Galaxy S3 beat iPhone 4S as best-selling phone in Q3 2012.

This Samsung Galaxy S3 overtook the New iphone 4S in Q3 2012 for being the world's best-selling smartphone in accordance with industry analysts from Strategy Analytics.

For the very first time ever Samsung's 4. 8-inch smartphone beat Apple shipping 18 million units in the third quarter of this yr. Apple's iPhone 4S only mailed 16. 2 million putting it in second place.

The same analytics company even so speculated that much of the reason behind this was down to anticipation to the iPhone 5 launch which took place a few weeks ago.

Speaking to the Wall Street Journal the representative speculated regarding the next quarter saying, "We expect the modern iPhone 5 to out-ship Samsung's Galaxy S3 in the coming fourth quarter of 2012 as well as Apple should soon reclaim the title in the world's most popular smartphone model. "

Samsung's Galaxy S3 may be highly praised by the media due to its large retina display-beating display and slim profile. It was also one of many first quad-core smartphone released offering huge power increases over the predecessors.

Running Android Jelly Bean the S3 allows users to watch video in a stand-alone box whilst multi-tasking and includes Samsung's rival to Siri, S Voice letting you ask the smartphone questions.