Verizon Pre-order, Release date, and speculation thread

[alexander323bc]

I am really not sure how I got my phone for $32.00. When I was looking at the nexus and went through the motions to see how much it cost it was charging me 172.00 after tax. I will my GS3 for $32.00

 

[akita]

All I did was asked the customer service rep to verify that they will apply my discounts/keep my existing plan(s) before processing the pre-order. For the ones that didn't get it, I don't know what else to tell you. Calling customer service is almost 9x out of 10 better than dealing in store or online

 

[Skeeter125]

Most people ordered the 32 because the new OS does not support saving apps to the SD card, they will all be stalled on the phone. So after Verizon installs all there bloat apps your probably only looking at 10 gigs. The only way to fix that is rooting your phone. Since we don't know how long this will take most of us are playing it safe and going with 32gigs.

Actually you can disable apps in ics without root so those apps won't eat up memory and ram.

 

[Skeeter125]

It's $599 for 16GB on Verizon's site... why would BB be more expensive? If anything I would have expected the opposite?

They are always more expensive full price at bb

 

[rushmore]

When you really break it down. 16gb + up to 64 gigs expansion. Evens things out. Maybe I should have went 32gb but honestly speaking on my behalf: Do i need to have 75 games on there? 2 of which i MIGHT play, or 15000 photos which I may show to someone on a rainy day. 64 gigs for music, movies and photo's...yes please. 16gigs to allow for core and primary apps and games? Yes, please.

What I find is having more space usually means you say, hmm, well since i have the space i can put this on or this blueray quality rip...as i've said, quality over quantity.

If you are not a gamer using the phone, 16GB should be fine. It probably is not if you are. Newer 3d games put 400 to 800 mb of data in the internal storage. No commercial apps do external data card installation with ICS. Rooted efforts are problematic, so even that is not a safe answer. Not easy to do at any rate.

 

[alexander323bc]

Actually you can disable apps in ics without root so those apps won't eat up memory and ram.

I am not understanding this. Memory is ram. The ram has nothing to do with how much space is left on the hardrive after Verizon installs their garbage.

 

[alexander323bc]

Anyone know if its possible to change colors on a pre-order?

 

[jennay22]

did someone delete my post? I was just telling jen my name is alex and i enjoy long walks on the beach and reading tech blogs.

lol!

 

[rushmore]

Not much flash storage is taken up by bloat.

Based on my last six phones and tablets, the range is 30mb to 120mb.

 

[jackdubl]

My understanding is that the U.S. version may have a little different coding due to the different hardware. So as of yet the only the global version has been rooted.

Ah. Bummer.

 

[jackdubl]

Actually you can disable apps in ics without root so those apps won't eat up memory and ram.

I don't think you can 'disable' apps, you just 'hide' apps from the app drawer. I believe they still take up ram and storage. If you freeze an app with titanium backup, then I believe you disable the apps the way you are describing.

Is this correct, anyone?

 

[Skeeter125]

I don't think you can 'disable' apps, you just 'hide' apps from the app drawer. I believe they still take up ram and storage. If you freeze an app with titanium backup, then I believe you disable the apps the way you are describing.

Is this correct, anyone?

You can disable them. I had a nexus and you can disable any apps.

 

[jbdan]

Just finished ordering the 16GB Pebble and screen plastic for the wifey. Anniversary surprise! She's upgrading from the Inc which has been a fantastic phone through and through. VZW csr was kind enough to forgo the upgrade fee for me.

 

[jbdan]

I don't think you can 'disable' apps, you just 'hide' apps from the app drawer. I believe they still take up ram and storage. If you freeze an app with titanium backup, then I believe you disable the apps the way you are describing.

Is this correct, anyone?

Well you know that ICS natively can disable apps. idk if the sgs3 can though. I'm sure someone here can tell us

 

[ousuxndallas]

Just got off the phone with a VZW sales manager. He explained there's a $100 3G to 4G discount, but it is excluded from the Samsung S3 because the discount expires in June and is only eligible for phones in their current lineup. Since this is a pre-order the S3 is not in the "current lineup" and therefore the $100 discount is not going to happen.

Couldn't pre-order the S3 through them anyway. They told me you can only pre-order online right now, not through a store or on the phone.

So, best I can do is $199 online, less a $30 "new every 2" discount, which is offset by the $30 upgrade fee. So, $199 plus tax.

Boo Verizon!

 

[jbdan]

Just got off the phone with a VZW sales manager. He explained there's a $100 3G to 4G discount, but it is excluded from the Samsung S3 because the discount expires in June and is only eligible for phones in their current lineup. Since this is a pre-order the S3 is not in the "current lineup" and therefore the $100 discount is not going to happen.

Couldn't pre-order the S3 through them anyway. They told me you can only pre-order online right now, not through a store or on the phone.

So, best I can do is $199 online, less a $30 "new every 2" discount, which is offset by the $30 upgrade fee. So, $199 plus tax.

Boo Verizon!

Essentially my story, but I told the first csr that told me I couldn't order it over the phone that I'd call back and order through another csr then

So that's what I did, only had to go through 2 csr's to get them to sell me one. And they cancelled the $30 upgrade fee.

Really just depends on who ya talk to and how ya talk to them.

 

[AntimonyER]

I have thought about buying my wife a new phone for our anniversary... But pretty sure that wouldn't go over well at all.

 

[ousuxndallas]

UPDATE: okay, so I placed my order ONLINE through VZW. And at checkout, it gave me the $100 discount, plus the $30 "new every 2" discount. Still charged me the $30 upgrade fee, so the total was:

Samsung S3 $199.99
Less: new every 2 ($30.00)
Less: 3G/4G disc ($100.00)
Plus: upgrade fee $30.00
Total: $99.99 plus tax.

Sweet!

I would recommend everyone at least make it to checkout to see if you get all discounts or not.

 

[jbdan]

I have thought about buying my wife a new phone for our anniversary... But pretty sure that wouldn't go over well at all.

Year 2 = electronics right? 5 year= jewelry correct? Thought I was doing this right

 

[jbdan]

UPDATE: okay, so I placed my order ONLINE through VZW. And at checkout, it gave me the $100 discount, plus the $30 "new every 2" discount. Still charged me the $30 upgrade fee, so the total was:

Samsung S3 $199.99
Less: new every 2 ($30.00)
Less: 3G/4G disc ($100.00)
Plus: upgrade fee $30.00
Total: $99.99 plus tax.

Sweet!

I would recommend everyone at least make it to checkout to see if you get all discounts or not.

That is awesome very nice discount!

 

[Thechidz]

sucks I didnt get in on the $100 discount cuz I bought a tbolt used a year ago :/

 

[kmoore11]

So I called back and talked to a new lady who was very nice, but told me there were no special discounts I could get. But then she called me back about 5 minutes later and told me she had talked to her supervisor about it. She told me that I use so much data (over 7 GB last month), I really need a new phone and they would be able to get me any of the Galaxy S3s for only $30 (the upgrade fee). I do have to send my old Incredible back to them though.

So I ordered the 32 GB blue, and the total was about $31. Persistence pays off... and so does using a ton of data!!!

 

[AntimonyER]

Year 2 = electronics right? 5 year= jewelry correct? Thought I was doing this right

I think 5 year is wood... yeah, phone would be better... By the way, how is the wifey? Getting close right?

 

[jbdan]

I think 5 year is wood... yeah, phone would be better... By the way, how is the wifey? Getting close right?

lol! She's great, getting close, 7 weeks away, thanks for asking

 

[Shockwave78]

Anyone else's ship date show unavailable on the Verizon site? I ordered a 32gb pebble blue 8am eastern the day the preorders went live