Samsung Galaxy S i9000

The latest smartphone from Samsung is doing with honors, facing its direct competitors to Apple, HTC and Motorola.

The Samsung S Galaxy, presented in the spring, is supposed to compete with HTC EVO 4G, iPhone Droid X 4 and Motorola. It is therefore natural to verify the claims of Samsung and to compare them to see what they really more than its competitors.

A beautiful object in the display optimized

In terms of design, it is very similar to the 3G iPhone with its glossy black plastic, and the few buttons visible. Thinner than the 4G and the Droid Evo X with its thickness of 0.99 inch, provided it does not beat the iPhone’s 4 and 0.93 cm, but gets the prize for the lightweight, weighing only 119 grams . This weight is minimal and significant due in part to technology Super AMOLED (Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode), unveiled by the company with the Samsung Wave during the Mobile World Congress. This technology includes the tactile sensors directly on the screen rather than adding a layer between the two, and offers better brightness and contrast is sharpened. The screen in question is 4 inches, more so than the iPhone (3.5 inches) but less than its rivals HTC and Motorola (4.3 inches). However, placed side by side, these two are far less impressive than the Samsung, while the display iPhone 4, meanwhile, seems more accurate than the S Galaxy, although the colors seem a bit less natural.

An improved interface, but not yet perfect

The Galaxy S works on Android 2.1 (Flash), and has an overlay Samsung TouchWiz 3.0. This version is, overall, far more convincing than this on the Samsung Behold II, too slow and not very intuitive. Nevertheless, some problems have resurfaced with the familiar 3.0: Yet with Hummingbird 1Ghz processor, the smartphone rowing somewhat in launching applications, browsing the menu and scroll contacts or web pages. This could be because it was a preproduction version of the phone, and everything is perhaps not yet developed on the model tested. We can leave the smartphone, in this case, the benefit of the doubt. Like Sense HTC, Samsung integrates an aggregator of social networks, Social Hub, which combines feeds from Facebook, Twitter or MySpace on a single screen. As against the Mini Diary program, which offers the possibility to create type blog entries, with text, photos, and another is strangely disconcerting, because can not be synchronized with social network or blog to post entries.

Photo and video capabilities a little weak

The 5 megapixel camera for its part is quite disappointing. Face up to its competitors for a quality test, it gets the worst score among the panel of the HTC, Motorola and iPhone 4 in the realism of color accuracy and image tests distortions. He anticipates, however, the Evo 4G in terms of quality of exposure. By cons, on video, it took second place in Group: recording in a very enlightened appears slightly grainy and underexposed on the big screen, but on the small screen, everything looks very good. Its auto-focus, however, is a little time searching before settling, while the microphone may work too well on the audio recording is made, the sound was far too high and loud, while the other smartphones ‘had just received. In low light, finally, the image was too dark and fuzzy for the Galaxy S wins first place.