This sleek and innovative smartphone has the enhanced intelligence to make everyday life easier. With Samsung Galaxy S III, content can be viewed like never before on the device's 4.8 inch HD Super AMOLED display. An 8MP camera and a 1.9MP front camera offer users a variety of intelligent camera features and face recognition related options that ensure all moments are captured easily and instantly.
Samsung Galaxy S III is powered by Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich, with greatly enhanced usability and practicality to make life easier. Packed with intuitive technology, the Galaxy S III delivers a uniquely personalized mobile experience that refuses to be compromised.
"We are extremely proud and honored to be launching this long awaited device in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia," said JC Park, General Manager at Samsung Electronics in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
"Designed to be both effortlessly smart and intuitively simple, the Galaxy S III has been created with our human needs and capabilities in mind. We understand what our tech-savvy and customers desire and are providing them with a device that enables one of the most seamless, natural and human-centric mobile experiences, and opening up a new horizon that allows living an extraordinary life," he added.
The Galaxy S III will be available within the first week of June in the Kingdom's market as part of Samsung's constant efforts to fulfill its promises to the Saudi consumer by providing the most innovative and up-to-date technology. In line with the launch, there will be an in-mall event, whereby consumers will be given the exclusive opportunity to get a hands-on interaction and experience the device, witnessing the remarkable qualifications and superb technology that embeds Samsung's Galaxy S III.
Introducing Natural Interaction
The Galaxy S III enhances the interaction experience between the device and user. Smart enough to detect your face, voice and motions, the Galaxy S III adapts to the individual user to provide a more convenient and natural experience. With the innovative 'Smart stay' feature, the Galaxy S III recognizes how you are using your phone - reading an e-book or browsing the web for instance - by having the front camera identify your eyes; the phone maintains a bright display for continued viewing pleasure.
The Galaxy S III features 'S Voice,' the advanced natural language user interface, to listen and respond to your words. In addition to allowing information search and basic device-user communication, S Voice presents powerful functions in regards to device control and commands. When your phone alarm goes off but you need a little extra rest, just tell the Galaxy S III "snooze." You can also use S Voice to play your favorite songs, turn the volume up or down, send text messages and emails, organize your schedules, or automatically launch the camera and capture a photo.
In addition to recognizing your face and voice, the Galaxy S III understands your motions to offer maximized usability. If you are messaging someone but decide to call them instead, simply lift your phone to your ear and 'Direct call' will dial their number. With 'Smart alert,' the Galaxy S III will also save you from trouble by catching any missed messages or calls; your phone will vibrate to notify missed statuses when picked up after being idle.
Easy and Instant Sharing
The Samsung Galaxy S III is more than a personal device that can be enjoyed by one user - it wants you to share and experience smartphone benefits with family and friends, regardless of where you are. With the new 'S Beam,' the Galaxy S III expands upon Android Beam, allowing a 1GB movie file to be shared within three minutes and a 10MB music file within two seconds by simply touching another Galaxy S III phone, even without a Wi-Fi or cellular signal. The 'Buddy photo share' function also allows photos to be easily and simultaneously shared with all your friends pictured in an image directly from the camera or the photo gallery.
With 'AllShare Cast', users can wirelessly connect their Galaxy S III to their television to immediately transfer smartphone content onto a larger display. 'AllShare Play' can be also used to instantly share any forms of files between Galaxy S III and your tablet, PC, and televisions regardless of the distance between the devices. Under AllShare Play is also the 'Group Cast' feature that allows you to share your screen among multiple friends on the same Wi-Fi network; you can make comments and draw changes at the same time with your co-workers, witnessing real-time sharing on your individual device.
Human-centric Design with Uncompromised Performance
The Galaxy S III not only presents features with enhanced usability, but also provides an ergonomic and comfortable experience through its human-centric design. Its comfortable grip, gentle curves, and organic form deliver a rich human-centric feel and design. Inspired by nature, its design concept is the flow and movement of nature. The elements of wind, water and light are all evoked in the physical construct of the Galaxy S III. In its essence, the minimal organic design identity is reflected in the smooth and non-linear lines of the device. Available in Pebble Blue and Marble White at launch, Samsung will introduce a variety of additional color options.
With a 4.8" HD Super AMOLED display, the Galaxy S III offers a large and vivid viewing experience. Samsung Mobile's heritage Super AMOLED display even enhances to HD and 16:9 wider viewing angles. To ensure faster content sharing and connectivity, the Galaxy S III offers Wi-Fi Channel Bonding which doubles the Wi-Fi bandwidth.
The Galaxy S III also sports a range of additional features that boost performance and the overall user experience in entirely new ways. It introduces 'Pop up play,' a feature that allows you to play a video anywhere on your screen while simultaneously running other tasks, eliminating the need to close and restart videos when checking new emails or surfing the Web. Its 8MP camera features a zero-lag shutter speed that lets you capture moving objects easily without delay - the image you see is the picture you take. With the 'Burst shot' function that instantly captures twenty continuous shots, and the 'Best photo' feature that selects the best of eight photographs for you, the Galaxy S III ensures users a more enhanced and memorable camera experience. HD video can be recorded even with the 1.9MP front-facing camera, which you can use to capture a video of yourself. Improved backside illumination further helps to eliminate blur in photos that result from shaking, even under low lights.
The gaming experience is enhanced through 'Game Hub,' providing access to numerous social games, while Video Hub brings users high quality TV and movies. Furthermore, Samsung Music Hub will offer a personal music streaming service. Game Hub, Video Hub and Music Hub will be introduced in select countries initially and soon rolled out to global markets.
Telecom Minister to continue to finalise new licence norms - Business Standard
The Telecom Minister will continue to be vested with powers to finalise guidelines for new telecom licenses despite the Planning Commission demanding that such authority be exercised only by the Cabinet or a ministerial panel.
"The guidelines for new licences will be finalised at Ministry level by the Telecom Minister after recommendations are made by the Telecom Commission," a senior government official told PTI here.
The Planning Commission is learnt to have objected to Telecom Minister being made the sole authority to finalise guidelines and demanded that the decision on licences be taken by the Cabinet.The Telecom Ministry is of the view that the condition for implementing and executing ULR remains same as it was approved by the Cabinet in 2003 which authorised DoT to finalise details for ULR implementation with its approval.
The Department of Telecom (DoT) has approached the Cabinet for clearing new licensing regime of Unified Licences as it involved discussion regarding 'Broadcasting Licences' - one of the licence types recommended by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India under Unified Licensing Regime (ULR).
At present, DoT has received final recommendation from TRAI which is to be discussed by inter-ministerial panel and the Telecom Commission.
"No date for Telecom Commission has been finalised yet," the official said.
Telecom Secretary R Chandrashekhar on Thursday had said that DoT will take two to three months period to work out details of Unified Licences.
New telecom companies looking to start business in India, specially the companies whose permits have been cancelled by Supreme Court, will have to take Unified Licences.
These new licences will be different from existing telecom licences for mobile telephony that were issued with bundled spectrum at Rs 1,658 crore for pan-India operations.
New companies may have to pay minimum of over Rs 18,000 crore for getting spectrum apart from licence fees which is yet to be finalised.
For Unified Licence framework, Trai had recommended that there shall be three levels, namely National level, Service area level and District level with one time non-refundable entry fee ranging between Rs 15 crore to Rs 10 lakh.
New analysis shows telecom tariff to rise at least by 26 paise - Economic Times
"TRAI's assessment does not include the cost of license extension in addition to the cost of spectrum to be auctioned. Taking into account these two factors only, EY-COAI estimates that the impact on cost per minute will be more than six times the 4.4 paisa ( for FY'13)," Partner in member firm of EY Prashant Singhal said in its analysis of spectrum base price recommended by telecom regulator TRAI.
The analysis comes in back drop of steep spectrum base price of Rs 3,622 per unit of airwaves to be auctioned recommended by TRAI. This price has earned sharp criticism from industry.
Inter-ministerial panel at Department of Telecom, the Telecom Commission in its recommendation to EGoM has said that balance needs to be struck between spectrum price and three other critical factors -- revenue to government, tariff to consumer and viability of investment and continued attractiveness of the sector while taking decision.
The Commission asked TRAI to come up with analysis on impact of spectrum price recommended by it in each of 22 telecom service area and re-look at the points made by industry.
The report jointly prepared by telecom industry body COAI and EY has claimed that TRAI has made false assumption while calculating impact of spectrum price on telecom tariffs.
"Trai has done simple calculation to arrive at cost impact. It has divided the amount of spectrum to be auctioned and divided it by total number of minutes being used by all telecom subscribers which is incorrect," Partner for Advisory service at E&Y Bharat Bhargava said.
He added that Trai missed to consider spectrum quantity that is being used to support 332 minutes of telecom network used by a subscriber in a month where the revenue comes from only outgoing minutes.
"So one factor of TRAI getting low number is due to less spectrum being put in numerator," Bhargava said.
The analysis said that TRAI has assumed that minutes of usage for telecom services by subscribers will grow around 160 per cent over a period of 20 years (2012-2032) which is contrary to historical trends, which indicate that MOU per subscriber have been falling over the last few years.
"Industry reports indicate that an average tariff increase of around 20 per cent by leading Indian operators in second quarter of 2011 resulted in a sharp decline in MOU in the range of 2.6 to 6.9 per cent," the report said.
The report further said that TRAI assumption of MOU per subscriber will grow 84 per cent during the 20 year period, is in contrast to the declining trend seen over the last 3-4 years.
Singhal said that there will be also significant impact on operator costs and consumer tariffs.
"The substantial payout for spectrum may compel the operators to raise further debt and strain their already leveraged balance sheets," he said.
TRAI is expected to discuss its analysis with Department of Telecom on Monday before submission to EGoM.
Samsung begins Europe sales of latest smartphone - Yahoo Finance
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Samsung Electronics Co., the world's largest maker of mobile phones, said its third-generation Galaxy S smartphone went on sale Tuesday in 28 European and Middle Eastern countries, hoping to cement its lead over Apple's iPhone.
The Galaxy S III smartphones hit the shelves in countries including France and Britain. By the end of July, nearly 300 mobile operators around the world will be selling the device.
Buyers of the new smartphone in five European countries will also be the first to get their hands on Samsung's music streaming service.
In Germany, France, Spain, Italy and Britain, the Galaxy S III will be shipped with access to the Music Hub — an iTune's like service allowing users to listen to music as well as buy and store it. Samsung said the service has a 19-million song catalog.
Samsung said the initial response to the new smartphone was positive. At Vodafone Group, pre-sale orders for the Galaxy S III outstripped those of any previous Android-based smartphones, according to Samsung.
The Galaxy series of smartphones is widely acknowledged in the industry as a success for Samsung, turning it from a smartphone also-ran into a viable competitor with the iPhone from Apple Inc.
While Apple has kept the screen size of the iPhone the same in every upgrade since 2007, Samsung increased the screen size of its highest-end smartphone in its two major updates. The latest Galaxy phone screen is nearly twice as big as the iPhone screen.
The 4.8-inch S III also features more computing power that supports voice commands and an eye-movement tracking feature to keep the screen from dimming.
The music service, which is available in free and paid versions, can recommend new tunes based on a user's listening preferences.
The paid service allows uploading and storage of music files on servers that can be accessed from more than one Internet-connected device at a cost of €9.99 per month, Samsung said.
Unlike Apple, which uses its in-house operating system and iTunes music service, Samsung has relied on Google's Android operating system for its flagship smartphones.
Samsung's music service is a result of its acquisition of mSpot Inc., a Palo Alto, California-based provider of music and movie streaming services on the Web and mobile devices.
The Korean firm has been making efforts to increase homemade mobile content, such as its own messaging application, hoping that these features will boost consumer loyalty.
Samsung overtook Apple in smartphone sales for the first time in the first three months of this year, according to research firm Strategy Analytics. The Suwon, South Korea-based company sold 44.5 million smartphones in the January-March quarter, compared with Apple's 35.1 million iPhone sales.
Market watchers expect that Apple may use its annual conference for developers next month to announce the yearly upgrade to the iPhone, which then can go on sale as early as July.
Aside from being big rivals in the smartphone market, Samsung and Apple have also a close business relationship. Samsung supplies mobile chips and display panels for iPhones and iPad tablet computers, counting Apple among its biggest clients.
Telecom needs a trickle-down effect - Asian Age
The new telecom policy approved by the Cabinet will be quite a boon for the people if and when it is implemented. The Department of Telecommunication has still to work out the guidelines to put into effect this policy, which envisages one nation full number portability and one nation free roaming. There is a lot of scepticism about the actual implementation of free roaming and free number portability and it is likely that the operators will raise the base price as they are unlikely to provide anything free.
One of the objectives of the new policy is to improve tele-density so it is perplexing as to why DoT is not in favour of district-level licensing. The telecom regulatory authority had in its recommendations devoted 30 pages to why this was necessary and how it would lead to a manifold increase in tele-density. The population at the rural level has its own specific requirements. Young rural village entrepreneurs can provide telecom services as per the needs of groups of villages at the district level, and this way telecom density can be multiplied in a short time, even before 2017 when DoT expects 70 per cent tele-density. It is, therefore, inexplicable why DoT says it will think about this later without giving reasons. What is wrong with now, when such a move could change the quality of life in rural areas and democratise the telecom industry further? The big players are against district licensing as it would eat into their space when they are ready to roll out services in these areas. Perhaps DoT needs to rethink fast as the larger good should prevail over sectoral interests, and this would be in sync with the government’s inclusive mantra.
Apart from this, the new telecom policy is very welcome as, among other things, it brings in transparency and takes away powers of vital decision-making from the telecom minister of the day and vests it with a ministerial panel. Perhaps there should be a time frame set for the panel so that decisions are not in limbo waiting for the panel to meet.
The other laudable provision is to make India a manufacturing hub for telecom equipment. This is a challenge as manufacturers will have to compete with China in terms of price and volume. The commerce minister is said to have expressed some apprehensions as the government would have to give local manufacturers priority over imports, and sops. The commerce minister reportedly feels this would violate the WTO and GATT agreements. This should not be difficult to handle. The US put heavy duties on Chinese solar and wind farm equipment, which were flooding the American markets. There is need to shake off diffidence and push the envelope so that the new telecom policy becomes a success.
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