DoCoMo last week unveiled its new lineup of mobile phones at a press conference in Tokyo. The most notable was the brand-new Samsung Galaxy S III, the headliner of the DoCoMo NEXT series of high-end smartphones.

The handset's predecessors, the Galaxy and Galaxy II have been perhaps the biggest rival for Apple's iPhone in the smartphone space.

Samsung initially unveiled the Galaxy S III earlier this month in London, but the Japanese variant is a little different from the international version. This one will run on a 1.5GHz Snapdragon dual-core processor, and will feature 2 gigabytes of RAM which is a big surprise. The screen is an expansive 4.8-inch HD display with 720 × 1280 pixel resolution. Like all of DoCoMo's new smartphone offerings, it will run Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). It has an 8 megapixel rear-facing camera, and a 1.9 megapixel front-facing one.