Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus Review And Specifications

Cell Phone Reviews — By Naveen Vaidhya on April 7, 2012 at 9:32 am

The Galaxy Ace from the Korean company did very well from its first day of its launch in India and rest of the world. But now the time of this mid range Galaxy phone has gone and Samsung brought a successor of Galaxy Ace to keep the legend going on.

Samsung has taken provided with many new improvements than its predecessor like space between keys, upgraded processor and bigger internal memory.

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Lets take a look at its specifications and features:

2G – GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G – HSDPA 900 / 2100
Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, DLNA, Wi-Fi hotspot
Bluetooth v3.0 with A2DP
Dimensions – 114.5 x 62.5 x 11.2 mm
Display – 3.65 inch TFT capacitive touchscreen with 320 x 480 pixels
TouchWiz UI
Android 2.3 Gingerbread
Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 chip
1GHz processor
Adreno 200 GPU
512MB RAM
5MP camera with a resolution of 2592×1944 pixels, LED flash and autofocus, Smile detection, Face detection and Geo-tagging
Video recording VGA@30fps
No secondary camera
Stereo FM with RDS
Adobe Flash support
Standard Google apps like Google Talk, Gmail, YouTube, calendar, etc.
Battery of Li-Ion 1300 mAh
Accelerometer and proximity sensor for greater UI experience.

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Looking at the specs the Galaxy Ace Plus is definitely a good phone than its predecessor except the camera. Even though Android has released its new Ice Cream Sandwich to most of the Samsung high end devices except the Galaxy S2, the Ace Plus runs only on 2.3.6 Gingerbread, which is undoubtedly the best OS by Android yet. The phone runs seamlessly on the phone.

The Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus has good LCD capacitive screen with good contrast rate and brightness level. Even its touchscreen has no issue, its quite responsive. The Ace Plus incorporates proximity sensor but lacks of ambient surface and that’s a disappointment, as you have adjust brightness level manually according to the condition.

There three standard keys below the phone, which very common in Samsung Galaxy series. The is the physical Home button is the middle while the other to capacitive buttons – Menu and Back is on left and right respectively. Readers should not that the capacitive buttons are only visible when touched. On the left side of the phone there is a volume rocker. The power and lock key is on the right side, which is also common in Samsung phones but microSD card slot is not present on the side of the phone buy under the battery cover.

On the top is 3.5mm jack for audio and crack for opening the backside of the phone to replace battery or microSIM. On the bottom is the USB port and mic hole.

Its 5MP camera lens is placed on the center on rear tip with an LED flash beneath it.

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The Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus price in India is Rs. 14,990.

Pros and Cons:

Pros:

1GHz processor
Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 chip
512MB RAM
5MP camera
3G
Faster than Galaxy Ace
Attractive price

Cons:

VGA video recording @30fps
Shutter key is absent
No secondary camera
No ambient light sensor

Overall:

The Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus is all rounder phone that has 1GHz processor with Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 chipset with 512MB RAM, 5MP camera that has LED flash. With all these features the Ace Plus once again remains the unbeatable one. If you are ready live without some extra features like front camera, higher resolution screen, larger screen and better video recording than the phone is the best one for you that is also light on wallet. You can find these types of phone in much higher price than what the Ace Plus is offered and some of these phones are HTC Salas, Sony Ericsson Xperia neo V, Motorola DEFY.