The New Samsung Galaxy S III is now official

Samsung has officially announced the Galaxy S III mini. This new compact phone looks similar to that of the original Samsung Galaxy S III. The Samsung Galaxy S III Mini is enabled with a 4” touchscreen WVGA Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen display that carries Touch-sensitive controls along with 16M colors and resembles of 720 x 1280 pixels display resolution along with ~319 ppi pixel density. other display features are such as Multitouch feature and is implemented with the protection of Corning Gorilla Glass with the pair of TouchWiz UI v4.0. It runs on Android OS, v4.1 (Jelly Bean) OS and is powered by 1GHz ST-Ericsson NovaThor dual-core CPU while the chipset is of NovaThor U8420. details related to the other specs and price range of the device discussed ahead.

This new handset is equipped with a 5MP rear-facing primary Camera that offers 2592×1944 pixels of resolution.features are such as  autofocus, LED flash camera, Geo-tagging, touch focus, face detection, image stabilization, Video recording at 720p@30fps as well as carries a secondary front facing camera in VGA resolution for face-to-face chating. It is equipped with the various sensors including accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass and barometer. It also packs a Loudspeaker, 3.5mm jack, provided with a memory card slot that supports a microSD card through which the storage capacity can be expanded up to 32 GB.

The device is accorded with 8/16 GB internal memory, storage capacity along with 1 GB RAM. This device has lots of connectivity features are such as GPRS, EDGE, with a speed of HSDPA, HSUPA and offers WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, DLNA, Direct Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi hotspot, Bluetooth v4.0 with A2DP, EDR, NFC support, microUSB v2.0 (MHL) connector and includes USB On-the-go. Other additional features are such as messaging functionality as SMS, MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM, RSS, HTML Browser, Adobe Flash, Stereo FM radio with RDS, GPS with A-GPS support and GLONASS.

The device also is stuffed with Java via Java MIDP emulator, Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic, compatible formats are such as TV-out (via MHL A/V link), SNS integration, MP4/DivX/XviD/WMV/H.264/H.263 player, MP3/WAV/eAAC+/AC3/FLAC player, Organizer, Image/video editor, Document editor (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF), Google Search, Gmail, Google Talk, Maps, YouTube, Calendar, Picasa integration, Voice memo/dial/commands and Predictive text input (Swype). The device is empowered with a Li-Ion 1500 mAh battery, measures 121.6 x 63 x 9.9 mm and the weight is around 111 g. Samsung has not yet disclosed the exact release date but the price which is expected is around 391 €.