Samsung Galaxy 5 Review: The Small Android Your Non-Geeky Friends Will Love

The story with Android has been quite similar these last few years: manufacturers seem to always be on the run to deliver bigger, faster, better, devices with more specs inside than anyone can humanly memorize. Dual-Core processors, 4.3″ screens, 3D displays, HD video recording… are all interesting, except they target what? maybe 5-10% of the users. The rest, well, they get very confused and somewhat overwhelmed with these features. They want a phone, that’s it. Maybe they want Facebook in there, a camera of sorts, and email would be a nice plus. For those, the Samsung Galaxy 5 is perfect.

The Galaxy 5 is the smartphone brother of the iconic Samsung Corby, a device with a simple design, dedicated keys for calls, quite limited features in terms of camera and other hardware, but it packs Android Eclair 2.1 instead of Samsung’s dumbphone OS. But the question is does this mix work?

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Samsung Galaxy 3 and Galaxy 5 Cheap Android Phones now Available in India

Samsung launched 6 new phones at CommunicAsia and 2 of them the Galaxy 3 and Galaxy 5 are already available in India in the retail market. What’s surprising is that both these phones are expected to run on Android 2.1 according to the specs we got in June from Samsung.  Dive inside for the specs and price of these handsets. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy 3 and Galaxy 5 Cheap Android Phones now Available in India”

Samsung launches 6 new phones at CommunicAsia

We are at the Samsung booth at CommunicAsia 2010 and Samsung has launched 6 new phones at the event. Omnia Pro 4 and 5 confirm handset maker still has some faith in Windows Mobile. The Galaxy 3 and 5 running on Android seem to be entry level Android phones. The Wave 2 and Wave 2 Pro seem to be running Bada inside Samsung’s Labs but they showed us only good for nothing dummy hardware for these.  More live pics after the jump. We also had some camera time with the Galaxy S and Galaxy Beam and the Champ. More stuff coming soon. Continue reading “Samsung launches 6 new phones at CommunicAsia”