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Samsung Galaxy Pocket
5500 -
8000
The Good: The Samsung Galaxy Pocket is a decent phone considering the features and the price point. The device has a good construction and decent specification to provide the experience of entry level Android smartphone.
The Bad: The smartphone has small screen size may be the Pocket in the name made it compact. Apart from that the major problem is with camera; it has an average camera without flash and no front facing camera.
The Bottom Line: Galaxy Pocket expresses the real meaning of low-end. This low-end phones is one best option to swift to smartphones from feature phones. The design of Galaxy Pocket goes well with its name as it is small enough to fit perfectly into any pocket. The body is made of plastic and therefore is lightweight.
Design: At the first glance it looks like mini Galaxy Y smartphone. It is a neat little handset which easily fits in your palm. It's constructed out of plastic, and has a comparatively light weight.
Like other Samsung devices you will find a rectangular home button below the screen, on the left hand side it has volume rocker, on right hand side you will see the power or screen lock button and on top it has 3.5 mm audio jack and USB connection for charging and data transfer.
Processor and Operating System: The device is engineered with single-core 832 MHz ARM 11 processor paired with 289 MB of RAM which gives a decent performance. It operates on Google Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system.
Screen: It features a TFT touch screen display with screen size of 2.8 inches which is pretty small. The screen has a resolution of 240x320 pixels with 143 pixels per inch density.
Camera: The device comes with 2 mega pixel camera at the back. Don’t expect too much from this 2 mega pixel camera, the colors are bit dull. Unfortunately the videos can only capture at a maximum resolution of 320x240 pixels at 15 frames per second. The camera comes with normal setting as most Samsung handsets gets and has geo-tagging option.
Storage and Connectivity: The best part of this phone is the internal memory. It comes with 3 GB of built-in memory and can be expandable up to 32 GB using a microSD card slot. As far as connectivity it has 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPRS, microUSB and GPS.
Battery: It has standard Li-Ion1200 mAH battery which gives sufficient backup power. The company claims it will provide up to 17 hours of talk time on 2G and 5 hours 40 minutes of talk time on 3G and the stand-by time up to 800 hours on 2G and 500 hours on 3G.
Wrap-Up: The concept behind Galaxy Pocket is appreciable; the device will actually prompt you to give a try to smartphone without costing much. The device has all the basic functionality and passes the test of running most of the apps in Google PlayStore.
The Bad: The smartphone has small screen size may be the Pocket in the name made it compact. Apart from that the major problem is with camera; it has an average camera without flash and no front facing camera.
The Bottom Line: Galaxy Pocket expresses the real meaning of low-end. This low-end phones is one best option to swift to smartphones from feature phones. The design of Galaxy Pocket goes well with its name as it is small enough to fit perfectly into any pocket. The body is made of plastic and therefore is lightweight.
Design: At the first glance it looks like mini Galaxy Y smartphone. It is a neat little handset which easily fits in your palm. It's constructed out of plastic, and has a comparatively light weight.
Like other Samsung devices you will find a rectangular home button below the screen, on the left hand side it has volume rocker, on right hand side you will see the power or screen lock button and on top it has 3.5 mm audio jack and USB connection for charging and data transfer.
Processor and Operating System: The device is engineered with single-core 832 MHz ARM 11 processor paired with 289 MB of RAM which gives a decent performance. It operates on Google Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system.
Screen: It features a TFT touch screen display with screen size of 2.8 inches which is pretty small. The screen has a resolution of 240x320 pixels with 143 pixels per inch density.
Camera: The device comes with 2 mega pixel camera at the back. Don’t expect too much from this 2 mega pixel camera, the colors are bit dull. Unfortunately the videos can only capture at a maximum resolution of 320x240 pixels at 15 frames per second. The camera comes with normal setting as most Samsung handsets gets and has geo-tagging option.
Storage and Connectivity: The best part of this phone is the internal memory. It comes with 3 GB of built-in memory and can be expandable up to 32 GB using a microSD card slot. As far as connectivity it has 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPRS, microUSB and GPS.
Battery: It has standard Li-Ion1200 mAH battery which gives sufficient backup power. The company claims it will provide up to 17 hours of talk time on 2G and 5 hours 40 minutes of talk time on 3G and the stand-by time up to 800 hours on 2G and 500 hours on 3G.
Wrap-Up: The concept behind Galaxy Pocket is appreciable; the device will actually prompt you to give a try to smartphone without costing much. The device has all the basic functionality and passes the test of running most of the apps in Google PlayStore.
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