REVIEW: Samsung Galaxy S Advance GT-i9070, Successor of the Champions

The arrival of Samsung Galaxy S to the global market has solidified a position as a vendor Samsung android phone with the biggest sales figures worldwide. After presenting Galaxy SII, Samsung again presents another product which is positioned as a market gap of the user's first generation and second generation. Comes with the name Galaxy S Advance, Samsung to use dual-core processor with a price tag that is more friendly than its predecessor generation. With a USD400 price level, if S Advance is quite feasible for you to take home?

Design

Dimensions: (WxDxH): 123.2 x 63 x 9.7 mm; Weight: 120 g

Comes with a full touchscreen candy bar design, S Advance comes with a thin body thickness of 9.7 mm. In terms of design, S Advance adopt a curved shape such as the Galaxy Nexus producing thinner on the upper body. While in the back, S Advance uses a plastic material with ridged texture that accentuates the impression of elegance.

Extent of the stretch just below the screen, you will find two touch sensitive buttons: menu, and back home as well as a physical button. While the above screen, Samsung 1.3 MP front camera pinning and proximity sensor is also adjacent to the ambient light sensor.

To turn on your phone, you can press the power button on the right side. Adjust the amount of volume you can do by pressing buttons on the left side of the body. While for the bottom there is audio as well as the micro USB port.

Hardware

CPU: ST-Ericsson NovaThor processor 1 GHz dual Cortex-A9 cores; GPU: Exynos's Mali-400MP; RAM: 768 MB, 3.91 GB of Storage, Up to 32 GB MicroSD Card

To sustain its performance, Samung has been to equip S Advance with a 1GHz dual core processor and 768MB of RAM. For GPU, Samsung chose Exynos Mali 400MP.

While for storage space, S Advance provides 8GB of space, each of which is divided for the system and data storage. If you still feel less, you can add memory cards with capacities up to 32GB.

Interface and OS

Android 2.3.6 Gingerbread, 4 "TFT 800 x 480piksel Super AMOLED, 16M Color Vertical Grid.

S Advance adopt super AMOLED screen with WVGA resolution (800 x 480 pixels) wide as 4 inches. Images are displayed by S Advance has a color that is very sharp, very high contrast and dense black color. For use under the blazing sun is still quite clearly visible.

Unfortunately the software that is injected by Samsung for S Advance was still gingerbread and until now there has been no certainty about the possibility of upgrading to Android 4.0 ICS.

In terms of interface, Samsung has graced S Advance with TouchWiz 4.0 which is also used on the Galaxy SII. Advance's front page consisted of 7 sheets that you can reset the sequence.

Go to the menu page, you'll be treated with a variety of icons arranged in a horizontal grid. By default, you'll be treated to a four-page that you can slide laterally left and right.

Camera and Video

5 MP, 2592 x 1924 pixels, autofocus, LED flash

Photography sector S Advance has improved with the addition of LED flash to help get a clearer picture in the room. With the panorama mode and shoot action, you can also shoot moving pictures in a few frames at once.

Samsung's complete line of camera settings that are complete enough that shooting modes, scene modes, exposure value, focus mode, effects, resolution, white balance, ISO, metering, auto contrast, blink detection, guidelines and image quality.

The results of image preservation in the room showed sensitivity to light is good enough even without the aid of flash light. While for outdoor image preservation, natural look and detail.

As for the video recording, the camera S Advance has been able to produce images with a resolution of HD720p with 30 frame rate per second.

Multimedia

audioplayer: AAC, FLAC, M4A, MP3, OGG, WMA; video player: 3GP, DIVX, FLV, M4V, MKV, MP4, WMV; audio recorder, FM Radio.

In the entertainment sector, S Advance is automatically put the songs stored in nine categories: album, artist, genre, folder, composer, years, most played, recently added and recently played.

Sound produced by a speaker S Advance is quite pretty, especially Samsung also has been complete with sound effects and equalizer are quite diverse. If you listen to music with the included headset, you can also enjoy 5.1 CH sound effects.

While the default video player, you can watch a variety of popular video formats ranging from high resolution up to HD720p resolution.

Internet and Connectivity

GSM 850/900/1800/1900, HSDPA 900/1700/2100, Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g / n, Wi-Fi hotspot, Wi-Fi Direct, Bluetooth A2DP, MicroUSB, DLNA

Surf the web with S Advance you can do by relying on a 3G HSDPA connection and Wi-Fi. Same as other hi-end Android phones, S Advance also has supported the flash player as well as the ability to open 8 tabs at once.

While for purposes of data transfer, you can use a data cable, bluetooth, Wi-Fi DLNA or Direct. By utilizing the DLNA connection, you can watch videos or listen to music from other devices that are in a hotspot area in streaming.

Features

AllShare, Task Manager, File Manager, DLNA, Samsung Apps, Kies Air, Polaris Office, Photo Editor, News and Weather, Social Hub, and so on.

In addition to native application has been loaded with Android, S Advance also has been buried Polaris Office, memo, task, and news and weather to support the activities of your daily work.

Meanwhile, to accommodate the activities of social networking users, Samsung is preparing Social Hub that provides real-time status updates from Facebook, Twitter and linkedin in one place.

Other features are also quite interesting is the Kies Air that allows you to backup sms, contacts, call list and so on to a PC via Wi-Fi.

Benchmark

Antutu Benchmark: Quadrant 5190 Standard Edition: 2659.

The results of performance measurement by using Antutu 5190 Benchmark earn points that make it parallel to the LG Optimus 2X. While performance measurement using Standard Quadrant accumulated score of 2659 which makes it parallel to the Samsung Galaxy tab 10.1, Galaxy Nexus and Motorola Atrix 4G.

Whereas when tested with 1 resulted in a score Nenamark 57 fps. With Exynos Mali 400MP GPU, S Advance was able to defeat Optimus 2X in graphics tests using Nenamark 2.

Conclusion

Though it was supported by a 1GHz dual core processor, S Advance has yet demonstrated a captivating performance Dual-Core processor like other phones like the LG Optimus 2X. In terms of video recording and playback capability, S Advance is only capable of handling 720p resolution. Similarly, the price of 4 million which bears S Advance must be made ready to fight with the Xperia U released by Sony at a price below USD300 and promised to get the Android 4.0 update ICS.

(+)

• Dual-Core processor 1GHz

• AMOLED Screen + Super Gorilla Glass

• 5MP camera with LED flash

(-)

• OS Gingerbread

• The resolution is only 720p video recording

• Video playback limited to 720p

DETAILS SPECIFICATION:

GENERAL

Network          : GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900, 3G HSDPA 900 /1900 / 2100

SCREEN

Type                : Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors

Size                 : 480 x 800 pixels, 4.0 inches (~233 ppi pixel density), Multitouch, Corning Gorilla Glass,      TouchWiz 4.0 UI

DIMENSION

Type                : 123.2 x 63 x 9.7 mm / 120 g

AUDIO

Fiature             : Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones

Output             : 3.5mm jack audio

Speakerphone  : Yes

MEMORY

Internal            : 16 GB storage, 768 MB RAM, 2 GB ROM

External           : microSD, up to 32GB

DATA

3G                   : HSDPA, 14.4 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps

EDGE             : Class 12

GPRS              : Class 12 (4+1/3+2/2+3/1+4 slots), 32 - 48 kbps

WLAN            : Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, DLNA, Wi-Fi hotspot

Bluetooth         : v3.0 with A2DP, HS

Infrared           : Unavailable

USB/Port        : v2.0 microUSB

CAMERA

Primary            : 5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash

Secondary       : 1.3 MP

Video Record : 720p@30fps

BATTERY

Type                : Standard battery, Li-Ion 1500 mAh

Standby           : Up to 570 h (2G) / Up to 550 h (3G)

Talk Time        : Up to 15 h (2G) / Up to 7 h 20 min (3G)

FEATURES

OS                   : Android OS, v2.3.6 (Gingerbread)

CPU                : Dual-core 1 GHz Cortex-A9

Browser           : HTML

GPS                 : A-GPS support

Messaging       : SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM

Java                 : via Java MIDP emulator, Fitur tambahan: Stereo FM radio with RDS, SNS integration, Organizer - Image/video editor - Document editor - Google Search, Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Picasa integration - Voice memo/dial/commands - Predictive text input (Swype)

OTHER FEATURES

Multiple SIM  : Unavailable

Video Player   : MP4/DivX/WMV/H.264/H.263 player

MP3 Player     : MP3/WAV/eAAC+/AC3/FLAC player

Audio Record  : Yes

TV                   : Unavailable