Samsung Touch Screen Mobile Phone – Star S5230

Since the launching of Samsung Star S5230 in Europe May this year, a millions unit of the touch screen devices were sold with ease in the first month and a half alone. That’s after Samsung’s tiredless effort to expand their sales to CIS, Southeast and Southwest Asia, East-Central Africa, China and Central America.

And reaching Early September, as news reported by SlashPhone, Samsung worldwide has successfully sold 5 million units. The Star S5230 is already shifting over a million units per month and Samsung expect to achieve a total 10 million milestone by November this year.

Let’s have a sneak peek at the key features that make the Star S5230 a shining star as Samsung touch screen mobile phone:

Samsung S5230 key features:

• GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz, GPRS/EDGE class 12
• Dimensions: 104.0 x 53.0 x 11.9 mm, 93.5 g
• 3.2″ resistive TFT touchscreen, WQVGA resolution (240 x 400 pixels)
• 50MB onboard storage, microSD card slot (up to 16GB)
• 3 megapixel fixed focus camera with smile detection
• Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP, USB v.2.0
• Document viewer
• Smart unlock
• Accelerometer sensor
• FM radio with RDS
• DNSe
• Find Music recognition service
• 1000 mAh battery, up to 800 h of standby

Main disadvantages

• No 3G
• Proprietary connectivity port
• Slightly more expensive than the LG KP500 Cookie
• No way to directly switch between running apps
• The camera is quite basic – uninspiring picture quality, no autofocus or flash
• Non-hot-swappable microSD slot

The Star offers a basic touchscreen package with little to no access to top-of-the-line technology. It still knows a trick or two though and is keen to treat the masses to Smart Unlock. It was initially dubbed Gesture lock but in the end Samsung went for Smart instead. This feature lets users unlock the S5230 Star and even launch apps by drawing a letter on the screen. It can be any letter: U to unlock the device, B to launch the browser, J to run your favorite Java app. It’s a nifty trick that adds a little speed and spice when working with the device.

The Samsung touch screen mobile phone – Star S5230 was launched as an affordable mobile phone, appealing to young consumers with its slim, 11.9 mm body and 3-inch WQVGA touch screen. It also boasts high-tech features such as Samsung’s exclusive high-quality sound technology, DNSe, as well as a SmileShot-enabled camera and Bluetooth v2.1.

Price: Rs 9,000~ Rs 9,500.- [ approx. USD 184 ~ USD 194.- ]

[ Source: Coated ; GSMArena ; SlashPhone ; Arunii ; Samsung India ]

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