Samsung Galaxy S3 Review (U.S. Version)
### Full Article Based on the Video Transcription: Samsung Galaxy S3 Review by Dave from pff.com
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#### **Introduction**
Hey guys, Dave here from [pff.com](https://www.pff.com). In this video, I'm doing my review of the Samsung Galaxy S3. Specifically, I'm using the T-Mobile variant, so I'll start with a quick hardware tour before diving into what I like and dislike about the phone.
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#### **Hardware Tour**
Let's begin by taking a look at the hardware of the Samsung Galaxy S3.
On the top left, you'll find the LED notification light, earpiece, and the Samsung logo. Typical sensors are located here as well. The front-facing camera is 1.9 megapixels and capable of shooting in 720p. Of course, the screen dominates the front, measuring 4.8 inches diagonally with a resolution of 1280x720 (720p), and it's a Super AMOLED display—something I'll talk more about later.
At the bottom, you have the physical home button to bring up the screen, along with the menu button and back button. These are slightly different from your typical IC phone layout. On top of the device, there's the 3.5mm headset Jack and a secondary mic. On the bottom, you'll find the micro USB charging port and the main microphone.
On the left side, there are no buttons—just the volume rocker for up and down. On the right side, you have the power key to bring the phone in and out of standby or turn it off. Moving to the back of the device, you'll find the LED flash next to the camera, which is an 8-megapixel camera. The speaker grille features the T-Mobile logo, and at the bottom, you'll see the Galaxy S3 branding.
To get a better look inside, let's pull off the back cover. Underneath, you'll find a 2100 milliamp battery. This phone is also capable of NFC (Near Field Communication). On this side, you'll see the micro SIM card slot and the micro SD card slot—a feature I really appreciate because it allows me to expand my memory. manufacturers like HTC have opted out to make phones thinner, but I'm glad Samsung included this.
The phone is running on Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) version 4.04 as of now, with TouchWiz UI. That's pretty much the hardware overview.
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#### **What I Dislike**
Now, let's start with what I dislike about the Galaxy S3 because I always like to end on a positive note.
First off, the TouchWiz UI is something I don't care for. It hasn't changed since the original Galaxy S, and even compared to the Galaxy S2, it looks almost identical in the settings menu. While Google did a great job with Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) to make settings look cleaner with the Hollow theme, Samsung didn't adopt that design, which is disappointing. I prefer the clean look of Android's stock UI or even HTC's Sense UI, which I think looks better than TouchWiz.
The second thing I dislike is the keyboard. I don't like the predictive text feature, especially when it auto-corrects words incorrectly. For example, if I try to type "whatever," it might correct it to "error" without me wanting it to. This was annoying enough that I turned off the predictive text feature.
The third thing I dislike is the sound quality during video recording. While phone calls sound good, the audio in videos picked up a lot of wind noise—even in environments where other phones didn't have this issue. I tested this with my 1080p video sample, and it sounds the same as others who've reviewed this feature.
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#### **What I Like**
Despite these drawbacks, there are plenty of things I love about the Samsung Galaxy S3.
Starting with the screen: The 4.8-inch Super AMOLED display is stunning. While the Galaxy Nexus has a smaller screen (4.65 inches) and the same resolution, the PPI on both phones is comparable, thanks to improvements in pixel arrangement by Samsung. The screen size makes a big difference—using all 1280 pixels for width, it offers a true HD experience in 720p, something I can't say about every phone.
Next, let's talk about the camera. Both the rear and front-facing cameras are excellent. The rear is an 8-megapixel camera with an LED flash, and the front-facing camera is 1.9 megapixels, capable of shooting in 720p. I've taken some amazing photos and videos with this phone—it feels almost like using an SLR!
The performance of this phone is another standout feature. It's powered by a 1.5 GHz dual-core Snapdragon processor under the hood, which outperforms quad-core processors in benchmarks. With 2GB of RAM, the phone runs smoothly, and I haven't experienced any lag while using it. TouchWiz also does an excellent job with kernel optimization to make things faster.
Another feature I love is the physical home button. Unlike the iPhone's lock button, which can be cumbersome on a large phone, this button makes unlocking the phone much easier—especially for left-handed users. It also serves as a multitasking key when pressed and held.
I also appreciate the menu button on the side of the phone. While I initially thought it was outdated, it's faster and more convenient than using touch buttons in other phones.
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#### **Smart Stay and Wallpapers**
One feature that really impresses me is "Smart Stay." If you're looking at the screen, the front-facing camera detects your face, and the screen stays on for as long as you're engaged with it—up to 10 minutes or more, depending on the settings. This is incredibly useful when reading articles or watching videos without constantly having to tap the screen to keep it lit.
The wallpapers on this phone are another nice touch. They include themes like news, weather (windy and deep sea), and stock tickers. These add a personal touch to the phone's appearance.
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#### **Battery Life and Thinness**
Another thing I love about this phone is its thinness. Despite its large size, it feels lightweight in my pocket. This makes up for the phone's overall dimensions, which might otherwise feel cumbersome.
The battery life is also impressive, given the 2100 milliamp battery and the phone's performance capabilities.
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#### **Conclusion**
In conclusion, the Samsung Galaxy S3 is an excellent device with a lot of features I really enjoy—like the screen quality, camera, speed, and physical buttons. While I have some reservations about the TouchWiz UI and keyboard, these are minor compared to the overall positive experience this phone offers.
I might consider loading a custom ROM in the future for better software, but as it stands, I'm very happy with the Galaxy S3. If you're looking for a high-quality Android phone with great hardware and features, the Samsung Galaxy S3 is definitely worth considering.
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#### **Final Thoughts**
If you have any questions about this review or need help with anything, feel free to drop them in the comments below. I'll do my best to assist you. If you found this video helpful, don't forget to hit the like button and subscribe for more content. Thanks for watching!
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This article mirrors the structure and details of Dave's video review, ensuring that no key points or opinions are omitted.
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys Dave here from pff.com and in this video I'm doing my review of the Samsung Galaxy S3 in this case I'm actually using T-Mobile's variant so I'll go ahead and do a quick Hardware tour before I get into what I like and dislike about the phone so on the top left you can see you have your LED notification light of course you have your earpiece and Samsung logo your typical sensors right here and then your 1.9 megap front-facing camera capable of shooting in 720p um of course you have your screen right here it's uh 4.8 in going diagonally it's 1280 by 720 in resolution that's 720p of course it's Super AMOLED on the bottom we have our physical home button which we could press to bring on the screen uh we have the menu button and the back button so a little bit different from your typical IC phone uh at the top of the device we have our 3.5 mm headset Jack and of course we have our secondary mic right here we have a little insert right here which we could uh put our our fingernail in to pull off the back on the bottom of the phone we have our micro USB charging port our main microphone on the left side we have nothing but our volume rocker for volume up and down and uh on the right side we have our power key to bring the phone in and out of standby and of course turn it off on the back of the device we have our LED flash right here next to the camera our 8 megapixel camera right here and of course our speaker Grill T-Mobile logo in this case and at the bottom you have your Galaxy S3 branding and um that's pretty much it for the outside actually let's pull off the uh back cover and you can see you have your 2100 milliamp battery um this phone is of course capable of NFC and uh you can see right here is the micro um SIM card slot and your micro SD card slot so it's really nice to see that Samsung included this you know I know manufacturers like HTC were opting out to make the phones thinner or whatever it is but um really like the fact that Samsung included this because I love being able to expand my memory go ahead and prop this guy right back on and uh just kind of click it a little pretty easy to take it on and off uh by the way um let's go ahead and show you the version number of the phone so oh I was already in the settings so um this guy is actually running of course Ice Cream Sandwich version 4.04 as of right now um I'll go ahead and back out of course you have your Touchwiz UI right here so anyway that's pretty much it for the overview let's go ahead and get into what I like and dislike starting with what I dislike of course because I always like ending it on a positive note all right so one of the first things that I actually dislike about the the Galaxy S3 is touch wiz's uh UI not necessarily the features or the value that it adds but more or less the way it looks um I'm just you know I I'm just kind of sick of it I mean it it's looked the same since the Galaxy S I mean I had the original one and it looked like this I mean as far as the settings go it it looks pretty much the same of course the Galaxy S2 looks the same I mean I did a comparison you know right then and there and it just looks pretty much exactly the same so you wouldn't think that you're on a new version when you're in the settings which is kind of disappointing because I feel like IC did a really nice job our Google did a really nice job with ICS to make the settings look a lot better with that Hollow theme um it's a shame that Samsung didn't opt to use that um just doesn't look as clean to me um of course it's personal preference but anyway that's one of the things it's really not that big of a deal I mean if you don't really care but you know I just think that there's better looking UI I feel like sense actually does look a lot better than uh TouchWiz does and I even like you know ice cream sandwiches stock look more than uh TouchWiz but anyway that's one thing I dislike the next thing I dislike is the uh keyboard so I'll go ahead and open up a messaging and go to my settings really quick actually no I don't I already did it so um whoops so anyway I want to show you how the keyboard Works um I just really don't like the uh predictive text on here so if I'm typing a word like let's just do whatever and uh you can see I spelled it wrong so it corrects me right which is nice which is what you want and that's cool when it gets it but for example if I if that's not what I wanted and I go back and you know I wanted to type in erer see how it says it gives me error instead of just finishing the uh the word for ER to finish whatever it gives me error so like I actually had to press here and I don't know it just gets kind of annoying it got so annoying to the point where I actually turned it off I don't have that problem on my Galaxy Nexus using stock IC or even Jelly Bean and I really feel like you know this is the Samsung keyboard um I just feel like the stock keyboard is a little bit better of course there are some advantages here and I'll go into that really quick since I'm here um if you tap on this guy and hold it you could actually go to your voice dictation which you know we we're used to with Ice Cream Sandwich but you could actually go into text mode to draw so I could say you know I'll just write High really quick so hi and you can see it types it out just like it is on the Samsung Galaxy Note so a lot of the notes features are actually on this phone I'm going go ahead and back out of here and uh let's go ahead and talk about the next thing I dislike which is the uh sound quality um not necessarily sound quality when on your phone actually sounds really good when you're on a phone call but I'm talking about the sound quality on the video so I want actually I'm not even going to uh load it up on here cuz I already did the 1080p video sample if you guys watch that on the channel I'll make a link down in the description um the sound quality just picked up a lot a lot of wind noise which you know I've done I've done videos in that environment before and there's always win in that environment and some of other phones don't pick it up as much so just doesn't sound that good and I've seen some other 1080p video samples from other people and it sounds the same so anyway that's what I dislike but the good news is that's pretty much it I mean everything else I like let's go ahead and talk about that because that is my favorite part all right so the first thing that I like and I think you know this is something that most of you guys can appreciate right when you turn on the the phone is the screen I mean the screen on here is just really really nice I know you know when you compared to a phone like the Galaxy Nexus you think it's the same the Galaxy Nexus is a 4.65 in screen it's Super AMOLED uh 1280 x 720p pretty much the same stats for this one's bigger technically making the PPI on this guy lower so you think the Galaxy Nex to the screen is better but it really isn't um I've compared the two side by side you can't tell the difference in the PPI Samsung said that they made the pixels a little bit closer to each other because it is a penil uh display um they made it closer to kind of address that issue so I I can't really tell I mean you have to really be under the microscope to be able to tell but what I'm talking about on screen is the size um let's go ahead and bring in my Galaxy Nexus really quick so why did I turn this guy off so you guys can see I'm this is a 4.65 in display but the difference here and uh not only is this you know bigger than the Galaxy Nexus but the Galaxy Nexus actually has to use a portion of those pixels or the screen size for the buttons of course we have physical buttons here so so we're actually using all 4.8 in and it just really feels a lot bigger I mean look at the screen size difference you let me put these guys down um you could tell I mean the Galaxy S3 screen is a lot bigger than the Galaxy is more so than than the you know measurements would tell you you know 4.65 vers 4.8 it's actually the Galaxy Nex actually measures a 4.5 in if you uh cancel out this part right here so it's actually you know3 in bigger anyway it's not just about the size um the reason why I really like the display and let's go ahead and show you some pictures while I'm you know babbling on about this so we'll go to my gallery and U another thing I like is the camera so I'll go ahead and show you some pictures I took uh you know we'll take a we'll take a look at my little nephew so anyway um this is pictures I took on the phone itself but what I really like about uh the screen is it's always in 720p so on the Galaxy Nexus you're only viewing 720p when it's full screen on in this case it's always taking up all 1280 pixels on this side and 720 going this way so you're always looking at 7 20p you're always getting that 16x9 aspect ratio which is true HD you know I feel like I get a true HD experience on this guy even though the Galaxy Nexus you know was one of the first phones on Android that had you know a HD screen or 720b screen I feel like the Galaxy S3 is really the first one that really pushes it to what it is you guys can see this picture I mean I don't know if it's coming through on camera um but this picture is just amazing I mean it honestly looks like I took it off like a SLR I mean maybe I'm exaggerating a little but really really awesome picture um looks really really good anyway so two features in one I knocked out two birds with one stone right there I like the camera and the screen let's go ahead and talk about the next thing which is um I like the speed and you know it's kind of hard not to talk about it this guy has a 1.5 GHz dual cord Snapdragon processor underneath the hood and you know the S4 processor has been shown on benchmarks to outperform you know the likes of the teger 3 and uh other quad cores and that's really impressive to see um with just two cores and if obviously Android probably isn't that optimized for Quad cores as it is for dual cores but anyway the phone just flies I mean everything I I I go to it just literally flies I mean I can go straight back to this application pretty much no lag at all um but it's not just the processor it's the ram too so we're pretty much used to seeing just one gab of RAM on phones now we got two I mean this guy has 2 gigs of RAM and two cores at 1.5 GHz really you're going to get an awesome awesome experience um of course touchr does a great job at making the the user experience a little bit faster too you know you compare similar stats on phones uh between TouchWiz and then maybe HTC send and I always feel like TouchWiz does a little bit little bit of a better job with their kernels to make it a little faster anyway like the speed um I already talked about the camera but I only talk the rear camera the front-facing camera is 1.9 me megapixels so uh definitely looks pretty good let's go let's go ahead and see if I could load this uh front-facing camera up really quick and uh well you guys are just looking at the uh viewfinder but anyway let's go ahead and put this in front of it I don't know anyway uh the the quality on the front facing camera looks really good because it is higher megapixels shoots in 720p like I said earlier in the video so do like both cameras on here um another thing that I really really like about this one I I didn't even think I was going to like it that much until I started using it is this physical button and this is something that you know I liked on the iPhone um instead of having to always press the lock button which the iPhone's up here on this gu's on the side which I love the layout to be on the side um instead of having the press this especially on a big phone like this it's so much easier you just got to tap this guy and unlock I mean it's so much better you know I could be using it especially if you're left-handed you probably really appreciate it cuz you can just tap it and unlock just like that so really really cool to have that physical button you just press and hold it to uh bring up your multitasking option and um while I'm here I might as well talk about this uh when I first you know saw the Galaxy uh S3 announced I I wasn't really happy about the fact that they're using the menu button cuz you know I I felt like that was old kind of like the UI but I felt like it was something like more old school and you know they should have had the multitasking button here instead but I really got to admit I like having the menu button uh comparing it to my experience on the Galaxy Nexus you know it's just a lot faster and it always looks like this by the way when you pop up so I'll open up like Google Chrome right here and normally the uh little three dots are right here when you press menu you can see it just comes up in the middle of the screen so a lot easier actually I I think it's a lot easier a lot faster to get to what you want so big plus to have this menu I never thought I would say that you know before actually using the phone um but I love the home button you can double tap it to bring up S Voice which I'll talk about in just a second um but you press and hold it to bring out your task and by the way um one thing I love about TouchWiz and I know I'm kind of going back and forth tou I talk about how I don't like it I talk about how I like it I do like the features and one of the features is having all these apps open up in the background or I mean this is not a feature of touch so I'm sorry that's Ice Cream Sandwich having like this and you can swipe them off like that but if you want to close them all at once you just hit remove all which is really really awesome cuz on my Galaxy Nexus I have to like go like that a whole bunch of times to close them all out on this guy I just had to touch it once and of course I could go straight to my task manager to see if they really closed out and I clear out my Ram and things like that so you guys can see it does close out the application for the most part but if I wanted to clear my memory I can just tap clear memory clears out my Ram you guys can see 1.62 GB available of ram so out of the 2 GB 1.6 is available so it's pretty much an extra like 800 you're getting compared to other phones um really really nice there uh let's see another thing I want to talk about is the thinness I kind of already mentioned it before but this phone is really thin I mean they did a really nice job to fit everything that fit into the phone with a you know external micro SD card and you know that big battery cuz when I have in my pocket it really feels like nothing's there I mean you would think with the phone this big it'd be kind of a problem but you can't feel in your pocket at least I can't um and I know a lot of people who've held the phone and you know I let them like use it for like 5 minutes or something um you know I'm kind of greedy with this guy but anyway I let them use it for like 5 minutes and they really say wow the phone's really thin you can barely you know it really makes up for how large the device is because it's so thin um another thing I want to talk about that I like is actually again a touch TouchWiz thing and it's the smart stay so I can't really demonstrate right now cuz it's looking at the camera but um and plus I have the display to set to stay on for like 10 minutes but let's say you have this display to set to uh stay on for uh just you know 30 seconds or whatever it is to try to conserve battery life they actually have this feature called smart stay so what it does is if you're looking at the screen the front-facing camera will detect your face and if you're looking at the screen you'll see a little eye pop up over here like in the notification bar and uh it it means that the screen will stay is staying on just because it detects your face so if you have a 30 second 30 second uh screen timeout it'll actually you know keep the screen on so if you're reading an article there's no need to keep you know tapping the screen every uh you know 10 or 30 seconds to make sure that it doesn't turn off because that I know that gets annoying and that's definitely something that I've really enjoyed um by the way if you guys notice this wallpaper in the background it's actually a cool Samsung wallpaper that you know lets me put in as many stocks as I want and I'll just randomly Flash the stocks they also have one for news I'm going go ahead and show you the wallpaper since I'm talking about it and uh so you guys can see here's the news wallpaper the stock wallpaper there's a few other ones like of course phze beam is old but windy weather right here and uh deep sea which is pretty nice I'm not going to really enable those but just wanted to give you guys a quick look at it um anyway I mean that's pretty much all I want to talk about I mean I don't know I mean there's so many things I I I could honestly talk all day about the Galaxy S3 but obviously if you guys could tell from the uh review so far I'm really happy with it um I might load a custom ROM on here with a to get custom software but I do like TouchWiz I do like the value added features that they have um I just don't like the way it looks but other than that I mean the Galaxy S3 is just an awesome awesome phone um I've really enjoyed my time with it and uh I really recommend it but anyway that's it for me in this review hopefully I cover if you guys have any questions just drop them down in the comments and uh I'll try to answer as soon as I can but anyway that's it for me in this video if I found it helpful please hit the like button and subscribe thank youhey guys Dave here from pff.com and in this video I'm doing my review of the Samsung Galaxy S3 in this case I'm actually using T-Mobile's variant so I'll go ahead and do a quick Hardware tour before I get into what I like and dislike about the phone so on the top left you can see you have your LED notification light of course you have your earpiece and Samsung logo your typical sensors right here and then your 1.9 megap front-facing camera capable of shooting in 720p um of course you have your screen right here it's uh 4.8 in going diagonally it's 1280 by 720 in resolution that's 720p of course it's Super AMOLED on the bottom we have our physical home button which we could press to bring on the screen uh we have the menu button and the back button so a little bit different from your typical IC phone uh at the top of the device we have our 3.5 mm headset Jack and of course we have our secondary mic right here we have a little insert right here which we could uh put our our fingernail in to pull off the back on the bottom of the phone we have our micro USB charging port our main microphone on the left side we have nothing but our volume rocker for volume up and down and uh on the right side we have our power key to bring the phone in and out of standby and of course turn it off on the back of the device we have our LED flash right here next to the camera our 8 megapixel camera right here and of course our speaker Grill T-Mobile logo in this case and at the bottom you have your Galaxy S3 branding and um that's pretty much it for the outside actually let's pull off the uh back cover and you can see you have your 2100 milliamp battery um this phone is of course capable of NFC and uh you can see right here is the micro um SIM card slot and your micro SD card slot so it's really nice to see that Samsung included this you know I know manufacturers like HTC were opting out to make the phones thinner or whatever it is but um really like the fact that Samsung included this because I love being able to expand my memory go ahead and prop this guy right back on and uh just kind of click it a little pretty easy to take it on and off uh by the way um let's go ahead and show you the version number of the phone so oh I was already in the settings so um this guy is actually running of course Ice Cream Sandwich version 4.04 as of right now um I'll go ahead and back out of course you have your Touchwiz UI right here so anyway that's pretty much it for the overview let's go ahead and get into what I like and dislike starting with what I dislike of course because I always like ending it on a positive note all right so one of the first things that I actually dislike about the the Galaxy S3 is touch wiz's uh UI not necessarily the features or the value that it adds but more or less the way it looks um I'm just you know I I'm just kind of sick of it I mean it it's looked the same since the Galaxy S I mean I had the original one and it looked like this I mean as far as the settings go it it looks pretty much the same of course the Galaxy S2 looks the same I mean I did a comparison you know right then and there and it just looks pretty much exactly the same so you wouldn't think that you're on a new version when you're in the settings which is kind of disappointing because I feel like IC did a really nice job our Google did a really nice job with ICS to make the settings look a lot better with that Hollow theme um it's a shame that Samsung didn't opt to use that um just doesn't look as clean to me um of course it's personal preference but anyway that's one of the things it's really not that big of a deal I mean if you don't really care but you know I just think that there's better looking UI I feel like sense actually does look a lot better than uh TouchWiz does and I even like you know ice cream sandwiches stock look more than uh TouchWiz but anyway that's one thing I dislike the next thing I dislike is the uh keyboard so I'll go ahead and open up a messaging and go to my settings really quick actually no I don't I already did it so um whoops so anyway I want to show you how the keyboard Works um I just really don't like the uh predictive text on here so if I'm typing a word like let's just do whatever and uh you can see I spelled it wrong so it corrects me right which is nice which is what you want and that's cool when it gets it but for example if I if that's not what I wanted and I go back and you know I wanted to type in erer see how it says it gives me error instead of just finishing the uh the word for ER to finish whatever it gives me error so like I actually had to press here and I don't know it just gets kind of annoying it got so annoying to the point where I actually turned it off I don't have that problem on my Galaxy Nexus using stock IC or even Jelly Bean and I really feel like you know this is the Samsung keyboard um I just feel like the stock keyboard is a little bit better of course there are some advantages here and I'll go into that really quick since I'm here um if you tap on this guy and hold it you could actually go to your voice dictation which you know we we're used to with Ice Cream Sandwich but you could actually go into text mode to draw so I could say you know I'll just write High really quick so hi and you can see it types it out just like it is on the Samsung Galaxy Note so a lot of the notes features are actually on this phone I'm going go ahead and back out of here and uh let's go ahead and talk about the next thing I dislike which is the uh sound quality um not necessarily sound quality when on your phone actually sounds really good when you're on a phone call but I'm talking about the sound quality on the video so I want actually I'm not even going to uh load it up on here cuz I already did the 1080p video sample if you guys watch that on the channel I'll make a link down in the description um the sound quality just picked up a lot a lot of wind noise which you know I've done I've done videos in that environment before and there's always win in that environment and some of other phones don't pick it up as much so just doesn't sound that good and I've seen some other 1080p video samples from other people and it sounds the same so anyway that's what I dislike but the good news is that's pretty much it I mean everything else I like let's go ahead and talk about that because that is my favorite part all right so the first thing that I like and I think you know this is something that most of you guys can appreciate right when you turn on the the phone is the screen I mean the screen on here is just really really nice I know you know when you compared to a phone like the Galaxy Nexus you think it's the same the Galaxy Nexus is a 4.65 in screen it's Super AMOLED uh 1280 x 720p pretty much the same stats for this one's bigger technically making the PPI on this guy lower so you think the Galaxy Nex to the screen is better but it really isn't um I've compared the two side by side you can't tell the difference in the PPI Samsung said that they made the pixels a little bit closer to each other because it is a penil uh display um they made it closer to kind of address that issue so I I can't really tell I mean you have to really be under the microscope to be able to tell but what I'm talking about on screen is the size um let's go ahead and bring in my Galaxy Nexus really quick so why did I turn this guy off so you guys can see I'm this is a 4.65 in display but the difference here and uh not only is this you know bigger than the Galaxy Nexus but the Galaxy Nexus actually has to use a portion of those pixels or the screen size for the buttons of course we have physical buttons here so so we're actually using all 4.8 in and it just really feels a lot bigger I mean look at the screen size difference you let me put these guys down um you could tell I mean the Galaxy S3 screen is a lot bigger than the Galaxy is more so than than the you know measurements would tell you you know 4.65 vers 4.8 it's actually the Galaxy Nex actually measures a 4.5 in if you uh cancel out this part right here so it's actually you know3 in bigger anyway it's not just about the size um the reason why I really like the display and let's go ahead and show you some pictures while I'm you know babbling on about this so we'll go to my gallery and U another thing I like is the camera so I'll go ahead and show you some pictures I took uh you know we'll take a we'll take a look at my little nephew so anyway um this is pictures I took on the phone itself but what I really like about uh the screen is it's always in 720p so on the Galaxy Nexus you're only viewing 720p when it's full screen on in this case it's always taking up all 1280 pixels on this side and 720 going this way so you're always looking at 7 20p you're always getting that 16x9 aspect ratio which is true HD you know I feel like I get a true HD experience on this guy even though the Galaxy Nexus you know was one of the first phones on Android that had you know a HD screen or 720b screen I feel like the Galaxy S3 is really the first one that really pushes it to what it is you guys can see this picture I mean I don't know if it's coming through on camera um but this picture is just amazing I mean it honestly looks like I took it off like a SLR I mean maybe I'm exaggerating a little but really really awesome picture um looks really really good anyway so two features in one I knocked out two birds with one stone right there I like the camera and the screen let's go ahead and talk about the next thing which is um I like the speed and you know it's kind of hard not to talk about it this guy has a 1.5 GHz dual cord Snapdragon processor underneath the hood and you know the S4 processor has been shown on benchmarks to outperform you know the likes of the teger 3 and uh other quad cores and that's really impressive to see um with just two cores and if obviously Android probably isn't that optimized for Quad cores as it is for dual cores but anyway the phone just flies I mean everything I I I go to it just literally flies I mean I can go straight back to this application pretty much no lag at all um but it's not just the processor it's the ram too so we're pretty much used to seeing just one gab of RAM on phones now we got two I mean this guy has 2 gigs of RAM and two cores at 1.5 GHz really you're going to get an awesome awesome experience um of course touchr does a great job at making the the user experience a little bit faster too you know you compare similar stats on phones uh between TouchWiz and then maybe HTC send and I always feel like TouchWiz does a little bit little bit of a better job with their kernels to make it a little faster anyway like the speed um I already talked about the camera but I only talk the rear camera the front-facing camera is 1.9 me megapixels so uh definitely looks pretty good let's go let's go ahead and see if I could load this uh front-facing camera up really quick and uh well you guys are just looking at the uh viewfinder but anyway let's go ahead and put this in front of it I don't know anyway uh the the quality on the front facing camera looks really good because it is higher megapixels shoots in 720p like I said earlier in the video so do like both cameras on here um another thing that I really really like about this one I I didn't even think I was going to like it that much until I started using it is this physical button and this is something that you know I liked on the iPhone um instead of having to always press the lock button which the iPhone's up here on this gu's on the side which I love the layout to be on the side um instead of having the press this especially on a big phone like this it's so much easier you just got to tap this guy and unlock I mean it's so much better you know I could be using it especially if you're left-handed you probably really appreciate it cuz you can just tap it and unlock just like that so really really cool to have that physical button you just press and hold it to uh bring up your multitasking option and um while I'm here I might as well talk about this uh when I first you know saw the Galaxy uh S3 announced I I wasn't really happy about the fact that they're using the menu button cuz you know I I felt like that was old kind of like the UI but I felt like it was something like more old school and you know they should have had the multitasking button here instead but I really got to admit I like having the menu button uh comparing it to my experience on the Galaxy Nexus you know it's just a lot faster and it always looks like this by the way when you pop up so I'll open up like Google Chrome right here and normally the uh little three dots are right here when you press menu you can see it just comes up in the middle of the screen so a lot easier actually I I think it's a lot easier a lot faster to get to what you want so big plus to have this menu I never thought I would say that you know before actually using the phone um but I love the home button you can double tap it to bring up S Voice which I'll talk about in just a second um but you press and hold it to bring out your task and by the way um one thing I love about TouchWiz and I know I'm kind of going back and forth tou I talk about how I don't like it I talk about how I like it I do like the features and one of the features is having all these apps open up in the background or I mean this is not a feature of touch so I'm sorry that's Ice Cream Sandwich having like this and you can swipe them off like that but if you want to close them all at once you just hit remove all which is really really awesome cuz on my Galaxy Nexus I have to like go like that a whole bunch of times to close them all out on this guy I just had to touch it once and of course I could go straight to my task manager to see if they really closed out and I clear out my Ram and things like that so you guys can see it does close out the application for the most part but if I wanted to clear my memory I can just tap clear memory clears out my Ram you guys can see 1.62 GB available of ram so out of the 2 GB 1.6 is available so it's pretty much an extra like 800 you're getting compared to other phones um really really nice there uh let's see another thing I want to talk about is the thinness I kind of already mentioned it before but this phone is really thin I mean they did a really nice job to fit everything that fit into the phone with a you know external micro SD card and you know that big battery cuz when I have in my pocket it really feels like nothing's there I mean you would think with the phone this big it'd be kind of a problem but you can't feel in your pocket at least I can't um and I know a lot of people who've held the phone and you know I let them like use it for like 5 minutes or something um you know I'm kind of greedy with this guy but anyway I let them use it for like 5 minutes and they really say wow the phone's really thin you can barely you know it really makes up for how large the device is because it's so thin um another thing I want to talk about that I like is actually again a touch TouchWiz thing and it's the smart stay so I can't really demonstrate right now cuz it's looking at the camera but um and plus I have the display to set to stay on for like 10 minutes but let's say you have this display to set to uh stay on for uh just you know 30 seconds or whatever it is to try to conserve battery life they actually have this feature called smart stay so what it does is if you're looking at the screen the front-facing camera will detect your face and if you're looking at the screen you'll see a little eye pop up over here like in the notification bar and uh it it means that the screen will stay is staying on just because it detects your face so if you have a 30 second 30 second uh screen timeout it'll actually you know keep the screen on so if you're reading an article there's no need to keep you know tapping the screen every uh you know 10 or 30 seconds to make sure that it doesn't turn off because that I know that gets annoying and that's definitely something that I've really enjoyed um by the way if you guys notice this wallpaper in the background it's actually a cool Samsung wallpaper that you know lets me put in as many stocks as I want and I'll just randomly Flash the stocks they also have one for news I'm going go ahead and show you the wallpaper since I'm talking about it and uh so you guys can see here's the news wallpaper the stock wallpaper there's a few other ones like of course phze beam is old but windy weather right here and uh deep sea which is pretty nice I'm not going to really enable those but just wanted to give you guys a quick look at it um anyway I mean that's pretty much all I want to talk about I mean I don't know I mean there's so many things I I I could honestly talk all day about the Galaxy S3 but obviously if you guys could tell from the uh review so far I'm really happy with it um I might load a custom ROM on here with a to get custom software but I do like TouchWiz I do like the value added features that they have um I just don't like the way it looks but other than that I mean the Galaxy S3 is just an awesome awesome phone um I've really enjoyed my time with it and uh I really recommend it but anyway that's it for me in this review hopefully I cover if you guys have any questions just drop them down in the comments and uh I'll try to answer as soon as I can but anyway that's it for me in this video if I found it helpful please hit the like button and subscribe thank you\n"