Samsung Galaxy S III is claimed by Samsung executives have been ordered as many as 9 million units. If this actual figures is true, then that sale makes Galaxy S III as the most popular smartphone this year. Vodafone, one of the major operators in UK confirm that Galaxy S III is the most Android smartphones ordered. Galaxy S III will be sold in UK in early June.

"We are very pleased with consumer response to Galaxy S III. Galaxy S III is the Android device with the largest order to date," said a Vodafone spokesman quoted from TechRadar, Wednesday (05/23/2012).

Similar statements were also presented by the largest mobile phone retailer in UK, Carphone Warehouse. Many Galaxy S III units has been ordered and 800 Carphone outlet has stocked that products.

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Samsung Galaxy S III was mentioned using plastic for their body. But  Samsung denies this. They claim, Galaxy S III casing is made of polycarbonate material. Polycarbonate materials has also been used in other handsets, like HTC One X. This material, although it is basically also a plastic claimed to be stronger than regular plastic.

"Polycarbonate is used in the Galaxy S III battery cover. Polycarbonate is lightweight, solid and has been used extensively in  mobile industry," Samsung said in a statement.

"This material was chosen as the best material for Galaxy S III. Using three layers of high quality polycarbonate, the phone durability and resistance to scratches can be maximized," said Samsung.

Media according to PhoneArena, polycarbonate can indeed be hundreds of times stronger than ordinary plastic. In addition to the battery cover, Galaxy S III body construction reportedly also made​​of the same material.

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Intense competition in smartphone business forced manufacturers to design products as good as possible. Modern smartphone can not just rely on hardware capabilities, but it should be designed for more "humane". This is demonstrated by Samsung new product, Galaxy S III. The phone that is equipped with quad-core processors are designed to very friendly for the users.

"The advantages of this phone is that it can detect eye movements, as long the eyes keep staring at the screen," said Yoo Young Kim, Managing Director of PT Samsung Electronics Indonesia, during the launch of Samsung Galaxy S III, on Tuesday (05/22/2012) afternoon in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Because of this technology, the phone will never sleep when the users actively looking at the screen. So it no longer depende on the setting of the time.

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Samsung seems want to create Galaxy S III back to nature. It's can be seen, if you touch Galaxy S III screen. When you touch the screen, the screen will be bumpy like lake surface. The waves spread out, as if revealing a variety of facilities in that smart phone. Then, you hear gurgling sound that was almost too similar to natural voice.

Samsung claim that their smartphone is inspired by nature. Not only that, some facilities purposely designed based on nature, especially the camera and sound facilities. It was created from nature, then the smart phone is also trying to care for nature.

According to Vice President of Samsung Electronics Telecommunications Europe, Jean Daniel Aysee, some of earning from the sale of Galaxy S III will be donated to World Wildlife Fund (WWF). This part of the role of these products in an effort to rescue nature.

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Doesn't want to lose to Siri (iPhone personal assistant feature), Samsung also makes similar feature called S Voice in their product. Smart feature that can detects questions and voice command will be  introduced in Samsung Galaxy S III. With this S Voice feature, the users can turn on their Samsung Galaxy simply just by saying "Hi Galaxy"

S Voice demonstration was held by Samsung during the release of Galaxy S III in London, England, Tuesday (05/03/2012), the camera feature can be activated by saying "I want to take a picture". S Voice can also be used to in weather application, calendar, and make phone calls. In fact, S Voice can also activate music player control to play songs and set the sound volume.

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Samsung has announced their new smartphone, Samsung Galaxy S III in the event "Samsung Unpacked" that been held in London, England, Thursday (05/03/2012). At the same time, Samsung also announced that Galaxy S III owner will get online data storage media of 50GB for Dropbox. 50GB of data storage capacity can be used for two years for free.

At Dropbox, users can store various document files, music, video, applications and so on. Not only is stored, users can directly access and edit document files in Dropbox. This is very similar to Google Drive.

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For the first time, sales of Samsung beat Nokia. South Korean vendors even managed to beat the dominance of Apple with its iPhone in smartphone market. As quoted by BBC, research firm Strategy Analytics reported global mobile phone sales until the end of first quarter of 2012. In the report, sales of mobile phones from Samsung managed to beat the sales of Nokia and Apple mobile phones.

This report was little surprising because Nokia phone sales were unbeaten since 1998. At the report, Samsung  mobile phone sales reached 93.5 million units. Samsung had 25.4 percent of market share.

At the same time, Nokia only sold 82.7 million units, or had only 22.5 percent market share. While Apple sold 35.1 million units with 9.5 percent market share.

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The competition between Apple and Samsung in the smartphones and tablets market are quite exciting, after some time they have problem with patent, they now compete for the market in China.

"I predict Apple will not be able to beat Samsung in the near future in China smartphone market," said Sandy Shen, Gartner analyst said to Bloomberg.

Currently the Apple iPhone's market share was only 7.5 percent of China's emerging market. Meanwhile, the rivals Samsung had market share three times larger than Apple, about 24.3 percent.

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