TD Staff 
Samsung is one of the leading mobile phone providers in Indian market and have manufactured many phones in the past that eventually became crowd favourites. One such mobile from Samsung’s kitty is Samsung Galaxy Si9000.
When Galaxy Si9000 or simply Galaxy S was released to Indian consumers in June 2010, it immediately became a trend setter, garnering rave reviews from users and critics alike. It didn’t come as a surprise to many when Galaxy S was declared the highest selling SmartPhone in India, beating the likes HTC Desire and Xperia X10 among others. In January next year Galaxy S was named “European SmartPhone of the Year” at EISA awards 2010-2011.
For those who haven’t had the opportunity to get themselves acquainted with Galaxy S, here’s your second chance! Galaxy S is still one of the most wanted SmartPhones in the market, though a successor Galaxy S2 has been released since then but it still hasn’t exactly forced Galaxy S out of consumer’s mind.
Galaxy S has a 4-inch super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen that boasts of 16M colours, TouchWiz 3.0 UI and offers a resolution of 480 x 800p. The display unit features having a multi-touch input method and touch sensitive control offering one of the best touch operating experience available in the market, also included are Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate, Swype text input and Proximity sensor for auto turn-off. Coming in the dimension of 122.4mm x 64.2mm x 9.9 mm, it sits pretty on your hand and weighs only 118g, making it extremely portable.
Internally, Galaxy S operates on Android v2.1 (Eclair) Operating System powered by ARM Cortex A8 1GHz processor and sourced by Li-Ion 1500 mAh, guaranteed to provide standby time of up to 576 hours and talk time of up to 6.5 hours both in 3G network. Connectivity options provided are GPRS, EDGE, 2G, 3G, HSDPA, HSUPA, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth v3.0 with A2DP and v2.0 microUSB Port. A primary rear camera of 5MP with autofocus and LED Flash is provided at the rear for recording purposes while a 0.3MP VGA secondary camera on front is perfect for web-calling and self-portrait purposes. Galaxy S comes with a perfect internal memory of 8/16GB to store enough of your photos, videos and apps, option of expanding it to 32GB is made available via microSD card should you require additional storage area.
Specifications:
- Dimensions: 122.4mm x 64.2mm x 9.9mm
- Weight: 119g
- Display : 4-inch super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, boasting 16M colours and a pixel resolution of 480 x 800
- Operating system: Android OS, v2.1 (Eclair), upgradable to v2.3
- Processor: 1 GHz ARM Cortex-A8
- GPU: PowerVR SGX540
- Hummingbird chipset
- Primary Camera: A 5MP camera, equipped with autofocus and boasting a pixel resolution of 2592 x 1944
- Secondary Camera: A VGA camera
- Bluetooth: v3.0 with A2DP
- Internal storage capacity: 8 GB/16GB, along with 512 MB RAM and 2GB ROM
- microSD, up to 32GB
- USB: v2.0 microUSB
- FM radio with RDS
- A 3.5 mm audio jack
- Battery: Li-Ion 1500 mAh
- Stand-by time: Up to 750 hrs in 2G network, and up to 576 hrs in 3G network
- Talk time: Up to 13 hrs 30 mins in 2G network, and up to 6 hrs 30 mins in 3G network
Samsung Galaxy Si9000 or Samsung Galaxy S is available through various authorised Samsung stores and retailers across India with best buy option listed as INR 24,062 on official Samsung India website.
