Wednesday, June 6, 2012

In hands with Samsung Galaxy S III

Today Samsung launched the Galaxy S III in Brazil before many other countries that should receive the device, but here it had the slight disadvantage of coming without the application S Voice. Still, it is an important device to market, since it brings other news and is the third line of the famous Galaxy S.


I played a little with a demonstration of the equipment during the conference and you can see below my first impressions (along with a lot of pictures). Straight off, I can say is that it is incredibly thin and impossibly light. Even with huge 4.8 inch screen, the Galaxy S III does not despise these two strong elements of smartphones today. Its Super AMOLED screen, in fact, is awesome. It continues the legacy of the Galaxy S II, which also had a screen with the same technology.

But here it is 1280 x 720 pixels, unlike its predecessor 4.3-inch 800 x 480 pixels. At least there is no confusion as in the former, according to the president of Samsung Brazil, S III comes with Gorilla Glass 2. Unlike the S Voice, which only comes up in the fall update, the S Beam, file transfer functionality via NFC, is present in the device. A quick test showed that it works as it should, making the connection by proximity and subsequent transmission over WiFi Direct.

How often will you use this I do not know, but she is there. The camera of the Galaxy S III is proof that the sensor does not matter much that the manufacturers choose for the phone but the software that controls it. The ability to take 20 pictures continuously is a great feature for the 8-megapixel sensor of the device - sensor which, incidentally, is the same as the iPhone 4S. Another point I found interesting, this time involving the front camera is the feature that illuminates the screen when the user looks at it.

It worked better than I thought it would, to be honest. You ask, then, if it is worth being bought for R $ 2,099.00 with a functionality and just missing the option of 16 GB. Soon receive the device for review and then we can answer that answer with more property. For now, you may be drooling on the pictures.