14 DAY TRIAL // South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung is gearing up to putting on shelves its latest flagship model running under Google’s Android operating system, the Galaxy S III.
The smartphone will make its official debut before the end of this month in Europe and is expected to arrive on the market in other countries around the world in the near future as well.
Among them, we can count Taiwan, which will receive it on June 1st, Samsung officially announced at a press event in the country.
Moreover, the handset vendor unveiled that both the 16GB and the 32GB versions of the device will be launched in Taiwan, and that they will go for 20,900 TWD ($708 / 557 Euro), and 22,900 TWD ($775 / 609 Euro), respectively.
The new Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich-based smartphone should hit shelves in Taiwan via most major wireless carriers in the country, ePrice reports.
Galaxy S III went official in early May with the aforementioned mobile platform on board and with the TouchWiz UI loaded on top.
It is the first quad-core smartphone to come out of Samsung’s labs, and it is a beast, based on what the early benchmarking tests have showed.
The handset sports a large 4.8-inch Super AMOLED touchscreen display that can deliver HD resolution and features 1GB of RAM inside.
On the back, the new mobile phone features an 8-megapixel photo snapper, with support for full HD video recording capabilities, complemented by a front camera for making video calls.
Additionally, Galaxy S III arrives with support for 3G, WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity, GPS receiver, a wide range of sensors, and support for LTE networks in specific markets around the world.
Samsung has unveiled three models based on the internal memory, namely 16GB, 32GB and 64GB flavors, and it added that they will offer storage expansion capabilities due to an included microSD memory card slot.