To say that the Galaxy S III 4G Android smartphone has been successful for both Samsung and the wireless carriers which offer it would be a massive understatement. On the heels of the super successful Galaxy S II, the Galaxy S III erupted into the global mobile marketplace with more than 20 million units sold in its first 100 days of availability. Sprint received the 16 GB Galaxy S III on June 21 of this year, and the handset delivers Android’s 4.1 Jelly Bean operating system, currently priced at under $50 on contract during the Amazon Cyber Monday Deals Week.
Samsung has included the TouchWiz UX UI Android overlay which supports capacitive, multitouch gestures for device navigation. Lighter than many phones with a much smaller display, the Sprint Galaxy S III delivers a large 4.80 inch Super AMOLED screen and weighs in at a light 4.70 ounces (132 g). The handset is also slim in comparison to other phones at 0.34 inches (8.6 mm). A second generation layer of Corning Gorilla Glass offers the handset scratch and chip resistance, and pixel density runs to the high end of the smartphone marketplace at 306 pixels per inch.
Display resolution is 720 x 1,280 pixels, and more than 16 million independent colors are found on that display. The Sprint Galaxy S III provides 9.20 hours of talk time from a single charge, and the handset is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8960 microchip package. The rest of the hardware profile is just as impressive, with double the average amount of RAM memory at 2.0 GB, and the most out-of-the-box, built-in data storage at 32 GB. The CPU is a dual core Krait model clocked at 1.5 GHz, and a separate graphics chip is also on board. Memory can be enhanced even further by accessing the microSD slot which supports external memory cards up to 64 GB in size.
The wireless data transfer Android S Beam application so prevalent in Samsung Galaxy S III advertising is supported by the handset’s Near Field Communications (NFC) support, and the Sprint Galaxy S III display can be exported to an external HDTV or monitor through DLNA wireless connectivity. YouTube and Picasa applications have been preloaded, and the built-in music player in the multimedia package benefits from both preset and custom equalizers.
For the closet shutterbug, the rear facing 8.0 megapixel camcorder contains features such as a high dynamic range mode (HDR), simultaneous HD video and image recording, CMOS image sensor and several other customization options. That rear facing camera records video in 1,920 x 1,080 pixels (1080p HD resolution) and at a rate of 30 frames per second, and facing the Sprint Galaxy S III user is a 1.9 megapixel chat cam, which is capable of portrait snapshot capture and video call support.
