Don't be fooled by brand name Galaxy of the Discover $129.99; smartphone Samsung elite is not. While it offers the excellent Muve digital music service of Cricket at low price without a contract, its many flaws, including its 2 years, Ice Cream Sandwich OS Android, are difficult to live with. Indeed, the main competition of the Discover on Cricket, the Kyocera $139.99 Hydro corresponds to Discover specification for spec but has a better quality of life and appeal of battery. For only $10 more, in addition to the money much better spent.
Design
After seeing Samsung Galaxy discover in person he became instantly clear to me that this is not combined premium. Black and silver-false of unit chassis is conservative, almost dull and its plastic construction is miles away from the luxurious metal polycarbonates and high qualities you find in more expensive phones.
Chassis plastic of the discovery is not premium textured polycarbonate.(Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET)
Yet, the Discover 4.59 inches in height by 2.42 inches wide and 0.47 inch thick takes plenty of room. Its dimensions and light weight 4, 44-ounce are also virtually identical to the Hydro-Kycocera, Cricket's Android, same price. Of course Hydro standout feature is its resistance to water, a trait that has not the discovery.
To almost a half inch thick, this phone is certainly not thin.(Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET)More top of the 3.5 inch screen to discover the Galaxy is the headset from the phone but no front camera, a standard tool on almost all modern smartphones. Here is the screen three capacitive buttons for basic commands Android (Menu, Home and back).
The left edge of the device sports a thin volume bar, then on the side right is the key to power. The lower lip of the discovery is a Micro-USB port for charging and connecting to the PCs. Up top holds a 3.5 mm headphone jack and a furrow of the nail to remove the hood rear. Below is 1 500 mAh of the discovery, which is removable, a dying breed. Another rare pleasure in the phones these days is a microSD card slot to add additional storage. The discovery comes with 4 GB of ROM but Cricket preloads a 4 GB SD card.
A microSD card slot is located under the battery cover.(Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET)
Also placed on back is a 3MP digital camera device that is not only relatively low resolution, it lacks a flash LED by companion as well.
Display
Small 3.5 inch HVGA (480 x 320 pixels) screen low resolution LCD Samsung Galaxy discover is disappointing to say the least. Colors, while that is not saturated, are not a lot of punch. Also, the contrast of the display is low with poor black levels, and image quality degrades greatly when the consultation of one angle other than the straight line.
I am not suggesting that allows you to consume large quantities of mobile media discovery. The minutiae pure screen pixel-challenged translates into narrow views office websites, pixilated photos and video with soft details.
Basic components
Unfortunately, you will not find a treasure of modern plays, hidden under the hood of the Samsung Galaxy discover. The phone operates a low 800 MHz single-core, not the quad - or even dual-core chips in many mobile gadgets of today. Another bottleneck is the discovery of paltry 512 MB of RAM, which is a quarter of the amount adorning the premium (2 GB) handsets.
The 3MP camera lacks a flash.(Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET)That said, the Discover covers minimum of methods such as Wi - Fi and Bluetooth wireless connectivity. There is no NFC hardware, however, so forget physically listens the phone for fast matching or sharing contact at a glance info.
Software and interface
Software Samsung Galaxy discover is just as Ho-Hum as his material without great interest. Embedded is the operating system Android Ice Cream Sandwich of aging, version 4.0.4. It is far from the last iteration of Android, Jelly Bean 4.3 and 4.4 KitKat Android is just around the corner.
Despite this, operating system of the discovery has not been tinkered with much and is more often Android in stock. The phone has a pinch of bloatware, however, which is also removable. Examples: the browser of Cricket for the directions of GPS, a trial version of the Uno games Gameloft game and application Web Mobile of Cricket.
The handset supports many Google services, you always have the ability to download additional applications from the store's mobile app Google Play.
MUVE Music allows you to download all the music you want.(Credit: Brian Bennett/CNET)
MUVE Music
One of the stellar features of the Samsung Galaxy discover are Cricket Muve music service. Included in the cost of your plan wireless, Muve offers a large choice of complete albums, artists and titles that you can download directly to the phone.
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