Sad day for all of us :(

[skenney1993]

I called Verizon to see what they say about the shipping date and the Rep with a special title named Bianca, said the first batch of pre orders will ship 7/9 and I asked her why they were taking so long when ATT and sprint are shipping them today and she said Verizon is adding exclusive special features and software to make the phone better. They are adding freaking bloatware to ruin this wonderful phone. Just thought I would let everyone know.

 

[Blackhawk4]

Not really a surprise. VZW likes to add their software so it was to be expected. I've got no problem waiting a little bit more. Anyways you can just disable the stuff and forget about it.

 

[memphisboy]

But for the users like myself who will root, bloatware will be nonexistant

 

[nate44]

I called Verizon to see what they say about the shipping date and the Rep with a special title named Bianca, said the first batch of pre orders will ship 7/9 and I asked her why they were taking so long when ATT and sprint are shipping them today and she said Verizon is adding exclusive special features and software to make the phone better. They are adding freaking bloatware to ruin this wonderful phone. Just thought I would let everyone know.

Shocking!

 

[shatter71]

That means that Samsung manufactures the phones, puts them in boxes and then Verizon has to open each box to flash a new rom, so to speak, and then put them back in the box to ship them out? Or something altogether happens in the process? Just curious.

 

[davidnc]

I was hoping they would not add any more then was already posted in another thread.In that thread there was only 4 or 5 vzw bloatware I think mentioned .But yeah if its really so though for those rooting it wont matter.

 

[PeteJE]

Troll who can't get enough commiserating about shipping on this site.

 

[JeremytheIndian]

It really pisses me of to see Samsung finally bring a cohesive, same design across the board phone to the US only to cave to VZWwhen it comes to bloatware. I'll be rooting and riding my device of the stuff but just once, even if it hurt me as a VZW customer, I would like to see a manufacture say screw you to them and tell them they don't get the phone unless they leave it untouched. If Apple can do it there is no reason Sammy can't. VZW would look like fools if they didn't have a SGS III on top of not having an HTC One device.

Still can't wait for my phone but upset that rooting is going to be a necessity right of the bat.

 

[pmoser]

Android has blessed Verizon, the Droid 1 saved their butt. In return they screw over the user by loading it up with bloat. Luckily samsungs good with letting root users get their way so most here will easily fix this problem

Sent from my Droid Incredible running CM7

 

[Heath276]

But with ice cream sandwich u can disable the app without rooting so no worries.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2

 

[ProvDev]

Step 1 - Root
Step 2 - purge every trace of Touch Wiz and VZW bloat
Step 3 - PROFIT!!!

 

[xemtra]

But with ice cream sandwich u can disable the app without rooting so no worries.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2

maybe Verizon is making Samsung write in a change so that you CANT disable their bloatware?

 

[Heath276]

maybe Verizon is making Samsung write in a change so that you CANT disable their bloatware?

Yea I don't see that happening if so they would have done it on the g-nex because they had to put there blot on it to

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2

 

[firetruck41]

I called Verizon to see what they say about the shipping date and the Rep with a special title named Bianca, said the first batch of pre orders will ship 7/9 and I asked her why they were taking so long when ATT and sprint are shipping them today and she said Verizon is adding exclusive special features and software to make the phone better. They are adding freaking bloatware to ruin this wonderful phone. Just thought I would let everyone know.

Not a sad day at all, we have known since the day pre ordering was available, that they would ship as late as July 9th. Why would today be any different? Every US carrier has added "bloatware" to the SGS3 so far.

It really pisses me of to see Samsung finally bring a cohesive, same design across the board phone to the US only to cave to VZWwhen it comes to bloatware. I'll be rooting and riding my device of the stuff but just once, even if it hurt me as a VZW customer, I would like to see a manufacture say screw you to them and tell them they don't get the phone unless they leave it untouched. If Apple can do it there is no reason Sammy can't. VZW would look like fools if they didn't have a SGS III on top of not having an HTC One device.

Still can't wait for my phone but upset that rooting is going to be a necessity right of the bat.

Again, every US carrier has added bloatware so far.

 

[poopie35]

I am waiting for my sg3 but with Sprint, what are the benefits and draw backs to getting your phone rooted

 

[poopie35]

Also is it hard to root a phone, I'm seeing everyone saying they're going to root their phone, and if i can get FREE wifi,i want it then

 

[blackrabbitklan]

Also is it hard to root a phone, I'm seeing everyone saying they're going to root their phone, and if i can get FREE wifi,i want it then

Keep checking the forums here, there will be rooting guides up in no time. Other forums have them up already, but I think they are mostly for international versions of the phone.

 

[mikesmith]

Are we really going to start believing VZ reps?

 

[Cyber Warrior]

Also is it hard to root a phone, I'm seeing everyone saying they're going to root their phone, and if i can get FREE wifi,i want it then

Depends on the phone.. but Samsungs are pretty easy. We'll have detailed (newb friendly) guides on how to root for you once the information becomes available.

http://www.androidcentral.com/rooting-it-me-some-qa
http://www.androidcentral.com/root

 

[pmoser]

Also is it hard to root a phone, I'm seeing everyone saying they're going to root their phone, and if i can get FREE wifi,i want it then

Rooting isn't hard if you read up in it. If you took a couple hours and learned it you will find yourself the master of your phone. One click methods will come and those are so easy its rediculas.

Sent from my Droid Incredible running CM7