Samsung Galaxy S3 – hands on experience!

Good line-up right?

The Samsung Galaxy S3 is large, very large. It is a little fraction longer than the One X. It is a blend of design from the SGS2 and the One X. The iPhone 4S below gives you a good screen-size comparison. 

The SGS2 and the SGS3 together. Both beautiful

The SGS3 and the One X! The SGS3 is indeed slightly larger.

How does it feel in your hand?

Despite its large display, it still manages to feel incredible in the hand. It’s amazingly light for its size, and weighed substantially less than an iPhone. 

Light, and comfortable to hold

It is sleek, elegant and gorgeous. One that stands out more than any other is ‘light in weight’. This phone feels feather-like and makes the iPhone 4S feel like a brick. In hand it feels about the same weight as the Samsung Galaxy S2, coming in at 133grams.

What’s the user interface like?

Elegance!

The Samsung Galaxy S3 is running our beloved Ice Cream Sandwich to the point that there is no loading lag. Everything is instantaneous. You can visualise the 1.4Ghz quad core sitting somewhere in this phone. Altogether the user interface resembles that of the Samsung Galaxy S2, but done up to the maximum. Everything is at a rich resolution with deep vibrant colour.

Which features impressed the most

The larger 2,100 mAh battery is great and in decent size. The phone has the ability of detecting your friend’s faces in photographs, and then giving you option to distribute the photograph to them by whatever means you choose. NFC was hoped for, and they’ve included it. At the show one of the speakers mentioned they are working closely with Visa to make contactless payment ever more popular. The idea that the phone knows when yoy are looking at it is good. Probably going to end up being a battery hog or something like that, but it was definitely a neat thing to see in action (small eye icon appears at the top right of the notification bar when it detects you looking back).

 Things not Appealing

The lack of a higher megapixel rear camera was a surprise. A lot of rumors said 12MP and it turns out they were false. However, it does have the fast-capture feature to make up for this – 3.3 pictures per second! Price is still unknown.