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The
Koreans took their time with the new flagship, giving the predecessor a
full year at the helm. But they were taking no chances and they've got
the spec sheet to prove it. With most of the hardware made by Samsung
themselves, the Galaxy S III is an endless list of mind-blowing
numbers. The quad-core beast packs a 720p Super AMOLED screen and a
massive battery, but keeps its slim waistline.
And
that's just the tip of the iceberg. Here's the underwater part:
Key
features
- Quad-band
GSM and quad-band 3G support
- 21
Mbps HSDPA and 5.76 Mbps HSUPA support
- 4.8"
16M-color Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen of HD (720 x 1280 pixel)
resolution; Corning Gorilla Glass 2
- Android
OS v4.0.4 with TouchWiz launcher
- 1.4
GHz quad-core Cortex-A9 CPU, Mali-400MP GPU, Exynos 4 Quad chipset, 1GB
of RAM
- 8
MP wide-angle lens autofocus camera with LED flash, face, smile and
blink detection
- 1080p
HD video recording at 30fps
- Dual-band
Wi-Fi 802.11 b, g, n
- GPS
with A-GPS connectivity; GLONASS support, Digital compass
- 16/32/64GB
internal storage, microSD slot
- Accelerometer,
gyroscope and proximity sensor
- Standard
3.5 mm audio jack
- microUSB
port with USB host and TV-out (1080p) support, MHL, charging
- Stereo
Bluetooth v4.0
- FM
radio with RDS
- Great
audio quality
- Super
slim at only 8.6mm
- 2MP
secondary video-call camera
- Full
Flash for the web browser
- NFC
support
- Document
editor
- File
manager comes preinstalled
- Extremely
rich video and audio codec support
- Impressively
large 2100 mAh battery
Main
disadvantages
- All-plastic
body of dubious aesthetics
- No
dedicated camera key
- microSIM
slot
- S
Voice is hardly as functional as ads might make you believe
A
long list of assets and a rather short list of cons speak volumes about
the amount of effort that went into building the Samsung I9300 Galaxy S
III. Were they just trying to improve each and every aspect of the user
experience over the Galaxy S II, or was creating the ultimate droid
their goal all along? The more we think about it, the more it looks the
same.
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