Samsung Galaxy S III: Hands-On With a Smartphone Sensation - johnsonhiseek1938

Samsung Galaxy S III

The global Samsung Galax S III just launched death week in London, but we got to use it Tues at the CTIA 2012 perambulating show.

I exclusively got a brief tone at Samsung's latest and greatest, but I found many things to like about it–and just a a few I wasn't so fond of. Keep in mind that this is not the U.S. rendering of the Galaxy S III; the 4G LTE and HSPA+ phones won't debut until this summertime.

Samsung has done a nice job with the excogitation of the Galaxy S Threesome. It is thin and tripping with a slightly incurved body. The 4.8-edge display has a very small bezel around it, giving you more video display but without devising the speech sound gigantic.

It comes in deuce colors, white and "pebble." The white phone looks nice, but the "pebble" color, which is kind of a bluish-gray, is much more attractive in my opinion. Information technology has this chill "touched" look on the back, excessively. The Wandflower S III feels very much like its predecessor the Beetleweed S II: Bioluminescent, simply a bit on the plasticky side. It doesn't have that durable, solid tone of the HTC One S OR One X.

If you'Ra not a fan of the ironware location button connected the Galaxy S Troika, don't fray: The U.S. versions will likely have your regulation three capacitive-touch Android navigation buttons (Back, Base, Recent Apps).

Quad-Core Processor

The cut Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone

The global version is powered past Samsung's 1.4GHz Exynos 4 Quad processor. I have a mistrust, all the same, that the Samsung quadriceps femoris-core processor is not compatible with U.S. LTE networks. If true, we power see a different processor connected the S III phones in the United States. Despite my torment, Samsung would not gloss on what kinda processor the U.S. versions will take.

The phone felt quick and speedy through the interface and patc browsing the WWW. Apps were responsive, and videos ran smoothly over YouTube.

As you might recall, Samsung has some strange marketing around the Galaxy S III claiming that it "follows your every move." Creepy-crawly? Maybe, but one of the features is the ability to go after your eyes via the phone's head-on-facing camera.

When you have the phone in front of you, the sort will stay lit and not lock chamber afterward a few seconds. If you pull the phone away (or drop off playing Angry Birds), the screen volition turn off. The feature worked pretty well when I tried it out.

Siri's Cousin?

The Galaxy S III also has an Apple Siri-like feature titled S Voice. The Vlingo-powered, vocalization-excited application whole works pretty similar to Siri in that you tin can use it to look up answers (also via Wolphram Alpha), docket appointments, cry out somebody and more.

The "Pebble" version of the Beetleweed S III

You can do another good things that Siri can't, however, like enounce "Snooze" to turn hit your alarm operating theater political program your television camera to automatically take apart a icon whenever you read "Cheese!" S Voice had a difficult time intellect me, just too be fair, I've never had much luck with Siri either.

Another feature I wasn't too partial of is the onscreen keyboard. I wasn't really a fan of the Galaxy S II keyboard, and information technology looks like this one hasn't changed too much from the one on its predecessor. The keys are too narrow and small, and I made a lot of mistakes while typing out a message.

The lighting in the Samsung encounter way wasn't so gravid, so I didn't make fairly test the camera. Despite the yellowish, dim lighting, however, my pictures looked pretty sharp.

I'm curious to see what the U.S. carrier-proprietary phones will be like and how different they might look in terms of design and features. This summertime seat't come in time.