Update: Carphone Warehouse is now offering a pre-order price for the Galaxy S III, at £499.95 -- about the going rate for a high-end smartphone in the UK.
We're just back from Samsung's Galaxy S III unveiling at the 2012 Unpacked event in London, where it's been announced that the phone will go on sale in Europe from May 29. Following the S III's public debut the usual host of carriers and retailers have announced that they'll be stocking the device.
We already knew that O2 UK and Vodafone UK would be getting Samsung's new flagship smartphone, but we can add Three and Orange to that list, as both have today confirmed that they'll range the S III. And Vodafone says it'll exclusively offer the 32GB version in the UK for the first month of its availability. And we've had confirmation from Phones4U and Carphone Warehouse that they'll stock the Galaxy S III, too.
Elsewhere, Samsung will revealed a world tour event that'll take place in several cities around the world. Venues will include Moscow, Beijing, Zurich, Dubai, Seoul, Delhi, Tokyo, Sao Paulo, New York and an unannounced location in South-East Asia.
Stay tuned for the first details on U.S. availability.
Source: Three Blog, Orange Blog, Carphone Warehouse
Reader comments
Samsung Galaxy S III international availability
T-Mobile UK will probably announce to sell it.
I'm betting a lot of people buy unlocked international GSM versions rather than waiting till the US carriers take another couple months to get this phone after they bloatware load and lock it down and kill off tethering.
That's actually another slight tik against it. The One X is £50 cheaper from handtec. That's a bit over $80 USD.
Dubai...duh. You can find any contemporary phone known to man in the Duty Free of the airport, lol...