The Samsung Galaxy S
The latest offering from Samsung brings to the table what appears to be a legitimate player in the current smartphone world. It’s just a blessing that it’s not actually operating on any software designed by Samsung themselves (it’s runs on Google’s Android operating system).
There are some pretty neat features, most notably the gigantic screen. The Super AMOLED screen, one of the phone’s key advertising and selling points, is indeed super. It’s really a cut above the screens found on most of it’s competitors (and is an easy competitor for the new iPhone 4) and places this phone into a leage of it’s own.
Combine with that the general lack of traditional buttons (it operates mostly using touch sensitive buttons), and you have something that many people will inevitably compare to the iPhone. But that’s no bad thing! The strength of this configuration is that there are considerably fewer buttons than, for instance, the HTCs (which also run on Android), and as such the Galaxy is much less unwieldy.
Despite the huge screen, the Galaxy weighs in at a meager 119g – much much lighter than most smartphone competitors. It does suffer for battery life however.
In terms of software, Samsung have never been strong themselves. This has meant some slightly clunky homegrown “widgets”, and an occasionally unwieldy menu structure, but the hardware of the phone (including a 1 GHz processor) is great and so Android, and the various third party apps, run excellently.
Clocking in at a fairly decent £400 for a PAYG phone (or £30 pm on contract) the Samsung is just cheap enough to make it a strong rival to the HTC range, and even the iPhones. Impressive stuff from the folks over at Samsung.
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