Samsung Galaxy Y deals & review

Samsung announced a new naming convention in the summer of 2011 which would replace catchy names with a set of letters and numbers. The Samsung Galaxy Y is one of the first new Samsung phones to adopt this new naming convention and is joined by a keyboard wielding sibling in the form of the Galaxy Y Pro.

The Y series is to be at the lower end of the Galaxy range and is aimed at younger phone users (think Y for "youth"). While the Galaxy Y Pro comes with a BlackBerry style keyboard the Galaxy Y adopts a full frontal touchscreen design. The screen on the Galaxy Y is much smaller than its more famous cousin the Galaxy S2, measuring 3 inches and coming with a lower 256k colour depth.

However, this more youthful Galaxy phone still comes with Android Gingerbread and TouchWiz on board offering an excellent Android experience. There is support for Android Market for apps and games to enjoy, as well as multimedia entertainment from music and video including streaming video from websites like YouTube. Although the Galaxy Y is supposedly at the lower end of the market it still comes with a hefty 32GB of storage available with microSD.

The Galaxy Y also comes with good 3G and Wi-Fi connectivity making it ideal for online activities like web browsing, social networking and instant messaging. The only disappointing feature of the Galaxy Y is the 2 megapixel camera which feels quite dated today, even on a more affordable phone such as this. The camera does come with geo-tagging and some video recording support, but will not be the most fantastic camera you have ever used.

Still, it will be quite acceptable for everyday use and images and videos can be shared online through various services. Camera aside the Galaxy Y is a pocket friendly touchscreen phone offering the latest Android (at its release) with some fantastic entertainment and social networking features that most likely will make it a popular phone with the youth, as Samsung has intended.