If you are looking for the more practical smartphone, then you will want to read the following Samsung Galaxy Beam review. This smartphone has been initially introduced in the MWC 2012 event and it comes with several interesting feature and one of them will be the integrated projector. So now, let’s take a closer look at this smartphone by paying attention to the below Samsung Galaxy Beam review.
The first aspect that we will evaluate in this Samsung Galaxy Beam review will be the design and display. At the first glance, anyone will discover that the phone comes with the typical style and layout of the Samsung Galaxy series. But the notable difference will be the existence of small projector lamp at the top side of this phone. The company claimed that this is the "projector-dedicated application" which will allow users to project or beam the multimedia contents such as photos, videos, games as well as maps and business information directly from the phone.
In terms of sizing, the Galaxy Beam comes with the dimension of 124 mm in height, 64.2 mm in width, and 12.5 mm in depth. Unfortunately, you will find out that the phone is a heavy weight device with its 145.3 grams of overall body-weight. The screen measures 4 inches with the Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen technology and 16 million of colors. Another drawback will be the lower screen quality namely the 480x800 pixels along with the 252 ppi of pixel density. The good thing is that the display has been furnished with the built-in nHD projector and touch-sensitive controls.
To back up the overall performance, the phone has been equipped with the 1 GHz dual-core processor (Cortex A9) combined with the 768 MB of RAM. For the main system and user interface, the phone boasts Android 2.3.6 (Gingerbread) along with the TouchWiz UI v.4.0. There will be also the spacious internal storage of 8 GB which can be expanded with the microSD card with the maximum capacity of 32 GB. As the power supplier, the standard rechargeable battery of Li-Ion 2000 mAh has been bundled with this phone that will deliver the projection time of up to 3 hours.
For the digital photography needs, the phone comes equipped with the average camera specs namely the 5 MP back-camera along with the 1.3 MP front-facing camera for video-calling. With this main camera, users will be able to capture image with the maximum resolution of 2592x1944 pixels with autofocus, LED flash, geo-tagging, touch focus, face and smile detection features. They can also record the high-definition video by using the quality of 720p @30 fps.
For accessing the 2G network, the device uses quad-band GSM network (850/900/1800/1900) along with the HSDPA (up to 14.4 Mbps) and HSUPA networks (up to 5.76 Mbps) to access the 3G network. For the wireless connections, there will be the Bluetooth 3.0, Wi-Fi (hotspot), and DLNA support. The good thing is that the web browser supports for HTML browsing and also the Adobe Flash feature.
Overall, this Samsung Galaxy Beam review has been conducted to reveal the benefits and drawbacks of this phone. The benefits will be the large display, huge internal storage, good battery life and of course the helpful built-in projector. However, it comes with the inadequate screen resolution, the heavy-weight body and the obsolete operating system. The estimated price of Galaxy Beam will be around USD 480 or about EUR 368. [IS]
