Samsung Galaxy S 3 Apps Review 

It has been over a week, I got my Galaxy S 3 and happy with S 3 performance. There are plenty of web resources which can provide you Galaxy S 3 reviews, but here I am not reviewing the hardware, I’m providing my experience on the software. There are many applications come bundled with S 3

S Memo – One of the most beautifully designed application. Writing from finger is pretty smooth.

S Calendar – I liked the interface of Calendar on S 3, Transitioning from HTC Legend, it was a big relief to me to keep checking my schedule in Calendar. I could easily see my schedule by day/week/month or by upcoming appointments and events. Adding a new event is very easy and Quick add button make is much simpler.

Email – Email application is also carefully designed and it try to replicate the experience of outlook by providing category, sorting by day, flag and multi select for batch operations.

Audio/Video Player – Perhaps S 3 is the first phone with natively support playing FLAC, MP4, and acc files which is great.  Sound quality is decent and video play back is smooth. It’s super AMOLED screen makes video watching experience superb on such a small screen. I was never a fan of watching videos on such a small screen but it seems S 3 is going to change my mind.

Contacts – Contact application is decent and most of the features for contacts and phone are available with one or two taps. I likes the join feature of Contact, if you have same contact in Facebook, Linked In, Twitter and Google, it provide you an option to join them and only one contact will be visible in Contact list after join. First I had seen this feature with Windows Phone, and I feel this is great feature as in today’s world our same contacts are scattered on multiple sites.

Gallery/Camera – S 3 camera is pretty fast, like my earlier camera phones, it does not take time to focus and I was able to take photos very quickly. Photo and Video quality is excellent for a camera phone. UI for Camera app is also user intuitive and all features are just a tap away. And there are tons of Camera features to choose from burst mode, panorama, HDR, smile detection etc and you can shoot a video concurrently while taking a snap, which is great.

Phone – Phone application is great and easy to use but it seems there is problem with the mice. Most of my friends complain I am not too clear or they can’t hear me clearly sometimes. There are two mice on this phone but one (on top) works only when phone app is in Speaker Mode. And not to forget the Direct Call feature of S 3 (My favorite), this is a unique feature of S 3. This works like – If you are viewing a contact but all of a sudden you decide to call this person, just bring the phone to near your ear and it will automatically dial in the contact, is it not great?

S Voice – The concept of this application is great but I could not make it work even once, it always mis-interpreted my voice commands that’s because perhaps I don’t have British or American ascent J So this application is of no use to me but would love to use such application. Another, it is little slow to respond to voice commands.

Performance of all these applications is superb due to its 1.4Ghz processor with 1GB of RAM. 

There are plenty many more applications bundled with the phone but all other are regular Apps and comes with ICS.

Conclusion - All the phones available in the market today, Galaxy S 3 clearly stand out from the Android crowed mobile market. The closest competitive phone is HTC One X and iPhone 4S but both of these phones have it's own limitations.