Cell Phone Reviews: Samsung Galaxy Spica I5700 Smartphone

The race is on to scale down great smartphones. Samsung is taking part in this new trend of making a large smartphone smaller and less expensive while keeping most of the features. The Samsung Galaxy Spica I5700 is the proof. Read on to find out more on this new smartphone.

Samsung plus google android plus speed and a great screen make for a quick purchase. We could end the review right there, but it would make a few people upset. Seriously, that is the way many smartphones are turning out these days and Samsung is in the front of the pack. This phone takes after the last Samsung model, the Galaxy. It was great, but this one is just a bit lower in price with hardly a drop in usefulness.

The screen is wonderfully bright and clear. It is the new AMOLED style that not only is brighter than the old TFT models, but uses less power. Saving battery power is good, and even though the Spica has a large battery, the screen itself will use ten percent less power than LCD models. It has the now-common ability to move the screen automatically to a portrait or landscape mode just by holding it vertically or horizontally. The resolution is just a bit higher than some at 320 by 380 pixels. The size of the screen is 3.2 inches, which is also 8.1 centimeters. This phone may not be offered in the United States.

The interior is wher the Samsung Galaxy Spica also shines. It is running the super-hot android operating system. This currenty has just over 30,000 applications and growing by leaps and bounds. It is estimated that 333 new applications are made every day for the android operating system. Some of those “apps” can save you money. Some of them help you to use the android system itself by saving you time. Some of them also help you to do things like find torrents. Android is naturally a social networker´s tool or “toy” as the case may be. You can keep up with your contacts and have them all delivered to one convenient place on your screen. If you should lose or have your Galaxy Spica stolen, you can easily erase all the personal information from a distance. It is currently running version 1.5 of the android system.

The smartphone is built with a high level of quality and weighs in at 124 grams. It is 115 millimeters tall by 57 millimeters wide and 13.2 millimeters thick. There is no manual keyboard. Internally there is a magnificent 180 megabytes of storage and a MicroSD card slot is inluded for up to a huge 32 gigabytes of extra space. The camera is rated at 3.2 megapixels and has autofocus, video and geotagging. There is no flash. The processor runs at a very decent 800 megahertz and applications open and close quickly on the Samsung Galaxy Spica.

This smartphone connects to quad band GSM networks on 850, 900, 1800 and 1900 megahertz bands. You also have 900 and 2100 HSDPA bands to finish out the voice communications. For data communications you have everything but an infrared port which few mobile devices use anyway. The WLAN can connect to up to a “G” mode network. The “N” mode is not yet supported.

The Samsung Galaxy Spica comes in black, white and a metallic green color. Prices for this smartphone come in at around $480 dollars for a new unit without a service plan.

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