Samsung Galaxy W is a new member to the already huge Samsung Galaxy family. The phone was officially announced on the 24th of this month and will be launched in the market very soon. The new Samsung Galaxy W has many features and technological updates as well as specifications that the previous models from the Samsung Galaxy family did not have till now. The brand Samsung Galaxy is now very popular among the people now and they will definitely look forward to the launch of this great mobile phone.
Samsung Galaxy W is a touchscreen smartphone, it is primarily a GSM based one. It is very good looking and stylish but the functionality of the phone does match the great looks. The touchscreen display is a capacitive 3.7 inches screen with 480×800 pixels resolution and display images and pictures with good clarity using its 16 million colors. The touchscreen display also employs proximity sensors for power saving and light sensor for comfortably viewing the screen icons even in broad daylight and pitch darkness. Samsung has used the Samsung TouchWiz UI for better user interface and ease of use. Interestingly, Samsung has used this technology for a handful of phone till now and as the technology is becoming more viable to be used on the other phones as well, Samsung is experimenting more and providing more features to the users.
Samsung Galaxy W is powered by a 1.4 GHz single core processor and runs on Android version 2.3 Gingerbread. With this another phone has been added to the Gingerbread family. The phone has an internal memory of 4 GB in which you can store all important data as well as all the entertainment stuff that you need. The memory is expandable to 32 GB using microSD cards. Connectivity options are many for the new Samsung Galaxy W. You will be able to use high speed 3G network to connect to the internet, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi hotspot, Bluetooth 3.0, GPRS and EDGE as usual.
The new Samsung Galaxy W employs a 5 MP rear camera to take excellent pictures and a secondary front 0.3 MP camera for video calling. The camera features geo tagging and face detection too. Altogether, this new phone is to set the market on fire with its great features and specifications.
Samsung Galaxy W Specifications:
| GENERAL | 2G Network | GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 |
| 3G Network | HSDPA | |
| Announced | 2011, August | |
| Status | Coming soon. Exp. release 2011 | |
| SIZE | Dimensions | 115.5 x 59.8 x 11.5 mm |
| Weight | 112 g | |
| DISPLAY | Type | Capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors |
| Size | 480 x 800 pixels, 3.7 inches | |
| - Multi-touch input method | ||
| - Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate | ||
| - Touch-sensitive controls | ||
| - Proximity sensor for auto turn-off | ||
| SOUND | Alert types | Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones |
| 3.5mm jack | Yes | |
| MEMORY | Phonebook | Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall |
| Call records | Practically unlimited | |
| Card slot | microSD, up to 32GB | |
| DATA | GPRS | Yes |
| EDGE | Yes | |
| 3G | HSDPA, 14.4 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps | |
| WLAN | Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi hotspot | |
| Bluetooth | Yes, v3.0 with A2DP | |
| USB | Yes, v2.0 microUSB | |
| CAMERA | Primary | 5 MP, 2592х1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash |
| Features | Geo-tagging, face detection | |
| Video | Yes | |
| Secondary | Yes, VGA | |
| FEATURES | OS | Android OS, v2.3 (Gingerbread) |
| CPU | 1.4 GHz processor | |
| Messaging | SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM, RSS | |
| Browser | HTML | |
| Radio | Stereo FM radio with RDS | |
| Games | Yes | |
| Colors | Black | |
| GPS | Yes, with A-GPS support | |
| Java | Yes, via Java MIDP emulator | |
| - SNS integration | ||
| - Digital compass | ||
| - MP4/DivX/XviD/WMV/H.264/H.263 player | ||
| - MP3/WAV/eAAC+ player | ||
| - Organizer | ||
| - Image/video editor | ||
| - Document editor (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF) | ||
| - Google Search, Maps, Gmail, | ||
| YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Picasa integration | ||
| - Adobe Flash support | ||
| - Voice memo/dial/commands | ||
| - Predictive text input (Swype) | ||
| BATTERY | Capacity | Standard battery, Li-Ion 1500 mAh |
| Stand-by | 18 hours | |
| Talk time | 540 hours |
Samsung Galaxy W is priced at 25000.
