SAMSUNG GALAXY Y PLUS REVIEW

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Samsung launched low-end budget android smartphone namely Galaxy Y plus in India which is priced @ 6,290/-(single sim) & 6,590/-(dual sim). It is available is 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 13mm and weighs 96gms. It has a 2.8 inch 262K LCD capacitive touchscreen of 240X320 (QVGA) resolution with 143ppi. The viewing angles and sunlight legibility is descent.

STORAGE, MULTIMEDIA & CONNECTIVITIES
The device comes with a 4GB internal storage and is further expandable upto 32GB. The device features dedicated multimedia apps which are good. On-board connectvities such as 2G, 3G, WIFI, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS and USB are standard.

CAMERA AND VIDEO RECORDING CAPABILITIES
It has a 2 MP Rear camera with fixed focus which features Geo-tagging etc. The camera clarity is average. It does QVGA@15fps video recording and stores in MP4 format. The video recording clarity is average. It doesn't have a Front camera.

SOFTWARE, HARDWARE, PERFORMANCE & BENCHMARKS
It runs on Android (OS) 4.0.4 Ice cream sandwich out of the box . It has a Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 (MSM7225A) processor running a single core at 850 MHZ with 512 MB RAM and an Adreno 200 GPU. The performance is ok which provides less number of graphic intensive games and multitasking run well enough and there is a bit of lag occasionally.
QUADRANT : 1480.
ANTUTU : 2790.
NENAMARK 2 : 13 fps.

BATTERY LIFE PERFORMANCE
It has a removable Li-Ion 1200 MAH Battery. The battery life is good which is given below.
BROWSING : upto 5:10H.
VIDEO WATCHING: upto 5:10H.
TALKTIME : upto 10:30H(2G) / upto 9:10 H(3G).
STANDBY TIME: upto 350 H(2G) / upto 320 H(3G).

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

CONS
*Outdated screen resolution.
*Fixed focus camera without flash.
*2.8 inch screen is very less for todays standards.

OVERALL PRODUCT RATING° : 6.5/10.
°overall product rating refers to all the aspects including the price, performance, overall quality, features, etc., based on individual product.

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