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reply to chmod

Re: Galaxy S3

reply to thegeek
I'm waiting for them to be available and corporate approved on T-Mobile or possibly ATT. I'm going to let the company pay for the phone and data for me.

May get a TM one for my wife, whose eligible for upgrade on July 5. I like the new HTC One X, but I don't like the defeatured One S on TM.
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reply to Napsterbater
Looks like CM9 Nightlys are available for the Galaxy S III I9300 (Intl)

This is a good day.

They just started cm9 nightlies for my device (t-mo gs2 t989) I'm excited. I love me some cm9 goodness.

reply to Napsterbater

I'd be shocked if it didn't. What will certainly be one of the most popular Android phones on the most popular network should get AOKP roms pretty soon.

even if the boot loader is locked it won't last forever. some dev will eventually crack it.

reply to Goober

We're lucky here. The company is pretty good about keeping everything pretty much untouched. It used to be that only Blackberry phones were allowed, but over the last 2 years or so the company has been offering all the various phones (Android, iOS, Windows, Blackberry, etc.). We can even bring our own device and the company will reimburse the cost (after plan subsidy). The plan is then transferred over to the company.
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reply to thegeek
Company I work for just started allowing non RIM phones. So I can use my own phone and they pay most of the bill. The run a program called AirWatch Agent that locks up the phone pretty good and allows for a remote wipe if needed. It won't run on a rooted phone.

I have little to no interest in unlocking or running another ROM on the GS3 if I get it. It's really up to speed anyway. Also, it takes a _long_ time for a ROM to get good. Personally if things like the camera don't work, I don't see the point in running another ROM. For me, Android simply works. If I did not like the UI, I would not buy it.

I'm hoping that I may be able to talk Tmobile info giving me a good upgrade price (ie. early). Angle I'm going to use is how long I've been with the company (they are bleeding customers) and that the G2 that I bought is defective since it was upgraded to 2.3 and HTC is not correcting the problem (for example, the gallery does not always display all of the files on the phone... the SD card needs to locked and unlocked before it will display new photos/videos).

reply to thegeek
We are giving a person a new smartphone at the office so I upgraded one of our flip phones to a smartphone. I'll take the SIII and give my Bionic to the other person. Apparently this phone was out of contract and still had a new every 2 so I got the 32GB blue for $100.

This is with Verizon and looking at our account. We are moving to the new share plans with out data usage. We have unlimited on all our smartphones but not using that much data. Moving to a data pool will save us about $350 a month.

reply to thegeek
Not the greatest review of the S3:

»www.wired.com/reviews/2012/06/sa···y-s-iii/
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There is alot of new software with the SIII so it will be buggy IMO because of that. Mostly that's the Touchwiz specific things to the SIII. I think most things folks are complaining about software wise can be fixed easily.

The one thing to remember is what Samsung has done with making this a standard across call carriers should mean faster update cycles compared to what we see now.

Wired was probably one of the harshest reviews of the SIII from what I've seen. Some things IMO aren't a deal breaker. Again it's things that are specific to touchwiz/samsung feel. What they are saying I say about Motorola's and HTC's overlay of Android as well.

Over I think this is breaking ground moving forward for the Android eco system. Being able keep 1 name/branding across all carriers will honestly help the Android system. I think of what Samsung has done is version 1 in this new chapter of Android.

reply to lordpuffer
A single review is hardly dispositive as to the GS3's quality or capabilities.

There are many other reviews that praise it. Besides, software issues can be fixed. No one seems to begrudge Apple the fact that Siri was half-baked when it first came out.
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I think it's good. It's helpful to get all the information on these devices. The one thing that's good about Android is that the brand of Apple fanboiism that blinds reviewers to the more questionable aspects of iStuff isn't there for non-Apple devices. This way actual informed choices can be made, rather than following the herd mentality.

Edit: Now, a melted GS3 would be a problem. »www.engadget.com/2012/06/20/sams···i-melts/

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reply to thegeek
S3 is sleek, looks better than S2 but is overpriced. You cant price a phone that high unless it's an iPhone.

Not true unless you're an iFanboi. A lot of people pay the same price for non-iPhone devices. We do.
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reply to thegeek
preordered a Verizon one. Paid Full Retail since I am not eligible for an upgrade. However, if Verizon screws me over with my grandfathered unlimited data, it goes back and they can go f*ck themselves with the share everything plans. I will be coming from an iPhone 4.