The Samsung GALAXY S III (3)

The Samsung Galaxy S III is a multi-touch, slate-format smartphone running the Android operating system. Samsung Company unveiled the S III on May 3, 2012. The device was released in 28 European and Middle Eastern countries on May 29, 2012. Prior to release for this unit, 9 million pre-orders were placed by more than 100 carriers globally. Within the first 100 days of release Samsung sold more than 20 Million units of the Samsung Galaxy S III.

The Operating System for Samsung Galaxy S III is Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich and had been upgraded to Jelly Bean on September 2012. Samsung Galaxy S III has 1.4GHz quad-core 

Cortex-A9 (international, AU, and KR versions) and 1.5GHz dual-core Krait (NA and JP versions). The RAM for this phone is 1GB for international version and 2GB for selected markets only.

The storage capacities for this phone are 16 and 32 GB and removable storage or expandable up to 64 GB using microSDXc. The phone enables video calling with its 1.9MP front-facing camera, zero shutter tag and HD Video (720p) at 30 frames. Super amoled capacitive touchscreen, 8 MP camera. The Galaxy measuring 136.6 mm (5.38 inches) long, 70.7 mm (2.78 inches) wide, and 8.6 mm (0.43 inches) thick and weighing 133 grams.

The Samsung Galaxy S III has come with pre-installed application like Youtube, Google+, Voice Search, Google Play, Gmail, Map and Calendar.

Meanwhile, Samsung Galaxy S III can access and play traditional media formats such as music, TV programmes, podcasts, audiobooks and movies. Your media library can be sorted alphabetically by song title, playlist, album, folder and genre. Music Square is one notable feature for this phone.

According to Samsung that the Samsung Galaxy S III was the first smartphone to support Voice OVer LTE with the introduction of HD Voice service in South Korea.

Apple - iPhone 5 - The thinnest, lightest, fastest iPhone ever

The iphone 5 is now available in Apple Retail stores worldwide and accredited merchants. iPhone 5 was release on September 19, 2012 and two millions units in the initial 24 hours of pre-order and five million units in the first three days of release. This is the biggest thing to happen iPhone ever since.

The iPhone 5 uses iOS 6 and interaction with the OS includes gestures such as swipe, tap, pinch and reverse pinch. The phone can act as a hotspot, sharing its internet connection over Wifi, Bluetooth or USB.

The iPhone 5 can play music, movies, television shows, ebooks, audiobooks and podcasts and can sort its media library by albums, songs, artists, playlists, genres, composers, podcasts, videos and so on.

iPhone 5 has 1.3GHz dual core processor with 1GB LPDDR2 with a RAM of 1GB. Storage capacities available are fixed at 16, 32 or 64 GB, the same as the 4S. Multi-touch display, finger print resistant, 8 MP back-side illuminated sensor, HD video (1080p) and 1.2 MP with HD video (720p). Talk time is up to 8 hours, standby time is up to 225 hours. For internet use, if you are using 3G (up to 8 hours), up to 8 hours for the LTE and up to 10 hours for the Wi-Fi. Video playback is up to 10 hours and the Audio playback is up to 40 hours.

The iPhone 5 received mainly positive reviews from commentators and reviewers but Some users have complained that pictures taken from iPhone 5 camera have a tendency to show purple flares, with speculation that this was caused by the sapphire glass that overlays the camera. Apple's response to the issue and advise users to aim the camera away from bright light sources when taking photos.