Introduction
Samsung Galaxy Mini GT-S5570-Android mobile phone is always synonymous with expensive, now people will view it gone already. Samsung will soon release the new Android phone Samsung GT-S5570 Galaxy Mini or more popularly known as Samsung Galaxy Mini is priced at an affordable price. Samsung Galaxy Mini is equipped with OS Froyo. Below are the official specs Samsung Galaxy Mini.
Formal specification:
-GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
-HSDPA 900/2100 Mhz
3:14-inch Touch-screen technology TFT capacitive depth of 256K colors with 320 x 240 pixels
-OS Android Froyo
3:15-megapixel resolution camera with geotagging
-Processor ARM v6 of 600 Mhz and 256 MB of RAM
-Sensor accelerometer
-Jack 3.5mm standard audio
GPS with A-GPS
-Wi-Fi Tethering
-Connectivity Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g / n and Bluetooth version 2.1 with A2DP support
-Slot microSD external memory (up to 32GB) and an internal memory of 160 MB
-Port microUSB
Hardware
Galaxy Mini Samsung design looks similar to the design of the Samsung Galaxy 551, only in quality, materials used by the second Android phone Samsung output is different. If the Samsung Galaxy 551 using glossy plastic manifold and rather thick, the Samsung Galaxy Mini uses a plastic type material that is thinner dove, but not as cheap.
Samsung Galaxy Mini GT-S5570 using a 3:14-inch touchscreen TFT capacitive technology with a depth of 256K colors 320 x 240 pixels. Classified as good quality screen, it is evident we have no problems when using the screen in the sun and see the screen at an extreme angle though. For the sensitivity screen problem also no doubt, it only needs to be refined senuthan move icons on the screen.
Inter-Face With TouchWiz 3.0
Has become a standard Android Samsung Android touch screen mobile phone that uses Samsung's TouchWiz 3.0 touch screen display made by Samsung. Thus it is with Samsung Galaxy Mini is also already using the TouchWiz 3.0.
For the home screen, you can choose the amount of your home screen that will display on the screen. There are options 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 home screen you can attach it to the home screen display. The more screens the home screen will affect the performance of mobile phones.
Home screen you can add widgets, shortcuts, and folder containing the icon menu. There are some widgets that you can attach it to the home screen as analog clock, digital clock, Google Search, Home screen tips, Android Market, News & Weather, gallery, YouTube, Yahoo Finance, and Power Control. For information, Samsung Galaxy Mini is equipped with Live Wallpapers.
Samsung Galaxy Mini comes with a contact area of galaxy alias indefinitely. Contacts on this Froyo phone allows you to sync contacts with your Gmail account, and your social networking accounts like Facebook, Twitter, and My Space. Oh Yeah, do not forget Samsung also complete phonebook synchronization with support for Microsoft Exchange.
If you enter your social network account, then you can see the update status of your friends in the phonebook contacts. This was useful if you are lazy to use a Facebook application which was a hassle to just see your friends' status updates. There are some contact details that you can use such as email addresses, personal photos, personalized ring tones, Â IM, groups of contacts, notes, websites, as well as the anniversary date. Contacts can you save on phone memory, SIM memory, or your Google account.
Writing Book, The Quick With Swype
To enter text on a Samsung Galaxy Mini there are many options such as using a portrait QWERTY keyboard, landscape QWERTY keyboard, using DioPen Chinese IME (input method uses a type of chinese kanji), using a handwriting recognition method (Recognize handwriting), use the alphanumeric keypad portrait, using the keypad alphanumeric landscape, as well as using Swype. Input selection was complete and even easier for you to enter text on this Froyo phone.
For information only, Swype feature allows you to quickly type text with a maximum speed of 40 words in 1 minute with a movement like sliding on the screen. But a good idea to first get used to using Swype so you can use traditional text as fast Swype.
Samsung Galaxy Mini allows you to send the message types such as SMS, MMS, Email, and IM. There is no folder on the SMS, inbox, sent messages, and incorporated into a draft and it has become a standard message view Android. SMS and MMS editor incorporated into the joint, to convert SMS to MMS you can include multimedia content in SMS.
For email, you can use the default email like Gmail or other email, but looks are not as good as the default look of Gmail mobile application. On Gmail you can use more than 3 Gmail accounts simultaneously on the phone. Gmail on Froyo is equipped with features to signify (marking) all the email and then delete it or move it to the archive. You can also see an email inbox, draft, and email sent. To see the other Gmail account, you can hit your Gmail account contained in the upper right of the screen.
For IM, Gtalk are only available for a chat each other Gtalk account. To chat with other IM accounts, you can download it for free on Android Market either officially or unofficially.
Multimedia
Megapixel Resolution Camera 3:15
Samsung Galaxy Mini is equipped with a megapixel camera resolution fixed focal 3:15., There are no lights flash on the camera. There are settings for the camera settings like shooting mode (single shoot, shoot smile, contiunue, panorama, add me), scene modes (landscape, night, sports, party / indoor, beach / snow, sunset, dawn, fall color of, firework, candlelight, backlight), EV, self timer (2, 5, 10 seconds), image resolution (3.2MP, 2MP, 1.3MP, 0.1MP), white balance (daylight, cloudy, incandescent, fluorescent), color effects (black and white , negative, sepia), metering mode (center, spot, matrix), image quality (excellent, good, normal), geotagging, and digital zoom up to 3x.
For the photograph, the absence of autofocus makes the image look blurry at close range, but for the image on the remote can already be said to be good although the photos are less than the maximum detail. Below are the images Samsung Galaxy Mini.
Video Recorder
For the video recorder, you can do video recording with a resolution of 320 x 240 maksimal pixels (QVGA) at 15 frames per second. There are several features such as video recorders EV, up to 3x digital zoom, self timer (2, 5, 10 seconds), video resolution (QVGA, QCIF), white balance (daylight, cloudy, incandescent, fluorescent), audio (mute / on ).
Music Players
The music player's customizable Galaxy Mini looks a little customization, although not much different from the standard view Froyo music player. It looks at the options and channel EQ 5.1 characterizes the Samsung music player. When the songs included, then the player will automatically separate the song based music player, album, song title, it is also possible to create your own playlist.
When songs are played visualization display album art. Standard audio jack is available for you to use use your favorite 3.5mm standard headset. Chanel 5.1 sound effects only work if you use a headset to listen to the song. The sound quality music player Samsung's Galaxy Mini sounds good, especially if you listen using the headset. Issued sound really good quality. Samsung Galaxy Mini can be used to play almost any type of song formats like MP3, AAC, OGG, AAC +, AMR, WAV, AC3.
Gallery
Photo gallery and video gallery is located into a gallery together. Photo and video galleries are separated according to their respective ektension file. Gallery comes with a 3D effect that makes it look attractive. If you get into a subfolder, you can view photos / videos based on the date of taking photos / video by sliding the button located on the right side of the gallery.
Photos can be zoom-in/out in three ways as do the multitouch pinch and zoom (pinch gesture on the screen), tapping the screen twice quickly on the screen, and use the virtual buttons on screen zoom-in/out. When we do the zoom-in using pinch and zoom, image rendering was a lull, especially when rendering a 5MB file photo above taken by our SLR cameras. Can you share photos using several media such as Bluetooth, Picasa, email, and MMS. While you can share video using YouTube, Bluetooth, MMS, and Email.
Video Player
Samsung's proprietary video player can play the Galaxy Mini video like MP4, H.264, and H.263 as we test. Unfortunately the video player can not play video file format DivX / XviD when we test to play the video format.
FM Radio
To listen to the radio you have to plug the headset in advance which functions as a transmitting antenna. When you plug the headset is you can listen to the radio using a speaker or a headset. Radio station you can search manually or automatically and save it on your phone. FM radio is equipped with features â €? Auto Offa €? which serves to turn off the radio when you are asleep.
Complete connectivity
Samsung Galaxy Mini runs on the GSM / GPRS / EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 MHz and HSDPA 900/2100 Mhz (up to 7.2 Mbps). For local connectivity the connectivity such as Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g / n and Bluetooth version 2.1 with A2DP support. There is also Wi-Fi Tethering to make Galaxy Mini as a modem Wi-Fi. To connect the satellite Galaxy Mini with GPS there with A-GPS.
MicroUSB port is ready to be used to exchange data from phone to PC or vice versa. MicroSD slot allows you to expand the external memory for mobile phones. The latter contained a standard 3.5mm audio jack on the Galaxy Mini.
Browser, No Flash Support There
Flash on the browser seems to be a classic problem to date. Although Froyo Android OS already supports flash, but by default, affordable Froyo Android phones do not support flash because of the limitations of the specification, the processor is not supported. But for us the browser without flash is not really a big problem, because we believe you rarely use the flash on a mobile browser. In addition, if the browser is not equipped with a flash it will have faster performance than you are using a browser with flash support.
Places
This application is useful for finding where you want such as restaurants, coffee shops, bars, hotels, atm, fueling stations, and public entertainment venues. The application will automatically find the nearest place to your position using Google Maps and GPS support.
Organizer
There are some organizer features standard with the phone like calendar, memo, alarm, voice recorder, and calculator.
GPS with A-GPS Support
As usual, the Android mobile phone is equipped with a map made by Google, ie Google Maps. Maps with this simple view has multiple views such as satellite maps, map, and terrain. To view a map with the 3D view you can use Street View is equipped with a digital compass for easy map browsing.
Office applications
Samsung Galaxy Mini GT-S5570 is equipped with office applications â €? Quickofficeâ €?. Galaxy Mini luggage office applications can only be used to open office files such as. Docx, xlsx,. Pptx, and. Pdf. Apliaksi can not be used to edit and create a new document file.
Benchmarking
Galaxy Mini Samsung ARM v6 processor at 600 Mhz and 256 MB of RAM. We use benchmarking applications Quandrant Standard on trial this time. Below are the results of the assessment obtained by the Galaxy Mini.
-Frame per second: the value of 556 (under the Samsung Galaxy S, on Google Nexus One
The results obtained by the Galaxy Mini is high for a low end Android phone, the values obtained by the Galaxy Mini above the value obtained by LG Optimus One (307) and Samsung Galaxy 551 (440).
Durability Battery
Mobile Android Froyo uses batery Li-Ion 1200 mAh which can hold up to 571 hours on 2G and 444 hours on 3G networks in kedaan standby. We used to talk cell phone batery can last up to 576 hours on 2G and 382 hours on 3G networks.
Final Word
Samsung Galaxy Mini is not as good specs Samsung Galaxy S. However, for mobile phones in its class and all its limitations, our Galaxy Mini nobatkan be the best in its class.
Pros:
-OS Froyo
-The screen was sensitive, multitouch support and kinetic scrolling on the screen
The processor was fast-
Shutter-speed camera is quite fast
-Mobile Froyo at the most terjangkauÂ
A mini-form and light
Weaknesses:
-Still not support flash player in Browser
-Yet there are features autofocus, flashlight and camera shutter button on the
-Screen is less sharp (320x240px color 256rb)
Standard Features and Use of HP
Facebook (Applications)
Upload the photo: Yes, from the brower and the application
Update status: Yes, from the browser and the application
Photo Album: Yes, from the browser and the application
Comments: Yes, from the browser and the application
Inbox: Yes, from the browser and the application
News Feeds: Yes, of browser and applications
Twitter (Applications)
Upload the photo: Yes, from the application
Update status: Yes, from the browser and the application
Reply: Yes, from the browser and the application
Retweet: Yes, from the browser and the application
DM: Yes, of browser and applications
Camera
Resolution: 3.15 megapixels
The dark: Light
Flash: No
Autofocus: No
Zoom: 3x
Features: EV, up to 3x digital zoom, self timer (2, 5, 10 seconds), video resolution (QVGA, QCIF), white balance (daylight, cloudy, incandescent, fluorescent), audio (mute / on)
Video Camera
Resolution: QVGA
The dark: light enough
Flash: No
Frames per second: 15 fps
Features: Resolution, the duration of the video (normal, MMS), brightness, timer, resolution (QVGA, QCIF), white balance (auto, cloudy, fluorescent, daylight, incandescent), color effects (black and white, negative, sepia), video quality (normal, good, excellent), adjusted (contrast, saturation, sharpness), and audio.
Setting Internet
Setting manual or automatic: Automatic
GPS
Kompass Digital: Yes
A-GPS: Yes
Map default: Yes, Google Maps
Browser
Format: HTML
Flash Player: No
Performance: Fast
Support of many windows: 8 Tab
Screen
3:14-inch touchscreen TFT capacitive technology with a depth of 256K colors 240 x 320 pixels
OS
Type what: Android Froyo 2.2
Upgrade OS: OTA
The next upgrade: not known
Keyboard
Type: Keyboard QWERTY portrait, landscape QWERTY keyboard, Handwriting Recognize, an alphanumeric keypad
Key qualities: Sensitive
Presses the button: Sensitive
Office
Innate applications: Quickoffice
Media & Multimedia
Music player for MP3, WMA, and AAC
Photo gallery video: Yes, use the Gallery
Share function: Bluetooth, Picasa, email, and MMS
Wi-Fi
Shortcut on / off: There is a
Signal: Stable
Network
3G Support: Yes
Band: 900/2100 MHz (HSDPA)
HSDPA speed: 7.2Mbps
Bluetooth
Version: Bluetooth version 2.1 with A2DP support
Messaging
The use of SMS and MMS: Easy
Email support: IMAP4 and POP3 protocols
Other Features: Gtalk
Email attachment: image files, office files, etc..
Battery
Durability (Standby): 571 hours (2G) / 444 h (3G)
Talk time: 576 minutes (2G) / 382 minutes (3G)
Operation to play music: -
Battery type and capacity: Â Battery Li-Ion 200 mAh 1 ..
Streaming
Audio: Yes, via the browser and other applications
Video: Yes, through a browser, Youtube and other applications
Application
Support format:. GER
Market app / Place Download: Android Market
List of Application:
-Phonebook
-Call
-Message
-Gallery
-Music player
-Alarm
-Calendar
-Memo
-SNS
-Calculator
-Browser
-Gmail
-YouTube
-Camera
Video-recorder
-Widget
-Google Maps
-GPS
Notifications
SMS: Yes, sounds and notifications on the home screen
Email: Yes, sounds and notifications on the home screen
Chats: Yes, sounds and notifications on the home screen
Facebook: Yes, on the home screen notifications and status updates on Facebook widget
Twitter: Yes, on the home screen notifications and status updates on Twitter widget
Ring tones
Format: MP3
MP3 as ringtone: Yes, via the music player
MP3 as sms: -
MP3 as an email: -
Profile
Shortcut or the normal profile settings: On the menu
Type: Airplane mode, normal and silent mode
Airplane mode: Yes
Startup
Startup time: 20 seconds
Games
Default: No
Download game format: APK
Place download: Android Market
Background
Image formats: JPEG, GIF
Size: 320 x 240 pixels
Photo as wallpaper: Yes, through the gallery and customization
Navigation
Touchscreen: Yes
Others: -
Use: Easy to use
Synchronize to Computer
Media: microUSB data cable, and Bluetooth
Applications: Google Sync
Mode: In Mass Storage / Modem
Memory
Internal (Application): 160 MB
Support memory cards: MicroSD (up to 32GB)
Telephone book
Capacity: Not limited
Data: email address, personal photos, personalized ring tones, Â IM, groups of contacts, notes, websites, as well as the anniversary date
OTA synchronization: Google Sync
Photo: Yes, from the contact
Backup: SIM Card, Google Sync, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Gmail
Offline Contacts Backup application (computer): SIM card
Support file backup: -
Phone Calls
Speed dialing, voice dialing (speaker independent) and voice commands
Records of outgoing calls, incoming and missed calls
Conference call
Integrated handsfree speaker
Home Screen, Themes & Personalization
Maximal number of: 7 home screen
Displacement: Current
Live Wallpaper: Yes
Performance: Current
Widget Support: Yes
Hotkey Support: Yes
Personalization
Front of the screen can be adjusted:
-Wallpaper
-Home screen
-Pintasan/Shortcut
-Live Wallpaper
-Widget
Other
Jackaudio: There, 3.5mm
FM Radio: Yes, requires headset to play
Akeselerometer: Yes
Alarm: Yes
Keypad tone: Yes
Charging port: Yes, microUSB
Unlocked and the lock: Press the power button
Hot swap: No
Speaker: Sound quality
Airplane mode: Airplane mode
USB: MicroUSB for data and charging