The Samsung Galaxy Ace 3 (GT-S7270/GT-S7272/GT-S7275R) is a

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manufactured by Samsung that runs the Android operating system. Announced and released by

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in June 2013, the Galaxy Ace 3 is the successor to the Galaxy Ace 2. The Galaxy Ace 3 is a

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Android-based device, sold as an upper mid-range smartphone; the LTE model features a

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MSM8930 SoC, whereas the 3G model features a Broadcomm BCM21664 SoC with a 1 GHz dual-core

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CPU and a Broadcomm VideoCore IV

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Features

The Galaxy Ace 3 is a 3.5G and 4G smartphone, with

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GSM and announced with two-band

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(900/2100)MHz at 14.4(DL)/5.76(UL) Mbit/s. It sports a display of a 4.0 inch PLS TFT LCD capacitive touchscreen with 16M colours WVGA (480x800) resolution. It has a 5-megapixel camera with LED flash and auto focus, capable of recording videos at QVGA (320x240), VGA (640x480) and HD (1280x720) pixels resolution with a

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front-facing camera. The Galaxy Ace 3 comes with a 1500 mAh (3G) and an 1800 mAh (LTE) Li-Ion battery. The Galaxy Ace 3 has social network integration abilities and multimedia features. It is also preloaded with basic

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such as

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and Google Messenger. The Galaxy Ace 3 is available in metallic black, white and wine red.

Successor

In August 2014, Samsung released a successor to the Galaxy Ace 3;

Samsung Galaxy Ace 4 The Samsung Galaxy Ace 4 is a smartphone manufactured by Samsung that runs the Android operating system. Announced in June and released by Samsung in August 2014, the Galaxy Ace 4 is the successor to the Galaxy Ace 3. An LTE model was also annou ...

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