Top 5 features of the Galaxy R smartphone

Samsung is known to set market standards with its Galaxy smartphones. After the success of its high-end Galaxy S and Galaxy S2, it is rumored that Samsung is planning to launch the affordable version of the Galaxy S2, codenamed the Galaxy R in India for Rs.23,000.

While Galaxy R is known to be a toned-version of the Galaxy S2 handset, it doesn’t seem that Samsung has cut down on features with its handset. It features a dual-core processor along with a 5-megapixel camera and Android 2.3 – Gingerbread OS.

Know Your Mobile provides you a round up of 5 features of the Samsung Galaxy R that we like best:

A powerful processor

Samsung has equipped the Galaxy R with a powerful 1 GHz Tegra 2 dual-core application processor.

A 1 GHz processor ensures that you can easily multi-task, surf at fast speeds and download and use various applications easily. It also helps other parts of the phone such as the camera to function fast and efficiently.

Samsung Hubs

Along with Android 2.3 – Gingerbread, Samsung has equipped the Galaxy R with Samsung hubs. Samsung hubs, basically refers to a bundle of applications designed to ensure that you always stay connected.

Samsung has offered 4 hubs with the Galaxy R handset. These are the Social hub, the music hub, a readers hub and a games hub. Each hub is tailor-made to offer the user convenient and fast access to various applications. While the social hub integrates one’s contacts, calendar and email with various social networks, the music hub provides access to around 14 million tracks. The readers hub enables the user to choose from 2.3 million books, 2,000 newspapers and 3,000 magazines. The games hub is designed to provide an enhanced mobile gaming experience using the inbuilt 3-axis gyro sensor.

Enhanced form factor

Being a mid-range handset doesn’t mean that the phone lacks on the style quotient. Along with attractive 66.7 x 125.7 x 9.55mm dimensions, the phone weighs only 131g. The Galaxy R impressed us at the very first look with its metallic finish.

Powerful performance

The Samsung Galaxy R is equipped with a powerful 5-megapixel LED Flash primary camera and a 1.3-megapixel front cam for video chatting.
It offers 720p Video capture along with 1080p full HD video capture.

In addition to that, the Samsung Galaxy R is equipped with a powerful 1650 mAh battery, which provides 580 mins. 3G talktime and 550 hours 3G standby time.

Attractive touchscreen

The most interesting feature of the Samsung Galaxy R is its 4.19-inch Super Clear LCD touchscreen. Samsung also provides a live panel which ensures fully customized homescreens with 3D effects.

Along with that, it is equipped with Samsung TouchWiz UI which ensures enhanced graphic integration, providing the user with a high-quality touchscreen experience.