get an immitator when you get the proven original

It would be like settleing for a Hyundi or Kia when I cudda had a Toyota.

Verizon launch date is now Thursday July 12.

The US version (offered by AT&T, Sprint, and probably Verizon, shockingly, also T-Mobile) is significantly different than the international version, IMHO.

One report says Samsung dropped their Quad-Core Exynos 4412 A9 chip that the International version uses for Qualcomm's Snapdragon dual core chip. A teardown of the T-mobile version causes me to wait until confirmation. [url]http://www.techrepublic.com/photos/cracking-open-the-samsung-galaxy-s-iii-t-mobile/6370767?seq=36&tag=thumbnail-view-selector;get-photo-roto[/url]


Other news: Verizon has a locked bootloader.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/09/verizon-blames-samsung-for-locked-bootloader-in-galaxy-s-iii/

And, whatever you do if your phone gets wet...Please don't pop it in the microwave oven, wait for the 'ding' then blame the manufacturer.
http://www.reghardware.com/2012/07/09/samsung_burnt_galaxy_s_iii_probe_reveals_microwave_damage/


[footnote since I made a career around these things.]

The International S III uses a radio chipset from Infineon (PMB9811X baseband and PMB5712), now owned by Intel. Infineon gave Apple (the internation/AT&T iPhone4) the "death grip", a problem Qualcomm doesn't have with the RTR8600 radio chip and active dual-antenna diversity.

You probably won't have an easy time using the international version with Sprint or Verizon until you can use LTE exclusively. Infineon doesn't do IS95/CDMAOne.

Hope you like it.

I'm an ardent Apple fanboy so I am iPhone, iPad and MacBook Air all the way.

Lots of different phones for lots of different folks. :-)

tautomer4314 said

RobertF64 saidWhich carrier?

AT&T

ATT&T has the WORST customer service EVER! so I switched....the phone is AMAZING tho!

LIEV saidHope you like it.

I'm an ardent Apple fanboy so I am iPhone, iPad and MacBook Air all the way.

Lots of different phones for lots of different folks. :-)

B-)

Still have my VZ iPhone4 which continues to exceed my expectations. The industry has a challenge in being able to offer LTE in addition to what we get now with 3G in terms of circuit complexity, battery size, and battery life. The teardowns on the current bleeding-edge gives me hope Apple will be able to deliver on everyone's expectations in a few months.

Hopefully, be here by tomorrow to replace my Droid X on my Ohio number. My Droid Razr on my California number is much improved by ICS except for TM notifications, but at least no more email notification trouble.

I got an AT&T white one this Friday. I think it's safe to say the 2007-2012 reign of an iPhone in my pocket is over. The LTE is super fast, the OS runs super fast, and the screen is brilliant. The first two days were remarkably annoying getting used to doing things on a new phone, even though I'm familiar with Honeycomb from my Galaxy Tab. Even now I miss a few small iPhone-isms (SMS preview from the lock screen) but overall starting to free myself from the Apple entrenchment to use this great phone will be worth it in the long run.

Figured it out. Galaxy S3 for the US does use Qualcomm's Snapdragon.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5563/qualcomms-snapdragon-s4-krait-vs-nvidias-tegra-3/

It lurks underneath one of the Samsung memory devices in a stacked-package situation.

Some of those chips have more than one silicon die inside. You can't sell a cellphone chip with Samsung memory embedded to anyone but Samsung, so you let other stack their memory on your processor chip.

Never mind.

I'm curious as to how well the Samsung NFC app and TecTiles work.

just got the S3 today and I don't know if I like it as well as the Razr. Given my age, I know it takes me a while to get used to something new, but so far I'll take the Razr. I hope this changes with acclimation.

freedomisntfree saidjust got the S3 today and I don't know if I like it as well as the Razr. Given my age, I know it takes me a while to get used to something new, but so far I'll take the Razr. I hope this changes with acclimation.

And its changing as I get used to it. Always does.

I will say that it is a simply fantastic screen even compared to a friend's 4S I gotta say that this is better.

Good, I got used to this and now my Canon T4i with the 18-135 STM is in so now something else to learn. I will be so damn glad to have a silent AF for vid.

groundcombat saidI got an AT&T white one this Friday. I think it's safe to say the 2007-2012 reign of an iPhone in my pocket is over. The LTE is super fast, the OS runs super fast, and the screen is brilliant. The first two days were remarkably annoying getting used to doing things on a new phone, even though I'm familiar with Honeycomb from my Galaxy Tab. Even now I miss a few small iPhone-isms (SMS preview from the lock screen) but overall starting to free myself from the Apple entrenchment to use this great phone will be worth it in the long run.

"The first two days were remarkably annoying getting used to doing things on a new phone"

Oh fuk yes. Drives me nuts because I don't sleep much until I know it inside and out.

have any of you had any experience of Viber on the SII? does it work 'well'?

xsocalguy8x saidI have the first version Samsung Galaxy S Tmobile carrier, I bet the S III will have tons more features! I don't like the battery life though, mine last about 5-8 hrs top! Hm, not sure how the S III battery life will be.

Battery life has been real decent though. Did I mention that the screen is stunning? It is!