Friday 1 June 2012

Samsung Galaxy S III on sale in India today, likely to cost Rs 42500 - Firstpost

Samsung’s much awaited smartphone, the Galaxy S III is all set to be released in India today at 1.30 pm IST. Samsung will be broadcasting a live webcast of the event. You can click here for the web-cast.

The world’s largest smartphone maker has not yet announced the final price which will only be revealed at the launch today. However media reports quoting ‘sources’ have said that it will cost Rs 42500 which will put it in direct competition with Apples iPhone 4S. The cost of pre-booking the phone via Samsung’s online store is Rs 2,000. The phone is available in two colours, White Marble and Pebble blue.

The S III was released in Europe on Monday with a music service, MusicHub which is seen as a rival to Apple’s  iTunes. The phone has received rave reviews already and Samsung had nearly 9 million pre-order bookings for the phone before its launch.

The Galaxy S III has 3 versions: 16GB, 32GB and 64GB. Other key technical specifications of the phone are :

Samsung's much awaited smartphone, the Galaxy SIII is all set to be released for sale in India today at 1.30 pm IST. AP

• A 4.8 inch HD Super AMOLED display with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels.

• An 8 megapixel rear camera with flash and zero shutter lag and a 1.9 megapixel front camera with face recognition related options.

• The device is super light as it weighs 133g and is only 8.6 mm thick.

• It has a Samsung’s quad-core microprocessor and has 1GB RAM.

• S beam which allows users to transport files upto 1GB to another S III without using Wi-fi or data Internet.

In addition Dropbox has promised every consumer who registers the phone free 50GB cloud storage space.

The phone also comes with S Voice command, which is touted as Samsung’s rival to Apple’s Siri. The S III runs on Android 4.0 or Ice Cream Sandwich.

Are you planning to get one?


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