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Samsung Galaxy Golden Review

LTE (GT-I9235)     See other variants reviews Score: 67.6 / 100

Samsung Galaxy Golden is a great cellphone, packing a 3.7 inches touch-screen, a very powerful 1700 megahertz Dual-Core CPU, an 8 MP back side camera and a 1.9 mega-pixels front-facing camera. That's everything we have to say? Not at all, it's just the introduction.

Samsung decided to power this phone using a Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 8930 system chip, packing a very fast 1700 megahertz Dual-Core processing unit with a large 1,5 GB of RAM memory. Graphic intensive games and apps usually consume a lot of processing time, so it also also has an Adreno 305 GPU speeding at 450 megahertz to help handle those graphic tasks. The Samsung Galaxy Golden comes with a 16 GB quite big internal storage memory and a slot for an SD memory card, which allows you to install a couple hundred apps without running out of space.

Samsung sells the Golden in 2 different colors: black and gold. Samsung forgot about weight optimization in this 6.31 ounces cellphone, way heavier than other similar phones. The Golden is a little thick for today's standards, with its 0.62" thickness.

This cellphone has two cameras, an 8 megapixels back camera and a 1.9 MP front side camera. It can also capture Full HD 1920x1080 videos at 30 fps. The camera also counts with some nice characteristics: auto-focus, flash, face detection shooting, geo tagging and smile detection shooting.

This device is equipped with a good level 3.7-inches display with a 800 x 480 resolution, which makes all photos and videos look very nice. Its display uses Super AMOLED capacitive technology, and allows multi-touch gestures.

The Samsung Galaxy Golden features wi-fi connection (which can be shared with other devices acting as a mobile hotspot), 4G (LTE) fast data connection and also HSPA+ connection type, which is a lower speed 4G variation and fast 3G data connection, supported by HSDPA, HSUPA and EDGE technologies. This phone uses a Micro SIM card to use GSM services.

The Golden also includes a wide variety of cool features as Near Field Communication (NFC), Bluetooth (4.0), GPS and Radio, and multiple sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Barometer and Compass.

This cellphone uses a mid capacity 1820 mAh removable battery that can keep it running for many hours, but you may need to charge it even after moderate use.

Samsung is selling this phone for $ 499, which is very expensive for this type of cellphone. No matter if you want this phone to take lots of photos, want it to play tons of games, need a phone for work or will use this phone majorly for internet broswing and social networks, you will definitely love this device.



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Specifications

Device Type:Phone
Brand:Samsung
Operating System (OS):Android 4.2
Variant:LTE
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Product code:GT-I9235
Dimensions:4.65 x 2.34 x 0.62 inchesMetric11.81 x 5.94 x 1.57 cmImperial
Weight:6.31 ouncesMetric178.89 gImperial
Colors:Black and Gold
Price:$ 499.00

Display

Screen Type:Super AMOLED (16M colors)
Size:3.7 inchesMetric9.4 cmImperial
Resolution:480 x 800 pixels
Pixel density:252 pixels per inchMetric99.21 pixels per cmImperial
Touch screen:Capacitive, Multi-touch

Hardware

Chipset:Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 8930
Processor:Krait 200 (Dual-Core 1700 MHz)
RAM Memory:1,5 GB
Graphics Processor:Adreno 305 (450 MHz)
Internal Memory:16 GB
SD Card Slot:microSD, microSDHC, microSDXC (up to 64 GB)

Battery

Removable:Yes
Capacity:1820 mAh
Talk Time:11 hours

Camera

Back camera:8 megapixels
    Flash:Yes
Front camera:1.9 megapixels
Max video resolution:1920 x 1080 (30 fps) (Full HD)
Camera features:Auto-Focus, Face Detection Shooting, Geo Tagging and Smile Detection Shooting

Networks

Wi-Fi:Yes
    Mobile Hotspot:Yes
SIM Card Type:Micro SIM
LTE (4G) Bands:900 (band 8), 1800 (band 3), 2600 (band 7)
UMTS Bands:1900, 2100
GSM Bands:900, 1800
Technologies:LTE (4G), HSPA+ (4G), HSDPA, HSUPA, EDGE, GPRS and GSM

Other Features

Bluetooth:Version 4.0
GPS:Yes
NFC (Near Field Communication):Yes
Radio:FM Radio
Sensors:Accelerometer, Barometer, Compass, Gyroscope, Light Sensor and Proximity Sensor