My Mini Galaxy SS570 Review
Monday, July 11, 2011
What's on your mind when hearing the word Mini? usually associated with objects - objects are small, and in the context of smartphones, the mini could mean a more inferior hardware specs of its predecessor the great but Galaxy Mini Samsung S5570 does not mean do not have a special attraction when compared to its predecessor in the range of galaxy series. in addition to its vital position as a fighter in the low-end level for the range of air-OS android smartphone from samsung, mini galaxy is also plotted as a replacement for samsung 5 Samsung I5500 in bringing the ambition to be a vendor ruler of the world mobile phone sales.
- - Support quadband GSM and dual-band 3G channel
- - Can function as a modem with a speed of 7.2Mbps HSDPA
- - capacitive touchscreen TFT display with a diagonal size of 3.14inch and supports 256k color QVGA resolution
- - Armed with ARMv6 processor 600MHz processor and 384MB of RAM
- - android OS version 2.2 froyo with TouchWiz UI version 3.0
- - 160MB internal memory and hot swap SDCARD, in the sales package in included SDCARD 2gb
- - 3.15MP fixed focus camera, geotagging but without LED flash
- - GPS module with A-GPS
- - FM radio with RDS
- - 3.5mm audio jack
- - Included also document editor
- - The sensor is also equipped with Accelerometer and proximity sensor
- - Swipe text input
- - Micro USB for charging and data
- - Stereo Bluetooth 2.1
- - SNI (social network integration), aka integrated with social networking sites such as FB
- - Built quality that is good and interesting model for young people: D
The mini is not in the allotment for smartphone users who are more experienced, but their function is to do simple tasks that need in a scenario of daily life - a good day.
For those who prevented a tight budget, the mini could be one option among many low-end sekmen android that has been circulated previously.
DESIGN
At first glance reveals galaxy mini still taken from a series of Corby with a size of 110.4 x 60.8 x 12.1 mm in the mini has a weight of 105grams. Is quite small and very comfortable to grip in the hand, feels solid and sturdy. Bodynya materials made of plastic but the quality is quite good and the material is not easily soiled by traces - traces of fingerprints. Patern patterned dot on the back cover also serves to prevent falls due to slippery by HP are wet or sweaty hands.
Capacitivenya screen is very responsive and easy to navigate menus, in addition to the Galaxy Mini is equipped with a multitouch features for easy navigation in the browser and image.
3.14inch screen was impressed by the small and the screen resolution is only 240 x 320 pixels make the colors displayed are not extraordinary but it has a fairly good level of contras, to remember this is a smartphone with a low budget.
At the top of the screen there is no ambient light sensor that serves to adjust the screen brightness automatically, mini galaxy is only equipped with proximity sensors that function to turn off the display automatically when brought closer to the face when lifting the telephone. Galaxy S5570 mini video camera is also minus the call to do video calling or video chat. Of course the low prices some of the features should be reduced by depressing prices.
Menu button at the bottom of the screen is very convenient to use, because its width is also a mistake to minimize the press accidentally. Saying once the button is still a physical button yet capacitive buttons.
S5570 mini galaxy on the upper have a hole to connect a 3.5mm audio jack and micro USB is protected by a small plastic cap that is safe dr dirt and water.
The bottom there are only a mic hole.
There are volume buttons on the left, the shape is quite thin but still comfortable to use.
On the right there is the power button and slot SDCARD covered by a plastic lid. SDCARD slot is hot swappable, which means it can be issued without having to turn off the input SDcardnya HP first. Maximum capacity that can be supported by the mini is 32GB big enough for a collection of applications, pictures and music files.
On the back of the camera lens there is a fairly sheltered because of its position somewhat into, unfortunately S5570 mini galaxy is not equipped with LED flash, so it is not possible to make shooting in places that are too dark or no light.
Loudspeakernya located at the bottom just above the curves in the back of the mini, making the distance between objects with holes that aim to prevent loudspeaker sound issued will be closed.
Behind the back cover there baterre 1200mAh li-ion battery and sim card slot, its battere less able to offset the need for adequate android wasteful energy consumption. However, if in use for the needs of its mobile phones in general battere still can hold up to 2 days. To use his own weight like surfing the web a few hours with wifi, a few hours listening to music, download some applications, and running some applications will make the mini only able to survive less than 1 day.
USER INTERFACE
The user interface UI of ato commonly abbreviated wear mini galaxy TouchWiz version 3.0 that make the mini look quite colorful and cheerful J
Bottom of 4 icon shortcut will appear as Springboard UI of IOS on the iphone, like any other android, galaxy mini supports up to 7 homescreen pages that can be filled with the contents of various widgets and shortcut icons from various applications, and when not needed homescreen can also be reduced for saving memory space and facilitate the performance of the mini itself.
Notification android own distinctive style can be in the slide and the drag from the top of the homescreen, it will consist of 5 pieces of the shortcuts that include a shortcut - a shortcut is important to turn off the data connection, WiFi or Bluetooth connection.
When the menu button on the massage will be out a few additional settings such as adding a widget, change the wallpaper, to delete the homescreen panels, etc.. Galaxy Mini Samsung S5570 also has support live wallpapers and some already pre-installed in it, if you get bored easily can be added through downloads on android market.
The main menu using the menu to the mini galaxy scroll to the side unlike the stock vanilla android menu scroll down. To edit the location of the application icon can be accessed by pinch zoom out on the menu. Unfortunately it can not be displayed menu-style list like on Symbian OS. Also Samsung has also set up task manager built in with TouchWiz, thus saving the time to look at the task killer android market.
PHONEBOOK, TELEPHONE AND SMS
Phonebook capacity mini galaxy is not limited as long as the internal storagenya still possible, contact will be displayed from either the SIM card, internal memory and from the google account. To facilitate the search for the contact, the Samsung TouchWiz include a search menu that is easy, simply by typing the first letter of the name of the contact associated with those letters will appear. Each contact can add multiple email accounts or telephone number and could also add some details semisalnya date of birth, organization or other personal information. Contact menu is equipped also with the interesting feature that is if you do the slide to the left on the selected contact name then it will automatically open the sms app to write a new message to contact our chosen earlier, is being shifted to the right will dial the telephone number of contact.
The sound quality when the phone is quite good and not susceptible to interference, when a mini galaxy closer to the face to call it automatic proximity sensor will automatically turn off the screen so as not pressed accidentally.
In the sms TouchWiz also provide the same facilities as on the phonebook, if the slide to the left will bring up the New Messege is on the slide to the right will bring up the dial telephone number.
To perform a delete, edit and other menu simply done by pressing and hold on messegenya. Pressing and holding in the compose option will bring up the cut, copy and paste, the text is selected and copied the text can be pasted into another messege, email or in chat application.
If you add files such as pictures, sound or video then automatically transformed into an MMS editor messege editor.
Touchwiz also provides integrated email function is the box of all email clients, good for gmail email client or standard email client that is used for server - mail server other than gmail, this is certainly very easy and helpful at all, so users do not have to bother to open one by one email client on Samsung's this mini galaxy.
Email servers can support email from gmail and google is able to support other email servers like yahoo and others - others. Especially for gmail email client can support several different accounts, gmail client also has a delete function and labels that have been integrated.
Standard email clients that use other email servers can support the type of POP and IMAP and can be used for multiple accounts at once, in addition to standard email client that also supports the use of folders on your email account.
To chat Galaxy Mini is equipped with G-talk that is innate gmail chat application that can be integrated in other popular chat servers such as iChat and Nokia's Ovi contact.
Samsung also integrate their own keyboard instead of the default keyboard stock froyo that many critics as less convenient to use. The keyboard of the Samsung is quite responsive and fast despite having a poor view due to screen resolution is too small mini galaxy. Keyboards in a state portrait can display rows of letters or standard numeric keypad qwerty usual, when the shake move to landscape position then the keyboard will follow the width of the screen so it is larger and more comfortable for the massage, the landscape in a state of the remaining available space for text only two lines.
To simplify the job of typing a rather small screen, the Samsung also pinned swipe text input function, which is an input system that predicts the input words to be included based on the movement shifted from letter to letter, the system predicted at the beginning of usage will be quite time consuming and difficult to find accurate, because the database initially contains only the vocabulary of English, but over time after being used some time swipe functionality can add their own vocabulary and adjust to the word - the word often used, almost similar to the T9 prediction of existing facilities on the HP air- keypad first.
GALLERY
Picture gallery mini galaxy S5570 android uses a stock standard, integrated well with the album picasa account on the server google, image gallery also provides a folder for the collection of such photos in the browser files to facilitate searching and organizing photos or images. Applications gallery also provides a search by date of photo or image is created. Or based on metatags of such images.
When displaying a picture or photo is equipped also with effects - effects that transition quite spoil the eye, to resize and zoom can be done with a double tap or pinch or it could also use the + / -.
There are many menus to edit the image at the options such as crop and rotate, the selected image can also directly send it via email, MMS, Bluetooth, or shared via picasa.
The drawback is the image displayed in the picture gallery android displays only version already in the alias does not downsize the actual quality. This may be done so that the load time to display the image and zoom faster, so do not be surprised if after the move to the computer images can look better than the phone itself.
The drawback is the image displayed in the picture gallery android displays only version already in the alias does not downsize the actual quality. This may be done so that the load time to display the image and zoom faster, so do not be surprised if after the move to the computer images can look better than the phone itself.
VIDEO PLAYER
Mini Galaxy S5570 can play movies with 3gp and mpeg4 format well, its navigation button is quite simple and easy to use.
Codec is taken does not support xvid and divx, and unable to play movies with semi 720p HD format, with support for 256k colors just a bit much to ask of a mini galaxy can run the format. Yet the Mini can play videos with WVGA resolution (480x800 pixels) as well. Access to the video file can be done through the gallery or of my application file browser file.
MUSIC PLAYER
Music player music player is a mini-galaxy of TouchWiz, pengoprasiannya quite easy and provides lots of functionality to make it easier to organize files - music files. Facilities such as album covers and there is also an equalizer in the music player. TouchWiz addition also adds a unique facility that allows us to find the songs in question on the youtube or google search, you can choose to search for the song title, artist name or album title, the result of search will be displayed on the client youtube when searching on youtube or displayed to browse the internet when searching using google search. Very useful of course when we know the name of the singer of the song that we have.
The sound produced by the speakers is pretty good almost as good as that issued by Samsung ACE galaxy, when connected to a sound system then it will be more audible sound quality is crystal clear, but when using the headset the sound quality will decline significantly. As an mp3 player mini galaxy can be quite satisfying being able to deliver premium sound quality, especially when the plug with the sound system, it is quite a positive point is fairly decent considering the price cheap.
When you get bored listening to a collection of music, the Samsung mini galaxy also provides an FM radio complete with RDS feature and can store up to 4 favorite radio station, Radio can be heard through the speakers but still have to mencolokan headset as an antenna.
CAMERA & VIDEO REC
As the low end smartphones equipped with only 3MP fixed focus lens, but the mini has enough features - advanced features such as smile shoot, shoot panoramas and guidelines. Unfortunately, Samsung does not provide LED flash for shooting in low light and galaxy mini also has no buttons shutter to take pictures like a camera in general, instead is using the onscreen button to splatter on the screen image. Results cameranya own photo of quite satisfactory when compared with the price is quite cheap, display color and contrast can be seen with its good and very little noise.
Video recordings of the mini-camera is only able to deliver quality video to MMS, the result format only QVGA 15fps framerate. Not good for display on computer screens or television screens.
CONNECTIVITY
For connectivity, the Samsung Galaxy Mini is equipped with a micro USB for data transfer via cabel, because it has brought froyo version 2.2 bluetooth 2.0 can now be used also for data transfer, other than that there is support to the network wifi b / g / n and can be used for wifi tethering / personal router. Besides the Mini also has a hot swap SDCARD slot and can support up to 32GB capacity, in the package in included SDCARD 2gb.
For those who frequently travel abroad need not worry because the galaxy mini provides support quadband GSM and dualband HSDPA which means it supports all frequency of telecommunications networks worldwide.
BROWSER
Browser, which in included in the galaxy android standard Mini is the browser, where the browser is pretty good and fast performance. But the weakness is not yet able to display flash content, because this causes the CPU in the mini is still using the ARMv6 instruction set. Only the CPU that has been used ARMv7 instruction set is upward compatible with flash player 10.1.
The solution to this problem can be resolved by installing another browser like Skyfire or dolphin from the android market.
ADDITIONAL APPLICATIONS
Samsung mini carry multiple applications - basic PIM applications, such as notepad, calendar, calculator, alarm, voice recorder, file browser, but minus the stopwatch, countdown counters and the world clock. But the application - a type of application can easily be found on the android market.
In addition to standard applications of the android, Samsung also provides application - the application of its own which can be downloaded from Samsung apps, namely market applications such as Samsung's android market, so you have two options in the galaxy mini market.
To navigate the Samsung Galaxy Mini is only equipped with GoogleMap. To speed up the lock with GPS satellites we can choose to activate A-GPS. To note the A-GPS will reduce your pulse because it uses data services to speed satellite internet to find your position.
samsung also insert the Quickoffice applications to view and edit office files, this application will be very useful for office workers and students.
samsung also insert the Quickoffice applications to view and edit office files, this application will be very useful for office workers and students.
SUMMARY
For smartphone users who have been using another OS smartphones were not of course be interested in the capabilities offered by the Samsung S5570 is a mini galaxy. Moreover, with limited application support - application to be constrained by the small screen resolution. In addition froyo android version that brought the mini will feel nothing - nothing because the CPU does not support it with flashplayer. But again the price is quite affordable mini galaxy major target for the S5570 is in fact not among smartphone users who have sufficient experience or for users of smartphones android android who had never used before.
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