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GSMArena team, 11 October 2012

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Samsung Galaxy S III mini preview: First look

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  • I8190 Galaxy S III mini

5. Gallery, music player and loudspeaker test
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. 360-degree spin, design and controls
  3. 3. Display, handling
  4. 4. User interface, synthetic benchmarks
  5. 5. Gallery, music player and loudspeaker test
  6. 6. Loudspeaker test, still camera and video recording
  7. 7. Web browser, first impressions
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  9. Samsung I8190 Galaxy S III mini specification
  10. User opinions and reviews
  11. Review comments (100)

Samsung Android Touch UI

Functional Gallery

The Samsung Galaxy S III mini comes with the default Jelly Bean Gallery, which as you'd imagine has been treated to some TouchWiz flavor. It opens up in Albums view, which is what we're used to seeing - it lists all folders with photos in the phone. Rather than the familiar stacks, the app uses a grid of photos, two on a line.

Besides, Album view, photos can also be sorted by Location, Time, Person (photos with tagged faces) and Group.

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The Gallery app

Getting inside an album displays all the photos in a rectangular grid, which is horizontally scrollable. When you try to scroll past the end, the photo thumbnails will tilt to remind you you're at the bottom of the list.

When viewing a single photo, you'll find several sharing shortcuts and a delete button above the photo, while below is a line of small thumbnails of all other photos in the album. You can tap those small thumbnails to move to other images or you can just swipe to the side.

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Viewing a single photo • Simple editing options

The Gallery also supports highly customizable slideshows with several effects to choose from, as well as customizable music and speed. You can also highlight specific images to be included in the slideshow.

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The slideshow option is highly customizable

When viewing a photo with people's faces in it, the Galaxy S III mini will try to detect them automatically (and you can manually highlight faces where it fails). Buddy photo share will use your contacts' profiles to try and recognize who is who automatically.

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Putting a name to the face • Manually marking a face

Social tag makes sure that whenever a face is recognized in the photo, their status message appears and you can easily call or message that contact.

TouchWiz music player is feature rich

The Galaxy S III mini utilizes the same TouchWiz-clad music player, as its bigger brother, the Galaxy S III. Samsung has enabled equalizer presets (including a custom one) along with the sound-enhancing SoundAlive technology, which features 7.1 channel virtualization. The company also uses SoundAlive in some of their MP3 and Android-powered media players.

Music is sorted into various categories, but the most interesting one is called Music square - it's quite similar to the SensMe feature of Sony Ericsson phones. It automatically rates a song as exciting or calm, passionate or joyful and plots those songs on a square (hence the name).

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Music square creates automatic playlists based on your mood • SoundAlive offers an extensive list of presets

From here, you can highlight an area of the square and the phone will automatically build a playlist of songs that matches your selection.

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The music player has benefited greatly from the TouchWiz UI

You can swipe the album art left and right to move between songs. You can also put the phone face down to mute the sound or place your palm over the screen to pause playback.

The Galaxy S III mini player is DLNA-enabled, so you're not limited to tracks on your handset - songs on devices connected to your Wi-Fi network are as easy to get to as locally stored songs.

Next Page » 6. Loudspeaker test, still camera and video recording
5. Gallery, music player and loudspeaker test
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. 360-degree spin, design and controls
  3. 3. Display, handling
  4. 4. User interface, synthetic benchmarks
  5. 5. Gallery, music player and loudspeaker test
  6. 6. Loudspeaker test, still camera and video recording
  7. 7. Web browser, first impressions
  8.  
  9. Samsung I8190 Galaxy S III mini specification
  10. User opinions and reviews
  11. Review comments (100)

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  • User reviews
  • I8190 Galaxy S III mini

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