Samsung Galaxy S III Launched, Hands-On Testing 107
MojoKid writes "One of the most highly anticipated Android phones of the year is the Samsung Galaxy S III, and its official launch is today. This smartphone comes with a number of new features we haven't seen on many Android phones, including improved voice control functionality, new sharing features, and Near Field Communication features. Those include Samsung's new TecTiles, which are programmable NFC tags you can use to control the phone's many features and functions. For example, you can program a TecTile to automatically change phone settings for a particular location, send a text message, open apps, etc. Samsung's S Voice functionality works much the same way as Apple's Siri: you can use plain English to tell the phone what you want it to do. You can set alarms, update your social networks, get navigation instructions and ask basic questions. During tests with the Galaxy S III, the performance and accuracy with S Voice was comparable to Siri on an iPhone 4S. Performance-wise, the Galaxy S III handled well in the benchmarks, with Qualcomm's dual-core SnapDragon S4 offering a very fluid experience across Samsung's 4.8-inch Super AMOLED display."
"Official launch"? (Score:5, Informative)
Funny, I've had four of them in my office for about a week now, with the brief of setting them up with our Google Apps for Educators accounts.
We didn't do anything special, just rang up our normal mobile supplier and they gave us four business contracts and posted the phones out same day.
Official launch in the US, maybe?
Re:Has anyone seen... (Score:4, Informative)
Different phone. You have the international, quad-core Exynos, HSPA GT-I9300. This article is about the US-only, dual-core Krait, LTE SGH-I747 (AT&T), SGH-I535 (Verizon) and SGH-T999 (T-Mobile, only HSPA on this version).
Re:My only beef with the Samsung Galaxy phones is. (Score:3, Informative)
I'll just drop this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=elKxgsrJFhw (Galaxy S2 vs iPhone 4 drop test)
Re:NFC has been on others for a while now (Score:3, Informative)
It says 'haven't seen on many', not 'any'. As, in only a few phones have already had it which is true.