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Verizon-branded Samsung Galaxy S III: An impressive phone for IT

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Your title "Verizon-branded Samsung Galaxy S III...." would seem to indicate that other carriers Samsung Galaxy S III may be less of a phone. Please explain if this is the case and why?

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I've had mine (in marble white) for about a month now. Came with 32Gb on-board and I just transferred my 32Gb micro-SD from my S2 into it as well. Mine has 1Gb RAM and the quad-core processor.The battery performance is incredible. With normal use I get 2.5 days until the 2100mAh battery is completely depleted. I do keep it in GSM Only mode vs. the Auto Mode (GSM/WCDMA).In GSM Only, my WA and Google Talk operate perfectly. I do tend to change the mode when I want fast internet browsing though. The camera is excellent. The panorama shooting mode is very capable. I use the screen capture gesture often for submitting speedtest results/articles/etc via WA - works like a charm. I would also consider the Galaxy Note/2. There is NO lag when doing anything simultaneously. Buying a protective cover is very important. Bouncing is not so big.... A replacement screen is R2k GPS lock-on is very fast. Approximately 10 seconds for me if that. Navigation is very good and rivals my TomTom 750. I installed ES File Explorer on it and now I can FTP as well as connect to my servers. The VPN functionality is also impressive. I bought Wyse Pocketcloud Pro to help me RDP. You will not be disappointed with this handset if you do buy it. Everything just works. I should also add after having read Annmarie's post that the sound quality is also the best I've ever experienced since I started using cellphones in 1997.

Not sure how the review of the Verizon version uses the wrong specs.

Verizon has a 1.5 GHz dual core processor (instead of 1.4 quad core) and 2 GB of memory instead of 1 GB. Personally... I'd prefer the quad core processor over the memory increase.

But all this is from Verizon's website http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/store/controller?item=phoneFirst&action=viewPhoneDetail&selectedPhoneId=5918

I activated 4 of these for folks at my work and had trouble with each on Verizon. 3 I actually had to call in before it finally worked. Unlike the new Droid Incredible 4G which activated in under 2 minutes on it's own. My users have had trouble with the Samsung UI, too, as new Android users. Not as intuitive as it should be. And S-Voice returns lots of garbage responses. Plus the thing is BIG, way more so than I want in my pocket or on my hip. After the Nexus problems with Verizon and now more with this one, I am very jaded with Samsung devices on Verizon. Not sure who's to blame, but they won't get recommendations from me.

We've had the DHCP problem, linked below, on our network so we've had to ban Android devices. I'd like to allow them again, but I can't until Google fixes the problem.

http://www.net.princeton.edu/android/android-stops-renewing-lease-keeps-using-IP-address-11236.html

Great shape/size, feels good in the hand. Like most everything about it, BUT, I get lots of emails with ".txt" file attachments and there appears to be no way to read them on this unit.
I have talked with both Verizon Wireless and Samsung but they have no answer.