Samsung Galaxy Star

The Galaxy Star follows the candybar form factor for smartphones, and features a plastic exterior.[8] 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. The internal storage can be upgraded to 32 GB through the use of a microSD card.[1][3][4] The device features an accelerometer intended to translate natural gestures into commands on the phone; for example, if the phone is ringing and the user turns it face down, it will stop ringing, or if the user wishes to establish a Bluetooth or wireless internet connection, they can shake the device and it will automatically connect.[9] However, users have found that these gestures are often poorly recognised, resulting in the device performing unwanted tasks. It is not the first device to have these features; the HTC Desire Z introduced these features in 2010.[10] It features a capacitive QVGA LCD touchscreen display which measures 3 inches with a resolution of 240x320 px at 133 ppi with multitouch support.[3] It also provides a 2 MP rear camera with 2x optical zoom and QVGA video recording; however there is no front-end camera provided.[3] The device requires the use of microSIM cards.[3] The phone runs on a 1200 mAh lithium-ion battery. The Galaxy Star's battery drains quickly, but with moderate use on a single SIM, it can last up to 2 days.[8]

The Galaxy Star GT-S5280 and the Galaxy Star GT-S5282 are almost the same, with the only difference between them being that the latter is a dual-SIM phone, having another SIM card slot. Only one SIM is used at a time; a SIM card manager in the device is used to switch between them.

Unlike most other smartphones, the Galaxy Star runs on EDGE networks alone, and doesn't support 3G connectivity.[3] It also does not provide a Global Positioning System (GPS). However it provides support for WiFi connectivity and Bluetooth 4.0.[5]

Like all other Samsung Galaxy smartphones, the Galaxy Star runs on the Android mobile operating system. It runs on a modified version of Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean.[9] Because of this, Samsung has stated that CPU usage is conducted in a more efficient way to ensure longer battery life.[9] Again, as with other Samsung smartphones, the device also uses Samsung's TouchWiz UX Nature user interface as the default user interface, though it is also possible to use other third-party user interfaces. By default, as in other Android smartphones, Google's products such as Google Chrome, Gmail, Google+, Google Hangouts etc. are provided in the phone. The device also has access to the Google Play store, but being a low-end smartphone, new applications as well as applications requiring a large amount of processing power and memory cannot be installed on the device.[7] Samsung's applications such as ChatON and Samsung Apps are also preinstalled, as in other Samsung smartphones. However games like Dead Trigger, Temple Run, Temple Run 2, Temple Run oz, Angry Birds, Jetpack Joyride works with ease.