By on 4 May, 2012 at 2:45 PM
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Samsung Officially Announces Galaxy S III

We’ve been hearing about this smartphone for months now, but Samsung has finally made things official. Introducing the Samsung Galaxy S III, the latest Android-powered beast to join the Galaxy S range that has dominated Android markets.

The S III will be sporting some impressive hardware under the hood, but before that let’s take a look at what’s on the outside. The Galaxy S III is equipped with a 4.8″ 1280×720 Super AMOLED display, and will weigh around 132 grams. That’s extremely light, which is expected if you’ve ever held a S II. The Super AMOLED display should make all your colours look more vibrant and your blacks a lot darker, but let’s hope some of the sun glare issues have been addressed.

Underneath all of this, the S III will sport either Samsung’s quad-core Exynos 4 Quad processor or a dual-core Snapdragon S4, depending on region. Apparently, regions with LTE support will have to settle for the Snapdragon dual-core, while regions without LTE should receive the more powerful quad-cores. That means we might actually get the long end of the stick for once.

A 1.9MP front facing camera will be able to record video at 720p, and the rear 8MP 1080p camera will be able to take photos with zero shutter lag. The handset will come in three variants of storage space, namely 16, 32 and 64GB, with a MicroSD slot allowing you to add onto the internal storage.

The S III will also come in two colours: Marble White and Pebble Blue. The design is a clear combination of previous Galaxy S handsets and the recently released Galaxy Nexus, giving off a more curved and rounded finish. The design is not exactly that incredible, but it’s not hideous either.

On the software side of things, the S III will ship with Android 4.0, Ice-Cream Sandwich, and will feature Samsung’s TouchWiz Nature UX. This iteration will include all the previous features of the older TouchWiz, as well as add enhanced voice recognition, motion detection, the ability to open up the camera app in less than a second and shoot a burst of eight photos with zero shutter lag, exclusive use of the Flipboard for Android app, and much more.

Expect the 3G HSPA+ versions to ship to Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East in May, meaning that the Samsung Galaxy S III could very well be in your pocket by the end of the month. Has Samsung done enough for you to consider an upgrade?

Source: IGN

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  • Treble

    Well a price would be nice but yeah i would really consider getting this

    • Alessandro Barbosa

      I no dat iPhone is lik waaaaaaaaay beta bru :P Scumbag Android owners

    • Treble

      Yeah on second thought made of plastic will rather consider iPhone lol

  • AG_Sonday

    There was so little Apple fanboyism I hardly picked up on it :P.

    Personally, this sounds like one amazing machine and it looks like an HTC which is pretty much the perfect marriage. I really think my next phoen will be an Android and very possibly whatever Galaxy is on the market at the time.

    • Alessandro Barbosa

      If you’re going for an Android, I would also look at HTC’s new line. The HTC One X is equally as powerful :P

    • AG_Sonday

      I love the HTC One series. When you power one of them up, they say “the one you’ve been looking for”.

      My next phone is quite a long way down the line though since I just got a BB. Calm yourself, I will eventually go to Android and probably stay their but I wanted to try a BB since most of my friends have one (ergo convenience) and to see whether they are actually worth it.

    • Alessandro Barbosa

      A friend of mine at varsity actually got a One X the other day from overseas, and it made me super jelly :P I’ll keep quite about your idiotic BB choice…for now :P

    • AG_Sonday

      Android is obviously the best but I had to see what BB was all about and rest assured I have my reasons, k? Don’t bring up my decision to get a BB and I won’t bring up your Apple fanboyism :P.

  • Matthew Slade

    They haven’t done enough for me. I’ve got a Galaxy Note and the specs are basically identical except for form factor and quad vs dual core.

    Now if I could just get the ICS update I was promised 2 months ago…

  • Matthew Slade

    I’m also surprised that it still has hardware buttons. Android is trying to steer away from hardware buttons in a big way with ICS so that’s interesting that Samsung has kept the buttons