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Samsung Galaxy Premier review: A droid of stature

12 November 2012 | Read the review | Post your comment
Samsung Galaxy Premier review: A droid of stature - read the full textSpreading the Galaxy S III magic to as many market segments as possible is what Samsung is actively trying to achieve these days. After the power users were treated to the Note II and those looking for a premium...

 

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I think it will be priced between s3 and s3 mini . S3 mini with its crap Nova Thor is expensive. Damn Samsung mobiles are always good but overpriced.

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  • 2012-11-14 05:09
  • t7Cs

I think its battery endurance will be around 55h

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  • 2012-11-13 20:36
  • fm0T

> In reply to Dilmeet @ 2012-11-13 10:50 from vGfk - click to readPoly Carbonate is plastic!
Secondly I like that its made of light weight plastic and that with Samsung I can remove the back cover to access the battery easily. The front is glass like all modern phones the back is functional and not made out of stupidly heavy materials and is easily replaced when scratched. Try doing that with an iPhone or a HTC phone.

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  • 2012-11-13 17:02
  • nUhX

> In reply to Soapdish @ 2012-11-13 09:46 from QJqc - click to readI agree with you. Samsung have a plastic phones (very cheap plastic). Another problem with Samsung phones is quality - especially bad.
But some people are blind and they don't see this or maybe they don't want to see this...

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  • 2012-11-13 15:07
  • 0ZhV

Please update review with battery test. Thx

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  • 2012-11-13 14:29
  • 0wNQ

Lets see how the pricing goes

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  • 2012-11-13 13:56
  • 7t8x

hope for $350 or less! i'll buy it..

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  • 2012-11-13 12:17
  • M{nV

Actually this is a great phone for cortex a9 class. I hope samsung doesn't mess with the pricing

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  • 2012-11-13 11:19
  • KiV7

Boring Looks and Cheap Plastic Feel! I love the H/W but Samsung needs to learn a lot in terms of Design! It does not feel or look premium at all! Why not experiment with Poly Carbonate for God's Sake Samsung! Hope there Plastic agreement ends soon! Nokia Lumia 820, 920, HTC One S, VX, One X+ are some designs people love and they are there across all price bands!

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  • 2012-11-13 10:50
  • vGfk

Hmmm.... Another plastic Soap Dish from Samsung..... Yawn.....

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  • 2012-11-13 09:46
  • QJqc

Battery test is something I would like to see :P

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  • 2012-11-13 06:32
  • up7B

Samsung Galaxy Premier = Galaxy Nexus + microSD + native video call capability.
let's hope the price is right...

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  • 2012-11-13 05:23
  • tA$j

> In reply to UHF @ 2012-11-13 02:15 from YhhM - click to readYou are blind!!

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  • 2012-11-13 05:01
  • R0Ky

i was keen to buy this mob on first day 1st show .....u r saying that 4.68 screen mobile,havin 1 gb ram,2100 mAH battery -falling in medium range realy killed my mood .....

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  • 2012-11-13 04:28
  • U{x9

Noticed that GSMArena placed all-plastic body among the "cons".

Please stop giving plastic a bad rap. Plastic is an excellent material for mobile devices and almost a requirement for many more portable items. There are as many kinds of plastic as there are many kinds of aluminum (including your Reynold's wrap and soda cans).

Where necessary plastic can be made durable, highly shapeable, flexible, colored-through, and can return to its shape after impact. It can be made to mimick any other material - leather, wood, etc. and good execution can really fool anybody.

Plastic is used today in very demanding applications like handguns (e.g. Glocks), high-end, high-clarity military/sports eyewear (e.g. Oakleys), high-end sports car bodies (carbon-fiber reinforced polymers in formula ones and ferraris), crash helmets, etc.

The days of glorified aluminum (really the most abundant metal on earth's surface, yet hyped as gold, platinum) are numbered.

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  • 2012-11-13 04:28
  • wMHH

> In reply to UHF @ 2012-11-13 02:15 from YhhM - click to readI agree they all (Note 2, S3, Premier, mini) look alike, but you'd had to be quite "special" for not telling the difference between any of those and an iPhone.

By no means look any of the "iPhonish". And I don't mind to have a homogeneous design language for the entire line up once a year. The Note, S2, S Advance and Ace (which I think the S3 mini replaces) all look alike too and that was not a problem either.

Probably the SGS4 will set the design language for 2013's line up.

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  • 2012-11-13 03:31
  • 8IH$

> In reply to UHF @ 2012-11-13 02:15 from YhhM - click to readTrue. But u have to know that Samsung the biggest Apple fan! Hahaha just kidding, actually the galaxy pramier has better GPU than note 2 and S3?!

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  • 2012-11-13 03:28
  • 3YbA

> In reply to UHF @ 2012-11-13 02:15 from YhhM - click to readYeah u r right

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  • 2012-11-13 02:54
  • PSxg

If this phone is priced right it has everting to become a hit!!!

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  • 2012-11-13 02:22
  • 3AcQ

I understand that Samsung developed the new nature/human design of the S3, but this is getting ridiculous. One cannot tell the difference between the Mini, Premier, S3, and the Note 2. Yes, obvious size differences between the Note 2 and Mini, but they all look almost identical. Very iPhone "ish".
I'm not hating since I have a Note 2 on order from Verizon, but give the design a break and make something different looking.

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  • 2012-11-13 02:15
  • YhhM
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