Main Specifications
Quad band GSM (850/900/1800/1900)
Dual band HSDPA (900/2100)
TFT capacitive touch screen 16 million color 3.27-inch (320 x 480 pixels)
4GB internal memory (1GB applications, multimedia 2GB, 1GB system), external microSD up to 32GB
3.15 MP camera (2048x1536 pixels) fixed focus
Android Gingerbread v2.3.6
Qualcomm MSM7227 800MHz processor, GPU Adreno 200
Lithium Ion Battery 1300 mAh
Purchase Package Contents
Galaxy Mini Samsung handset 2
Battery
Charger
Handsfree
Micro USB data cable
Extra back cover
Manual
Warranty Card
Design and Body
If you look at the front, this phone looks similar to Android phones made by Samsung under other classes. Galaxy Mini 2 looks elegant and classy in the face, and has a stylish young impression on the back. You will get two back cover, yellow and black color if you want more formal look. This phone has dimensions of 109.4 x 58.6 x 11.6 mm and weighs 105.3 grams. All of the phone body is made of plastic and feels quite sturdy and steady when held because the back is curved.
The face of the phone have earpiece, proximity sensor and light sensor, 3.27 inch screen, menu and back button-type capacitive, and a physical home button. The back is filled with the presence of the speaker and the camera only. The left side of the phone is only filled with the lock / power. The right side of the hole for the strap buttons are volume and microSD memory slot. The top there is a 3.5 mm headset port and the bottom there is a microUSB port and the mic.
Screen
Well this is one point improvement in Mini Galaxy 2, this phone has a screen resolution HVGA (320 x 480 pixels). Previous Galaxy Mini only has a screen resolution of QVGA (240 x 320 pixels). The sharpness of course better screen, the display looks sharper and smoother. But unfortunately not very clear. For your own point of view look better than ever, feel more spacious.
This phone uses Android version 2.3.6 Gingerbread with Samsung's unique TouchWiz UI interface. To map itself has a modern look like the latest Samsung mobile devices. Terciri of locksreen design, homescreen, and drawer applications.
On the homescreen page can contain up to seven pages that can be filled with a variety of items such as widgets, folders, shortcuts. If you hold a physical home button will display a list of recent apps. Notification window appear like the other Samsung phones smartphone, add a shortcut to the connectivity.
Drawer applications, application icons lined up in formation of 4 x 4 was accompanied by a black background transparent. You can change the position of application icons that are applicable to your liking and can also change the zoom to its list. Experience of exploring the menus and pages in Galaxy Mini can be carried out smoothly not feel lag at all.
Text input
For business typing, there are two options in the default keyboard the Samsung keypad, and Swipe. There are settings for each of the keyboard to better fit your convenience. In doing the typing we found no problems, good screen response.
Contacts
Contact and phone menus have the same contents, has five tabs that consist of keypad tab, logs, contacts, favorites, groups. As usual, Samsung provides a shortcut that makes it easy to contact you to communicate. This is a shortcut you can just do a slide to the left to send a message and slide to right to make a call on one of the highlighted contact. You can also synchronize contact lists from various accounts.
Messaging
Menu appears with typical messaging Android, simple yet functional and intuitive. When it gets into your messaging application will be presented a list of chat thread you are doing and if you want to create a new message to contact you can choose a picture timbol plus on the left top. Composing the display is also very simple, if you want to send MMS messages you simply select the paper clip image.
For business there is an email application Gmail is the default email service and for services from other email providers automatic settings can be performed in the email menu. For business there is also an instant messaging application Google Talk's, as usual if you do not use this service, you can download the client application through Google's Play.
Camera
Galaxy Mini 2 armed resolution of 3.15 MP camera fixed focus LED flash without his presence the same as its predecessor. There are various options and settings such as continuous shooting mode, smile shot, and panorama. For the unfortunate panorama image size produced is very small so not very useful in our opinion. For there is a scene mode settings, brightness, timer, resolution, white balance, effects, metering, image quality, guidelines, review, gps, shutter sound, storage, and reset.
Performance is fairly good camera you can make the shot very quickly. For indoor shots look less sharp and the colors look a little pale. For outdoors, the result looks bright but still looks a little pale.
Video Recorder
Camera in Galaxy Mini 2 can do video recording with VGA resolution only (640 x 480 pixels) with a 29 fps framerate. There are several settings such as recording mode, brightness, timer, resolution, white balance, effects, video quality, guidelines, audio recording, review, storage, reset. Videos are saved in MP4 format.
Gallery
Display menu on the Galaxy Mini 2 gallery is a standard course, with a collection of photographs and video presented on the folder and the 3D effect if the phone is moved to the left or to right. There is also jalann shortcut to the camera at the top right. If you are not satisfied with the picture or the picture you can do a little editing processes such as crop, rotate, rename, and others. Zooming process can also be done in three ways: pinch and zoom, double tap the screen, or use the zoom button.
Video Player
Your video collection can be played through the gallery and video applications. The interface is simple video applications, video format video will appear on the list who can sort by size, name, date, type. When video is playing, and the battery information appear in the upper right, upper left there is a choice for the ratio of the video display. There is also a bar bookmark video duration, control buttons (previous, play / pause, next), volume icon, and the 5.1 sound output effects but can only be used if you use earphones. For video formats, Mini Galaxy 2 only supports the video format MP4 and even to 720p resolution video can not be played. But this can be overcome by installing third party applications such as video players or MX Mobo Player Player.
Music Players
Collection of songs in this phone will be displayed based on five categories such as all, playlist, album, artist, and folders (can be increased or decreased in the music menu setting). It looks broadly similar to other Android apps music stock, just that there are a few additions such as the mini display on the lock screen player, equalizer, sound effects, 5.1 surround effects, lyrics, animation, and more. For 5.1 surround effects are the same as in the video player, can only be activated if you use a headset. Fairly good quality sound output speaker sounded tight and not broken when we set the maximum level.
FM Radio
This classic features are still present to give you entertainment and information through your favorite radio station. It looks quite interesting with style analog radio that can be pressed to enable or disable the radio, and can be rotated to change the frequency. You can also store your favorite radio station 4 section of this advance.
Connectivity
Galaxy Mini 2 is running on the network Quad Band GSM / GPRS / EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 MHz and HSDPA 900/2100 MHz. For local connectivity there 802.11b/g/n WiFi, A-GPS, Bluetooth v3.0, microUSB v2.0. There are also options to share Internet connectivity Tethering via USB or WiFi.
Web Browser
The browser or Internet in Galaxy Mini 2 has a good performance, in tracing the pages on our site www.teknoup.com rendering pages quickly and their movements seem too smoothly. You can also watch a video on YouTube version of the desktop, because the browser supports flash content. To Mutitab can be done up to a maximum of eight tabs.
Benchmark Results
Quadrant Standard: 1842 points
AnTuTu Benchmark: 2675 points
Neocore 3D: 61.7 frames per second
Multitouch tester: maximum 5 touch
CamSpeed: ShutterTime 253, 880 ImageTime, - FocusTime
Samsung Galaxy Mini 2 - S6500D Review Gallery
Battery Life
Samsung Galaxy Mini 2 equipped with a Lithium Ion battery with a capacity of 1300 mAh. These batteries can last stand on the claims by up to 120 hours and can be used to talk up to 6 hours. Based on the review process that we do, the battery on this phone can accompany you to a day of activities. But this depends also from the condition of the signal and the intensity of use of mobile phones.
Conclusion
In the Galaxy Mini 2 saw an increase of better than Galaxy Mini as the processor, screen resolution, and internal memory, although not very significant. Performance of this phone is also good, and reliable use as a whole. But with priced approximately 1.9 million dollars, given the price was too high compared to its specifications. Because today there are several other options in that price range that offer better specifications, one example Sony Xperia Mini Pro which has a processor and a larger camera and support for the latest Android 4.0 ICS, although you have to sacrifice screen size and battery capacity are more minor.
Excess
A good performance
Sturdy design
Back cover extra
Shortage
A high enough price for the specifications given
Only Android 2.3 Gingerbread
