Now with the leaked Sony quad Krait core phone it's clear that at the very beginning of 2013 we will get a lot of Snapdragon S4 pro devices from all manufacturers except Samsung, which means twice the raw performance of SGS3. I wonder if at least one of them will be as great and complete smartphone, because otherwise Samsung might still have a better seller despite the older CPU.
LG/Samsung/Motorola/HTC and others will have to come up with devices with better design, camera and decent software to overtake the SGS3. Also soon after there's probably going to be the SGS4 which would probably have a CPU based on ARM A15 or the A15/A7 big.little architecture which would again murder the competition and potentially make HTCs situation even worse potentially killing the company in the upcoming years if they don't come up with a solution to their problems.