All eyes are on Samsung, as we tick down the hours to the S3’s unveiling. Here’s why it promises to smash records and tear up the smartphone market rulebook forever… 1 Simultaneous international launch means its impact is undiluted The S2 managed to annex magazine, tech site and newspaper column inches and rack up over 20 million sales despite a botched, staggered release that meant it landed on some US carriers six months after it debuted in Europe. This time Samsung is giving its flagship a simultaneous global release. With no dilution of its impact at launch, that ought to equate to the Galaxy S3 making a massive splash early on. Team this with Sammy's rumoured vast ad-spend and the resulting massive visibility for the S3 and it means it’s odds-on to power to a sales record for an Android phone and come close to the kind of numbers usually reserved for iPhones. 2 It’ll engender an age of quad-core apps The huge sales that the Galaxy S3 is set to rack up will p...
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