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Samsung ATIV S Neo Review

AT&T (i187)     See other variants reviews Score: 66.4 / 100

Samsung ATIV S Neo is a high quality Windows Phone phone released in June 2013, equipped with a high-tech 1400 MHz Dual-Core CPU, a pretty large 4.8 inches multi touch screen, an 8 MP back-facing camera and a 1.2 mega-pixels front side camera.

This phone is much lighter than what one would expect from a cellphone of this size. Being just 0.36 inches thick,the Samsung ATIV S Neo is thin and good-looking. This cellphone is a compact cellphone, considering it features a 4.8" display and it has just 5.33" long.

This cellphone is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 MSM8930AA system chip, packing a very powerful Dual-Core processor speeding at 1400 megahertz and only 1 GB RAM memory which is a little bit poor for a cellphone of this level. Helping with graphic calculations, it also uses a 450 MHz Adreno 305 graphic processing unit. A nice point of this cellphone is the 16 GB quite big internal memory and an SD card slot, allowing you to store a couple hundred applications without worrying about space.

Samsung designed this device with a high-tech 4.8-inches screen, and a 1280 x 720 (HD) resolution, providing this cellphone with a perfect graphical experience. This screen uses TFT capacitive technology, and can detect multi touch gestures.

The Samsung ATIV S Neo offers wifi capability (although it can't be shared with other devices around, acting as a mobile hotspot), LTE (4G) high performance connectivity and fast 3G data connection, supported by HSPA, UMTS, EV-DO A and EDGE technologies. The Samsung ATIV S Neo works with a SIM card to use GSM services and it works with both GSM and CDMA carriers.

This phone is equipped with two cameras, an 8 mega-pixels back side camera and a 1.2 mega-pixels front-facing camera. It also captures 1920x1080 Full HD videos at 30 frames per second. This camera also includes a few interesting features like flash, auto-focus, fast burst mode, HDR mode and geo tagging.

This phone also features a couple nice characteristics such as NFC (to trigger actions, transfer data or make payments by holding your phone close to another NFC device or tag), Bluetooth and GPS, and plenty of sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer and Compass.

This phone comes with a 2000 mAh medium sized Li-Ion replaceable battery that provides this phone a below average battery lifecompared to other phones. According to Samsung, this cellphone has a reported stand by time of 420 hours and a talk time of 9 hours.

The Samsung ATIV S Neo is not a very good choice considering it costs 249 dollars, and many similar cellphones can be found for much less money. The Samsung ATIV S Neo is probably a great option for you no matter if you will use it majorly for social networks and internet browsing, love photography, want it for playing games or need it for work.



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Specifications

Device Type:Phone
Brand:Samsung
Operating System (OS):Windows Phone 8.1
Variant:AT&T
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Product code:i187
Dimensions:5.33 x 2.72 x 0.36 inchesMetric13.54 x 6.91 x 0.91 cmImperial
Weight:5.04 ouncesMetric142.88 gImperial
Release date:2013-06-26
Price:$ 249.00

Display

Screen Type:TFT (16M colors)
Size:4.8 inchesMetric12.2 cmImperial
Resolution:720 x 1280 pixels (HD)
Pixel density:306 pixels per inchMetric120.47 pixels per cmImperial
Touch screen:Capacitive, Multi-touch

Hardware

Chipset:Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 MSM8930AA
Processor:Krait 300 (Dual-Core 1400 MHz)
RAM Memory:1 GB (533 MHz)
Graphics Processor:Adreno 305 (450 MHz)
Internal Memory:16 GB
SD Card Slot:microSD, microSDHC, microSDXC (up to 64 GB)

Battery

Battery type:Li-Ion
Removable:Yes
Capacity:2000 mAh
Stand-by Time:420 hours
Talk Time:9 hours

Camera

Back camera:8 megapixels
    Flash:Yes
Front camera:1.2 megapixels
Max video resolution:1920 x 1080 (30 fps) (Full HD)
Camera features:Auto-Focus, Fast Burst Mode, Geo Tagging and HDR Mode

Networks

Wi-Fi:Yes
SIM Card Type:SIM
LTE (4G) Bands:700 (band 17), 850 (band 5), 1700/2100 (band 4), 1900 (band 2)
UMTS Bands:850, 1900, 2100
GSM Bands:850, 900, 1800, 1900
CDMA Bands:800, 1900
Technologies:LTE (4G), HSPA, UMTS, EV-DO A, EDGE, GPRS, GSM and CDMA

Other Features

Bluetooth:Yes
GPS:Yes
NFC (Near Field Communication):Yes
Sensors:Accelerometer, Compass, Light Sensor and Proximity Sensor