The Verge has just received alleged pictures of T-Mobile USA's branded Samsung Galaxy S III that's expected to be announced in the coming weeks. The strangest thing about the leaked phone is what isn't different about it - it appears to be virtually identical to the model being offered internationally, a stark contrast from years past where Samsung has typically bowed to American carrier pressures for customization (a common change on the North American Galaxy S and S II variants, for instance, was the replacement of the physical home button with a full row of four capacitive buttons). What's more, it seems that white and slate blue will agai …

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We found a lot to like in Samsung's Galaxy S III when we took a look at it this week, and while we know the phone is scheduled to arrive in Europe on May 29th, the best we'd heard for North America was "June." That window appears to be narrowing, as a number of rumors are suggesting that June 20th is the day US and Canadian users will be able to get their hands on Samsung's flagship device. MobileSyrup posted a screenshot denoting a June 20th release for the phone, with availability on Canadian carriers Rogers, Bell, Telus, and Virgin Mobile. The site reports that it was later asked to take down the screenshot, but not before Tom's Hardware …

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Samsung's GT i9300, more popularly known as the Galaxy S III, will be released in Europe on May 29th, and in preparation for that long-anticipated moment, the company has today uploaded its manual online. When you include all the prefaces, indexes, and regulation-mandated warnings, this document balloons out to 181 pages, but you'll only need to read a few to be able to identify all 20 of the points of interest highlighted above. Do some further reading and you might even be able to figure out all the multivariate new functions introduced by Samsung in its latest version of TouchWiz, the custom software running on top of Android 4.0.

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Samsung's official US signup page for information on the Galaxy S III has a "carrier preference" list that may be tipping the company's hand: Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, MetroPCS, US Cellular, and C Spire are all listed. It's possible that this is nothing more than a scattershot list of random American carriers, but we'd doubt it - Cricket (and several others larger than C Spire) are notably absent, and Samsung has shown a penchant for bringing its Galaxy S series devices to as many carriers as possible. We've already heard from a reliable source that we'll be seeing it on Sprint; Verizon skipped the S II, but without a new Nexus phone e …

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We've learned from people close to the matter that Sprint is on tap to carry a version of the Galaxy S III just announced in London. The move comes as little surprise - Sprint has worked closely with Samsung on the last two Galaxy S launches, offering the Epic 4G in 2010 and the Epic 4G Touch last year - so it only stands to reason that the two companies would be hooking up once again. We would fully expect it be compatible with Sprint's upcoming LTE network, though we haven't seen specs for the Sprint-specific model.

We haven't received direct information indicating that the S III will be coming to other US carriers, but odds are very good th …

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Capping months of rumors and speculation, Samsung has announced its Galaxy S III smartphone at an event in London today. Major specs include a 4.8-inch PenTile Super AMOLED display at 720p resolution, 8-megapixel primary and 1.9-megapixel front-facing cameras with 990ms start-up time, 3.3fps burst mode, and best-shot selection (similar to the HTC One series), 16 or 32GB of storage (a 64GB version is coming later) with microSD expansion, Bluetooth 4.0 support, GPS with GLONASS reception, high-throughput 40MHz 802.11n Wi-Fi, NFC, and a relatively large 2,100mAh battery. The global version of the device will be using the recently-announced Exyno …

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Months of anticipation finally come to an end tomorrow as Samsung takes the wraps off the successor to the wildly successful Galaxy S II, one of the most important mobile announcements of 2011. An extraordinary amount of anticipatory buzz has built up in recent months over this device - and Samsung has done an excellent job of keeping everyone in the dark.

So what can we expect? Will it be called the Galaxy S3, the Galaxy S III, or something else entirely? Everything will be revealed tomorrow, so follow us as we bring you all the news as it happens!

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Yesterday Samsung unveiled its 1.4GHz Exynos 4 Quad processor which it said would be part of the "next Galaxy phone" - presumably the much-anticipated Galaxy S III. Those in the US looking to pick up Samsung's latest may be in for a surprise, however, with an unnamed Samsung executive reportedly stating that the quad-core chip will not be used in the US version of the phone. According to The Korea Times, the executive explained that Samsung will be using its own quad-core processor with 3G for Europe, while adding LTE to the mix for Korean customers. The US version of the Galaxy S III, however, will reportedly use a Qualcomm processor in its …

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Samsung has played it coy so far about the name of its "next Galaxy," but senior VP Robert Yi let it slip at the tail end of its Q1 2012 earnings call today: it's the Galaxy S III.

"We are anticipating very strong demand of Galaxy S III."

Earlier on the call, an exec said that Samsung expects the phone to be the company's "most successful smartphone ever," and the device came up a number of other times during the presentation and subsequent Q&A session, but only this once was the actual name of the handset uttered by a Samsung exec - in this case in response to a question about marketing plans for the smartphone compared to the Galaxy Note. Yi …

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