System Name: Galaxy SIII
Release Date: International Release - May 29th 2012 / LTE Region Release - June 2012
Launch Colors: Marble White and Pebble Blue.
Specs:
- 4.8 Inch Super AMOLED display with a 1280 x 720 resolution.
- 1.4 GHz Eynos 4 Quad Core A9 ARM Processor.*
- 1.00 GB of RAM
- 8 Megapixel Rear Camera. Video Recording upto 1080p
- 1.9 Megapixel Front Camera. Video Recording upto 720p
- 16, 32, 64 GB flavors at launch. Expandable memory via microSD upto 64GBs.
- Body Weight and Demenisions: 133 grams and measures 136.6 x 70.6 x 8.6mm
- Battery Size: 2100mAh battery
***LTE Version rumored to have a Dual Core A15 Processor instead of Quad Core A9's.Android Ice Cream Sandwich Changes:Smart Stay, which uses the forward-facing camera to determine if you're looking at the phone. You can set time intervals from as little as 15 seconds, which result in a small flashing eye logo in the Android notification bar. If it recognises that your eyes aren't focused on the phone anymore, the screen dims.
- Direct Call, which will auto-dial a contact if you have their contact details or a message open. By moving the phone to your ear, the proximity sensor; accelerometer and gyroscope all kick into use, and automatically dial the contact's number.
- S Voice, which is a Siri-like voice recognition feature, that you can use to enquire about the weather; take a photo ("Hi Galaxy, please take a photo" to open the camera app, or "cheese" to snap it), and other tasks such as locking the phone, or controlling music. Each demand can be configured by the user.
- Social Tag, which links photos of friends in your photo gallery to their Facebook or Google+ accounts, using facial recognition.
- S Beam, which pairs other Galaxy S III phones (and only them, for now) via NFC, shares photos, videos, files or even albums of media over Wi-Fi. If your friend's S III doesn't have Wi-Fi enabled, S Beam will automatically turn that user's Wi-Fi on, and then off.
- AllShare Cast, which pairs to TVs, laptops or tablets over Wi-Fi, mirroring whatever's on the S III. You can also use the S III as a game controller.
- PopUp Play, which will literally pop a video out of its player, rendering it in a small thumbnail so you can continue watching while surfing the web or doing other functions on the phone. The thumbnail is movable around the display, even if it's pretty small.
