Good news to people who are planning to buy Samsung Galaxy S3 this Christmas, its price is unchanged ahead of the much-anticipated Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean update which will include the phone maker's new "Premium Suite."

Surprisingly, third-party retailers and re-sellers are still offering the 16GB Galaxy S3 variant for $520 to $550 on average each, and we're talking about the unlocked model here which ships with an unlocked micro-SIM card slot and free from carrier branding and software tweaks.

Unfortunately, the 32GB Samsung Galaxy S3 unlocked version is still more expensive with a tag price of more than $600. Still, it is a steal for tech junkies out there to get the best-selling smartphone of 2012.

It is an advantage to get the unlocked or the international version since it is easily updated to the latest Android operating system compared to carrier-branded handsets.

Moreover, if you bought a Samsung Galaxy S3 via carriers, there is a chance that the latest update will be delayed since networks usually tests the files themselves to make sure they work with any custom software tweaks before allowing the updates to reach their customers. Consumers may need to wait for days weeks or even months before this new update hits some of the carrier-branded Galaxy S3 models.

Samsung Galaxy S3 received a Premium Suite upgrade similar to the tablet Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1, which brings features previously exclusive to the company's phablet Samsung Galaxy Note 2.

The Premium Suite upgrade for the device comes via the Androidv4.1.2 Jelly Bean update, which the mobile tech giant rolled out last week.

One of the features found in the Premium Suite include a system for predicting future actions called Page Buddy. For example, plug in headphones and have the music player start automatically. Contextual menu is also a feature added in the device, which places your most frequently used options closer to the top.

Other upgrades over a stock Android handset include a contextual tagging system which extends the geo-location feature of the Android camera app with the ability to add details on the date, location and even the weather.

The most-loved multi-window feature of the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 is now available to the Samsung Galaxy S3. The multi-window system allows the device to have two applications to be opened side-by-side - a great use of the Galaxy S3's high-resolution display.

Finally, the system gets an upgrade to the in-built browser to make text size easily customizable and page sharing faster, a new Auto Share Shot mode for the camera that allows pictures to be quickly transferred to devices supporting S-Beam or other near-field communication (NFC) capabilities, and a Facebook news ticker for the lock-screen.

The unlocked international Samsung Galaxy S3 is powered by Samsung's own quad-core chip, 1GB RAM, Ice Cream Sandwich OS out of the box and the latest version of TouchWiz that runs on the top of user interface. The Samsung Galaxy S3 also ships with 4.8-inch HD Super AMOLED display, an 8-megapixel primary camera and a front-facing 1.9-megapixel camera.