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The Lowdown on the Samsung Galaxy S3

Samsung-Galaxy-S-III-4G-16GB-1-xlThe Samsung Galaxy S3 is one of Samsung’s best selling smartphones. Launched in the Spring of 2012, the S3 has proved to be extremely popular thanks to its great features and superb value for money.

Available in Pebble Blue or Marble White, the Samsung Galaxy S3 is made from robust polycarbonate with a toughened Gorilla Glass 2 screen. With a lovely contoured design, the S3 has curved edges and fits comfortably into the palm of your hand. The acclaimed full HD Super AMOLED screen measures 4.8 inches (720 x 1280 pixels) and has a pixel density of 306 pixels per inch. With super sharpness, vivid colours and fast screen response time, the screen brightness also adjusts automatically if you’re looking at the screen thanks to its cutting-edge Smart Stay technology.

The Samsung Galaxy S3 is packed with some great features. Share and transfer photos, videos, documents etc to other S3 users with S Beam by simply putting your handset back to back with the phone you want to transfer to. Multitask and chat, email, text or surf the web whilst watching a video with Pop up Play and Smart Alert will alert you to new calls and messages as soon as you pick up the phone again. It’s also possible to control some of the Galaxy S3 features remotely including answering or rejecting calls, adjusting the volume, taking photos and controlling the alarm by using the S-Voice software.

The Samsung Galaxy S3 comes with a great quality 8-megapixel camera complete with autofocus, an LED flash, smile detection and image stabilisation. By automatically taking 8 shots in quick succession, you’re sure to get a decent photo and Buddy Photo-share cleverly recognises faces in your photo albums so you can quickly and easily share your pictures with family and friends.

Boasting a powerful removable 2100mAh battery, the S3 will give you 7 hours of talk time or 8 hours of online surfing. The Galaxy S3 has a respectable 16GB of internal storage which can be increased to 64GB with use of a microSD card and runs on a 1.4GHz quad-core processor.

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