Samsung Star S5230

Samsung’s Star (S5230) is the perfect Touch screen mobile. This phone heats up the competition between mid rage touch-screen mobile phones.

Thumbs up for :
1.Including the Accelerometer feature in a mid range mobile.
2. Its Smart TouchWhiz interface.
3.The handwriting recognition feature is pretty accurate.
4. Smile Detection feature
5.This device could give your portable music player a run for its money.
6.Squeezing in all these features for a decent price.

Thumbs Down for :
1. Even a low range mobile now comes with 3G enabled.I don’t know why Samsung missed out this.
2.No auto focus feature in the camera.
3.Excluding GPS , makes this phone an incomplete touch screen mobile. (May be its low price is one of the reason for this ).

Design :
Samsung star (s5230) has a slim and sleek design which deceives us from its low price tag . This sleek beauty hosts a 3 inch display with a 240 x 300 pixels resolution. Below this display we have three buttons one acts as a back button and other two as a call receiver buttons.

Interface :
The TouchWhiz interface of this phone is smart enough to respond to your touches and taps pretty quickly.The best part about its interface is the widgets,Widgets makes the navigation more easy.More interestingly,it supports scrollable home screen ,it means that you can have upto three customizable home screens (like you have workspaces in ubuntu OS). This phone also sports a 3D photo contacts view .which gives you a scrollable photo contacts like you see in the pic below.

Music Player :
This phone has a good Music player with a good music library.The music player can also be minimized to play in the background.you can also include a dedicated music widget in the home screen to access it at your will easily.The phone gives a good surround sound effect.with its 16GB external memory , this phone could give your portable Music player a run for its money.

Camera :
This touch screen mobile from samsung houses a 3Mp camera with smile detection feature.This phone is smart enough to wait until a person smiles and as soon as person does, it snaps a photo.The real let down when it comes to camera, is the absence of auto focus feature and also its poor video recording quality.

Surprise elements :
The surprise element in this phone is the gesture lock,which enables users to simultaneously unlock the phone and open a menu item or an application, or even dial a contact, just by drawing an alphabet letter on the unlock screen.