We review the Samsung Galaxy Mini, a tiny smartphone joining the Android-based Samsung fleet !

Samsung is not backwards about coming forwards with multiple smartphones. While we’ve recently been stunned by the superb quality of the high end Samsung Galaxy S2, we know Samsung has its feet firmly on the ground, and realises there is hay to be made at every section of the Android smartphone market. But we wonder if the Samsung Galaxy Mini is just too hampered by its screen to be a real success.

You see, when you are paying £150 for a smartphone SIM free you can’t expect the earth. But you do have a right to expect a good mix of features. With that in mind, we can live with the fact that the screen measures 3.1 inches. It’s small, sure, and the size makes tapping at the on-screen keyboard tricky if you have lager hands.

But what really lets things down is the resolution. We aren’t convinced that a 320×240 pixel screen really has a place in the mix. An Android smartphone, after all, has multimedia at its core. And this screen resolution makes viewing web pages tricky. Even the text of SMS messages, writ quite large on screen, looks fuzzy thanks to the low resolution.

There’s another thing about the screen too. It is relatively wide, so that flicking into wide format for video viewing or web browsing doesn’t reveal quite as much additional width as we are used to.

And while we are on the negative aspects of the Samsung Galaxy Mini, the other major one is the absence of Flash. The handset runs Android 2.2, so on paper it can cope with Flash. But the processor, at 600MHz, lacks the oomph. So, there’s no streaming video from within web sites, which these days is rather poor form.

The slowish processor also contributed to a somewhat sluggish response to screen presses. This in itself isn’t a deal breaker, but if you’ve used a high end smartphone recently you will notice the difference.

These things, really, are the Samsung Galaxy Mini’s main stumbling blocks and the other compromises are more acceptable. We can live with the 3 megapixel camera, for example.

It lacks a flash and autofocus, and only shoots average quality snaps. But it has a panorama mode, smile shot and a feature called ‘Add me’ which lets you shoot a photo in two separate halves, automatically stitching them together. It can make for some entertaining photos.

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Samsung has confirmed the Android-based iPad 2 rival, the Galaxy Tab 10.1, is going to hit UK shops on August 4, 2011 !

It’s been a long time coming, but finally the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 will grace the UK with its presence on August 4, 2011, Samsung has confirmed.

Wi-Fi-only and Wi-Fi and 3G versions will be available at launch, in either a white or black paintjob and three storage flavours – 16GB, 32GB and 64GB.

Originally announced and demoed at Mobile World Congress 2011, Samsung’s Android 3.1 Honeycomb-powered tablet has undergone a few changes since we last saw it.

For starters, it’s a smidge thinner than Apple’s iPad 2 at 8.6mm, and the original 8-megapixel camera has been replaced by a less impressive 3-megapixel one, perhaps for the sake of keeping unit costs down.

Although fans of the device, ourselves included, will be pleased to know its officially on the way, Samsung has yet to announce a price for the device, leaving us wondering whether the company will opt to undercut the current king of the hill, the iPad 2, or go the Motorola Xoom route.

Of all the Android tablets we’ve seen, the Galaxy Tab 10.1 has been our favourite for quite some time. It felt great to hold, and its lightweight nature and a crystal clear display score it some major brownie points.

Flash 10.1 support, the addition of hubs for a more intuitive experience, full 1080p video playback and a powerful 1GHz dual core processor only serve to sweeten the deal.

When a price is announced we will let you know.

Introduction:

With summer in full swing and many people taking some much-needed vacations, tablets are increasingly becoming the gadget of choice to carry along on those trips away from home. Obviously, they’re much more portable than most traditional laptops, but even more, they’ve evolved tremendously to offer an experience that’s adaptive to our ever-growing needs. Although they share many physical characteristics with their designs, both the Apple iPad 2 and Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 are seemingly regarded as the cream of the crop in the tablet market right now. Surprisingly priced evenly at the starting cost of $500, the ultimate question comes down to which one is the better of the two.

Design:

By now, we all know the story behind these two razor thin tablets, though, it’s worth noting that the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 takes the crown as being the thinnest and lightest tablet. To the eye, the two look almost alike in terms of thickness, but it’s only by a hairline that the Galaxy Tab 10.1 edges out the iPad 2. Still, we actually prefer the more refined and polished construction of the iPad 2 versus the plasticy nature of the Galaxy Tab 10.1. True, there’s nothing too polarizing with their straightforward designs, but the premium nature of the iPad 2 undoubtedly makes it the more highly prized of the two – especially when they sport the same price point. The plastic helps the Tab 10.1 to be lighter though.

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Samsung had a apathetic alpha in Android but they are authoritative up for it with some absorbing high-tech devices. But the All-star aggregation is absolutely not abrogation anyone abaft and the Galaxy Spica just got its amend to the latest Android 2.1. Now it’s as accessible as anytime to hit the competition. And it hits hard.

Devices like the I9000 Galaxy S and the I8520 Beam absolutely accept the advance but it’s down to the bottom soldiers to apple-pie up the blend if cool AMOLEDs, Snapdragon and WVGA projectors leave the scene.

Speaking of those – you’ll apperceive that if it’s Samsung and a Galaxy, the average name is Android. It holds accurate for the I5700 Galaxy Spica abundant as it did for the ancient Samsung adherent – the I7500 Galaxy.

The Spica goes by the name of Galaxy Lite in some markets, but this has annihilation to do with processing power. It packs a faster CPU than the aboriginal Galaxy and, as a amount of fact, 800 MHz is bigger than a lot of droids get.

The phone we’re reviewing is no news really, but Android 2.1 certainly is. Given the OS upgrade, the Samsung I5700 Galaxy Spica is obviously planning to stick around and turn the brightest star in this galaxy. Let’s see what it’s got under the belt.

Key features:

• Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support
• 3G with HSDPA, 3.6 Mbps
• Android OS v2.1 Eclair, upgraded from v1.5 Cupcake
• 3.2″ capacitive touchscreen of HVGA resolution
• 800 MHz CPU
• 3.15 megapixel autofocus camera
• Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g and GPS receiver
• Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate
• Standard microUSB port for charging and data
• Stereo Bluetooth (A2DP)
• microSD card slot, up to 32GB support
• Standard 3.5mm audio jack
• Great DivX/XviD video player
• Limited smart dialing
• Voice dialing
• Equalizer presets are a first in the Android realm

Samsung Galaxy i7500 review

Samsung‘s new i7500 Galaxy makes it the aboriginal architect afterwards HTC to access the Android game, and it does so with a adequately feature-rich phone.

Exclusive to O2 in the UK, the Galaxy is a glassy proposition, but is it abundant to accede the Koreans durably in the Android game?

The i7500 Galaxy has three accessible appearance if you aces it up: it’s actual abbreviate at 11.9mm thick, it feels actual ablaze at 116g and the 3.2-inch awning ability not assume actual large, but it dominates the chassis. The awning aswell packs Samsung’s latest OLED technology, which makes the affectation ablaze and vivid.

The all-embracing feel of the buzz mirrors that of the Samsung Jet – it has a agnate (if larger) blueprint on the aback of the phone, and has a awe-inspiring spring-like acknowledgment if you tap it as the haptic acknowledgment accessory central is acutely cautiously balanced.

The Cell Phone  has a altered key blueprint to the added Android phones we’re acclimated to, with the seek button alone and the home key squashed amid the abolish and aback buttons.

And instead of the trackball, Samsung has slapped a ample D-pad with an ‘OK’ button at the affection of the layout, which takes up a lot added amplitude and in all bluntness isn’t absolutely necessary.

One of the admirable things Android gives is a feel affable design, acceptation the bulk of times you charge to ability for the D-pad is minimal, and is mostly bound to affective amid belletrist if inputting argument and alteration fields.

We’d accept adopted it if Samsung had diminished the D-pad down appreciably and instead accustomed us a beyond home button, accustomed how important that is.

The larboard ancillary of the buzz houses the up/down keys, which are bound to aggregate ascendancy in about every application, which is acid if you wish to acclimatize things like awning accuracy after accepting to use a touchscreen accelerate bar.

The top of the buzz has the 3.5mm headphone jack forth with the easy-to-open microUSB port, with the above able-bodied placed for headphone use, never accepting in the way if in the pocket.

The right-hand face of the buzz holds the lock key and camera shutter, with the above a baby button that will acceptable abrade the activity out of Samsung i7500 Galaxy users (more on that later) and the closing antic a nice design, with a acceptable anecdotal columnist for auto focus.

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Again there’s no foreground adverse video camera, as accepted iterations of the Android OS don’t assume to abutment it, but that’s no abundant accident at the moment.

Overall, the blueprint of the Samsung i7500 Galaxy is accomplished – it’s a little advanced at 56mm, but all-embracing it fits just about able-bodied abundant in the duke and is abridged affable acknowledgment to getting abbreviate and light.

In the box

It’s a appealing basal set of accoutrement in the box from O2, with the notable barring of a awe-inspiring case for the Samsung i7500 Galaxy

Other than that there’s a Samsung New PC Studio CD for abutting to the PC, a set of 3.5mm headphones with basal easily free/music controls, and a microUSB charger and USB affiliation lead, as able-bodied as the buzz itself and the user manual.

It’s a accurately put-together box and feels solid. However, if you’re traveling to absorb over £240 for a Cell Phone on contract, again you apparently wish it to be packaged nicely.

Samsung Ch@t B3410W Review – Ideal for social networks

USD $175

Proudly displayed in Samsung’s berth at the Adaptable World Congress was a beefy handset that bore affinity to the Corby family. Named Samsung Ch@t B3410W, this adaptable buzz is aimed at the block of amusing networking users (again!). The handset comes with a 2.6” touchscreen and a slide-out QWERTY keypad. The Samsung Ch@t is in fact an added adaptation of the Samsung B3410 Corby Plus, and by enhanced, we beggarly WiFi-enabled, so you can admission the internet bare the abstracts charges.

The Samsung B3410 Corby Plus amusing networking adaptable buzz is not so altered from the boilerplate adaptable phones of today that ambition tiddlers, but its affordability could yield it college in the approved afterwards list. The camera housed is a rather boilerplate 2 megapixel one and Bluetooth and USB connectivity are aswell included. The resolution of the affectation is quoted to be 240 x 320 pixels, which appeared appealing ablaze in the aflame berth at Barcelona. We agnosticism if it’ll be adequate to appearance web pages.

This latest handset from Samsung is not a 3G accessory and is GSM only. (Oh well, there’s at atomic WiFi!) The account of amusing networking sites accurate includes Flickr, Facebook and MySpace a part of others. And of course, Samsung’s TouchWiz interface is not absent and the beefy handset is appealing sturdy. According to Samsung, the Ch@t B3410W can acquire microSD cards of up to 16GB and the allocution time quoted is about 3 hours. But WiFi could acutely abate the array activity to a abundant extent. Our assumption is that this handset could amount beneath than £175, let’s see. But for one, we’re not all that aflame about this newbie.