As of the moment, the Samsung Galaxy S III is still one of the most powerful handsets in the smartphone market today. This despite the fact that the current Samsung flagship device has already been in the shelves for more than six months now since getting released back in May last year. This is because the Samsung Galaxy S III packs fire-breathing components under the hood and brings a set of very impressive components to the table.
Because of the said attributes of the handset, the Samsung Galaxy S III has also become one of the most popular smartphones for the year 2012. In fact, 2012 is said to be the year of the handset because this is when the Samsung Galaxy S III became one of the bestselling handsets where more than 30 million units of the Samsung superphone were sold. This is turn made the Samsung Galaxy S III a veritable gold mine for the Korean electronics giant and is expected to rake in more sales for the company until its successor gets announced.
The Samsung Galaxy S III is such an awesome piece of technology that it is very hard to find something negative about the handset. There were issues about the build quality of the handset in the past but these did not really take off because it is not that widespread. There is also the “sudden handset death” issue but Samsung is already in the process of working on the software update that will get this take care of. If there is one thing that we want to get rid of on the Samsung Galaxy S III, it would have to be the bloatware that comes with the handset.
If this is your gripe about the handset, then a nifty little tool called PalaTool is the answer to your prayers. This tool was developed by shahar2k9 from XDA Developers and basically enables a user to remove bloatware and at the same time install Android 4.2 versions of the handset’s default apps. Should you be interested in taking advantage of PalaTool, your Samsung Galaxy S III should be rooted with CWM recovery installed. If so, all you need to do is boot into recovery mode from ROM manager, access the PalaTool zip file and everything is pretty straightforward from there.
Not only that, a user also gets to install elements from the Nexus 4 user interface such as wallpapers and fonts along with the CyanogenMod APN list using PalaTool. Below are the bloatware PalaTool enables you to take out along with the Android 4.2 apps and Nexus 4 UI elements that it brings to the Samsung Galaxy S III.
- Stock Widgets
- Live Wallpapers
- Samsung Hubs
- Samsung Email
- Kies
- SMemo & PaperArtist
- AllShare
- S Cloud
- Yahoo Widgets
- SSuggest
- Samsung Account
- Samsung Push Service
- Samsung Apps
- Samsung Update
- Other Samsung bloatware – Test apps etc.
Android 4.2 Apps:
- Android 4.2 Camera & Gallery
- Android 4.2 Desk Clock
- Android 4.2 Gmail
- Android 4.2 Wallet
- Android 4.2 Google Ears
- Android 4.2 Genie Widget
- Android 4.2 CyanogenMod File Manager
- Android 4.2 Calendar
- Android 4.2 Keyboard
Nexus 4 UI:
- Nexus 4 Audio
- Nexus 4 BootAnimation
- Nexus 4 Fonts
- Nexus 4 WallPapers
