Samsung Star II

An improvised successor of Samsung Star will soon unveil and it has been named as Samsung Star II. It is a basic, entry-level clamshell GSM touch-screen mobile phone. It has a 3.0-inches high quality TFT capacitive touch-screen display that gives standard WQVGA type 240 x 400 pixels resolution. The dimensions of this device are 107.5 x 54 x 12.4mm and it weighs 94 grams. The organizer features on-board of Samsung Star II are calculator, calendar, alarm, document viewer and to/do tasks. The phone is also endowed with smart dialing, smart unlock and accelerometer sensor. It is offered in two color shades, a basic Black color and a soothing White colour.

The music based features of Samsung Star II resembles that of any other basic phone superfluously but are quite interesting as and when noticed closely. Samsung Star II have inculcated good music based features like FM radio with RDS, a decent music MP3 player and Find Music recognition service.MP3/WAV/WMA/AAC+ audio formats are allowed on this phone.

Samsung Star II sports a decent camera of 3.15 Mega Pixels with fixed focus and digital zoom. It displays images in 2048X1536 pixels resolution. This camera is quite cool as it has smile detection like features. Quick snap shots clicked from this camera can also be instantly uploaded on a social networking site because phone has direct SNS integration service. It can also record QVGA type videos at 15fps which may be played in H.263/H.264/MP4 formats.

The Samsung Star II has on-board memory of 30 MB to boast of and as such can store good number of phonebook contacts, SMS and call details (up to 30 missed, dialed and received calls can be tracked) in it. The phonebook entries are easily managed on this handset whose phonebook features includes caller groups, multiple numbers per contact, picture ID and ring ID. There is support for hot-swappable microSD card of 16GB capacity on this handset.

Samsung Star II has a rechargeable Li-ion battery rated at 1000mAh integrated in it. The battery is quite capable and it easily delivers talk time of up to 8 hours 20 minutes. It can be easily kept on standby for more than 900 hours.

There are speakerphones and DNSe sound technology embedded in the phone along with 3.5mm audio jack for the best of music output on Samsung Star II. The use of Polyphonic, MP3 ringtones on Samsung Star II makes life of users more musical.

The hi-fi advanced connectivity features of Samsung Star II eliminates the need of a PC for its users. They are all comprehensive and have ability to replace the most of the requirements of a personal computer. The phone can easily connect with other compatible Bluetooth devices and is also Wifi enabled.. The phone also gives direct web e-mail access to social networking sites along with Gmail, MSN, Yahoo etc. It The Samsung Star II also offers GPRS connectivity in class 12 along with Bluetooth v3.0 with EDR and micro-USB v2.0.

The Samsung Star II performs remarkably well in the messaging department. The SMS feature is supported and yet the most endearing messaging feature of the cool handset is the embedded Instant Messaging feature. Star II is capable of accessing Yahoo, AIM and MSN on its Instant messenger. Multiple Messaging with SMS and MMS is alsohandy on the phone. The XT9 Predictive text input facilitates faster typing of text messages by letting words fall into right place quickly and easily. The messages can be quickly filtered via its spam filters for the safety and convenience of its users.

On Samsung Star II S5260 , browsing and net surfing is facilitated by the in-built WAP2.0/HTML/xHTML browsers.

The quad band 2G GSM network let Samsung Star II find support in the form of its network and that is there in the configuration of 850/900/1800/1900 MHz frequency.

There are pre-installed games on Samsung Star II that keep users busy and amused in their leisure time.

Samsung Star II is a basic phone that cannot find way with the help of GPS receiver because it is not built inside as the navigation feature is missing from the phone.

Samsung Star II S5260 works on a Samsung’s proprietary operating system and has a TouchWiz User Interface 3.0 embedded inside it to help it become a very easy to operate and use kind of a phone. Interestingly, even with just one sensor, its touch-screen operations occur smoothly. A basic phone endowed with unique abilities, Star II S5260 from Samsung has Document viewer, TFT capacitive touch-screen, Wifi, smart unlocking and smart dialing features to flaunt.

The Samsung Star II comes in candy bar form but looks fuller and bigger. It is lightweight and quite handy. It can be fetched at an attractive price and in two attractive colors viz. Black and White.This GSM handset has some real goodies encased inside. There is Bluetooth v3.0, 3.2 Mega Pixels camera, 1000mAh battery, QuickType T9 Trace keyboard, 3.5mm headphone jack, microSD card slot and Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n.

The Samsung Star II is just a basic touch-screen phone meant for calling purpose. It does not have 3G support. Its display screen has low-resolution. Its 3.15 MP camera is a basic camera with just a fixed-focus camera and no flash and thereby it makes poor quality videos and recording occurs in QVGA@15fps. There is poor web browser and a laggy user interface in the phone.

Samsung Star II was officially announced in January 2011 and is expected to be unveiled soon in the market. This basic feature phone has a set of some really cool and useful features that it will offer at a meager price tag of Rs. 6,540. It features a 3-inch TFT capacitive touch-screen with WVGA resolution and it has an accelerometer sensor and TouchWiz UI v3.0 makes its operation easy and smooth. It also boasts decent multimedia features in form of a 3.15MP camera, FM radio with RDS, 3.5mm headphone jack etc. There is Bluetooth, Wifi, QuickType T9 Trace keyboard. Its 1000mAh battery can give good backup and its microSD card slot support is definitely on users advantage.