The Samsung Galaxy S III is a multi-touch, slate-format Android smartphone designed, developed, and marketed by Samsung Electronics. It sees additional software features, expanded hardware, and a redesigned physique from its predecessor, the Samsung Galaxy S II. The S III employs an intelligent personal assistant (S Voice), eye-tracking ability, increased storage, and a wireless charging option. Depending on country, the 4.8-inch (120 mm) smartphone comes with different processors and RAM capacity, and 4G LTE support.[10] The device was launched with Android 4.0.4 “Ice Cream Sandwich”, and can be updated to Android 4.1 “Jelly Bean”.
| Release Date | May 29, 2012 | |
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| Check It Out | At Amazon |
| Display Specs | 4.8-inch, 1280 x 720 pixel display (306 ppi) | |
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| Display Type | Super AMOLED | |
| Operating System | Android 4.0 | |
| Processor | Quad core, 1400 MHz, ARM Cortex-A9 | |
| RAM | 1024MB | |
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| External Storage | Yes | |
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| Main Camera (Back) | 8-megapixel, LED flash, f 2.8 aperture, auto-focus | |
| Secondary Camera (Front) | 1.9-megapixel | |
| Wi-Fi | 802.11 a/b/g/n, DLNA, Wi-Fi Direct, Wi-Fi hotspot | |
| Bluetooth | Yes | |
| Battery | 2100 mAh | |
| NFC | Yes | |
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| Height | 136.6 mm (5.38 inches) | |
| Width | 70.6 mm (2.78 inches) | |
| Depth | 8.6 mm (0.34 inches) | |
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By Brandon Russell |
T-Mobile customers who own the Samsung Galaxy S III are getting updated to Android 4.1.2 today, bringing Multi-Window, Sound Balance and Blocking Mode support. It’s not the very latest version, but it’s a step in the right direction. Other new features include enhanced camera options,…
By Adriana Lee |
Will it blend? Probably — what doesn’t? — but even more importantly is that, when the circuits meet the pavement, the Samsung Galaxy S4 breaks. As if to corroborate the results from TechSmartt’s S4 vs. iPhone 5 drop tests, in comes warranty provider SquareTrade with its…
By Sean P. Aune |
Even though the Samsung Galaxy S4 is on the horizon, that doesn’t mean that the Galaxy S III has been forgotten. Introducing the Amethyst Purple color option. Sprint announced this morning that a 16GB version of the Samsung Galaxy S III in Amethyst Purple will be…
By Todd Haselton |
Verizon recently dropped the price of the Galaxy S III to $99.99 with a new two-year contract. No surprise there considering that the Galaxy S4 is expectied to launch in the coming weeks. To be fair, Verizon hasn’t yet confirmed that it’s even going to…
By Todd Haselton |
Microsoft is now airing a new Windows Phone 8 advertisement that specifically highlights the camera on Nokia’s Lumia 920. Unfortunately, it’s already a bit out of date considering that the company is asking someone with a Galaxy S III if they’re willing to switch. If…
By Todd Haselton |
Samsung’s Galaxy S 4 packs beefy hardware, but it also offers a ton of new software and services. The camera, for example, has at least six new features alone. Plus there’s a new AirView option for hovering over the screen with your finger to see…
By Todd Haselton |
Amazon kicked off a sale on Thursday just ahead of Samsung’s unveiling of the Galaxy S IV. The online retailer is now offering the Galaxy S III and the Galaxy Note II at steep discounts, but the pricing varies depending on your carrier and what…
By Brandon Russell |
We don’t carry around point-and-shoot cameras anymore because we have smartphones in our pockets. But it’s not good enough for companies to merely attach cameras as afterthought technology; consumers today demand their devices take the highest quality images possible. And we’ve seen huge improvements on…
By Todd Haselton |
Samsung and Apple are still at one another’s throats in the courtroom and it’s clear the presiding judge is getting frustrated at the extent of the battle. Judge Lucy Koh recently asked both companies to “focus and streamline” the claims within the lawsuit down to…
By Todd Haselton |
We already know that the iPhone 5, iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 are still among the top selling smartphones in the United States, and now a new report suggests that the phones are still incredibly popular around the world, too. In fact, Strategy Analytics said…
By Todd Haselton |
We sat down next to a dear old friend of ours today who randomly had T-Mobile’s glossy black Samsung Galaxy S III in his hand. We first saw the device surface on T-Mobile’s website just last night, and it’s going to launch in Europe in…
By Todd Haselton |
T-Mobile fans have been long waiting for a new flagship smartphone. The carrier began offering the Galaxy S II last year and, since then, has offered very few flagship devices. In fact, it chose to launch the HTC One S instead of HTC’s higher-end One…
By Todd Haselton |
We’ve long expected for each of the big four U.S. carriers — AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile — to launch Samsung’s latest Galaxy S III flagship smartphone. On Monday, test images, some of them awful, surfaced and revealed the model numbers for each carrier. The…
By Todd Haselton |
Samsung is inadvertently stealing the show from RIM’s own BlackBerry World. I’m here in Orlando covering RIM’s event and two additional leaked images of Samsung’s Galaxy S III just surfaced two days ahead of the phone’s official announcement during a press event in London on…
By Todd Haselton |
T-Mobile fans have been long waiting for a new flagship smartphone. The carrier began offering the Galaxy S II last year and, since then, has offered very few flagship devices. In fact, it chose to launch the HTC One S instead of HTC’s higher-end One…
By Todd Haselton |
I was a bit underwhelmed when Samsung first announced the Galaxy S III. It just seemed so much like HTC’s One X, which had already been out on the market, and I didn’t see a lot of differences between the two phones. Both would eventually…
By Todd Haselton |
Microsoft is now airing a new Windows Phone 8 advertisement that specifically highlights the camera on Nokia’s Lumia 920. Unfortunately, it’s already a bit out of date considering that the company is asking someone with a Galaxy S III if they’re willing to switch. If…
By Todd Haselton |
The Galaxy S 4 looks a lot like the Galaxy S III. They’re so close, in fact, that we decided we needed to shoot a video of them side by side so that you could see the smaller, distinguishing features on the Galaxy S 4.…
By Jon Rettinger |
BlackBerry can’t just appease diehard fans with the BlackBerry 10 operating system; it has to attract new users, owners of devices like Samsung’s venerable and practically untouchable Galaxy S III. As one of the biggest and most recognizable devices available, the S III is a…
By Aaron Baker |
It’s going down in the latest Smartphone Smackdown! Today’s lucky contestants: the HTC One X+ and Samsung Galaxy S III. Both are available on AT&T (with the Galaxy S III available on other carriers). The One X+ offers a 1.7 GHz quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 3…
By Jon Rettinger |
Samsung’s new Galaxy S III Mini is, as the name suggests, a tinier version of one of the company’s best-selling smartphones ever. It bears a like-for-like outward resemblance to its bigger brother, though it feels a lot different because of its smaller size. To be…
By Brandon Russell |
Jon R. is back to tackle the biggest tech rumors of this week! The iPad mini with retina display is reportedly coming in March 2013. We’re also hearing rumors about an update to the little black box that is the Apple TV. Additional Apple 2013…
By Brandon Russell |
Jon R. is back to tackle the biggest tech rumors of this week! The iPhone 5 was released a little more than a month ago, and Apple appears to be having trouble keeping their shelves stocked. However, this doesn’t stop the rumor mill from churning…
By Brandon Russell |
Jon R. is back to tackle more questions and queries from Buffalo readers, viewers and fans! In this episode, Jon provides some consumer advice on whether it’s better to pick up the Android Jelly Bean loaded Nexus 7, or the recently released iOS powered iPad…
By Brandon Russell |
Jon R. is back to tackle more questions and queries from Buffalo readers, viewers and fans! In this episode, Jon discusses how the recently announced Google Nexus 4 stacks up to it’s competitors. Jon also provides his thoughts and opinions on Windows Phone 8, as…
By Brandon Russell |
A suggestive new Galaxy S III ad highlights the benefits of NFC via the device’s S Beam feature. If you haven’t seen S Beam in action (there’s an ad that plays before most new movie releases showing off exactly what it does), it essentially allows…
