Samsung takes dual sim to the mid-range with Galaxy Ace Duos

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Samsung Galaxy Ace DUOS

Samsung Galaxy Ace DUOSSamsung has been building on the successes of previous products to determine if they will produce a version 2 of whichever phone it was. They did that with their first Galaxy, the Galaxy S which changed the way we look at Samsung today. They released the Galaxy S plus which had a battery life upgrade plus other minor details. We have seen the Samsung Star 3 Duos a feature phone which had a good level of success in sales of the Samsung Star previously.

Samsung Galaxy Young and Galaxy Young Pro also went Duos, but all these were entry level phones. It has never been above that. Well, till yesterday. Galaxy Ace is deemed a mid-range smartphone, specs-wise and price-wise. So with this you would assume Samsung is either seeing or predicting demand for the dual sim even for the mid-income earners.

Galaxy Ace Duos will support dual sim both active sims and has an even good software add-on. Users on a call will not miss a call if it came while they are on dial, but this will automatically be forwarded to SIM 2 and you can get your missed call from sim 2 call log. Let’s have a quick walkthrough of the phone specifications, shall we?

Network 

 

HSDPA 7.2 Mbps 900/2100
EDGE/GPRS 850/ 900/1800/1900

Display

3.5” HVGA (320×480) TFT-LCD

OS

Android 2.3 (Gingerbread)

Processor

832MHz Processor

Camera

Main(Rear): 5 Mega pixel Auto Focus camera
– Single Shot, Smile Shot, Panorama Shot

Video

 

 

 

 

Codec: MPEG4/H263/H264/VC-1
Format: 3gp(mp4), WMV (asf), MKV, FLV
VGA Video Player & Recorder (640 x 480) @ 30fps

Audio

 

 

Codec: MP3/AAC/AAC+/eAAC+/OGG/WMA/AMR-NB/
AMR-WB/WAV/MID/AC3/IMY/FLAC/XMF eACC+
Music player with SoundAlive
FM Radio and RDS
3.5mm Ear Jack & Speaker

Additional

Features

 

Samsung Touchwiz UX

Samsung ChatON mobile communication service

Samsung Social Hub
– Integrates all SNS, email, and calendar accounts
– Integrated Calendar (Google/MS Outlook)

Swype

Document Viewer

Multi-touch zoom-in & out
 

 

A-GPS

Google™ Mobile Services

 

 

Google Search, Google Maps, Gmail, Google Latitude
Google Play Store, Google Plus, YouTube, Google Talk,
Google Places, Google Navigation, Google Downloads

Connectivity

 

 

WiFi 802.11 (b/g/n)
USB 2.0
Bluetooth technology v 3.0

Sensor

Accelerometer, Digital Compass

Memory

3GB User memory + 512MB (RAM) + microSD slot (up to 32GB)

Dimension

112.74 x 61.5 x 11.5 mm, 122g

Battery

1,300 mAh
Talk time : 2G/ 1,000 minutes, 3G/ 390 minutes
Standby : 2G/ 520 hours, 3G/ 410 hours

As you might note, this phone has lesser specs than the recently announced Samsung Galaxy Ace 2 which was released as an upgrade to the original Galaxy Ace. Focus would be on the battery life, storage, display and screen size. Although this one has a slightly better processor.

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    • The phone has 3GB user storage, 512RAM and will be available from
      June starting in Russia and gradually rolled out to Europe, CIS, Latin America, Southeast and Southwest Asia, Middle East, Africa, and China.

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