The Samsung GT-i9000 Galaxy S smartphone is the flagship model of the South Korean manufacturer that has the maximum performance. The software component of this smartphone is built on the Google Android operating system, the device has a unique four-inch display, which is made using Super AMOLED technology, is equipped with the most powerful processor to date, a high-quality five-megapixel camera module and a body whose thickness is only 9.9 mm. Samsung calls its new flagship the perfect mobile phone. I also agree with this statement, except that the cost of this device is 6400 hryvnia. But for a top-end mobile device, this is perfectly acceptable.
I would like to note that the manufacturer of this smartphone ranks second among manufacturers in the global mobile device market, and in South Korea this company takes first place. With the release of the Samsung GT-i9000 Galaxy S model, the manufacturer confirmed its leadership position in both the global and South Korean mobile devices market: in the first week of sales of this flagship, about 200,000 units of this smartphone were sold in South Korea. The main competitor of the Samsung GT-i9000 Galaxy S can be called the Apple iPhone 4, which has no less impressive characteristics (sales of this mobile device broke all records of the world mobile market - more than 1.7 million devices in the first week alone). The next competitor can be called a smartphone, HTC Desire - which is also the flagship Android smartphone, but with slightly more modest specifications. Well, it's time to get acquainted with the hero of our today's review.
Samsung GT-i9000 Galaxy S Package Contents
- smartphone Samsung GT-i9000 Galaxy S in two versions 8 and 16 gigabytes;
- 8 gigabyte microSD memory card;
- network adapter;
- cable for connecting to a PC;
- wired stereo headset with a built-in microphone for conversations;
- battery;
- instruction manual for the mobile device.
Samsung GT-i9000 Galaxy S appearance
The Samsung GT-i9000 Galaxy S model is made in the usual style for this manufacturer, although due to the silver bezel around the display and a single mechanical key, this smartphone is a bit like the iPhone of the previous generation.
Personally, I was surprised by the fact that at the high cost of the device, the body of the smartphone is completely made of plastic: the front panel is glossy black, the back is dark blue plastic. There are no other color solutions.
The device has a fairly large dimensions, some users will even call it a shovel, but with such a matrix diagonal, nothing else. This smartphone is comfortable in the hand, and surprisingly the smartphone is very light.
Initially, the build quality of the smartphone made me very happy. But after a few days, the body of the smartphone crunched a little - this moment did not make me very happy. Fingerprints are easy on the back and display, but can be easily wiped off with any cloth or rag.
Samsung GT-i9000 Galaxy S keyboard and dimensions
On the front panel in the upper part there are such elements: a camera for making video calls, a backlight adjustment sensor, a proximity sensor and a speaker. Well, and accordingly below - a huge four-inch display.
At the bottom of the front panel there are two touch buttons back, a menu and a mechanical one - home (when you press this button for a long time, a list of the last running programs appears). The main button is recessed into the body of the device and has a small stroke.
On the right side there is a button for turning on, turning off and blocking a mobile device. Its location is very good, as it is quite easy to find it with your fingers.
On the lower end part there is a hole for the spoken microphone.
On the left side there is a rocker key, which is used to adjust the sound volume. It has a slightly swollen texture.There is also a hole for attaching a lace.
At the top, there is a standard 3.5 mm audio output, as well as a microUSB connector, which is covered with a small plastic shutter.
On the back of the smartphone there is a five-megapixel camera lens and a hole under which the speakerphone is hidden.
In general, this smartphone has good ergonomics.
Battery Samsung GT-i9000 Galaxy S
To access the memory card, SIM card and battery, you need to remove the back cover. It is quite easy to remove it, you just need to pry it with your fingernail at the bottom end. The memory card is fixed in a special slot, and the SIM card is sprinkled in a standard sled.
The Samsung GT-i9000 Galaxy S comes with a GB / T18287-2000 battery with a capacity of 1500 mAh. According to the developer, the battery can last up to 768 minutes of talk time and up to 750 hours of standby time.
With a fairly active use of all functions of the smartphone, one charge was enough for me for 11 hours of work. It takes about two hours to fully charge the battery.
Samsung GT-i9000 Galaxy S screen
As I said above, the Samsung GT-i9000 Galaxy S model is equipped with a four-inch display, which is made using the innovative Super AMOLED technology from Samsung (there is no such matrix in any other phone from other manufacturers), it is capable of displaying up to 16 million colors, has WVGA expansion (480x800 pixels), and the sensor has a capacitive type. Also, the smartphone has full support for multi-touch technology, or rather the ability to recognize touches of more than two fingers. In addition to this, there is mDNIe technology, which is used in TVs from a South Korean manufacturer. Thanks to this technology, the picture on the display is more detailed and clear, which is very important for viewing pictures, videos or reading e-books. The display responds fairly quickly to touch.
The picture on the display of the Samsung GT-i9000 Galaxy S is very bright and juicy. If the display of Samsung GT-i9000 Galaxy S is compared with the display of HTC Desire, then HTC Desire will lose in this battle in terms of black depth and display behavior in the sun. If we compare the display of the Samsung GT-i9000 Galaxy S with the display of the iPhone 4, then the former has a richer image, but less clear.
I was very impressed by the depth of black in the Samsung GT-i9000 Galaxy S, the viewing angles are maximum. When the phone is tilted to either side, the display brightness is practically not reduced. In the sun, the display practically does not lose color rendition and contrast.
Camera Samsung GT-i9000 Galaxy S
Since there is no separate button for launching the camera on the body of the device, the camera can be launched through the smartphone menu. As in the iPhone 4, shooting and focusing objects is carried out using a tap on the display.
The quality of the pictures is normal, but as for me the iPhone 4 takes better pictures, the Samsung GT-i9000 Galaxy S camera module is a little noisy in normal lighting. There are no complaints about all other parameters.
Photos taken with Samsung GT-i9000 Galaxy S camera:
The maximum video quality in the video mode is 720p (1280x720 pixels). The quality of shooting Samsung GT-i9000 Galaxy S and iPhone 4 are almost the same. But the focusing modes are slightly different: the device from Apple has a touch-fox (to focus the object, you just need to poke your finger in the right place on the screen), and the Samsung GT-i9000 Galaxy S phone uses automatic focus. Moreover, in the Samsung GT-i9000 Galaxy S, focusing can work only at a distance of 30 centimeters from the object being shot, and in the iPhone 4 only 6 centimeters, which mainly distinguishes it from a competitive model. In addition, the iPhone 4 has two microphones so that it can record sound in stereo, while in the Samsung GT-i9000 Galaxy S, only one sound is recorded in mono.
Samsung GT-i9000 Galaxy S software component
The software part of the Samsung GT-i9000 Galaxy S smartphone is based on the Google Android operating system version 2.1. But at the end of this year, an update to version 2.2 is promised.
The device has a Samsung S5PC111 processor with a clock frequency of 1 GHz, the device is equipped with a PowerVR SGX540 graphics core developed by Imagination Technologies.According to the manufacturer, the processor of the Samsung GT-i9000 Galaxy S smartphone is capable of processing up to 90 million polygons per second.
Samsung GT-i9000 Galaxy S Menu
Making your own skins for many operating systems has already become fashionable in many manufacturers of mobile devices, thanks to which it is even easier and more convenient to use phones. It all started with the decoration of the Windows Mobile operating system, and then the creation of branded skins for the Google Android operating system began. In this segment, HTC has achieved special segments, which has created a well-known shell called Sense. The hero of our today's review uses the TouchWiz 3.0 shell. The shell is pretty pretty and easy to use. The user has seven virtual desktops available for work. Application icons are shown at the bottom of the display. Up to sixteen shortcuts (4x4 matrix) can be placed on one desktop, and they can also be displayed in the form of a vertical list.
Apart from the cosmetic changes to the interface, the phonebook is the same as in traditional Google Android.
Contacts can be searched both by first and last name. You can also use the sidebar on the right to search, but only Latin characters are allowed there.
Call log in Samsung GT-i9000 Galaxy S
The call log displays phone numbers, avatars of callers, icons for incoming, outgoing and missed calls, as well as the duration of each telephone conversation.
Messages in Samsung GT-i9000 Galaxy S
Everything here is also standard for the Google Android operating system. But I would like to draw your attention to the pre-installed Swype virtual keyboard: you just need to slide your finger across the virtual keyboard, connecting letters with an unbreakable line, and the predictive input system will figure out what exactly the user wants to say. The Swype keyboard is very convenient, when using this keyboard you will significantly speed up your typing speed, but you need to get used to it, initially it may not seem very convenient to you.
Internet in Samsung GT-i9000 Galaxy S
The phone has a preinstalled Chrome-lite internet browser. The browser supports multitouch scaling, and includes the HTML5 package and slightly outdated Flash databases, so that you can download videos from social networks in the browser without installing additional utilities.
File Operations and Memory in Samsung GT-i9000 Galaxy S
The Samsung GT-i9000 Galaxy S model comes in two versions, the first with 8 gigabytes of internal memory, and the second with 16 gigabytes. To install additional applications, 1.8 gigabytes of memory is available to the user (I would like to note that you can install software on a memory card only starting from version 2.2 - and even then not all programs support this feature).
The Samsung GT-i9000 Galaxy S has a preinstalled file manager. With the help of the ego, you can carry out, various manipulations with files.
Communication capabilities Samsung GT-i9000 Galaxy S
This smartphone has a Bluetooth module, version 3.0, which supports all current communication profiles. When connected to a device that also has a Bluetooth module, version 3.0, the average data transfer rate is 1 megabit. Also, the smartphone has a built-in Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11n version. There is also a GPS module, in which there is a tool for accelerating the reception of coordinates; it will take about one minute to cold start the application. In addition, there is a TV-out in which you can configure the type of signal.
Apps in Samsung GT-i9000 Galaxy S
The smartphone has a fairly wide list of pre-installed applications, some of which I will list below:
Aldiko eBook - a reader application, it can read books in epub format, in appearance it resembles the Books for iPad reader. All books can be saved on a memory card, but it is even easier to download them from the server of online libraries - fortunately, the manufacturer's website has a large catalog of Russian-language books.
AllShare - the program is designed to work with DLNA.Thanks to this application, your smartphone can be connected to a variety of devices wirelessly, from a laptop to a TV or camera.
DeilyBriefing - the application can display on the display the weather in your city for the current day, financial reports and events of the current calendar day.
Mini diary - an ordinary mini diary.
Samsung App - an application catalog from a South Korean manufacturer.
ThinkFree - application for working with office documents.
Write and go - an application for creating notes and sending them via SMS, MMS or email.
Music Player in Samsung GT-i9000 Galaxy S
Your phone has a preinstalled music player for listening to music. The top of the display shows all songs, playlists, albums, and artists. If the screen is rotated to landscape orientation, the album art appears on the display.
When playing music in the upper part of the display, on the left side, you can quickly mute the sound, on the right - switch to five-channel sound, in the center is the album cover, below the timeline. At the very bottom are the music player controls.
The quality of music playback in Samsung GT-i9000 Galaxy S is comparable to expensive MP3 players. Although the low frequencies could be better, but in general, as for me, this phone can be called the leader among Google Android smartphones in terms of sound.
The music player can play music files of almost all popular formats.
The volume of the main speaker is quite high, the playback quality is average. The speaker volume is not very high, but it will be sufficient for most situations.
FM Radio in Samsung GT-i9000 Galaxy S
This smartphone has an FM radio. It works in the frequency range from 87.5 MHz to 108.0 MHz, RDS technology is supported. The application has an automatic search for radio stations, you can put up to six favorite radio stations on your desktop.
There is a shutdown timer in the app settings. The application keeps running in the background.
The signal reception quality is pretty good.
Video Player in Samsung GT-i9000 Galaxy S
In order to launch the video player, you need to launch the Video Player application. The application automatically searches for video files, both in the phone memory and in the memory card. The application can play video files of almost all popular formats.
Navigation capabilities of Samsung GT-i9000 Galaxy S
As I mentioned above, the smartphone has a built-in GPS receiver. There are two preinstalled applications for navigation: Google Maps and Navigation. Both applications require an internet connection in order to download maps.
The main competitors of the smartphone Samsung GT-i9000 Galaxy S
iPhone 4
These two mobile devices have the same hardware and are equipped with the same camera modules, and can also record videos in HD. If we compare devices in terms of displays, then the iPhone 4 has a 3.5-inch display with a fairly high resolution of 960x640 pixels and has glass protection. Samsung GT-i9000 Galaxy S has a slightly lower resolution - 800x480 pixels and plastic display protection, but the display diagonal is already 4 inches. We will not compare the operating systems of these two devices, since everything is decided by a matter of taste.
HTC Desire
This smartphone also has a gigahertz processor, but slightly weaker than that of the Samsung GT-i9000 Galaxy S. The display of the smartphone is 3.7 inches, and the HTC Desire matrix is noticeably inferior to the one used in the Samsung GT-i9000 Galaxy S. The camera is also 5 megapixels. , but it does not support 720p video recording. The amount of memory for installing programs is much less, the sound is worse, and the versions of the wireless interfaces are also lower.
Acer stream
This device is another Android smartphone with a gigahertz processor (but it is also weaker than the one used in the Samsung GT-i9000 Galaxy S smartphone) and a 5 megapixel camera module (the shooting quality is average, but there is support for HD video recording). In Acer Stream, 2 gigabytes are available for installing programs. The matrix is completely similar to the one used in HTC Desire. The sound is very high quality thanks to DOLBY Mobile support.
The results of the review Samsung GT-i9000 Galaxy S
In this review, we have reviewed the top-end Android smartphone. The South Korean manufacturer has collected all of its developments and put them into one smartphone. As a result, the first advanced Android smartphone from Samsung came out. The Samsung GT-i9000 Galaxy S smartphone cannot be called a universal model, its main audience will consist of those users who want to use all the best and are ready to pay any money for it. But the smartphone is definitely worth its money.
Pros of the Samsung GT-i9000 Galaxy S smartphone:
- high-quality matrix, which is made using Super AMOLED technology;
- high performance;
- excellent sound quality in headphones;
- small weight for a device with such a display;
Cons of Samsung GT-i9000 Galaxy S:
- there is not a single metal element on the body of the device;
- the high cost of this mobile device.
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