Thursday 21 July 2011

Samsung Gravity SMART review: Smarter direction

Introduction

Samsung Gravity has been a successful line of affordable, slide-out QWERTY messengers for T-Mobile for several years now. With the latest addition to the family, Samsung not only improves the package, but takes it in a whole new direction. Unlike its predecessors, which were feature phones, the new Samsung Gravity SMART, as its name suggests, is an Android smartphone.
The Gravity SMART is clearly aimed at the first-time smartphone users who are looking for a sensible device, which will deliver an Android experience at an affordable price. It is by no means a Galaxy S II, but it is not priced like one either. It packs a lot of droid functionality in a small, well-built package. Now let’s see what the Gravity SMART has to offer.
Key Features

3.2" 16M color, TFT capacitive touchscreen with 480 x 320 pixels resolution, multi touch
Full four-row, slide-out QWERTY keyboard with a customizable social networking key
ARMv6 800MHz CPU, 270MB RAM, 150MB of user-available storage
Android 2.2.2 (Froyo) with TouchWiz 3.0 UI
Quad-band GSM and dual-band 3G support
Wi-Fi Calling enabled
Wi-Fi 802.11 b, g, with hotspot functionality
GPS with A-GPS connectivity; digital compass
3.15 MP autofocus camera
QVGA video recording @30fps
microUSB port (charging) and stereo Bluetooth 3.0
microSD slot (up to 32GB, 2GB in box)
Standard 3.5 mm audio jack
Accelerometer and proximity sensor
Web browser with Flash support
Smart dialing

Main disadvantages

QVGA-only video recording
No shutter key
No secondary video-call camera
No ambient light sensor
No dedicated video player app
Android 2.2 Froyo, instead of latest Android 2.3 Gingerbread

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