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Galaxy S III Release In US

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The Samsung Galaxy S III, which is considered by many observers of the smartphone market to be an iPhone killer, will launch across all four U.S. wireless carriers next week. The handset has been a huge hit in Europe. AT&T (NYSE: T), Sprint-Nextel (NYSE: S), Verizon Wirelesss and T-Mobile will release the smartphone at $199 with a two-year subscription plan.

Notably, this is within the range of prices for the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone 4S, which costs $199 to $399, depending on features. Some experts believe the Galaxy S III has two advantages over the iPhone. First, it runs the popular Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android OS, which now has 50% of the U.S. wireless OS market. The other is that the Samsung phone works on the superfast 4G networks that the wireless firms have marketed so relentlessly because the speed of these networks rivals broadband. Apple will not have a phone with that capacity until later this year.

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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