Samsung Galaxy S III mini Review

Samsung Galaxy S III mini is a mid level cellphone launched back in 2012, coming with a medium 4-inches multi-touch screen, a Dual-Core processing unit ticking at 1 GHz, and two cameras, a 5 megapixels back-facing camera and a 0.3 MP front camera. But let's get into much more detail.

This device is incredibly thin and good-looking, with a thickness of just 0.39". The Samsung Galaxy S III mini is for sale in 2 colors, blue and white. It appears that Samsung didn't care so much about the weight in this 4.23 oz device.

The S III mini has a interesting 4 inches screen with a 800 x 480 resolution, which makes all pictures and videos look very good. This screen uses Super AMOLED capacitive technology, and allows multi-touch for gestures like pinch and zoom.

Samsung decided to build this device with a STE U8420 chip, packing a great performance 1000 megahertz Dual-Core processing unit with 1 GB of RAM memory. Handling graphic intensive apps, this phone also counts with a 320 MHz ARM Mali-400 MP1 GPU. This phone has a 16 GB quite big internal storage and an SD card slot, allowing you to install a couple hundred applications and games without worrying about space.

The Samsung Galaxy S III mini counts with wifi connectivity (and it can share it with other devices acting as a modem) and 3G fast connectivity, over HSDPA, HSUPA, UMTS and EDGE technologies. This device works with a SIM card to use GSM services and it can work with both GSM and CDMA.

This phone has two cameras, a 5 megapixels back side camera and a 0.3 mega-pixels front facing camera. It also captures videos up to 1280x720 (HD) at 30 fps. To complete the camera, it also counts with a large number of interesting features like flash, digital image stabilization, auto-focus, smile detection shooting, face detection shooting and geo tagging.

The S III mini also features some nice features like Bluetooth (4.0) and GPS Localization, and lots of sensors like Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer, Gyroscope and Compass.

This phone counts with a mid capacity 1500 mAh Li-Ion removable battery that provides the S III mini a not very long battery lifecompared to other phones. According to Samsung, the S III mini has an aproximate talk time of 14.2 hours and a stand by time of 460 hs.

This cellphone is priced around $ 145, not a very good offer for comparing with other similar devices. If you need a phone for work, are looking for a phone mainly for internet broswing and social networks or will use it as a gaming phone, you will definitely be very satisfied with it.