It was difficult to stem the increasingly aggressive steps with Samsung that its Google's Android. South Korean vendors are really ready for combat. New Weapon for this year again fired into the market, Samsung Galaxy Ace or GT-S5830 is one of them.
Design
The design of the Samsung Ace Galaxy is packaged in a glossy black candybar body and rounded corners but firm impression implies. At first glance, the Samsung is like trying to show something new through the Galaxy Ace.
This phone looks like a want to escape from the Galaxy before a family trait. There was something more simple and tend to adopt a style that developed the iPhone 4. There are significant differences in the rear casing is coated with a rough texture and finishing abrasive.
On the left side of the body just pinned the volume buttons. On the right side of the body embedded power button / lock key and micro SD slot that is hotswap. While the 3.5-mm audio port and port appear side by side on the upper side of the body Galaxy Ace.
This phone also has a proximity sensor buried in the top right corner of the front body. The position of this sensor is really subtle and barely visible. This sensor works like radar, to detect the distance between the screen with an object in front of him. When you call this sensor will deactivate the screen if it is near the ear.
Display & Menu
Galaxy Ace Samsung screen carries a 3.5-inch TFT LCD with a resolution of 320x480 pixels (HVGA). Relatively large in its class with sufficient pixel density. Injections of 16 million color display enriches the menu on this phone.
Thanks to a touch screen kapasitifnya, Galaxy Ace can be operated conveniently via the touch of soft fingers. Including good sensitivity and no special problems when responding to touch of a finger. In some features, this phone is already present multitouch features or pinch to zoom.
The combination of the Android OS 2.2.1 (Froyo) and support 800 MHz processor makes Galaxy Ace satisfactory acceleration. Navigation menus and execution applications has tended to 'smooth'. Transitions between menus or operation of the application process fairly smoothly. Only the occasional annoying lag that happens.
The performance of several supporting features such as accelerometers and kinetic scrolling in sight patent. Both are able to react properly and quickly respond to commands. Unfortunately, The accelerometer still not fully integrated and only runs on specific applications.
As always you'll find customizable homescreen with seven panels that can be fitted with various widgets and shortcuts. Homescreen can be reduced according to taste and it is actually quite helpful in accelerating the process of navigation.
It was characteristic TouchWiz that the main menu has a grid that displays the menu page is shifted to the side (the page can increase in number). Unlike some other manufacturers output Android phone that offers a main menu page in the vertical display is shifted downward alias.
One additional, Galaxy Ace already provides Swype-enabled QWERTY keyboard. Swype feature quite helpful in typing messages on mobile phones with small screens. You do not have accurate when typing, simply by drawing a line from one letter to another letter that it becomes wet nurse said.
Camera
Camera capabilities Galaxy Ace gives a distinct impression for PULSE. Strength of 5 megapixel, autofocus and flash features into its own power in its class. Competitors must worry. As is known, Android phones in general have a weakness in this sector.
Camera interface standard with a variety show features such as shooting mode, scene modes, white balance, ISO setting, focus mode, the effect to image quality. In this sector there is almost no significant difference with other mobile phone class.
Galaxy Ace seem to want to erase doubts about the ability of Android phone camera which is usually below average. To take pictures outdoors, this phone is capable of producing images with an accurate picture detail and color reproduction to satisfy.
In an indoor session, the images were no less biting. When tested photographing under fluorescent lights in the room, the images have good color accuracy and quite detailed. This is thanks to the synergy of autofocus and flash features optimal.
Unfortunately in the video recording, the resolution offered only 320x240 pixels (QVGA). The result records not so bad, but if too many moving images look broken.
Audio Video
The music player is still the standard Galaxy Ace TouchWiz UI. Interface consists of several tabs that can sort options: artists, albums, songs and playlists. Interestingly, Galaxy Ace already dibenami DNSe equalizer and audio technology to strengthen the sector.
Unfortunately, the resulting audio output from the loudspeaker phone is less 'kick'. The Sounds not produce powerful and less bass boom despite the position of maximum volume. Unlike when listening via the headset, the music that came out was more dynamic between bass and treble.
The phone also includes an FM radio as an alternative audio entertainment. Practical and easy to use interface but to listen to radio broadcasts needed a headset as a replacement antenna. Regarding the video player capabilities, the Samsung Ace New Galaxy can play the file with a standard format.
Internet
Talking about this, Galaxy Ace already support 3G/HSDPA network at speeds up to 7.2 Mbps. To surf more freely, of course, can even be used also as a modem for PC. Or if you want another alternative to using Wi-fi.
As Froyo Android based phones in general, in Galaxy Ace Wifi technology features supported Tethering and portable hotspot. You can share a mobile Internet connection from your phone to other devices over Wi-fi. Setup is easy.
zoming by double tap or pinch to zoom. Unfortunately, this phone does not support Flash Player 10.1.
Other Features
Some interesting features in this phone include Voice Search, enabling search by voice. ThinkFree, to view, edit and create Microsoft Word / Excel / Powerpoint. Even social networking features are integrated including Facebook, Twitter and MySpace.
Other than that, you still will be treated with a variety of distinctive features of Android. Starting from Google Maps, Navigation, Latitude and Places that supported the GPS. There is also GoogleTalk, Android Market, Gmail and YouTube plus standard applications commonly found in mobile phones such as calendar and calculator to the Samsung Apps.
Problem of internal memory, Galaxy Ace inserted for 158 MB of user memory for storing data and files. To accommodate more data, you can use MicroSD memory card slot with capacity up to 32 GB. Vendor immerse 2GB memory card in the sales package.
Conclusion
Galaxy Ace Samsung phones including the most powerful in its class. The screen is large, its capacitive sensors without any problems, the camera is good quality and adequate combination of OS and processor makes it stand out. One small note, the enthusiast virtual world can not enjoy Flash on its browser. (hp)
Pros: camera quality, 800 MHz processor, Swype text input
Disadvantages: the browser does not support Flash, the standard loudpseaker
New Price: USD. 350
Used Price: -
Network: 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 3G HSDPA 900 / 2100
Size / Weight: 112.4 x 59.9 x 11.5 mm / 113 g
Screen: TFT capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Screen size: 320 x 480 pixels, 3.5 inches - Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate - Touch-sensitive controls - TouchWiz UI v3.0 - Swype text input method
Audio Jack: 3.5 mm Audio Jack, DNSe sound enhancement
Audio Features: Vibration, MP3, WAV ringtones
Speakerphone: Yes
Internal Memory: 158 MB storage
External Memory: microSD, up to 32GB, 2GB included
3G: HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps
EDGE: Yes
GPRS: Yes
WLAN: Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g / n, DLNA
Bluetooth: v2.1 with A2DP
Infrared: -
Cable Port: v2.0 microUSB
Rear Camera: 5 MP, 2592x1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash
Front Camera: -
Video Record: Yes, QVGA @ 15fps
OS: Android OS, v2.2 (Froyo)
CPU: 800 MHz ARM 11 processor, Adreno 200 GPU, Qualcomm MSM7227 chipset
Browser: HTML
GPS: Yes, with A-GPS support
Messaging: SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email
Java: Via third party application
Radio: Stereo FM radio with RDS
Stand by: Up to 640 h (2G) / Up to 420 h (3G)
Talk Time: Up to 11 h (2G) / Up to 6 h 30 min (3G)
Battery Type: Standard battery, Li-Ion 1350 mAh
Video Player: MP4/H.264/H.263 player
MP3 Player: MP3/WAV/eAAC + player
Audio Record: Yes
Multiple SIM Card: -
TV: -
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