Samsung Galaxy S3 available early for pre-order customers

The Samsung Galaxy S3 will be available one day early to UK customers who purchase their handset from the Samsung Brand Store in Westfield Shopping Centre London or from certain other third-party retailers.

Orders will be available to collect from the flagship retailer at 6pm the night before Android smartphone's release date of May 30.



Customers who have pre-ordered the handset with selected third-party retailers will be able to collect their phone one hour later at 7pm. Specific stores offering this incentive have not been announced.

Samsung vice president Simon Stanford said: "We've had an overwhelming response from our retail partners and customers alike since announcing the Galaxy S III on May 3. So we wanted to delight our customers and reward them for pre-ordering by letting them get their hands on the device a day before anyone else.

"We believe we have created our best smartphone yet, designed specifically with daily human needs in mind, and we are proud to provide our customers with a truly unique mobile user experience."

Samsung's Galaxy S3 comes running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich on a 4.8-inch AMOLED screen, powered by a 1.4GHz Exynos 4 quad-core processor. Other features include an 8-megapixel rear-mounted snapper and voice navigation.

The handset will be available for £499 via Samsung directly. Major UK operators including O2, Three and Vodafone recently announced their pricing plans for the device.