Samsung continues to produce the line of touchscreen smartphones namely the Samsung Galaxy Y (Young/S5360). At the first glance, this smartphone has the overall design and layout of Galaxy family. The company claimed that this device is directly targeted to young users or to those who do not have enough cash to purchase the more advanced smartphone like Galaxy S2 or Galaxy Note. The following are the detailed specifications of this phone for your consideration and guidelines before you decide to buy it or just for your acknowledge.
Platform
The Samsung Galaxy Y runs on quad-band GSM networks (850/900/1800/1900MHz), EDGE (900/2100MHz), and 3G Band. For the data access, this phone offers high speed 3G data access through the HSDPA network with the maximum speed of up to 7.2 Mbps. It amazingly operates the latest Google’s operating system i.e. Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) and the TouchWiz UI 3.0 that brings the multiple homes-screens and the pinch gesture features. For an entry-level smartphone, it has been beneficially pre-loaded with the 832 Mhz processor that should be providing the fast and stable performance.
Display and Physical Dimension
In terms of screen size, Samsung Galaxy Y has been equipped with the 3 inches capacitive touchscreen that already supports for multi-touch functionality. Unfortunately, the screen only provides 262.000 Colors TFT display with the external resolution of 320x240px which is fairly inadequate for a smartphone that owns 3-inch screen. The overall body measures 104 x 58 x 11,5 mm in dimension and 97,5 grams in weight. Below the screen there are Home physical button, Back and Menu capacitive touch keys. At the top side, there are 3.5 mm headset jack and the USB port covered with plastic flap. At the right side of the body, there is a volume rocker to increase or decrease the media and the ringer volume.
Multimedia
As the low-priced smartphone, this device comes with 2 megapixels camera with 2x digital zoom, and single, smile and panorama shot. For those who like to modify or enhance the pictures, it provides several photo effects like black and white, negative, no effect, and sepia, automatic white balance, daylight, incandescent, fluorescent and cloudy. The video player supports for 3GPP / H.263 / H.264 / MPEG4 file formats and the music player is capable of playing MP3/AAC/AAC+/AMR/AMR-NB/eAAC+ file formats. In addition, the phone offers four embedded wallpapers and FM Radio with RDS.
Memory and Battery
To store the multimedia files and other documents, the device has been built-in with an internal user memory of 160 MB. For extra capacity, user can expand the memory up to 32 GB external memory by using the additional micro SD card. In the aspect of power management, The phone has been added with the standard battery of 1.200mAh that will provide up to 1.020 minutes (on 2G mode) and up to 370 minutes (on 3G mode) for the talk time, while for the standby time it delivers up to 850 hours (on 2G mode) and up to 540 hours (on 3G mode).
Connectivity
In order to transfer data to other device or computer, Samsung Galaxy Y has been packed with Bluetooth 3.0 and high-speed USB 2.0 port. To browse the internet, it provides the Android Internet HTML Browser and also the email feature (POP3, IMAP4, SMTP, SSL, TLS). For wireless connectivity, the phone has been equipped with Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n capability.
Conclusion
Overall, Samsung Galaxy Y is very worth to buy since it comes with quite large screen, latest Android OS, adequate processor and 3G networks. However, the camera specification and the screen resolution are below average and there is no secondary camera for video-calling. [IS]
