Compare Samsung Galaxy S2 vs S3

Samsung is one of the best companies well known for its unique quality in smartphones.  They have produced many devices of different series among which Galaxy is one of the best in recent times. Samsung Galaxy S2 vs S3 are two amazing phones from the same company who have excellent features and design. Comparing both these phones is not an easy task as they are quite similar to each other.

The Samsung Galaxy S2 was released on the month of April 2011, in colors of Black, Pink and White. On the other hand, the Samsung Galaxy S3 is the newest invention of the company that is said to be available in colors of Pebble blue and marble white. Let us now find out differences in specifications between them. 

Specifications of Samsung Galaxy S2:

• 125.3 x 66.1 x 8.5 mm, 116 grams, Touch-sensitive controls
• 4.3 inches, Super AMOLED Plus capacitive touchscreen
• 480 x 800 pixels, 16 million colors, Corning Gorilla Glass
• Android OS v2.3.4 Gingerbread, upgradable to v4.x, Dual-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A9
• 8 Megapixels, 3264×2448 pixels, autofocus, LED flash
• 16/32 GB internal storage, 1 GB RAM, microSD, up to 32GB
• GPRS, EDGE, WLAN, Bluetooth, USB
• MP4/DivX/XviD/WMV/H.264/H.263 player
• MP3/WAV/eAAC+/AC3/FLAC player
• Document editor (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF)
• Google Search, Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Google Talk
• Standby and Talk times of 650 hours and 13 hours approximately

Specifications of Samsung Galaxy S3:

• 136.6 x 70.6.1 x 8.6 mm, 133 grams, Touch-sensitive controls
• 4.8 inches, Super AMOLED Plus capacitive touchscreen
• 720 x 1280 pixels, 16 million colors, Corning Gorilla Glass 2
• Android OS v4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich, Quad-core 1.4 GHz Cortex-A9
• 8 Megapixels, 3264×2448 pixels, autofocus, LED flash
• 16/32/64 GB internal storage, 1 GB RAM, microSD, up to 64GB
• GPRS, EDGE, WLAN, Bluetooth, USB, NFC
• MP4/DivX/XviD/WMV/H.264/H.263 player
• MP3/WAV/eAAC+/AC3/FLAC player
• Document editor (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF)
• Google Search, Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Google Talk
• Standard battery Li-Ion 2100 mAh

Specifications of both these smartphones are quite similar to each other with some differences between them. Since the Galaxy S3 is the successor to the Galaxy S2, it inherits latest technology of Siri voice commands and control, along with the latest operating system Android ice cream sandwich. The Galaxy S2 has the Android gingerbread operating system which is an older version.

We can come to a summary that the Galaxy S3 is way better than the Galaxy S2 because of its upgrades and inclusion of latest technology.