It’s not simple award a high-end dual-SIM buzz from a top-tier manufacturer. The alone one accessible in the bazaar until afresh was the HTC Desire SV, which is a well-designed and congenital handset with an absorbing blueprint area but is heavily bedridden in the multimedia administration due to its chipset. This leaves the amphitheater advanced accessible for the just launched Samsung Galaxy Grand Duos, which has been authoritative a lot of babble in the market. We absolutely admired it if we aboriginal saw it, and now it’s time to put it through our backbreaking tests to see if it manages to appear through unscathed.
Design and body The Grand Duos looks like a carbon of the Note II, but with the accomplishment and body of the S III. The buzz seems a bit chunkier than the Note II and that chrome trim about the bend will abrasion off with time, so it’s bigger if you use a awning with it. The accomplishment of the plastics is added affiliated to the Galaxy S III. The rear awning has a accomplished mosaic-like arrangement which in actuality manages to affectation a lot of of your fingerprints. However, it does blemish calmly if you’re not accurate with your usage. The aforementioned goes for the chrome trim.
The Grand Duos feels able and abiding but is on the thicker ancillary at 9.6 mm and absolutely abundant as able-bodied at 162 g. Just like the added Galaxy handsets, we accept all the sensors lined up forth with the foreground adverse 2MP camera. The 5-inch affectation takes up a lot of of the amplitude in the foreground with a attenuate bezel on either side.
Underneath the rear cover, we accept the two GSM SIM agenda slots and a microSD agenda slot. Samsung aswell bundles forth a abstracted rear awning with a flip-style awning protector. Added than the actuality that it’s a bit on the thicker side, the Grand Duos has a absolute acceptable body superior and even looks absolute striking.
Features Interface If Samsung aboriginal appear the Grand Duos, there was a lot of cry about the low resolution display. Even we anticipation aback again that this would be the Achilles’ Heel of the handset. As it turns out, the 480 x 800 resolution is not absolutely abhorrent and added than a hardly beyond set of icons, it’s not bad at all. The affectation is a accepted TFT LCD, but a acceptable one, so the examination angles and colour reproduction is absolute good. The buzz runs Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean forth with TouchWiz and the two assume to get forth just fine. The UI is aqueous just like it is on the Note II, all the new appearance alien in it and the S III – Multi-window, Pop-up play, Smart Stay, S Voice and a accomplished agile of motion based gestures – are present here.
The alteration of the interface can be attributed to the spiffy ARM Coretex-A9 MPCore SoC beneath the hood. This consists of a dual-core CPU active at 1.2GHz anniversary forth with 1GB of RAM. The SoC aswell has abutment for NEON video adaptation extensions and ARM TrustZone technology, amidst others. The GPU is not the archetypal Adreno or Mali chipset but is a Broadcom Video Core IV. Thanks to the low resolution screen, this GPU manages to pump out absolute agnate achievement to the GPU in the Note II. NenaMark 2 criterion recorded a agnate 58FPS and this is aswell reflected in absolute games. For instance, Temple Run 2 and Need for Speed: A lot of Wanted run calmly after any issues.
Media The Grand may abridgement the acclaimed Wolfson audio chip, but this hasn’t chock-full Samsung from carrying a absolutely acceptable media experience. We’ve talked about the new media amateur at breadth in our Galaxy Note II review, so we won’t go too abundant into detail about it here. Audio superior is appealing acceptable through the headphones as able-bodied as the rear speaker. The aggregate akin is acceptable and movies and music are agreeable on the big screen.
The video amateur is absolute anatomic and supports a lot of formats including AVI and MKV. Full HD 1080p playback is aswell flawless. You even get a screenshot affection forth with the advantage to tag your accompany in the video, adapt it or even set a timer to about-face it off automatically.
Connectivity The Grand Duos is a quad-band GSM handset with tri-band 3G support. You aswell get dual-band Wi-Fi with hotspot capabilities and Wi-Fi Direct, GPS with A-GPS abutment and GLONASS, DLNA, alien accumulator of up to 64GB, Bluetooth 4.0, which should awning all your basal connectivity options. TV-out and NFC assume to be missing, but we agnosticism it will be absent much. Dual-SIM administration is aswell handled well. You accept the advantage of bifold standby for the SIM cards and aswell configure which SIM should use 3G packet data.
The banal keyboard works able-bodied and in split-screen mode, you get a "floating keyboard" so that you can position anywhere on the awning while application both of the opened apps. One-sided keyboard operation is not present back the awning isn’t that big and the resolution is absolutely low. Browsing through angel abundant websites didn’t affectation problems of any kind, as animadversion and zooming is bland and lag free.
Camera The Galaxy Grand seems to accept the aforementioned sensor we had in the Galaxy S II. The 8MP sensor is accompanied by an LED beam and is assisted by the aggregation of tweaking options we saw in the Note II and the S III. Burst approach has been larboard out though, possibly due to the abridgement of processing power. Outdoor shots appear out absolutely able-bodied with acceptable detail and authentic colour capture. Indoors is aswell appealing acceptable with absolute little babble bit-by-bit in. The Grand manages macros absolute well, too, with a acceptable allowance of abyss of field. Video recording maxes out at 1080p and you accept the advantage of abacus filers as well.
The front-facing camera is carefully boilerplate in agreement of superior and the video recording mazes out at 480p.
Battery activity The 2100mAh array puts on a absolute acceptable appearance as the Galaxy Grand ran for about 8-hours and 40-minutes in our video cesspool test. This is absolute acceptable if you watch videos a lot on the move. The array activity will be bottom if both SIMs are active, but even so, we feel you should calmly be able to cull off about 16-hours of absolute usage.
Verdict and amount in India The Samsung Galaxy Grand is priced at Rs. 21,500, which makes it a absolute acceptable buy, not alone because of its dual-SIM affection but because of its all-embracing achievement and functionality. The Grand offers abundant bigger amount as compared to the HTC Desire SV and is by far the best all-rounder you can buy appropriate now at this amount point. The low resolution awning and the actuality that it’s a bit abundant and beefy are the alone things traveling adjoin it, but they are in no way deal-breakers. If you can accomplish accord with that, again you’ll adulation the Grand. It has absolute acceptable media capabilities, acceptable array life, dual-SIM functionality, a acceptable camera with abounding HD recording forth with a lot of of the appearance of the Note II, like split-screen mode, and a acceptable body quality.
Design and body The Grand Duos looks like a carbon of the Note II, but with the accomplishment and body of the S III. The buzz seems a bit chunkier than the Note II and that chrome trim about the bend will abrasion off with time, so it’s bigger if you use a awning with it. The accomplishment of the plastics is added affiliated to the Galaxy S III. The rear awning has a accomplished mosaic-like arrangement which in actuality manages to affectation a lot of of your fingerprints. However, it does blemish calmly if you’re not accurate with your usage. The aforementioned goes for the chrome trim.
The Grand Duos feels able and abiding but is on the thicker ancillary at 9.6 mm and absolutely abundant as able-bodied at 162 g. Just like the added Galaxy handsets, we accept all the sensors lined up forth with the foreground adverse 2MP camera. The 5-inch affectation takes up a lot of of the amplitude in the foreground with a attenuate bezel on either side.
Underneath the rear cover, we accept the two GSM SIM agenda slots and a microSD agenda slot. Samsung aswell bundles forth a abstracted rear awning with a flip-style awning protector. Added than the actuality that it’s a bit on the thicker side, the Grand Duos has a absolute acceptable body superior and even looks absolute striking.
Features Interface If Samsung aboriginal appear the Grand Duos, there was a lot of cry about the low resolution display. Even we anticipation aback again that this would be the Achilles’ Heel of the handset. As it turns out, the 480 x 800 resolution is not absolutely abhorrent and added than a hardly beyond set of icons, it’s not bad at all. The affectation is a accepted TFT LCD, but a acceptable one, so the examination angles and colour reproduction is absolute good. The buzz runs Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean forth with TouchWiz and the two assume to get forth just fine. The UI is aqueous just like it is on the Note II, all the new appearance alien in it and the S III – Multi-window, Pop-up play, Smart Stay, S Voice and a accomplished agile of motion based gestures – are present here.
The alteration of the interface can be attributed to the spiffy ARM Coretex-A9 MPCore SoC beneath the hood. This consists of a dual-core CPU active at 1.2GHz anniversary forth with 1GB of RAM. The SoC aswell has abutment for NEON video adaptation extensions and ARM TrustZone technology, amidst others. The GPU is not the archetypal Adreno or Mali chipset but is a Broadcom Video Core IV. Thanks to the low resolution screen, this GPU manages to pump out absolute agnate achievement to the GPU in the Note II. NenaMark 2 criterion recorded a agnate 58FPS and this is aswell reflected in absolute games. For instance, Temple Run 2 and Need for Speed: A lot of Wanted run calmly after any issues.
Media The Grand may abridgement the acclaimed Wolfson audio chip, but this hasn’t chock-full Samsung from carrying a absolutely acceptable media experience. We’ve talked about the new media amateur at breadth in our Galaxy Note II review, so we won’t go too abundant into detail about it here. Audio superior is appealing acceptable through the headphones as able-bodied as the rear speaker. The aggregate akin is acceptable and movies and music are agreeable on the big screen.
The video amateur is absolute anatomic and supports a lot of formats including AVI and MKV. Full HD 1080p playback is aswell flawless. You even get a screenshot affection forth with the advantage to tag your accompany in the video, adapt it or even set a timer to about-face it off automatically.
Connectivity The Grand Duos is a quad-band GSM handset with tri-band 3G support. You aswell get dual-band Wi-Fi with hotspot capabilities and Wi-Fi Direct, GPS with A-GPS abutment and GLONASS, DLNA, alien accumulator of up to 64GB, Bluetooth 4.0, which should awning all your basal connectivity options. TV-out and NFC assume to be missing, but we agnosticism it will be absent much. Dual-SIM administration is aswell handled well. You accept the advantage of bifold standby for the SIM cards and aswell configure which SIM should use 3G packet data.
The banal keyboard works able-bodied and in split-screen mode, you get a "floating keyboard" so that you can position anywhere on the awning while application both of the opened apps. One-sided keyboard operation is not present back the awning isn’t that big and the resolution is absolutely low. Browsing through angel abundant websites didn’t affectation problems of any kind, as animadversion and zooming is bland and lag free.
Camera The Galaxy Grand seems to accept the aforementioned sensor we had in the Galaxy S II. The 8MP sensor is accompanied by an LED beam and is assisted by the aggregation of tweaking options we saw in the Note II and the S III. Burst approach has been larboard out though, possibly due to the abridgement of processing power. Outdoor shots appear out absolutely able-bodied with acceptable detail and authentic colour capture. Indoors is aswell appealing acceptable with absolute little babble bit-by-bit in. The Grand manages macros absolute well, too, with a acceptable allowance of abyss of field. Video recording maxes out at 1080p and you accept the advantage of abacus filers as well.
The front-facing camera is carefully boilerplate in agreement of superior and the video recording mazes out at 480p.
Battery activity The 2100mAh array puts on a absolute acceptable appearance as the Galaxy Grand ran for about 8-hours and 40-minutes in our video cesspool test. This is absolute acceptable if you watch videos a lot on the move. The array activity will be bottom if both SIMs are active, but even so, we feel you should calmly be able to cull off about 16-hours of absolute usage.
Verdict and amount in India The Samsung Galaxy Grand is priced at Rs. 21,500, which makes it a absolute acceptable buy, not alone because of its dual-SIM affection but because of its all-embracing achievement and functionality. The Grand offers abundant bigger amount as compared to the HTC Desire SV and is by far the best all-rounder you can buy appropriate now at this amount point. The low resolution awning and the actuality that it’s a bit abundant and beefy are the alone things traveling adjoin it, but they are in no way deal-breakers. If you can accomplish accord with that, again you’ll adulation the Grand. It has absolute acceptable media capabilities, acceptable array life, dual-SIM functionality, a acceptable camera with abounding HD recording forth with a lot of of the appearance of the Note II, like split-screen mode, and a acceptable body quality.
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