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The all new Galaxy S3 unveiled by Samsung at an event in London

Samsung had just announced the launch of it’s much awaited next Galaxy phone today in an event at London. The phone will be named as Galaxy S3 and will be the successor of extremely popular Galaxy S2. Galaxy S3 is being rumoured from past few months by various websites in the form of leaked images and specifications.

Most of the leaked specification are actually true and the new Galaxy S3 features a Quad Core CPU. The benchmarks for Galaxy S3 are already here and is shown in the images below

Quadrant Test ( Higher is better )

Quadrant testing is based on measuring the performance of the GPU present in the smartphone. From the benchmarks given below one can clearly see that the GPU present in Galaxy S3 is more powerful than HTC One X, it’s arch rival.

 

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SunSpider Test ( Lower is better )

SunSpider tests the performance of CPU by stressing it. It basically measures the performance by stressing the CPU with random JavaScript code.

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BrowserMark Test ( Higher is better )

BrowserMark also measures the performance of CPU. It test’s the CPU’s HTML 5 performance.

galaxy s3 browsermark test

 

Important Specifications

Screen / Display Super AMOLED capacitive screen with resolution of 720 X 1280
User Interface (UI) TouchWiz 4.0
Display Size 4.8 Inches
Display features Corning Gorilla Glass
Primary Camera 8 MP
Secondary Camera 1.9MP
Video Recording 1080P Full HD at 30 FPS
OS Android ICS 4.0.4
CPU Quad Core 1.4 GHz Cortex A9
Chipset Exynos 4212 Quad
GPU Mali 400MP
RAM 1 GB
Internal Memory Multiple models based on storage that is 16/32/64 GB
Colours Pebble Blue
Marble White

European Pricing

Initially only contract based pricing is revealed that too is applicable for carriers in UK only. Various carriers or operators from UK including Vodafone, Orange and O2 had already revealed the contract based pricing for Galaxy S3 smartphone. In Europe SIM free version is priced at 500 Euro which is approximately Rs. 34,516 in Indian currency.

 

Indian launch of Galaxy S3 and it’s expected Indian price

Well most you must already known the fact that Samsung in a tweet had openly revealed that they will not be releasing ICS based Galaxy Nexus for the Indian market. Than after Galaxy Nexus, Galaxy S3 i think is the most awaited phone for Indian users. Galaxy S3 will be priced between Rs.35,000 to Rs. 38,000 as per the initial reports.

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HTC One X receives a price cut of Rs. 1900

India’s most popular online retailer Flipkart slashes the price of popular quad core based handset HTC One X. HTC One X was initially launched in India at a price tag of Rs. 37,899. However we can also take into account the fact that one can already purchase the same phone for Rs. 36,000 from some local retailer if he/she knows the concept of bargaining. But still Flipkart being India’s best and trusted online shopping website and a price cut by them will effect a larger audience as compared to the varying pricing by the local retailers. Presently it is priced at Rs. 36,099 for both white and brown grey colours at Flipkart.

About HTC One X

HTC One X is the first smart phone to be equipped with Nvidia Tegra 3 chipset which features a mobile quad core processor and ULP GeForce GPU. Nvidia Tegra 3 is same chipset which is used in the much acclaimed Asus Transformer Prime. The performance of Nvidia Tegra 3 beats all the dual core based chipsets available in the market presently including 1.5 GHz one’s. We are all eagerly waiting for the launch for the launch of Samsung’s new galaxy today which is rumoured to feature a quad core based CPU and a GPU which beats every other GPU presently available in the market presently including the ULP GeForce GPU from Nvidia.

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India to get Nokia 808 pure view in may

 

Nokia had officially confirmed from their side that they will be launching Nokia 808 (Pure View) in May, 2012. The countries that are listed for the initial launch includes India and Russia. These countries have large, loyal market for Nokia who had been facing tough competition in mobile arena from player like Samsung and Apple.

Nokia 808 is the world’s first 41 MP camera phone with effective megapixel count of 38. Some of the specifications of Nokia 808 are listed below:

 

Screen / Display AMOLED capacitive screen with resolution of 360 X 440
Display Size 4 Inches
Display features Corning Gorilla Glass and Nokia Clear black display
Primary Camera 41 MP (Effective 38 MP)
Secondary Camera VGA
OS Symbian Belle
CPU 1.3 GHz ARM 11
RAM 512MB
Internal Memory 16 GB

Here are some of the official camera samples released by Nokia.

 

Nokia Pure View 808 Sample 1
Nokia Pure View 808 Sample 1
Nokia Pure View 808 Sample 2
Nokia Pure View 808 Sample 2

 

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Nvidia GTX 690 gaming performance benchmarks leaked

Well we can’t say it as a leak because Nvidia had already revealed their Kepler based Dual GPU GTX 690. But here we got some gaming benchmarks which show a substantial increase in performance over a single GTX 680. This is definitely the most power efficient Dual GPU present yet until AMD launches it’s own 7990 GPU. GTX 690 have a TDP of 300 watt much lower as compared to GTX 590 which Nvidia’s previous generation Dual GPU . GPU market is definitely going to become more competitive after the launch of 7990 from AMD.

After the launch of GTX 680 at a price of around Rs. 31,000 in India, Nvidia forced AMD to lower the price of their 7970 which is currently retailing at around Rs. 33,000. Also it was proved by the benchmarks form various websites that GTX 680 beats 7970 in almost every test. Expected price of GTX 690 would be around Rs. 50,000.

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Indian version of Galaxy S2 gets the official ICS update

Samsung had recently confirmed the official release of ICS for the Indian version of Galaxy S2 or we can say I9100G. This particular version of Galaxy S2 is somewhat downgraded form of the original Galaxy S2. It features TI OMAP chipset from Texas Instruments and features a under powered GPU PowerVR SGX540 as compared to the originals Mali 400 GPU.

But still this is the only official S2 available in India right now and also the only the official S2 in India which has the ICS update. It is also a known fact that the ICS update for I9100G is already available in some of the countries in which it is available but now it is confirmed that loyal S2 users from India can also taste the all new ICS on their S2.