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hey everybody its michael with pocketnow.com the Samsung Galaxy s3 already released internationally a few weeks ago is now making its debut on all four US carriers thanks to the awesome people at Samsung I have a sprint version here we're gonna have a full review of this device in the coming days but until then figured we'd say to your appetite with a little unboxing video so let's get to it okay so even just looking at the box you can see how much influence Samsung has had over the marketing of this device the packaging is nearly identical to the International versions with the exception of a few details the most obvious being that the Sprint version is huge compared to the International one which is odd because they both contain roughly the same amount of material otherwise boxes are almost identical as far as the feature rundown goes on the back with the exception of the Sprint version having just a little bit of carrier branding up here and Sprint is also eliminated any mention of the Samsung model number GTI 9300 which I think is a good thing pop in the box open here we're greeted front and center once we open this flap by the phone itself which is great standard treatment for a smart phone these days but it's still very nice to see we'll put it aside for a second pop out the little phone cradle here we have the usual array of getting started guides from Sprint in multiple languages terms and services terms and conditions of service and a return envelope for your old phone if you choose to recycle it we've got the battery here which is a 2100 milliamp hour battery white earphones very stylish to go with the white device some additional earbud plugs if your ears are a different size than the included ones or if you just need replacements that's nice too USB cable nothing special there micro USB cable rather and finally the power adapter here with the USB plug in there coming back to the phone let's take a brief Hardware tour here as we've mentioned before the Galaxy s3 for US carriers is identical to the international version with regard to the casing design with the only difference being a slightly more yellow tint on the Sprint version here you'll probably be able to see it on camera but it does exist to my eye but it is so slight that nobody would ever notice unless they were looking for it also the only other difference is the qualcomm 4g sticker up top which is kind of a feature you probably can't see it if I can't get it in a focus here I can't but it says Qualcomm 4G so that's easy to peel off if you want to but aside from that these devices are identical otherwise in case you haven't seen it before home key down below big 4.8 inch display panel Super AMOLED here we're looking at ear piece up here Samsung branding 1.9 megapixel front facing camera proximity sensors that echo the samsung focus choose design and that's about it up front on top we've got a three-and-a-half millimeter headphone jack noise cancelling mic on the side here the power button down on the bottom microUSB port and the primary microphone and on the other side the volume rocker moving around to the back here I'm just gonna pop the battery cover off unpackage the battery from its wrapping and pop this in before we do anything and here's what the back of the device looks like with the battery cover off we've got the 8 megapixel camera lens flanked by the speakerphone grill LED flash and down here we have expansion slot for the micro SD card slot for a micro SD card rather the galaxy s3 does support micro SDXC cards meaning that the 16 or 32 gigs of onboard memory in this device can be augmented by inserting a card of up to 64 gigs that's just in the card slot that's a lot of memory now unlike the international version here we'll just pop off the battery cover to give you a comparison there is no SIM card slot sprint has gone with the integrated SIM card for its LTE phones for most of its LTE phones this one is no exception so there is no sim swapping ability here just to let you know it's clear the international version out of here get back to this guy here go ahead and pop the battery cover on here that's the wrong one go ahead and pop this battery cover on here you'll notice the branding Galaxy s3 on the bottom absent on the international version and of course the Sprint branding there this is a polycarbonate battery cover like the Galaxy Nexus it is paper thin and very flimsy but it is made of polycarbonate so it should be stronger than regular plastic that said the hyper glaze coating on it gives it the feel of a cheaper less high quality build and it also showcases fingerprints quite well fortunately though on the white one that's not as much of a problem so there we are the unit is assembled and for our last trick here we're gonna power it on for a first boot press and hold this print version only gives us a glimpse of the initial Samsung branding before flashing the galaxy s3 brand in there you notice the GTI 9300 has been omitted from that splash screen as well white balance gets totally blown out as this display lights right up it's an awesome sprint 4G LTE there's your notification LED up in the corner there more on that coming in the full review more on all of this coming in the full review and it should only take a few seconds because this is a rather speedy device boom and there we are like I said before we've got a lot more coverage on the Sprint Galaxy s3 from Samsung coming soon so stay tuned to pocketnow.com you can follow us on Twitter if you like at pocket now twitch you can follow me on Twitter at captain two phones that's captain the number two phones and give us a thumbs up if you liked the review leave a comment on the post at pocketnow.com if you have something to say and stay tuned for more it's pocket now thanks for watching