Samsung I8530 Galaxy Beam

Samsung

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Design
7.1
Features
7.3
Performance
7.1
Votes:
97

General 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100
SIM Mini-SIM
Announced 2012, February
Status Available. Released 2012, July
Body Dimensions 124 x 64.2 x 12.5 mm (4.88 x 2.53 x 0.49 in)
Weight 145.3 g (5.11 oz)
 - Built-in nHD projector
Display Type TFT capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size 480 x 800 pixels, 4.0 inches (~233 ppi pixel density)
Multitouch Yes
 - TouchWiz UI v4.0
Sound Alert types Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
Loudspeaker Yes
3.5mm jack Yes
Memory Card slot microSD, up to 32 GB
Internal 8 GB storage, 768 MB RAM
Data GPRS Class 12 (4+1/3+2/2+3/1+4 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
EDGE Class 12
Speed HSDPA, 14.4 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps
WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, DLNA, Wi-Fi hotspot
Bluetooth Yes, v3.0 with A2DP, HS
USB Yes, microUSB v2.0
Camera Primary 5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash, check quality
Features Geo-tagging, touch focus, face and smile detection
Video Yes, 720p@30fps, check quality
Secondary Yes, 1.3 MP
Features OS Android OS, v2.3.6 (Gingerbread), planned upgrade to v4.1 (Jelly Bean)
Chipset NovaThor U8500
CPU Dual-core 1 GHz Cortex-A9
GPU Mali-400
Sensors Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass
Messaging SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM
Browser HTML, Adobe Flash
Radio Stereo FM radio with RDS
GPS Yes, with A-GPS support
Java Yes, via Java MIDP emulator
Colors Black
 - SNS integration
- MP4/DivX/WMV/H.264/H.263 player
- MP3/WAV/eAAC+/AC3/FLAC player
- Organizer
- Image/video editor
- Document editor
- Google Search, Maps, Gmail,
YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Picasa
- Voice memo/dial/commands
- Predictive text input (Swype)
Battery   Li-Ion 2000 mAh battery
Stand-by Up to 760 h (2G) / Up to 760 h (3G)
Talk time Up to 20 h (2G) / Up to 9 h 40 min (3G)
Misc SAR US 0.36 W/kg (head)     0.78 W/kg (body)    
SAR EU 0.28 W/kg (head)    
Price group
Tests Display Contrast ratio: 1048 (nominal) / 1.315:1 (sunlight)
Loudspeaker Voice 65dB / Noise 64dB / Ring 66dB
Audio quality Noise -88.6dB / Crosstalk -89.1dB
Camera Photo / Video
Battery life Endurance rating 52h

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Samsung I8530 Galaxy Beam - user opinions and reviews

  • raashu

Battery sucks....worst than iphone

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  • 2013-05-20 12:55
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  • Shao

finally we have source of jb for out galaxy beam !!!! look: http://opensource.samsung.com/ - type gt-i8530 and look at this: gt-i8530_latin_jb_opensource_update1.zip :)

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  • 2013-05-20 10:47
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  • Humpz

When will be the release of the Jelly Bean update? Since last year I've already read that there will be update but until now there is no news about the said update. SAMSUNG...any plans?

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