Samsung Galaxy R

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Samsung Galaxy R GT-I9103
Samsung Galaxy R logo.png
Manufacturer Samsung Electronics
Successor Samsung Galaxy R Style
Related Samsung Galaxy S II
Type Touchscreen smartphone
Dimensions125.3 mm (4.93 in) H
66.1 mm (2.60 in) W
9.5 mm (0.37 in) D
Mass135 g (4.8 oz)
Operating system Original: Android 2.3.5 "Gingerbread" with TouchWiz UI 4.0
Current: Android 4.0.4 "Ice Cream Sandwich"
Unofficial: Android 4.4 "KitKat" via OmniROM
CPU 1 GHz dual-core Nvidia Tegra 250 AP20H SoC processor Ventana
GPU GeForce ultra-low power (ULP)
Memory1  GB RAM
Storage8  GB flash memory
Removable storage microSD (up to 32  GB)
Battery Li-Ion 1650  mAh
Display800×480  px, 10.8 cm (4.27 in) at 218  ppi WVGA Super CLEAR (LCD)
Rear camera5  MP with auto focus, 720p 30  fps HD video recording and stills. Single LED flash.
Front camera 1.3 MP for video chatting, video recording (VGA), and stills
Connectivity3.5 mm TRRS; Wi-Fi (802.11a/b/g/n); Wi-Fi Direct; Bluetooth  3.0; Micro  USB 2.0; DLNA;
Data inputs Multi-touch touch screen, headset controls, proximity and ambient light sensors, 3-axis gyroscope, magnetometer, accelerometer, aGPS, and stereo FM-radio [1]
OtherExchange ActiveSync, integrated messaging Social Hub, Readers Hub, Music Hub, and Game Hub
SAR Head: 0.26 W/kg 1 g
Body: 0.42 W/kg 1 g
Hotspot: 0.417 W/kg 1 g [2]

The Samsung Galaxy R (Royal) (GT-I9103) is an Android smartphone that was announced by Samsung on August 10, 2011 as a variant to the Samsung Galaxy S II. [3]

Contents

Launch

The Galaxy R was launched in September 2011 in Taiwan. [4]

Issues

The phone has an issue wherein the phone will not be able to boot, even after a reset.

Hardware

Processor

Nvidia's Tegra 2 System on a chip (SoC) uses Nvidia's own GeForce ultra-low power (ULP) for its GPU. [5]

Nvidia's Tegra 2 supports the Tegra Zone application and service [6] which is intended to give Android users an enhanced gaming experience by allowing users to download games that have been well optimized for Tegra 2 powered devices. This has been marketed as "console-quality gaming" by Nvidia. [7] Tegra 2 also features support for hardware acceleration for Flash and Javascript within websites, and is one of the first SoCs to be natively supported by Android 3.0 "Honeycomb". [8]

Memory

The Galaxy R features 1 GB of dedicated RAM and 8 GB of internal mass storage. Within the battery compartment there is an external microSD card slot.

Display

The Samsung Galaxy R uses a 108.5-millimetre (4.27 in) WVGA Super CLEAR LCD (SC-LCD) capacitive touchscreen. It has a 4.2" 16 million colours screen, without using the Pentile matrix.

Camera

On the back of the device is a 5-megapixel camera with single LED flash that can record videos in high-definition 720p. There is also a fixed-focus front-facing 1.3-megapixel camera for video calling, taking photos as well as general video recording. The video recording has been criticized for the lack of focus.

Connectivity

GPRS: Class 33, EDGE: Class 33, HSDPA: 21 Mbit/s; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbit/s, WLAN: Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, Wi-Fi hotspot, DLNA, Bluetooth: Yes, v3.0 with A2DP, EDR, USB: Yes, microUSB v2.0

Software

Android 2.3 and 4.0

The Galaxy R ships with Android 2.3.4 "Gingerbread" installed. An Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich" update for the Galaxy R was released in August 2012. [9]

After-market development

Android Jelly Bean 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3

Official CyanogenMod CM 10.1 (Android 4.2) [10] and PAC man ROM (Android 4.2) [11] firmware releases are available for Galaxy R.

Unofficial CM 10 (Android 4.1) and CM 10.2 (Android 4.3) is available for download at xda-developers.com. Many other unofficial custom ROMs: Paranoid Android, AOSP, MIUI, JellyBAM, Carbon ROM, Vanilla Rootbox, JellyBeer, Avatar, Resurrection Remix, LiquidSmooth, to name a few, are also available for download. [12]

Android KitKat 4.4

Official OmniROM 4.4 [13] was released for the Samsung Galaxy R and is available for download in the OmniROM website.

Unofficial builds of CyanogenMod CM 11 [14] and CarbonRom 4.4 [15] are also available for download.

User interface

The phone employs the latest proprietary Samsung TouchWiz 4.0 user interface.

Bundled applications

Four new Samsung 'Hub' applications were revealed at the 2011 Mobile World Congress for the Galaxy S II and the Galaxy R includes the same:

Social Hub
Which integrates popular social networking services like Facebook and Twitter into one place rather than in separate applications.
Readers Hub
This hub provides the ability to access, read and download online newspapers, ebooks and magazines from a worldwide selection.
Music Hub
An application store for downloading and purchasing music tracks on the device. Samsung has teamed up with 7digital to offer this service. [16]
Game Hub
An application store for downloading and purchasing games. Samsung has teamed up with partners including Gameloft to offer this service. [16]
Other applications
More applications include Kies 2.0, Kies Air, [17] AllShare (for DLNA), Voice Recognition, Google Voice Translation, [18] Google Maps with Latitude, Places, Navigation (beta) and Lost Phone Management, Adobe Flash 10.2, Polaris Office application and 'QuickType' by SWYPE.

Media support

The Galaxy R supports various audio formats including MP3, OGG, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, WMA, WAV, MID, AC3, IMY, FLAC, XMF audio formats and video formats support for MPEG4, H.264, H.263, WMV, DivX, Xvid, VC-1. Recording & Playback in up to 720p HD video files. [19] Unlike the Exynos 4210 found in the Galaxy S II, the Tegra 2 has been found to not support 'high profile' encoded h.264 video. [20] [21] A recent kernel for ICS (developed by a xda developer) also enabled the mobile to support HDMI output support via micro USB to MHL cable..

See also

Other phones with Tegra 2 SoC:

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