Samsung Galaxy SIII Mini unveiled

[rpm]

Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini unveiled

Samsung Electronics on Friday unveiled a compact version of its flagship Galaxy S III smartphone, with a touch screen sized to match that of arch-rival Apple’s new iPhone 5.

[GreyBush]

This phone is being hailed by practically every tech publication as a dud... basically Samsung is trying to lure uneducated people into buying this low spec phone by using the Galaxy SIII moniker.

[Toxin]

Move along people, nothing worth seeing here.......

I was really hoping for something better not some mid range cell. Rather just get yourself an S2.

with a touch screen sized to match that of arch-rival Apple’s new iPhone 5.

Matched in size and nothing else....

[R13...]

LOL Samsung, so you don't truly believe in enormity

“It can be an optimal choice for consumers who are looking for more practical smartphones,” Samsung said in statement.

[mk1]

FAIL... Don't call it a S3!!!

[Park@82]

Wonder what the benchmarks will look like against the S2.

[blaaislaai]

Looks like a lovely little phone!

[GreyBush]

Wonder what the benchmarks will look like against the S2.

I think the S2 will win and it's probably going to be cheaper.

[K3NS31]

Exactly what I'm looking for. Although 4 inches is pushing it a bit. 3.5 would be far more pocketable, but I gotta replace my old X10 Mini with something.

[hugo69er]

FAIL... Don't call it a S3!!!

Call it a S1 and a half cause i think the s2 much better

[Roman4604]

While Samsung is touting the Mini as a lesser mid-range smartphone, first thing that came to my mind is; if the Samsung engineers could have packed the the full (or enhanced) S3 into a 4" package ... they would have.

[cozinsky]

Any idea on price point? To be competive, it should be half the cost of the S3.

[Fox1]

The S3 has become a craze and I forsee the lower income jumping for the S3 mini over phones like the BB if it's priced similarly on contract.

[Fudzy]

TechCrunch put up a decent little matrix of the current 4" phones out there, the Motorola

http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/11/whi...ne-is-for-you/

Would be difficult for me to pick between either an iPhone5 or one of the Droidz

[Isengard]

and the S III’s dual-core 1.5GHz processor has been downgraded to 1GHz.

I must have a different S III since mine has a quad core at 1.4Ghz.