Samsung’s Galaxy line of phones is being heavily invested in by Samsung. As the Samsung Galaxy S3 continues to grow in sales, Samsung wants to make sure that they don’t lose customers by providing proper upgrades and support. One of the upgrades that has come to the Galaxy S3 is the Premium Suite Upgrade.
What is the Premium Suite Upgrade?
The Premium Suite upgrade brings many of the features that are found in the Galaxy Note 2. As part of the UI (User Interface – named “TouchWiz”) that is placed on top of Android, Samsung has done an excellent job of adding features to Android without being intrusive. TouchWiz is the UI that brings you S Voice and S-Beam.
Here are features:
Contextual Awareness
- Page Buddy: Your phone will smartly predict what you intend to do according to your actions. For example, when you plug in your earphones, the device automatically opens up a page with the music player.
- Contextual Menu: When you list up apps, you can now choose to see the most frequently used ones first. Especially convenient when you’re looking through apps to find files to attach.
- Contextual Tag: When you take a picture on the phone, you can tag the weather, date, and place immediately.
Enhanced Features
- Multi Window: You can open two different apps at the same time into two different windows on the mobile screen.
- Auto Share Shot Pairing using NFC: By setting the camera to ‘Auto Share Shot’ mode, you can quickly share your photos and videos by simply tapping their GALAXY S III with other NFC and S-Beam enabled devices.
- Reader Mode: You can easily control the size of the text on your browser! Also, you can just click the webpage to share it!
- Facebook Lock Ticker: The easiest way to see your Facebook News Feeds – set your phone to show it on your lock screen.
Powerful Multimedia
- Paper Artist: You can make a picture like a pop artist! Change the moods of your pictures whenever you want!
- Camera, Low Light Shot: It’s always tough to take pictures in dark places. So the GALAXY S III with Premium Suite has a Low-Light-Shot function. Get your hands on one and check out the difference!
- Camera, Best Face: The problem with group pictures? Somebody always, ALWAYS blinks. Well, Best Face is your solution to that. Best Face takes 5 consecutive pictures and lets you choose the best face for each person among those shots.
New Features & Better Accessibility
- Easy Mode: For first-time smartphone users and/or those who are really really, well, lazy. This function helps you set up the most five frequently used widgets on the home screen, so you don’t have to be tired of looking everywhere to find those apps.
- Sound Balance: You can adjust the balance of volume one each side of earphones.
- Setup Wizard: After turning on your cell phone, you can see the accessibility menu right away on the screen.
- Camera Easy Snap: With ‘talk back’ and ‘face detection’ on your settings menu, the GALAXY S III tells you how many faces it can detect on the camera preview.
Is it me or are you loving your Samsung S3 more? How will you know if you have received the update? Well since there are so many firmware versions, I would have to give you an exhaustive list of firmware versions. The best way to tell is if you have the features listed above. Here are two videos listing the features as well. Features Part 1 and Features Part 2.
If you want to understand how Jelly Bean changes your S3 be sure to check out this article. Post your thoughts and follow me on Twitter, join NY Android on Facebook or subscribe here, for more in-depth looks at how Android is changing our lives.
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