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Review (4.5/5)
Good :- Android Ice Cream Sandwich
- Gorgeous 4.8 inch 720p screen
- Slick lightweight design
- Quad-Core processor
- Slot for MicroSD Card
- TouchWiz interface can be confusing
- Premium price
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Ice Cream Sandwich and Touchwiz
Galaxy S3 is running on Android, Google's mobile operating system. Specifically, it's powered by Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). Until very recently Ice Cream Sandwich was the latest version of Android, but that honour now goes to Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean)
Samsung has plastered its own software, called TouchWiz. It is the same colourful interface you will see on kit like the Galaxy S2 and Galaxy Note.
TouchWiz on the S3 looks polished, with lots of carefully drawn icons and easy to read fonts.
Eye Tracking
One new addition to TouchWiz on the S3 is Samsung's much trumpted eye tracking technology. This makes use of the phone's front facing camera, so it can keep the screen on if it detects a face looking at it.
Dropbox and Apps Galore
Those with files to hoard will be happy to know S3 comes with two years of online storage apps DropBox, giving you impressive 50GB worth of virtual disk space on which to plonk your files.
The S3 comes pre-loaded with lots of Samsung Apps and several of these, including S Suggest and the Games Hub, give you additional ways to get content onto the phone, as well as being able to download apps from Google's Play Store
Pop Up Play
Pop Up Play makes intelligent use of the S3's quad core engine by letting you overlay and playback a mini version of a video over whatever else you are looking at, be it a web page, your email or an app. Sadly, you cannont pop out embedded video in apps like YouTube, it is only for videos stored on the phone itself.
S Voice
A voice control assistant app is on board too, dubbed S Voice. It has a very Siri-esque interface with a tap to talk to the phone microphone icon. We can ask S Voice to tell you the weather or perform tasks like making a call, setting an alarm, controlling music playback or taking a photo.
Face + Voice Unlock
Setting up Face plus Voice Unlock took multiple attempts to run through the vocal stage as my efforts to use my own voice repeatedly failed to win the approval of a very disappointed-sounding female-toned S Voice.
Music
The S3 includes Samsung's Music Hub app, which links through to a 7 Digital-powered music store where you can listen to clips and buy songs and albums to live on the device.
Once you've loaded the S3 with your favourite tunes, you can pipe them into your ears by using Samsung's Music Player. This includes a feature called Music Square -- which creates custom playlists based on the tunes you listen to.
Samsung has also added a handsome-looking FM Radio app to the phone, which includes a pleasing analogue-style knob-twiddling interface and the ability to save station presets so you can tune in with a single tap.
S Planner
S Planner is Samsung's name for the S3's calendar app. It's a pretty cumbersome name -- say it quickly and it sounds like spanner. But despite this unpromising start, it has some neat features. For example, you can pinch to quickly zoom in and out from day view, to week, to month and to year.
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