Samsung Galaxy Gio (GT-S5660) is a
smartphone manufactured by
Samsung and running the
Android operating system
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.
It was announced at the 2011
Mobile World Congress
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The event is held in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain at the Fir ...
as one of four low-end Samsung smartphones, along with ''
Galaxy Ace'', ''
Galaxy Fit'' and ''
Galaxy Mini''.
The ''Galaxy Gio'' phone made its Canadian debut in August 2011. Initially available to
Bell Canada
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, the ''Gio'' was soon made available at
Virgin Mobile Canada
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and
Solo Mobile. Starting in December 2011, ''Galaxy Gio'' was also made available in the United States as ''Samsung Repp'' on U.S. Cellular.
Features
Hardware
''Galaxy Gio'' has a
HVGA multi-touch,
capacitive touchscreen
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, a 3.2-megapixel camera with auto focus, and an 800 MHz Qualcomm MSM7227 & MSM7627(Us Cellular) Turbo (ARMv6), 278 MB RAM, 158 Mb internal storage, 3G HSPA+, an FM radio with
RDS support, GPS, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, and a 1350 mAh battery. In addition to the phone's internal memory, the device has a MicroSD card slot, and comes with 2 Gb MicroSD card (as new).
With that phone, the bundled MicroSD card is the main location for storage of apps and user-generated data, such as photos and multimedia.
Software
''Galaxy Gio'' originally came with
Android 2.2 "Froyo", with Samsung's
TouchWiz user interface.
In early August 2011, Samsung officially rolled out the 2.3 "Gingerbread" update via
Kies. In September 2011, Samsung rolled out an update in the Netherlands marked "PDA:KPS PHONE:KPA CSC:KP1 (XEN)".
Users can also upgrade to
Android 2.3.6 "Gingerbread" via
Samsung Kies
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, and , Android 2.3.4 and 2.3.6 had come preinstalled on many ''Gio''s sold throughout the world.
Changes associated with the 2.3.6 update include a new lockscreen, a new phone icon, the blue-glow scrolling effect, and a few other cosmetic changes related to the system UI.
Samsung has not made Android 4.1 available for Gio due to its less powerful hardware, though users can upgrade via Root and
ClockworkMod Recovery. MaclawStudio has also made available a bugless and stable port of the
AOSP-ROM – both 4.0.x Ice Cream Sandwich and 4.1
Jelly Bean.
Because the native Android browser is outdated, modern websites can be visited with
Firefox for Android by Mozilla. As the ''Galaxy Gio'' phone contains a central processor based on ARMv6 architecture, then the most recent Firefox version for ARMv6 devices i
31.3.0esr released on 17 October 2015. Mozilla have since ceased development for this CPU architecture. The primary method to reduce Firefox resource usage is to install the
NoScript Anywhere addon.
See also
*
List of Android devices
*
Galaxy Nexus
References
External links
How to root the Samsung Galaxy Gio S5660Wiki explaining the status of CyanogenMod for Samsung Galaxy Gio (german)
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