The phone is always experienced relentless growth. One of the popular mobile phone vendor, Samsung did not stop to continue to increase the ranks of cell phone. Samsung has also been issued a mini version of the Samsung S Galaxy him, namely the Samsung GT-S5830 or Galaxy Ace.
Design and Body
At first glance people would think if Ace is the iPhone. Very reasonable, because it's very similar. Wide screen (3.5inchi) and aspect ratio (2:3, even the same resolution as the iPhone 3G/3GS namely 320 × 480), then lists shiny around the phone, and angles similar to the corners on the iPhone 4. This phone is so like the hybrid between the iPhone and Samsung Galaxy S. From the back coverlah phone is very different from the two other phones, flat but not smooth material that somewhat jagged, the positive value of the back become slippery when exposed to sweat from your hands. Design of the phone is quite good overall, not too big but also not too small. According to us with wide 3.5-inch screen is very fitting indeed used by smartphones. Here are the photos and videos with iPhone comparison Galaxy Ace 4, except that Ace is thicker and slightly different in the rear. See the photos below for comparison.
Bodi Comparison Between 4 and Galaxy Ace iPhone
Part of the phone keys no hardware button "Home" and two-touch buttons on the left and right, respectively Menu and Back, which in a few seconds when the lights are lit on this touch button will disappear so that the Galaxy has only one memorable Ace Home button just .
The back of the jagged, 5MP camera without a lens protector accompanied by a single LED flash, as well as the loudspeaker on the other side.
The side of the phone is covered by a chrome blue, as in the Galaxy S. On the left there while the volume buttons on the right is the power button and micro SD slot.
On top there is a micro USB port and a standard 3.5 mm audio jack, at the bottom there is only a microphone.
Screen
Unlike S Galaxy which uses a screen to "Super" (Super AMOLED and Super Clear LCD), Ace just use a standard screen TFT LCD. With a standard resolution of 320 × 480 (HVGA), certainly not the opponent's Ace equivalent to high-end smartphone with WVGA screen. But the color that came out quite good, quite brilliantly, the angle of vision is also okay. Even so, it appears white on this phone looks yellowish when compared with the Xperia X10 and iPod Touch 3rd Gen
Interface
Interfaces must be present in typical Samsung Ace. TouchWiz UI 3.0, does not exactly match the Galaxy S; unlocknya not the same way, but most of it looks very similar. Live wallpapers panoramic wallpaper and can be used on the homescreen, as well as shortcuts, folders, and widgets. Home homescreen by default there are 3 pages, which can add up to a maximum of 7 pages.
Menu comes with a black background and the icons 4 × 4, plus 4 icons remain on the bottom line. You can edit the layout of the icons, but you can not change the number of icons that exist in a single page or a black background are not replaceable. However you can download the application launcher like Go Launcher EX. Movement is very smooth menu page as well as on the homescreen. No lag is annoying. You could say this phone is quite good performance compared with the Android phone class. Bar notification typically rolled Android OS present here, with access to power Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, Silent profile, and screen rotation. Underneath is the name of the service that you use and the existing notification.
Text Input
Text input method that you can use some, that is QWERTY, 3 × 4 keypad (abc), handwriting box 1 and box 2. How to replace it by tapping on the keyboard settings. In addition, you also can use as an alternative Swype text input. Swype has been supports Indonesian so pengetikkan will feel easy when you've mastered. In addition to Indonesian and Korean language is English. In portrait mode pengetikkan very convenient because the phone screen is almost as wide with 4 inch phones like the Galaxy S or X10. In landscape mode is not as wide as the second mobile phone, but overall very easy to type. Sensitive matter need not doubt, extremely responsive capacitive screen.
Phonebook
Phonebook sync properly with your Google Mail, Facebook and Twitter you. From your contacts can view the profile picture, update the status of the concerned, email address, and other information that he shared on your Facebook / Twitter. In making new contacts, which can be recorded is infrmasi IM (almost all messenger services are provided), the group, ringtones, address, office, nickname, websites, birthdays and celebrations. Synchronizing contacts through SNS can also be used.
Messaging
SMS writing interface on snagat intuitive and easy to use, you can simply select a new contact, phonebook, or group. There is a paperclip icon to add attachments. Aka threaded conversation view mode of course complements the Galaxy Ace.
G-Mail on Android phones are very useful, very fast push email. Supports multiple Gmail accounts, and standard features such as signatures, text size, label, notification, and others. Email entry to the bar and near real-time notification. Other email accounts can also be used, but as usual you have to do some settings to sync with Yahoo Mail.
Messenger inherited this phone is the G-Talk, which is always online until you turn it off manually. Push notification comes in perfect. Another Messenger you can download on the Android Market.
Camera
Like the camera on the Samsung S Galaxy, which is 5 Megapixels (2560 × 1920) equipped with an autofocus. Special, Ace equipped LED camera flash, although the lack of other Samsung Galaxy S is on this phone, namely the absence of a camera shutter button. Focus on Ace mode autofocus and makrofokus only, no touch, so a bit hard to focus if you want to produce a focused image in a particular field other than at the midpoint. To take pictures using a virtual keypad on the screen.
These features are complete enough cameras already include: Shooting mode (Single, Smile shot, continuous, panoramic), scene (portrait, Landscape, Night, Sports, Party / indoor, Beach / snow, sunset, dawn, colors of fall, fireworks , text, candle, backlight), exposure value, Timer (2,5,10 second), resolution (5MP, 3.2 MP, 2MP, 1.3MP, 0.3MP), White balance (Auto, Daylight, incandescents, Fluorescent, Cloudy) , effects (sepia, black and white, and negative), ISO (100,200,400), Measurement (centralized, bintiks, matrix), auto contrast, image quality, adjustment (contrast, saturation, sharpness). We can add lines guide (guidelines), and turn on GPS for geo-tagging purposes.
Quite good results for the size of camera phones 5 MP, in the dark conditions was not embarrassing. The resulting color is similar to the camera on the Samsung Galaxy S. Please see the pictures below and click to get the original size (5Megapiksel, the file size more than 1 MB).
Video Recorder
Quite disappointing because the video recorder to record only up to a resolution of 176 × 144 and a maximum of 320 × 240 QVGA alias only. Other settings are the timer, white balance, effects, video quality, adjustment. Frameratenya good enough, according to FF Video decoder in Windows Media Player Classic framerate range between 17-21 frames per second and about 900-1000kbps bitrate (see screenshot below). Additional LED flash allows you to be able to record the objects that were located near the dark.
Gallery
Same as S Galaxy, a typical 3D gallery Android that combines photos and videos participates complete this phone. This time the images are not resized according to the display screen. Please you do the zooming in by tapping the screen twice and rendering will be done by phone. Photos of the X10-sized 8MP could read well although there are rendering during the early reading and when zoom in, but not too long / annoying. Pinch and zoom and accelerometer also applies in the gallery. Images can be instantly shared on Facebook, Picassa, Allshare, email and others.
Video Player
As with Video Recorder, a video player on the Ace is also somewhat disappointing, only able to read a bit codec, there is no capability to read divx / xvid, much less. Mkv like the Galaxy-class mobile phone S. It is noteworthy, competitor Ace, Optimus One, the default video player can play divx / xvid with the current standard definition. But you can play divx, xvid and other codecs with RockPlayer application.
Display the video player itself is very simple, just the timeline, the pause button, fast forward and backforward only. Video downloads from Youtube to a resolution of 480 × 360 (360p) can be played on this phone, and performed very well in screen resolution HVGA at Ace.
Music Player
The music player arrange the songs in 4 categories, Artists, Albums, Songs (all songs in a micro SD), and Playlist. Album art is displayed when selecting an album as well as play songs. In landscape mode the display does not differ much with the portrait.
The sound quality is to use the loudspeaker broke out in the highest volume, and quite fast. With the use of headset sound quality is pretty good, with the equalizer settings (Normal, Jazz, Classical, Dance, Pop, Live, Concert Hall, Wide, Bass enhancement, Clarity). Equalizer manual does not exist, and here equalizer combined with Sound Effects (on Galaxy S Live, Concert hall is a sound effect, etc.) so that you can not use equalizer pop while using effects such as concert halls. 5.1 channel effect also participated in this phone, but as it was before-before the equalizer should be in the Normal position.
FM Radio
You must use a headset to listen to radio broadcasts. Station ID can be displayed (if any)
Connectivity
Galaxy Samsung Ace runs on 3G network and 900/2100 850/1800/1900/2100 Quadband with HSDPA internet connectivity up to 7.2 Mbps. Then the local connectivity is a-GPS, Bluetooth 2.1, WiFi (802.11 b / g / n) and micro USB (as mass storage, PC sync using Kies and modem). This phone can use the WiFi tethering as the Galaxy S and other Froyo phone.
Browsing
Galaxy Ace default browser the same as other Android phones. Although using Froyo, this browser does not support flash (in the settings there is no option to activate the flash as the default browser Galaxy SL). Do not worry because this phone is equipped with the Youtube application, although still not a flash-based games can be played. This browser supports only 4 tabs alone, so strange, too little even though the daily maybe you do not open that many tabs.
Default Application
We will discuss some applications built on the Samsung Ace Galaxy
Google Maps
Google Maps on Galaxy Ace is still version 4.5, so that does not yet support 3D maps as Maps 5.0. Rendering map running quickly and without problems as well as integrated with Google Places.
Social Hubs
Linking the messages on the SMS, Facebook and Direct Messages Twitter.
Think Free Office
Application to read documents and create new documents (doc, spreadsheets, and presentations)
News & Weather
The application monitors the weather for cities around the world, can be auto-refresh
Latitude
The application integrates with the Maps to find out the latest position of your friends.
Task Manager
Applications to close running applications, clearing the memory and see the current process
Third Party Applications
We installed some third party applications for the Samsung Ace Galaxy
Angry Bird Season Edition (Valentine)
Angry Bird Season is updated again, this time version of Valentine. Android user's favorite game was featured rather nge-lag in the Galaxy Ace, it is rather strange when you see specs of this phone.
Rock Player
Because the Video Player application built this phone not support many codecs, we tried to install this universal video player application. Divx file size of 700MB and Standard Definition resolution (720 × 480 aka D1) can be played with a seamless, complete with a subtitle format. Srt. Mpg files also work well, only. Mkv who read his voice while drawing or lag behind badly.
Barcode Scanner
If you are looking for applications mlalui PC, maybe a link to download the shortcut provided in the form of barcodes. Barcode Scanner allows you to make Android mobile phone barcode scanning and go to the link in the barcode.
Benchmark Results
Through the application of the Standard Quadrant, known to wear Galaxy Ace ARMv6 CPU type with a frequency of 800 MHz, the GPU uses Qualcomm Adreno 200 version of OpenGL ES-CM 1.1 and have a total of 284 436 kB memory.
Benchmark test results using Quadrant Standard: 594
Pi Benchmark: 2013 ms
CPU Benchmark: 1136 ms
These results indicate that the Galaxy Samsung Ace has a better benchmark numbers than the Optimus One (307 in our previous review), even Xperia X10 (eclair) belongs to us only get the number 494. The performance of this phone is quite good and we did not find that annoying lag.
Battery Life
Ace uses a capacity of 1350 mAh Lithium Ion battery as a power source. 9 pm phone battery is fully charged 100%, and left to sleep with the state of flame and some applications using the Internet that are running in the background such as Google Mail, Gtalk, Facebook and others. Then at 9 am the phone started to be tested by us, play a song and video, download the application, playing Angry Bird, and remain online continuously, and the results at 4 pm the battery was asked in-charge back. Not too bad, the default Android phone if you turn on, use, and online continuously.
Main Features
Android OS 2.2 Froyo
3G HSDPA 7.2Mbps
Processor 800 Mhz, RAM
HVGA resolution TFT LCD display (320 × 480) with a width of 3.5 inches
5MP camera with autofocus and flash
Bluetooth and WiFi
Excess
5MP camera with flash
HVGA screen is quite large, 3.5-inch
Android OS 2.2 Froyo
Good performance, not much lag
Multitouch support
Output sound quality music player (via headset)
Deficiency
video recorder is only QVGA 320 × 240
Built-in video player can not play divx files
No small LED lights to indicate a notification
No camera shutter button
Browser does not support flash
Sales Package
Sales package Samsung Ace Galaxy, among others:
1350mAH battery
Micro SD 2GB
standard 3.5mm handsfree
Charger (micro USB)
Data Cable (micro USB)
warranty card
manual
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