ICE CREAM SANDWICH. These three words surely makes a number of us salivate. As Samsung itself puts it, Samsung Galaxy III is no doubt a gadget designed just for humans, just like a good Ice Cream Sandwich can be well deserved by humans.
The first time I heard this slogan though, I took it merely as another business hype, thinking it should afterall be close to its predecessor Samsung Galaxy II, until I had to confirm its abilities myself. And then my simplest exclamation was WOW!
First, I really feel Samsung deserves thumbs-ups (and infact bodies-up--I mean ovations, lol) for the breathtaking 'craftmanship' endowed on this phone. You may have to testify that the list of all its features, as seen in any documentation (including that designed by Samsung itself) is realistically endless, which becomes vivid especially when after using the phone, you return to the documentation.
I have decided, out of my awe, to share 5 of these endless features I have seen in this phone.
1. Smart Stay
Really, I must humbly confess that I have not seen, or maybe I do not know of, any phone with this feature & at the same time with same level of popularity as Galaxy III. The phone actually communicates with your eyes. As we know in cellphones, and even other smartphones, you can set a time for backlights to remain on, or at best change dim level depending on the brightness of your environment. But with Galaxy III, you keep its backlight on with your eyes open, & focused on the phone! Seriously, I haven't seen even critics who aren't marveled by this feature.
2. Voice Technology
Talking to a phone, and getting responses (like initiating a call etc) has been actualised on barely all models of modern phones. And then, many may limit their understanding (at its highest) of voice tech on phones to just this. However, Samsung took this technology to just a very different level. Not only does this phone respond to your call, it 'learns' from it like a human baby does as it grows. I have seen a number of phones with interesting voice technology, but with usage it gets really boring (as you may also testify). Samsung in its case comes differently. For example, if you are in the middle of sending a message and then you have to make a call, all you need to do to make the phone place a call to a contact rather than send a message is to simply lift the phone to your ear, and the contact's number will be dialed automatically! With its S Voice, it actually responds to you: you can tell it to wake up, answer an incoming call, or take a photo.
3. Flash Support
Maybe if you're not a techie, you may not appreciate the benefits you get from your Galaxy III for supporting flash content. But, the moment you load the same content on other supposed 'cutting-edge' gadgets/phones that do not support this content like some Blackberry models, then you realise the aid/support this ability proffers. For example, videos on Facebook are served as flash content. Also some sites like 4shared.com use flash content to display a countdown-to-download counter. Download would then not start until the end of such countdowns. Implication of Flash Support then is that you can load barely any webpages on this phone.
4. Sensitivity
Samsung Galaxy III not only respond to touch, but also to pressure. We always wish we could tap our touch screen phones with our fingers and get responses, as that appears easier. But, even phones with the smallest screen size require that we use our fingers, even it means we'll obstruct other objects on the screen, especially for some of us with giant fingers. Best alternative has always been the use of stylus. In the case of Galaxy III, however, with the introduction of swarms of sensors (like Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass, barometer etc), Galaxy promises of many amazing touch sensitivity. More amazing is the interactions of these pressures in geo-tagging, touch focus, face detection when tagging images (very useful in social tagging), image stabilization etc.
5. Out-of-this-world components
Every part of Samsung Galaxy III, in my opinion, appears to dazzle. From its sleek, petite size, to yet awesome breathtaking components, this phone definitely comes not only to compete, but to leave its contemporaries far behind. The camera is 8MP, with a 3264x2448 pixels dimension; beside the 1.4 GHz Quad-Core CPU, is a really powerful GPU (Graphical Processing Unit); its radio comes with RDU (Radio Data System) which is useful for standardising several types of information transmitted, including current time, station identification and programme information; its 2100 mAh Li-Ion battery seems to last forever with a talk time of up to 21 h 40 min on 2G network and up to 11 h 40 min on 3G. As stated earlier, list of these components may be endless.
More will be said on Samsung Galaxy III in my subsequent articles. I shall especially focus on step-by-step approaches of getting things done with the phone. Feel free to send your comments, share with us what your experiences on this phone is like also.
Enjoy your Samsung Galaxy III!
