If you know anything at all about Android smartphones, or simply had your television turned on any time at all during the last half of last year, you probably are very familiar with the Samsung Galaxy S III 4G Android smartphone. The handset finished 2012 as the hottest smartphone on the planet, and was the best-selling smartphone globally during the 4th quarter last year. That handset was released to the Sprint wireless network on June 21 of 2012, and enters 2013 with a sub $100 price tag.
The Samsung Galaxy S III for Sprint is available for a reduced sale price now starting at $0.01.
Sneaking in for just a few pennies for the on contract price tag on the Sprint 4G LTE system at the Amazon Wireless store, the 16 GB Galaxy S III 4G is a slim and light phone. Compared to other mobile handsets with a 4.80 inch display, the 5.38 x 2.78 x 0.34 inch (136.6 x 70.6 x 8.6 mm) dimensions and 4.70 ounce (133 g) weight make the handset slimmer and lighter than the competition. NFC wireless support is present out-of-the-box, as are popular social networking destinations Facebook, Twitter, Picasa and YouTube.
The handset delivers a large 4.80 inch Super AMOLED screen, and also a high-end pixel density. 306 pixels are located over every inch of display space, and this creates an overall screen resolution of 720 x 1,280 pixels. The Sprint Galaxy S III displays an impressive 16 million separate colors, standard capacitive, multitouch gestures are supported for handset navigation, and standard light and proximity sensors help preserve battery life.
Single charge talk time supplied by the 2,100 mA battery on board the Sprint Galaxy S III runs approximately 15% higher than the industry average, at 9.20 hours. The chip package handling device operations is a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8960 suite, and at its centerpiece is a dual core Krait CPU that has been clocked at 1.5 GHz. The handset delivers twice the usual amount of RAM system memory, at 2.0 GB, and the on board microSD slot supports storage expansion up to 64 GB.
Both custom and preset equalizers are present on the built-in music player, and the Sprint Galaxy S III 4G Android smartphone can also simultaneously collect high-resolution snapshots while recording HD video. That video is captured at a rate of 1,080P HD resolution and 30 frames per second, and the rear facing camcorder is an 8.0 megapixel model. That rear snapper contains an extensive customization set and special effects package, and is joined in the camera combo by a front facing 1.9 megapixel chat cam which offers video call support.
