You must remember this one – maybe not by face but certainly by name. The Samsung S5260 Star II has some big shoes to fill: over 10 million units sold propelled the predecessor to Stardom. The original Samsung Star was one of the most popular handsets in the early days of affordable touch phones. For the sequel, the count-up to 10 million has begun but this time around customers are harder to please.
Maybe this is part of the reason why it took Samsung over two years to release the Star II. An upgrade is certainly in order and it’d better be worth it. Here’s what the Star II is bringing to the table in short:
- GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz, GPRS/EDGE class 12
- Dimensions: 107.5 x 54 x 12.4 mm, 94 g
- 3" capacitive TFT touchscreen, WQVGA resolution (240 x 400 pixels)
- TouchWiz 3.0 UI
- 30MB onboard storage
- Hot-swappable microSD card slot (up to 16GB)
- 3.5mm audio jack
- 3 megapixel fixed focus camera with smile detection
- Wi-Fi
- Bluetooth 3.0 with A2DP
- microUSB v2.0
- Document viewer
- Smart unlock
- Smart dialing
- Accelerometer sensor
- FM radio with RDS
- DNSe
- SNS integration
- Find Music recognition service
- Great battery life
- SMS spam filtering
- Decent audio quality
Main disadvantages:
- No 3G
- Low-res display
- Basic fixed-focus camera with no flash
- Poor video recording – QVGA@15fps
- Poor web browser
- Laggy user interface
- The changes aren’t too many but they should be significant enough for an entry-level handset. Does anyone really expect miracles from a €100 phone – 1080p video recording and big AMOLED screens are reserved for the expensive devices.
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