Samsung Galaxy S3 Rumours: Features, Specifications & Release Date

The Samsung Galaxy S2 is less than a year old, and rumors of its sequel are already starting to surface. According to the folks over at Android and Me who were tipped off by some sources, the Samsung Galaxy S3 will be powered by the Exynos 4412: a 32nm quad-core designed with ARM Cortex-A9 cores running at up to 1.5GHz. The chip was recently spotted in the Linux Kernel archives and is supposed to be under testing by Samsung.


The Exynos 4412 is also expected to feature the ARM Mali-T604 GPU which is touted to deliver an up to 5x performance improvement over previous Mali graphics processors and is scalable up to 4 cores. However, we won’t know for sure until the next Mobile World Congress (February 2012) where the Galaxy S3 is rumored to make its debut.


A Galaxy S3 phone with a quad-core processor seems like the next logical step, seeing how Android phones with quad-core processors seem to be what next year is all about but I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.

Samsung Galaxy S3 Specifications (Rumored)

• 4.6-inch Super AMOLED Plus screen at 1,280×720-pixel resolution
• 1.8GHz chip with 2GB RAM for zippy multitasking and games
• Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich with a refreshed TouchWiz skin
• 12 megapixels camera
• Styled like the Galaxy Nexus
• A flexible OLED screen
• TouchWiz mini apps
• Ultra-high ISO photography enabled
• May include an upgrade of the Galaxy S2 with a twelve megapixel camera
• Physical buttons for Home as well as Back and Settings on the front may be removed to allow for virtual buttons on the screen
• A super bright 4.5 inch screen
• AMOLED 3D screen with NFC