Samsung Galaxy Mini

Samsung Galaxy Mini

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The Samsung Galaxy Mini, is a smartphone manufactured by Samsung that runs the open source Android operating system. It was announced and released by Samsung in the spring of 2011. On some other markets it is known as Samsung Galaxy Next/Pop. It is currently available in four different colors; steel grey, white, lime and orange.

Features

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The Galaxy Mini is a 3.5G smartphone that offers quad-band GSM and was announced with two-band HSDPA (900/2100 MHz) at 7.2 Mbit/s. The display is a 3.14-inch (80 mm) TFT LCD capacitive touchscreen of vertical QVGA (240x320) resolution. There is also a 3-megapixel camera, capable of recording videos at QVGA (320x240) resolution. The Galaxy Mini comes with a 1.2 Ah Li-ion battery.[1] The Samsung Galaxy Mini can also screen capture.

The Galaxy Mini is presented as a entry-level smartphone, and is (as of 13 May 2011) one of the cheapest Android phones around. The Galaxy Mini originally ran on Android 2.2 Froyo, but in May 2011, Samsung announced[2] that the Galaxy Mini (along with other Galaxy models) will get an official upgrade to Android 2.3. An official upgrade to Android 2.3.6 (Gingerbread) was released via Samsung Kies on December 9, 2011 for some mobile operators.

*Dual-touch (two fingers)
*Quad-Band GSM and dual-band 3G support
*7.2 Mbit/s HSDPA
*3.14 in (80 mm) 256K-color QVGA TFT touchscreen
*ARMv6 600 MHz processor, 384 MB RAM (only 279 MB RAM available)
*Andreno 200 GPU
*Android OS v2.3.4 (Gingerbread) with TouchWiz v3.0 UI, upgrade to v2.3.4 (Gingerbread) available in some places.
*160 MB internal storage, hot-swappable MicroSD slot, 2 GB card included
*3.15 Mpixel fixed-focus camera with geo-tagging
*FM radio with RDS and Radio Text
*3.5 mm audio jack
*Document editor
*Accelerometer and proximity sensor
*Swype virtual keyboard
*MicroUSB port (charging and data transfer) and stereo Bluetooth 2.1
*SNS (Social networking service) integration
*image/video editor

Disadvantages

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Since the CPU does not support the instruction set ARM v7, Samsung Galaxy Mini cannot run Adobe Flash Player or Mozilla Firefox. The browser itself lacks in Flash support and the Youtube app is designed to compensate but many other video sharing websites remain uncovered. Also the low screen resolution limits the choice of apps. The camera is fixed focus on some models, while others support a 3X zoom, and the phone lacks in a secondary video call camera. The video recording is as poor as QVGA at 15 FPS.