Price varies with service agreement
Product Features
4G Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich
4.8-inch 1280x720 16M HD Super AMOLED display
1.5 GHz Dual Core processor and 2 GB of RAM
8 MP camera w/zero shutter lag and LED Flash, 1.9 MP front facing camera
1080p HD video capture (rear camera), 720p HD video capture (front facing camera)
16 GB memory + optional 64 GB microSD card (sold separately)
Mobile Hotspot capable
Wi-Fi (802.11 a/b/g/n), Wi-Fi Direct, DNLA
Bluetooth 4.0
2100 mAh battery with up to 15 hours of usage time
Other Opinion
"No SIM" errors, August 8, 2012
By NoK (NY)
The phone is great, battery life, display, form factor are all fantastic. I would have given a 5 star review if it weren't for the bugs. Drive mode doesn't work for me at all. Tried everything I could to get it to work, even load my contact information on to my phone instead of syncing from google. Still a no go.
But my biggest gripe with the phone is when I send text messages. My messages fail to send and shortly after kicks me off the network and "no SIM" message pops up on the taskbar. It's an issue that seems to be plaguing a decent amount of users. Verizon claims Samsung is working on a update since it's a new phone, and with new phones, bugs are common. Whatever the case may be, it's an issue that needs to be resolved.
I did not buy the phone from Amazon, so it's not a review on the service, but on the device itself.
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Well rounded phone, except for wifi, cellular reception, January 17, 2013
By Indian girl
I chose to use the phone for a few months before writing this review to prevent the initial excitement from biasing this honest review. I came from a Motorola Droid running CM 7.2.
Pros:
* Very light
* Loud speaker
* micro SD storage
* Removable battery - not so important at home / work but a great boon out of town / on vacation. I was in Paris last summer and I was glad that my Droid let me to switch the batteries ($2 each nowadays) and keep shooting photos
* Excellent cameras - both front and back
* More than sufficient processing power - I always leave it on Power saver mode
* Vibrant screen
* Lovely 720p resolution - HD videos look great
* 4G LTE is unbelievably fast
* Easy to root and unlock bootloader + very strong Cyanogenmod, Ubuntu, support.
Cons:
* VERY bad cellular and wifi radios - My office is in the basement of a building and while iPhones are able to retain 3-4 bars, I get 1 bar at most. Phone also keeps dropping wifi regularly. As a consequence, my battery drains from 100% to 40% in a 10 hour work day with minimal to no usage. I don't have this problem at home where I have decent reception for both cellular and wifi. I have read elsewhere that Samsung simply doesn't know how to make good CDMA radios and GSM versions of the phone don't share this problem.
* Dim screen makes outdoors use a little painful
* Ugly and slow OS skin, gimmicky Samsung apps including S voice, massive amount of bloatware, annoying Verizon customizations like persistent wifi notification
* Too large - I have large hands and yet I feel that this is too much of a handful to use with a single hand. A 4.4" or 4.5" screen might be the largest one can comfortably use
Alternatives:
* iPhone 5
* Motorola Razr HD MAXX
* HTC Droid DNA
