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GSMArena team, 30 December 2014

Core values


Samsung Galaxy Core Prime review: Core values

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  • Galaxy Core Prime

6. Phonebook, telephony, loudspeaker, messaging
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. 360° spin, hardware overview
  3. 3. Display, connectivity, battery
  4. 4. User interface
  5. 5. Performance
  6. 6. Phonebook, telephony, loudspeaker, messaging
  7. 7. Gallery, media players, audio quality
  8. 8. Still and video camera
  9. 9. Browser, other apps
  10. 10. Conclusion
  11.  
  12. Samsung Galaxy Core Prime specification
  13. User opinions and reviews
  14. Review comments (187)

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Phonebook is great

The dialer is the familiar TouchWiz app and features all the basics - smart dial, quick dial and even a video call button. For extra accessibility, the Home button can be set to answer calls while the Power button can be used to reject them.

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Dialer, call log, Favorites and Contacts share an app

The call log can be filtered by call type (missed or rejected) and includes messages. The two other tabs in the app show the Favorites and the full contact list. The shortcut to call/message a contact by swiping right/left is gone.

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Contact window

Basic telephony

Reception on the Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime was good, though not the best we've seen. In-call audio is fairly loud and clear, but there's no noise cancellation so performance will degrade in noisy environments.

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Dialer

The loudspeaker proved rather quiet - with the right ringtone you can tease out an average performance, but using it for hands-free speaking and especially for music is a lackluster affair.

Speakerphone testVoice, dB Pink noise/ Music, dB Ringing phone, dB Overall score
Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime 63.0 60.3 68.3 Below Average
Samsung Galaxy Core Prime 65.5 61.7 65.7 Below Average
HTC Desire 600 dual sim 66.6 74.4 62.3 Average
Nokia Lumia 630 68.0 65.3 75.8 Good
Samsung Galaxy Core LTE 71.2 66.8 75.7 Good
Samsung Galaxy S5 mini 73.5 67.7 78.7 Very Good
Motorola Moto E 75.9 71.5 81.6 Excellent


You can read more about our loudspeaker test, if you have any questions.

Feature-rich messaging

The Messages app retains a good deal of the features, but it's behind the latest TouchWiz. It shows a list of threads (but no row of favorite contacts) and you get to adjust font size (but no background, message bubble styles). The recent split-screen option for landscape mode is gone too.

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Messaging app

Anyway, we're clearly dealing with an older version of the custom app. There's an option to schedule the message for later sending (so you can compose it ahead of time), while the built-in spam filter can help you fend off annoying promo texts.

The Samsung Galaxy Core Prime has two email clients - the Email and Gmail apps. Gmail was recently updated to support third-party servers and has Material Design looks, so we use it exclusively. The Email app is the vanilla Android one and it feels visually outdated.

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The new Material designed Gmail supports third-party servers

Keyboard with swipe input

The custom keyboard has four rows of keys, with the top row doubling as a row of digits with a long press.

The Continuous input option lets you swipe your finger over letters instead of tapping them.You need to enable Predictive text for that to work. The keyboard can learn from your messages and list of contacts to improve its accuracy.

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Standard keyboard • swipe input • speech recognition

An alternative input method is voice dictation. Handwriting recognition is not onboard. Good thing that Android makes it easy to install a third-party keyboard if you're missing functionality.

Next Page » 7. Gallery, media players, audio quality
6. Phonebook, telephony, loudspeaker, messaging
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. 360° spin, hardware overview
  3. 3. Display, connectivity, battery
  4. 4. User interface
  5. 5. Performance
  6. 6. Phonebook, telephony, loudspeaker, messaging
  7. 7. Gallery, media players, audio quality
  8. 8. Still and video camera
  9. 9. Browser, other apps
  10. 10. Conclusion
  11.  
  12. Samsung Galaxy Core Prime specification
  13. User opinions and reviews
  14. Review comments (187)

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  • User reviews
  • Galaxy Core Prime

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