Pricing seems to be biased to the Google Play Store. Rumours indicate that it may be 500-700 in regular stores when it does become available (unlocked).

Cheap components? It has one of the best smartphone processors and GPUs on the market, the build quality has also been praised by pretty much every review I've come across as well

Yeah even my 3.7" phone isn't something I can use one handed the entire time, and I often have to move it around to reach stuff.

i wonder what color the sky is in your universe. you seem to suggest apple comes out with iPhone very often? as in every friday? clearly that's pure hate talk, since apple is one of the few that come out with their phone once a year, unlike android devices that come out every week. oh wait how about the gs3? no the gs2, or gs2 x, or gs2 hd lte? and it's not just samsung, you buy an LG, HTC comes with with better next week. Then assus the week after that, then samsung. But i guess thats okay for consumers to get bombarded with incremental upgrades that have a lifespan of 2 weeks, since you know, its clearly the more stable android, and where the last MHz on that CPU make a huge difference. if there's one thing apple does right, it shows that this specifications don't mean a single thing when you've got a good OS. but no it's kay to get that quad core cpu and see it go to waste because of android, as long as its got 2 gb ram its gonna be the best phone ever yay!

@eferreira - Let's be fair. Compare an Android product that comes out today vs 1 year ago. You'd see that there are massive improvements. Compare an iPhone that came out today versus last year and you see very little improvement. Take your butthurt argument somewhere else.

Edit - Missed the sarcasm there, sorry lol.

Brother, have you been reading the recent headlines? Since the Samsung lost the lawsuit to Apple, it has been distancing itself from Google. It is rumored that Samsung is turning toward Windows 8 for their newer phones instead of android. Now why do you expect Google to keep hanging on to Samsung? Moreover, I think LG has made a superior hardware by not making it plasticky like Samsung makes each of its phones.