SMARTPHONE SAMSUNG GALAXY STAR S5280 / S5282

Dual Sim Smartphone With Simple Design

 

 

Samsung launched the Samsung Galaxy Series circuit for the mid-market is the Samsung Galaxy frame, Galaxy Star, and Young Galaxy by adjusting the lifestyle of young generation in multimedia and communication needs. One simple smartphone products based on Android OS v4.1.2 Jelly Bean from Samsung is the Samsung Galaxy Star. With the feature-rich and budget prepared in accordance with the young consumers.

 

Package and Features

On the sale of Samsung's Galaxy Star package contained Handset, Charger, headset, Manual and Warranty card is encased in a cardboard box. Features brought to this simple smartphone is a Dual Sim, Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, internal GPS, Navigator Application, Browser, Messaging, Music Player, Video Player, Video Recorder, Game, Photo Editor, and FM Radio.
 

Design

Samsung Galaxy series has an ergonomic shape. Body rounded corners, curved pretty sweet. On the back casing has a convex shape on the edges. The addition of aluminum accents on the phone body parts around, add to the impression of dynamic and interesting. Even though it looks small, the Samsung Galaxy Star should be held carefully. Because the material is made of glossy plastic casing that makes slippery in hand. And this phone does not give the contour on the back casing.

At the front of this little smartphone, there is a touch screen that is accompanied by an oval-shaped navigation key, and there are also two touchkey sensitive, and back to the settings wizard. Galaxy Star does not have a lot of variety in the whole body. On the right side there is a vertical position power button / lock and the left side there are volume keys. At the top there is a 3.5 mm audio port and a gap to open the case. While at the bottom there is a microUSB port. To the rear there is a speaker and camera holes.

Despite having the ability to read dual sim, Galaxy Star does not have a hotswap. The second slot for a micro-SIM is located on the inside, so to install the SIM should be to open the cases.

 

Screen and Interface

This smartphone uses a 3-inch touch screen and feels comfortable when used. The screen has a pixel density of 133ppi color density with the ability to emit 65 thousand colors.

The screen is quite bright, though not as bright and as bold as the smartphone has a high-density screen. Access various pages, tap and zooming menu with this smartphone takes place very smoothly and quickly.

 

Internet and Connections

To surf the Internet on a Samsung Galaxy Star, does not have the ability to quickly access the internet (3G) because it relies on the data path via GPRS / EDGE and as an alternative option is to use Wi-Fi.

When browsing the Internet with Wi-Fi, this smartphone can display a variety of sites quickly. The browser is able to open up to 16 tabs and the settings are sekurity chace to clear history. Connection for file transfer, Samsung is relying on Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g / n, Wi-Fi hotspot, Bluetooth v4.0 and microUSB v2.0.

 

Hardware

Samsung Galaxy Star supported by CPU model of SP8810 / ARMv7 processor with a clock speed of 1GHz. For good graphics, this phone relies Mali 300 GPU renderer. For storage, the Samsung Galaxy Star has 4 GB of internal storage and 512 MB and supported by external memory up to 32 GB.

 

Camera and Video

In the shots, the Samsung Galaxy Star is equipped with a single camera with a resolution of 2 MP (1200 x 1600 pixels) with a variety of camera settings are provided: image quality, brightness, effects, shooting modes, color effects, and WB.

Owned video recorder is a motion picture camera with image quality with the quality of recording QVGA @ 15fps. Results of footage still looks a little foggy and broken, especially in sound and picture.

 

Audio

In the entertainment sector, Samsung Galaxy Star provides a music player that is able to read the file with MP3/WAV/eAAC + formats. Album art is displayed with a large enough and positioned in the center of the screen. Bottom panel are audio sound alive like setting, forward, rewind, play / pause and all tracks. While in the middle there is an icon library that can be personalized at will. There is also an audio feature that can stop the motion in the MP # music player or FM radio by way of flipping the phone.

 

Dual Micro Sim

Slightly different from the dual SIM phone that has the ability to read a mini SIM card, Galaxy Star is only able to read the micro SIM. There in lies the slot between SIM 1 and SIM 2 adjacent on the inside. To install the SIM should open the battery. Although there is no option button SIM 1 or SIM 2, can send sms or calls via the keypad icon SIM 1 and SIM 2 in the bottom corner which can be selected as needed.

 

Benchmark

By using Quadrant Standard, Samsung Galaxy Star gets 1352 points, putting the smartphone position at the bottom after the Samsung Nexus S. Whereas with Antutu Benchmark, won the 3734 points and put the Galaxy Star bottom after the Samsung Galaxy S.

For graphical quality, using NenaMark2, Samsung Galaxy Star won grafis@33.2fps speed points. And decent enough to play a game with a few levels of heavy graphics and video play.

 

Advantages and Disadvantages

• Pros: Dual standby, simple design and small, motion sensors for a wide range of features, support Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi hotspot, cheap price.
• Disadvantages: only supports 2G GSM card, Micro Sim wearing less popular, not hotswap, camera quality less than the maximum.

 

Conclusion

With the low price, the Samsung Galaxy Star has a pretty good working phones, ranging from speed browsing and opening a wide range of applications, this smartphone could be an option for this type of simple smartphone with dual sim card with micro size. Although there are still some shortcomings, but with the price offered to be a rational thing.