SAMSUNG GALAXY FAME REVIEW

Buy Samsung S6812 - Galaxy Fame: Mobile

Samsung launched low-end android smartphone namely Galaxy Fame in India which is priced @ 10,290/-(single sim) & 10,990/-(dual sim). It is available in Black and White shades.

DESIGN, BUILD QUALITY & DISPLAY
The design is basic but ok. It has a scratch resistant glass on front and a plastic matte finish on the back making it quite durable. It is slim at 11.6mm and weighs 120gms. It has a 3.5 inch 262K LCD capacitive touchscreen of 320X480 (HVGA) resolution with 165ppi. The viewing angles and sunlight legibility is descent.

STORAGE, MULTIMEDIA & CONNECTIVITIES
The device comes with a 4GB internal storage and is further expandable upto 64GB. The device features dedicated multimedia apps which are good. On-board connectvities such as 2G, 3G, WIFI, Bluetooth 4.0, NFC (S6810P only), GPS & GLONASS and USB are standard.

CAMERA & VIDEO RECORDING CAPABILITIES 
It has a 5 MP Rear camera with  autofocus & LED flash which features Geo-tagging etc. The camera clarity is average. It does VGA@25fps video recording and stores in MP4 format. The video recording clarity is average. It has a VGA Front camera.

SOFTWARE, HARDWARE, PERFORMANCE & BENCHMARKS
It runs on Android (OS) 4.1.2 Jelly bean out of the box . It has a Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 (MSM7225A) processor running a single core at 1 GHZ with 512 MB RAM and an Adreno 200 GPU. The performance is descent which provides less number of graphic intensive games and multitasking run well enough and there is a bit of lag occasionally.
QUADRANT : 1680.
ANTUTU : 2890.
NENAMARK 2 : 15 fps.

BATTERY LIFE PERFORMANCE
It has a removable Li-Ion 1300 MAH Battery. The battery life is good which is given below.
BROWSING : upto 5H.
VIDEO WATCHING: upto 5H.
TALKTIME : upto 9:30H(2G) / upto 7:10H(3G).
STANDBY TIME: upto 310H(2G) / upto 290H(3G).

PROS
*Descent display and viewing angles.
*Average camera & video recording clarity.
*Descent performance.
*Ok build quality.
*Descent loudspeaker.

CONS
*No dedicated camera key.
*Just VGA@25fps for a 5 MP autofocus camera.  

OVERALL PRODUCT RATING : 7.7/10.
°overall product rating refers to all the aspects including the price, performance, overall quality, features, etc., based on individual product.

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