The holidays have come and are about to go but the Samsung Galaxy S III remains as one of the most powerful handsets currently available in the market today. The current Samsung flagship device boasts of very impressive components in its internals while at the same time bringing even more impressive capabilities to the table. These attributes have helped the handset become one of the more popular handsets in the smartphone competition and the popularity of the Samsung Galaxy S III is proven by the 30 million units of the handset its manufacturer managed to sell since the handset was released into the market back in the latter parts of May.
The popularity of the handset has shot off the charts and this was on a global scale, mind you. In US shores alone, every major wireless provider (and several smaller ones as well) in our side of the world released their respective variant of the Samsung Galaxy S III. Unsurprisingly, the handset instantly became one of the bestselling devices in all the carriers that released it – not that this came as a surprise for that matter.
Verizon however made waves when it released its version of the Samsung Galaxy S III with a locked bootloaded. This led to consternation among the subscribers of Big Red who happen to be power users because the handset’s locked bootloader posed a lot of problems in taking advantage of the personalization and customization options that handset has to offer through its Android operating system. The developer communities however managed to come up with a work around that unshackled the bootloader of the Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III so everything was right with the world again.
For those rocking a Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III 4G for their mobile weapon of choice who have been waiting for faster and better custom ROMs to become available, your wait has suddenly come to a screeching end. After all, the Korean electronics giant has already released the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean source code of the Verizon variant of the Samsung Galaxy S III. While this might sound foreign to the regular smartphone user, the boys and girls of the developer communities will definitely have a field day in poring over the source code. With this in play, we can certainly expect custom ROMs and kernels for the Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III to drop like manna from the heavens in the coming days and weeks.
As for the Samsung Galaxy S III, the handset has its circuitry built around a QualComm MSM8960 SnapDragon chipset. This SoC gives the smartphone a dual-core Krait processor clocked at 1.5 GHz and a whopping 2GB of RAM. The handset can be had in either 16GB or 32GB in terms of storage space but a user has the option of having its memory expanded by using the handset’s dedicated microSD card slot. In terms of its display, the Samsung Galaxy S III sports a massive 4.8-inch SuperAMOLED HD panel with a 1280 x 720 resolution while its camera department boasts of a rear 8MP shooter and a front 1.9MP snapper.
