What’s to expect from Samsung Smartphones new releases

What’s to expect from Samsung Smartphones new releases

Newer models of mobile phones are sometimes the improvements of older versions it follows. But sometimes the release of a new version is entirely different from past versions. Bugs are mostly found in the operating system and not from the hardware or in the design of the handset. If a bug is found, the next version of the operating system surely contains the fix.

The Samsung I9070 Galaxy S Advance is also called Samsung Galaxy S II Lite. It supports 2G and 3G and fits in a mini-SIM. This model was unveiled in January 2012 and released around April the same year. It measures 123.2 x 63 x 9.7 millimeters and weighs around 120 grams. It has a super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen display with 16M colors at 480 x 800 pixels screen resolution.

It supports multitouch with TouchWiz 4.0 UI, microSD can be expanded up to 32 GB, 3.5-millimeter jack, internal storage available in 8 and 16 GB running on 768 MB RAM with 2 GB ROM. It has Bluetooth 3.0 with HS and A2DP, NFC but optional, and microUSB 2.0. The primary camera supports 5 megapixels at 2592 x 1944 pixels resolution with LED flash and autofocus.

It features geo-tagging, face and smile detection, and touch focus. It can do video recording in 720p at 30 fps. The secondary camera supports 1.3 megapixels. It runs on Android 2.3.6 Gingerbread powered by NovaThor U8500 chipset with dual-core 1 GHz Cortex-A9 processor and Mali-400 GPU. The operating system can be upgraded up to 4.1.2 Jelly Bean.

For internet browsing, it supports HTML and Adobe Flash plus support for Java via Java MIDP emulator. It is powered by a removable Li-Ion 1500 mAh battery with standby time of up to 570 hours on 2G and 550 hours on 3G while talk time is up to 15 hours on 2G and 7 hours 20 minutes on 3G. It is available for around 170 Euros.