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Samsung Galaxy S III Mini

Samsung Galaxy S III Mini

Android smartphone

The Samsung Galaxy S III Mini (stylized as Samsung GALAXY S III mini, model number: GT-I8190) is a touchscreen-based, slate-sized smartphone designed and manufactured by Samsung. It was announced in October 2012 and released in November 2012. The Galaxy S III Mini technological specifications include a 4-inch Super AMOLED display, a dual-core processor running at 1 GHz with 1 GB of RAM, a 5-megapixel rear camera, and a front-facing VGA camera for video calls or selfies.[3][4]

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Samsung Galaxy S III Mini is a smaller version of the Samsung Galaxy S III and contains many of the same features; however, it lacks an 8-megapixel rear camera, bigger 4.8-inch screen and Gorilla Glass display. This device has a 42 h endurance rating.[5] The device initially ran on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) but has now been updated to 4.1.2.[5] Other features include Samsung's TouchWiz Skin, ChatON instant messaging, Smart alert, Buddy Photo Share, Pop-Up Play, S Suggest, S Voice, Smart Stay, Video Hub, Game Hub 2.0, and the S Beam technology (S Beam only available on special NFC edition, GT-I8190N). This device's battery varies from different carriers, and it will either have a 3-pin battery, which is widely used and sold, or a 4-pin battery.

Other variants

An alternative 'upgraded' Galaxy S III Mini version (SM-G730A/SM-G730V) is available from the US carriers AT&T and Verizon Wireless respectively, which features a different processor (Qualcomm 1.2 GHz dual-core Snapdragon 400), NFC, 2000 mAh battery, and 4G LTE data speeds, among other differences. It retains the same 4-inch (800×480 pixels), Super AMOLED screen as the original 'international' Galaxy S III Mini. As of June 6, 2014, the AT&T[6] website shows this version of the phone shipping with Android 4.4 KitKat installed.

In March 2014, another variant of this device (GT-I8200) was released in some countries, with the GT-I8200N model featuring NFC and the GT-I8200L model in Latin America. This variant features a different SoC (Marvell PXA986, dual-core) clocked at 1.2 GHz, with the Vivante GC1000 GPU, those specs were used in the Galaxy Tab 3 7.0 as well. The GT-I8200/N/L variants are shipped with Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean out of the box, as opposed to the older GT-I8190 variant which was shipped with 4.1.1.[7]

Successor

Main article: Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini

The successor to the Galaxy S III Mini is the Galaxy S4 Mini. It was announced on May 30, 2013, and was subsequently released in July 2013.[8]

See also

References

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