J.K. Shin, Samsung President of Mobile Communications has announced the release of Samsung Galaxy S III in 2012 and Galaxy Tab 4G will be released later this year,2011.

Samsung released Samsung Galaxy S II the slimmer smartphone powered by 1 GHz Dual core running on Android 2.3 Gingerbread.Samsung Galaxy S II was sold 120,000 units in just three days of launch in North Korea while 1 million units was sold in first month.

Samsung also plans to come up with Galaxy Tab 4G after the launch of Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 and Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1.

J.K. Shin, president of Samsung’s mobile communications told -

“4G transition is inevitable particularly for tablets because it requires faster download speeds than smartphones to handle bigger volume content.”

Features of Samsung Galaxy S III

Eldar Murtazin editor in chief of mobile-review.com reveals that Samsung Galaxy S III is rumored to have high-resolution touchscreen having diagonal of 4.5 inches and 1.8 GHz processor or 2 GHz.

Samsung Galaxy S III is said to be a competitor to iPhone 5 when released in 2012.

Apple sued Samsung recently accusing it of copying the designs of Apple’s products.

Shin said -

“We didn’t copy Apple’s design. We have used many similar designs over the past years and it (Apple’s allegation) will not be legally problematic,” Shin said, hinting that the scale of the lawsuit could be extended though he didn’t provide more details.