With MWC almost within touching distance, Samsung has introduced the newest member of its popular Galaxy gang – the Galaxy S Advance.
Constructed along similar lines to the original Galaxy S model but with a curved design, the Advance version packs a decent punch for a smaller price.
The phone boasts a 4-inch Super AMOLED display, dual-core 1GHz processor, 5-megapixel camera with LED flash and front-facing 1.3-megapixel snapper, HSPA 14.4 Mbps connectivity, Android Gingerbread software, up to 32GB of memory, and 768MB of RAM.
Samsung says its latest Galaxy smartphone is designed for those who “define themselves by the phone they carry” because of its “balance of style, power and performance”.
Inside, there is Samsung’s TouchWiz UI and a range of Hubs including for music, e-books and gaming. There is also the firm’s ChatON service for messaging friends more easily, and the Find My Mobile function. This encrypts the phone’s data should you lose it, and you can then track it online or remotely wipe its details.
There is no word on pricing yet for the Samsung Galaxy S Advance, but it is coming to Europe “gradually” after its release in Russia in February. You can expect to see it in on display at MWC.
And while we’re on the topic of next month’s MWC, time will soon reveal whether the Galaxy S II’s successor will be unveiled during this event. Some claim the Galaxy S3 handset is destined for an April launch, after a February introduction – which is what happened with the current model last year, of course.
Do you want to see the Galaxy Advance alongside the Galaxy S III at MWC?
In the meantime, you can read more on the newest member of the Galaxy clan, below.
Full press release:
Samsung offers style and power with GALAXY S Advance
January 30, 2012
Latest addition to Android-powered GALAXY portfolio delivers sleek curved design with Dual Core performance
SEOUL, Korea – January 30, 2012 – Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, a global leader in digital media and digital convergence technologies, today announced the launch of the Samsung GALAXY S Advance. Designed for those who define themselves by the phone they carry, the GALAXY S Advance strikes a balance of style, power and performance. It will be available in Russia starting from February, and then be gradually rolled out in CIS, Europe, Africa, Middle East, Southeast and Southwest Asia, Latin America and China.
“The GALAXY S Advance adds to the successful track record of the GALAXY smartphone range with a phone that combines power and style with all the versatility of Samsung’s Hub services,” said JK Shin, President of IT & Mobile Communications Division at Samsung Electronics.
Dual Core performance, curved design and Super AMOLED display
Powered by a dual core 1.0 GHz processor and HSPA 14.4 Mbps connectivity, the GALAXY S Advance has been built with power and connectivity in mind, delivering great versatility and a highly responsive user interface for easy multitasking. Application start-ups are faster with virtually no lag time, and the user experience is boosted with smoother screen transitions, faster image processing, and enhanced Web download and browsing performance.
The GALAXY S Advance’s curved glass design enhances handling of the phone and fits the user’s facial form easily and naturally. Its 4.0” Super AMOLED display provides the stunning visuals users have come to expect of Samsung GALAXY smartphones, offering unparalleled color reproduction and ensuring that photos and videos captured with the device’s 5MP camera can be enjoyed with vivid clarity.
The Samsung user experience
Running on Android Gingerbread and featuring Samsung’s TouchWiz user interface, the GALAXY S Advance enables users to stay connected through the Samsung Hubs and ChatON services. Music Hub offers a full music store experience with access to over 11 million tracks and the ability to fully personalize users’ own music catalogues. Readers Hub offers access to over 2.3 million e-books, 3,500 magazine and 200 newspaper titles; while the hugely popular Game Hub offers access to thousands of catalogued games supplemented by gamer news feeds and news.
Samsung’s cross platform communication service, ChatON connects all phone users into a single community using phone numbers instead of usernames and passwords, provides aneasy instant messaging, group chatting and sharing of content in multiple formats—images, video, voice, contacts, calendar—to make messaging simpler and more intuitive than ever.
The GALAXY S Advance also features Find My Mobile, a unique lost-phone management system that ensures secure phone data encryption in case of phone loss, and that enables users to trace their lost phone directly via the Web or even delete the device’s data remotely.
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