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OK, so this is the Samsung S3. We're going to take a look at the physical hardware
itself.
So, as you can see,
it's got a lovely look to it. Bevel, it's not too thick, it's a bit thicker than I was sort of imagining
would go with this phone
thought we would be coming edge to edge pretty soon.
Front facing camera,
couple of sensors,
the speaker grille there,
power button is on the side here.
This is a physical home button but then there's two soft buttons either side.
This one brings up your edit
in any application or home screen
and this one is your back button.
If you long press on this you bring up your task menu and if you doubleclick quickly it
will bring up the S Voice which I'm not a big fan of but I don't like any of
these silly voicey talky things.
On the side,you can see
I'll just adjust the focus slightly, you can see
the volume rocker on that side
and on that side, you've got your power button.
Along the top
is your headphone jack
and I believe that is a microphone pick-up.
probably for when you are on speaker phone.
On the bottom is another hole which again might be another
speaker pick up, I'm going to have to try and check that,
and a mini usb.
You can see that
the edges are really nicely bevelled.
I mean it's a very very solid little phone,
it's quite weighty in the hand, but not for the size
it actually feels very comfortable
and I've used a few phones that were really light
and actually you feel like you could
go like that and the phone would just fly out of your hand. You know, what I've really found with
the S3 and also the Galaxy Nexus as well which is
based on the same kind of inspiration design
these tapered edges really work. The phone feels comfortable
not too heavy,
everything that personally I'm looking for in a phone, the weight's good.
The plastic back,
well everyone has their own opinion of these things
you can also see on the back there, the camera,
eight megapixel shooter.
an LED flash that in my opinion is rather blue
You're going to want to do some colour correction on that.
And a little speaker that's actually pretty powerful. We'll come to that later.
And obviously the Samsung badge on the back.
I went for the white Samsung phone for one simple reason,
well, two.
I've never owned a white phone before and thought I might as well give it a try,
and two, the pebble finish version of the Samsung S3
apparently has a bit of a manufacturing fault at the moment so the back covers
for some reason haven't passed Samsung's meticulous attention to
detail or whatever.
And so the stocks are a bit short everywhere.
And I generally thought to myself, well, you know, if they've had problems with 100,000 of these
back panels or what have you,
the chances are the first stock that came in probably has the defect
so I'd rather just not bother, let's dodge the issue get the white one.
Two birds, one stone basically.
Personally, I'm quite chuffed with my first white phone.
I just was always wary because I was concerned it might turn out like the
apple cube
which ended up with an eggshell pattern after a little while but
you know, that just put me off for life I think!
And this is it
on the home screen.
You can see, it's incredibly bright.
I mean really really is a bright display. It's a pentile, which some people say neh
pentile because it's not RGB so I won't bore you with the details, go look it up online
pentile, amoled, super amoled screens.
Personally
yes, I can sort of see what people are on about.
But who cares?!
Seriously, who cares?
It's a beautiful looking display
it's incredibly bright
and the colors are excellent.
The colour reproduction in photos, yes it's a little bit off once you
transfer it to your PC but come on. With the
multitude of photo editing apps out there these days the ones on the phones,
the ones on the computer
the one in Google Plus if you happen to be using it.
I mean honestly, it takes a button click these days to make your photo look
good again.
What's the problem? The 8 megapixel shooter really does a great job and some of the new
features on the shooter itself are quite excellent. They've actually
speeded the sensor up so it can now take photographs a lot more quickly than it could before
allows you to shoot up to about, I think, three frames a second
twenty photos in a burst,
really really impressive.
Just come back to my home screen.
All in all, a really nice piece of hardware.
The quad core processor really keeps up
Do you know what I mean? It's fast. Really fast. That's it.
If you haven't already ordered one, why the heck not?