As the best selling phone in the third quarter this year, and one of the most popular handsets in the world, it seems like just about everyone owns a Samsung Galaxy S III 4G Android smartphone. If you have been considering the purchase and have not yet taken the plunge, you should pat yourself on the back. The 16 GB Sprint Galaxy S III is currently being offered in the Amazon Wireless store during their annual holiday sale, and is priced at just pennies on contract.
The Galaxy S III for Sprint is available for a reduced holiday price now starting at $0.01.
That is the lowest price that any Galaxy S III has seen since its arrival earlier this year, and it is now running on the speedy Sprint 4G LTE network which debuted only a couple of months ago. Samsung adds their TouchWiz UX UI to the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean operating system, and that new OS delivers a faster, smoother and richer user experience. Skinny at 0.34 inches (8.6 mm), the handset is also light at 4.70 ounces (133 g). That makes the Sprint Galaxy S III smaller and lighter than almost all other 4G smartphones.
The multimedia package on board the handset includes a built-in YouTube video player, as well as a built-in music player which can filter your selections by artist name, album title and play lists. The handset also supports wireless data transfer applications like Android’s S Beam and Google Wallet with the built-in Near Field Communications (NFC) technology. Fans of social networking will benefit from the Facebook, Twitter and Picasa applications which have been pre-installed into the Sprint Galaxy S III.
Even though the handset is slim and light, the display is large. The 4.80 inch Super AMOLED screen delivers a resolution of 720 x 1,280 pixels, ranking it among the leaders in clarity. Pixel density runs 306 pixels per inch, and Corning has contributed a layer of Gorilla Glass for scratch protection. 16 million separate colors can be found on the display, which supports standard capacitive, multitouch gestures.
Talk time is above average at 9.20 hours, and standby time runs around 8 days. The system chip on board the 16 GB Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III 4G is a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8960 model, and the CPU is a dual core chip clocked at 1.5 GHz. The Adreno 225 GPU handles all graphics processing, with a full 2.0 GB of RAM memory built-in. The handset also delivers microSD slot for storage expansion.
A front facing 1.9 megapixel chat cam joins a rear mounted camcorder in the camera combo, with that rear snapper running 8.0 megapixels. Simultaneous HD and image capture in high definition is provided, video recording running 1,080P HD resolution. Fans of video chat can use the front facing chat cam for that feature, and the rear camcorder comes equipped with LED flash and back illuminated sensor (BSI) for excellent low light operation.
You can purchase the Galaxy S III for Sprint at a discounted price now starting at $0.01.
