Samsung Galaxy S Advance Smartphone with Dual Core Processor

Review

Samsung I9020 Galaxy S Advance Mobile is a budget phone packed with all remarkable features which is needed to complete a smartphone. After so many speculations, Samsung GT-I9070 is finally out as an affordable handset from Galaxy line up.

Design

Like most of the Samsung galaxy models, the phone is a full touch based prototype with a single physical button on the bottom. The phone is a thin construction with just 9.7mm thickness and the weight of 120g which makes it highly pocketable.

The metallic body of Samsung I9070 Galaxy S Advance phone holds its big 4 inch screen which comes with the 480 x 800 pixels resolution. The curved glass display of the mobile is a Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreenwhich easily fit in your palm and gives HD display of the content.

Unlike most of the smartphones available in the market today, Samsung Galaxy S Advance isn’t instilled with capacitive button on the front. There’s a single button meant for back functioning feature.

Performance

Samsung I9070 Galaxy S Advance Mobile can be taken as a smaller version of Samsung Galaxy II. The device is bestowed with Dual core Cortex A9 Processor which clocks at 1GHz.

Accompanying that is 768MB RAM which is reasonably sufficient for handling your multitasking operations and processing heavy duty applications. The phone comes with A-GPS Support which offers you navigational help during your travelling spree.

The phone runs on Google’s most popular OS Android 2.3 Gingerbread which can let you download hundreds of applications from Android market. Make use of 8GB internal memory of phone which is expandable throughmicroSD card up to 32GB.

Camera

Samsung I9070 Galaxy S Advance is equipped with 5Megapixel camera which can capture high definition pictures of 2592 x 1944 pixels. The snapper is accompanied by Geo tagging and Touch focus features that adds fun to your photographic sessions.

There’s a 1.3 MP camera instilled on the front that can be used for taking self-clicks or you can do video chatting using 3G network on the phone.

Connectivity

Samsung I9070 Galaxy S Advance phone comes with number of interfaces and ports for offering high flexibility to the user. The phone allows network connectivity using its Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n connectivity, DLNA and Wi-Fi Hotspotconnection. The phone is also GPRS and EDGE supported.

The phone also allows 3G networks connecting at HSDPA at the speed of 14.4Mbps and at HSUPA at the speed of5.76Mbps.

For wireless data transfer, the phone can connect to different devices using Bluetooth v3.0 with A2DP+High Speedor connect MicroUSB2.0 for making transfer from PC to mobile.

Samsung I9070 Galaxy S Advance Mobile – Price in India – Rs. 19,590/- (Approx.)

Technical Specification

Status and Availability – February, 2012

Network Frequency

• 2G – GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
• 3G – HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100

Hardware

• Operating System – Android OS, v2.3 (Gingerbread)
• GPS – with A-GPS support
• CPU – Dual-core 1 GHz Cortex-A9
• RAM/ROM – 768 MB/2 GB

Display

• Size – 4.0 Inches
• Type – Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen
• Resolution – 480 x 800 pixels
• Colors – 16M

Camera

• Front – 5.0 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels
• Video Recording – 720p@30fps
• Secondary – 1.3 MP
• Geo-tagging & touch focus

Media Playback

• Video Playback – DivX/MP4/WMV/H.264/H.263
• Audio Playback – FLAC/MP3/WAV/eAAC+/AC3
• Stereo FM with RDS

Storage

• Limited Phonebook entries
• 8 GB Internal Memory
• microSD card, up to 32 GB

Connectivity

• Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n
• DLNA
• Wi-Fi hotspot
• GPRS 12 Supported
• microUSB v2.0
• EDGE 12 Supported
• 3G – HSDPA, 14.4 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps
• V3.0 bluetooth with A2DP, HS
• 3.5 mm Headphone jack

Power

• Battery Type – Li-Po 1500 mAh

Dimension

• Layout – 123.2 x 63 x 9.7 mm
• Weight – 120 g

Feature Build

• TouchWiz 4.0 UI
• Document editor
• SNS integration
• Voice memo/dial/commands
• Touch-sensitive controls
• Organizer
• Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
• Black & White Color
• Loudspeaker
• Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass Sensors
• Corning Gorilla Glass
• Image/video editor
• Google Search, Maps, Gmail,
  YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Picasa integration
• HTML, Adobe Flash Browser
• via Java MIDP emulator
• Predictive text input (Swype)
• TV-out