Sprint beat their competitors to the punch by delivering the Android Jelly Bean 4.1 operating system to their Galaxy S III handset before anyone else in the United States. Delivering the Google Now virtual personal assistant and contextual search engine, Jelly Bean provides a much smoother and quicker overall user interface than previous Android operating systems. Online retailer Wirefly has the 16 GB Galaxy S III offered in your choice of blue or white body color for $99 on contract, and the GS III delivers one of the largest screens and one of the highest resolutions found on a mobile handset.
The Samsung Galaxy S III is available for a reduced price and free shipping, now starting at 99.99.
The Sprint Galaxy S III 4G Android smartphone will be running on Sprint’s brand-new 4G LTE system in the United States, and delivers up to 7.5 hours of talk time from a single charge of its 2,100 mA battery. Measuring 5.39 x 2.80 x 0.34 inches (137 x 71 x 8.6 mm) and weighing 4.70 ounces (133 g), the GS III delivers the Samsung TouchWiz UX UI Android overlay, and supports multitouch, capacitive gestures. A protective layer of Corning Gorilla Glass 2 offers scratch and chip resistance for the display.
That display is a large 4.80 inches, delivering a resolution of 720 x 1,280 pixels. Pixel density runs to the high-end at 306 pixels per inch, and the Super AMOLED screen employs more than 16 million colors when displaying visuals. The hardware package on board includes the most out-of-the-box, built-in data storage at 32 GB, with microSD, microSDHC and microSDXC support for external memory cards up to 64 GB in size. The GS III also delivers twice the average 4G smartphone RAM memory at 2.0 GB.
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A Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8960 microchip package has been tasked to handle device operations, built around a dual core 1.5 GHz Krait central processor. An Adreno 225 GPU handles all your graphics requests, and accelerator, light, compass, barometer, gyro and proximity sensors round out the hardware package. The Sprint Galaxy S III offer simultaneous HD video and image capture with its rear facing 8.0 megapixel camcorder, providing that video capture at 1,080P HD resolution.
Joining the camcorder in the camera combo is a front facing 1.9 megapixel chat cam, and a built-in music player joins a proprietary YouTube video player in the multimedia package. That music player filters by album, artist or play list, and the popular Picasa application has been pre-installed. The Sprint Galaxy S III delivers Near Field Communications (NFC) wireless connectivity options out-of-the-box.
You can purchase the Samsung Galaxy S III for a reduced price tag now starting at 99.99.
November 16, 2012 at 9:04 am
I havent received the ota update from sprint on my s3, I’m still running on 4.0.4
November 16, 2012 at 3:30 pm
No update here either, and Sprint sent a message 2 weeks ago announcing the update in the next days bus still nothing :/