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Samsung Galaxy S III MetroPCS Review

(SCH-R530M) Score: 70.8 / 100

Samsung Galaxy S III MetroPCS is a very high quality phone, provisioned with a 1.5 gigahertz Dual-Core CPU, a good size 4.8" multi touch capacitive screen, and two cameras, an 8 mega-pixels back camera and a 1.9 megapixels front-facing camera. Let's take a deeper view of what this cellphone offers to us.

This cellphone is powered by a great 1500 MHz Dual-Core processing unit, included in a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 MSM8960A system chip with a great 2 GB of RAM memory. Handling graphic rendering, this device also has a 400 megahertz Adreno 225 GPU. A nice advantage of this cellphone is its 16 GB quite large internal storage memory and a slot for an SD memory card, enough to store hundreds of games and apps without running out of space.

The S III MetroPCS is incredibly slim and good-looking, being just 0.34 inches thick. This cellphone is a compact cellphone, given that it features a 4.8 inches screen and it is only 5.39 inches long and 2.8 inches wide. Talking about its body design materials, this cellphone is mainly made of Polycarbonate. This phone is available in two color options, blue and white. Samsung made an excellent job making the S III MetroPCS weight just 4.7 oz.

Samsung designed this cellphone with a high-tech 4.8" screen, and a resolution of 1280 x 720 (HD), which makes all images and videos look amazing. This screen uses Super AMOLED capacitive technology, and has multi-touch detection.

This device features two cameras, an 8 MP back camera and a 1.9 mega-pixels front-facing camera. It is capable of capturing videos in 1920x1080 (Full HD) at 30 frames per second. This cellphone also has a lot of interesting features like flash, auto-focus, digital image stabilization, fast burst mode, HDR mode, face detection shooting and geo tagging.

This cellphone packs amassive 2100 mAh Li-Ion battery that can keep this phone running for many hours, although you may find yourself looking for a place to charge it if you use it too much. According to Samsung, the S III MetroPCS has a reported talk time of 15 hours and a stand by time of 200 hs.

This cellphone provides Wi-Fi capability (which can be shared with other devices around, acting as a router), 4G (LTE) fast connectivity and 3G data connection, supported by EV-DO A technologies. This phone uses a Micro SIM card for GSM services and it works with CDMA networks.

This cellphone also comes with lots of cool features as Wireless charger compatibility, Near Field Communication (NFC), Bluetooth (enables communication with other devices, computers, and accessories) and GPS, and plenty of sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Barometer and Compass.

This cellphone is a completely amazing cellphone and it is priced about 125 dollars, which is quite the same as other same level phones. No matter if you want this cellphone mostly for social networks, are looking for a cellphone to play tons of games, love photography or need this cellphone for work, this device is probably a good choice .



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Specifications

Device Type:Phone
Brand:Samsung
Operating System (OS):Android 4.0.4
Product code:SCH-R530M
Dimensions:5.39 x 2.80 x 0.34 inchesMetric13.69 x 7.11 x 0.86 cmImperial
Weight:4.70 ouncesMetric133.24 gImperial
Colors:Blue and White
Materials:Polycarbonate
Scratch Resistant Glass:Yes
Price:$ 125.00

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
Touch screen:Capacitive, Multi-touch

Hardware

Chipset:Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 MSM8960A
Processor:Krait (Dual-Core 1500 MHz)
RAM Memory:2 GB (500 MHz)
Graphics Processor:Adreno 225 (400 MHz)
Internal Memory:16 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:200 hours
Talk Time:15 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:1700/2100 (band 4)
CDMA Bands:800, 1700/2100, 1900
Technologies:LTE (4G), EV-DO A and CDMA

Other Features

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