Samsung Milky Way Grand is a mid-range smartphone alongside high-end ambitions. Its 5-inch covert as well as Milky Way Note-like aesthetic gives it premium looks. The smartphones packs inward lots of practiced features – similar a amend camera, bigger screen, as well as faster processor –for those who actually demand the convenience of i device acre withal using ii numbers.
In samsung Grand you lot also larn multi-window, Pop-up play, Smart Stay, due south Voice as well as gesture features but similar on whatsoever other high-end smartphones. There is a 2MP forepart facing photographic tv set camera along alongside an 8MP raise photographic tv set camera onboard. It also has Android Jelly Bean operating organisation onboard along alongside a dual-core processor as well as a 2100 mAh battery. Let’s guide keep a detailed review of the phone’s specifications:
Build
In price of construct quality, Samsung never leaves whatsoever room for complaint. The Samsung Milky Way Grand has a shiny body, which adds to its await as well as is non besides slippery either. There is a enterprise metallic strip, which surrounds the telephone on all sides as well as tin easily withstand a few falls. The dorsum panel is a flake plasticky, as well as that made me nervous sometimes acre opening it to insert my SIM cards. It is thus sparse that it feels similar it mightiness break.
There is no gap betwixt the dorsum panel as well as the inner hardware, which makes the device solid. At 161 grams, it feels a flake heavy. According to Samsung, the Milky Way Grand is but 9.6 mm thin, but it does non experience similar that. All inward all, it is a decent device vis-à-vis construct character as well as looks. The placement of the majority rocker (on the transcend left side), the powerfulness clit (on the correct manus top), a 3.5 mm jack as well as micro USB port (both on the top) are good planned.
Display
However, pictures as well as videos were but thus amazing on the Milky Way Grand that nosotros forgot that it has exclusively WVGA resolution. In some instances, nosotros constitute the Milky Way Grand's display fifty-fifty amend than the Canvas HD's screen. The touchscreen of Milky Way Grand operated flawlessly.
User Interface
This is where the Samsung Milky Way Grand beats all its competitors hands down. I would non hesitate to cite it the junior Milky Way SIII equally it has many features of the latter. As you lot plough on the power, you lot tin run across the notification bar on the top, which you lot tin push clit downward to brand adjustments without fifty-fifty unlocking the handset. There are 3 shortcut menus on the covert equally well, to which you lot tin larn straight equally you lot unlock the phone. You tin modify the shortcut menus from the settings page but you lot tin give-up the ghost on a maximum of 3 shortcut menus. You tin also give-up the ghost on intelligence as well as conditions bars on the lock screen, thus you lot don't guide keep to lock the telephone to cheque them. There are several covert lock options equally well. Unlike many other devices, its human face upward unlock characteristic also industrial plant keen as well as recognizes fifty-fifty inward depression light.The settings card tin live accessed from the notification bar of from the capacitive buttons, which are situated but below the screen. Anyway, at that spot is a settings app, which you lot tin house on the habitation page itself. There are several innovative features inward the Milky Way Grand similar Blocking mode, which you lot tin activate to block all incoming notifications as well as calls acre making a few exceptions. You tin also laid upward the fourth dimension during which this blocking manner volition live activated. There is a Multi Window characteristic equally well, which brings a notification bar similar matter on the left manus side, that you lot tin piece of job to access diverse apps similar Gmail, message, Gallery as well as Facebook acre doing whatsoever other task, including gaming. It also has the famous Video Pop up, due south Voice as well as Stay Awake features. All inward all, the Milky Way Grand is a good equipped handset as well as tin live said to live the most user friendly telephone inward this cost category.
Camera
The Milky Way Grand comes alongside an 8 megapixel raise photographic tv set camera as well as 2 megapixel forepart camera. There is an LED flash beside the raise camera. The 8 megapixel photographic tv set camera tin tape 1920 x 1080 pixel video at xxx frames per second. We guide keep no qualms whatsoever regarding the photographic tv set camera of the Samsung Milky Way Grand. The raise photographic tv set camera is particular at unopen quarters equally it has a practiced powerfulness to focus. You but demand to impact the expanse you lot demand to focus on as well as the photographic tv set camera volition do the rest. Colours are reproduced equally they are. The darker areas seem to live fifty-fifty to a greater extent than dark, but that could live changed a flake if you lot growth the exposure.
Battery
Samsung Milky Way Grand has a normal 2100 mAh battery, which, officially, provides 610 minutes (10 hours) of talktime over 2G/3G networks; acre the standby fourth dimension is 440 hours. It gets charged fully from scratch inside i hour, but tin concur on to that accuse for a real long time. Unlike whatsoever other smartphone, nosotros had kept the WiFi hotspot on for some 4 hours as well as played games for some other 45 minutes. Still the telephone lasted for some other 12 hours. This is incredible for a smartphone. With normal usage, involving 2-3 hours of music, an hr of WiFi/mobile information usage as well as some other hr of gaming, the Milky Way Grand tin concur on to the accuse comfortably for a twenty-four hr menstruum or more.
Performance
The Milky Way Grand has a 1.2 GHz dual heart processor, which is supported past times Android 4.1 Jelly Bean as well as 1 GB RAM. The combination is decent but non ultimate. The telephone managed to play games easily, as well as without much hiccup, but if you lot opened upward 2-3 apps at a time, thus the telephone shows some sluggishness, which should non occur considering that it has a 1 GB RAM. We did non human face upward the same province of affairs inward Canvas HD, but if you lot give-up the ghost on a tab on running applications, as well as unopen them when they are non inward use, thus you lot won't experience a pinch at all.Storage
There is 8 GB internal storage inward the Milky Way Grand, which also has a slot for upward to a 64 GB micro SD card. Out of 8 GB some 4 GB is available for storage. Hence, nosotros give total marks to the Samsung Milky Way Grand vis-à-vis storage facility.
Connectivity
In price of connectivity, too, Samsung Milky Way Grand has many options. Not exclusively does it come upward alongside dual SIM facility, it has micro USB 2.0, WiFi alongside hotspot capability, WiFi Direct, as well as Bluetooth. It has A-GPS as well as Glonass back upward too. Besides, the telephone has an accelerometer, as well as geo-magnetic, gyro as well as proximity sensors.
Conclusion
The Samsung Milky Way Grand is a well-equipped handset as well as is mayhap amid the few at this cost arrive at that await consummate alongside all requisite features. It is impressive alongside its user interface as well as battery life, acre its display as well as photographic tv set camera character were also good. There is plenty storage inward the Milky Way Grand; its functioning is good, but non extraordinary. Although for Rs 20,000 at that spot are many practiced handsets available inward the market. For instance, the LG Optimus Vu, which comes alongside a 1.5 GHz quad heart processor. You tin also consider the Sony Xperia P as well as LG Optimus L9, which are available for a span of thousands less than Milky Way Grand, but guide keep near the same features. There is of course of written report the Micromax Canvas HD, which is good, but is currently non available inward the market.