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Samsung Galaxy S III to India in June

Samsung Galaxy S3 was the most anticipated phone for the year 2012.It is the sequel to the extremely successful Samsung Galaxy S2. Samsung Galaxy S3 is a bar shaped smartphone with a massive 4.8’HD Super AMOLED touchscreen and a 1.4 GHz quad core processor. The phone should be launched in first week of June and may be priced about Rs 42,000.
  • Samsung Galaxy S3 is the sequel to the extremely successful Samsung Galaxy S2.
  • Samsung Galaxy S3 has a massive 4.8’HD Super AMOLED touchscreen with resolution 720 x 1280 pixels
  • The phone runs on Android 4 Ice Cream Sandwich OS, powered by 1.4GHz Quad Core processor
  • The phone has an 8MP camera with auto focus, LED Flash and has a 1.9 MP secondary camera
  • The phone comes with unique features such as Smart Stay, S-Voice, Direct call etc
  • Samsung Galaxy S3 comes in models with 16GB, 32GB and 64GB internal memory
  • The phone has a massive 2100 mAh Li-ION battery

 

 

GENERAL GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100
4G Network LTE (regional)
Announced 2012, May
Status Coming soon. Exp. release 2012, June

 

BODY Dimensions 136.6 x 70.6 x 8.6 mm
Weight 133 g
  – 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 v4.0

 

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
Features Simultaneous HD video and image recording, geo-tagging, touch focus, face and smile detection, image stabilization
Video Yes, 1080p@30fps
Secondary Yes, 1.9 MP, 720p@30fps

 

FEATURES OS Android OS, v4.0.4 (Ice Cream Sandwich)
Chipset Exynos 4212 Quad
CPU Quad-core 1.4 GHz Cortex-A9
GPU Mali-400MP
Sensors Accelerometer, gyro, RGB sensor, 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
  – MicroSIM card support only
– 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 editor (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)

 

MISC SAR US 0.55 W/kg (head)     1.49 W/kg (body)
SAR EU 0.21 W/kg (head)
Price group About Rs.42500

 

TESTS Camera Photo / Video

 

 

 

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