When you look for a phone from Samsung that carry some of the features of Galaxy S2 but at a low cost, then Samsung Galaxy Ace is the phone for you from Samsung as that will fit your budget as a smartphone. Many of the phone critics have applauded this phone as the phone that has made the right sacrifices of Samsung Galaxy to make a very good budget smartphone.
This phone is already in the European market for £15 on a two year contract with Carphone Warehouse, mobile phone retailer and for £300 pounds as an upfront cost.
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Design:
Borrowing many of the features of Samsung Galaxy, this phone looks much alike Samsung Galaxy, with a trim and stylish phone, which comes with a glossy front and an appealing grippy back cover. The phone is made of plastic yet resembling glass and is one of the lightest smartphone that you could come across, weighing not more than 113g.
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This has an incredible capacitive touch screen, which is quick and highly responsive with a pixel resolution of this display screen being only 320 × 480 pixels, however is not as sharp as the other Galaxy line-ups are. However, the screen is a multi-touch screen with gestures being fast and intuitive zooming in and out. If there is good news of the display screen in Galaxy S, is not that this is an AMOLED screen, but everyone is appreciating this screen for being vivid under bright light conditions.
This wonderful design of the phone has the following keys:
A key is present on the bottom of the phone for multitasking and speaker on the top. This has a USB port on the top and a switch key to off and on. There is a camera on the rear side of the phone with LED flash light. The sides of the phone have keys to control volume, camera and a slot for microSD card.
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Features:
The phone is still backed by the powerful Android 2.2 (FROYO) operating system with the powerful 800 MHz ARM 11 processor to harness the Android powers. Other hardware components that support the smooth functioning of this phone will include Qulacomm MSM 7227 processor, Adreno 200 GPU, a TFT capacitive touchscreen, with 16 M colors that is the only part made of Gorilla glass, the rest being plastic, but looks like glass. The phone has a multi touch input option, making the best use of the accelerometer and the touch sensitive controls.
It has the following connectivity options – both 2G and 3G network support ability with GPRS, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. The phone has a 3.5 mm output jack port with DNSe sound enhancement not leaving the following functionalities: video call support, geo-tagging, face and smile detection and stereo FM radio with loudspeaker accessibility.
All these features are tightly wrapped up in the 158 MB internal memory of the phone with a microSD card slot supporting up to 32 GB of memory. Nevertheless, the phone has a very good battery life with one year warranty.
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Review:
The plus points for this phone are that they look stylish, sleek and beautiful mimicking an expensive smartphone. The phone is the worth the money spent as you get many of the features that you will find useful in a smartphone. The Android backing for this phone is an added advantage in the year to come, which has been predicted to be booming with Android phones. This phone, beyond any doubts is going to be on top of the budget smartphones in the market. The phone, finally, has also been appreciated for the extended battery performance.
What is not nice about this phone is that they have sacrificed the Flash player, so no videos could be downloaded and is purely a business phone, and at certain angles this looks like iPhone, which surely would not have been the intention of the manufacturers. Furthermore, what is going to be disappointing for the users is that there is going to be no OTA Android upgrades and updates for this phone as if now.
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This is the phone if you are looking for a sleek and stylishly designed low budget smartphone.
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