Samsung I8530 Galaxy Beam specification and prices
The I8530 Galaxy Beam by Samsung was announced on February 2012 and the first deals appeared on July 2012. The cell phone is on sale from carriers including AT&T Wireless, Virgin Mobile USA, T-Mobile, Metro PCS as well as retailers like Best Buy, Wal-Mart.
The cell phone runs on the most popular operating system on the market for today - Android OS. I8530 Galaxy Beam was produced with the already out-of-date for today Android version: 2.3.6 (Gingerbread). It means that the cell phone owner will be able to run only some old games and apps with the current OS version. The mobile phone has Dual-core 1.0 GHz Cortex-A9 CPU which provides an outstanding performance. The phone runs 768 MB RAM which is not much for normal usage.
The I8530 Galaxy Beam has good 5 megapixel rear camera. With such camera owner of this cell phone will be able to make good pictures and videos of a satisfactory quality. To make really cool pictures Specspro advices you to check the better Samsung phone Galaxy C7.
The mobile phone has a rather small 4 inch display size.
I8530 Galaxy Beam has removable Li-Ion 2000 mAh battery, that will guarantee up to 760 hours of standby time and about 9 hours of talk time. It is battery life results.
The cell phone's weight is 145.3 grams (5.11 oz), it is 124 mm (4.88 in) high, 64.2 mm (2.53 in) wide and has a 12.5 mm (0.49 in) depth which means that this model is thick.
You can buy I8530 Galaxy Beam in Black color.
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- 2012, February
- Available. Released 2012, July
- Android OS, v2.3.6 (Gingerbread), planned upgrade to v4.1 (Jelly Bean)
- NovaThor U8500
- Dual-core 1.0 GHz Cortex-A9
- Mali-400
- 5 MP, autofocus, LED flash
- 1.3 MP
- 720p@30fps
- Geo-tagging, touch focus, face/smile detection
- 4.0 inches
- 480 x 800 pixels (~233 ppi pixel density)
- TFT capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
- Yes - TouchWiz UI v4.0
- Removable Li-Ion 2000 mAh battery
- About 760 h / About 760 h
- About 20 h / About 9 h 40 min
- 124 x 64.2 x 12.5 mm (4.88 x 2.53 x 0.49 in)
- 145.3 g (5.11 oz, 0.32 lb)
- Mini-SIM
- Black
- 8 GB, 768 MB RAM
- microSD, up to 32 GB (dedicated slot)
- Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, DLNA, hotspot
- v3.0, A2DP
- Yes, with A-GPS
- Stereo FM radio, RDS
- microUSB v2.0
- Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass
- SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM
- HTML, Adobe Flash
- Yes
- Yes
- GSM / HSPA
- GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
- HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100
- HSPA 14.4/5.76 Mbps
- Class 12
- Class 12
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