Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Samsung I9003 Galaxy SL Review

Samsung Galaxy S GT-I9003 is branded for India as Galaxy S LCD 4GB but elsewhere it is available as Galaxy SL (16GB version). Personally, I would call it a toned down substitute of Galaxy S I9000. Samsung has introduced this new Galaxy S LCD 4GB loaded with Android 2.2.1 Froyo by default. Despite clear technical differences between this handset and the Galaxy S I9000, people can’t help but compare both devices. Currently, there’s a dearth of Galaxy S I9000 handsets and the shortage of Super AMOLED displays has been cited as the main reason behind this. Obviously, Samsung has moved on to the new Super AMOLED Plus technology that is better and has been used in upcoming handset – Samsung Galaxy S II GT-I9100.


The main competitiveness from Samsung Galaxy S i9003 type is complete connectivity. File video produced has 20 seconds duration and produced 33.5 MB. Galaxy S i9003 music player has great outlook and extraordinary feature. Photo gallery in this cell phone has 3 dimension effect if you slant the mobile, so it would make your photo gallery looks prettier. This cell phone owed 4 GB internal phone storage and 16 GB internal SD card, and if you need more, you could add microSD external memory to 32 GB. Another feature provided is Reality Browser screen, an application to search place around you. The Samsung I9003 Galaxy SL is a victim of timing. At least Samsung should know perfectly well what to expect.

Samsung Galaxy SL I9003 vs. Samsung Galaxy S I9000

The first thing to notice is that there’s nothing much new to notice about the Galaxy SL. All resemblance to the original Galaxy S is entirely on purpose. The Samsung I9003 Galaxy SL has a 4” Super Clear LCD screen of WVGA resolution. Check out this next series of photos that compares the I9003 Galaxy SL display to the LG Optimus 2X screen.

The other element of interest under the I9003 Galaxy SL back panel is the 1650 mAh Li-Ion battery. An interesting detail – the new battery fits the old Galaxy S perfectly and doesn’t need a new back cover or anything.

The Samsung I9003 Galaxy SL is quite well built. The Samsung I9003 Galaxy SL runs a TouchWiz-enhanced Android 2.2 Froyo. Back in the day the company confirmed twice that the handset packs 512 MB, just like the I9003 Galaxy SL now.

Obviously the original Galaxy S has some good 138MB less amount of RAM than the new SL despite Samsung claims both have an equal amount of 512MB on board.

Moving on, the Android 2.2-running I9003 Galaxy SL brings a few new live wallpapers. The Samsung I9003 Galaxy SL packs a new TI OMAP 3430 chipset, rather than the home-brewed Hummingbird on the I9000. A typical Android smartphone, Samsung I9003 Galaxy SL has a phonebook with massive functionality and practically unlimited capacity. The handset displays the phone memory, SIM-stored and all Google contacts in the phonebook. You can search the entries by either flick-scrolling the list or using the alphabet scroll at the side of the screen (another Samsung-made feature).

The I9003 Galaxy SL searches both contact numbers and names. Thanks to the proximity sensor, your screen will automatically turn off during a call. It shows all the dialed, received and missed calls in one list sorting your call history by contacts.

As far as the text input options are concerned, the I9010 Galaxy SL GA comes with the Samsung home-backed keyboard preinstalled.

The Samsung I9003 Galaxy SL comes with the stock Froyo gallery, rather than a modified TouchWiz version. Thanks to the Galaxy SL multi-touch support pinch zooming is also available here but you can also use double tap or even the +/- buttons. The Send feature offers quick sharing via Picasa, Email apps, Bluetooth or MMS.

If video watching on a mobile is what you like to do the Samsung Galaxy SL looks like a great device for you. With powerful hardware, wide codecs support and a welcomingly large screen it’s pretty capable to say the least.

There’s DvX and XviD video support as with the rest of the Galaxy SL family.

Performance with higher-res videos is great – it played 720p videos like a champ. The video recorder also sports this option.

The Samsung I9003 Galaxy SL is equipped with an FM radio with RDS too. The user interface is standard Samsung for the most part – and that’s not a bad thing. The Samsung I9003 Galaxy SL image quality is about average for the 5 megapixel league. The Samsung I9003 Galaxy SL is capable of shooting 720p videos at 30fps. Of course that could just be an issue with our pre-release unit as both the original Galaxy SL (after the update) and the Galaxy SL Giorgio Armani had this feature.

That way you have the entire 4” screen for web browsing. The Galaxy SL browser supports two zoom methods – double tap and multitouch pinch-zooming.

The browser supports text reflow, but it works only with double tap zooming – a moment after adjusting the zoom level, columns of text adjust to fit the screen width.

One of the best parts of the I9003 Galaxy SL web browser is the full Flash support.

Playing Flash videos in Samsung I9003

The high-quality videos on YouTube and other Flash video services had some dropped frames, but the overall Flash performance turned out pretty decent.

You could use the YouTube app if you find navigating YouTube in the browser hard. The Samsung I9003 Galaxy SL comes with a GPS receiver, which locked onto satellites in about a minute with A-GPS turned off.

Our I9003 Galaxy SL came with Maps 4.5 but if you update it to version 5, you’ll get access to some great features. The I9003 Galaxy SL is on the list of devices that support all features of Google Maps 5.0 – 3D buildings (where available), two finger rotation, tilting and so on.

The Samsung I9003 Galaxy SL is running the latest available version of Android and has a WV screen, giving you access to the whole Android Market (some apps won’t run on older versions or low-res screens).

The Samsung I9003 Galaxy SL also has access to the Samsung Apps repository, where you can find some extra apps and games. The Samsung I9003 Galaxy S is a solid smartphone. The price of the original I9000 Galaxy S just can’t drop any further – considering the high production cost and short supply of AMOLED screens at this time. Plus we’ve heard that Vodafone will have the exclusive right to sell the SAMOLED Galaxies for some time, so the appearance of the Galaxy SL makes sense.

The Super Clear LCD screen makes the inevitable transition to a lower price tier. Many people will probably pick a dual-core CPU and a more recent Android version over a Super AMOLED screen. The Samsung Galaxy SL I9003 Smartphone in terms of design resembles a lot with Samsung Galaxy S i9000 smartphone featuring a large rectangle home key flanked with two touch sensitive keys on either side for menu and cancel functions. The Samsung Galaxy SL I9003 smartphone is quad-band 2G 850/900/1800/1900 MHz and tri-band 3G HSDPA 900/1900/2100 MHz ready device that is powered by Android 2.2 operating system for mobile devices and is equipped with support for Google Mobile Services, including, Gmail, YouTube, Android Market and more.

The Samsung Galaxy SL I9003 smartphone is powered by Samsung’s TouchWIZ v3.0 technology which has a Widgets feature that enables users to have a selection of widget style mini applications open on its home screen. The Samsung Galaxy SL I9003 boasts a brilliant 4-inch Super Clear LCD capacitive touchscreen Gorilla Glass Display with 480 x 800 pixel resolution in 16-Million colors which provides a vivid, sharp color HD-like viewing experience and includes Accelerometer sensor for auto display rotate, Proximity sensor doe auto-display-trunoff, and touch sensitives keys at the bottom of device for menu, home, cancel and search functions.

The Samsung Galasy SL I9003 smartphone comes with 512-MB RAM, 1024 MB ROM, and sports microSD card slot with upto 32-GB capacity. A 16GB microSD card comes with the device. Available in Mirror Black with chrome colors, the Samsung Galaxy SL I9003 smartphone also includes FM radio with RDS, audio and video media players and runs Google Android 2.2 OS and offers a seven-paned home screen and access to Android Market to personalize the device with 115,000 free and paid applications, including applications for social networking, gaming, travel and more.

Android powered Samsung Galaxy SL I9003 Smartphone also includes a 5.0 megapixel autofocus camera with 2592 x 1944 pixel still picture resolution, digital zoom and autofocus, geo-tagging, and a video camera for recording crystal-clear, high-definition 1280 x 720 (720p) HD videos and photos for playback on an HD television. The handset also includes a front-facing VGA resolution camera for video calling over 3G network. Some of the Lifestyle features in Samsung Galaxy SL I9003 Smartphone include:

Samsung’s Social Hub – Built around messaging, contacts and calendar sync, which allows users to send and receive information, whether it is e-mail, social network updates or SMS messages.

The Samsung I9003 Galaxy SL is a victim of timing. The Samsung I9003 Galaxy SL is a fairly large phone – with a 4” screen it can’t help it. It’s not the lightest handset around but it gives a nice solid feeling, that the original Galaxy S somehow lacked.

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