Verizon Pre-order, Release date, and speculation thread

[Ches111]

/me wipes tear from eye and hands Kymberlin her "Geek Card".

Another Geek is born

Geek Criteria:

Standing in line for greater than 3 hrs for ANY consumer electronics launch.

Taking time off from work for receipt of ANY consumer electronics device. Partial credit given for leaving work early to get "it" because you see "Delivered" on the tracking site.

Obsessing for greater than one week on a preorder.

Playing ANY/multiple game/s for longer than 8hrs in one sitting.

Calling in sick on launch day is also an immediate "Geek Card" This is known as fast tracking

 

[c4v3man]

Seeing the FedEX/UPS trucks come by every day is a constant source is disappointment.

That being said, "Your Mother was a Hamster, and your Father smelt of elderberry..."

 

[fillyo]

What I read from this is two things:

1) Those poor folk with the Nexus running JB are running it improperly since they only have 1gb of ram. They must be limping along.

2) Those poor folk with the International S3 are Scr3w3d. They have been taken

PS... US Version of the S3 FTW!! We are going to have Dual Core 2GB JB goodness [/QUOTE]

You couldn't be more incorrect, the Nexus is much faster on JB than ICS, I have been running it for 5 days now. The Nexus 7 only has 1 GB of RAM. You clearly have your facts wrong.

 

[Ches111]

Fillyo -- This was purely humor. I thought the smileys would give that away.

The article I linked to from IBT stated the reason the US Version of the S3 was delayed was the addition of the 2GB memory to support upgrade to JB.

So if you read this as humor/sarcasm then you will see that I had all my facts correct

 

[gnexowner]

LOL, this thread is crazy now.

 

[chill145]

Your going to have to be home to sign for it w/ the FedEx guy so why not make a day of it!!

anybody at your house can sign though right

 

[SamMax]

anybody at your house can sign though right

Yep

 

[rmcf]

Just got my case from UPS. I have a hard time imagining people complaining about the size of the phone. It seems perfect to me. No complaints at all.

 

[RadYOacTiVe]

Trying to not get anxious but a co-worker just picked up a white S3 for his wife yesterday during his lunch break and got to mess with it a little bit. Not much longer!!!

 

[c4v3man]

anybody at your house can sign though right

Yep

Yup, even your mom.

 

[Kdasilva20]

Just received my non Verizon branded white extra back cover for the phone, and for those who haven't laid their eyes on an in vivo GS3 (myself included), it's not as large as some would have you think (at least the backside). To give some perspective, my droid x fits rather snugly within the case. It's about 1/4 a centimeter on each side wider, and maybe a 1/2 centimeter on the top and bottom. So I don't imagine it being too much larger, but just a lot curvier than my blockhead X.

It was probably overkill getting the extra cover, but I plan on putting a sticky screen protector on it for some extra grip to protect my precious. Plus there's just something nice and clean about not having any carrier logs on a phone.

I plan on dressing like a pirate and getting drunk this weekend to pass the time. What about you guys/gals?

 

[treb1797]

Kdasilva20,

Where did you purchase the non branded back cover?

 

[rushmore]

So just like me you folks did not buy this? But it is from the International Business Times it must be accurate

What I read from this is two things:

1) Those poor folk with the Nexus running JB are running it improperly since they only have 1gb of ram. They must be limping along.

2) Those poor folk with the International S3 are Scr3w3d. They have been taken

PS... US Version of the S3 FTW!! We are going to have Dual Core 2GB JB goodness

Yep, and shame on Google for putting JB on their new N7 tablet with only 1GB of RAM. The horror!

 

[Kdasilva20]

I got an OEM one off ebay (international seller) for about $20. I would post a link, but I've somehow managed to disable copy/paste on my comp lol

 

[treb1797]

If anybody finds a pebble blue non branded back please post a link. Thanks.

 

[treb1797]

Galaxy S3 Posters Arrive in Verizon Stores, Next Week Launch a Lock? – Droid Life

Getting closer folks!!!

 

[chill145]

Yup, even your mom.

Haha, well that's not who I had in mind. It just sucks, due to the holiday this week, can't take off any time next week, no available hours

Somebody will be there though, I am not missing it

 

[Skeeter125]

: posters arriving in store Galaxy S3 Posters Arrive in Verizon Stores, Next Week Launch a Lock?

 

[c4v3man]

Haha, well that's not who I had in mind. It just sucks, due to the holiday this week, can't take off any time next week, no available hours

Somebody will be there though, I am not missing it

Sorry, you just left it wide open...

I'm having it shipped to my work, and my office is pretty close to the door, so you can be assured no-one's laying a finger on my GS3... too many pranks like the time they took my repaired X360 out of the shipping box and hid it.

 

[Devz]

From Droid-Life's Twitter.

Not sure where they got their information from, so take it for what it is:

@droid_life
And yep, Verizon confirmed July 10 for Galaxy S3.

 

[ajdroidx]

The ninjas are back from their Galaxy Nexus pre-release slumber! The S3 launch must be nigh!

 

[c4v3man]

Here's hoping my July 10th ship by date turns into a received by date...

 

[Devz]

Official: Verizon’s Galaxy S3 Launches July 10 – Droid Life

Well then...

 

[MentatYP]

I just called Verizon today, they said "You will be VERY happy with this phone". Heard it here first folks.

"I'm not dead."

 

[Skeeter125]

They better ship preorders early then.