Samsung launched its upper midrange android smartphone namely Galaxy Grand 2 (Dual Sim) in India which is priced @ 22,499/-. It is available is Black, White & Pink shades.
DESIGN, BUILD QUALITY & DISPLAY
The design of this phone is good. It has corning glass 3 on front and a art leather finish plastic back and feels very good in hands. It is slim at 8.9mm and weighs 163gms. It has 5.25 inch HD LCD display of resolution 720 x 1280 with 280 ppi. The viewing angles are pretty good and sunlight legibility of the display is average. It runs on Touch Wiz User Interface. The display supports 10 multi-touch points and the brightness of the screen is very good.
STORAGE, MULTIMEDIA & CONNECTIVITYS
It has 8GB of internal storage which is further expandable upto 64GB. The device features dedicated multimedia apps like music for songs, a gallery to store all images and videos and a movie player for playing movies respectively which are quite good. FM radio comes pre-installed. Conductivities like 2G, 3G speeds upto 42mbps download & upto 5.76mbps upload, Wifi a/b/g/n, Wifi dual-band, Wifi direct, Wifi hotsopt as well as Bluetooth 4.0 LE (Low Energy) but lacks NFC and USB OTG.
CAMERA & VIDEO RECORDING CAPABILITIES
It has a 8MP rear camera with autofocus and Led flash which features Simultaneous image and video recording, Geo-tagging, Touch focus, Image stabilization, HDR etc. The camera clarity is pretty good overall. Daytime the images are pretty good and has good amount of details respectively but in the night is where the noise starts to become bit visible visible and to get better details at night HDR mode images with bit of steady hands helps to produce slightly better images still image quality at night is acceptable and could have been better. It does FULL HD1080p@30fps video recording with video stabilization and stereo sound but lacks HDR having bit-rate of 17mbps and stores in mp4 format. The video recording clarity is pretty good overall. Daytime the video clarity is pretty good and has good amount of details respectively but at night video clarity is acceptable could have been bit better. It also has a 1.9MP front camera for selfe's with 720p video recording and clarity is pretty fine.
SOFTWARE, HARDWARE, PERFORMANCE & BENCHMARKS
It runs Android (OS) 4.3 Jellybean out of the box upgradable to 4.4.2 kitkat. It has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 (MSM8226) processor running a quad core 1.2 GHZ (Cortex-A7) with 1.5GB RAM and Adreno 305 (450MHZ Single core) GPU. The performance is very good which provides number of graphic intensive games and multitasking run very well and there is no lag at most cases. But UI lag is expected at rare occations.
QUADRANT : 8360.
ANTUTU : 17256.
NENAMARK 2 : 58.1fps.
BATTERY LIFE PERFORMANCE
It has a removable Li-Ion 2600 mah battery. The battery life is good which is given below.
BROWSING : upto 9:10H.
VIDEO WATCHING: upto 8:40H.
TALKTIME : upto 19H(2G) / upto 18H(3G).
STANDBY TIME: upto 410 H(2G) / upto 390 H(3G).
PROS
*Good build quality.
*Very good Performance.
*Pretty good camera and video recording clarity.
*Good loudspeaker.
*Removable battery.
CONS
*The display is bit more reflective which affects sunlight legibility.
*Battery life could have been bit better.
*No USB OTG.
*Battery life could have been bit better.
*No USB OTG.
*No NFC.
*No dedicated camera key.
*Bit pricy.
OVERALL PRODUCT RATING° : 8/10.
°overall product rating refers to all the aspects including the price, performance, overall quality, features, etc., based on individual product.
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