Samsung Galaxy S III mini Review

Samsung Galaxy S III mini is a solid phone released in October 2012, provisioned with a 4 inches multi-touch screen, a great performance 1000 MHz Dual-Core processor, and two cameras, a 5 megapixels back-facing camera and a 0.3 mega-pixels front camera. But let's get into much more details.

This cellphone is equipped with a STE U8420 chip, packing a good performance Dual-Core CPU speeding at 1 GHz and 1 GB RAM. Collaborating with graphic intensive apps and games, the S III mini also uses a 320 MHz ARM Mali-400 MP1 graphic processing unit. A good advantage of this phone is its quite big 16 GB internal memory and a slot for an SD memory card, which allows you to install a couple hundred apps and games without any problem.

Being just 0.39" thick,this cellphone is very slim and stilized. This phone is available in two different colors, blue and white. This time, it seems like Samsung forgot about optimizing the weight in this 4.23 ounces phone.

This phone is equipped with a very good 4 inches display with a 800 x 480 resolution, which makes all photos and movies look vivid. Its display uses Super AMOLED capacitive technology, and allows multi-touch for gestures like pinch and zoom.

This phone provides wifi capability (which can be shared with other devices around, as a mobile hotspot) and 3G fast connectivity, using HSDPA, HSUPA, UMTS and EDGE technologies. This cellphone works with a SIM card to use GSM services and it can connect using both CDMA and GSM.

This device has two cameras, a 5 megapixels back facing camera and a 0.3 MP front facing camera. This phone also films videos in HD 1280x720 at 30 frames per second. This camera also includes lots of great features: flash, auto-focus, digital image stabilization, smile detection shooting, face detection shooting and geo tagging.

This phone features a 1500 mAh medium sized Li-Ion battery that can keep this phone running for many hours, but you may need to charge it even after moderate usage. Samsung claims this phone has a 460 hours stand by time and a 14.2 hs talk time.

The Samsung Galaxy S III mini also features a few cool features as NFC (to trigger actions, transfer data or make payments by holding your cellphone close to another NFC device or tag), Bluetooth (allows communication with other devices and accessories) and GPS Localization, and plenty of sensors like Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer, Gyroscope and Compass.

Samsung sells the S III mini for $ 145, which is quite a high price for this type of cellphone. No matter if you are looking for a phone for work, want a device for gaming or will use this phone majorly for social networks and internet browsing, this phone is probably the correct option for you.