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Oh that it will be difficult to test this smartphone!We give ourselves courage as we can before the exercise of style that awaits us.Here, take the case of Samsung for example.The Korean manufacturer is, from the Galaxy S II, very largely the market leader of the Androphone market: not only does it flood the world markets of models from the high -end, but in addition, it pays the luxury of sellinghis spearhead at several tens of millions of units.The Galaxy S II was without any hesitation the smartphone of the year 2011, which is still largely in terms of competition on most points in June 2012.

Suddenly, this is how we reassure ourselves: it must be worse today to be Samsung, who must ensure the succession of the best by the best, than to be the humble tester who will try to juggle between technical objectivity and practical subjectivity, these two aspects which make it possible to answer the essential questions that the potential buyer arises.This time, will they be generally three: is the Galaxy S III the worthy successor to the Galaxy S II?Does he crush competition as his elder?Is he a smartphone truly thought of for human beings, as Samsung repeated it many times during the press presentation?

As usual, we will try to answer these three questions in the most detailed way, as it is, keeping in mind, that with a price oscillating between 590 and 650 €, the Galaxy S III is one of theThe most expensive smartphones on the current market - more expensive even than an iPhone 4S which starts at € 629 naked.For this price, you have to have the best quality, the best smartphone, in short, the one that the general public can keep for several years and that the technophile will not be tempted to change before at least a year.Everything is revealed in the following.

Design and hardware: whatever the bottle ...

1 - A smartphone for humans?

Who says Samsung says advertisement.Oh yes, you will eat it in all the sauces of the Galaxy S III.A bus shelter?Galaxy S III.A tramway ?Galaxy S III.Subway station ?Yes, Galaxy S III.A train station ?A historic building of several hundred meters?Yep, yeah, we understood.And what will you read?Whether this smartphone is made for the Human Beings* or "thought to understand you" according to expert translators in Google Trad.

"It is not ugly, it is not ugly, it is not ugly, it is not M ..."

This is what returned throughout the conference presenting the machine in a mixture of videos each made under an illicit substance in at least half of the countries, Holland understood.That, and the fact that the smartphone was "inspired by nature".These two bullshiting phrases have a real background: everything in the Galaxy S III, as in most Samsung phones, was thought of for The 99%.Do you like Android and don't like Samsung?You can stop reading this test, it is a Samsung smartphone that we are going to talk.

And this Samsung-Touch begins as soon as the machine unpacking, which we are not going to make the affront to tell you ("Oh, I open a box"), the photos did not take, this smartphone is out of thecommmon.Where they were able to deceive, it is on the apparent ugly of the beast.In fact, without having it in hand, we imagine a disproportionate, wide and ugly smartphone, but the machine is not at all flattened as one of the last palm or a blackberry, for example.

No, frankly, we even find him a good style, all round

After all that we have left on the GS III, we are almost ashamed to recognize that Samsung still made a good bet: unlike all the previous smartphones of the brand which were plastic copies of the previous iPhone, we have thistimes a model that stands out.In love HTC design for a long time, I can only recognize that this machine managed to touch my geekosensible fiber, when I thought I had to change my eyes after a week of test.

Obviously, it will not appeal to everyone, but it is not more bad to tell the truth: all the other brands had their fans and their detractors, while Samsung has always had a flat and conventional design, which left at bestindifferent.With the latest Sony, the One of HTC and this Galaxy S III range, we clearly have 3 well -sized and well -defined universes, which will allow you to recognize the manufacturer of this or that model.So no, let's stop bad faith, the Galaxy S III is not ugly, it is different and many will love it.

Ah, the metal imitation plastic, the mark of a civilization in advance

On the other hand, beyond the subjectivity of each one that we would not dare to judge, the question of materials remains more objective and ambivalent.Samsung does samsung - we feel like we have written this sentence thousands of times, and not often good: yes, you will have cheap plastic as we name it familiarly.This same plastic that has equipped all the brand's models since its arrival on Android, this same plastic that makes the metallic outline of the machine rude.

At a time when all manufacturers are redoubled with efforts to try to offer both solid and aesthetic materials, Samsung wears out the modified oil and Glossy that he loves so much.Even the rear, which had been changed on the Galaxy S II, is also all plastic gloss ’dressed.Result, in 3 minutes, your beautiful smartphone will be full of little aesthetic finger traces-perhaps more visible on the white model received than on the darker blue.

Glossy back, he has trouble passing ...

Besides, white will also have the defect of easy dirt: even on clean surfaces, it will tend to hang the dust and each time, we must wipe the back to remove micro-fibers, small dust and otherfabric pieces found on tablecloths, blankets and sofas.It is to be wondered if the choice of white in place of black was most relevant for a model molded in these materials ...

Arc Electric and Wattmille Volts, great, in the meantime, the smartphone has been pampered and that's the result ...

Two advantages to these disadvantages: on the one hand the smartphone is light like a feather, which means that you will hardly feel it in your pocket - and it is essential to reduce the weight when you arrive on such diagonals.On the other hand, the plastic is ugly, the plastic is damaged, but the plastic rarely breaks.Those who have used a Galaxy S II until then will be able to confirm it to you: to drop the smartphone several times has little effect on the appearance of the machine, the material hosting the blows and shocks well.The editorial One S, without any fall, with its bullshito-revolutionary treatment is already damaged, the painting having jumped in multiple places.

Even if the smartphone is large, the grip is good, but Samsung may have abused a little on the diagonal.Admittedly, she pleases us, to us who really use our smartphones as pocket mini-manager, but the success of the Galaxy S II with the general public was also due to its ideal size, designed to be held in handsnormal - and above all, in women's hands.Some love them, but it is not to be sexist to refer to the average morphology of a female hand to affirm that beyond a certain diagonal, the fingerprint becomes arduous.

4.8 inches, it's almost a Galaxy Note.4.8 inches, it is the biggest public smartphone never released on the market.Has Samsung went too far for a model supposed to replace the most mainstream Androphone of all time and what is "thought for human beings", that is to say creatures with hands of sizemean ?We will see…

2 - high -end hardware and its optimization

Warning: if you don't know what "benchmark" or "MHL" means the following paragraphs will not interest you.But you can read them anyway to bring out the numbers during your worldly evenings.

When the Galaxy S II came out, we had been able to greet the fact that the smartphone was addressed both to the general public and the most technophile of our readers: its raw power was out of the ordinary, it was the only one at the timeTo be able to decode 1080p high-profile videos natively without changing anything in the file and made the benchmarks cry.The glory of the Exynos processor started - even if it was accompanied by a lot of disappointments on the side of the developers who had a lot of trouble optimizing their titles for the platform.

With the Galaxy S III, Samsung reiterates its home choice by taking on a new generation exynos quad-core processor, in the name of code 4412, clocked at 1.4 GHz, seconded with a Mali T400 graphics processor and a good GoRam.On paper, yes, we have once again a monster of power.Admittedly, that is not everything and no figures can replace a good user experience, but as we know that you like that, we have brought the smartphone to the benchmark reel.Admire:

Hello, do you want to see my big phone?

On this first famous benchmark, obviously, the highest score is the best and you will notice that the Galaxy S III explodes any device on Tegra 3.The NVIDIA processor embedded in the Asus Transform Prime tablet and in the HTC One X is tilted, the Galaxy Nexus is very far from the lead.

Always a story of comparison

Basemark allows to know who has the biggest on the graphic processor side, a 3D scene with lots of light effects, reflections and shadows being played.This score which revolves around 37 for the Galaxy S III is not staggering: the Galaxy S II arrives at 42.16 and the HTC One S, tested earlier, arrives at 49.01.How to explain it?Well in one way or another, it is necessarily a problem: either the GPU part is below the raw power of the CPU, or, once again, the benchmarks - and therefore the games - do notnot to exploit the whole integrated in the Galaxy S III.

This is what had penalized the big brother on the side of the video game and it seems that Samsung has not made more effort this year to optimize its processor to run what already exists: developers to work on their sideTo operate their games if they want to take advantage of the market owned by the smartphone.Mouis.

We hadn't said the red button ...

The second possibility is confirmed when you pass the famous Nenamark test to the smartphone: the Galaxy S III typed at 58.7 fps, when an HTC One S and its Adreno 225 manage to reach a beautiful 60.5.The gap is not dramatic, but think that the HTC smartphone is embarking "only" a double heart.That said, Nenamark stipulates in the description of its application that tweaks have been made so that the results of the Galaxy S are closer to reality: it is a safe bet that it will be necessary to develop or at least modify a lot of applicationsso that they work perfectly on this new smartphone with a little docile processor.

I don't want to swing, but the editor who took this screenshot did not like the GS III

Antutu rebuilds the Galaxy S III very largely at the top of the competition, the benchmark displaying almost double points for this new smartphone compared to the latest high -ends that we are tesing, the Xperia s tear only 6518 points, theHTC One S, 7075.With its comfortable 12113, Father Galaxy is largely in front of and that, it is of course thanks to his extraordinary CPU more than his GPU.As a comparison, the CPU score on a One reaches 3354, the GPU 1574 score, the RAM 1236 score and the I/O score, 825.

Understanding a result on 12 is also the power of benchmark

The benchmark of Chain-Fire, very much taking care of passing the practical tests related to the Android environment or the reading and writing capacities of the machine to the smartphone brings us more or less to the same conclusions, the galaxy s ofNew generation provides on the side of the raw power and passes without problem above the HTC One X and the One S, the latter reaches only a score of 9558 in total.

In short, let's stop the raw results, let's go to the interpretation.You will find other screenshots of other benchmarks in the bulk gallery present at the end of the test, below the conclusion.Is the Galaxy S III in gross power the expected monster?On the CPU side, yes, a thousand times yes, the new exynos does its job perfectly, allowing you to reach incredible scores and above all, to open and use the applications with maximum comfort.

On the side of the CPU-GPU alliance and the interpretation of this alliance by the various benchmarks, on the other hand, it can be said without fear that Samsung renews the high-end house, but also renews the problems linked to a processor-not very flexible graphic.It should have been bad to question the performance of a Mali-400MP4 processor, even if we would have preferred to see a new version of the machine, randomly a T604, which should be present in the future Galaxy Note 10.1 of the firm.

Developers and exynos, I love you either

No, it is rather, as usual, the optimization which is lacking and even if spending benchmarks has no interest day by day, these results could find themselves in use, certain games and applications that can run less wellon this beast than on a smartphone less well equipped a priori.Likewise, it is always difficult to make precise comparative benchmarks without reference platform and without being sure that all the hearts of a processor are taken into account.The debate on the relevance of an A9 quad-core processor, which no almost applies is out of the way remains open ...

Anyway, it is too early to judge the scope of these concerns, let the smartphone time to settle down and to the more competent developers than we can express themselves on this new version.

Before causing screen with you dear readers, it is fashionable to take a look at the rest of the technical characteristics of the beast.First, it should be noted that, joy, the microSD card is beautiful and always present on the smartphones of Samsung, which will not fail to delight those of you who feel cramped with 16 GBstorage, especially since the other large ones, whether HTC or Sony, have ousted this possibility of their most recent high -end models.Google had said no, Samsung does not care, as usual.In France, it seems that only the model with 16 GB of internal storage is available for the time being.

The return of the removable shell and the microSD!

On the connectivity side, you will find Bluetooth 4.0 and a microousb port that will serve as a connector, load for the load, USB Host and HDMI, as long as you have the right adapters on hand.Yes, you will have to go back to the checkout if you want to take advantage of these features, but hey, we start to be used to ...

Finally, a word on the battery, since without it, no smartphone on: you will find in the Galaxy S III a monster of 2100 mAh, against 1800 mAh for the HTC One X, almost the only comparable smartphone in terms of featurestheoretical.If the latter, when it was released, had disappointed a lot in terms of autonomy -which has improved a little patch after patch -you shouldn't have a problem with the Galaxy S III to hold a little morea day.We are not at the performance of a Galaxy Note, which, with its dual-core and its 2,500 mAh battery is without problem two days, but Samsung has not undersized its beast: so much the better.

Single port, paid extensions

Also remember that one or two months after its release, the Galaxy S II had been extremely well optimized and some users were surprised to see their smartphone hold almost a third of more time on battery after a saving patch.We can therefore hope that Samsung also takes care of his new baby and still improves this already very correct autonomy.

3 - Samsung goes to high definition

Okay, this title is not correct: the Korean manufacturer already has two models on its shelves equipped with HD screen.Only here, the first is a smartphono-tablettoidal hybrid, the second is a Google Nexus command.Starting from there, the Galaxy S III is truly the first homemade smartphone, in the strict sense of the two terms, equipped with an Achdé screen.As we told you above, in hand, the Galaxy S III is large, almost as large in the end as the Galaxy Note.

Seulement 0,2 0,5 pouce séparent les deux modèles et même s’il y a un an, Samsung clamait haut et fort que le sweet spot pour un smartphone grand public se trouvait à 4,3 pouces, cela n’a pas empêché le constructeur d’augmenter la taille de son fer de lance – et heureusement, de faire suivre la résolution.Let's not go there by 36 Breton brushy countryside: even if the number of pixels per inch is lower than that of the iPhone 4S and Xperia S, the HD definition of 1280 × 720 allows to reach a comfortable 306 ppvery pleasant in sight.

At this level of PPP, we can not even realize that we are in front of a pentile slab ...

These figures are very beautiful, but in practice, what does it give?Well you can say goodbye once and for all the pixels.The PPP war has only a practical goal that Apple understood a long time ago: to improve the quality of use of a smartphone, by displaying images and text at a level of sharpness unequaled.We could say that "it's too much", or that "it is not necessary", of course, but after having experienced a screen like that of the Galaxy S III, it is impossible to go back.

The most sensitive to this progress will be those who use their smartphone as a mobile reading tool, whether it is emails, browser items or even books.We will come back to these uses later, but if you find yourself in this short profile, know that at the time of choice, it will always be necessary to favor a maximum of pixels per inch, in order to be able to display the fonts in thescreen.

... and it's super pleasant.

From this point of view, the screen of the Galaxy S III is on the other side of the noticeable limit - and on this diagonal, the Galaxy S III, 0.1 inches larger than the One X, hasno competitor.Besides, if your heart swings between the two and this point matters to you, the question to ask yourself is the following: do I prefer a screen a bit larger or smooth hair?Poetry Thursday, it's on Fandroid.

Beyond these technical considerations, what about the colorimetric rendering?It's amoled, so it's blue.Here, having announced that, we said almost everything to satisfy the detractors of Samsung technology.Otherwise, there is good, very good and mediocre.As on each galaxy, you can adjust a color profile among 4 to choose from.As on each galaxy, the "dynamic" profile is despicable, the colors change on the fly and as long as you have left the brightness automatically, you will have the right to changes that do not correspond to the ambient lighting.

The photo is deliberately blurred, to show you the color halo issued by the screen.White from the front ...

... blue when you bow.Amoled, it's been a long time!

The colors in "standard" and "natural" mode are much more pleasant to the eye and above all, less saturated.Video mode has little interest, accentuating contrasts.In each mode, on the other hand, the white will be bluish and more and more blue if you look at the smartphone.Years are passing and Samsung has still not corrected the faults of its technology which have been pointed out for a long time.Bad luck, we are no longer at the stage of discovery and if a year ago we could fall on his knee in front of the beauty of the screen of a Galaxy S II, the surprise effect and theWe now perceive more the defects of the amoled than its qualities.

Samsung knows how to make good screens, don't make us say the opposite, but since the Galaxy S II, a technology such that the Sony White Magic has impressed us much more than the AMOLED screen - and all its qualifiers of rigor - fromThis Galaxy S III, which has now entered the norm with its youth defects.Perhaps it would be time to change the formula a little to vary the pleasures?

Touchwiz and the Samsung experience on ... Android?

1 - A simple and easy to access interface

As we told you in the preamble to this test, you are on a Samsung smartphone which is moving more and more from Google.This had struck us during the press conference presenting the Galaxy S III, the use of the beast confirms and accentuates this feeling.To put it quickly and pouring into the snapshot, buying a Galaxy S III, you will use TouchWiz OS with Google Applications.It even goes much further, since in general, Samsung has completely damaged Big G directives.

Remove the SD card?Nop, we keep.Make smartphones devoid of physical pimples?Nop, we keep them.Worse: Samsung has kept the "Menu" key which, onAndroid 4.0, is supposed to be replaced by a "multi-tamed" key since access to the menu is now managed by software.You will not find the black bar and its three small points on the Galaxy S III and the Samsung applications have been designed so as not to enter the Design Canon of Google.This also means for developers that it will be necessary to think of applications without button, under penalty of ending up with double -use buttons, not very practical for users.

Welcome to Touchwiz, the country where it is always blue

In addition to having kept its design paradigm, Samsung has also kept its central physical button, which is not a bad idea: a long support will start the multi-jack, a double support will launch the S-Voice application.The Touchwiz interface itself has changed very little and there is stillAndroid 4 left.0 that the main lines - and again.Goodbye the theme, goodbye the icons, goodbye the parameters, the taskbar, the lock-screeen, everything has been Samsung-ienity.

Is this a bad thing?Again, purist and Touchwiz followers will compete: we can only recognize that the Iridescent cocktail is adapted to the general public.Everything is easily found, the menus are clear and accessible, each function is explained and a small tutorial appears at the first launch of a menu that would not be easy.We teach you to use tactile gestures, voice recognition, office, samsung services, sort your menus, applications, files ... In short, everything is supported to avoid Tata Michelle the reading of a practical guidenonexistent anyway.

"Type the screen loudly on the desktop to stop vibrating"

In this, smartphone after smartphone, Samsung fully succeeds in his blow and will frustrate those who expected a real high-end Androphone-this Samsung-Phone is in a world apart.Besides, the Samsung services will be, as planned, very much highlighted.For example, we will offer you to create a Samsung account before connecting a Google account, a step that you can, more than ever, ignore: with your Samsung account, you will have the right to synchronize all your parameters, access to adedicated blind, a cat function, cloud, a calendar, in short, all that Google offers.

Oh, the Google Apps are there, but they all do more or less duplication with a home service or a partner who will have had the chance to have its preinstalled application - with a automatic shortcut on the desktop, to show wellWhat path you have to follow.Before entering in more detail in this offer of services, to which the next part is devoted, let's talk a little about the system and its daily use.

Gmail… wouldn't a logo below?Oh, he will reappear in emails ...

First of all, why sammy rocked us with his "natural smartphone"?The idea behind it is that the Galaxy S III is supposed to facilitate interactions between you and your smartphone.In practice, there is good and failure, as always.On the side of the good, we can note for example the gesture Moves which are all relevant and work wonderfully.Are you on the contact sheet?Port your smartphone in the ear, he takes care of calling him.It's all stupid, but it's sensational in use, you really feel like you are doing banal actions faster and better.

Do you receive an SMS or an email?If you have activated the adequate move gesture, simply take charge of your phone and the lock screen will light up on the notification.If you have not received anything, it will remain black and it will be up to you to light the smartphone.These examples can be repeated for each gesture: these little things that we would laugh if we were in bad faith really modify our way of using our smartphone, making the experience more pleasant, more pleasant.It's stupid, but the Galaxy S III knows what we want to do with him before we do it: it's all the genius of Samsung finds.

Gesture Moves may be the most beautiful invention for lazy after the microwave

When they work.Because if the gesture moves are really incredible, S-Voice, the vocal counterpart of these orders, is very ridiculous.We made fun of Siri because he did not work all the time, S-Voice is almost never functional.And in addition, unlike Siri, it is neither funny nor "humanoid".It is mediocre vocal recognition software at best.

The examples are raining on the internet and you will see it for yourself in the presentation video that we are preparing for you, but the technology developed by VLINGO is far from being in French.We must repeat the same things to him several times, until the assistant gives up and asks us to start everything again.I tried to prepare a timer for my pasta, for example.So I simply said "plan the timer for 7 minutes".Miracle, he understood the words "timer" and "5 minutes".

So already Bichette, we don't be silent eh, then I asked you why you planted me?

After corrected in "7 minutes", something he did very quickly, he asked me to confirm.So I said "start".And there, the drama.S-Voice, ask me why I want to start my P ***** timer.First SLR: how does it look at it and what will it allow you to optimize the cooking time of my pasta?He did not like my silence, so I told him "for my pasta"."I did not understand thank you to try again"."For my pasta"."I did not understand thank you to try again"." For.My.Pasta." " I didn't understand.Say "Hi Galaxy" to wake up ".

SO, now you speak English?With a French accent please!Maybe better than French with mistakes ...

Yes, he had canceled the order to set up a timer and wanted me to start everything.I almost grinded it in half, but I remembered that I had an object that costs half a snout in my hands.After that, I have never used S-Voice again and will probably not turn it.So yes, it's cute to want to take out its Apple-Like technology at all costs, but if it does not arrive at the ankle of the competitor, it is better to do nothing and stand out otherwise ...

We did not focus on the interface itself for the simple reason that there is not much to say: it is touchwiz, ultra fluid, with beautiful animations.Samsung has drawn right and left what was done better and added it to its Rom: this is why you find for example shortcuts to the applications on the Lock-Screen, the quick parameters in the barTasks - very good idea that is missing from Ice Cream Sandwich - or widgets that can be resized most of the time.

You remember the kids who made a fault with each word on JV's 10-15.com?Now they work in translation teams.

You will therefore have a colorful and unrecognizable Android, enriched on all sides, in good as bad.Overall that said, the Touchwiz experience is pleasant and Samsung's bet to make a simpler smartphone than the average and more natural to use is filled.However, we would have appreciated that they refine all the aspects that arise from this logic ...

2 - Applications and other services designed to stand out

Google apps?Oh yes, they will be there, don't worry.Even if they are definitely not highlighted, you will find the whole Google rest, from navigation maps, via the browser, the play store and its many applications or youtube and talk.Difficult to tell you anything of these applications, yes, they work perfectly and are always very practical to use.

As you can see on the few screenshots, the only change that affects the whole interface is the one we have already mentioned to you: the "..." logo which allows access to the applications menu has completely disappeared from all the rest andis replaced by the "menu" physical button.Lack of pot, Samsung has not been able to change everything, of course, and you will therefore have certain screens where it will do an appearance ... disturbing and anti-ergonomic as possible.Android 4.0 Healed aberrations more or less in terms of the management of Android menus, Samsung does not care about all of this and recreates them for his phone.

Samsung "pays tribute" to HTC Sense

It is quite disappointing insofar as we are in front of a model supposed to be thought of for the general public and simplified to the maximum: the followers of the "menu" button will be happy, but its presence has significant side effects.Finally good, quite moaned, place in the traditional tour of on -board applications.

Phew!With its thirty preloaded applications if you count the Google Apps, the Galaxy S III is, with the HTC One models, one of the most complete smartphones with unpacking that we have been given to see.Some applications are excellent and essential, such as Dropbox and Flipboard, others more anecdotal, but overall, everything has been thought of so that the user of Galaxy S III can happen for a very long time in the Play Store.

And this is where Sammy's strategy comes into play: with the S suggestion and the Samsung Apps in addition to the exclusive applications and offers that double those of Google in terms of quality - Flipboard vs Currents - or international accessibility -Music Hub vs Google Music -, the Korean took possession of Android by making his Galaxy S III a smartphone centered on his own content.We are not going to rewrite what we have already debated in a long article already mentioned which followed the presentation to the press of this model, but if this Galaxy S III has the success of its big brother, this time, it will not beMaybe not to Google that it will benefit.

Multiply, almost similar applications!

We could not finish this part on applications and uses without saying a few words from the NFC.[Insert here the refrain which says that Samsung offers an equivalent of what Google offers].When you go to the Galaxy S III settings, you will find one on the other Android Beam and S Beam.Android Beam will allow you to transfer pages, YouTube video and other contacts from one smartphone to another.S Beam will allow you to transfer photos, videos or music from the Galaxy S III, to any NFC or WiFi Direct device within.So yes, Samsung technology is more developed and more complete than Google's and will buy your friends from the brand of the brand.Samsung ecosystem, again and again ...

Multimedia and video games: a challenge to be raised in the middle of the competition

1 - In the footsteps of the first reader

The previous Galaxy had amazed its world by decoding the most exotic video files, especially thanks to the winning duo made in Samsung of a powerful processor and a codec battery perfectly suited to their machine.So yes, it was about a year ago, now, the competition has caught up with the high-end mid-range, smartphones all read 1080p high-protein.

Portrait or landscape, with or without subtitles

No surprise -unpleasant surprises -, the Galaxy S III will do everything you ask him to do on the side of the video.So, in a market that is now super competent, how to stand out?Let us repeat the refrain that accompanies this test from the start: by offering a general public approach to the video function.Very often, manufacturers "forget" to install a video player and trust the Google gallery which is not always doing work.

Samsung you sell ready -to -use loans: in a few seconds, you have transferred your big video file to internal memory, you have disconnected your smartphone and you are already reading your film, thanks to the integrated reader.Practical and functional, what more could you ask for?

Sorry Big Buck Bunny, but the flying squirrels are has-been since Monday 11:30 am

You know that we are mean-well, me particularly-and that we like to push smartphones in their last entrenchments, so we loaded extra-terrestrial files to go further than exoticism.Well, not really extraterrestrials, but gross of formwork, good old.MTS HD, taken with a reflex.And Bim, the reader does not read them, does not actually see them.Hardware drama?No, after a short tour of the play store to telechop MX Player, the Galaxy S III was able to read without any problem all the files we gave it.

Suddenly, if you do not see the file you have transferred to the default reader appear, you know what you have to do: hardware side, the smartphone, it will decode everything and anything.

2 - On the side of the capture

On the capture side now, you will find an 8 Mpx camera on the back of the smartphone with an LED flash.As on all the latest generation high -end devices, there are lots of technologies, both on the hardware and a posteriori software processing: there is no point in making it an exhaustive list that would make this test for a technical sheetdetailed, which we always refuse.

A complete and efficient device: Samsung wants to bury your compact

As we have repeated since now a few tests, it is now quite possible to swap a compact camera against a smartphone, much more practical to store in a bag and mostly making shots of similar quality to the extentwhere you do not want to make works of art, but grasp moments to have a pictorial memory - read in less poetic terms, take photos of tourists, between friends or family.

The photo application proposed by Samsung does not move away from standards of the genre and very strongly resembles that offered under Android 2.X, Korean having surely preferred to transpose his.Apk rather than rethinking the whole.However, the apparatus takes advantage of the advances of Android 4.0 And you will have, as on HTC models, an instant trigger of the capture and an impressive burst mode which will take care of it on its own to choose "the best shot".

You will also find lots of parameters, from ISO management to white balances, from measurement to contrast management, geolocation of clichés with visual effects, in short, the device is extremely complete and should not,In theory, disappoint you.

On the physical accessibility side, the Galaxy S III does not have, like the models of Sony, a real trigger.Development and cliché will therefore be tactile, touching the screen in the right place: certainly, the design did not lend itself to it, but we generally find that this little button is always a good idea.Too bad.As photos are always better than too long speeches, make way for clichés, the photos can take a while to load since we have left them in their original size.

The first photo is quite interesting since you can realize the overall precision of the sensor when the lighting is good - neither too strong nor too weak.Look more particularly at the tiles which are very well rendered, well detailed and which have a color very close to reality.The whole photo is a bit bland that said, we find on the first and third a slight whitish mask which can be easily corrected after the same - but it can also come from the light emitted by the white sky.

The second photo makes a focus on bamboo in the foreground: if the focal length does not allow you to "blur" the background, the overall quality is excellent-look at the leaves to convince you, the very small sensor having played wellits role to avoid the inaccuracies that we usually see when we take vegetation as much as possible.Also note that the contrasts are pleasant, the shadows are black and the light differences are not too dry: we do not have a plan under exposure and the other overexposed, for example.

The third cliché is more disturbing: even if the sensor proves to us once again that he knows how to return the colors quite faithfully without saturation, the development on a landscape struggles to be exemplary.Even if you reduce the photo to 30% of its size, you realize that the bottom is vague and that the line of demarcation between the sky and the mountain is not clear.The trees behind the orange house are also affected, the foliage being only large green spots on the screen.Bravo, we have just reached the physical limit of such a small, very clever sensor when it comes to taking distant landscapes - but we looked for it.

The last three photos have been taken to show you the macro mode that does very beautiful things if the subject lends itself to it.As you see in the first photo, the lens, even a few centimeters, allows you to take very correct photographs of a floral subject.If you move away a bit like in the second photo, it becomes flat again, but the colorimetry is always excellent.The third photo is in my opinion the most successful and the one that can show you the power of this smartphone in device mode: having made the focus in mid-champ, we have a first blurred plan, a second highlighted anda blurred background.Yes, the Galaxy S III allows you to manage the macro so finely: we like it a lot.

Video capture, as usual, will be set back: if the image is starting to be more and more beautiful on high -end smartphones, the very small microphone prevents making correct sound captures, breaths and soundsheavy being considerably amplified.Techradar has made a photo and video comparison of the Galaxy S III and HTC One X: overall, the first is much more neutral, the HTC having an annoying tendency to warm colors.

So yes, the device of the Galaxy S III has some faults, but for a goal of this size, it may be one of the best that we have been able to test so far.

2 - The salvation of the mobile game without Tegra 3?

When we tested the previous high -end smartphones, what was coming up was often that the smartphone could run most of the titles, Gameloft and Tegra Zone except, which still removed a good package of big budget games.On the Tegra side, the observation will be the same, the games optimized for the Nvidia processor remaining only usable by devices equipped at home.On the gameloft side and third -party content in general, on the other hand, it is a little better.

Free, but by paying anyway.

The most innovative developer of all time is used to optimizing his headlines for Samsung smartphones: this is why we could see during the presentation of the machine a demo of the next Need for SP ...Asphalt.That said, we have tried a few games already released and no, they are still not compatible.May be later ?We hope.

The game hub will be there to advise you social games - read, small addictive and nonsense games of the Farmville type - and go to the Samsung Apps portal that we were talking about above.The games offered are often shareware or demonstration versions of games available elsewhere on the Play Store.Others are paid and download directly from the portal, in short, nothing to break 6 legs to a ornithorynque, but at least, the games offered by Samsung work on the phone.

Again, excluding Tegra, it is therefore not exceptional on the side of the big productions for Android.Oh, of course, all time food games will work perfectly - the non -tegra versions of certain big titles also - and you can play Angry Birds or Game Dev Story and other excellent HD hexing on your Galaxy S III, but with as muchPower under the hood, we would have appreciated that Samsung will make the same efforts as Nvidia to try the big developers and bring them out a large string of games at the same time as the smartphone.For sure, they would have put the tactile gamers in the pocket.