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31/05/2012:
The official specs for the Canadian Samsung Galaxy S3:
Processor:
Snapdragon S4 Dual Core 1.5 GHz
Qualcomm MSM8960 Chipset
OS (Shipping): ICS 4.0.4
Data: LTE (SGH-i747 variation) and HSPA+ 42 (SGH-iT999 variation)
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Dimensions: 136.6 x 70.6 x 8.6 mm
Weight: 133g
Memory: 16/32GB internal memory (SGH-i747)/ 16GB internal memory (SGH-iT999)
Expandable microSD up to 32GB
Display: 4.8 HD Super AMOLED 1280x720 (306ppi)
Connectivity: NFC, Bluetooth 4.0, DLNA, WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n, MHL Video Out
Camera: 8MP Rear-facing, 1.9MP Front-facing
Battery: 2100 mAh
Other features:
TouchWiz with Motion UX
S Beam
AllShare Play enhance functionality
MP3/ACC+/WAV audio player
DivX/Xvid/MP4/WMV/H.263/ H.264 Video Player
Release Information:
"Beginning June 20th, the Samsung GALAXY S III will be available through leading Canadian wireless carriers and authorized national retailers." (Source)
It'll be carried by the following carriers: WIND Mobile, Videotron, SaskTel, Virgin Mobile, Bell, Rogers, and TELUS, as well as the following retailers: GLENTEL, Best Buy, and Future Shop. (Source)
Bell also has a sign up page for the GS3. They too are getting the lte version.
I'll wait and see how development is for the bell version. If international roms are compatible, sans radio, I might get it, even though lte coverage here is f*** all, or I might just get the international version regardless.
Can't wait to play with one when they hit Canadian stores.
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Knowing how Canadian variants are never compatible/has a tiny dev community, I simply have decided to buy the international version instead.
eXecuter.bin said:
Knowing how Canadian variants are never compatible/has a tiny dev community, I simply have decided to buy the international version instead.
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The Bell/Virgin version for the Galaxy S I & II was the international version though.
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eXecuter.bin said:
Knowing how Canadian variants are never compatible... I simply have decided to buy the international version instead.
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As far as I know, unless the Canadian version is the international, it usually coincides with it's American counterpart. Thus, I have a lot of ROMs I can flash to my Rogers Captivate, because the AT&T Captivate has a lot of ROMs as well.
But you can't go wrong with the international version. I personally don't mind getting the S4 chip in lieu of the Exynos, because I'm upgrading from my Cappy, so the increase in performance will be substantial regardless of whether the Exynos outperforms the S4 or not.
Plus I want to experience LTE. I have 6 GBs of LTE data that my non-LTE phone hasn't been able to make use of.
Damn. The HST is killing the price for the S3. I'm in Vancouver. I might have to settle with getting it at mobileDNA in Richmond. Cash, no tax.
June 20th?? First Day of Summer!!!
Samsung did say in time for the summer at their London Event.
Samsung’s Galaxy S III is one of the most anticipated Android devices ever made. It’s coming to Canada on basically every carrier ”this Summer,” TELUS, Bell, WIND, Videotron, SaskTel, Mobilicity, Virgin Mobile and Rogers. We reported last week that Samsung will start a Canadian trek on May 30th to give employees and retail outlets the “Galaxy S III interactive training sessions.”
We’ve been hearing several launch dates, such as the June 20th date that’s listed in the above screenshot. The first day of Summer is June 20th and would ever so smoothly fall in line with what Samsung’s official press release quoted “in time for the summer.” Future Shop and Best Buy also confirmed that they will have the GS III available when it launches and we’re also hearing that pre-orders will go live on May 30th.
From Mobilesyrup
Won't let me most post link but there is an ad that has all the major carriers in Canada and the Galaxy S III of course.
desilla said:
June 20th?? First Day of Summer!!!
Samsung did say in time for the summer at their London Event.
Samsung’s Galaxy S III is one of the most anticipated Android devices ever made. It’s coming to Canada on basically every carrier ”this Summer,” TELUS, Bell, WIND, Videotron, SaskTel, Mobilicity, Virgin Mobile and Rogers. We reported last week that Samsung will start a Canadian trek on May 30th to give employees and retail outlets the “Galaxy S III interactive training sessions.”
We’ve been hearing several launch dates, such as the June 20th date that’s listed in the above screenshot. The first day of Summer is June 20th and would ever so smoothly fall in line with what Samsung’s official press release quoted “in time for the summer.” Future Shop and Best Buy also confirmed that they will have the GS III available when it launches and we’re also hearing that pre-orders will go live on May 30th.
From Mobilesyrup
Won't let me most post link but there is an ad that has all the major carriers in Canada and the Galaxy S III of course.
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Here's the link if anyone wants to read it: http://mobilesyrup.com/2012/05/24/samsung-galaxy-s-iii-launching-june-20th/
OP updated with article and image.
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Nice find.
Time to call in to Telus to talk about contract renewal.
Now to decide between white and blue... which are you guys leaning towards and why?
Virgin Mobile register page is up. Might get one on release day since i have 0 balance on my tab
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Now to decide between white and blue... which are you guys leaning towards and why?
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Blue, because I've already had a white phone before. I also do a lot of browsing in bed with the lights off, so the blue will blend in with the night.
And trust me, this was not an easy decision to make, because the white S3 is a gorgeous device, and it looks better than the blue in pictures. But a lot of people have said the blue looks better in real life than in the pictures.
Hopefully, Rogers will have both colors in stock when it launches. If they only have one, I'll get whichever is available.
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I'm getting the dark one because I'm not racist
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I ordered the unlocked blue GS3 online but I'm from Canada, does that count?
I'm done with locked, subsidized phones and contracts. Can't wait till my current contract is finally done.
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I'm getting the unlocked blue one as well. And yes it does count.
The reason I decided to get the international version is because there's a possbility that the North American version will have the four capacitive keys. I want the international version with the one hard key. I love it on the S2. I just love that you have two options to wake up the phone.
Here's the article on the AT&T and T-Mobile version. If AT&T and T-Mobile are getting a different look, you can bet the Canadian carriers will get it as well.
The same happened to the Note.
http://www.gsmarena.com/galaxy_s_iii_confirmed_for_at_t_and_tmobile_usa-news-4277.php
hansonator said:
I ordered the unlocked blue GS3 online but I'm from Canada, does that count?
I'm done with locked, subsidized phones and contracts. Can't wait till my current contract is finally done.
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Where'd you order it from and how much was it ??
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Where'd you order it from and how much was it ??
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I ordered from clove.co.uk
$725 CAD with the 2.5% foreign currency charge from td visa + 5% gst. I think the gst will be only applied to the purchase price of $704 at the time of delivery.
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I dread hardware keys ...
Wirelessgirl said:
I'm getting the unlocked blue one as well. And yes it does count.
The reason I decided to get the international version is because there's a possbility that the North American version will have the four capacitive keys. I want the international version with the one hard key. I love it on the S2. I just love that you have two options to wake up the phone.
Here's the article on the AT&T and T-Mobile version. If AT&T and T-Mobile are getting a different look, you can bet the Canadian carriers will get it as well.
The same happened to the Note.
http://www.gsmarena.com/galaxy_s_iii_confirmed_for_at_t_and_tmobile_usa-news-4277.php
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Oh, how I dread hardware keys. I'm the opposite of you. I hate them. I much prefer all capacitive. It makes the face of the phone look so much better ... like my current Nexus.
Peter
My wife has just reached Canada, she has a wind mobile connection, so i want to confirm if wind uses the international frequencies or its like Tmobile??
If it uses the same then there is no point waiting till 20th, i can send her one from India..
They both use the AWS band ...
brar.arsh said:
My wife has just reached Canada, she has a wind mobile connection, so i want to confirm if wind uses the international frequencies or its like Tmobile??
If it uses the same then there is no point waiting till 20th, i can send her one from India..
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Both Wind and T-Mobile use the same AWS frequency band.
Peter
P.S. You can check the following link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Wireless_Services
Scroll down under the heading "Operators"
I'm in Korea for a year, and I am looking to buy a new phone. I'm looking at the Galaxy Nexus and I have a quick and simple question.
Is the Galaxy Nexus that I would buy in Korea the same phone I would get off the shelf in the US?
I have an HTC Rezound that I'm not a huge fan of, and I'm thinking about just activating it in the US when I go home for a month this winter and then using my upgrade when I get back the US next August.
thanks!
I would assume that Korea has some of their own models [edit: apparently not] however they would definitely have the standard international GSM models on sale. Similarly, in the US there are ones from Verizon and Sprint that are using totally different hardware and run on CDMA. The only difference between a GSM one bought from Korea to the one in the US would be the Android build version (I'm not sure about the one in Korean variant but there's yakju/takju and the other variants).
Yes. I live in Korea right now and here we only have the international GSM models only. However, if you're looking to only use it on a pure stock software, you probably won't get jellybean right away. Korean GNexs still haven't got OTAs of JB yet.
Its interesting because I brought my Verizon GNEX from the states and here in Korea, I do have access to 3g data services and its "roaming". I dont know which carrier its roaming off and I just turn on airplane mode anyways. I just went with the crappy used phone and picked a 3g unlimited plan from the Onestop on Yongsan (also stationed in Korea).
Well i'd say but it from google play store since its first to get the major updates, i had the korean version of Gnex and i had to format it and install US version of ICS so i can get the jellybean update OTA 1st before other countries.
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Well i'd say but it from google play store since its first to get the major updates, i had the korean version of Gnex and i had to format it and install US version of ICS so i can get the jellybean update OTA 1st before other countries.
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is this process easy? i am planning on buying a gnex maybe some time in January, and it seems that it is very hard to find an i9250 variant of this in here. can you please post a link so i can try it once i bought my gnex. tia.
Google doesn't sell the GN on the Play Store anymore.
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According to sammobile, countries from Germany to Malaysia had received the 4.2.2 update, the earliest from August. Why do France still not received the update? Is it that hard to release it there?
makasaro said:
According to sammobile, countries from Germany to Malaysia had received the 4.2.2 update, the earliest from August. Why do France still not received the update? Is it that hard to release it there?
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Same thing here in Canada. I know that Samsung has a reputation of being slow releasing updates but in this situation the update has been released in other regions for weeks so why the hold up?
Hi!
Is Nov update out for unlocked S9?
Planning to purchase S9 from Samsung, but trying to find out if unlocked unit really gets updates quicker than T-Mobile variant. I usually buy unlocked models, but sometimes T-Mobile updates carrier branded Galaxy phones with some specific fixes. In other words I just want to make sure that T-Mobile device and unlocked S9 will perform the same on T-Mobile network and support all features including Band 71
Any one?
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Hi!
Is Nov update out for unlocked S9?
Planning to purchase S9 from Samsung, but trying to find out if unlocked unit really gets updates quicker than T-Mobile variant. I usually buy unlocked models, but sometimes T-Mobile updates carrier branded Galaxy phones with some specific fixes. In other words I just want to make sure that T-Mobile device and unlocked S9 will perform the same on T-Mobile network and support all features including Band 71
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You can buy unlocked and flash T-Mobile G960U firmware. You'll get updates faster with all the specific fixes (unlocked updates are quite slower unfortunately).
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Any one?
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The wording of your title is completely different than your question. Yes they did send out a November 1 update coupled with the Pie beta. That answers your title question but I don't have an answer for your post. Maybe the question is getting looked over because of that.
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The wording of your title is completely different than your question. Yes they did send out a November 1 update coupled with the Pie beta. That answers your title question but I don't have an answer for your post. Maybe the question is getting looked over because of that.
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Just tried to combine couple of questions into one
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Just tried to combine couple of questions into one
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LOL, just busting your chops. The only mention of the Nov 1 security update I've seen is in connection with the Pie beta though.
I just checked and the update is G960U1ES3ARJ6 security patch Nov 1. It seems like they are having a lot of updates but it could be because I was use to my Moto X Pure that didn't get any updates.
My Samsung unlocked GS9 for Verizon received an update today.
G960U1UES3ARJ6 Nov. 1, 2018 Security Patch Level
Security Is One Month Behind
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Is Nov update out for unlocked S9?
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I have an unmodified unlocked S9 bought from Samsung G960U1 and used on T-Mobile. I received the October security patches sent OTA in early November. In fact I seem to recall I got the September patches in early October, and the August patches in September. Which is why I now expect my security patches to be "one month behind."
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I have an unmodified unlocked S9 bought from Samsung G960U1 and used on T-Mobile. I received the October security patches sent OTA in early November. In fact I seem to recall I got the September patches in early October, and the August patches in September. Which is why I now expect my security patches to be "one month behind."
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Hmm, so your model is just an unlocked unit which gets updates straight from Samsung. I wonder is T-Mobile is any better... As another user suggested earlier, I could possibly flash the phone with T-Mobile firmware and get updates from the carrier(if it is better with updates)
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Hi!
Is Nov update out for unlocked S9?
Planning to purchase S9 from Samsung, but trying to find out if unlocked unit really gets updates quicker than T-Mobile variant. I usually buy unlocked models, but sometimes T-Mobile updates carrier branded Galaxy phones with some specific fixes. In other words I just want to make sure that T-Mobile device and unlocked S9 will perform the same on T-Mobile network and support all features including Band 71
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My Samsung unlocked GS9 using in AT&T received an update today.
G960U1UES3ARJ6 Nov. 1, 2018 Security Patch Level
Samsung Nov Security Update
I have a Samsung Galaxy S8+ and I received an update yesterday; November security patch.
Greetings;
I've pre-ordered an Aura Glow, 256 GB plus the Galaxy Buds as a free bonus! from Samsung.ca
The trade in program wouldn't work for me as OnePlus isn't included in the program.
Delivery August 23.
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If I order an unlocked one from samsung.com, will it work here with Canadian carrier(Fido)? They are offering $600 US trade in for a Note 9, and samsung.ca is offering $380 CND? Really?
TRoN_1 said:
If I order an unlocked one from samsung.com, will it work here with Canadian carrier(Fido)? They are offering $600 US trade in for a Note 9, and samsung.ca is offering $380 CND? Really?
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Hold my beer!
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TRoN_1 said:
If I order an unlocked one from samsung.com, will it work here with Canadian carrier(Fido)? They are offering $600 US trade in for a Note 9, and samsung.ca is offering $380 CND? Really?
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They're offering $0 on the s10 plus. Samsung US is also offering $600 for the Pixel 3 XL and its not o. The list. I entered my Pixel 3XL info as if it were a Pixel 3 and the offer was $130.
I tweeted Samsung Canada for some kind of answer and all I got was crickets! ???
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Is it possible to order a US Note 10 from Canada? If they are unlocked, then they should be able to work here. AT $500 US after trade in its a MUCH better deal than here at $100 CND after (max)trade in.
got mine yesterday with the buds and damn this phone is nice.
I've got the unlocked Samsung.com version. Can I simply flash the Canadian firmware (want Samsung Pay) in Odin?
What deal did you get from Sam.com?
any cdn users with an F variant?
what's working and what's not working cdn carrier wise?
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anyways if anyone wants to try out a note 10 csc pack. please report any issues and save logs aswell.
make a backup first .
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AhXVLDDj8g3AgfIHllGFatUnojuCEw?e=Pl97jw
Canadian vs US variant
I can find pick up the US unlocked variant for the same price as the Canadian unlocked variant (including the exchange rate difference) and the US variant has some additional LTE bands that aren't currently used in Canada, but other than that is there any advantage of one variant over the other? Are firmware updates, Samsung Pay, etc. about the same on both phones?
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I can find pick up the US unlocked variant for the same price as the Canadian unlocked variant (including the exchange rate difference) and the US variant has some additional LTE bands that aren't currently used in Canada, but other than that is there any advantage of one variant over the other? Are firmware updates, Samsung Pay, etc. about the same on both phones?
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You might miss out on some features like VoLTE and Wi-Fi calling. Depending on who you're wireless provider is. Other little things too. Like seeing 4G instead of LTE. It might be possible to flash the Canadian firmware but I don't know for sure. That still might not give you access to all the features I mentioned before.
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I got my unlocked Note 10+ Aura from Best Buy when they had the trade-in deal, $400 if trading in a Note phone + $500 for my Note 9, so I got $900 in total with Best Buy's trade-in offer, I'm loving my Note 10+.
When we are the last in the world to get firmware updates and fixes, like right now, I miss international version and root so much.
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I asked Samsung Canada via chat about possible October firmware that is supossed to give us security patch and native rcs supporting all providers on native SMS app (prefer it over Google app because I can pin important conversations), and fingerprint issue patch.
Was waiting to connect for a while.
They apologized for wait, apparently lots of people asking support. Told them what's up, they asked for imei, and asked me to wait,............ 20 min later... "did you try updating through settings?"
WTF!
Guess that explains long wait at the beginning.
Oh. Almost forgot. Samsung Canada mentions fingerprint patch only for s10, +, and e. The guy on chat also said. "Patch is coming to s10, 10+, 10e, 10 5g, note 10, 10+,...."... wait s10 5g? Dumbfounded. Talk about Canadian support
Turned off the chat.
Fingerprint update patch came out on the 24th of Oct. for me, Note 10 Plus model from Samsung experience store.
Got android 10 update on Canadian Galaxy Note 10+ SM-N975W today .
N975W and N975U1 are identical in hardware. The U1 firmware will work perfectly fine on the W and in Canada. Im currently running Android 10 star wars U1 firmware on W phone with Koodo. Everything works perfectly and APN was setup automatically. FYI for anyone who wants to flash using Odin. Just make sure your Note 10+ is unlocked first.
I'm with Fido, I see that the firmware has been on Sammobile from Monday but no updates as yet from Fido. Who are you with
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I'm with Fido, I see that the firmware has been on Sammobile from Monday but no updates as yet from Fido. Who are you with
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it's bought from fido but I'm using it in india update has released for fido on 6th January you can check it here.
https://forums.fido.ca/t5/custom/page/page-id/forumpage.osupgradesen
awesome thanks