Samsung Galaxy SIII

A lot of people love smartphones. Why or why not use Samsung Galaxy SIII?

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News on Samsung Galaxy SIII: The Explosion

A Samsung Galaxy SIII owner alleged that his newly bought device suddenly exploded while charging in his car. Samsung has taken this issue very seriously, and launched an investigation. Samsung commissioned Fire Investigations UK (FIUK) to examine the device in order to find the main cause. It was later found that the heat came from outside the smartphone. The main highlight is that the only possible way to reproduce such damage if it was placed within a domestic microwave. After these information were made known, the owner of this smartphone has posted in a forum where he first posted that he tracted all statements against Samsung over the exploding issue. He added on that the damage was caused by someone else as an attempt to dry of his Galaxy sIII because it gotten wet. The FIUK report had found that the moisture detection patch was missing.

Exploded Samsung Galaxy SIII

Some information on Samsung SIII 

Body
Dimensions: 136.6 x 70.6 x 8.6 mm
Weight: 133g

Display
Type: Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size: 720 x 1280 pixels, 4.8 inches (306 ppi pixel density)
Multitouch: yes
Protection: Corning Gorilla Glass 2
-Touch wiz UI

Camera
Primary: 8MP, 3264x244 pixels, autofocus, LED flash
Features: Simultaneous HD video and image recording, geo-tagging, touch focus, face and smile detection, image stabilization
Video: 1080@30fps
Secondary: 1.9 MP, 720@30fps

Features
OS:           Android OS, v4.0.4 (Ice Cream Sandwich)
Chipset:     Exynos 4412 Quad
CPU:          Quad-core 1.4 GHz Cortex-A9
GPU:          Mali-400MP
Sensors:    Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass, barometer
Messaging: SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM, RSS
Browser:    HTML, Adobe Flash
Radio:        Stereo FM radio with RDS
GPS:          A-GPS support and GLONASS
Java:         via Java MIDP emulator
Colors:      Pebble blue, Marble white, Amber brown, Garnet red, Sapphire black,                                                      

                Titanium Grey 
                 - MicroSIM card support only
Bluetooth: 4.0 with A2DP, EDR
USB:         microUSB v2.0 (MHL), USB On-the-go

Features

- S-Voice natural language commands and dictation
- Smart Stay eye tracking
- Dropbox (50 GB storage)
- Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic
- TV-out (via MHL A/V link)
- SNS integration
- MP4/DivX/XviD/WMV/H.264/H.263 player
- MP3/WAV/eAAC+/AC3/FLAC player
- Organizer
- Image/video editor
- Document viewer (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF)
- Google Search, Maps, Gmail,
YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Picasa integration
- Voice memo/dial/commands
- Predictive text input (Swype)

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