Its official: Samsung Galaxy S 3 is available right now.
Thats according to Samsung telecommunications VP Tyler McGee speaking at launch in Sydney just minutes ago, who revealed its span new 4.8″ ‘hero phone” with HD Super AMOLED display is hitting stores today at 10:30 am.
All main telco including Vodafone, OptusTelstra are thought to be stocking the device, which runs Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich).
It also has Full HD (1080p) Recording, S-Voice (voice assistant like Apple’s Siri), rear (8MP) and front (1.9MP) cameras as well as heaps of other new bells and whistles as the battle between Apple and Android enters a new phase.
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Samsung GALAXY S III can be bought outright for $899 outright for 16GB model, Samsung have just confirmed in a statement.
No word on plans from Telstra & Co, yet but we’ll keep you posted.
The Galaxy S3 Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen with 1280 x 720 pixels includes Corning Gorilla Glass 2 which is 20% thinner compared to S2 and offers better touch responsiveness.
Its software is masked by TouchWiz 4.0 UI, which provides visual improvements and gesture-based functionality.
The Galaxy S3, which tracks the user’s eye movements to keep the screen from dimming or turning off while in use, yesterday hit stores in 28 European and Middle East countries, including Germany.
Some Europeans queued all night, Apple style, eager to be the first to lay their hands on the new Samsung.
In Berlin about 50 customers queued all night outside a mobile phone shop; in Frankfurt there were around 100 people in the queue when a Deutsche Telekom shop on the city’s busiest shopping street the Zeil opened.
Samsung Galaxy S II was one of the best selling smartphones globally last year and the Korean giant toppled Apple to become No.1 phone maker in the world.
