Samsung Galaxy SIII phone coming ‘by June

nicebutdim

Sorry if posted already

http://www.independent.ie/business/technology/samsung-galaxy-siii-phone-coming-by-june-3008686.html

By Matt Warman
Thursday February 02 2012
Successor to top-selling Samsung Galaxy SII will not debut at February's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the company has confirmed.

Amid mounting speculation that the company had delayed the year’s most hotly-awaited Google Android handset, the company released a statement saying that “Samsung is looking forward to introducing and demonstrating exciting new mobile products at Mobile World Congress 2012.The successor to the Galaxy SII smartphone will be unveiled at a separate Samsung-hosted event in the first half of the year, closer to commercial availability of the product.”

Samsung is still, however, expected to announce updates to its popular tablet range at Mobile World Congress. The Galaxy Tab revisions are likely to improve screen size and resolution, while also updating the device’s software to Google’s new Ice Cream Sandwich operating system.

Samsung’s statement added that “it stays committed to providing the best possible mobile experiences for customers around the world”.

The announcement comes just a day after the European Commission said it had opened anti-trust proceedings against the Korean giant “in order to guarantee undistorted competition”.

The case surrounds Samsung’s obligations under Frand (fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory) patent licensing terms. Frand terms allow smartphone manufacturers to use standard technology, such as the signalling systems that connect mobile devices to networks. They guarantee that the company that holds a patent cannot discriminate against others that want to use the same technology, and cannot charge excessive licensing fees.

- Matt Warman

drunkmonkey

He's giving himself plenty of room for release there, I'll guess by the end of March/April or else the same day as iPhone5.

steve_r

Intrigued by this, been reading the rumours online.

I'm trying to decide whether to buy a new phone now or wait for something like this to come along.

How do release dates for phones work from an Irish POV, i.e. if it gets an American/Europe release, how long before its on the shelf here?

Or is that a "how long is a piece of string question"?!

Mitch Connor

steve_r wrote: »

Intrigued by this, been reading the rumours online.

I'm trying to decide whether to buy a new phone now or wait for something like this to come along.

How do release dates for phones work from an Irish POV, i.e. if it gets an American/Europe release, how long before its on the shelf here?

Or is that a "how long is a piece of string question"?!

It isn't as bad now as it used to be - the HTC Sensation phones, Desire phones and Nexus/S2/S phones from Samsung were pretty much on date of release from what I can remember, though there were stock issues in terms of actually getting your hands on them!

steve_r

Sounds good, reckon I'll hold on so (assuming it shows up at some stage over the next few months)

WolfForager

Already a much larger SIII thread in this forum.

I don't like having to scour multiple threads for updates :P