The Samsung Galaxy Grand is an attempt by Samsung to woo those who can't afford a top end device.
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| The Samsung Galaxy Grand |
The Galaxy Grand costs Rs 21,500, which is almost twice as expensive as its low-cost rivals,
The Galaxy Grand was announced just after the announcement of the Micromax A116HD, and these two phones come within the same price range.
Specifications
Key Features:
The Galaxy Grand is supported by the state of the heart hardware with several other premium interactive features like pop-up play,direct call,smart alter,multi-app window(as that in Samsung Galaxy Note-II).
Operating System – Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean
The Galaxy Grand comes with the latest Android Operating system-Android Jelly Bean v4.1.2.Very few current-generation low-cost Android phablets come preloaded with Android Jelly Bean; most of them come with Android ICS—however, you get the OS in the stock form.
Cellular network – Dual SIM GSM and 3G
The Galaxy Grand is the first "phablet" from a tier 1 brand to offer dual-SIM capability in the sub-Rs 21,500(INR) price band. Quad-band 2G is supported by both the SIM card slots, whereas 3G connectivity is supported only in the SIM1 slot.
Display – 5-inch WVGA
An HD display would have made the Galaxy Grand a killer deal, but unfortunately, it sports a 5-inch WVGA display that has a resolution of 480 x 800 pixels. On the other hand, you have the Micromax Canvas HD with a 720p IPS LCD. The pixel density of Galaxy Grand’s display is 187 ppi as against 294 ppi in the Canvas HD—that’s a difference of a good 107 ppi or 57 percent in density! That doesn’t mean it’s bad; there’s ample real estate for viewing web pages and documents comfortably and videos are enjoyable on the large 5-inch display. Lastly, the display is fairly good on personal experience.
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| Quite slim at 9.6mm |
Hardware and Software
It’s powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core processor. According to one source who captured a glimpse of the Galaxy Grand at the Broadcom booth at the CES 2013, it’s quite evident that it’s powered by the Broadcom BCM28155 SoC. It comprises a pair of ARM Cortex-A9 cores and Broadcom’s own VideoCore-IV graphics engine for 2D and 3D acceleration.
Camera – 8MP with LED flash
The 8MP primary camera featured in the Galaxy Grand has the same resolution as the one featured in Note II. There’s LED flash and digital image stabilisation to help you take clear shots in low light. Videos can be recorded at 1080p at 30fps. The Canvas HD too features an 8MP camera with LED flash. Also, the secondary front camera in the Galaxy Grand is a 2MP one as against the VGA camera in the Canvas HD. The Galaxy Grand beats Micromax Canvas HD in terms of camera quality.
Storage – 8GB with the option to expand by up to 64GB
Here, Galaxy Grand has an upper hand over Micromax Canvas HD. Firstly, Galaxy Grand packs 8GB of built-in storage, which is twice as much as in Canvas HD. And secondly, in contrast to microSD expansion of up to 32GB in Canvas HD, Galaxy Grand can take up to a 64GB microSD card.
Battery – Li-ion 2100mAh
Both, the Galaxy Grand and Canvas HD feature a hefty 2100 Li-ion mAh battery to provide decent amount of talk time in addition to fuelling other tasks such as media playback, web browsing, gaming and so on.But on the other hand the Galaxy Grand sustains its battery life much longer on single charge as compared to the Micromax Canvas A110.
The bottom line
Off late, we’ve seen many low-cost Android phablets (such as Micromax Canvas 2 and Lava Iris 501) featuring a dual-core processor, 512MB RAM, 4GB of internal storage and at least a 5 megapixel camera—you can buy one for around Rs 11,000. Cough up another few thousand rupees and you can buy a more feature rich device like the Canvas HD. However, if you’re reluctant to consider a lower-tier brand and don’t want to look beyond top-tier brands, the Galaxy Grand is for you with Android Jelly-Bean Operating system pre-installed. The specifications look good, and the price point is sweet!
Rating:3.5/5
Rating:3.5/5
Although Samsung has priced this phone at a medium budget range I.e. around 21k , but this phone sometimes rather many times performs like a lower budget phone.
ReplyDeleteIt has a 5 inch display but while using it for some hd content it looks as if some very low budget phone is being used.
In this phone Samsung neither got the features right nor the pricing . Hence disappointed .