Detailed Review

Design:

Samsung’s Galaxy Music Duos as the name suggest is a Dual SIM smart phone with focus on music. The handset is compact and fits best in your hand. Its look is catchy and will attract the youth. The handset dimension is 110 mm, 59.0 mm and 12.25 mm in height, width and depth and is 107 gm in weight. The phone has 3 inches scratch-resistant TFT touch screen with 16 million colours and 240 x 320 pixels resolution. It is available in Yellow, blue and white colours. On the top it has a 3.5 mm earjack towards its right and USB/Connector towards its left. The right side has a power key and a dedicated Music Key whereas, the left side of the phone gives you volume/camera key on the upper side and microSD port towards its centre. Over the screen is Speaker grill with proximity sensors along with. Below the screen is a physical home key with back and menu key along its sides and below to it also speakers. On the back of the device you have a 3 megapixels camera. Overall, the phone is handy with a different and attractive look but lacks with the small screen size.

             

Interface/OS:

The Samsung Galaxy Music Duos primarily runs on Google Android 4.0 ICS Ice Cream Sandwich operating system and is easily upgradeable to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean operating system. This phone is power backed by 850 MHz Cortex A-9 processor and 512 MB of RAM. When tested, the mobile functioned smoother and easier. Galaxy Music Duos User Interface is no exception from other Samsung Android smartphone.

Camera:

The Galaxy Music Duos comes with a rich 3 megapixels CMOS camera with Geo Tagging and touch focus features. It has maximum 2048x1536 pixels image resolution. The camera has all smart features like, Geo-tagging, image stabilization and touch focus. The camera gives 25 frames per second video recording with 720 pixels resolution. The image playback supported formats are BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, WBMP and the image captured supported format is JPEG. When tested, the outdoor images were clear and rich with colours whereas, the indoor shots were not that clear as it lacks with flash. The camera captures the picture fast and the overall camera performance is good.

                                   

Memory:

Samsung’s Galaxy Music Duos comes with in-built 4 GB user accessible memory with 512 MB of RAM. It allows you to extend it up to 32 GB through micro SD extension slot.

Battery:

Galaxy Music Duos comes with a standard Li-Ion 1300 mAh battery which to an extend has done justice with this device. It delivers the stand by time of up to 570 hours on 2G and up to 370 hours on 3G. The music playback time for this music centric phone is up to 17 hours and the Talk Time from the battery is up to 15 hours on 2G and up to 6 hours when on 3G. The overall battery performance when tested was great with average daily use but it discharges early with more browsing and 3G use.

Audio/Video:

The music app in Galaxy Music Duos is amazing but it's not exclusive to this particular phone infact it is available on other Samsung models as well. The dedicated music key on the right depth of this phone takes you directly to the music player, which is simple to operate and superb in sound quality. This phone has a FM radio with RDS player and it supports MP3, OGG, FLAC, 3GP, MP4, M4A, IMY, MIDI, AMR, AWB, WMA and AAC (ADTS) audio playback supported formats. Track ID music recognition is in-built in the device and 3GPP, MP4 and AMR are audio recording supported formats. The video playback and recording formats are MPEG4, 3GPP, MKV and WebM.

                            

Features:

Galaxy Music Duos from Samsung is in-built with all basic Android smart phone features and applications. And with upgradeable Android 4.1 Jelly Bean version you can get or download latest android applications to your phone. In-built it has many social and other apps integrated like, Facebook, Twitter, and You Tube. The list of pre-loaded application include: Google Voice Search, Google Talk video chat, Google Mail, Google Calendar and Google Maps with Street View. For connectivity and communication you have multiple options like USB High speed 2.0 and Micro USB support with Native USB tethering. As well as WiFi and WiFi Hotspot functionality with DLNA Certified you can connect/access to internet. Synchronization via Exchange ActiveSync, Google Sync and Facebook is possible. aGPS is in-built in the device and you have a WebKit web browser with Pan and zoom functions in it. Bluetooth technology helps you pair with other devices and share data with them.

Conclusion:

The Samsung Galaxy Music Duos is truly a compact smart phone. It has its own fixed target audience but this phone is much better than others in this price range. Its Music edition is great and the sound quality is good too. Despite its small screen size, low camera resolution and no front camera Galaxy Music Duos has attractive features and good looks. The 850 MHz Cortex A-9 processor and 512 MB RAM supports the device well and the in-built 4 GB memory attracts the audience, specially youth who loves music.

We give this phone 4 star rating.

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