Samsung today officially unveiled the GALAXY S III mini, a compact version of the flagship smartphone GALAXY S III. The GALAXY S III mini promises to bring the high performance, ease-of-use and design of the GALAXY S III to a compact smartphone with a 4.0-inch Super AMOLED display with WVGA resolution and a pixel density of 233 ppi.

"The GALAXY S III introduced a new concept of smartphone that has proven hugely popular around the world. We're now delighted to bring its revolutionary design, intuitive usability and intelligence to the GALAXY S III mini in a more compact form," said JK Shin, President and Head of IT & Mobile Communications Division at Samsung Electronics. "We continue to make every effort to provide extraordinary mobile experiences to meet a wide variety of user needs."

The GALAXY S III mini is powered by Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) operating system. Jelly Bean has fast and smooth graphics along with a new Google Search experience featuring Google Now, which brings you just the right information, before you even ask.

The GALAXY S III mini shares the GALAXY S III's design. It has a 4.0-inch Super AMOLED display and features such as S Voice, Samsung's natural language recognition software, which lets you use your voice to unlock the phone with simple customized commands, or to play your favorite songs, turn the volume up or down, organize your schedule, or automatically launch the camera and start taking photos.

The GALAXY S III mini also understands your gestures: With Smart Stay, the phone's camera tracks your eyes and keeps the screen lit as long as you are looking at it. When reading a text message from a friend, Direct Call enables you to automatically dial a call simply by lifting the phone to your ear; and Smart Alert alerts you to missed calls or messages as soon as you pick up your phone.

In addition, the S Beam feature lets you share a 10MB music file in just two seconds by simply tapping on another S Beam-enabled device including GALAXY S III or GALAXY Note II, even without a Wi-Fi or cellular signal. The 'Buddy photo share' function also allows photos to be easily shared with all your friends pictured in an image directly from the camera or the photo gallery.

Samsung has not yet shared details of when the device will go on sale.

Network	HSPA 14.4/5.76 900/1900/2100 EDGE/GPRS 850/900/1800/1900
Display	4.0” WVGA Super AMOLED
Chipset	Dual Core 1GHz
OS	Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean)
Camera	5MP AF ＋ LED Flash / VGA Front
Video	H.264, MPEG-4, H.263, VC-1, SorensonSpark, WMV7, WMV8Recording/ Playback : 720p
Audio	MP3, AMR-NB, AAC/AAC＋/eAAC＋, WMA, OGG(Vorbis), FLAC
AdditionalFeatures	Game/Video/ Readers/Music Hub
	Kies, KiesAir
	FM Radio (RDS)
	TouchWiz
Google Mobile Services	Google Search, Google Maps, Gmail, Google Latitude, Google Play Store, Google Play Books, Google Play Movies, Google Plus, YouTube, Google Talk, Google Places, Google Navigation, Google Downloads
Connectivity	WiFi a/b/g/n, WiFi HT40 GPS/GLONASS NFC Bluetooth 4.0(LE)
Sensor	Accelerometer, Digital compass, Proximity, Gyro
Memory	8/16GB ROM＋ 8Gb RAM, microSDup to 32GB
Dimension	121.55 x 63 x 9.85 mm, 111.5 g
Battery	1,500 mAh