Specs
* Dimensions 136.6 x 70.6 x 8.6 mm Weight: 133g
* 4.8" 720 x 1280 pixel Super AMOLED HD Screen (306ppi)
* Corning Gorilla Glass 2 protection
* 1.4 GHz Exynos 4212 Quad-core Cortex A9
* Mali-400MP GPU
* TouchWiz UI v4.0
* 8MP (3264x2448) Primary camera with autofocus, LED flash, geo-tagging, face and smile detection, image stabilization
* 1080p HD Video @ 30fps
* 1.9MP Secondary camera 720p@30fps
* Internal Storage: 16/32/64 GB microSD support up to 64GB
* 1GB RAM
* WLAN, Bluetooth, NFC, DLNA
* A-GPS support and GLONASS
* Wolfson DAC
* Ice Cream Sandwich Android OS
* Standard battery, Li-Ion 2100mAh
* TV-out (HD) via MHL A/V Link
Available Colours: Pebble Blue and Marble White
MicroSIM card support only
The phone is set to go on sale May 29th for European countries and in the Summer for the US. Samsung said the phone will go on sale in 145 countries and across 296 phone companies making it the biggest launch the company has ever done.
Like every other previous Galaxy phones, the S3 will run on Google's Android OS. It is powered by Samsung's own Exynos 4212 chipset with quad-core performance. Not many smartphones out there have got quad core yet. Even the iPhone 4s has dual-core.
At the London event Samsung talked most about their "software enhancements" for the S3. To be honest, their features were actually quite ..... "cool!" One of the features I quite liked was their Smart Stay feature. This allows you to "forget about sleep times" on your phone. Like me, I like to read in bed with my smartphone and sometimes I doze off to sleep and forget that I had set the screen timeout to 'off' so it wastes my battery and then there's no juice left to use the phone in the morning when I really need it!
It utilises the camera to "see" your eyes if they have been shut yet so it turns the screen on or off according to that. (...what about asians??) hehe.
Another feature I really like to try out is S-Voice. People might be thinking that the 'S' stands for 'Siri', no it doesn't. It stands for 'Samsung'. All the technological geeks would know that.
This feature allows you to control the phone by voice. Basically another 'Siri' like functionality. It allows you to ask it questions, eg: play my music, set alarm clocks, record notes. Hopefully this can go to direct competition with Siri.
There is also a Direct Call feature added. What this feature does is that when you have a contact on your screen, you just need to pick up the phone and put it by your face(ear), and it automatically dials that number on the screen!
Smart Alert is just an enhanced version of the Stock notifications. Samsung has just tweaked it to show your important missed calls, messages, emails etc in the order of importance.
Burst Shot and Best Photo allows the camera to shoot up to 20 burst shots in around 3seconds and then it will decide on the best photo out of that 20 burst that it took.
Buddy Photo Share allows automatic tagging through information gathered in your contact list and those tagged, will get to see that photo because it will automatically send the photo to the respective contacts. What I was thinking about this was, wouldn't that waste your data allowance? I would suspect that there is an option to turn this feature off.
S-Beam is a feature that combines NFC and WiFi Direct together to bring you transfer speeds of up to 300mpbs. The two phones touch each other, which will create sort of like a 'bond' and then you transfer your file/s to them. A neat feature as in previous smartphones, using just NFC or Bluetooth often took 'forever' to transfer video clips or large files especially with smartphones able to record in HD these days.
Pop-Up Play. A feature that allows you to continue watching your clip while eg: texting your spouse, sending an email, on the same screen at the same time!
AllShare Cast and Play shares your Galaxy S3's screen to your TV in real-time, or to control your TV via on-screen remote control.
Now lets talk about the 'Wireless Charging Kit' that will be available as an 'accessory' to your S3. Samsung is the first and only company (as of current date) to bring out Wireless Charging.
UPDATE: Apparently business phone company 'Palm' had brought out a technology called 'Touchstone' that allows you to wirelessly charge a specific Palm device, before Samsung had introduced Wireless Charging. But company Palm, is 'dead' now.
It should allow you to (obviously) 'wirelessly' charge your S3 at a short distance with the specific device connected to a power source. Actually I have just sought out that the device needs to stay on the charging pad to be able to be charged. A short statement from indiatimes.com states that: "It utilizes two smart coils - one in the charger and another in the device that is getting charged. The primary coil creates a very small electromagnetic field around the charger through which electricity can be transferred. The secondary coil, which is in the phone, receives the power from electromagnetic field and converts in back into electric current to feed it into the battery."
This brings us to ask, Will this, this "small electromagnetic field around the charger" raise health concerns? I have not heard many 'technology blogs' talk about this Wireless Charging from Samsung as yet.
I think Samsung has done a great job with its Galaxy S3. Now we just have to wait to be able to find out the real truth whether there will be a lot of flaws? or .... great. Just Great!
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