Samsung Galaxy S3 gets a price tag in India

Samsung’s much hyped next generation Galaxy series smartphone Galaxy S3 will be priced at around Rs. 38,900. Indian ecommerce giant Flipkart had already listed Galaxy S3 for pre-order at Rs. 38,900. We here at UB7 are definitely not happy with the price tag of this hyped phone. S3 do packs a lot of raw power and beats other Quad Core smartphones like HTC One X with a decent margin. Synthetic benchmarks show S3 to be way ahead as compared to One X but still price will be the one deciding factor here. I am not saying that HTC One X is rightly priced. At 36,000 it will also be absent from the wish list of many potential smartphone buyers.

Galaxy S3 is the successor of the much popular previous generation Galaxy S2. Some of factors where Galaxy S3 leads are listed in the table below:

Factor

Galaxy S3

Galaxy S2

Image s3 s2
CPU Quad Core Dual Core
CPU Frequency 1.4GHz 1.2 GHz
GPU 400 MHz
Mali 400MP
275 MHz
Mali 400MP
Display 720 X 1280
4.8”
306 PPI
480 X 800
4.3”
217 PPI
Display Protection Corning Gorilla Glass 2 Corning Gorilla Glass
Battery 2100 mAh 1650 mAh
Bluetooth 4.0+A2DP 3.0+HS
Price Rs. 38,900 Rs. 25,500

Samsung Galaxy S3 up for pre order at Samsung India E Store

Quad core based and much awaited next generation Galaxy S3 is now up for pre order in India. Galaxy S3 was initially announced by Samsung at an event in London. It was one of the much awaited smartphone and it’s rumoured pictures and specifications occupiers the internet for nearly one month before the announcement.

One can visit this link { Click here to pre order Galaxy S3 } and can book Galaxy S3 for Rs. 2,000. Every customer who had pre ordered Galaxy S3 from Samsung E Store will get Bluetooth headset worth Rs. 2,299 ( as claimed by Samsung ). But there is loop hole in this entire deal, there is no mentioning of expected price or any sort of expected MRP for this phone. So in case you are booking this phone today and on actual launch if it gets a price tag of Rs. 42,000 (rumoured) than you are stuck. Either purchase at such high MRP or your pre booking amount gets wasted.

I would really suggest not to pre order Galaxy S3 as the price is not confirmed and Samsung on their E Store usually sell mobiles only at MRP prices and gives no discount as local retailers or Flipkart. As for an example yet to be launched dual core smart phone Galaxy S Advance is listed at Samsung E Store for Rs. 26,790 but most of the local retailers and Flipkart is selling at Rs. 23,999.

As far as specs are concerned Galaxy S3 is a quad core based smart phone and beats every other smart phone in that price range.

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

 

Gallery

Galaxy S3 1

 

Galaxy S3 2

 

Galaxy S3 3

 

Galaxy S3 4

 

Galaxy S3 5

 

Galaxy S3 6

 

Galaxy S3 7

 

Galaxy S3 8

 

Galaxy S3 9

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.

 

galaxy s3 quadrant test

 

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.

galaxy s3 sunspider test

 

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.

Gallery

 

1-galaxy s3

 

2-galaxy s3

 

3-galaxy s3

 

4-galaxy s3

 

5-galaxy s3

 

6-galaxy s3

 

7-galaxy s3