Samsung Galaxy Ace
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The Samsung Galaxy Ace, is a smartphone
manufactured by Samsung that runs the open source Android operating system. Announced and released by Samsung
in February 2011, the Galaxy Ace is the successor to the Galaxy 3
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The Galaxy Ace is one of the four budget, low-cost Android-based smartphones planned by Samsung. Being an upper mid-range smartphone, the Ace has a hardware between that of the Galaxy 3 and the Galaxy S; it features an 800 MHz Qualcomm MSM7227 processor with the Adreno 200 GPU.
It is currently available in black with back covers in two different colors, black and white.
Ace has heavy social network integration abilities and multimedia features. It also is preloaded with Google Trademark Mobile Apps.
Since then, the update to Android 2.3.3 or 2.3.4 has been rolled out in many other countries, first including Asian and European countries. Most of the time the update was made available after the carriers have updated their firmware customizations. Because of that, some users have not been able to update their phone's firmware yet as of October 8, 2011.
Smartphone
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manufactured by Samsung that runs the open source Android operating system. Announced and released by Samsung
Samsung
The Samsung Group is a South Korean multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul, South Korea...
in February 2011, the Galaxy Ace is the successor to the Galaxy 3
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The Samsung Galaxy 3, also known as the Samsung Galaxy Apollo, is a smartphone manufactured by Samsung that runs the open source Android operating system...
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The Galaxy Ace is one of the four budget, low-cost Android-based smartphones planned by Samsung. Being an upper mid-range smartphone, the Ace has a hardware between that of the Galaxy 3 and the Galaxy S; it features an 800 MHz Qualcomm MSM7227 processor with the Adreno 200 GPU.
It is currently available in black with back covers in two different colors, black and white.
Features
The Galaxy Ace is a 3.5G smartphone, offers quad-band GSM and announced with two-band HSDPA (900/2100) at 7.2Mbps. The display is a 3.5 inch TFT LCD capacitive touchscreen of HVGA (320x480) resolution. There is also a 5-megapixel camera with LED flash, capable of recording videos at QVGA (320x240) resolution and VGA (640x480) resolution with the Gingerbread update. The Ace comes with a 1350mAh Li-Ion battery. The Ace runs Android 2.2 Froyo, Samsung's proprietary user interface and is also upgradable to Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread.Ace has heavy social network integration abilities and multimedia features. It also is preloaded with Google Trademark Mobile Apps.
Firmware upgrade
From Aug 31, 2011, an update to Android 2.3.4 'Gingerbread' was rolled out for India.Since then, the update to Android 2.3.3 or 2.3.4 has been rolled out in many other countries, first including Asian and European countries. Most of the time the update was made available after the carriers have updated their firmware customizations. Because of that, some users have not been able to update their phone's firmware yet as of October 8, 2011.