Today we’re going to be taking a look at the Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos. If you liked the Samsung Galaxy Ace and thought that it could do with a bit more power and two SIM cards, then prepare to receive some good news because the Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos does exactly that. Since many people enjoyed the Galaxy Ace as it was, not much improvement was needed.
Enough with the intros, let’s commence with this little review.
GENERAL
We’ll start off by taking a look at the more general aspects of the Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos. Here you can find out a bit about the supported networks as well as the announcement and release dates. As I mentioned, the Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos is a Dual-SIM phone. It also supports both 2G and 3G network types. Those networks are as following : GSM 850, GSM 900, GSM 1800 and GSM 1900 ( the 2G networks ) in both SIM 1 and SIM 2 and HSDPA 900 and HSDPA 2100 ( the 3G ones ). The Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos was announced in May 2012 and is expected to come out somewhere around June 2012. If it isn’t available by then, you can safely assume it will be by the end of Q3 of 2012 since a lot of phones are to come out in that period. That’s about it for the general stuff, so let’s move on now to the next part of the review.
BODY
Next up we’ll be taking a look at the aspect of the Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos. Here you can find out a thing or two about the size and weight of the device as well as see whether or not the Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos has any particularities related to the body. The Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos is around 112.7 x 61.5 x 11.5 mm big and it weighs somewhere around 122 grams. It has nothing special aside from the fact that it has Touch-Sensitive Controls instead of frontal buttons. That’s about it for the aspect of the Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos so let’s move on now to the next part.
DISPLAY
Next up we’ll be taking a look at the display of the Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos. Here you can find out a thing or two about the type of screen of the Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos, the screen size, the screen’s resolution and pixel density as well as see whether or not the Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos’s screen has any protection and any particularities related to it. This phone has a TFT capacitive touchscreen with approximately 16 million colors. The screen size is around 3.5 inches and it can house a resolution of around 320 x 480 pixels. The pixel density of this device is around 165 ppi. Unfortunately, the Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos has no screen protection whatsoever on it, so you’ll have to be extra careful with it. This phone also has Multitouch, however, it isn’t the advanced kind of multitouch which can support more than two simultaneous fingers on it. Also, the Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos has TouchWiz UX UI installed on it, should you choose to activate it. That’s about it for the display, so let’s move on now to the next part.
SOUND
Next up we’ll be taking a look at the audio output capabilities of the Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos. Here you can find out a thing or two about the Alert Types of the device, the speaker and audio jack as well as see whether or not the Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos has any sound enhancement whatsoever on it, be it software based or otherwise. The Alert Types of the Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos are as following : Vibration, MP3 and WAV ringtones. This phone also has a Loudspeaker and a 3.5 mm jack. Sadly, the Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos has no sound enhancement whatsoever on it, so I guess you can call it pretty basic as far as sound is concerned. That’s about it for the sound of this phone, so let’s move on now to the next part.
MEMORY
Next up we’ll be taking a look at the memory of the Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos. Here you can find out a bit about the RAM of the device as well as the internal storage space and ways of expanding said storage space. The Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos has 512 MB of RAM, which is half decent by most people’s standards, including mine. The Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos also has an internal storage space of approximately 3 GB. If that isn’t sufficient for your needs, feel free to use the Micro SD card of the Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos to expand that storage space with up to 32 GB of Micro SD card space. That’s about it for the memory of the device, so let’s move on now to the next part of the review.
DATA CONNECTION
Next up we’ll be taking a look at the connectivity of the Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos. Here you can find out a thing or two about the GPRS and EDGE of the device, the Speed and WLAN as well as the Bluetooth, USB and other ( if any ) connections of the device. The Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos has both GPRS and EDGE, however, it isn’t mentioned what Class or Speed they can each reach. The speed of the Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos is HSDPA of up to 7.2 MB/s. The WLAN of this device is a Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n with Wi-Fi hotspot. The Bluetooth of the Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos is a v3.0 one with A2DP. The USB port of this phone is a Micro USB v2.0 one. That’s about it for the connectivity of this device, so let’s move on now to the next part.
CAMERA
Next up we’ll be taking a look at the camera of the Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos. Here you can find out a bit about the main and secondary camera ( if any ) and see their features and capabilities. The Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos has a 5 MP main camera capable of photographing at resolutions of approximately 2592 x 1944 pixels. The features of this camera are as following : autofocus, geo-tagging and smile detection. This camera is also capable of video recording, however, it can only record at VGA quality of around 30 frames per second. Sadly, the Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos has no secondary frontal camera, so out of lack of things to say, let’s move on now to the next part of the review.
BATTERY LIFE
Next up we’ll be taking a brief look at the battery of the Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos. Here you can find out a bit of info about the battery type of the Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos and how long it can function. The Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos has a Standard Li-Ion 1300 mAh battery on it. This battery can work for up to 520 hours of stand-by in 2G mode and 410 hours in 3G mode. As far as talk time goes, the Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos’s battery is good for up to 16 hours and 40 minutes in 2G and 6 hours and 30 minutes in 3G. That’s about all there is to the battery, so let’s move on now to the next part.
HARDWARE
Next we’ll be taking a look at the hardware of the Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos. Here you can find out a bit about the three main hardware components of the device : processor, motherboard and graphics card. Sadly, this phone, just as the normal Galaxy Ace, only has one of the three. That component is a processor – a Single-Core 832 MHz processor, to be more precise. Since there’s nothing left to say here, let us move on now to the next part of the review.
SOFTWARE
Next up we’ll be taking a look at the software of the Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos. Here you can find out a thing or two about the OS version of the device and whether or not it can be upgraded to a better one. The OS of the Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos is Android OS v2.3 Gingerbread. It’s a tad disappointing to see that there is no news whatsoever of any future update to Android OS v4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. That’s all there is to it as far as software goes, so let’s move on to the final part of the review.
FEATURES
Time to take a brief look at the features and capabilities of the Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos. The sensors of this phone are as following : Accelerometer, Proximity and Compass. The messaging on the Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos can be done via : SMS ( with Threaded View ), MMS and E-Mail. The browser of the Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos uses HTML and has no integrated support for Adobe Flash. The Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos also has a Stereo FM radio with RDS and a GPS with A-GPS support. This phone also has Java via Java MIDP emulation. The Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos is only available in one color : White.
Here is a brief list of what the Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos can do :
- Dual SIM (dual stand-by)
- MP4/H.264/H.263 player
- MP3/WAV/eAAC+ player
- Organizer
- Document editor
- Image editor
- Google Search, Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Picasa integration
- Voice memo/dial
- Predictive text input (Swype)
This concludes our little review of the Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos. If you feel that anything is lacking from this review feel free to leave your suggestions in the comment section below for things which should be added and I will be sure to take them into consideration when writing my future projects. In the meantime, I sincerely hope you had as much fun reading my little review as I had writing it.
