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  Date:1st June 2012

Galaxy S III: its not just touch and type, lot more human interface

It's not just typing and touching a lot more human interface is enabled in the latest smart phone Galaxy S III (3) from Samsung.

Voice interface:
To get more human way Galaxy S III smart phone applies voice interface for user to tell the phone to do activities like 'play music', 'stop alarm', and 'call a number'. Galaxy S III has S-Voice feature to support voice interface.

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Visual interface:
The front camera senses if the user is watching the screen and Galaxy S III changes the display setting accordingly. It's the start of visual interface, there is lot more can happen with visual computing such as identification, shape recognition, image search.

Motion interface:
The motion sensing using MEMS is already well explored for huge number of applications. Galaxy S III features phone pick up sense, call making on phone position (phone at ear).

On the interesting connectivity feature, with Wi-Fi direct and DLNA, Galaxy S III displays its content on desktop computer, notebook and TV easily.

What drives all this is the processor performance. Galaxy S III is said to powered by ARM Cortex-A9 processor core based quad core SoC chip Exynos-4.

The underline trend here is the multimedia graphic, audio and video processing is at the heart of modern mobile convergence (if not computing alone its communicating and entertaining) devices.

It is the beginning of the computing the way human compute the natural content such as sight, sound, movement and touch. The missing is smell and taste. The e-nose, e-taste are in the labs now and expect them as USP for next mobile devices.
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Do you think Galaxy S III beats Apple iPhone? hold on! Apple is the most expert in providing human interface technology. Next version of iPhone will have lot more than what we hear now.

To know more on the features of Galaxy S 3 visit http://www.samsung.com/in/promotions/galaxys3/index.html



Author: Srinivasa Reddy N
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