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Almost immediately after making the International Samsung Galaxy S 3 (SGS3) official, speculation started about just what features would make it over to the variants bound for carriers in the Americas and in regions with LTE. Today, Samsung made two Canadian-bound variants of the SGS3 official:&nbsp;SGH-i747 with LTE, and&nbsp;SGH-iT999 with DC-HSPA+ 42 Mbps. Both are built around Qualcomm's MSM8960&nbsp;Snapdragon S4 SoC at 1.5 GHz, which we've already seen in the HTC One X (AT&T) and HTC One S. Where the SGS3 does mix things up is the inclusion of 2 GB of LPDDR2 RAM. The rest of the details are unchanged - these two newly announced variants still have the same camera, WLAN, and display. Samsung has also given the same sizes and mass, which is a bit surprising since this varied last time around. We've put together a table with some comparisons between the variants and what we know at this point, I suspect closer to launch we'll flesh out some of the obvious question marks.</p>
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Samsung Galaxy S III Variants</td>
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Carrier</td>
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SGH-i747</td>
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SGH-iT999</td>
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GT-I9300</td>
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SoC</td>
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Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 MSM8960

(2 x Krait @ 1.5 GHz)</td>
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Samsung Exynos 4 Quad / Exynos 4412

(4 x Cortex A9 @ 1.4 GHz)</td>
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RAM</td>
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2 GB LPDDR2</td>
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1 GB LPDDR2</td>
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Network Support</td>
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LTE UE Category 3</td>
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DC-HSPA+ 42.2</td>
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HSPA+ 21.1 (Intel XMM6262)</td>
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Display Size</td>
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4.8" 1280x720 HD SAMOLED (PenTile RGBG)</td>
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Size, Mass</td>
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136.6 x 70.6 x 8.6 mm, 133g</td>
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Storage</td>
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16 / 32 GB NAND, microSD</td>
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16 GB NAND, microSD</td>
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16 / 32 / 64 GB NAND, microSD</td>
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Cameras</td>
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8MP Rear-facing, 1.9MP Front-facing</td>
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WiFi/BT/NFC</td>
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WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n, NFC, BT 4.0 (BCM4334)</td>
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Battery</td>
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3.7V 2100mAh (7.77 Whr)</td>
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Announced Carriers</td>
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Bell Mobility, Virgin Mobile, SaskTel, TELUS and Rogers Wireless</td>
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Videotron, Wind and Mobilicity</td>
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N/A (International)</td>
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Samsung also explicitly called out a few Canadian carriers, and from that you can surmise the band support of the two variants. Namely the inclusion of AWS&nbsp;(1700/2100) support on SGH-iT999, and 850/1900 MHz WCDMA alongside AWS and 700 MHz LTE on SGH-i747. Based on how closely the Canadian SGS2 variants mirrored the USA variants last time around, it seems likely that we're looking at what is or is very close to the SGS3s coming to T-Mobile and AT&T in the SGH-iT999 and SGH-i747, respectively.&nbsp;</p>
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Source: Samsung</p>
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