Galasy S III I747 (AT&T) vs Galasy SIII i9300

**shb** · 07-06-2012, 01:03 PM

What are the differences between the 2 ? does the i9300 has LTE ?

**dmmattix** · 07-06-2012, 02:12 PM

Short answer is that no the i9300 does not support LTE.
Search Galaxy i9300 will get you the wikipedia site (above) for the SII which has the chart comparing the different models

**CarlGalgano** · 07-06-2012, 08:02 PM

Biggest differences:

I9300
1GB ram
quad core exynos processor
comes in 16/32/64 GB configs
not LTE, HSPA+ only

i747 (ATT)
2GB ram
dual core snapdragon (uses this chip because the LTE is on the chip and does not require the use of another chip for LTE, ie bettery battery life)
only 16 GB config
ATT LTE, also I believe Telus and Rogers in Oh Canada

It appears the the Canada version of the i747 comes in more than just 16GB.

**jcp007** · 07-06-2012, 08:18 PM

How is it that the quadcore in Korea supports LTE?

**CarlGalgano** · 07-06-2012, 09:13 PM

I saw that today and I dont know. Different frequencies I guess. The post here on AC said that the Korean version of the new LTE equipped was not north american compatible. Mathematically I know that four is twice two, but Im guessing the differences in speed or performance are not noticeable. I may be called a heretic, but I dont see that big of a deal of 4G LTE v 3G. Granted, I use my device mostly for business and dont use it for much media related tasks (except streaming radio stations, sports and baseball games), but all that stuff works fine over 3G. How much faster is my mail going to show up? This morning the internet in my mountain house went out and I listened to the morning news on my phone, streaming on EDGE. It worked just fine.

**dmmattix** · 07-06-2012, 11:11 PM

The i9300 has the Tegra 3 Quad Core processor which supposedly does not play well with LTE yet. Many reports have the Android variant of Linux not being very optimized for multi-core operations and so people don't see much performance improvement going from 2 to 4 cores unless they are gaming and the Tegra 3 has a pretty nice GPU built in. There is a pretty fair difference between 3G and 4G and the difference between 4G and 4G/LTE is suppose to be pretty amazing. 40-50Meg download vs 15-20Meg on plain 4G. There is another thread on this sub-forum where folks post their speed numbers.

Mike

**gravage** · 07-07-2012, 02:31 AM

Originally Posted by dmmattix

The i9300 has the Tegra 3 Quad Core processor which supposedly does not play well with LTE yet. Many reports have the Android variant of Linux not being very optimized for multi-core operations and so people don't see much performance improvement going from 2 to 4 cores unless they are gaming and the Tegra 3 has a pretty nice GPU built in. There is a pretty fair difference between 3G and 4G and the difference between 4G and 4G/LTE is suppose to be pretty amazing. 40-50Meg download vs 15-20Meg on plain 4G. There is another thread on this sub-forum where folks post their speed numbers.

Mike

Not Tegra 3. Exynos.

**shb** · 07-09-2012, 08:47 PM

thats what I thought the i9300 does not support LTE. the spec from GSMarena says it support LTE regionally, what does it mean ?

**t3chn0s1s** · 07-10-2012, 01:51 PM

Originally Posted by shb

thats what I thought the i9300 does not support LTE. the spec from GSMarena says it support LTE regionally, what does it mean ?

I believe they mean the other regional variants like the AT&T, Sprint or Verizon versions do support LTE. The I9300 is definitely just HSPA+.

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