Samsung Galaxy S3 launch date leaked?

We've been kept waiting and waiting, but according to a leaked image we could see the Samsung Galaxy S3 finally break cover next week.

The latest picture was sent to Phone Arena from an anonymous source and shows a render of supposed Samsung Galaxy S3 with the date March 22 on the screen, along with the text "The new Samsung Galaxy S III live at 8:00pm".

Rather conveniently Samsung has set up a press conference in Paris for the date and time mentioned in the image, however it has already come out and said it will not be launching the Galaxy S3 at the event.

Samsung Galaxy S3 - LEAK

Credit: Phone Arena
Hold your horses

So we're pretty sure that the Galaxy S3 launch date is a fake and the rest of the image does not instil us with confidence either.

Text sizes appear confused and poorly designed, icons in the app tray look to be taken from an older version of Samsung's TouchWiz interface and it seems unlikely Samsung would not tweak the notification bar, which is shown as the default Ice Cream Sandwich style in the picture.

Its still unclear when Samsung is planning to launch its highly anticipated Galaxy S3 handset and it looks like we won't be getting an answer soon.

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