I am coming from a Galaxy Nexus (had it broken). Went to a store in Brazil do buy a new one but the price was the same of the SGS3 and I opted to try it this one. This is a great phone. The hardware is so much better than the GNexus. The processor makes everything more fluid, the battery is better. the camera run circles around it and the sound quality is awesome due to the Wolfson chipset.

Overall I miss a little the pure Android/Google experience, but the hardware more than compensates it. This phone with stock Android would be a dream, but since we can´t have it (at least not a stock one) this is the best we can get. And it is awesome.