Hi everyone, Scott Lewis here for Wirefly. Iím here today to bring you an exciting review
on the Samsung Galaxy S III for T-Mobile. Weíre going start off the review today by
explaining the difference between the S III for T-Mobile, Sprint, Verizon and even AT&T.
Each one of those carriers have their own network technology therefore the radio technology
in the S III is different for each one of the carriers.
The science radio technology, the main difference between those four phones, itís going to
be the software thatís on it. All these phones are going to be running on Android 4.0.4,
which is the Ice Cream Sandwich operating system, but they do have additional software.
Things like the access T-Mobile store; and I think thereís a T-Mobile Name ID; T-Mobile
TV; so obviously AT&T, Verizon and Sprint versions of the Galaxy S III are not going
to have that same software, theyíre going to have their own.
This particular T-Mobile version is coming in pebble blue, thereís also marble white
as an option, but this is the pebble blue version for T-Mobile.
Now that weíve got the main differences out of the way, letís go ahead and dig into some
specs. The Galaxy S III has a 4.8 inch Super AMOLED display with resolution of 720 x 1280.
It has a pixel density of 306 pixels per inch. Protecting the Super AMOLED display on the
S III is Corning Gorilla Glass II; this is 20% thinner; it is more flexible and more
shock resistant than the original Gorilla Glass.
Letís go ahead and take a tour around the Galaxy S III real quick. Upfront we do have
a 1.9 megapixel front facing camera; the navigation keys are right here on the bottom, and they
light up as virtual keys; the home button is here on the center; and up on top, we have
the 3.5 millimeter headphone jack; on the side we have our sleep button; micro USB charge
port; and volume up and down rocker. On the back, we have the 8 megapixel still image
camera with LED flash; the batteryís a 2100 milliamp hour battery ñ weíre going to pull
the cover off here ñ this is our 2100 milliamp hour battery. It does take a micro SIM card
for T-Mobile, so thatís it right there. And I did put a micro SD card in just so that
you could see where it goes, it goes right here if you want to add additional memory.
This happens to be the 16 gigabyte version, it also available in 32 gigabytes onboard.
You could also use up to a 64 gigabyte micro SD card in the Galaxy S III. The 8 megapixel
camera also records in 1080p. I took some video earlier today and also some still images,
so weíre going to go ahead and take a look at those right now.
This first picture is a picture that hangs here in our office, I wanted to use the S
III and see how it picked up on all the different colors that are in the painting; letís see
how true it was to the actual painting, and weíll say it did a very nice job in picking
everything up. This second pictureís another painting that hangs here in the building.
I wanted to use this painting to see how it picked up on the different textures and tones
and if you could see some depth. The next picture on the screen is the picture I took
as soon as I walked out of the building. Itís a very nice bush with a really nice flower
on it thatís blooming right now, so I thought it would be a great subject for a photo, so
I took this. I thought it did a really nice job in capturing the color. This next picture
is a picture of our Wirefly building here on the left. And you can see how blue the
sky was that day, I will say that it was very true to color; the clouds are very white and
crisp, the sky is fantastic blue, has a great fade, everything ñ the green grass, the trees,
the building, everything ñ really came out exactly as colored. I really like the camera
here on the Galaxy S III. This next shot is a panoramic picture that I took with the Galaxy
S III. I thought it did a very nice job of capturing once again the sky color, and the
color of the grass and the trees, as well as picking up on the reflections of the windows
of our Wirefly building here. Iím very impressed with the camera once again on the Galaxy S
III. The picture on the screen now is a skin tone test; we have Will on the left and Megan
on the right. You might say that this picture didnít come out very well and I would agree
with you. We do the picture this way to do the skin tone test; we force the flash on
the camera, we have a bright backlight, and we see if the flash has enough power to actually
drown out the backlight and still pick up the flesh tones here on the two subjects Will
and Megan. As we can see, the Galaxy S III didnít perform very well on this particular
test, although I did take another picture right outside, and you can see Will and Megan
right there, this is definitely a lot better photo than the last one. This is also our
skin tone test. As we zoom in, you can still see all the detail in the faces, and you can
see the nice pattern on Meganís shirt, and you can read our great Wirefly logo there
on Willís shirt as well. Letís go ahead and take a look at the video
we shot with the Galaxy S III. Here is the 1080p recording Samsung Galaxy S III, thatís
the 8 megapixel rear facing camera that itís recording in 1080p. The Wirefly building here
in the background, the fantastic blue skies, and it is a little bit breezy out today, so
we might hear a little bit of wind in the microphone. Holding the phone about 8 inches,
10 inches away from my mouth so we can tell how good the sound is. The color looks fantastic
on the screen. I just donít know how it could get any better than this picture right here
Iím looking at; hopefully the video comes outÖ
Those were the still images and video we took with the Galaxy S III. I do have to say that
I am impressed with the camera; it is one of the best that Iíve ever tested on a smart
phone, so I really like the camera on the Galaxy S III. It would probably be the best
if it wouldíve performed a little bit better in the skin tone test. But overall, great
color, very easy to use, some really nice options in it, so I do give the camera high
marks on the Galaxy S III. Letís finish talking about specs on the Galaxy
S III. It does have a 1.5 gigahertz dual core processor inside, thereís a Snapdragon S4
processor. The Galaxy S III has 2 gigabytes of processor RAM inside ñ that is an upgrade
compared to a lot of smartphones in the market today that are running with 1 gigabyte of
RAM. I mentioned it before, I just want to make
sure that I say it again ñ this is a 16gigabyte version of the S III, there is a 32gigabyte
version available. Both of those sizes are onboard storage so you do still have the expansion
slot of the micro SD card, available whether you have the 16 or the 32 version.
Iím going to go ahead and run an AnTuTu benchmark and the Quadrant Standard benchmark here,
just so you can compare this phone to the other phones that weíve reviewed. Weíre
going to go ahead and run an AnTuTu benchmark now, remember an AnTuTu benchmark tests the
hardware in the phone, not the physical connection to the network, so it is going to be a fair
assessment of whatís inside the Samsung Galaxy S III. Weíll give you the AnTuTu benchmark
score in a second, Iím going to turn the camera off now and pick it up at the very
end. Looks like the AnTuTu benchmark is about wrapped up, letís take a look at the score
here once itís finalized. The total score is 6,848; you can see the separate scores
for the separate pieces that it does. Letís go ahead and compare it to some other smartphones.
On this list itís very comparable to the 1x in the Transformer Prime; in the next here
down we can see the Galaxy Nexus, the Galaxy S II, the Droid Razr and some other phones
as well. Now we wanted to run a Quadrant Standard benchmark, so weíll go ahead and run that,
and the same thing, weíll go ahead and turn it back on once itís done with the full benchmark.
Our Quadrant Standard benchmark is almost wrapped up here, itís finishing up, and then
weíll go ahead and take a look at the results. We have our Galaxy S III here at a score of
5,045; once again it is just above the 1x in Transformer Prime, and then you can say
compared to the Atrix 4G, the Galaxy Nexus, and then the Nexus S down here at the bottom.
On an overall benchmark test, the Galaxy S III performed very well, top of its class.
The Galaxy S III performed very well on the Quadrant Standard benchmark as well as the
AnTuTu benchmark, but I do expect that from the Galaxy S III. Itís a very powerful smart
phone with a lot of RAM and a great processor. I want to show you around the operating system
just a little bit. It is running on Android 4.0.4. One of my favorite things is you can
see where at the end over here; and it goes and wraps around to the other side, and so
you just keep going and youíll eventually get back to your home screen. Thatís a great
advantage for the Galaxy S III because if youíre on the far side of the operating system
and you need to go to the other side, as you can see it has seven pages so thatís a lot
of scrolling, you can go one over, as opposed to going six over.
I really like the app tray, you list them all in alphabetical order, and you can just
go side to side, and right there for your Android novices if you ever want to put something
on your home screen, youíre just going to press and tap, and then you can drag it on
to the home screen and leave it there. The size is great, it is only .34 millimeters
thick, so it has a really nice profile, as well as the weight on it, thereís only 4.7
ounces, so really good weight for the phone too.
I know this is a very popular phone; Iíd love to hear what all of our YouTube watchers
have to say about the Galaxy S III. So if you have one, or if youíve used one, let
us know what you think. And if you want to get your hands on the Samsung Galaxy S III,
make sure to check out Wirefly.com, we have a great price.
My nameís Scott Lewis for Wirefly, thanks for watching.