Is this the first legit Samsung Galaxy S3 press shot?

So far Samsung has been keeping its next flagship under wraps quite successfully. We've only seen blurry shots of the externals and supposedly, those are not even the final designs.

Props to Samsung for their success so far, but could this be the first serious leak of the handset?

What we have on our hands today is an image that looks a lot like what the Samsung Galaxy S3 is supposed to look like, judging by some of the more substantial leaks from the past.

Update: The image is confirmed as old and has surfaced before. It's certainly a mockup. Sorry about that, move along.

Now this photo didn't come with any extra info on the handset, but the leaked specifications for the device so far detail a 4.6 or 4.8-inch SuperAMOLED screen of 720p resolution, Samsung's latest quad-core Exynos chipset, and an 8 or 12 megapixel camera to go with those. There should also be an extra beefier battery to make the phone last a bit longer.

Now as usual, take this thing with a pinch of salt. But our guess is leaks won't get any better than this before the official announcement. Even if it's some user-land fan art, we still appreciate the effort and it's a job nicely done.

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Latest Galaxy S III picture points towards a 4.8-inch display

The Galaxy S III rumor mill is now running on full steam. According to the latest bit of info from Know Your Mobile, the next Galaxy phone will have a 4.8-inch display.

 

Samsung Russia starts a countdown to the next Galaxy

As we near the May 3 press event in London where the next Galaxy device will finally be unveiled, we saw a countdown timer on Samsung Russia website.

Samsung accidentally confirms Galaxy S III name

During its first quarter earnings call, Samsung let slip the name of its upcoming Galaxy smartphone, which until now was only being referred to as the next Galaxy phone.

Alleged Samsung Galaxy S3 photo shows both physical and capacitive buttons

Another day, another "Next Galaxy" image, this time sent by one of our own tipsters, who claims this is the hotly anticipated Samsung Galaxy S3. Your guess is as good as ours whether this is a final version, some prototype, or something else altogether, concocted through image editing.

There is evidently a physical home key, as rumored, and two capacitive buttons, while the whole setup resembles a lot the render from the leaked early manual of a Samsung GT-I9300 Galaxy S3 that we saw yesterday. The side bezel of what seems to be quite a big display is pretty thin, but we'll leave the speculations on screen size aside, as we can't vouch whether this is the real deal anyway.

Samsung executive confirms that U.S. variant of Samsung Galaxy S III will feature dual-core CPU

Last night, we warned those in the U.S. not to get too excited by the news that the Samsung Galaxy S III would be the first device to be equipped with the quad-core 1.4GHz Samsung Exynos 4412 under the hood. We feared that because of the widespread use of LTE in the U.S. and the lack of an integrated LTE radio on the Samsung Exynos 4412, the Korean based manufacturer might decide to go with the dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 instead. This is what AT&T was forced to substitute the quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 3 for on its version of the HTC One X.

GLBenchmark for GT-I9300, GT-I9500 and GT-N8000 leaked

Some information from GLBenchmark sendend to us…

You can see a firmware version for I9300 – I9500 and N8000.

First let us remind you the names…

I9300 (Galaxy S III)

I9500 (???)

N8000 (Galaxy Note 10.1)

All phones are running on Android 4.0.3 another funny detail is the processor and resolultion of the GT-I9500.

This could be a BETA test firmware.

Lets hope so.

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