Samsung Galaxy Star
low-end smartphone by Samsung
The Samsung Galaxy Star is a low-end Android-based smartphone manufactured and developed by Samsung Electronics. It was announced in April 2013, and was subsequently released in May of the same year. It is a de-facto successor to the Samsung Star and the successor to the third entry in the Star series, the Samsung Star 3, other than it being one of the cheapest smartphones in the Samsung Galaxy series. Like all other Samsung Galaxy smartphones, the Galaxy Star runs on the Android mobile operating system.
The phone is available in 2 versions: a single SIM version (GT-S5280) and a dual SIM version (GT-S5282). The phone competes with other low-cost smartphones such as the smartphones from the Nokia Asha series as well as low-cost smartphones manufactured by Indian manufacturers such as Micromax, Karbonn, Spice Digital, Lava International and Celkon. It is available in certain Asian countries such as India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Philippines, Indonesia etc. where low-cost smartphones are very popular as well as in Morocco, Algeria, South Africa, Portugal (sold through TMN and MEO), France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine.
Specifications
Hardware
The Galaxy Star follows the slate form factor for smartphones, and features a plastic exterior. The phone features a 1 GHz single-core ARM Cortex-A5 processor and a Mali-300 graphics processor, and comes equipped with 512 MB of RAM and 4 GB of internal storage, of which 2 GB is available to the user.
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