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what's going on everyone this is Clayton young we're coming at you from the number one website for all things Android Android authority comm today we're gonna be giving you an in-depth review and a close look at the Samsung Galaxy s3 for Sprint we've got the white model before we get into any of the software or hardware more-or-less let's just take a look at how this phone fits in the hand see here that we've got our power button on the right embedded in our chrome accents we've got our volume rocker here on the left also in our chrome accents on the back we've got our Sprint carrier branding as well as our Samsung Galaxy s3 logo here's our LED our speaker and then our eight megapixel rear facing camera got a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack right here on the top as well as a small microphone here's our earpiece we've got two sensors and a 1.9 megapixel front-facing camera as well as our LED there got our physical home button with some nice chrome accents around there or microUSB which is plugged in right now and then also another small microphone this is a four point eight inch Corning Gorilla Glass 2 screen here so it's a pretty scratch resistant ding resistant and it's beautiful we've got a Super AMOLED display at 1280 by 720 p the pixel density of 306 pixels per inch now anyways let's just go into the main front screen of this phone when we pop on the lock screen we can see here we've got a few quick icons down there including our phone our messaging our smart memo and then our camera application we've got a nice clock there I've got some charging notifications here and then our status bar is pulled down a bowl if that's a word when we have our lock screen open also we can just swipe to unlock nice fluid motion there right here we greeted with our main home screen where we've got some pre-loaded widgets from Sprint as well as from Samsung themselves here's our sprint pre-loaded widgets something call it below where this is the sprint hotspot we've got a sprint zone and we've got our voicemail services there as we scroll through we see we have infinite scrolling across all of the home screens where you can technically just go from left to right all the way infinitely here we've got our s suggest which is a native Samsung application or media the Samsung music player and then our home screen here with a nice weather widget let's go into our app drawer we see we've got apps and widgets as well as our downloaded tab there go back to all of those we've got our AllShare Play preloaded some chat on we've got downloads manager a Flipboard application Dropbox of course we've got 50 free gigabytes of storage on there for two years when you buy it from Sprint of course all of our Google Apps such as Gmail Google Plus we've got Samsung media home and Samsung key is also our sprint apps this comes pre-loaded with Google Wallet I've got YouTube we've got our music player s suggest s voice the native Samsung Apps that make the Samsung Galaxy s3 stand out and we got our widgets as well which I feature some dual clocks contact wedge 'it's Collin calendar tasks more clock widgets we've got our assistive lite calendar of course we also have infinite scrolling on the widgets in the apps s suggest go through here music playlist S Memo as bookmarks and all of those are the native Samsung features that are audio options here Google+ posts go through now how these actually work is you'll grab a widget and then we can move over to the right or left to an empty home screen we can set it there but if we're holding an app we can bring it down and create folder or create page or we can also get the app info but we'll set that there I haven't set up an account but as you can see the resizable up and down and left and right as well makes that really convenient allows you to have a nice room on your home screen in case you need more anyways we can pull down our notification bar up here where you see some toggles we do have a system update available at this point which will add the brightness slider and a few other things including a power menu icon and a bunch of stuff like that but anyways here is our toggles here we've got our Wi-Fi Bluetooth GPS sound screen rotation bunch of power saving features airplane mode sync this is where we access our full settings menu we've got Wi-Fi Bluetooth data usage more settings and under the more settings is where we can enable VPN NFC which is a near field communication as well as Android Beam you can communicate send apps pictures messages or web pages via back-to-back Android smartphones that are Android Beam enabled we can enable sbeam which is basically the same thing we'll go back here got our Daisy data usage settings sound display wallpaper will go into our display this is what we're gonna have to choose our brightness we can choose automatic brightness or actually set a set brightness got our smart stay feature which actually watches your eyes as you can see and whenever you're not looking at the screen it will attempt to dim the screen or shut it off completely as to save your battery we have our font style and font size we'll go ahead and switch up the font just to show you guys will choose the Helvetica s and you know of our settings and everything is in that or entire system is in that font anyways we've got our power saver features storage battery and application manager also got accounts in sync location services and security down to the Security tab we can choose our different screen lock options as well as lock screen options where you can choose an information ticker to show us the news camera quick access as well of course we have clock when we can choose our weather as well we can disable the ripple effect and then of course during the screen lock we can set whether or not we want motion face swipe on lock face end voice or a pin anyways we can choose to install unknown sources which I always do and choose device administrators we can go down to our dock date and time accessibility we've got our developer options that come native with Ice Cream Sandwich or we can enable USB debugging and we can also go down and enable force GPU rendering for 2d hardware acceleration now we can go down to our about device where we can see that we were running Android 4.0.4 and we do have our easter egg on here and we've already seen custom roms with jelly beans so I wouldn't be too worried about that we should be getting it very soon we've got a kernel version here our build is May 23rd and we have our hardware version status of the phone and all that so anyways let's just check out some of the modifications we made to the lockscreen we'll go ahead and shut it off pop her back on here we go and as you can see now we do have our news ticker and our news ticker will scroll all in like that and we can see all of our different news stories we chose we can change it to technology science a bunch of different stuff top stories and we can also bring it up so when we bring it up we can scroll through select a story and go to it we do have our weather set by location as well as our charging and then we have our quick controls for camera and all those things so let's actually use one of these quick controls and check out the camera when we're in the camera we have a bunch of different settings we're not able to use the flash because the battery is low big deal anyways we can tap and hold the icon and drag it to edit the position of the shortcuts which is awesome it's a lot of cool menus that tell you a lot of stuff about the Samsung Galaxy s3 but let's pop a picture as you can see it - it can take them pretty fast just by tapping pennies we'll go ahead and check out our settings and then our settings we can choose the Edit shortcuts self portrait mode shooting mode single shots we can do burst shot HDR smile shot Beauty panorama cartoon share shot which instantly uploads them and buddy photo share we have our scene mode where you can choose portrait landscape night a bunch of different cool stuff we've got our exposure value focus mode timer effects you can choose our resolution here we always want a resolution to be the highest possible 8 megapixels there we've got our white balance our ISO are metering anti-shake Auto contrast there's a bunch of different settings for this here's our focus settings we have macro face detection auto focus and then we can use our front-facing camera what's going on this is a 1.9 megapixel front-facing camera by the way so this is just a really great camera you guys we can also do the video camera and during the video camera we can adjust our focus just by tapping the screen stuff like that very cool check out some of the other apps such as the browser now so it's going to sign in on my Google account if you logged in on a Google account beware it will sign in with your Google account you might want to sign out before you browse go ahead and click back so it doesn't do that we're gonna go to our sprint power deck it looks like now to change the brightness on our website i'ts we will go to brightness and colors we will deselect automatic brightness and click OK anyways while this is just loading we can show you some of the options here we can share the page new window of course add bookmark desktop view which is awesome because I always like that the supports Flash and we're going to see some html5 integration as well it supports that we can go to our browser settings where we have our labs where you can enable our quick shortcuts our quick controls and stuff like that as well as full-screen browsing ways this is our tab manager if we add some more like this we can do that once again and even and we can scroll through just like that to delete a tab we simply press a little minus key up there and we can add incognito windows so it doesn't track our browsing and search history this is our refresh button here is our bookmarks it loads them from your Google account our history and our saved pages that's very cool we'll go back anyways let's check out a few of our other Samsung applications on here such as the S Memo the S Memo is pretty cool it's nothing like the lg optimus where you can kind of access at any moment this is this more of like a drawing application we a lot of check this one out this is in the View mode we can also edit the pictures add some stuff on there some cool stuff like that and anyways we can go back we can choose our recent applications by pressing and holding the home button where we can slide to remove them or easily access them by simply clicking now we can remove all just like that and then also enter our task manager by clicking there on our task manager we can see which applications are running it looks like there's none we have a list of our downloaded applications and then we have our RAM where we have one point 6 gigabytes clear which is fairly good now with 2 gigabytes of RAM and have no problem at all running as many applications as you heart desires so anyways guys that was the basic rundown on the sprint samsung galaxy s3 you can check out more on our website now we're gonna have a lot of guides for cool mods you can do to this phone as well as walkthroughs if you guys got any questions go ahead and leave a comment anything you'd like to see and we'll be right on it anyways guys stay subscribe to our YouTube channel and check our website frequently we got plenty more where this came from