Samsung Star (S5230) is a mobile from Samsung Electronics based on a compact design and a high degree of usability. The phone appears to be a full touch functional phone at an affordable price. The phone has a wide range of multimedia features and large touch screens that make it a popular phone.
Samsung Star has dimensions of 104 x 53 x 11.9mm and weighs only 92g which explains why it is a lightweight phone. Its 3.0-inch WQVGA full touch screen, TouchWiz user interface with mobile widgets makes navigation easy and adds the element of style. This Samsung phone also has an accelerometer which is now used in mobile phones for automatic image rotation, motion sensitive mini-games and to correct for movement when taking photos. Haptic technology makes this phone shake gently when you type something on the touch screen.
On the imaging front, Samsung Star packs a 3.2-megapixel camera that features Smile Shot mode for smile recognition. Smile Recognition is a new technology that makes new digital cameras take snapshots when the object smiles. The camera of this Samsung S5230 mobile records in QVGA at 15fps, which is considered a good quality for video recording. The multimedia player of this mobile can play different file formats such as MPEG4, H.263, H.264, WMV, etc. Smasung has used DNSe in this phone which is a 3D sound technology used to greatly improve the sound quality of the mobile phone.
Samsung Star is compatible with Google applications such as Google Search, Gmail and Google Maps. The mobile tracker installed on Samsung Star makes it a bit more secure against the ever increasing mobile phone thieves. One More Useful Feature Mobile Printing (BPP/Pictbridge) will help people print directly from their mobile device to Pictbridge-enabled printers. Star’s Photo Contact feature allows you to dial a number by touching a particular contact image.
Internet function in Samsung Star S5230 includes email with POP3 / SMTP / IMAP4 configuration support. Connectivity is supported by Bluetooth, WAP, USB, SyncML(DS) and PC Sync application. The virtual QWERTY keyboard with handwriting software makes sending emails and messages a pleasant experience.
Samsung Star’s built-in memory has 50MB of space, but the microSD memory card slot supports up to 8GB of additional storage space. Therefore, people may consider buying additional memory as the internal memory is not enough for any important act with the camera. It has a 1000 mAh battery that provides 13 hours of talk time and 600 hours of standby time. The mobile costs around Rs 11,000 in India.