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Samsung Galaxy S Guarantees a Truly `Ful Filling' Smartphone Experience!

 

There are a substantial number of industry experts who readily opine that more than the iPhone 4.0, it was the Samsung Galaxy S that revolutionized the smartphone industry standards as never before.

 Whatever one may say, the South Korean mobile phone giant managed one thing with the Samsung Galaxy S – squeeze into its svelte frame heaps and heaps of features. So much so that when the Galaxy S arrived on the smartphone horizon, it was immediately touted to be the number one iPhone killer. Now, this is accolade that the Samsung Galaxy S managed to live up to majorly. After all, it is not every day that you come across a smartphone that has sold more than the iPhone 4.0. Believe it or not, the Galaxy S sold well over a whopping 10 million units by March 2011.

 

You simply cannot find fault anywhere with the Galaxy S

 By then it was time for much more powerful and beefier cousin to descend and threaten the day lights out of the rivals. And this is exactly what is happening with the Samsung Galaxy S2 running away with all glory – be it sales, technical approval from industry specialists and what not.

As far as the hardware goes, you simply cannot find any fault with the Samsung Galaxy S. Not even a semblance of it. Honestly, it is a truly galactic hardware that you can come across anywhere on this planet. Even the Android platform stands up to the text admirably. If anything, it is Samsung own widget's that leave something more to be desire for. But when looked at from a holistic perspective this shortcoming hardly strikes you as something that you will dearly miss.

 All in all, a fine smartphone. You can safely state, the very best in the business. Here, it would b e in the fitness of things to take a closer look at some of the more important technical specifications that the Samsung Galaxy S has to offer. This is given in the form of a table that is given below –

 

Technical Specifications

Samsung Galaxy S

Dimensions and Weight

62.4 mm x 122. 4 mm x 9.9 mm and 118 gms

Touchscreen and Display

Four inches wide Super AMOLED display with 800 x 480 pixels WVGA display. There is support for 16 million colours as well.

Operating System

Android 2.1 Eclair

Processor

S5PC111 CPU, 1Ghz Hummingbird processor

Battery

1500mAh standard battery capacity. Talk time – up to 803 minutes under 2G and up to 393 minutes under 3G;Stand by – up to 750 hours in 2G and 576 hours in 3G

Memory

On board memory 2 GB; Expandable memory space of 32 GB possible with the use of the microSD memory card

Internet and Data Networking Attributes

3G, Wi-fi, WAP, bluetooth, EDGE, GPRS, HSDPA, etc

Camera

Five mega pixel primary camera with auto focus and digital zoom and video recording facility. Front facing VGA secondary snapper also provided

Media Player

Music player with music library and DRM (OMA DRM v1.0 Full). And video player with video frame rate of 30 frames per second. Video recorder and video telephony possible

Business and Office

Document Viewer with Mobile printing facility. In flight mode working possible

Additional Features

Swype, Augmented Reality browser, e-book, office, all share etc.

 

As mentioned above, it is pretty hard to find shortcomings in the way and the Samsung Galaxy S feels and functions. To begin with you would be spell bound by the visual magic that the Super AMOLED manages to weave. Indeed. With its ultra colour and crystal clear and bright display, you could not have expected a better visual treatment that this one.

 

It's Super AMOLED by the way!

Even for those users, who are already familiar with the display prowess that is offered b y the some of the AMOLED sporting HTC smartphones, the Samsung Galaxy S comes as a pleasant surprise. Here, the subtle but significant distinction between AMOLED and Super AMOLED comes into sharp focus. While AMOLED for all its sharpness fell short under sun light, the Super AMOLED is a marked improvement on the same. And this is exactly what the Samsung Galaxy S delivers.

Secondly for a smartphone that sports the dimensions of 62.4 mm x 122. 4 mm x 9.9 mm and weighs a good 118 gms the Samsung Galaxy S feels surprisingly light on your palm. If anything, there will be any number of users who will feel something amiss in this lightness. But this exactly what design engineering all about. Isn't it? Samsung probably managed this by going in for rounded edges and thinness than thickness in the middle.

The rest of the features covering the internet connectivity, data processing facility as well as the camera and the media player are all top of rung and leave you with only admiration for Samsung.

 

Pricing is thankfully not sky high but down to earth

The network service operators like O2, Orange, 3 Mobile, T-Mobile, Talkmobile and Vodafone and others have all come forward and lent their support to this magnificent smartphone by way of very cheap Samsung Galaxy S contracts. You need to pay only well below £ 20 per month for the maximum period of 24 months to make this smartphone all yours. And believe it or not, the SIM free and unlocked prices start at £ 150 only.

Orange offers the Samsung Galaxy S smartphone as a pay as you go mobile phone for the highly attractive sum of just £ 263. Besides these three kinds of mobile phone deals, there are some clearance mobile phone deals also selling the Galaxy S. You can check out some these as well.

Conclusion

The Samsung Galaxy S is the kind of smartphone that very few users would be able to ignore. It is that fulfilling a smartphone and guarantees maximum satisfaction in every which way. Now, that its bigger cousin the Samsung Galaxy S2 is around, sales wise its intensity in the market place may had diminished but all the same, if you are really after a good smartphone at dirt cheap prices, you need not look