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GSMArena team, 12 December 2014

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Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime review: Mirror shot

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9. Browser, app package
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. Hardware overview
  3. 3. Display, connectivity
  4. 4. User interface
  5. 5. Performance
  6. 6. Telephony, messaging, text input
  7. 7. Gallery, media players, audio quality
  8. 8. Camera
  9. 9. Browser, app package
  10. 10. Conclusion
  11.  
  12. Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime specification
  13. User opinions and reviews
  14. Review comments (295)

Samsung Android

Internet and Chrome

The Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime comes with both the stock Android browser (customized by Samsung) and Google's Chrome. Both support multiple tabs (including incognito ones) and an option to go straight to the desktop version of a page.

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The Samsung-customized Internet browser

With a Samsung account the Internet browser can sync your browsing history and bookmarks between devices, similar to Google Chrome.

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Chrome with data-saving options

Chrome has another trick up its sleeve - it can reduce traffic by compressing web pages on Google's servers before they are sent to the device, similar to how Opera's Turbo mode (and Opera Mini) work.

Other apps

As we've seen so far, the Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime software package is heavily stripped down from the TouchWiz of yesterday. This removes a lot of bloat - but also a lot of functionality - and what's left is a good software package that retains some proprietary TouchWiz perks.

S Planner is the default calendar. It features five different views: daily, weekly, monthly, yearly and agenda. Multiple online calendars are supported (complete with color coding). Despite bearing the same name, coming from the Galaxy Note 4 version of S Planner there's definitely the sense that this is a stripped down version.

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S Planner

The Memo app is fairly powerful, you can add images and voice notes in each memo and sort those in multiple categories. Notes are synced with a server, which is handy if you have several Samsung devices.

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Memo app

The clock app has an alarm clock, World clock, stopwatch and timer modes. Smart alarm can wake you gently by starting a quiet sound that builds over a few minutes before the raw ringer kicks in.

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Alarms • world clock • stopwatch • timer

My Files is the built-in file browser. Its initial screen is quite simple, sorting files by their type (video, document, etc.), but you can browse the built-in and microSD storage folder by folder too. Files and folders can be moved, copied, deleted, renamed and ZIP-ed together.

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My Files with ZIP supoprt

Finally, aside from the Google Play store you get Samsung Galaxy apps - the store for exclusive content for Galaxy smartphones. It has many titles and free content. Additionally, the Galaxy App Center helps you download some Galaxy-branded apps (those are region-limited to Thailand and Laos though). Galaxy Gift, for example, gets you exclusive perks in certain stores and restaurants.

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Google Play Store • Samsung Galaxy Apps

Next Page » 10. Conclusion
9. Browser, app package
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. Hardware overview
  3. 3. Display, connectivity
  4. 4. User interface
  5. 5. Performance
  6. 6. Telephony, messaging, text input
  7. 7. Gallery, media players, audio quality
  8. 8. Camera
  9. 9. Browser, app package
  10. 10. Conclusion
  11.  
  12. Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime specification
  13. User opinions and reviews
  14. Review comments (295)

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