Samsung Galaxy S III unveiled, coming later this month

Posted date: May 03, 2012 In: Science and Technology | comment : 0

As promised, Samsung unveiled its next generation Galaxy smartphone at company’s Mobile Unpacked event in London.

Dubbed as Samsung Galaxy S III, the smartphone improves on the predecessor in many ways. First, you’ve got the addition of quad core processor, in the form of company’s own Exynos 4 Quad. It has four cores clocked at 1.4GHz.

It also runs on Android 4.0 ‘Ice Cream Sandwich’, but as expected it will feature Samsung’s custom Touchwiz user interface. Company revealed that the brand new version of Touchwiz, 5.0 offers added functionality, including Smart Stay and S Voice, plus a “pop-up video” feature that allows you to view a video while doing other tasks.
The previous version of the smartphone ‘Galaxy S II’ was a big hit and Samsung has shipped over 20 million units of the smartphone.You will get a 4.8-inch Super AMOLED 720p display. Other features of the smartphone include 8-megapixel rear camera, 1.9-megapixel front-facing camera, 16 or 32GB of storage with microSD expansion, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS with GLONASS, 802.11n Wi-Fi, NFC, and a 2,100mAh battery.