The Samsung Galaxy S3 (also known as the Galaxy S III) was launched in 2012, featuring “S Beam” near-field communication (NFC) file transfer; screen brightness adjustment via ambient light detector; face recognition for photos; and multi-app use in Android 4.1. Devices came with fixed available RAM sizes of 1, 1.5, or 2 GB and internal storage of 16 or 32GB which could be augmented via expansion card slot.
