/Samsung announces the Samsung Galaxy SIII

Samsung announces the Samsung Galaxy SIII

Coming as a successor to Samsung’s previous flagship Galaxy phone, the Galaxy SIII has big shoes to fill. Samsung’s 2012 flagship phone is more than capable than it’s predecessor and the competition, featuring a 1.4 Ghz Exynos 4 quad-core CPU, 1GB of RAM, 4.8-inch Super AMOLED screen with 1280×720 resolution and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.

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The full speclist for the Samsung Galaxy SIII is available below:

General 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100
4G Network LTE (regional)
SIM Micro-SIM
Announced 2012, May
Status Available. Released 2012, May
Body Dimensions 136.6 x 70.6 x 8.6 mm (5.38 x 2.78 x 0.34 in)
Weight 133 g (4.69 oz)
– Touch-sensitive controls
Display Type Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size 720 x 1280 pixels, 4.8 inches (~306 ppi pixel density)
Multitouch Yes
Protection Corning Gorilla Glass 2
  – TouchWiz UI
Sound Alert types Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
Loudspeaker Yes
3.5mm jack Yes
Memory Card slot microSD, up to 64 GB
Internal 16/32/64 GB storage, 1 GB RAM
Data GPRS Class 12 (4+1/3+2/2+3/1+4 slots), 32 – 48 kbps
EDGE Class 12
Speed HSDPA, 21 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps
WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, DLNA, Wi-Fi Direct, Wi-Fi hotspot
Bluetooth Yes, v4.0 with A2DP, EDR
NFC Yes
USB Yes, microUSB v2.0 (MHL), USB On-the-go
Camera Primary 8 MP, 3264×2448 pixels, autofocus, LED flash, check quality
Features Simultaneous HD video and image recording, geo-tagging, touch focus, face and smile detection, image stabilization
Video Yes, 1080p@30fps, check quality
Secondary Yes, 1.9 MP, 720p@30fps
Features OS Android OS, v4.0.4 (Ice Cream Sandwich), upgradeable to 4.1.2 (Jelly Bean)
Chipset Exynos 4412 Quad
CPU Quad-core 1.4 GHz Cortex-A9
GPU Mali-400MP
Sensors Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass, barometer
Messaging SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM, RSS
Browser HTML, Adobe Flash
Radio Stereo FM radio with RDS
GPS Yes, with A-GPS support and GLONASS
Java Yes, via Java MIDP emulator
Colors Pebble blue, Marble white, Amber brown, Garnet red, Sapphire black, Titanium grey, La Fleur
– S-Voice natural language commands and dictation- Smart Stay eye tracking- Dropbox (50 GB storage)- Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic

– TV-out (via MHL A/V link)

– SNS integration

– MP4/DivX/XviD/WMV/H.264/H.263 player

– MP3/WAV/eAAC+/AC3/FLAC player

– Organizer

– Image/video editor

– Document viewer (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF)

– Google Search, Maps, Gmail,

YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Picasa integration

– Voice memo/dial/commands

– Predictive text input (Swype)

Battery Standard battery, Li-Ion 2100 mAh
Stand-by Up to 590 h (2G) / Up to 790 h (3G)
Talk time Up to 21 h 40 min (2G) / Up to 11 h 40 min (3G)