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hey guys it's Joe the Android guy with pocketnow.com we've already seen the Samsung Galaxy s3 in a couple different varieties today we've got our hands on the Verizon version of the phone let's unbox it see what comes with it all right the first thing we've got is a very nice clean face on it simple black on white rotating around to the side we've got some Verizon 4G LTE branding over on the bottom we've got some barcodes and whatnot sides are empty and the back has some very basic just specification information really DivX HD I always love to see that so this is just a sleeve we'll go ahead and slide that off and set it out of the way we have essentially the same type of branding on the front of the box empty sides the bottom says that this has been printed in China I've got some friends over there Nihao go ahead and open this up inside we've got a nice paper holder with the phone sitting neatly inside go ahead and set that over to the side just for a minute here we'll come back to that I just lift out tab no documentation in there over here now we've got a little thumb hole see if we can pull this side up and we've got our manuals nice and individually wrapped we've got some headphones with volume control mute it looks like extra squishies and then squishies on the end really kind of nice white headset now white is usually synonymous with Apple so people are gonna think you've got an Apple product when you've got these headphones in but the phone itself is white so it matches well go ahead and give that to him over here we've got our wall wart which is really nice and low-profile it comes out beside so you're not going to be blocking up other wall outlets with this we've also got a micro USB cable see if I can find the ends for one thing I like about Samsung's USB cables they've got this little flange it makes it easier to pull out let me open that up so you can see it you've already seen this I'm sure but it's worth illustrating just for the three of you who haven't so here's the little flange it's just a little bit of a flare out that helps you be able to grab onto that and kind of pull it out of the phone a little bit easier very nice high gloss it has some printing on it so you know which way is up on the other side very nice low profile again branding nice USB logo there relatively long cable and it's relatively flexible so really nice setting that aside we've got the battery which we'll get to in just a minute and then nothing else at all just the bottom of the box so we'll go ahead and set that aside to pulling the the battery out of its plastic you can see over here that this is indeed a Samsung battery with a Near Field Communication and NFC antenna built in now that's just the antenna not the chip something to keep in mind there traditional 3.8 lithium-ion battery see if we can find it 2100 milliamp hours which for LTE I'm a little bit suspect we'll have to wait and see how that works let's get over to the phone looking at the phone we've got some protective wraparound stuff on the front and the back I'll go ahead and take those off that's about it now if you notice the screen has the nice beveled edges the rounded edges nice and smooth really light right now again the battery is not in there but it feels swell just like any Samsung Galaxy s3 it's got the one Omni button on the bottom up at the top of your camera some sensors and of course your grill and some very modest samsung branding huge screen really nice it's got the nice silver band running around the whole thing up here at the top we've got a little sticker that says that this is a qualcomm 4g we could take that off i'm not going to got your noise cancelling microphone on the top your headset jack and your little finger grip to pull the back cover off we'll do that in just a second again we talked about the front down to the bottom your main microphone your microUSB and charging port right there over on the side we've got the power button just very nice clean one button right there the other side we've got again very clean a rocker for volume up and down that feels like it works really well it's very distinct but it doesn't stick out away from the phone too much turning to the back we've got of course our rear facing camera with flash and our rear speaker here at the top we've got some Verizon 4G LTE branding right there in the middle and of course the Samsung Galaxy s3 branding at the bottom let's crack this guy open and just like most Samsung's it's a peel off the top is kind of tight it's got a couple contact points down the sides and then the bottom just toggles or pivots right up move that off to the side now what we've got over here a couple things first of all we've got this micro SD slot so it is empty doesn't come with one in the box but you can supply your own micro SD card for future expansion next is a SIM card and as far as I can tell this is a standard size SIM not a micro sim I'll pull out my AT&T Micro SIM right here and you can see well it just might be looks like it is a micro sim I stand corrected now of course that's not going to work because of course I need a Verizon LTE sim but it is in fact the the Micro SIM that you're going to need so you've also got some rear contacts right here and then your battery goes in right there as well go ahead and button this back up get the bottom seated in first walk your fingers up the side and then press in the top and just do a press around to make sure everything is nice and tight and there you go press and hold the power button to first boot and within moments you'll be setting up your brand new Samsung Galaxy s3 we'll get to that in an upcoming video