SAMSUNG GALAXY CORE REVIEW

 

Samsung launched its lower mid-range android smartphone namely Galaxy Core in India which is priced @ 15,990. It is available is Blue and White shades. It is also available is dual-sim version.

       

DESIGN, BUILD QUALITY & DISPLAY

The design is getting simple day by day. It has a scratch resistant glass on front and a plastic soft touch finish on the back making it durable. It is slim at 9mm and weighs 124gms. It has a 4.3 inch 16M LCD capacitive touchscreen of 480X800 (WVGA) resolution with 217ppi. The viewing angles and sunlight legibility is good. It has Samsung's TouchWiz User Interface.

STORAGE, MULTIMEDIA & CONNECTIVITIES

The device comes with a 8GB internal storage and is further expandable upto 64GB. The device features dedicated multimedia  apps which are. On-board connectives such as 2G, 3G, WIFI, Bluetooth 3.0, GPS & GLONASS and USB are standard but lacks NFC.  

CAMERA AND VIDEO RECORDING CAPABILITIES

It has a 5 MP Rear Camera with autofocus & LED flash which features Geo-tagging, touch focus, Image stabilization etc. The camera clarity is good. It does 480p@30fps video recording with video stabilization and stereo sound having bite-rate of 7-9 Mbps in MP4 format. The video recording clarity is good. 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 S4 Play (MSM8225) processor running a dual core at 1.2 GHZ with 1 GB RAM and an Adreno 203 GPU. The performance is good which provides high graphic intensive games and multitasking run smooth enough and there is no lag at all.  

QUADRANT : 3290.

ANTUTU :7580.

NENAMARK 2 : 33.4 fps.

BATTERY LIFE PERFORMANCE

It has a Removable Li-Ion 1800 MAH battery. The battery life is good which is given below.

BROWSING : upto 8:30H.

VIDEO WATCHING: upto 8H.

TALKTIME : upto 14H(2G) / upto 12H(3G).

STANDBY TIME: upto 500H(2G) / upto 400H(3G).

PROS

*Good display and viewing angles.

*Good camera & video recording clarity.

*Good performance.

*Loudspeaker is Very good.

*Removable battery.
*Descent build quality.

CONS
*Design is getting quite old.

*Video recording is only 480p could have been HD 720p.

*No dedicated camera key.

OVERALL PRODUCT RATING : 8.2/10.
°overall product rating refers to all the aspects including the price, performance, overall quality, features, etc., based on individual product.

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