Samsung Galaxy S III full specs: 1.5GHz quad-core, 1080p display, ceramic case

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We reported some exclusive details surrounding Samsung’s upcoming flagship Galaxy S III smartphone this past weekend, and now we have received some more information that helps us paint a more complete picture. And as that picture becomes more clear, this sure looks like the baddest Android smartphone the world hasn’t yet seen. We reported that the new Samsung flagship would launch in a simultaneous fashion across the globe, but we now have some more detailed specifications to report. Ladies and gentlemen, here is the Samsung Galaxy S III:

  • 1.5GHz quad-core Samsung Exynos processor
  • 4.8-inch “full HD” 1080p resolution with 16:9 aspect ratio display
  • A 2-megapixel front-facing camera and an 8-megapixel rear camera
  • Ceramic case
  • 4G LTE
  • Android 4.0

As always, we’ll keep pounding our sources for more information, but we have to say… a Blu-ray display? On a smartphone? We’ll cuddle up with that and some popcorn any night of the week.

72 Comments
  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=23921797 Jeff Kibuule

    458 PPI.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=502317618 Zach Kornet

    Won’t this be too big for your hands Jonathan?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=500075224 Brian Obenhaus

    The phone is on my radar and that is for sure!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=590421040 Kyle Miller

    Blu-ray is not a resolution. Its a type of optical disc. Call me nitpicky, but its these types of statements that have the common consumer very confused.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=510406229 Shaun O’Flaherty

    Calling a 1080p display a “Blu-Ray Display” is going to lead to some ill-informed people. Some people who don’t know better will begin thinking this is the correct term to be using when looking for Full-HD tech…

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000001032083 Jacob E McMichael

    So sexy! I wish I had the money to buy this off contract.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=501828361 Jason McMinn

    Who wants a smartphone with a 4.8 inch screen? Just like the the Galaxy note, you would look stupid talking on the phone with this held up to your ear.

    4.2 inch screen is the max I would buy for a phone.

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002033903385 Jay Yeasmin

      It could be that the dimensions of the phone will remain the same while the size of the screen will expand.

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000073865048 Daniel McCarthy

      My Galaxy Nexus is only slightly bigger than my Droid Bionic and that’s including the screen size and a modest amount of bezel.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=501828361 Jason McMinn

    Who wants a smartphone with a 4.8 inch screen? Just like the the Galaxy note, you would look stupid talking on the phone with this held up to your ear.

    4.2 inch screen is the max I would buy for a phone.

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002033903385 Jay Yeasmin

      It could be that the dimensions of the phone will remain the same while the size of the screen will expand.

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000073865048 Daniel McCarthy

      My Galaxy Nexus is only slightly bigger than my Droid Bionic and that’s including the screen size and a modest amount of bezel.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003172954805 Michael Furino

    they are using as much of the screen ‘real estate’ as possible….i think the form factor is the same as the SGS2

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003172954805 Michael Furino

    they are using as much of the screen ‘real estate’ as possible….i think the form factor is the same as the SGS2

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003172954805 Michael Furino

    they are using as much of the screen ‘real estate’ as possible….i think the form factor is the same as the SGS2

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003172954805 Michael Furino

    they are using as much of the screen ‘real estate’ as possible….i think the form factor is the same as the SGS2

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003172954805 Michael Furino

    they are using as much of the screen ‘real estate’ as possible….i think the form factor is the same as the SGS2

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=721184722 Carlitas Way

    I agree…guess its just competition?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=725143237 Jeff Wolfers

    Size matters… bigger is better. The 3.75 iPhone screen is soooo last decade dude

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=510406229 Shaun O’Flaherty

    I don’t find these specs for hard to believe. What makes you doubt them so much?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=623475116 Simon Broenner

    Shaun O’Flaherty How about the fact that they weren’t even able to make a non-pentile 720p display at that size… how do you think they’re going to manage 1080p?

    I highly doubt Samsung will be switching to non-AMOLED displays just so they can pump up the pixel density to insane levels like these…

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1674491446 Pán Burhan
  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1674491446 Pán Burhan
  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=57702887 Adam Reid

    Min Lee “We know they have a 2k tablet display”. I acknowledged that, but 1=/=the other.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002468103307 Simon To

    Adam Reid This phone won’t be available probably until this Fall the earliest. You never know what they will have by then. 8-10 months is a very long time in the mobile world.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002468103307 Simon To

    Adam Reid This phone won’t be available probably until this Fall the earliest. You never know what they will have by then. 8-10 months is a very long time in the mobile world.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002468103307 Simon To

    Adam Reid This phone won’t be available probably until this Fall the earliest. You never know what they will have by then. 8-10 months is a very long time in the mobile world.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002468103307 Simon To

    Adam Reid This phone won’t be available probably until this Fall the earliest. You never know what they will have by then. 8-10 months is a very long time in the mobile world.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=510406229 Shaun O’Flaherty

    Agree with you 100%

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=706904368 Mark Palmos

    Kyle, you ARE being nitpicky. You are right, but the consumer could not give a toss about the finer points. The important thing that Jonathan was saying is the fact is that bluray and this phone share the same maximum resolution, 1920×1080pixels. He was talking about the resolution of the screen.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=706904368 Mark Palmos

    Kyle, you ARE being nitpicky. You are right, but the consumer could not give a toss about the finer points. The important thing that Jonathan was saying is the fact is that bluray and this phone share the same maximum resolution, 1920×1080pixels. He was talking about the resolution of the screen.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=15600786 Min Lee

    Aren’t they water proofing this?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000073865048 Daniel McCarthy

    Give Samsung some credit, they are releasing the S2 line of updates beginning March 1st, HTC and Samsung are doing great compared to LG and Motorola.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000073865048 Daniel McCarthy

    Give Samsung some credit, they are releasing the S2 line of updates beginning March 1st, HTC and Samsung are doing great compared to LG and Motorola.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=695726889 Dan Lesser

    This joke will eventually get old, but not for a long time :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=504624408 Danny Mendez

    Jonathan S. Geller You take so much shit. Damn. I feel bad for you, but you have an awesome job.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=504624408 Danny Mendez

    Jonathan S. Geller You take so much shit. Damn. I feel bad for you, but you have an awesome job.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=504624408 Danny Mendez

    Jonathan S. Geller You take so much shit. Damn. I feel bad for you, but you have an awesome job.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1111386344 Dileep G Jacob

    Nope you may be wrong..this time s3 has no bezel…so may be sized less than galaxy nexus…..hope the phone looklike this photo

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=801283221 Phillip Thomas

    Mike Hale ZOMG 1080P DISPLAY ON A CELL PHONE ZOMG THE WORLD HAS FOREVER CHANGED….im sorry im not a stats whore but you guys are getting way to hyped up about specs you will NEVER USE SOFTWARE IS HOW YOU CREATE INNOVATION

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=819647491 Robert Andrew Hall Jr

    Phillip Thomas Clueless…

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=801283221 Phillip Thomas

    Robert Andrew Hall Jr k please tell me how this phone is going to change how you normally use ICS its just a spec bump if you have a nexus i doubt you will go out and buy this…quad processors mean nothing right now for a CELL PHONE we are reaching a bottle neck for real world performance for phones we need to be innovating real features like voice control and building a real software catalog for these platforms and not just interested in raw power

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=801283221 Phillip Thomas

    Robert Andrew Hall Jr k please tell me how this phone is going to change how you normally use ICS its just a spec bump if you have a nexus i doubt you will go out and buy this…quad processors mean nothing right now for a CELL PHONE we are reaching a bottle neck for real world performance for phones we need to be innovating real features like voice control and building a real software catalog for these platforms and not just interested in raw power

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=801283221 Phillip Thomas

    Robert Andrew Hall Jr k please tell me how this phone is going to change how you normally use ICS its just a spec bump if you have a nexus i doubt you will go out and buy this…quad processors mean nothing right now for a CELL PHONE we are reaching a bottle neck for real world performance for phones we need to be innovating real features like voice control and building a real software catalog for these platforms and not just interested in raw power

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=765443538 David Grundy

    Phillip Thomas I really don’t want to call you a retard but , these are the dumbest questions I’ve ever heard .
    you ever heard of the word “Evolution”? This is a quantum leap . Didnt all the apple fanboys say the samething last year about duel core phones ? until apple came out with one ???

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=765443538 David Grundy

    Phillip Thomas I really don’t want to call you a retard but , these are the dumbest questions I’ve ever heard .
    you ever heard of the word “Evolution”? This is a quantum leap . Didnt all the apple fanboys say the samething last year about duel core phones ? until apple came out with one ???

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=765443538 David Grundy

    Phillip Thomas I really don’t want to call you a retard but , these are the dumbest questions I’ve ever heard .
    you ever heard of the word “Evolution”? This is a quantum leap . Didnt all the apple fanboys say the samething last year about duel core phones ? until apple came out with one ???

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=801283221 Phillip Thomas

    David Grundy AND APPLE ACTUALLY PROVIDED SOFTWARE TO TAKE ADVATAGE OF DUAL CORE garage band and i-movie were BOTH introduced with the last ipad which was the first dual core ios device this device SCREAMS overkill

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=801283221 Phillip Thomas

    David Grundy AND APPLE ACTUALLY PROVIDED SOFTWARE TO TAKE ADVATAGE OF DUAL CORE garage band and i-movie were BOTH introduced with the last ipad which was the first dual core ios device this device SCREAMS overkill

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=819647491 Robert Andrew Hall Jr

    Phillip Thomas LOL!! Spoken like a true iPhone apologist… Bigger screen real estate, faster processor, ceramic materials never used for ANY device before and a bigger rumored camera (12MP). Please tell me how this is just a ‘spec bump’?? And of course, people who just bought the Nexus are not going to run out and buy this. Why would you say that?? Voice control?? Been there, done that. Holla at me when Siri can give you GPS turn-by-directions.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1238867929 John Wagner

    Daniel McCarthy My time is valuable to me.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000073865048 Daniel McCarthy

    John Wagner And you’re going to attack me because my time is any less valuable to me? I work 40 hours a week as a programmer, I am enrolled in two university courses and I am a developer over at XDA in my spare time. God forbid I take 20 minutes out of my day to root my phone and put a custom kernel and custom ROM on it. You can go play Angry Birds with your little iPhone doing fuck-all and I’ll worry about myself.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000073865048 Daniel McCarthy

    John Wagner And you’re going to attack me because my time is any less valuable to me? I work 40 hours a week as a programmer, I am enrolled in two university courses and I am a developer over at XDA in my spare time. God forbid I take 20 minutes out of my day to root my phone and put a custom kernel and custom ROM on it. You can go play Angry Birds with your little iPhone doing fuck-all and I’ll worry about myself.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1238867929 John Wagner

    Daniel McCarthy Wow so much anger. Your workload seems to be taking its toll on your psyche. For the record though, I’m just as busy as you are

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1238867929 John Wagner

    And I’m old enough to consume alcoholic beverages legally… That seems to explain a lot of you’re outright hostility

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1238867929 John Wagner

    And I’m old enough to consume alcoholic beverages legally… That seems to explain a lot of you’re outright hostility

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000073865048 Daniel McCarthy

    Congratulations on your father inseminating your mother earlier than mine did? What the hell does that have to do with anything? Also if anything, it’s just helping me look better considering I graduated out of high school during my junior year and I’ve already seen much success in what I do three months after turning 18. I run a tech-site, I work 40 hours a week as a programmer, I have a girlfriend that I take out every two or three nights, I go to university and yet I still have the time to develop ROMs over at XDA/Rootzwiki and I have the time to flash a kernel and a ROM or two.

    My phone “just works” like the iPhone users brag about while being capable of so much more.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000073865048 Daniel McCarthy

    Congratulations on your father inseminating your mother earlier than mine did? What the hell does that have to do with anything? Also if anything, it’s just helping me look better considering I graduated out of high school during my junior year and I’ve already seen much success in what I do three months after turning 18. I run a tech-site, I work 40 hours a week as a programmer, I have a girlfriend that I take out every two or three nights, I go to university and yet I still have the time to develop ROMs over at XDA/Rootzwiki and I have the time to flash a kernel and a ROM or two.

    My phone “just works” like the iPhone users brag about while being capable of so much more.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000073865048 Daniel McCarthy

    Congratulations on your father inseminating your mother earlier than mine did? What the hell does that have to do with anything? Also if anything, it’s just helping me look better considering I graduated out of high school during my junior year and I’ve already seen much success in what I do three months after turning 18. I run a tech-site, I work 40 hours a week as a programmer, I have a girlfriend that I take out every two or three nights, I go to university and yet I still have the time to develop ROMs over at XDA/Rootzwiki and I have the time to flash a kernel and a ROM or two.

    My phone “just works” like the iPhone users brag about while being capable of so much more.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1238867929 John Wagner

    Daniel McCarthy Honestly you would be a lot better if you curb the attitude and bragging. Anyone can do that on the internet. For instance, I graduated high school when I was 16 and went to college

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1238867929 John Wagner

    But you have no way to verify my claim (even though it’s true), and I have no way to verify your claims about yourself. So, let’s just curb the arrogance and personal achievement claims, ok?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1341135711 Vu Truong

    John Wagner and you have a superiority complex. Chill man, why so much hate?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=765443538 David Grundy

    David Simpson could it be you were ill-informed ? should I take the time and explain Retina Display to you also? Did you take that literally ?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=765443538 David Grundy

    David Simpson could it be you were ill-informed ? should I take the time and explain Retina Display to you also? Did you take that literally ?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=765443538 David Grundy

    David Simpson could it be you were ill-informed ? should I take the time and explain Retina Display to you also? Did you take that literally ?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001512598933 Sonceto Zare

    David Simpson Yes because you are an idiot! He surely not meant the display, when saying blue ray display he meant the high definition display in its resolution, cause bluray have a bigger quality than a dvd!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=639567128 David DeLeon

    anything but Tmobile USA, i think…for some reason I don’t see Tmobile carrying this phone

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=639567128 David DeLeon

    anything but Tmobile USA, i think…for some reason I don’t see Tmobile carrying this phone

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=725112693 Kelvin Celsius Jan

    David DeLeon I mean every carrier got the GSII except Verizon-I expect that this time around every carrier should have the GSIII. I wouldn’t see why-more profit for Samsung.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=725112693 Kelvin Celsius Jan

    David DeLeon I mean every carrier got the GSII except Verizon-I expect that this time around every carrier should have the GSIII. I wouldn’t see why-more profit for Samsung.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=725112693 Kelvin Celsius Jan

    David DeLeon I mean every carrier got the GSII except Verizon-I expect that this time around every carrier should have the GSIII. I wouldn’t see why-more profit for Samsung.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001512598933 Sonceto Zare

    Yes because you are an idiot! He surely not meant the display, when saying blue ray display he meant the high definition display in its resolution, cause bluray have a bigger quality than a dvd!

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