Samsung Galaxy S III mini Review

2. AbhiD posted on 19 Oct 2012, 08:08 37 12

Seriously dude... phonearena is extremely biased especially Ray S.

31. loli5 posted on 19 Oct 2012, 11:16 1 14

You misspelled 'micheal h'

33. ZEUS.the.thunder.god posted on 19 Oct 2012, 12:03 3 15

nice review Ray. i think its a very fair rating considering its a mid range device.

58. GTR722 posted on 20 Oct 2012, 00:42 13 1

Nice review ??? lets see, Sony Xperia P, mid range device, 4inch 960x540 screen res, 8mp camera, 1080p video recording, aluminium body, almost same internal specs, 320$ bucks unlocked in Amazon...and STILL this "mini" gets a better score ?? seriusly PhoneArena, your bias against Sony is horrible.

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77. aiman61 posted on 19 Dec 2012, 22:11 2 2

Hey! Lets look at xperia p. Its unremovable battery, battery only 1305 mAh, no sd card slot!! Its fair!!

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21. RaKithAPeiRiZ posted on 19 Oct 2012, 09:35 23 3

Brace yourselves ....Xperia T fanboys are coming

64. OptimusOne posted on 21 Oct 2012, 14:25 3 0

isn't one s also midrange?

how does this get higher than an one s

17. Nathan_ingx posted on 19 Oct 2012, 09:04 23 8

Enough!!!
I'm tired of hearing about how Sony does not get what it deserves...go bark somewhere. This is a mid-ranged phone for Pete's sake, and you're comparing it with T??!!
I'm not a Samsung fan nor a Sony fan...nor do i hate them. But this has got to stop!
I won't buy this phone but I think this is quite a fair rating... And IT DOES COME WITH JELLY BEAN out of the box!!

36. josephnero posted on 19 Oct 2012, 12:39 1 8

rating on PA is for Both midrange and highend.there aint a special class for mid and high ends so STFU

40. Ray.S posted on 19 Oct 2012, 13:26 13 2

No, it is not the same for both mid-end and high-end. Please read this page to understand how we rate the phones:

http://www.phonearena.com/howdowerate

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74. Junior19 posted on 12 Nov 2012, 16:54 0 0

If that is how you rate phones please explain how you are unbias towards the GS3. The GS3 Mini is a dumb version of the GS3 model so it's clear that they are in different classes. So for it's class you'll give it a 8.9 which is ridiculous when you compare it to some other recent phones in it's class like the GS Relay 4G. You'll gave that phone a 7 when it is clearly better than GS3 Mini. If the GS Relay's bulky size is it's only flaw, guess what? It has a physical keyboard. You'll gave this a phone a 8.9 just because it looks like the GS3. Completely bias if you ask me.

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41. Nathan_ingx posted on 19 Oct 2012, 13:32 2 2

Josephnero...do some research before you bark those comments at some one and embarrass yourself!!!

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45. josephnero posted on 19 Oct 2012, 14:03 0 2

ok.i adimt i was wrong and iam sorry about it.but you really need to learn to be polite.

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53. GayAtheist posted on 19 Oct 2012, 17:51 2 1

And I suppose telling people to "STFU" is polite, is it?

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60. Nathan_ingx posted on 20 Oct 2012, 03:40 2 2

Yo, Joseph... So according to you 'STFU' is more polite than my "I'm tired of hearing about how Sony does not
get what it deserves...go bark somewhere."??
Mind you, i don't use those words to anyone irrespective of how they reply to my comment. If anyone here needs to be polite here, it's YOU.

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65. josephnero posted on 22 Oct 2012, 10:44 0 0

as i said iam sorry Nathan.sorry for being impolite

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67. Nathan_ingx posted on 22 Oct 2012, 11:31 1 0

Nevermind...forgotten and moved on. Chill...:)

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22. darac posted on 19 Oct 2012, 09:36 8 3

Man, I'm a Sony fan (switched to galaxy S3) and I'm also getting tired of this silly fanboy ports.
You have no sense for criteria at all.

A score can't be taken literally, but in comparison with other phones of the same class.

Volkswagen gold can get a five star rating being the best in class, but that doesn't make it a better car than a 4. 5 star Audi A6

27. Nathan_ingx posted on 19 Oct 2012, 10:19 5 1

I'm correcting your speech as "THEY have no sense of criteria at all"- you meant it that way didn't you?? :P

Every review i read, i see them complaining about how Sony Xperia phones are downsized here...i agree they manufacture cool phones but everything has it's up and downs...how i wish i can explain how every phone is not the same!

32. XPERIA-KNIGHT posted on 19 Oct 2012, 11:39 3 3

So you guys are tired of people wanting to see equality? Is that what your saying? I think its only fair to keep putting it in their face until someone says "you know what? THEY"RE RIGHT"!!

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42. Nathan_ingx posted on 19 Oct 2012, 13:33 1 1

Won't say anything...you know better what i'm trying to say!!

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46. XPERIA-KNIGHT posted on 19 Oct 2012, 14:17 0 1

ummm no what are you trying to say? what i see is them constantly disappointed with biased reviews and them just asking for equality......whats wrong with that?

This phone should most definitely have received nothing higher than a 7.5 but they feel the need to make it higher and on the same level as true flagship phones......

Now if classification is what is missing here then PA needs to jump on that and stop making it seem as if every phone is basically being compared to true high end phones when we all know this phone isnt as high end as per say....The Sony Xperia T?......maybe?

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38. Martine posted on 19 Oct 2012, 13:16 1 1

Forget about Raw specs. Any Jellybean Android device will perform smoother than Xperia T.
Maybe this was the reason for the higher score.

11. Victor.H posted on 19 Oct 2012, 08:42 10 6

I've also played around with this phone, and the 4-inch form factor coupled with the S III design is a treat. Jelly Bean makes for a very smooth, polished user experience, so you wouldn't notice the otherwise mediocre processor most of the time. One thing I don't like about this is that it has features like S Voice which are light years away (not in a good way) from Google Voice Search, but except for that all along a very solid device.

23. darac posted on 19 Oct 2012, 09:45 2 1

Which phone do you use?
You are such a short sighted, conservative mind actually.
Try having an S3 for a while and then talk about big screens making no sense.
Let me remind you that first galaxy s was the same size as this and was truly a high end product.. yet it's the Galaxy s3 that had unprecedented success.
The miracle you talk about already happened.

26. Seymur posted on 19 Oct 2012, 10:18 1 1

Victor knows what he's talking about, darac.

29. darac posted on 19 Oct 2012, 10:40 4 0

Uh.. oops , I thought I was replying to Appleconspiracy.. my mistake for hitting the wrong box.
I agree with Victor

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34. TylerGrunter posted on 19 Oct 2012, 12:18 0 2

Actually you did, it´s Saymur who made the mistake! lol

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44. Seymur posted on 19 Oct 2012, 13:44 0 0

You don't say ? Taylur

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47. TylerGrunter posted on 19 Oct 2012, 14:33 0 0

I shouldn´t really write fast: two mistakes in a small sentence!
I just wanted to tell darac that he actually answered correctly, to Appleconspiracy, not to Victor.
He didn´t do any mistake, just his comment appears under Victor´s cause he was the second answering to Appleconspiracy.
Sorry about he name change!

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28. Nathan_ingx posted on 19 Oct 2012, 10:21 1 1

He knows that...errrr....don't he??? :-?

61. AppleConspiracy posted on 20 Oct 2012, 03:43 0 0

darac, there's a difference between something that is possible to use normally (like 4.8" screen) and what is optimal for normal usage (like ~4" screen).

Samsung Galaxy SIII has enormous screen that is possible to use relatively easily, but it's not optimal. It's rather on the extreme side, stretching the limits of comort.

Also, there is a difference between benefits of big screen and benefits of adequately sized smartphone. It's not one and the same, although those are connected categories.
That being said, the optimaly sized smartphone is not the one that has optimal (very large) screen.

And having enormous screen is not a miracle at all. The opposite would be a miracle, because for almost two years now we don't have optimaly sized high end smartphones except iPhone.

Learn those differences and you'll understand what I'm talking about.

14. predator93 posted on 19 Oct 2012, 08:48 4 0

Galaxy s advance got a 8 and it belongs to the middle tier. This phone costs 100 dollars more and the only improvements from s advance are 256 mb more ram and jellybean out of box (I know jelly bean is much better than gingerbread but samsung has promised to update s advance directly to 4.1 from 2.3). I don't think this phone deserves more than 8.

35. ZEUS.the.thunder.god posted on 19 Oct 2012, 12:25 0 0

its for mid range only not for all the phones.

50. TylerGrunter posted on 19 Oct 2012, 15:09 0 0

I was wondering the same: first review I see without benchmarks? Sounds really fishy, probably the SoC is as weak as eveyone suspects and only Jelly Beans is saving the day for the phone.

37. josephnero posted on 19 Oct 2012, 12:48 3 0

like Icecream update for Original galaxy s?yeah right

48. buggerrer posted on 19 Oct 2012, 14:41 0 1

lol ..!
original Galaxy S, released at 2010, and yet he got an update with some ICS features .. while HTC canceled DHD update
and please don't talk about the crapy SE x10 lmao !!

seriously .. stop whining .. and defending Sony at the same time, forgetting that Sony just fu*ked the customers !

76. heliorodrigues posted on 08 Dec 2012, 22:47 0 0

Sony cares about costumers unlike samsung, sony already update most or their devices to ICS and soon will update most of them to jelly bean including xperia U... unlike Samsung update like 4 or 5 devices... in their list lol... samsung have the worst costumer support ever... smartphones like the galaxy W will not even be update... so your argument is bit no sense... for dont say a bad word like stupid...

13. maryaaadil posted on 19 Oct 2012, 08:45 1 0

Or we can say equal to revolutionary iphone 5

43. darac posted on 19 Oct 2012, 13:42 0 0

Why?
So you can use the powerful chip for hours of browsing and gaming?
Have a hd resolution so you can enjoy hd movies?

54. nyuvo posted on 19 Oct 2012, 21:12 1 0

My thoughts exactly. Razr m has so many important things going for it:

-its smaller in every dimension and has a larger screen with many more pixels
-Has an s4 processor which is only beaten by a few devices
-Crazy battery life (see gsmarena battery tests)
-Higher quality build with aluminium, glass and kevlar.

Only negative to this phone is that:

-Android 4.0 (update will come to the phone before the end of 2013)
-No s-voice/google now feature until 4.1 update
-non removable battery

So how does razr m get a 8.5 and get beaten by this poor performing gs3 mini.

I really think that the razr m should have beaten this - perhaps when its gets the 4.1 update phonearena will do another review

24. vignesh_viggs posted on 19 Oct 2012, 09:57 1 1

Ho..i Heard iphone has new feature of non-removable battery...& get 9 star in P.A