With the unveiling of this year’s new breed of superphones, the best handset from last year you cab get your hands on is the Samsung Galaxy S III. The handset was the flagship device of the Korean smartphone and tablet manufacturer in 2012 and this meant that the Samsung Galaxy S III came armed with the most impressive set of components under the hood that came housed in a sexy and gorgeous exterior. This made the Samsung Galaxy S III very popular that sales figures of the handset have already reached the 50 million mark since getting released during the latter parts of May 2012.
The original Samsung Galaxy S III is available for a reduced sale price now starting at $0.01.
The impending arrival of this year’s current crop of superphones such as the Samsung Galaxy S IV and the HTC One means that the attention of the smartphone buying population will now be directed towards these new and more powerful devices. With this development, carriers are looking for more and more ways to make older but still very capable handsets such as the Samsung Galaxy S III still look attractive in the public’s eye.
The first and most obvious move that carriers will execute is to slash the price point of their respective variants of the Samsung Galaxy S III. We’ve already seen this happen among several carriers where their respective versions of the Samsung Galaxy S III are being sold for a much more affordable price point. This will definitely appeal to those who would rather get an older yet still very capable device such as the Samsung Galaxy S III and save a lot of money in the process as opposed to getting what is said to be this year’s latest and greatest.
Other carriers on the other hand resort to releasing a device in a new paint job and this is what Sprint did with its variant of the Samsung Galaxy S III. There were already rumors from a couple of weeks back that the Now Network is about to release a purple version of the once flagship device p of Samsung and today, the Amethyst Purple variant of the Samsung Galaxy S III is now available in Sprint shelves. This version of the handset can now be had in the same low price as its other variants provided the you sign a new two year service agreement with the wireless provider in the process.
Despite its aging status, the Samsung Galaxy S III is still one powerful handset to boot. It has a QualComm MSM8960 SnapDragon chipset under the hood powering its operation while a dual-core 1.5 GHz Krait processor works in conjunction with a whopping 2 GB of RAM in generating the required computing muscle of the handset. The Samsung Galaxy S III is available in a 32GB and a 64GB version in terms of storage capacity but this can still be expanded using the handset’s microSD card slot. Display-wise, the handset comes with a 4.8-inch SUperAMOLED HD panel with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels while its camera department is just as impressive with its rear 8MP shooter and front 1.9.MP video call and self-portrait snapper.
You can purchase the Galaxy S III for Sprint at a discounted price tag now starting at $0.01.
