GT-I9070 is that features and design as the GT-i9000 aka Samsung Galaxy S, the similarity between the other is a 4-inch AMOLED screen with WVGA resolution, 5MP camera that can record 720p video as well as battery capacity 1.500mAh. As the name suggests, of course, Advance has various advantages compared to its predecessor's, such as a 1GHz dual-core processor, LED flash on the camera, as well as the body is curved like the Nexus S and Galaxy Nexus.
Design and Body
Subtle differences between this phone and the original Galaxy S is a slightly curved screen, a smaller Home button, and the rear cover is made of rubber serrated like Samsung phones lately (Galaxy S original is made of glossy plastic). In addition of course there are differences in LED flash for the camera. Although the impression is made of cheap plastic but does not seem strikingly like Samsung Android series below. Rear cover is serrated to grip when holding the phone better than the slick glossy cover if your palms sweat.
At the front, below the 4-inch Super AMOLED screen is a button Home, as well as two touch sensitive buttons (menu and back). The left side there are volume buttons, while the right was the power button, but as usual there is no camera button. The back is made of ridged rubber has a 5MP camera, LED flash and the loudspeaker. At the bottom micro USB port, mic and 3.5mm audio jack.
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Screen
Advance use SGS type Super AMOLED screen with WVGA resolution of 800x480 pixels and a width of 4 inches. Exactly the same as Samsung Galaxy S i9000. Like the Super AMOLED screen in general, color reproduction is excellent, bright and visible light, with high contrast and density black color is amazing, as well as extreme a good viewing angle. But of course there are also disadvantages AMOLED here, namely the use of the Matrix PenTile each pixel consists of only two subpixels, are not as RGB matrix is composed of three subpixels. Even so, but it is relatively unobtrusive for most people.
Interface
As at the Samsung Galaxy S II, the interface used by SGS Advance is a TouchWiz 4.0. Homescreen up to 7 pieces that you can add widgets, folders, shortcuts and wallpaper. Notification bar at the top displays shortcuts to activate / disable WiFi, bluetooth, GPS, and auto-rotation prosfil.
The main menu consists of an icon as much as a 4x4, you can edit the order according to your wishes. The arrangement is a horizontal sideways alias, but you can change its structure to the application list (list). That you customize for the interface is the type of letter (available 4 letter and still can be added), wallpaper, lock screen and position of the clock. Besides the animation can be minimized for faster performance and power efficient. In case of Advance SGS performance standards fairly quickly and smoothly, no lag is annoying.
TouchWiz 4.0 has the option gestureuntuk perform certain commands, eg, reverse phone body to turn off the sound from the loudspeaker. Activation command through this movement has 4 types of movement: turn over, tilt, panning and double tap, with each having its own function and sensitivity settings. There is a tutorial for those of you who do not understand the function of gesture in this phone.
Input Text
Methods for entering text there are three types DioPen Chinese IME, Samsung, and Swype. Samsung keypad options exist in some kind of keypad options for portrait mode digunakaan time, such as QWERTY, 3x4 (abc), and two methods of handwriting recognition. In addition there are regular features such as predictive text, auto-capitalization, voice input and others.
Phonebook
Contact list is still the same as other Android phones, with the sync feature with many of your accounts such as Facebook, Google and others. In addition there are features and Favorite Groups to help you in making a call. Contacts can be viewed in grid mode view for a more solid, but it can be sorted by call frequency. For additional new contact entry there is email, IM, Internet calls, group ringtone, nickname, birthday and much more.
Messaging
SMS has several features such as font size, background color, split view, and the limit for the conversation. SMS look like a modern cell phone use chat-style view to facilitate the conversation view. Want to send MMS? Just add a multimedia file when you compile an SMS.
For any electronic mail Google Mail, with some features that are nearly equal desktop version such as labels, starred, and others. Its performance is as always a reliable, efficient and useful, both when writing an email, receive push email and others. Gmail used is version 2.3.5.2.
By logging into GMail means you also enable Gtalk on Android phones using your Google id. Its standards just like the sign in the automatic settings, status, and notification when receiving a message.
Camera
SGS camera has a resolution equal to the Advance i9000, with a maximum resolution of 2560x1920 pixels (5MP) but equipped with LED flash which is certainly quite useful in low light conditions. Same interface on the camera with the camera interface and SGS Note Galaxy II, with a wide selection of shortcuts on the left side that can dikustom. Buttons are quite intuitive and easy to use. Focus can be done with a touch to focus, but the lack of physical buttons to make a slingshot hard to do a photo shoot with one hand because it is usually the result will vibrate (shake).
Features alone are in abundance, among others: panoramic mode, smile shot, action shot (to capture fast moving objects) and the cartoon. Coupled with the scene modes (night, sport, party, text, etc.), exposure settings, focus mode (auto and macro), timer, effects, ISO, metering, auto contrast, eye blink detection, GPS tags and other .
The results of the camera
The camera is pretty good for a 5 megapixel camera, especially with so many features on the camera SGS Advance allows you to make good photographs. Shortcomings, the picture in the room much noise is quite disturbing, although the lighting is already quite bright. Then the LED flash for some reason makes the photo a very blue (Bluish). For outdoor photos in the sun there is no problem, sharp and with good color reproduction. For those of you who want to see the original resolution photos, please download from this link.
Video Recorder
Although it uses dualcore processor, but the video recording on the Samsung Galaxy S Advance is a resolution of 1280x720 pixels, like its predecessor, the i9000. Features did not differ greatly, such as exposure, timer, effects, white balance and video quality. Weaknesses of its predecessor is still found, the absence of any focal option (touch to focus or continuous autofocus) while recording video, so the video recording is only fixed focus and can not be used to record the macro mode.
With a framerate of 29 frames per second, recording the video very smoothly, except that the resulting color was nice and sunny, but as the camera in the room noise generated quite disturbing. Besides the lack of focus macro mode or any mode quite frustrating for those who want to record objects that were located near or changeable. The resulting video bitrate over 12000kbps, with 64 kbps mono audio, and files. Mp4 produced has a large 88MB per minute.
Photo Gallery
To use the standard Android gallery, which was already pretty good. Like the other Samsung phone new output, zoom in, zoom out tilt can use gesture to zoom. Pictures can be shared instantly via AllShare, SocialHub, Bluetooth, Picasa and Gmail. For photo editing, you can do the cropping and rotating images. There's also a pretty good photo editor where you can change the color, insert effects such as blur, warping and so on.
Music player
Not much has changed for the music player, which is divided into several categories such as playlist, album, artist, and folders. You can add others such as genre, composer, year, and others. Lyrics can be displayed the display list, but it is an auto off feature for you to listen to the song to accompany your sleep. Sound output from the loudspeaker loud and shrill, surpassing its predecessor. To the sound settings available a variety of homemade equalizer equalizer including your own, and various sound effects such as concerts, bass enhancement and others. There are features 5.1 channel, only you have to use earphones to enable this feature.
Video Player
Like the Galaxy S series phones, this phone has a default video player which is a separate application. 5.1 channel sound features are also found in the video player. There is also a brightness level settings when playing video. Mkv video up to 720p resolution reads smoothly, as well. Mp4 and. Avi. 1080p video is not readable, but does not influence on the cell phone of this resolution is only 800x480 pixels. Subtitle setting is quite abundant, such as activation, font size and timing synchronization when the subtitle. Srt you entered is not right.
FM Radio
To play your favorite broadcasts must plug your headset. Region can be selected, and can show information radio station is playing.
Connectivity
Samsung Galaxy S Advance runs on the network quadband 850/900/1800/1900 Mhz and HSDPA 850/900/1900/2100 Mhz. In addition to the bluetooth is still version 3.0 as the i9000. Then there is the assisted GPS, and WiFi 802.11 a / b / g / n WiFi tethering capabilities (Mobile AP). Then there is the USB tethering, your phone into a 3G internet modem.
Web Browser
As the viewer, zoom in, zoom out paa web browser can use a tilt gesture to zoom. Like most Android phones, the maximum that can be opened tab is 8 pieces. In the opening filled with a lot of sites full of content such as performance teknoUp going fairly well, with the view should open on the computer. Thus even when opening the desktop version of Youtube, but when doing 720p video streaming ngelag and broken.
In the web browser no brightness setting, and some of the settings as well as other standard features such as Find, bookmark, share, text encoding, auto fit, javascript, cookies, history and others.
Applications congenital
By default the application is embedded in the SGS Advance include: Maps (version 6.0), Social Hub, All Shares, Kies Air, Latitude, Samsung Apps, Mini Diary, Task Manager, Memo, Polaris and Game Office Hub.
Third-Party Applications
GT Racing Free
That type of racing game Gran Turismo-style simulator has great graphics, with smooth 3-dimensional rendering and similar to the original car. This free game is running very smoothly at SGS Advance.
MX Video Player
This default video player application to complete its only just remember the video player congenital SGS Advance was already quite good and a lot of features, but MX has more features such as displaying a subtitle that terembedded, dual audio and others.
Benchmark Results
Antutu: 4912
Quadrant Standard: 2741
Neocore 3D: 56.5 frames per second
Multitouch tester: maximum of 10 touches
1500 mAh battery which is owned by SGS Advance pretty good performance. Our review unit at 10 am showed a 67 per cent, then the phone is tested for various purposes review (songs, videos, browsing via WiFi, photographing, etc.) with the condition of full screen brightness and screen timeout 10 minutes, the hours of 5 afternoon the battery indicator still showed a 35 per cent.
Conclusion
As the mobile phone charger price gap between W and Samsung Galaxy Galaxy S II, as well as a successor or falsifies SGS GT-i9000, Galaxy S Advance actually has the potential to take the sale of his own brother, SGS II. But of course the phone is still inferior to the flagship Samsung's Android, especially in terms of the camera. Performance is good, but that's exactly what we expect from a dual core processor. The design itself though tedious because it was almost identical to SGS i9000, but the curve is quite attractive and seems to be characteristic of the two phones other than Samsung Nexus them. To be sure this phone will be satisfying those who want a good-performing phones yet more affordable than SGS II with prices pretty much adrift.
Pros:
Super AMOLED screen
1GHz dual core processor
TouchWiz 4.0
Curved design
Disadvantages:
there are no physical buttons for the camera shutter
only up to 720p video recording and do not have the focus to the object feature
the camera with LED flash blue
