With the hype of a smartphone and an itch in the finger to want to play Fruit Ninja, Unicorn Dash and other finish-fast-before-the-teacher-comes games, driven by pure consumerism and greed, I decided to purchase the “Samsung Galaxy Y – CDMA Colors”, telling myself it was the lowest end smartphone money could buy comforting my conscience.
Under the Hood
800 MHz RAM, Gingerbread Android, this gadget is decent in performance. It’s been an absolute pleasure owning this device, my friends haven’t stopped teasing me for doing everything on mobile – obviously tired of seeing “via Mobile” everywhere on Facebook. Its ability to handle multiple notifications has been great, prodding me to never open my laptop, sufficient explanation I hope for not blogging much these days. I have to rack my brain to find a case of non-responsive performance. There was really just on issue, when I was trying to set proxy for any wireless profile, the settings app mysteriously force quit, even though the changes were made effective and was not significant enough to hamper the phone.
Bottomline : An average genius
Form Factor
The size of the phone is quite small, a major attraction for me personally thanks to my puny hands. Aesthetically, the size of the icons and other suff is quite pleasin to the eye that you forget it is a mobile and gape at the infinite possibilities in the narrow gap. It comes with 5 color panels – black, white, pink, orange and grey. Its quite fun to dabble in them once in a while!
Bottomline : *Whistles*
A picture is worth 1024 words
– courtesy my eccentric professor at college
Resolution is not brilliant and mesmerising. Yet I did watch a movie on it. So like I’ve been saying about all the other features, its somewhere in the between. Similarly, the camera at 2MP falls into the same mould. However, I do feel its quality is better than other 2MP phones, but that’s just a qualitative judgement.
Bottomline: Picture here, picture there, picture picture everywhere!
Conclusion
The Samsung Galaxy Colors is a neat package that satisfies the new Android user. The inevitable flaws in Gingerbread, like proxy settings not being applied for apps, will be there and this gadget will be in the road to replacement. But for the average user, this is worth every paisa you pay for. I haven’t mentionesd about the sound quality, which is awesome, simpe because I am at loss of wods o explain anymore. It even says, listening to loud music will be harmful! I have begun to use it for everything, all online apps, reading e-books, viewing lecture notes before the unit test, listening to songs, texting friends and occasionally calling, it has become my constant companion.