Tag: S3
A few tips for you. First, when you’re writing a story for this site, don’t walk into a web cafe and press CTRL+V because… WOAH… you’ll be surprised what you can find. Secondly, it’s worth buying some shares in Samsung. They’ve almost doubled their operating profit in Q3 …
The Samsung Galaxy SIII is a crackin’ handset. But hey, how about getting one in stylish red colour eh? Now you can, and for £429.99 it’s SIM-free too. Reduced from £550, you can read my review if you’re sitting on the fence. It has a quad-core 1.4GHz CPU, …
The iPhone 5 has appeared on popular benchmarking tool Geekbench. As well as already known specs, the results seem to indicate that the latest phone from Apple is a 1GHZ Dual Core ARMv7 processor with 1GB of RAM. Apple doesn’t confirm specifications like this for iOS devices so …
Robbie Williams popped over to the UK recently to film the video for his latest song, “Candy”. The Samsung Galaxy SIII gets shown a couple of times … well… actually it gets shown about four times during the video. Both Robbie and the candy girl seem to have …
Samsung have announced that they’ve sold a staggering 20 million Galaxy SIII in 100 days. That’s just over 3 months, or a quarter. Nokia sold 4 million Lumia handsets during Q2 of 2012. Whilst the iPhone 4S sold 4 million units in 3 days last year, we should …
So, that patent battle. All done and dusted, right? Just a few older Samsung handsets in the US affected, right? Well, not so. Despite rumours that the CEO’s of both Apple and Samsung are now “in talks”, the Apple legal team have named extra devices to their seperate …
I had a chat with this gent recently on a flight. He spotted me looking at his phone.. Actually I have to admit that I was watching his movie… It’s a Galaxy SIII from Samsung, brilliant thing. Yeah, I know. I’m just watching the new Batman movie. I’ve …
Just a few days back we highlighted the fact that Jelly Bean – the new Android OS version – would be arriving pretty soon on the Samsung Galaxy SIII. Now things have taken a step closer, with the official ROM update apparently leaking and getting filmed below. Link …
Retailer MobileFun have announced availability and a price for the rumoured black Galaxy SIII. That pretty much means the rumours are true. You can’t really say much more about the Galaxy SIII. Another colour will certainly appeal to people who don’t like the current white or blue models. …
Battery life is one of those things that is NEVER going to improve. As devices get more powerful, thinner, get bigger screens battery life always take a hit. Sometimes manufacturers do something about this. Take the Motorola Razr Maxx or the Samsung Galaxy Note for example. Both have …
A post over at Sam Mobile claims to have learned of the timescales Samsung currently have in mind for updating devices such as the Galaxy S3 and S2 and also the Galaxy Note. The post gives the following timescales Galaxy S III – End Q3 begin Q4Galaxy …
Come on. You knew it would sell in spades, didn’t you? Samsung has managed to sell more than 10 million Galaxy SIII handsets in less than two months. President of IT and Mobile Communications, Shin Jong-kyun, has revealed that the SIII has done in two months what the …
Yes, it’s another one of those Facebook competitions where you’ve got to “Like” something so that the company in question can send you lots of helpful “updates”.. but hey, you could win a brand new Samsung Galaxy S3, so it’s probably worth it eh ? Click over to …
In what could be seen as a surprise move the ban on the sales of Google’s flagship Galaxy Nexus handset has been overturned by the appeals court. No reason has been given for the overturning however Apple have until Thursday to appeal. The full trial is due to …
A couple of weeks ago we reported on a possible case of an exploding Samsung Galaxy SIII. It had been claimed by a user in Ireland that his S3 exploded whilst on his in-car charger. Appearing on Samsung’s global blog are details of how they contracted an independent investigator (Fire …
So, after a full week of Samsung Galaxy SIII features, let’s take a look back. Back before the S3 was announced to the world, when we were fed rumours daily. There was this supposed photo, then specs suggesting a 12 megapixel camera followed by a video showing the …
We’ve spent a week with the hot new Samsung Galaxy SIII thanks to the guys at UR-Mobile.com. Today we’re taking you through the interface itself. There’s a lot of personalisation and different ways to view apps.. plus… HEY! It’s filmed in the car !
One other feature we’ve not covered in the SIII just yet is “Pop-up video”. It’s perhaps a “nice to have” rather than an essential feature, but it’s still worth taking a look at. Here’s me loading a video and then watching it anywhere within the OS. It can …
There’s really no doubt about it, the S3 is a gorgeous looking thing. You can hardly stop yourself from flipping it around in your hand. It’s beautifully sculpted and really does feel like a smooth pebble in your hand. As far as specs go you’re all set. A …
Every day this week we’re bringing you a little bit of Samsung Galaxy SIII fun. Today it’s the turn of the camera and video. You may have seen “DLNA” mentioned quite a bit in your local branch of Currys and it can perhaps be a little confusing. Various …
We’re doing a special week with the Samsung Galaxy SIII and yesterday we noticed that the screen brightness was a bit dimmer on the SIII when compared to the SII. We’ve got to admit that this is actually due to the Battery Saving technology which is built into …
So, as you’ll have probably seen from the previous story, we have ourselves not one but TWO Galaxy SIII handsets. One in white and the other in pebble blue. I’ve filmed a quick couple of videos to show the blue handset in the flesh, so click on to …
So, the Galaxy SIII. What’s your favourite colour? Well, don’t ask us. It’s not like we can just rustle up the Samsung Galaxy SIII in white and blue is it? I mean, next you’ll be wanting some up-close shots comparing both of them together. You’re kidding, right? These …
This one is a little tricky to show, but the Samsung Galaxy SIII has a feature called “SmartStay”. I actually found this to be disabled out of the box, but after turning on it uses the front-facing 1.9 megapixel camera to see if you’re looking at the screen. …
So, this week I’ve got myself a Samsung Galaxy SIII. It’s been loaned to us from UR-Mobile and we’ll be giving you a daily dose of this hot new handset. Simply check back at 9.30 AM every day for the latest video. I’ve had quite a bit of …
Want to win yourself a brand new Samsung Galaxy SIII ? eXpansys are giving away one of these hot new smartphones to one lucky winner. To enter you need to do some Facebook “liking”, some tweeting, following and sign up to their newsletter. The competition ends on June …
Sure we know that the lovely people at Phones 4u are fishing for a free plug here but hey, these are some pretty decent figures. The Samsung Galaxy SIII has become the biggest selling handset of 2012 at the store after pre-orders and first day sales across all …
If you’re eager to take a look at the all-new Samsung Galaxy SIII and can’t wait until Thursday, have a stroll down to the Carphone Warehouse store in Oxford Street, London. They’ve got phones in “popup internet cafe” where the computers have instead been replaced by Galaxy SIII …
During the launch of the Samsung Galaxy SIII we saw the new “Samsung Mobile PIN” stores. Samsung call these “PINS” because they’re like moving pinpoints on a map, but we’re going to call them pop-up shops because .. we can. Inside these cleverly designed stores you’ll find friendly …
An interesting facet of the Samsung SIII hype before the official launch of the “New Galaxy” was the use of sheep. It was said to be an attack on users of the iPhone and how the flock is followed. Well, it seems to have paid off and a …
The other day you may have grabbed the leaked Galaxy SIII S Voice APK file. Even if you did get it working, the fun stopped shortly after. Luckily a signed APK has now been “created” by the clever souls at XDA Developers and you can download below. Oh, …
Wait, we’ve spent nearly an hour without mentioning the Samsung Galaxy SIII. Time to see the official TV advert then. It’s just hit YouTube via their official channel and you can watch it below. We’re supposed to mention something about “natural design” and “designed for humans” at this …
Yet more news out of the Samsung camp, this time something the spec list seemed to miss off and that is the new Galaxy SIII is supporting the new DC-HSPA network, great news for customers on O2-UK who we reported just the other day were starting to rollout …
It’s just two weeks away now, but you can get a bit closer to the Samsung Galaxy SIII via the manual, which has appeared on the Clove blog. Click on to read 🙂 Link – Samsung Galaxy SIII Manual Credit – Galaxy SIII Manual
Seen the pictures? Watched the video? Got the money burning a hole in your pocket? If you pre-ordered from the Samsung store in Westfield Stratford City then you can pop down from 6PM on May 29th and pick up your brand new SIII. This is for pre-orders only, …
We’ve got another video of the Samsung Galaxy SIII for you below. I’ll let you enjoy it but I’d like to tell you my thoughts after attending the event on Thursday.. The Galaxy SIII launch event was very busy and I’ve had some time to think about the …
As the media began to leave last night, the O2 Guru team were busy filming demo videos to show you more of the Samsung Galaxy SIII. The girls from O2 showed off the new “Smart Stay” feature, which keeps the screen on while you’re looking at it. Unfortunately …
The guys from Unlocked-mobiles have stepped forward to announce their pricing for the Samsung Galaxy SIII. It’ll set you back £549.98 Inc VAT for the UK SIM-free 16GB version in blue or white. Specs include… · Exynos quad core 1.4 GHz processor · 4.8″ inch screen · Wireless …
It was extremely busy at the launch last night, so we hung around until the free drinks ran out and got a quieter and more relaxed demo of the new Galaxy SIII. In the video below you’ll hopefully get some idea of what the handset can do. Here …
We’ve got some hands-on video footage of the Samsung Galaxy SIII for you shortly, but I found this behind-the-scenes footage posted up by Rory Cellan-Jones from the BBC. There’s a small story about this because, as the curtain lifted and hundreds of journalists moved forward to get their …
