Samsung Galaxy S III
HD Camcorder (1080p ) at 30 fps
0.342 W / kg
- GSM / GPRS / EDGE 850, 900, 1800, 1900
- UMTS 850, 900, 1900, 2100
- LTE ( only with S III i9305 )
- WLAN 802.11a/802.11n
- Bluetooth 4.0, NFC, Allshare
The Samsung Galaxy S III (GT- i9300 or i9305 with LTE) is a smartphone, which was presented by the manufacturer Samsung on May 3, 2012 in London. Like its predecessor Samsung Galaxy S II is equipped with the Android operating system and the additional user interface TouchWiz.
The successor Samsung Galaxy S4 was presented on March 14, 2013 in New York.
Design
The shell of the Samsung Galaxy S III consists of the plastic polycarbonate and has been for the launch in two colors available: White Marble ( " marble white " ) and Pebble Blue ( " pebble blue "). In North America - exclusively for AT & T - since July 29, 2012, a red version ( Garnet Red ) available. In Germany, the network operator O2 is responsible for sale of the red model. The device has a size of 133 mm × 70.6 mm × 8.6 mm, a weight of 133 grams.
Technology
The device features a 4.8 -inch Super AMOLED HD display with multi-touch technology of Gorilla Glass 2 and an 8- megapixel camera with autofocus and LED flash. In addition to photos and videos and video conferences with front camera are possible. It is equipped with 16 GB, 32 GB, and - available also with integrated 64 GB Storage - since September 2012. By means of an external MicroSD, MicroSDHC or microSDHC card can expand the memory to a maximum of 64 GB.
As new software features are Smart Stay (the screen does not switch to sleep mode in order, as long as you look at it ), the new voice control S Voice, Face Detection for photos Buddy Photo Sharing, AllShare Cast dongle and groupcast preinstalled. The CPU clock, if the system is not busy or small and can be kept to a minimum of 200 MHz. Also in the power saving options of clock can be limited in order to prolong the battery life.
In Germany already pre-installed apps are in-house instant messenger ChatON, the app of the newspaper picture, the hotel search HRS, the shopper kaufDA Navigator, the app Lieferheld, the App Store from Samsung, the taxi booking service MyTaxi, the application for storing notes SMemo, the schedule SPlanner and the app recommendation tool SSuggest. Optional dock / charger, MP3 Player remote control S Pebble and a car mount is an accessory for inductive battery charge available. In addition, the purchaser of the unit 50 GB hard disk space for the web service Dropbox offered - limited to two years.
The international version has a Samsung proprietary system-on -a- chip with a 1.4 GHz quad- core ARM Cortex-A9 CPU ( Samsung Exynos 4412 ) and an ARM Mali -400 MP GPU. For the U.S. version is expected to be a Qualcomm dual-core Snapdragon S4 SoC is used with LTE support.
Furthermore it has the Samsung Galaxy S III an MHL port. However, this differs from the MHL standard. For this reason, a special adapter from Samsung is required.
Despite the existing Bluetooth 4.0 chipset for a long time could be used no related accessories, as the Android operating system lacked the Bluetooth 4.0 support necessary. This changed with the beginning of 2014 delivered update to Android 4.3.
LTE support
In some countries, the Samsung Galaxy S III was already available since the launch with LTE support, in Germany there was the appropriate variant, not to buy. In August 2012, the Telekom Germany announced to offer the smartphone exclusively in the LTE version. The Galaxy S III LTE is identical to the standard model equipped with a quad - core processor and a bit more expensive than the standard model.
Marketing and Sales
The smartphone was declared by Samsung for "official smartphone of the 2012 Summer Olympics " and advertised with closeness to nature. Two months after launch over ten million units were sold worldwide; to early September 2012, the manufacturer was able to deliver 20 million units and 30 million units by early November. In March 2013 has been confirmed by Samsung that the Galaxy S3 has sold over 50 million units.
Prohibition of sale:
In July 2012, Samsung released an update marked as a stability update, be disabled with the specific features of the smartphone. This includes, among other things, the local search can be with the contacts on the central box of Google found. This technology is patented by Apple, which has already led to a ban on sales of the Galaxy Nexus in the U.S.. Therefore, the update is commonly evaluated as a precaution from Samsung to III prevent a possible ban on the sale of the Galaxy S in advance. Samsung, however, stated that it is a mistake, and promised the restoration of the disabled features.
Review and Critique
In expert reviews, the Voice Control Voice S proved compared to Apple's Siri as not optimal. Were rated as convincingly made possible by the quad-core processor high speed when opening applications and surfing as well as the very good voice quality when calling.
Owners of the Galaxy S III report on fine cracks in the polycarbonate housing and the Gorilla Glass display of the device, which formed apparently without external cause; Samsung will investigate the problem and assured all concerned a repair under warranty to. The same applies to the so-called Sudden Death problem, which is a malfunction in the internal flash memory in some produced in 2012 16GB models and can lead to sudden system crashes or even total failure. This error has now been corrected hardware-based and newer devices will be equipped with a revised motherboard. In affected models of the problem under warranty, the motherboard is replaced.
In a quick test of Stiftung Warentest on test.de the large display with excellent image quality and sharpness, the high pace of work and low weight and the battery performance was praised, while the low voice quality with background noise as well as an " antenna problem " ( when touching the antenna on the housing reduces the transmission power significantly ) was criticized.
Software updates
At launch, the Samsung Galaxy S3 was shipped with Android 4.0.x Ice Cream Sandwich. From October 2012 to update to 4.1.1 JellyBean was available on which depending on the region between December 2012 and January 2013, a further update to Android version 4.1.2 followed JellyBean. This brought in the so- called premium suite of new features with it, including the so-called multi-window feature, which allows the simultaneous display of two running apps at the same time over one another ( in portrait mode ), or side by side ( in landscape mode). Furthermore, were the camera and gallery-view expanded by additional functions. It was originally planned to release an update to Android 4.2.2 JellyBean including some features of the Samsung Galaxy S4 during the year 2013. Due to various Anspassungsprobleme with the TouchWiz user interface, however, these plans had to be put on hold and the decision was made for a later direct update to Android 4.3 JellyBean in the second half. Already in November 2013, this update has been made in several European countries are available, but it soon proved to be not mature, which has resulted in many users in serious malfunctions. For those reasons, it was then taken relatively quickly from the network. The revised and functioning version of Android 4.3 is being rolled out since the end of 2013 and thus almost exactly a year after the last official update. The most important innovations are TRIM Support ( deletes old data faster from memory and speeds up the device considerably ), new GPU driver for higher graphics performance, parts of the new TouchWiz user interface of the Galaxy S4 and score 3, a new Samsung keyboard and Apps2SD, allowing the installation of apps on the memory card.
Galaxy S III Mini
On September 11, 2012, the smaller Samsung Galaxy S III was introduced mini ( GT- i8190 ) which is opposite to the Galaxy S III is a 4 inch display with 800 × 480 px resolution, clocked at 1 GHz dual- core processor and a 5 - megapixel camera offers.