• Android 4.1 Jelly Bean

• 5 MP Autofocus Camera with LED Flash/ VGA Front Camera

• 1 GHz Cortex-A9 Dual Core Processor, 1 GB RAM

• Galaxy S III-like design

True to it’s name, the Samsung Galaxy S III Mini is like a little brother to Samsung’s flagship S III as it has the same rounded and pebble-like design that is quite attractive. It has a smaller 4.0 Inch screen with a pixel density of 480 x 800 which may not be as good as the S III, but its enough to keep you happy for the lower price tag.

The good thing is that the Mini comes with Android 4.1 pre-installed on it giving you a taste of the excellent speed improvements and Notification improvements of Jelly Bean. Like every other phone from the South Korean company, the Mini also has TouchWiz bringing you the additional Samsung-specific features like Pop-Up video, HDR mode in camera, S-Voice and S-Beam.

Samsung has a reputation for putting out great phone cameras, and the 5 MP camera on the back and the VGA one on the front of this phone are no exception and give pretty good results.

It is run by a 1 GHz Cortex-A9 Dual Core processor along with 1 GB of RAM and is smooth enough for all the basic Android tasks. The battery in it is 1500 mAh which can give you upto 450 hours of standby and 14 hours and 10 minutes of talk time on 2G/7 hours 10 minutes on 3G.

The S III Mini comes with all the connectivity features you would normally expect from a smartphone today like EDGE, GPRS, 3G and Wi-Fi.