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| Manufacturer | Samsung Electronics |
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| Series | S-Series |
| Availability by region | May 2009 |
| Successor | Samsung Star II (S5260) Samsung i7500 |
| Related | Samsung F480 Tocco, Samsung S5600 (Preston), Samsung Corby, Samsung Omnia, Samsung Tocco Ultra Edition, Samsung Tocco Lite 2 (S5220) |
| Compatible networks | GSM 850/900/1800/1900 |
| Form factor | Candybar |
| Dimensions | 104 × 53 × 11.9 mm |
| Weight | 93.5 g |
| Operating system | Proprietary |
| CPU | 208 MHz ARM9 CPU |
| Memory | 50/144 MB (Region dependent) |
| Removable storage | Micro SD, Micro SDHC, up to 16 GB |
| Battery | Li-lon 1000 mAh |
| Rear camera | 3.2 Mega Pixel Fixed-Focus Videos QVGA@15fps |
| Display | 240 × 400 pixels (~155 ppi pixel density) Resistive Touchscreen |
| External display | 3 inches |
| Media | MP3, AAC, AAC+, e-AAC+, WMA, AMR, WAV, MP4 |
| Connectivity | Bluetooth 2.1, USB 2.0 |
| Data inputs | T9, Abc |
| Other | Touchscreen, Full web browser (Jasmine), Haptic Touch feedback, ringtone: MP3, WAV |
Samsung GT-S5230, variously marketed as Tocco Lite, Avila, Samsung Star and Samsung Player One, is an entry-level touchscreen phone announced in March 2009 and released in May 2009 by Samsung. [1] It was highly popular as a cheap touch phone, with Samsung reporting sales of 30 million by December 2010. [2]
Contents
- Full specifications
- Platform
- Size
- External display
- Battery
- Camera
- Video
- Music and sound
- Fun and entertainment
- Office
- Messaging
- Memory
- Call functions
- Variants
- Box content
- References
It is available in black, white, and pink, and there are gold and silver special editions. The phone has a 3.0" LCD with 262K Color WQVGA. In total the device measures 104×53×11.9 mm. It uses a WAP 2.0 browser and makes use of Java MIDP 2.0 as its Java support platform. It uses S3C2410 [3] (CPU) at 200 MHz.
Compared to the previous Samsung F480 Tocco, the S5230 (as its "Lite" name would suggest) is a more budget model with a weaker camera, albeit with a slightly increased display size. [4] It was created in response to the success of the LG Cookie, which offered a full touchscreen phone at a budget price. [5] By default the S5230 does not support a 3G network connection and the base model lacks Wi-Fi connectivity; the S5230W and S5233W variants do support Wi-Fi.
The phone has a 3.2-megapixel camera with video recording, the camera having a smile mode and 4× digital zoom. The phone has software for editing photos and videos and music recognition. Its storage can be upgraded to 16 GB with a microSD card. The UI includes widgets which can display information from the internet. The phone has an inbuilt accelerometer for motion gaming and social networking. [6] [7]
