Sunday, September 23, 2012

Android Handset : Samsung Galaxy S3 Review & Hands-On

You should had been aware of the launching and announcement of the new Samsung Galaxy S3 a few months ago or simply you get to know it through 9gag where the promotional quote of this Galaxy S3, "Designed for Humans.", has been a joke over the internet lately. This new Samsung Galaxy S3 Android handset comes with numerous features that are truly designed for consumers like any of us. The hardware comes with a quad-core processor, 8MP rear camera & 1.9MP front camera, HD super amoled display, smart stay censor, LTE, and so on.

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The design of this phone is a little bit curved and bigger comparing to the Samsung Galaxy S2 which is rectangular in its design. The screen has 4.8 inches HD super amoled while the succeeder features only 4.3 inches super amoled screen. The locations of the buttons are maintained and the home button of Galaxy S3 is slightly narrower and longer.

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The front and the back view of the Apple iPhone competitor ultimate device. Unlike the Galaxy S2, Samsung offers a range of colors on the Galaxy S3 which the colors include marble white, pebble blue, amber brown, garnet red, sapphire black, and titanium grey. Well, the back of Samsung Galaxy S3 will all be glossy surface rather than a rough surface like the succeeder.

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This ultimate device is bigger than my palm. Regardless of the size of Galaxy S3, the user experiences especially the web browsing experience does satisfy the user together with the solid colors being displayed through the HD super amoled display which is fantastic and unique in its own definition.

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Smart Stay, another feature that may amaze most of the electronics consumers in the market that automatically disables the screen timeout if it detects your face is facing the screen. This feature is great but provided if and only if you enabled it in the device's settings. Personally, it does not make any differences to me because my thumb will be on the screen randomly all the time (disabling timeout manually)

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Smart Alert in Galaxy S3 does make a difference in user experience among any other smartphones available in the market today. It notifies you intelligently that you have a missed call, text messages or so with a gentle vibration when you are back reaching your phone. Will you miss a missed call or text messages? I think probably not. Besides, reviewing the intelligence of this device, there is one feature that brings in the convenience to the users called the Direct Call. This feature automatically calls a person when you place the device towards your ear. How does it works? It works with messages applications for example when a person texted you "Where are you?", instead of tapping on the menu or contact info to call that specific person, you just place your Galaxy S3 towards your ear to call.

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The keyboard in my experience is way too big for typing with only one hand. The accuracy if typing will be a 100% and no typo tolerance without the autocorrect of course. Last but not least, S Beam feature that allows sharing of multimedia files with only one tap is definitely awesome feature ever designed. Even Olympic hotels accept Samsung Galaxy S3 as hotel keycards because of this feature! Unfortunately, this feature can only be connected and shared among the Galaxy S3 devices at the moment.

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With the quad-core processor, taking continuous photos with zero lag is absolutely possible. In my experience, taking continuous photos where you keep on tapping the shooting button works flawlessly and you will not even realizing how many shots you had taken. The shutter speed is as great as the DSLRs, capturing every single moments of an activity. The camera features the abilities to take not only burst shots but also panorama photos and HDR (High Dynamic Range) photos. The quality of the photos taken with front camera does satisfies me instead of a VGA quality photos. For your interest, the samples of photos can be view here.


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