Main Features
Android OS 2.2 Froyo
3G HSDPA 7.2Mbps
800 Mhz processor, RAM
TFT LCD Display resolution HVGA (320x480) with a width of 3.5 inches
5MP camera with autofocus and flash
Bluetooth and WiFi
Comparison of X10, iPod Touch 3rd and Galaxy Ace gene
Sales Package
Sales package Samsung Galaxy Ace, among others:
Battery 1350mAh
Micro SD 2GB
standard 3.5mm handsfree
charger (micro USB)
Data Cable (micro USB)
warranty card
manual
Design and Body
At first glance one would think that Ace is the iPhone. Very reasonable, because it's very similar. Wide-screen (3.5inchi) and aspect ratio (2:3, even with the iPhone 3G/3GS resolution is 320x480), then list shiny around the phone, and the angles at the corners like the iPhone 4. This phone is so like the hybrid between the iPhone and Samsung Galaxy S. From the back coverlah this phone is very different from the other phones, not smooth flat but somewhat jagged material, the positive value of the back become slippery when wet with sweat from your hands. The design of this phone is pretty good overall, not too big but not too small. According to us with wide 3.5-inch screen is very fitting indeed used by smartphones. The following photos and video comparison with the iPhone 4 Galaxy Ace, Ace's just thicker and somewhat different in the back. See the following pictures for comparison.
Part of the mobile phone is the hardware "Home" and the two touch buttons on the left and right, respectively Menu and Back, which in a few seconds the lights are lit at the touch of this button will disappear so memorable Galaxy Ace has only one button Home alone .
The back of the jagged, 5MP camera with no 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 bluish chrome, like the Galaxy S. On the left there while the volume buttons on the right there is the power button and a micro SD slot.
On top there is a micro USB port and a standard 3.5 mm audio jack, on the bottom there is a microphone.
Screen
Unlike the Galaxy S screen using "Super" (Super AMOLED and Super Clear LCD), Ace just use the standard screen TFT LCD. With a standard resolution of 320x480 (HVGA), of Ace's opponent is not worth it for high end smartphone with WVGA screen. However, the color that came out pretty good, pretty bright, angle of vision is also okay. Even so, it appears white on this phone looks yellowish when compared to the Xperia X10 and iPod Touch 3rd Gen, can be seen in the following photographsInterface
The interface is certainly 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 panoramic wallpaper and wallpaper can be used on the homescreen, as well as shortcuts, folders, and widgets. Homescreen pages 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 4x4 plus 4 fixed icons at the bottom line. You can edit the layout of the icons, but you can not change the number of icons that exist within a single page or a black background which can not be changed. However, you can download the application launcher like Go Launcher EX. Displacement is very smooth menu page as well as on the homescreen. There are no annoying lag. You could say this phone is pretty good performance compared to Android phones in its class. Notification bar rolled typical Android OS present here, with access to power Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, Silent profile, and screen rotation. Underneath is the name of the operator that you use and the existing notification.
Input Text
Text input method that you can use some, the QWERTY keypad 3x4 (abc), handwriting box 1 and box 2. Way to replace it by tapping icons on the keyboard settings. In addition you can also use as an alternative Swype text input. Swype has been supporting the Indonesian so that typing would feel easier if you have mastered it. In addition to Indonesian and Korean language there is English. Typing on portrait mode is very convenient because the phone screen is almost as wide as 4 inches with a mobile phone Galaxy S or X10. In landscape mode is not as wide as the phone, but overall very easy to type. Sensitive matter of no doubt, a capacitive screen is very responsive.
Phonebook
Phonebook sync properly with Google Mail account, your Facebook and Twitter. From your contacts can see the profile picture, update status of the relevant, email address, and other information that he shared in the account Facebook / Twitter. In making new contacts, which can be recorded is infrmasi IM (almost all messenger services are provided), the group, ringtones, address, office, nicknames, websites, birthdays and anniversaries. Synchronize contacts through SNS can also be used.
Messaging
SMS writing interface in snagat intuitive and easy to use, you can simply select a new contact, phonebook, or group. There is a paperclip icon to add attachments. Alias threaded conversation view mode of course complement the Galaxy Ace.
Samsung GT-S5830 Galaxy Ace Review Gallery
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 notifications go to the bar and almost real time. Other email accounts can also be used, but as usual you have to do some settings to sync with Yahoo Mail.
This phone is the default messenger G-Talk, which is always online until you disable it manually. Push notification comes to perfection. Another messenger you can download on Android Market.
Camera
As with the camera on the Samsung Galaxy S, which is 5 Megapixels (2560x1920) equipped with autofocus. Special, Ace comes despite the lack of camera flash LED Samsung Galaxy S the other on the phone, namely the lack of a camera shutter button. Focus on Ace mode is autofocus and makrofokus, no touch focus so it is difficult if you want to produce images that are focused on specific areas other than at the midpoint. To take pictures using the virtual keypad on the screen.
These features are complete enough cameras include: Shooting mode (single, Smile shot, continuous, panorama), Scene (Portrait, Landscape, Night, Sports, Party / indoor, Beach / snow, sunset, dawn, color of fall, fireworks , text, candlelight, backlight), exposure value, Timer (2,5,10 seconds), 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 guide lines (guidelines), and turn on GPS for geo-tagging.
The result is quite good for a camera phone 5 MP, in the dark condition 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, file size is more than 1 MB).
Video Recorder
Video recorder is quite disappointing because it only records up to a maximum resolution of 176x144 and 320x240 QVGA alias only. Other settings are the timer, white balance, effects, video quality, setting. 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 record the objects that were located near the dark.
Gallery
Just like the Galaxy S, Android typical 3D galleries that combine images and video as well as equip the phone co. This time the photo is resized according to the display screen. Please you are zooming in by tapping the screen twice and rendering will be done by phone. Photos of the X10-sized 8MP can read well in spite of reading and rendering as early as zoom in, but not too long / annoying. Pinch and zoom and accelerometer are also applicable in the gallery. Photos can be instantly shared on Facebook, Picassa, Allshare, email and others.
Video Player
As in the Video Recorder, 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 phones S. It should be noted, competitors Ace, Optimus One, default video player can play divx / xvid with current standard definition. But you can play divx, xvid and other codecs with RockPlayer applications.
View the video player itself is very simple, just a timeline, the pause, fast forward and backforward only. Downloads videos from Youtube to a resolution of 480x360 (360p) can be played on this phone, and perform very well on screen HVGA resolution on Ace.
Music Players
The music player up the songs in four categories, Artist, Album, Songs (all songs in a micro SD), and Playlist. Album art is displayed when selecting the album as well as play the song. In landscape mode the display does not vary much with the portrait.
Loudspeaker broke the sound quality using 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 no manual, and here equalizer combined with a Sound Effect (on Galaxy S Live, Concert hall is a sound effect etc.) so that you can not use equalizer pop while wearing effects such as concert hall. 5.1 channel effect is also participating in this phone, but as ever before 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
Samsung Galaxy Ace runs on Quadband 850/1800/1900/2100 network and 3G 900/2100 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 the micro USB (for mass storage, PC sync using Kies and modem). This phone can use the WiFi tethering as the Galaxy S and other Froyo phones.
Browsing
Galaxy Ace default browser with 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 Youtube app, although it still does not flash-based games can be played. This browser supports only 4 tabs are, oddly enough, though too little everyday you probably are not that many tabs open.
Default Applications
We will discuss some of the default application on the Samsung Galaxy Ace
Google Maps
Google Maps on the Galaxy Ace is still version 4.5, so it does not yet support 3D maps like Maps 5.0. Rendering maps running quickly and without problems as well as integrated with Google Places.
Social Hubs
Connecting to the SMS messages, Facebook and Twitter Direct Messages.
Think Free Office
Application to read documents and create a new document (doc, spreadsheet, and presentation)
News & Weather
Application monitors the weather for cities around the world, can be auto-refresh
Latitude
Integrated with the Maps application to find out the last position of your friends.
Task Manager
Application to close running applications, memory cleanse and see the current process
Third-Party Applications
We install some third party applications for the Samsung Galaxy Ace
Rock Player
Because the Video Player the default phone application is not supported many codecs, we tried to install this universal video player application. 700MB divx file size and resolution of Standard Definition (720x480 aka D1) can be played with a smooth, complete with a subtitle format. Srt. Mpg files are also going well, only. Mkv that read left his voice while drawing or severe lag.
If you are looking for mlalui PC applications, may link to download the shortcut provided in the form of a barcode. Barcode Scanner allows you to make Android mobile barcode scanning and go to the link in the barcode.
Benchmark Results
Through the application of Quadrant Standard, known to use the Galaxy Ace ARMv6 CPU types with a frequency of 800 MHz, Qualcomm Adreno 200 GPU using OpenGL ES-CM version 1.1 and has a total of 284 436 MB of memory.
Benchmark test results using a Quadrant Standard: 594
Benchmark Pi: 2013 ms
CPU Benchmark: 1136 ms
These results indicate that the Samsung Galaxy Ace has a better benchmark numbers than the Optimus One (307 in our previous review), even the Xperia X10 (eclair) belongs to us only get 494 points. Performance of this phone is pretty good and we did not find that annoying lag.
Galaxy Ace benchmark results using the Standard Quadrant
Benchmark results using a Quadrant Standard Xperia X1
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 runs 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 an application, play Angry Bird, and remain online continuously, and the results at 4 pm the battery was asked in-charge again. Not too bad, standard Android phone if you start, use, and continuous online.
Conclusion
Galaxy Ace is considered a valuable mobile phones, the price of 3 million dollars you get a sail Froyo Android phones are pretty good and fairly high performance. It does have weaknesses compared to its competitors, but it's all still in a reasonable level.
Specs Samsung Galaxy Ace GT-S5830
Excess
5MP camera with flash
HVGA screen is quite large, 3.5-inch
Android OS Froyo 2.2
Good performance, not much lag
Support for multitouch
Output sound quality music player (via headset)
Shortage
320x240 QVGA video recorder only
Default video player can not play divx file
No small LED lights to indicate a notification
No camera shutter button
Browser does not support flash
Camera
Resolution: 5 megapixels
Circumstances: the Light
Flash: yes, a single LED flash
Autofocus: yes
Features: Shooting mode (single, Smile shot, continuous, panorama), Scene (Landscape, Night, Sports, Party / indoor, Beach / snow, sunset, dawn, color of fall, fireworks, text, candlelight, Against the light), White balance (Auto, Daylight, incandescents, Fluorescent, Cloudy), Timer (2,5,10 seconds), Exposure (-2 to +2), resolution (5MP, 3.2 MP, 1.3MP, 0.3MP), effects (sepia , black and white, and negative, and watercolor), exposure metering, auto contrast, image quality
Video Camera
Resolution: QVGA (320 x 240 pixels), + -20 frames per second
Autofocus: No
Flash: yes, a single LED Flash
Features: Choice of video resolutions (QVGA, QCIF), color effects (sepia, black and white, and negative), the video quality (excellent, good, normal), audio (on / off), white balance (auto, incandescent, cloudy, daylight, fluorescent), self timer (2, 5, 10 seconds), as much as 4x digital zoom, and EV
Setting Internet
Setting manual or automatic: Automatic
GPS
Kompass Digital: Yes
A-GPS: Yes
Map default: Yes, Google Maps
Browser
Format: HTML
Flash Player: Yes
Performance: faster
Support of many windows: 4
Screen
Touch screen 3.5-inch multitouch capacitive technology, the type of TFT LCD color 16 million colors, resolution 480 x 320 pixel HVGA
OS
Type what: Android OS 2.2 (Froyo)
Input
Type: virtual QWERTY keyboard with Swype, virtual keypad, and handwriting recognition
Screen sensitivity: sensitive
Media & Multimedia
Music player for MP3, WAV, AAC
Video format: mp4
Share functions: Email, Bluetooth, MMS
Wi-Fi
Type: Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g / n
Shortcut on / off: There, the notification
Tethering: yes
Network
3G support: yes, HSDPA 900/1900/2100
Band: Quad Band GSM / GPRS / EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
Bluetooth
Version: Bluetooth version 2.1 with A2DP support
Messaging
The use of SMS and MMS: Easy
Email support: IMAP4 and POP3 protocols
Other Features: Threaded messaging
Email attachment: image files, office files, etc..
Battery
Battery type and capacity: 1350 mAh Li-Ion
Application
Support format: Android application (. Apk)
Market app / Place Download: Android Market
List of Application:
-Phonebook
-Call
-Message
-Gallery
-Music player
-Alarm
-Calendar
-Memo
-Calculator
-Browser
-YouTube
-Camera
Video-recorder
-Widget
-Google Maps
-Google Talk
Accelerometer
-GPS
Notifications
SMS: Yes, sounds and notifications on the home screen
Email: Yes, sounds and notifications on the home screen
Chats: Yes, sounds and notifications on the home screen
Ring tones
Format: MP3, WAV, and AAC
MP3 as ringtone: Yes, via the music player and profile
MP3 as sms: Yes
MP3 as email: No
Profile
Shortcut or the normal profile settings: On the menu
Type: Normal, silent, meeting, outdoor, driving
Airplane mode: Yes
Background
Image formats: JPEG, GIF
Photo as wallpaper: Yes, through the gallery and customization
Synchronize to Computer
Media: microUSB data cable, and Bluetooth
Application: Samsung Kies
Mode: In Mass Storage / Modem
Memory
Internal: 158 MB
Support memory cards: MicroSD up to 32GB, 2GB free
Telephone book
Capacity: Not limited
Data: Email, IM address, personalized ringtones, contact group, home address, office address, etc. to complete the contact information in the phonebook.
OTA synchronization: sync Google, Facebook and Twitter
Photo: Yes, from the contact
Backup: SIM Card, google sync, PC Suite
Offline Contacts Backup application (computer): SIM card
Support file backup: -
Phone Calls
Speed dialing, voice dialing (speaker independent) and voice commands
Records of outgoing calls, incoming and missed calls
Conference call
Integrated handsfree speaker
Home Screen, Themes & Personalization
Maximal number: 7
Displacement: Current
Performance: Current
Widget Support: Yes
Hotkey Support: Yes
Personalization
Front of the screen can be adjusted:
-Wallpaper
-Home screen
Menu-Structure
-Pintasan/Shortcut
-Widget
Other
Jackaudio: There, 3.5mm
FM Radio: Yes, requires headset to play
Akeselerometer: Yes
Alarm: Yes
Keypad tone: Yes
Charging port: Yes, microUSB
Unlocked and the lock: Press the power button
Hot swap: Yes, open the battery cover
Speaker: toned voice, somewhat broken at the highest level
Plane modes: Offline mode
USB: MicroUSB for data and charging
