The Samsung Galaxy S II, arguably the most important Android device of 2011, has just become one of Samsung’s best selling devices in their home country of South Korea. Samsung has just announced that nine months after launching the Galaxy S II over there they’ve sold over 5 million units. For a country of just under 50 million people, that means 10% of the country has Samsung’s current flagship. Now yes, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus is technically a better phone, but it’s just launched, and South Korea is also like the North American market, meaning if operators don’t subsidize a device then it isn’t going to achieve massive amounts of success. Globally the Samsung Galaxy S II has exceeded 10 million sales, and the previous generation Galaxy is now well over 20 million, which makes us wonder … what does Samsung has up their sleeve for the Galaxy S III?
Mobile World Congress is a little more than a month away and it sets the tone for the rest of the year. The Galaxy S II was announced at MWC in February 2011, hit Europe in May, America in August, and in December it became the basis for the Galaxy Nexus. With the Galaxy S III we’re expecting to see a more subtle evolution than we saw between the Galaxy S and the Galaxy S II. In terms of the processor, our gut says that Samsung isn’t going to join the cores race and instead will focus on a more power efficient dual core solution. In terms of screen, we hope we see Samsung use something that’s non-Pentile, which you may be more familiar with as “Super AMOLED Plus”. As for cellular connectivity, it’d be nice to see 42 Mbps HSPA+ become standard since it’s more widely deployed than 4G LTE. NFC will of course be in there, a new 12 megapixel camera sensor, and who knows what else!
What do you think will be in the Galaxy S III?