Samsung’s flagship 2011 Android phone received a glowing 5/5 score when we reviewed the Galaxy S2 earlier this year.

And it was no surprise – Samsung packed a very powerful and capable processor plus a very nice camera into an unbelievably slim case.

Samsung published endless press releases about its ever growing global sales figures, which can only mean one thing. A sequel is guaranteed for 2012.

Samsung is yet to make any official announcement regarding the Galaxy S3, mind, but the pieces are falling in to place. Samsung’s processor developments are clear to see, with the company announcing several new Exynos cores during 2011 that could power the new Galaxy S3.

The Galaxy S 3 (which we’ve also seen referred to as the Galaxy SIII) is bound to be at least powered by a dual-core processor, but there’s even been rumour of a quad-core chipset in Samsung’s pipeline, which may power the S3. Here’s what else we’ve gathered so far.