Samsung Galaxy S III Mini to Launch in UK November 8
Retailers say the device will ship the second week of November.
It's been over a week since Samsung officially unveiled the Galaxy S III mini at an event in Germany. The smaller brother to the hugely successful Galaxy S III, the mini is already up for pre-order at several UK retailers, though Samsung itself didn't give an official launch date at the unveiling.
Despite initial reports pointing to an earlier release, it seems retailers are settling on a November 8 ship date for the phone. Carphone Warehouse and Phones 4u both list the 8th as the ship date for pre-orders. Meanwhile, Clove offers a little more information, revealing that the white model will ship on November 8 but the blue model won't be available for almost three weeks after, on November 26. Still no word on a U.S. release but we'll keep you posted.
The Galaxy S III Mini packs a 1GHz dual-core processor, 1GB RAM, a 4-inch, WVGA AMOLED screen, 8 or 16GB (up to 32GB of external via microSD), a 5-megapixel camera, a front-facing camera for video chat, 802.11a/b/g/n WiFi, GPS, and NFC. At its launch, Samsung said that it was inspired to create a smaller Galaxy S III after research indicated a strong desire for the 4-inch form factor.

"I know! Instead of continuing to improve our flagship product so that it can possibly even dominate the iPhone5, once we make a couple software improvements, let's waste our money and create a hampered, inferior version of the same product.
This version will be completely clobbered when it is compared to.. well.. virtually any other model out there, and all that wasted money will take valuable focus away from pushing our flagship, currently dominating model!".
"Great Idea!"
Samsung needs to focus on Nexus 10, not this stuff. Hell, they could even come up with their own version of a Nexus Phone. You know, to replace the aging Galaxy Nexus.
I'd be alright with the naming convention if it fell somewhere in between the S2 and S3 phones on a performance level, but the hardware slower than a phone they launched over a year and a half ago...
It's depressing that the HP Veer is the only device of this kind that I'd actually use at the moment. Actually, maybe not so, since the only things that actually aren't very good about it are the screen quality and camera. Otherwise, the OS flies on it, runs surprisingly quick/snappy, multitasks like a champ, and the keyboard is surprisingly usable; I'd like to see something similar on Android that doesn't pull any punches.
Asians are bold but not stupid (meaning Samsung here). Naming like Mountain Lion, Time Capsule and other "Magic" gizmos that Apple embraces so much would not stick to Samsung. I mean come on guys.. Really?