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the Samsung Galaxy s3 is probably the most wanted Android phone of the entire year 2012 Samsung has delivered so without any further ado let's go ahead and take a look at the full review so this is Samsung's flagship device worldwide so it deserves flagship worthy hardware and it gets exactly that on the inside of the United States version we have a 1.5 gigahertz Snapdragon s4 dual-core processor and a huge 2 gigs of RAM there's also a 4G radio inside and it features expandable storage via microSD all in a package that's just eight point six millimeters thin and Samsung has done something awesome and made every carriers version identical to each other so accessories will work on all of the samsung galaxy s 3s in the world and you can even exchange the backs of them for a cool like white on blue contrast look if you like and to top off all the spec sheet stuff which is actually detailed here on the back of the boxes you get software wise Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich with the latest version of Samsung's TouchWiz UX on top and we have some things to say about that too the biggest new feature of the mall literally is the new display it's a four point eight inch HD Super AMOLED display so 1280 by 720 an absolutely gorgeous display for a phone is it pentile yes but can you tell nope I mean this is a crystal-clear super high contrast display with amazing responsiveness thanks to what's underneath a lot of people toss around the word pentile as if that means instant death to display but it's honestly you really can't tell unless you're looking at a much lower resolution of a pentile display first thing you notice when you're playing around with the galaxy s3 is what I like to call fluidity the smoothness of the user interface when you're flying around TouchWiz it's literally unmatched by any other Android phone I've been playing with the One X for a while the Galaxy Nexus for a while but these animations here all execute at perfectly high frame rates and that's not something I can say for every other Android device and it just adds to that fluid experience there's not a stutter anywhere and this is the one reason why if I had to pick an Android skin over pure Android it would be TouchWiz I mean it's the fastest it's the light of them all couple that with the two gigs of RAM in the galaxy s3 and you're looking at a pretty freakin fast device TouchWiz is also one of the least obtrusive in-your-face android skins that there are so the user experience is pretty close to stock Android there are a few minor changes like the settings menu in that notification battery percentage indicator another thing is they replace the stock calendar widget and app with their own Samsung themed one which is very different looking there are a few other pre-installed Samsung applications too and depending on which carrier you go with in the United States you'll get a few more pre-installed application one thing that I actually found a little bit annoying is that the toggles in the notification area while they are really really handy and I'm glad that they're there the slide in animation that happens every time I pull down the notification tray like is that really necessary I'll have a Wi-Fi toggle is all the way on the left and it slides in from the left so that prevents me from being able to immediately toggle Wi-Fi like right when I pull it down so it's just a little bit annoying maybe just a minor complaint I suppose but something definitely worth mentioning the toggles themselves are pretty much all really useful and I'm really glad that their product TouchWiz definitely one of my favorite features now that three button layout at the bottom some people love it some people really hate it actually some people don't like the home button that's physical at all honestly really grew on me though actually after about five days of using the phone I kind of liked it the the soft buttons disappear when they're not in use you know they perform legacy functions but they aren't there when you don't need them so that's pretty cool you can access the multitasking still by long pressing that home button so honestly if you play with it and you don't like it at all give it some time you might actually find that you like it in the end overall there is a ton of Samsung stuff built in to the software TouchWiz that I could never cover like smart stay and keeps the phone on when you're looking at it in motion and all this stuff but honestly most of it is pretty gimmicky s-voice which is a freaking Siri clone of all things can be just as useless as Siri sometimes hi galaxy what is the capital of France didn't do anything like the lockscreen though which gives you the option to drag in apps to open them immediately and it gives you the ability to pick which apps you have here nice touch I always like the ability to open the camera quickly and speaking of camera the galaxy s3 has an amazing camera it blows the Galaxy Nexus is camera out of the water and impressed me more than the One X's shooter I like saying shooter but it's an eight megapixel shooter on the back it takes 1080p video it has sharp autofocus it performs well in low light which is great it takes stunning pictures for a phone and is totally capable of replacing your point-and-shoot ok hear that you no longer need to bring another camera on vacation or something you can literally just bring your phone I'm really happy it's gotten to this level of quality the quality is great the pictures and the features are aplenty and it's fast it's really really fast there's a burst mode which can take like 20 pictures in a couple of seconds it's awesome very easy to use also up front there's a 1.9 megapixel front-facing camera for stuff like Google+ Hangouts and Skype and face unlock nice so is it a worthy flagship from Samsung it really is it's got the internals to support everything you throw at it from gaming to everyday you store to just heavy applications the battery life you get out of this is more than acceptable again miles better than the Galaxy Nexus you can get all-day out of this guy easily and while the design may not be everyone's favorite that it feels fine in the hand there's Gorilla Glass 2 on the front the device itself is very thin no need for a screen protector with that Gorilla Glass and the removable back gives you access to the internals the 2100 milliamp hour battery the sim card the SD card and this is something I never understand why people complain about the battery door being flexible because you should just put it back on the phone I've never seen one break under normal use anything you throw at this it can handle this phone is a boss it's one of the biggest and one of the baddest of them all it's the galaxy s3 so to launch such an awesome device on pretty much every US carrier and then some that would be Verizon t-mobile Sprint AT&T and US Cellular they held some pretty awesome launch occasions or parties or something like that launch events and I went to one that was in New York City and I got a lot of Awesome footage from that where they were talking about the device where they were launching it what I were excited for it it was kind of their own version of a keynote they even poked fun at their competitors like some other companies have been known to do one of our primary competitors like today we feel is a holiday event of their device is the little more than launch the software program and that's a great one three devices that most manufacturers would be Iceland and that was actually the first time where I was able to see a u.s. variant of the galaxy s3 actually saw a whole bunch of them lined up together they all had back-to-back their carrier branding on the back so it's pretty cool to see the Verizon version in person even though it's actually technically not released yet so there you go the galaxy s3 is obviously a really really good device it's very impressive device to me both on paper because the specs are awesome it has 2 gigs of RAM you know the LTE for the Verizon and Sprint versions everything like that it's just a really great all-around device and I'm the experience on the other hand is also really good and for me it's actually enough to get me to switch from the Nexus to the galaxy s3 on Verizon as my full-time carry daily device so let me know what you guys think of it obviously you can give a thumbs up on this video if you enjoyed it but do you guys think that the Galaxy s3 is better than the other flagship devices out there I can obviously compare it to the HTC One X if you like because that's obviously another quad-core device overseas compared to the quad-core version of this so let me know what you guys think if I should do some comparisons either way thank you for watching this video and I will talk to you guys next