SAMSUNG GALAXY TREND DUOS REVIEW


Samsung launched another lower budget android dual sim smartphone namely Galaxy Trend in India which is priced @ 8,499/-. It is available is Black, White and Red shades.

DESIGN, BUILD QUALITY & DISPLAY
The design is basic but descent. It has a scratch resistant glass on front and a plastic matte finish on the back making it quite durable. It is slim at 11.1mm and weighs 128gms. It has a 4 inch 16M LCD capacitive touchscreen of 480X800 (WVGA) resolution with 233ppi. The viewing angles and sunlight legibility is good.

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,USB and GPS are standard

CAMERA AND VIDEO RECORDING CAPABILITIES
It has a 3 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) 4.1.2 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 ok which provides less number of graphic intensive games and multitasking run well enough and there is a bit of lag occasionally.
QUADRANT : 1690.
ANTUTU : 3090.
NENAMARK 2 : 15.5 fps.

BATTERY LIFE PERFORMANCE
It has a removable Li-Ion 1500 MAH Battery. The battery life is good which is given below.
BROWSING : upto 5H.
VIDEO WATCHING: upto 5H.
TALKTIME : upto 14:30H(2G) / upto 9:30H(3G).
STANDBY TIME: upto 375 H(2G) / upto 325 H(3G).

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

CONS
*No proximity sensor.
*Fixed focus camera without flash.

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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