Samsung Star S5230W WiFi review
Expert Rating:
- Low price
- Smart TouchWhiz interface
- Good handwriting recognition
- Excellent music player
- No 3G
- No Auto Focus
Star S5230W Wi Fi is the modernised version of the popular model star-s5230. Most of the features of Star Wi Fi are similar to that of its predecessor, but the major change is that this new handset is now available with Wi Fi connectivity. Hence, the users and ardent followers of star-s5230 can now enjoy high speed connectivity. The earlier version was very popular because of the attractive features and reasonable price. Samsung recorded sales figure of more than five million units for the original Star and this time they are eying to make it even bigger. Samsung Star S5230W Wi Fi is also high on features and cost effective, which provides great value of money. Certain retail websites are already selling Samsung Star S5230W Wi Fi at around £150, which is just slightly higher than the original Star.
The look of Samsung Star Wi Fi
Nothing much is changed with this new Samsung Star device with Wi Fi. Even the weight and dimensions of the phone is also same as the earlier version. The measurement of Samsung Star Wi Fi is 104 x 53 x 11.9 mm and its weight is 91 grams. This is a superior touch screen device that is perfectly suitable for the mid range mobile phone users. The device is not competing with the high end touch screen phones, but with the likes of mid range devices like lg-cookie. The mobile phone is available in four elegant shades of white, black, silver and pink.
The Display of Samsung Star Wi Fi
The design of Samsung Star S5230W Wi Fi is sleek and slim. It looks attractive from every angle and its touch screen is just awesome. The touch screen is TFT resistive and it displays 256,000 colours. The size of the screen in 3 inches and it provides resolution of 240 x 300 pixels. Just below the display, there are three keys (the call key, the end key and the back button).
The phone features TouchWhiz interface that enables the phone to quickly respond to the taps and touches that you make. Widgets are the prominent highlights of the interface and by using these widgets, users can easily and smoothly navigate through the applications of the phone. Another interesting part of the display is that the home screen is scrollable and the user can have up to three customizable home screens. Handwriting recognition, Accelerometer sensor and Smart unlock are some of the other highlights of this touch screen device. In fact there is a surprise factor in this phone which is the gesture lock. Using this feature, the user just need to draw a letter on the screen and can unlock the phone for dialing a contact or use any other application.
The Connectivity of Samsung Star Wi Fi
This is the section where the new Samsung Star S5230W Wi Fi is upgraded compared to the old version. This device is loaded with Wi Fi connectivity and hence the user can enjoy access to fast browser that is compatible with other types of browsers like HTML and WAP 2.0/xHTML. Data transferring in the mobile phone can be done with the help of USB v2.0 and Bluetooth® v2.1. Thus, connecting the mobile phone with other compatible devices, users can transfer text files, music files, images, videos, etc.
The Camera of Samsung Star Wi Fi
Samsung Star S5230W Wi Fi features a 3.15 mega pixel camera that includes smile detection feature. This feature makes the camera to wait for a person to smile and as soon as the camera detects a smile, it clicks the image. Images are taken at a resolution of 2048x1536 pixels. The major drawback of the phone is its poor camera quality. There is no auto focus feature and hence the quality of image is not that impressive. Even the video shots are also not impressive. There is a video playback in the Samsung Star S5230W Wi Fi that can play H.263, H.264 and MP4 video files.
Samsung Star - The Music of Samsung Star Wi Fi
Unlike the camera, the music feature of the mobile phone is quite nice. It is even better than those portable music players. The music player is easily manageable and it features a good music library. Users can easily access the music player by putting a dedicated music widget on the home screen. The music plat can play music files of different formats such as MP3, WMA and AAC. With good memory backup, users can load huge number of music files and enjoy high quality music surround sound effect. Not only that, there is a stereo FM radio with RDS in the Samsung Star S5230W Wi Fi.
The Memory of Samsung Star Wi Fi
Samsung Star S5230W Wi Fi is loaded with 50 megabytes of built in memory hat can store, phone book, photo contact, call records, text messages, etc. The memory can be expanded by using micro SD (TransFlash) slot. The capacity of the phone for supporting expandable memory is up to 16 gigabytes, which is quite huge for storing numerous music files, images, videos, games, etc.
Samsung Star - The Battery of Samsung Star Wi Fi
The phone uses Li-Ion 1000 mAh standard battery. This battery can provide talk time of up 10 hours and stand by time of up to 700 hours.
The major benefit of using Samsung Star S5230W Wi Fi is because of its price range. Those who want to get a superbly sophisticated touch screen mobile phone; they can go for the expensive models, but those who want a good touch screen phone without such fascination, for them Samsung Star S5230W Wi Fi is perfect.
Samsung Star S5230W WiFi specification
- 3.1 Mega-pixel Camera with Smile Detection ∓ Photo Album
- Video Recorder
- Video Player with H264, H263 & MPEG4 Formats
- Wallpaper Images
- 3 inch Touch Screen display with 262k Colours & 240 x 400 pixels
- Music Player with AAC, WMA & MP3 Formats
- Music Storage & Music Recognition
- Built-in RDS FM radio
- Polyphonic & MP3 ringtones
- SMS, MMS & Email messaging
- Predictive Text Messaging
- Jave™ Games & Built-in Games
- Personal organiser with Phonebook, Calendar, Calculator, Call Log, Clock & Alarm clock
- Built-in Speaker Phone
- Document Viewer supports Word, Excel, PDF & PowerPoint
- handwriting Recognition & Accelerometer Sensor
- 50 Megabytes of memory with MicroSD™ Memory card slot for up to 16 Gigabytes
- Bluetooth® with A2DP, WLAN WiFi® & USB Connectivity
- EDGE & GPRS Technology
- Quad-Band 1900 GSM, 1800 GSM, 900 GSM & 850 GSM Networks
- WAP 2.0, HTML & XHTML Web Browsers
- Talk Time 10 hrs
- Standby Time 700 hrs
- Size 11.9 x 53 x 104mm
- Weight 92 grams
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