Samsung I9300 Galaxy S III - user opinions and reviews
- Ajith Amw
- Xuk
I bought s3 a seven days ago do I need a scratch guard for this mobile plz anyone tell me I am confused .......
- Anthony
- LxG
AnonD-78985, 28 Mar 2013Sorry that's a fake official S3 come with 4.0 ice sream sandwich not 4.1.2@jer and killer driod
SIII when lunch came with 4.0 but now that 4.1.2 is available, SIII coming off the assembly line now will come with 4.1.2 stock.
That is no way to tell if a phone is fake or not.
I discovered for my self yesterday not even the IEMI # is a good way to spot a fake anymore as some fakes have official chips inside but other parts are crap to cut the cost.
As far as I can tell now, you just have to now all the physical details of a phone and its UI in order to differentiate between the 2.
Seeing that Android is open-sours, and Samsung sells parts to other phone manufactures, no spec sheet or S/N or IEMI going to be a sure way to know the 100% real deal from a 98% original.
Just buy from an authorised Samsung dealer and know what the phone suppose to look like inside out. That is your best bet of not being fooled.
And for the those that would say well I will buy a next brand. It happens in other brands too because Android is open-source it happens to other brands too. Look at the phones on this site for e.g. (lightinthebox)
The Android on the phones are real so the play store will work but they are designed to look like other big brand name phones at a fraction of the cost.
- Anthony
- LxG
[deleted post]Don’t be a cry baby
Tech dose not stand still just to please you.
And who says because the S4 is out now, that means your SIII is no longer good?
If phones were women….. Every new one you see, would it mean the one you with is no good? Do you have to run out and be with every new girl on the block to feel like what you have is good for you?
- saravanana.p
- PVV
my history of using phone staring in this world.
1)Reliance Nokia-2002
2)Reliance LG-2003
3)Nokia 1100-2004
4)Sony Ericsson T230-2005
5)LG E230-2006
6)CHINA TUCH PHONE-2007
7)CHINA TUCH PHONE-2008
8)Sony Ericsson C230-2009
9)Nokia n86-2010
10)Sony Ericsson Xperia X10-2011
11)Samsung s2-2011
12)Sony Xperia u-2012
13)HTC ONCE x-2012
14)Samsung S3-2012
15)Sony Xperia MIRO-2013
16)Sony Xperia j -2013
wasting money for phone..................
- saravanana.p
- PVV
Sony Ericsson T230 is my first handfhone,,,,i like this very much around 3500RS in India i bought on 2006.
My small story in 2006.
When i go to interview in mount road Chennai after eat chicken biriyani in 1000light bus stand near...
i standing in bus stand 1 cheating guy saying i get job for you...in telecommunication he take my phone and run away i cry 4month and buy new phone....but that guy never be a good life in his. Sure already cheating guy die due to my heart pain...fffffff
- AnonD-129540
- KSC
[deleted post] It is original samsung. Please do not worry.Many countries sell this model.Might be there are fake with same label but samsung original also has this version. Always buy from authorised dealers.
SAMSUNG MOBILE PHONE
MODEL : GT-i9300
Made in Vietnam by Samsung
May be tomorrow fake will come with label "Made in China" which doesnt mean that all cellphones are fake.
- AnonD-78985
- kx5
[deleted post]Sorry that's a fake official S3 come with 4.0 ice sream sandwich not 4.1.2
- AnonD-73012
- t7X
lg nexus for cntnues update or lg optmus g? iv hold da optmus g.it fils gud, i dnt knw bwt da nexus 4 whch luks beter
bt da glas of nexus4 is fragile dy said,and coverx are hard to find.
optimus g casing are readily availble
nexus is at 22k
optmus g is 24k
s3 is stil at 26k
whch is beter to buy
- Anthony
- PHu
baby bibum, 27 Mar 2013one way to check if your galaxy s3 is fake or not is do the samsung factory test. go to phone ... morethat code is not valid (at least not on all devices)
i have a provider branded SIII that has been upgraded both OTA and kies method. so i know its not a fake.
it has even been restored using kies after i tested other ROMs on it.
- Anthony
- 8yQ
baby bibum, 27 Mar 2013one way to check if your galaxy s3 is fake or not is do the samsung factory test. go to phone ... morethat code is not valid (at least not on all devices)
i have a provider branded SIII that has been upgraded both OTA and kies method. so i know its not a fake.
it has even been restored using kies after i tested other ROMs on it.
- AnonD-129540
- KSC
Anthony, 27 Mar 2013@ S3 USER I ran the app as you asked and would like you to know the information shown(not gen... moreYes i agree Anthony that some specifications have been saved for each device in the default info of database.Doesnt it give you correct results for each brand and unknown devices ? Eg. If we run LG and different version of samsung, it gives correct information,right ? Doesnt it show dual core processor for other s3 variant? How does it recognize the device info from benchmark results? I appreciate your valuable comments.
- baby bibum
- v0q
one way to check if your galaxy s3 is fake or not is do the samsung factory test. go to phone and dial *#0*#. if there is no service test, then its fake. got a friend of mine tried to fool me and he failed on doing that, good thing i know this code.
- Anthony
- LxG
@jack
and others
Just tested the IEMI # of the phone I posted online as a fake, and believe it or not this thing came back as being a SIII
Please note that there are physical differences between that device and what we would call a real SIII not to mentions it had no Samsung branded software one it (S-voice, S planner e.g.) or SIII bootloader. Yet the IEMI # pasted as being a Samsung SIII GT-i9300
My conclusion is…. There are different grades of SIII GT-i9300 (that one in the pictures being of very low quality) or the chip with the IEMI # came from Samsung parts stock which make me assume that the cheap look alkies are really being made on the same assemble line as the real deal.
Take a look at the pictures and come to your own conclusion.
So many things was wrong with that phone yet the IEMI has it registered as a SIII GT-i9300
http://postimage.org/gallery/c7e42kbc/
my SIII
http://postimg.org/image/7lac0e8nv/
it is going to be harder than I thought to detect the wolf in sheep’s clothing
- Anonymous
- 0cP
extremley fragil droped out of pocket onto desk 8/9 inches and shattered screen
- Anthony
- LxG
Jer, 27 Mar 2013Anthony,
In regards to below discussion that is going on
regarding the made in VIETNAM, we... moreThe next thing you should know about the SIII i9300 (doesn't matter if you rooted it or changed the ROM)
The S/N is capable of downloading the current official ROM for your device using
Firmware upgrade and initialisation in Kies for your PC (connecting the phone is not required to test it) a random S/N would fail that test.
- Anthony
- LxG
Jer, 27 Mar 2013Anthony,
In regards to below discussion that is going on
regarding the made in VIETNAM, we... moreto Jer
sorry i replied to the wrong person before.
I can’t tell by the information you gave
As I said before Android does not belong to Samsung.
And I can change my base band at any time (I have done it more times than I can count using Odin3 and roms readily available for free on the internet.)
Btw. I have a made in china model I9300 (service provider branded)
What I could not change is my IEMI number.
Take a picture of that battery compartment (the entire compartment) and post it online.
Then come back and post the link here. Just by looking at it sometime you can pickup on things that are not correct.
http://postimage.org/
- Anthony
- LxG
June, 26 Mar 2013Then if theres no s3 launched in vietnam then where could it be possible?,,.....can u just sto... moreI can’t tell by the information you gave
As I said before Android does not belong to Samsung.
And I can change my base band at any time (I have done it more times than I can count using Odin3 and roms readily available for free on the internet.)
Btw. I have a made in china model I9300 (service provider branded)
What I could not change is my IEMI number.
Take a picture of that battery compartment (the entire compartment) and post it online.
Then come back and post the link here. Just by looking at it sometime you can pickup on things that are not correct.
http://postimage.org/
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