Samsung Galaxy S III

Details

It will be available in two color options—marble white and pebble blue, along with numerous new software features and hardware accessories. However, only on the AT&T model will the Galaxy SIII be in the colour option of strawberry red. These new features include Smart Stay (the screen remains on when the user looks at the screen, otherwise it sleeps), Direct Call (which allows the user to call a person whose text message is currently on screen simply by raising the phone to the ear), Pop Up Play (allows a video and other activities to occupy the screen at the same time), S Voice, Buddy Photo Sharing, Allcast Share Dongle, Group Cast (documents collaboration), wireless charging, S Pebble MP3 player, dock/charger, C-Pen, slimline case, and car mount. The phone comes in 16 GB, 32 GB, and 64 GB variants, with microSDXC storage offering up to an additional 64 GB for a potential total of 128 GB.An additional 50 GB of space is offered on the Dropbox service for purchasers of the device for two years, doubling rival HTC's 25 GB storage for the same duration.
The international version has Samsung's Exynos 4 Quad system on a chip containing a 1.4 GHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 CPU and an ARM Mali-400 MP GPU.However, the US version is expected to use Qualcomm’s dual-core Snapdragon S4 SoC to support LTE functionality. Dimensions of the device are 136.6 × 70.6 × 8.6 mm and weighs at 133 grams with a 2100 mAh lithium-ion battery. The glass used for the display on the Galaxy S III is Corning Gorilla Glass 2.
The Galaxy S III is the official device of the 2012 Summer Olympics. A special edition of the phone equipped with the Visa payWave mobile payment application is to be distributed to athletes and trialists sponsored by Samsung and Visa

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Availability

The Galaxy SIII I9300 pre-order has been already reported by the Korea Economic Daily to cross over 9 million. The SIII will go on sale starting from 29 May in Europe, and will be gradually rolled out in other parts of the world. It was released at midday on 31 May in Australia.^{[citation needed]}
In India, the SIII was launched on 31 May 2012 Its high launch price of 43,180 (US$861.44) generated a lot of negative publicity for Samsung

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Model comparison table

	GT-I9300	SGH-i747	SGH-T999
Countries	International	Canada, United States	Canada, United States
Carriers	International	Bell, Rogers, Telus, AT&T	Mobilicity, Wind, Videotron, T-Mobile
2G GSM/GPRS/EDGE	850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz
3G UMTS/HSPA+	850, 900, 1900, 2100 MHz	850, 1900, 2100 Mhz	850, 1700 (AWS), 1900, 2100 MHz
4G LTE	No	700, 1700 (AWS) MHz	No
Max network speed	21 Mbps HSPA+	75 Mbps LTE	42 Mbps DC-HSPA+
Dimensions	136.6 mm (5.38 in) × 70.7 mm (2.78 in) × 8.6 mm (0.34 in)
Weight	133 g (4.7 oz)
Operating system	Android 4.0.4 with TouchWiz "Nature UX" user interface
SoC	Samsung Exynos 4 Quad	Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 MSM8960
CPU	1.4 GHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A9	1.5 GHz dual-core Qualcomm Krait
GPU	ARM Mali-400 MP4	Qualcomm Adreno 225
RAM	1 GB	2 GB
Storage	16/32/64 GB	16/32 GB	16/32 GB

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