Samsung Galaxy Mini
The Samsung Galaxy Mini is a smartphone manufactured by Samsung that runs the Android operating system, announced and released by Samsung in early 2011, as a replacement for the E1107 and Galaxy 5. In some markets, it was sold as the Samsung Galaxy Next/Pop/NG, while it was sold in the United States as the Samsung Dart exclusively for T-Mobile. It was available in four different colors; steel grey, white, lime, and orange. With this release, the face buttons were changed to capacitive touch, matching the rest of the Galaxy lineup.
It was succeeded by the Samsung Galaxy Mini 2, featuring a better screen, higher clocked processor, and drastically improved memory over the original, as well as Bluetooth v3.0, Wi-Fi Direct & NFC support, among others.
Features
The Galaxy Mini is a 3.5G smartphone that offers quad-band GSM and was announced with two-band HSDPA at 7.2 Mbit/s.The display is a -diagonal TFT LCD with a 240×320 pixels QVGA resolution supporting up to 256,000 colors.
The Galaxy Mini was presented as an entry-level smartphone, and was one of the cheapest Android phones then on the market.
The Galaxy Mini originally ran on Android 2.2 "Froyo", but in May 2011, Samsung announced that the Galaxy Mini would get an official upgrade to Android 2.3 Gingerbread. An official upgrade to Android 2.3.6 was released via Samsung Kies on 9 December 2011 for some mobile operators. The Galaxy Mini can also be flashed with custom ROMs such as CyanogenMod releases where it is codenamed tass. The officially supported version of CyanogenMod on the Galaxy Mini as of August 2012 is CyanogenMod 7.2. It will run CyanogenMod 10/10.1/10.2 and even 11, but it is not officially supported, so there may be stability or performance issues, especially in the latter case.
It can be overclocked to 800 MHz with SetCPU.
Key features
Source:- Dual-touch
- Quad-Band GSM and dual-band 3G support
- 7.2 Mbit/s HSDPA
- WiFi 802.11
- Bluetooth technology v 2.1
- USB 2.0
- 256K-color QVGA TFT touchscreen
- Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 MSM7227 system-on-chip
- * ARMv6 600 MHz CPU
- * Adreno 200 GPU
- Android OS v2.2 with TouchWiz v3.0 UI, upgrade to v2.3.6 available in some places.
- 384 MB RAM
- 160 MB internal storage, hot-swappable MicroSD slot, 2 GB card included
- 3.15 Mpixel fixed-focus camera with geo-tagging
- GPS receiver with A-GPS
- FM radio with RDS and Radio Text
- 3.5 mm audio jack
- Document editor
- Accelerometer and proximity sensor
- Swype virtual keyboard
- MicroUSB port and stereo Bluetooth 2.1
- SNS integration
- Image/video editor