Samsung Galaxy Xcover 2 Review

Samsung Galaxy Xcover 2 is a mid-end cellphone launched in January 2013, packed with a good performance Dual-Core CPU clocking at 1000 MHz, a medium 4 inches multi-touch capacitive screen, a 5 mega-pixels back facing camera and a 0.3 mega-pixels front facing camera.

The Xcover 2 is sold in 3 colors, black, red and gray. This time, it seems like Samsung forgot about weight optimization in this 5.24 oz device.

Samsung decided to equip this cellphone with a powerful 1 gigahertz Dual-Core CPU with 1 GB RAM memory. To collaborate with graphic intensive games and applications, it also counts with a 320 megahertz ARM Mali-400 MP1 graphics processing unit. This device counts with a 4 GB internal storage memory, a passable quantity that should be fine for the majority of users having that it also has an external memory card slot to store photos and videos.

Samsung designed this phone with a very good 4" screen, and a 800 x 480 resolution, making everything look very good. This screen uses TFT capacitive technology, and has multi-touch detection.

The Xcover 2 has Wi-Fi connectivity (and it can be provided to other devices acting as a mobile hotspot) and the fastest 3G connection type, supported by HSDPA, HSUPA, UMTS and EDGE technologies. This phone uses a SIM card for GSM carriers.

This device has two cameras, a 5 megapixels back side camera and a 0.3 megapixels front side camera. It is capable of filming videos in 1280x720 (HD). The camera also includes a couple of good features like flash, auto-focus, fast burst mode, smile detection shooting and geo tagging.

The Xcover 2 features a 1700 mAh mid capacity Li-Ion replaceable battery providing the Samsung Galaxy Xcover 2 with a poor battery duration. According to Samsung, this phone has an aproximate 570 hours stand by time and a 15.1 hours talk time.

This cellphone also includes a couple interesting characteristics as Bluetooth (enables communication with other bluetooth phones and accessories) and GPS, and multiple sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer and Compass.

This cellphone is priced 90 dollars, which is a quite high price for this type of device. This phone is definitely the correct option for you no matter whether you will use this phone to play games or are looking for a cellphone mainly for internet broswing and social networks.