Samsung Galaxy S III Indepth Review

Rating: 9.0.

Samsung has stolen the Android show in recent years with their Galaxy series and each iteration of its S line has taken the Korean brand ever closer to Apple-like levels of anticipation, excitement and sales figures. With the Galaxy S III, Samsung hopes to continue, and even exceed, their own expectations of their latest flagship device.

The Samsung Galaxy S III is the direct successor to the Galaxy S II, a phone that has sold over 20 million units to date, so from the start it has high goals to live up to. A look at the most basic of specification sheets will reveal that the Galaxy S III has a bigger and better display and a faster processor over its predecessor.

More importantly is perhaps the Galaxy’s main rival, the HTC One X, which we recently reviewed and will be mentioned periodically throughout this review.

Key specifications:

• 4.8 inch Super AMOLED HD 1280×720 display
• Protected with Corning Gorilla Glass 2
• Samsung Exynos 4412 chipset
• 1.4 GHz quad-core Cortex-A9 processor
• ARM Mali400 MP4 CPU
• 1 GB of RAM
• 16, 32 or 64 GB of internal storage
• MicroSD slot supporting 64 GB cards
• 8 MP rear camera with 1080p video recording
• 1.9 MP front facing webcam
• Quad band HSPA+ (850/900/1900/2100)
• WLAN 802.11 a/b/g/n
• Bluetooth 4.0 LE
• NFC, Wi-Fi Direct and S Beam
• 2100 mAh, 7.98 Wh Li-ion battery
• Weighs 133 grams
• A mere 8.6mm thick
• Full dimensions are 137 x 71 x 8.6 mm
• Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich with Samsung’s TouchWiz Nature UX

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