Samsung Galaxy Gio Review

Samsung Galaxy Gio is a fair quality device released in 2011, featuring a medium 3.2-inches multi-touch display, a good processor clocking at 800 MHz and a 3 mega-pixels back side camera. Let's take a better look at what this phone can do.

Samsung decided to equip this phone using a Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 MSM7227 system chip, holding a quite powerful 800 megahertz processor. To collaborate with graphic intensive apps and games, it also counts with an Adreno 200 GPU clocking at 128 megahertz. This cellphone counts with a small 161,79 MB internal storage, which may be enough for some users knowing that the Gio also has an SD memory card expansion slot to store photos and videos and even some apps and games that allow external memory installation.

This device is a bit heavy for a phone of this size, weighting 3.6 oz. This phone is 4.35" long and 2.26" wide, but it's only able to hold a smaller 3.2 inches screen.

This cellphone includes a good level 480 x 320 3.2 inches screen, giving this phone a nice image quality. This screen uses TFT capacitive technology, and is multi-touch enabled.

The Gio only features a 3 MP back camera. It can also capture videos in 320x240 (QVGA) at 15 fps. The camera also features auto-focus and smile detection shooting.

This device has WiFi capability (although it can't be shared with other devices acting as a hotspot) and the fastest 3G connectivity, over HSDPA, UMTS and EDGE technologies. The Gio uses a SIM card for GSM connection.

This cellphone comes with a medium sized 1350 mAh Li-Ion removable battery that provides the Gio a below average battery lifecompared to other phones. This phone has an estimated 10.6 hs talk time and a 610 hours stand by time.

This cellphone also comes with a couple of cool characteristics like Bluetooth (allows communication with other bluetooth phones, computers and accessories) and GPS (Global Positioning System), and a few sensors likeProximity Sensor, Accelerometer and Compass.

Samsung is offering this phone for $ 95, which is very expensive for a phone this level.