Samsung Galaxy S III Unique Features



Samsung announced the Galaxy S III at the Samsung Unpacked event in London yesterday. It has an 4.8 inch (1280×720 pixels) HD Super AMOLED display and run on Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). It also has some unique features such as S Voice, Social tag, Direct call, Smart stay, Smart alert, S Beam, AllShare Play and AllShare Cast and Buddy photo share. Here are detailed look about these features.

S Voice

It is the advanced natural language user interface, to listen and respond to your words. In offers you powerful functions in regards to device control and commands that lets you Snooze an Alarm, Answer your phone (or reject a call), turn your music up (or down), play your favorite songs, turn the volume up or down, send text messages and emails, organize your schedules, and even tell the camera when to shoot.
Social Tag


This feature lets you link the faces in your photo album with their social media streams. Once it’s set, all you have to do is look at their pictures and
you’ll see their current status appear.
Direct Call


You can simply lift your phone to your ear and ‘Direct call’ will dial their number. When you are messaging someone and decide to call them instead this feature is most useful, so that you don’t need to go through the call logs or contacts.
Smart stay and Smart alert

With the innovative smart stay feature, the phone automatically recognizes how you are using your phone – reading an e-book or browsing the web for instance. The front camera identify your eyes and the phone maintains a bright display for continued viewing pleasure.

With the Smart alert feature the phone will save you from trouble by catching any missed messages or calls; your phone will vibrate to notify missed statuses when picked up after being idle.

S Beam

With the new S Beam the Galaxy S II expands upon Android Beam, allowing a 1GB movie file to be shared just 3 minutes and a 10MB music file within 2 seconds by simply touching another GALAXY S III phone, even without a Wi-Fi or Data connection. Ypu can just put the backs of your phones together to transfer documents, contacts, pictures, music, videos, and more.

AllShare Play and AllShare Cast

With the AllShare Cast lets the users wirelessly connect their GALAXY S III to their television to immediately transfer smartphone content to a larger display even use your phone’s buttons as a controller with gestures.

The AllShare Play lets you share any forms of files between GALAXY S III and your tablet, PC, and televisions instantly regardless of the distance between the devices. The Group Cast feature allows you to share your screen among multiple friends on the same Wi-Fi network.

Pop up play

The Pop up play feature allows you to play a video anywhere on your screen while simultaneously running other tasks, eliminating the need to close and restart videos when checking new emails or surfing the Web.

Burst shot

The Burst shot function lets you instantly captures 20 continuous shots with the 8MP camera, and the Best photo feature selects the best of eight photographs for you.

Buddy photo share

The Buddy photo share feature allows photos to be easily and simultaneously shared with all your friends pictured in an image directly from the camera or the photo gallery. The phone also recognizes faces and links those for you, using your group profiles for guidance.


Author: Srivatsan Sridhar

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