Samsung is the # 1 Android smart phone manufacturers worldwide and by now your confusion between Apple and the Korean giant might have been suggested that Samsung is the winner and Samsung Galaxy S III has made the difference. Samsung in the recent past have produced a variety of devices to provide a choice to consumers which has been the key to gain the #1 position in terms of devices sold. Be it Galaxy Note, Note 2 with large screen smart phones comprising 5.3 inches and 5.5 inches or Samsung Galaxy S III, Galaxy Nexus with 4.7 inches display or be it Samsung Galaxy Y S5360 with 3 inches, the Korean giant has the device for all with price ranging from Rs 6,000 to Rs 40,000 (considering the Android smart phone price range).
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The Korean giant has come up with the smallest Android smart phone dubbed as Galaxy Music, intended for the user which loves music. Let’s go through Galaxy Music specifications, features and details.
Samsung Galaxy Music
Following the rumours of the Samsung Galaxy Music, Samsung has extended the Galaxy lineup to Galaxy smart phones by announcing Galaxy Music. As the name suggest Samsung Galaxy Music is the device providing superb music enhanced features. Samsung has powered this device with dual frontal stereo speaker seen on the front side top and bottom, Sound Alive incredible technology which indulges the musical sensibilities and SRS and Smart Volume.
The device will have a dedicated music key to provide the fast access to the music player with single press. It includes 3.5 mm standard headphone jack providing users to choose a wide of headsets and it supports multiple audio formats like MP3, MP4, OGG, WAV, WMA & AAC. The music ability further can be enriched via the FM Radio with RDS technology.
Going through the hardware specifications of Galaxy Music, it’s with the smallest form factor comprising 3 inches QVGA TFT touchscreen display providing a maximum resolution of 320 x 240 pixels. It’s powered with 850 Mhz single core processor and includes 512 MB RAM. Though processor is not dual core or quad core but it’s the best according to the price tag it possess.
Galaxy Music is altogether different smart phones coming out with rounded edges design unlike the other Galaxy phones. It’s powered with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system alongside with the TouchWiz’s Nature UX customization by Samsung. It includes the 4 GB internal memory storage capacity to store various files.
It includes 3 mega pixel camera on the rear side allowing users to take photos and process with video recording as well but with no flash support. It will be introduced in silver, blue and yellow colors variants. Wi Fi Direct and Bluetooth 3.0 ensure fast and efficient file transfer between smart phones, tablet & PC as well. It has accelerometer, digital compass, and proximity sensor and includes microSD card slot supporting 32 GB of additional storage space very much enough to store thousands of audio songs.
Its powered with 1300 MAh battery which is good enough to run the device for complete one day operation and provide 20 hours of continues music playback time. The device operates on the HSDPA, HSUPA (900/2100 MHZ) and EDGE/GPRS (850/900/1800/1900 MHZ) networks. The device measures size of 110.1 x 59.0 x 12.25mm and weighs 106.9 grams.
Since Galaxy Music is powered with the Google’s open source operating system it will include the apps like Google Maps, Google Mail, Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Navigation, Google Calendar and goodies like Google Play Store to download thousands of Android applications which are nothing but games, widgets and tools.
It appears that Samsung has dumped all those features found in Galaxy Beam except the integrated projector which isn’t obviously phone in Galaxy Music. To sum it up, Galaxy Music has the following specifications & features included –
- 3” QVGA TFT display screen
- HSPA support
- 850 MHz single core CPU
- 512 MB RAM
- 3 mega pixel fixed focus camera
- Wi Fi Direct, Wi Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi Fi tether
- Bluetooth 3.0, GPS
- 4 GB internal memory
- microSD card slot
- micro USB port
- 1300 mAh battery
- 3.5 mm headphone jack
- FM Tuner with RDS technology
- Samsung TouchWiz User interface
- Micro SD card support
Samsung Galaxy Music Price & Availability
As of now no word has been said about the pricing of it but considering the Galaxy Pocket is available at Rs 6200 in India, this will be priced even lower than that. A certainly the Micromax A25 (as sold in India only) the cheapest Android smart phone competitor.