During the annual Amazon Wireless holiday sale, one of the best selling and most popular phones in the smartphone marketplace currently has received a retail price reduction. The 32 GB Galaxy SIII was recently lowered to under $50 on contract at the online retailing kingpin’s wireless store. Moving an incredible 20 million units its first 100 days of global availability, the Sprint Galaxy S III rocketed up to the number one spot in overall smartphone sales in the third quarter this year.
That handset stands poised to pass the 40 million units sold mark by the end of this month according to several online analysts, and a lowered retail price just in time for the holiday shopping season certainly will not hurt Sprint’s sales. Sprint debuted their new 4G LTE network earlier this year, with speeds up to 10 times faster than their 3G system. On that 4G LTE system, the 32 GB Sprint Galaxy S III is capable of simultaneous voice and data access, meaning you never again having to end a voice call to check your e-mail or surf the web.
With NFC (Near Field Communications) support out-of-the-box, wireless data transfer is made easy with Android’s S Beam application, and paying for your purchases without pulling out your wallet or credit card can be handled through the Google Wallet NFC app as well. With a slim profile of 0.34 inches (8.6 mm), the handset is also light at 4.70 ounces (130 g). And the Sprint Galaxy S III offers one of the largest and highest resolution displays on any smartphone.
The Super AMOLED display delivers a high-end pixel density of 306 pixels per inch to the 4.80 inch touchscreen, and Corning Gorilla Glass 2 gives that display a layer of scratch protection. Resolution is also at the higher end of all smartphones, at 720 x 1,280 pixels. With a talk time of approximately 9.2 hours on the Sprint 4G LTE network, the 2,100 mA battery on board the 32 GB Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III delivers above average performance.
Closet shutterbugs will like the rear facing 8.0 megapixel camcorder, which can record video in 1,080P HD resolution, and simultaneously capture high definition images and video. It is joined in the camera combo by a front facing chat cam, a YouTube video player has been pre-installed, as has a built-in music player. A Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8960 chip set is present, and an Adreno 225 GPU handles all graphics processing. 2.0 GB of RAM system memory are installed, and the built-in microSD slot offers storage expansion capability. The CPU on board is a speedy 1.5 GHz dual core Krait processor.
