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Sony Xperia 5 review
GSMArena team, 13 July 2012

Flying high


Samsung Galaxy Ace 2 review: Flying high

  • Comments (128)
  • User reviews
  • Galaxy Ace 2 I8160

1. Introduction
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. 360-degree spin, unboxing, design and build quality
  3. 3. User interface, synthetic benchmarks
  4. 4. Phonebook, telephony, messaging
  5. 5. Gallery, music player, video player, audio quality
  6. 6. Camera, video recording, picture and video comparison
  7. 7. Connectivity, web browser, Samsung hubs
  8. 8. Organizer, Google Maps, Google Play
  9. 9. Conclusion
  10.  
  11. Samsung Galaxy Ace 2 I8160 specification
  12. User opinions and reviews
  13. Review comments (128)

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Introduction

With the Galaxy S III busy grabbing the headlines, a midrange smartphone has been making its way to a number of markets without much fanfare. But you can bet the Samsung Galaxy Ace 2 won't settle for the role of just another sequel. It has a chance to prove the Galaxy S III is not the only superhot smartphone Samsung has released this season.

Samsung I8160 Galaxy Ace 2
Samsung Galaxy Ace 2 I8160 official photo

And it's going to use it. Aiming to deliver 90% of the benefits of its extremely popular sibling for a fraction of the price, the Samsung Galaxy Ace 2 plays to the company's strengths and might turn out to be one of the unsung heroes of the year.

Dual-core might not be top-dog material in the Android realm any more, but it's enough to run virtually all apps and give you a nice smooth sailing around the interface. The entrance of ST-Ericsson in the smartphone race has enabled Android OEMs to make sub-€250 smartphones, with specs that would be considered high-end on any other platform. Now who would say no to a bargain like that?

Key features

  • Quad-band GSM /GPRS/EDGE support
  • 3G with 14.4 Mbps HSDPA and 5.76 Mbps HSUPA
  • 3.8" 16M-color capacitive LED-backlit PLS TFT touchscreen of WVGA resolution (480 x 800 pixels)
  • Android OS v2.3.7 Gingerbread, planned Android 4.0 ICS update
  • Dual-core 800 MHz Cortex-A9 CPU, 768MB RAM, Mali-400 GPU, NovaThor U8500 chipset
  • 5 MP autofocus camera with LED flash and geotagging, Multi Angle shot
  • 720p video recording @ 30fps
  • VGA front-facing camera
  • Wi-Fi b/g/n and DLNA
  • Built-in GPS receiver with A-GPS
  • NFC connectivity
  • 4GB built-in storage expandable through the microSD card slot
  • microUSB port (charging) and stereo Bluetooth v2.1
  • Standard 3.5 mm audio jack
  • Stereo FM radio with RDS
  • Voice dialing
  • Adobe Flash 11 support
  • Accelerometer and proximity sensor

Main disadvantages

  • No Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich out of the box
  • All plastic construction
  • NovaThor U8500 is the least powerful of the dual-core offerings on the market
  • No screen and capacitive key haptics

The recent crop of inexpensive but reasonably powered droids also answers another criticism Android has been facing lately - that it fails to offer performance in a compact package. Sony was first to up the ante with the Xperia U and now Samsung is ready to rise to the challenge.

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Samsung Galaxy Ace 2 I8160 at ours

The Koreans have stepped up the pricing of their smartphone a bit, but they are willing to throw in a larger screen and expandable storage, so it's going to be a pretty tough pick between those two. Let's waste no more time then and get down to testing - the answers should be coming as the review unfolds.

Next Page » 2. 360-degree spin, unboxing, design and build quality
1. Introduction
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. 360-degree spin, unboxing, design and build quality
  3. 3. User interface, synthetic benchmarks
  4. 4. Phonebook, telephony, messaging
  5. 5. Gallery, music player, video player, audio quality
  6. 6. Camera, video recording, picture and video comparison
  7. 7. Connectivity, web browser, Samsung hubs
  8. 8. Organizer, Google Maps, Google Play
  9. 9. Conclusion
  10.  
  11. Samsung Galaxy Ace 2 I8160 specification
  12. User opinions and reviews
  13. Review comments (128)

Reviews Samsung Galaxy Ace 2 review
  • Comments (128)
  • User reviews
  • Galaxy Ace 2 I8160

Samsung Galaxy Ace 2 review: Flying high - Reader comments

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  • bluemoto123
  • pW4
  • 29 Jan 2019

Stuck on 2.3.6. Not upgradeable.

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  • Ayesha fatima
  • X}$
  • 30 Nov 2017

Please remake this mobile because this phone is very best of the best.

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  • AnonD-306279
  • pp}
  • 12 Sep 2014

Take Clean Master from Google Play. Ace 2 have few memory types. So if you delete an app that doesn't mean you free other type of memory.

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