Samsung Galaxy SIII (AT&T) review

This really is shaping up to be the year of your awesome cell phone (that isn't made by Apple). The awesomeness started with all the release of the Nokia Lumia 900 early from the year. Just after that, all around CTIA 2012 in New Orleans, HTC dropped their Evo 4G LTE, a Sprint cell phone that dazzled us with its amazing camera, rather quick speed, nifty kickstand and wonderful display.
To not mention the various HTC One particular flavors of mobile phones. Not to be outdone, Samsung released the European edition from the Samsung Galaxy SIII across the same time...and nicely...our buddies across the pond came for the conclusion that it may be the very best mobile mobile phone ever.
Microsoft even jumped into the fray by announcing that Windows Mobile phone 8 handsets might be available this fall.

Team America for your win!

Certainly, the mobile cellphone marketplace becoming what it can be -- perplexing as all get out -- the Samsung Galaxy SIII that our European brothers and sisters received their warm-beer-loving hands on turned out to be decidedly unique than the device that sooner or later made it on the States.
While many of the specs remain the same: 8-megapixel camera, four.8-inch Super AMOLED HD display, fantastic battery lifestyle, and brushed poly-carbonate housing (that comes in "Marble White" and "Pebble Blue"), the handset that AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, Verizon and US Cellular are going to be releasing while in the States boasts a few rather significant differences. Some might even call them upgrades.
Much has been written about the fact that the gadget that ultimately showed up in the States rocks a dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor and twice as much RAM as the European model: coming in at 2GB. That said, the question remains, "How does this model compare to its brother across the Pond?" In a nutshell, not that much.
When the Snapdragon S4 processor that's while in the American edition is not as robust as the quad-core processor from the European model, the Samsung Galaxy SIII, for all intents and purposes, is a quick cellphone regardless of which a single you play with. And aside from running Speedtest, most users might be pressed to notice the difference.
Additionally, the American mobile phone marketplace differs from that of Europe in that it's extremely carrier specific. Such that the Samsung Galaxy SIII experience will differ slightly from carrier to carrier.

How does AT&T do?

We got our hands on the Samsung Galaxy SIII (AT&T) mobile telephone and put it through its paces. Depending on where you are, your experience could differ from ours. We tested the Samsung Galaxy SIII (AT&T) mobile telephone in San Francisco, Oakland and Kona (on Hawaii's big island) and had strong signals in all three locations.
Each U.S. carrier likes to pack their phones with their own software. To than end, AT&T is slightly better than the rest of the pack.
In addition for the standard apps that are present on all versions from the Samsung Galaxy S3, the AT&T version also boasts AT&T Navigator and myAT&T. Whilst some may possibly see this as a scant offering, numerous, ourselves included, welcome the fact that, unlike Verizon, AT&T is loathe to cram the handset full of their own proprietary apps that, properly, are already handled by Android Ice Cream Sandwich.
We used AT&T Navigator in all three of our test cities and it worked perfectly well. But so did the Maps apps that ships with every Ice Cream Sandwich-based cellphone.