Offered in amber brown, black, white, or blue color choices, and either 16 GB or 32 GB models beginning at around $149 on contract from select online retail outlets like Wirefly, the Samsung Galaxy S III for Verizon arrived on July 12 in the United States. That handset runs on the speedy 4G LTE system the Verizon, and follows an extremely successful Galaxy line of smartphones. Global sales of the Galaxy S II devices are currently in excess of 50 million units, and the Galaxy S III globally shipped more than 20 million units in its first 100 days of availability, breaking a Samsung sales record. The handset helped South Korean smartphone manufacturer and consumer-electronics titan post record-breaking third quarter financials this year.
The Samsung Galaxy S III is on sale now starting at 149.99.
Samsung has reported $7.3 billion in operating profits for Q3 2012, and Samsung figures show that roughly 2/3 of that profit was generated by the Galaxy line of handsets in general, and the Galaxy S III in particular. In the second quarter of this year, Samsung shipped approximately twice the number of smartphones as their number one competitor Apple, with 50 million units versus 26 million for the Cupertino-based company. The handset has been a flagship device for Verizon ever since it debuted, and delivers a large high-resolution screen, high-resolution camcorder, and the most built-in data storage and RAM memory of any current 4G LTE smartphone out-of-the-box.
The handset offers the Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) operating system, and it measures in at a wafer thin 0.34 inches (8.6 mm). The display offered is one of the largest on any mobile handset at 4.80 inches, and that Super AMOLED screen employs over 16 million individual colors. Pixel density runs to the high-end of the mobile marketplace at 306 pixels per inch, giving the handset one of the best resolution offered by any smartphone at 720 x 1,280 pixels.
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On the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE system, the 2,100 mA battery on board the handset offers up to 15.00 hours from a single charge. That is approximately 2 times the amount delivered by the typical 4G smartphone, and the handset is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8960 microchip package. Centered around a dual core 1.5 GHz Krait central processor and Adreno 225 GPU, that hardware package also includes 2.0 GB of RAM system memory and 32 GB of built-in data storage. The rear facing 8.0 megapixel camcorder provides video capture at 1,080P HD resolution, and the front facing chat cam offers video call support.
Buy the Samsung Galaxy S III at a reduced price now starting at 149.99.
