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Galaxy S III preorders approach 10 million

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Re: Galaxy S III preorders approach 10 million

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Post by dmix »

bookwormAT wrote: post #14
gcp wrote: post #4

I find it quite ironic that the same site posted this article 2 weeks ago: http://www.bgr.com/2012/05/04/samsung-galaxy-s-iii-htc-oppor... Basically saying that the SGS3 looks like a dud and HTC is where it's at. HTC currently isn't able to import phones into the US.

Do you remember how much fun they had with the size of the Galaxy Note? BGR,buisinessinsider,gruber,siegler,the verge,... The whole techmeme club. Then Samsung sold 5 million Notes in the first months.

A ton of films get trashed by critics and imdb then go on to be commercially successful.

That doesn't mean it was a good piece of film. More likely it was accessible everywhere and well marketed.

Re: Galaxy S III preorders approach 10 million

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Post by nextparadigms »

6ren wrote: post #17

Chipset Exynos 4212 Quad CPU Quad-core 1.4 GHz Cortex-A9 GPU Mali-400MP http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_i9300_galaxy_s_iii-4238.php The Mali-400MP is quad-core (x2 from before) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exynos This seems feasible, with similar battery life, as they've shrunk the process to half the area: 45^2 vs 32^2. Its performance per core is comparable the sgx543 of the iPhone/iPad. http://www.arm.com/products…

Both ARM CPU's and GPU's seem to jump 2x in performance every year, so at least so far, they've been moving faster than Moore's Law.

Personally, I'm looking forward to the Exynos 5250 chip, with a dual core 2 Ghz Cortex A15 CPU and a Mali T-604 GPU (new Midgard architecture) that's supposed to be 4x faster than Mali400 (the original in GS2), so probably 2x or faster than the current overclocked Mali400 in GS3 (will also support OpenCL). This chip should appear in some tablets and phones, and maybe even a Chromebook by the end of the year.

I'm also looking forward to them pairing Cortex A15 with the ultra-low-power Cortex A7, maybe in a 2+2 core configuration. Samsung mentioned that they might be ready with Cortex A7 by the end of the year, but in general we can expect Cortex A7 to arrive next year.

I would prefer this over something like a pure Cortex A15 quad core chip, which should also appear next year. Starting with 2014 we should see the successor of Cortex A15 in dual core version, based on the 64 bit ARMv8 architecture.

Re: Galaxy S III preorders approach 10 million

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Post by akmiller »

weiran wrote: post #18

This is bullshit, the "preorders" are from carriers not actual customers. Samsung could sell zero units and still claim to have 9 million preorders. > Samsung Electronics Co has received some 9 million pre-orders for its third-generation Galaxy S smartphone from more than 100 global carriers , the Korea Economic Daily reported on Friday. Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/18/us-samsung-idUSBRE... The numb…

What is your point exactly? I'm pretty certain the carriers do their homework before placing orders. They don't want a ton of inventory just sitting on their shelves. So the carriers expect to sell them and Samsung did sell them (doesn't matter who bought them).

Re: Galaxy S III preorders approach 10 million

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Post by mpclark »

kaolinite wrote: post #6

Has BGR ever written an article longer than a few paragraphs? (Edit: huh.. that struck a nerve it would seem).

First rule of tech blogging -- all stories, even those best reported as just one line, must be expanded to meet Google News's minimum word count requirement.

Re: Galaxy S III preorders approach 10 million

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Post by nextparadigms »

weiran wrote: post #18

This is bullshit, the "preorders" are from carriers not actual customers. Samsung could sell zero units and still claim to have 9 million preorders. > Samsung Electronics Co has received some 9 million pre-orders for its third-generation Galaxy S smartphone from more than 100 global carriers , the Korea Economic Daily reported on Friday. Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/18/us-samsung-idUSBRE... The numb…

I remember reading on Reuters that Apple forces carriers to buy a minimum amount of iPhones now when they launch, or I would assume they won't give them the iPhone.

Also, maybe the carriers have done their research and are expecting to sell a lot of them.

Re: Galaxy S III preorders approach 10 million

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Post by jk »

objclxt wrote: post #15
samhan wrote: post #9

Now this is quite amazing . Has Samsung also started to attract an albeit smaller apple like following .. ?

It's certainly a good indicator of smartphone demand, although I'm not sure it's comparable with iPhone 4S pre-orders. I suspect that a lot of the S3 pre-orders are direct from carriers, rather than individuals, so it's more of a 'product shipped' rather than 'product sold' statistic. I could of course be totally wrong, although as it's a leaked stat it's hard to know exactly how a 'pre-order' is being defined...but…

I guess Samsung phones are more popular outside US. Among my colleagues, of 10 smartphones, 8 are Samsung ones (includes 3 Samsung Notes) and only one iPhone4S.

Re: Galaxy S III preorders approach 10 million

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Post by pnachbaur »

cryptoz wrote: post #20

This phone is one of the most exciting things happening, at least for me: It has a barometer! Joining the ranks of the Galaxy Nexus, Note, and Moto Xoom. Except, I think the SGS3 is way more popular than any of those others (by a couple orders of magnitude in some cases). I'm the developer of pressureNET, an open source Android project to build a live, global barometer network. The project has seen solid growth, but…

Given that a barometer is seemingly so rare on the market (and your app is probably one of the few set to take advantage of it) maybe you could talk to Samsung about a cross-promotional type deal? It could allow them to further differentiate and market their phone, and you'd get your data!

Re: Galaxy S III preorders approach 10 million

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Post by tvon »

akmiller wrote: post #23
weiran wrote: post #18

This is bullshit, the "preorders" are from carriers not actual customers. Samsung could sell zero units and still claim to have 9 million preorders. > Samsung Electronics Co has received some 9 million pre-orders for its third-generation Galaxy S smartphone from more than 100 global carriers , the Korea Economic Daily reported on Friday. Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/18/us-samsung-idUSBRE... The numb…

What is your point exactly? I'm pretty certain the carriers do their homework before placing orders. They don't want a ton of inventory just sitting on their shelves. So the carriers expect to sell them and Samsung did sell them (doesn't matter who bought them).

The point is it doesn't matter how many units they sell to Best Buy, what matters is how many units they sell to consumers.

This happens all the time, we hear about X millions of units "shipped" only to find out months later that a small fraction of those actually made it into consumers hands.

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