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GSMArena team, 4 February 2013

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Samsung I9082 Galaxy Grand preview

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5. Gallery, multimedia
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. 360 degree spin, design and build quality, display
  3. 3. Controls and handling
  4. 4. User interface, synthetic benchmarks
  5. 5. Gallery, multimedia
  6. 6. Still image and video camera quality
  7. 7. Conclusion
  8.  
  9. Samsung Galaxy Grand I9082 specification
  10. User opinions and reviews
  11. Review comments (129)

Samsung Android Touch UI

Stock gallery with a pinch of TouchWiz

The Samsung Galaxy Grand comes with the default Jelly Bean Gallery which, as you'd imagine, has been treated with some additional TouchWiz flair. It opens up in Album view, which is what we're used to seeing. Rather than the familiar stacks, the app uses a grid of photos, two on a line.

Besides Album view, photos can also be sorted by Location, Time, Person (photos with tagged faces) and Group.

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The Gallery app

Getting inside an album displays all the photos in a rectangular grid, which is horizontally scrollable. When you try to scroll past the end, the photo thumbnails will tilt to remind you you're at the bottom of the list.

When viewing a single photo, you'll find several sharing shortcuts and a delete button above the photo, while below is a line of small thumbnails of all other photos in the album. You can tap those small thumbnails to move to other images or you can just swipe sideways.

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Viewing a single photo • Simple editing options

The Gallery also supports highly customizable slideshows with several effects to choose from, as well as customizable music and speed. You can also highlight specific images to be included in the slideshow.

When viewing a photo with people's faces in it, the Galaxy Grand will try to detect them automatically (and you can manually highlight faces where it fails). Buddy photo share will use your contacts' profiles to try and recognize people automatically.

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Putting a name to the face • Manually marking a face

Social tag makes sure that whenever a face is recognized in the photo, their status message appears and you can easily call or message that contact.

Music player with SoundAlive

The Galaxy Grand employs the same TouchWiz-ed music player as other Nature-UX-enabled Galaxy smartphones. Samsung has enabled equalizer presets (including a custom one) along with the sound-enhancing SoundAlive technology, which features 7.1 channel virtualization. The company also uses SoundAlive in some of their MP3 and Android-powered media players.

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SoundAlive offers an extensive list of presets • creating a custom preset

The music is sorted into various categories and one of the options, called Music square, is quite similar to the SensMe feature found on some Sony smartphones. It automatically rates a song as exciting or calm, passionate or joyful and places those tracks on a square (hence the name).

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Music square creates automatic playlists based on your mood

From here, you can highlight an area of the square and the phone will automatically build a playlist of songs that matches your selection.

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The music player benefits greatly from the TouchWiz UI

You can swipe the album art left and right to skip songs. You can also put the phone face down to mute the sound or place your palm over the screen to pause playback.

The Galaxy Grand player is DLNA-enabled, so you're not limited to tracks on your handset - songs on devices connected to your Wi-Fi network are as easy to get to as locally stored songs.

If you've enabled the Motion gestures, you can mute and pause a track by placing the phone face down.

Very capable video player

Samsung has gradually become one of the best around when it comes to video playback, and the Galaxy Grand is no exception. It offers several view modes - grid, list, folders and nearby devices (which accesses DLNA devices).

The grid view shows static video thumbnails (unlike the handset's more powerful siblings, which animate the thumbnails).

The video player on the Grand does feature Pop up play - it moves the video in a small floating window and you can use other apps on the phone with the video on. You can pinch-zoom the video window to adjust its size.

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Browsing the video gallery • Pop up play can be resized

The video player lets you choose between three view modes for how the video fits the screen (fit to screen, fill screen, 100% resolution). The SoundAlive audio-enhancing technology is available here too.

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The video player has a simple interface but is quite capable

The video player lets you squeeze the best viewing experience out of the screen - you can adjust video brightness, Auto play next, play speed, SoundAlive and enable subtitles.

The Samsung Galaxy Grand made a good impression when it offered us a list of subtitles and let us pick. It scans for all subtitles, so the file doesn't have to have the same name as the video file.

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Tweaking the video playback

FM Radio with RDS, broadcast recording

The Galaxy Grand is equipped with an FM radio with RDS too. The interface is simple - there's a tuning dial and you can save as many as 12 stations as favorites. You can also play on the loudspeaker, but the headset is still needed to act as an antenna. You can record radio broadcasts as well.

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The FM radio app

Next Page » 6. Still image and video camera quality
5. Gallery, multimedia
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. 360 degree spin, design and build quality, display
  3. 3. Controls and handling
  4. 4. User interface, synthetic benchmarks
  5. 5. Gallery, multimedia
  6. 6. Still image and video camera quality
  7. 7. Conclusion
  8.  
  9. Samsung Galaxy Grand I9082 specification
  10. User opinions and reviews
  11. Review comments (129)

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