After initial rumours pointing to the phone's existence, the third phone in Samsung's Galaxy Ace series has made an appearance on GLBenchmark's servers.
According to a report by
The Droid Guy, the Galaxy Ace 3 benchmark results indicate that the phone, also known as the GT-S7272, will be powdered by a dual-core Broadcom CPU clocked at 1GHz and a VideoCore IV GPU. The same processor was used in the Galaxy S2 Plus.
The benchmark results also mention that the phone will run Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean and will feature a 800x480 pixel screen.
The device should have a screen resolution of 480×800 (WVGA). Surprisingly, the Galaxy Ace 3 will run on Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean with Samsung's Nature UX 2.0 out of the box.
Earlier this month,
another report had mentioned that the Samsung Galaxy Ace 3 would be code named codenamed GT-S7272 and will be launched in May end or beginning of June. The website had also claimed that the Samsung Galaxy Ace 3 will have a 4-inch screen and 1.2GHz dual-core processor. The smartphone will allegedly have a 5-megapixel camera. Other rumoured specifications of Samsung Galaxy Ace 3 include 4 GB internal storage, Bluetooth 4.0, 1500 mAh Battery and Android Jelly Bean. The report also indicated that Samsung Galaxy Ace 3 might be a dual-SIM smartphone and will cost roughly about 300 Euros. It expects the smartphone to be available in four colour options - Metallic Black, Metallic Blue, Pure White and Wine Red.
Samsung had launched its Galaxy Ace 2 smartphone in February 2012. The phone also has a 5-megapixel camera, 4GB of internal storage and 1,500mAh battery. The other specifications of Samsung Galaxy Ace 2 are 3.8-inch TFT LCD screen, 800MHz dual-core processor, 786MB of RAM and 4GB of internal storage.
At the time of launch, the smartphone offered Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) out of the box. However, this smartphone was bestowed with the goodness of Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) recently.
The first device under the Ace series was introduced in February 2011. Samsung had also introduced Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus smartphone in January 2012, and this smartphone was placed in between Samsung Galaxy Ace and Galaxy Ace 2.