On Wednesday, October 17 smartphone manufacturer Samsung Mobile announced they would begin rolling out the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean operating system update to their Galaxy S III smartphones in the United States. The Galaxy S III is currently running on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS), and Samsung stated that the over the air update will be up to the discretion of individual carriers as to when it is delivered. Announcements have not yet been confirmed by Sprint or the other United States wireless carriers, but we expect an upcoming press release soon. Sprint has typically been quicker to access Android updates than some of the other carriers, but as yet Sprint has made no announcement.
The Samsung Galaxy S III is on sale now starting at 99.99.
Galaxy S III handsets in Europe have already been receiving the Jelly Bean 4.1 update, which delivers a new user interface and multimedia capabilities as well as the highly anticipated Google Now application. The new operating system is set to deliver a much faster and smoother user interface, improved keyboard and word prediction software. Notifications have been expanded, and voice search capabilities are supposedly much improved.
The Samsung Galaxy S III arrived on the Sprint wireless system on June 21 of this year in the US, but it wasn’t until three weeks after that that Sprint debuted a brand-new 4G LTE network. On July 15 Sprint launched their virginal 4G LTE system, and recently announced the addition of 100 major Metropolitan areas in the US by the end of the year. That handset delivers a powerful dual core processor and is one of the first handsets to offer a full 2.0 GB of RAM system memory.
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An immediate bestseller for Sprint when it arrived, the handset offers Near Field Communications (NFC) support out-of-the-box, and arrives in the typical candy bar form factor. Slimmer than most handsets at 0.34 inches (8.6 mm) and light at 4.70 ounces (132 g), the handset nonetheless delivers one of the largest screens found on any smartphone at 4.80 inches. That Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen is protected by a second generation Corning Gorilla Glass overlay, and uses more than 16 million different colors to create visuals.
Display resolution runs at the high-end of all smartphones, at 720 x 1280 pixels overall. That is delivered at 306 pixels per inch, also at the high-end of the smartphone marketplace. Integrated into the back of the handset is an 8.0 megapixel camcorder, and facing the user is a VGA quality chat cam. That rear device records video in 1,080P HD resolution and in stereo sound, allowing for simultaneous HD video and image capture. YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Picasa applications have been preloaded.
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