Samsung seems to be in good shape when it comes to Android phones. And it is that the rhythm of presentations and mobile launches with Google platform is comparable to the touch of the Spanish National Team. The last member of the family to be confirmed in the sales phase is the Samsung i8520 Galaxy Beam. This terminal was shown at the Mobile World Congress last February, and now we finally know that it will go on sale in July in the Asian market, delaying in Spain until the last part of the year.
Now we will give you a review of the excellent technical picture of the Samsung i8520 Galaxy Beam, but we cannot ignore the most striking thing about this touch mobile: it incorporates a tiny projector that allows you to create screens of up to 52 inches on a wall. This feature is known as a pico projector, and it will allow us to view our photos and videos in various formats in the blink of an eye, something that undoubtedly makes the Samsung i8520 Galaxy Beam one of the most desirable terminals in its range. At the moment, however, there is no news of its price.
Multimedia
It is necessary to start with the multimedia options to describe this Samsung i8520 Galaxy Beam with the appropriate rhythm. The presence of the pico projector among his features distances him from his competition as Messi would do in a one on one in the last defensive line.
It is a DLP-type device, a very widespread technology among projectors (and the odd television, such as those recently developed by Mitsubishi) and which is based on the construction of the projected image using small mirrors. The manufacturer does not warn of the maximum resolution, although we could be optimistic and think that it rises to the 720p that marks its camera as the maximum quality of recording in video mode.
He doesn't just film sequences in high definition. The camera of the Samsung i8520 Galaxy Beam also offers eight megapixels for pictures, on the other hand can be illuminated by LED flash. And not only that player music and video recaptures the power of the Samsug Wave to display a catalog of compatibilities really complete: almost all audio files are supported on the Samsung i8520 Galaxy Beam. And as a point of greatest interest, the video section recognizes pieces encoded in DivX, XviD, FLV and even MKV(which is the format of video you can download from the Internet to watch movies and series in HD).
Design and display
The Samsung i8520 Galaxy Beam keeps the line of other smartphones from Samsung, especially those of the range Galaxy. We have before us a movable bar type design with dimensions of 123 x 59.8 x 14.9 mm with standard front accesses: Central start button, button to accept / make call, and Backspace.
As for the screen, Samsung continues to bet on AMOLED technology. Thanks to this panel we will be able to notice very good results in direct light visualizations, in addition to showing excellent performance in terms of brightness and contrast. In the Samsung i8520 Galaxy Beam has dimensions of 3.7 inches and a resolution of 480 x 800 pixels.
System and connectivity
The Korean house does not take a shred of trust from Google and its mobile platform. In the Samsung i8520 Galaxy Beam continues the journey of Android, which will be installed in its version 2.1, or Eclair. This means that it will be equipped with a multitude of utilities and applications from the Google galaxy, such as Google Maps, Google Talk, Gmail and many others that will give wings to the functions expected by the user of the Samsung i8520 Galaxy Beam.
The processor equipped is an ARM, but it is not the A8 of the Wave, but an 800 MHz edition. It is surprising that Samsung has not thrown all the meat on the grill at this point, especially considering the need for the high definition camera and the pico projector function. Where it sure does not fail is in connectivity. It lacks practically nothing. It will be possible to surf the 3G Internet at high speed thanks to the HSDPA and HSUPA systems, with upload and download rates of 7.2 Mbps and 5.7 Mbps, respectively.
You will also have Wi-Fi accesses recognizing the 802.11 b / g / n standards. And if we get lost, don't panic: the Samsung i8520 Galaxy Beam will recognize our position by satellite triangulation with its GPS sensor, equipped with an assisted function. If we had to transfer data between the Samsung i8520 Galaxy Beam and another device, we would have two possible ways to do it: through the Bluetooth 3.0 wireless port, or through a physical microUSB 2.0 connection, specially designed for synchronization with a computer.
The best
The profile is the Samsung i8520 Galaxy Beam is the most complete on the market. Samsung continues to bet on balance in its high-end mobiles, and the presence of the pico projector also serves to distinguish itself from the standardized nature of many of these terminals.
Worst
It is surprising that Samsung has not taken advantage of the Samsung i8520 Galaxy Beam to equip the 1.2 or 1.5 GHz version of the Cortex A8 processor, especially considering the performance required by many of the features of the phone.
Data sheet
| Standard | 850/900/1800/1900
GSM / EDGE / UMTS / HSDPA-HSUPA |
| Dimensions | 123 x 59.8 x 14.9 mm |
| Memory | 16 GB internal memory expandable by microSD cards up to 32 GB |
| screen | Touch AMOLED 3.7-inch WVGA (480i — 800 pixels)
16 million colors |
| Camera | Sensor 8 megapixels
Flash LED light integrated video Autofocus modes Photo Editor photo and video Face detection and Smile Video Recording HD 720P Secondary camera for video calls Geotagging images |
| Multimedia | Playback of music, video and photos
Compatible formats: JPEG / MP3 / MPEG4 / H.263 / H.264 / DivX / XviD / MKV / FLV FM radio tuner with RDS Java support |
| Controls and connections | Bada operating
system TouchWiz 3.0 touch interface Call / pick up / accept key Call reject / hang up key Side volume control Camera shutter button Integrated A-GPS with digital compass Accelerometer MicroUSB cable 3.5mm headphone output Card slot microSD Document Viewer Wireless: HSDPA, Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g / n and Bluetooth 3.0 with A2DP |
| Autonomy | 1,800mAh battery |
| + info | Samsung |
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