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everybody it's Michael with pocket now here in New York City for the Samsung Galaxy s3 launch event this is just a really quick and dirty video I'm working with camera audio there's no editing this is just going up very raw so we can show you a very quick impression of the US version of the Galaxy s3 at the international version the 18 t version and the sprinklers in here with me just gonna do some app launch comparisons maybe a few maybe a benchmark if we can get a data connection to work for for long enough just gonna give you a feel for how these devices are similar and how they're different like I say there's no editing in this video so there's nothing to cover up this really ugly pen we have to do here but that wasn't too too bad it seven and here are three devices for the day this is the International Galaxy s3 that I've been working with for a couple of weeks is the AT&T version is this print version obviously from a hardware perspective there is not a lot different with these devices in fact they are identical they are effectively identical I can find no visual differences in them except for the Qualcomm sticker on top of the branded versions here but they are all powered off here's the International here is the TNT version here is the sprint version there are some significant differences under the hood the international version here has a Samsung Exynos quad-core processor with one gig of ram but the u.s. versions are each rockin the Samsung s4 excuse me the Snapdragon s4 from Qualcomm which is a dual-core processor the advantage is LTE the disadvantage is the loss of two cores obviously but these are backed up by double the RAM there are two gigs of RAM in each of these devices which Samsung informs us as an industry first so that's a pretty cool thing we're gonna try a boot test here it's really hard to press three buttons at once but I'm going to give it a shot one two three Wow that was pretty good okay so already the quad-core international version is running the Samsung boot animation here it's definitely spoiler alert probably gonna beat the other two these guys have the carrier animations to go through a sprint an ATM teach to their little colorful animation and we're already ready to use here and almost connected to the network and now we are connected to the network on the international version while the carrier versions here we go these guys just woke up and became usable so obviously there's that as I'm mentioning we have some data issues here these two units one of them is connected to the network the other is not but I'm having some Wi-Fi trouble here at this particular venue so we want to just do one or two apple launch comparisons to show you the speed of app launching and how it's similar 1 2 3 4 the camera 1 2 3 boom very very similar these are just info screens because it's first used very similar I should mention that these devices are all starting from basically a fresh out-of-the-box condition I did do a factory reset on the international one before I tried any of these tests I wanted to do the data centric ones I wanted to do a map launch an internet browser launch but we're gonna have to wait on that until we do a proper comparison video and we have a little bit more time but just to launch let's see contacts here that's a pretty big app 1 2 3 as you can see this you'll have to take my word for word for now this has kind of been my experience with absolutely every interaction with these devices the launch times are very very very comparable in spite of the fact that these are working with processor of theoretically half the power maybe because of the extra gig of ram in each one I'm not sure like I said we'll get into that more a little bit later on now let's see if we can pop open one more app for you let's see if we can do the gallery the graphically intense gallery application oh well sorry about that I beat it beat myself to the punch on one and there we are so that's that let's see if we can get the quadrant benchmarking application to run here one two three boom now we're going to run every type of benchmark there is on these devices but for now so we don't have a ten minute video showing you a bunch of three phones or running a bunch of benchmarking apps we'll just go ahead and run quadrant one two three and then that goes and I'll run the other tests off-camera and I will include the results of Linpack and n22 and so forth in the in the post at pocketnow.com so here in a processor intensive application like quadrant we're obviously seeing that the the quad-core device running at a higher clock speed is just a little bit ahead of its brothers seeing the usual doom like animation here and while these are running just show you the the back of the device again very very carefully once again the international version this is the carrier branded AT&T version and the carrier branded Sprint version interestingly the carrier versions have the Galaxy s3 branding at the bottom here whereas the international version does not if you're interested in those kind of things devices are now going to warn me that the results have to be sent to a web service to compute the final score yes I would like to proceed I don't think it's going to let me proceed because I'm not connected to a network here no house connected that one so I can connect here to my own a hotspot some reason I'm having some real trouble connecting to the Wi-Fi hotspot being issued by my by my Galaxy Nexus so I don't think we're gonna be able to get in on that one but that's okay we'll just compare the Sprint version and the international version here the international version earning a 5653 the Sprint version a little bit lower at 4848 like I said we're gonna run some other benchmarks for you we're gonna get a whole lot more time with these devices a whole lot more detail but I wanted to get this up right away so you can see the differences and the similarities I should mention before I go that there are pebble blue variants these are all white just from sheer coincidence these are the demo units that that the that Samsung had on hand for us obviously very thankful for that stay tuned for a lot more coverage at pocketnow.com and watch the YouTube channel page here as well we're gonna have a lot more in-depth stuff this week next week and for many weeks to come thanks for watching guys we'll talk to you a little bit