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Samsung Galaxy S III is a great cellphone launched back in the year 2012, which features a high speed 1400 MHz Quad-Core processor, a big 4.8 inches multi-touch screen, and 2 cameras, an 8 mega-pixels back-facing camera and a 1.9 megapixels front-facing camera.

About its materials, this phone is mainly built with Plastic. Samsung did a great optimization job making this cellphone as lightweight as 4.69 ounces. The S III is for sale in a variety of color variations: black, gray, brown, pink, blue, red and white. This cellphone is quite a compact cellphone, considering it has a 4.8 inches screen and it has just 5.38" long. Being just 0.34" thick,this phone is slim and comfortable.

This cellphone ships with an extremely powerful 1.4 gigahertz Quad-Core processor, included in the Samsung Exynos 4 (4412) chip and only 1 GB of RAM which is a little bit poor for a cellphone this powerful. Collaborating with graphic intensive applications, it also counts with a 266 megahertz ARM Mali-400 MP4 graphics processing unit. A great advantage of the Samsung Galaxy S III is its 32 GB astonishing internal memory and an SD memory card expansion slot, enough to install lots of applications, games, pictures and videos without even thinking about filling the phone.

Samsung equipped the Samsung Galaxy S III with a gorgeous 4.8 inches display, and a resolution of 1280 x 720 (HD), which makes it impossible to even see the pixels forming the display. This display uses Super AMOLED capacitive technology, with a 300 candela/m2 brightness and allows multi-touch gestures.

The Samsung Galaxy S III counts with wifi connection (and it can be provided to other devices as a mobile hotspot), 4G (HSPA+) internet connection, that is not as fast as LTE-A or LTE networks and fast 3G internet connection, over HSDPA, HSUPA, UMTS and EDGE technologies. The S III uses a Micro SIM card to connect to GSM networks.

This device features two cameras, an 8 MP back camera and a 1.9 MP front-facing camera. It is also able to film videos in 1920x1080 (Full HD) at 30 frames per second. Additionally, the camera has a lot of great characteristics: auto-focus, flash, fast burst mode, face detection shooting, digital image stabilization, HDR mode and geo tagging.

The S III also features a wide range of useful features like Wireless charging, NFC, Bluetooth (4.0) and GPS (Global Positioning System), and multiple sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Barometer and Compass.

This cellphone comes with a 2100 mAh long lasting Li-Ion battery that can keep it running for several hours, although you may need to charge it if you use it too much. This device has an aproximate talk time of 22.5 hours and a stand by time of 830 hours according to Samsung.

Samsung is selling this device for $ 205, which is quite high for this type of cellphone. No matter if you will use it as a gaming device, are looking for a work phone, you love taking pictures or will use this phone majorly for social networks, you will definitely be very happy with it.



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Specifications

Device Type:Phone
Brand:Samsung
Operating System (OS):Android 4.3, 4.1.2, 4.1.1, 4.0.4
Variant:32 GB
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Also Known As:Samsung Galaxy S3
Product code:GT-I9300
Dimensions:5.38 x 2.78 x 0.34 inchesMetric13.67 x 7.06 x 0.86 cmImperial
Weight:4.69 ouncesMetric132.96 gImperial
Colors:Black, Blue, Brown, Gray, Pink, Red and White
Materials:Plastic
Scratch Resistant Glass:Yes
Release date:2012-05-03
Price:$ 205.00

Display

Screen Type:Super AMOLED (16M colors)
Size:4.8 inchesMetric12.2 cmImperial
Resolution:720 x 1280 pixels (HD)
Pixel density:306 pixels per inchMetric120.47 pixels per cmImperial
Brightness:300 cd/m2
Touch screen:Capacitive, Multi-touch

Hardware

Chipset:Samsung Exynos 4 (4412)
Processor:ARM Cortex-A9 (Quad-Core 1400 MHz)
RAM Memory:1 GB
Graphics Processor:ARM Mali-400 MP4 (Quad-Core 266 MHz)
Internal Memory:32 GB
SD Card Slot:microSD, microSDHC, microSDXC (up to 64 GB)

Battery

Battery type:Li-Ion
Removable:Yes
Capacity:2100 mAh
Wireless Charging:Yes
Stand-by Time:830 hours
Talk Time:22.5 hours

Camera

Back camera:8 megapixels
    Aperture:f/2.60
    Sensor size:0.33 inches (1/3")
    Flash:Yes
Front camera:1.9 megapixels
Max video resolution:1920 x 1080 (30 fps) (Full HD)
Camera features:Auto-Focus, Digital Image Stabilization, Face Detection Shooting, Fast Burst Mode, Geo Tagging and HDR Mode

Networks

Wi-Fi:Yes
    Mobile Hotspot:Yes
SIM Card Type:Micro SIM
LTE (4G) Bands:800 (band 18), 1800 (band 3), 2600 (band 7)
UMTS Bands:850, 900, 1900, 2100
GSM Bands:850, 900, 1800, 1900
Technologies:HSPA+ (4G), HSDPA, HSUPA, UMTS, EDGE, GPRS and GSM

Other Features

Bluetooth:Version 4.0
GPS:Yes
NFC (Near Field Communication):Yes
Sensors:Accelerometer, Barometer, Compass, Gyroscope, Light Sensor and Proximity Sensor