Samsung GT-S5230 (also known as Tocco Lite, Avila, Samsung Star and Samsung Player One) is an entry-level

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announced in March 2009 and released in May 2009 by

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. 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

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. In total the device measures 104x53x11.9 mm. It uses a

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2.0 browser and makes use of Java MIDP 2.0 as its

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support platform. It use
S3C2410
(CPU) at 200 MHz. Compared to the previous

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, the S5230 (as its "Lite" name would suggest) is a more budget model with a weaker camera, albeit with a slightly increased display size. By default the S5230 does not support a 3G network connection and the base model lacks

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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 4x 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.

Full specifications

Platform

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850/900/1800/1900 MHz *

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: Proprietary * UI: TouchWiz 1.0 *

Navigator 2.0, based on WebKit Open Source Project *

MIDP 2.0

Size

* Dimensions: 106 x 53.5 x 11.8 mm * Weight: 93.5 g

External display

* 3"

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, 240 x 400

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resolution 262K color * Resistive touchscreen * Full haptic touchscreen

Battery

* Li-ion 1000 mAh * Up to 10 hours talk time * Up to 800 hours standby time * Long lasting battery

Camera

* 3.2-megapixel *

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of 4x * Multiple shot modes; Continuous/Mosaic Shot/Frame shot/Panorama shot/Smile Shot * Multiple effects; black & white,

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, negative,

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* Photo editing; frames, text and a small collection of clip art

Video

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/H.263/H.264/WMV/3GP video player * 15 fps@QVGA video recording * Video messaging, video streaming * MP4 * 320x180, bit rate 128 kbit/s

Music and sound

* Music player * The following file formats;

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, AAC,

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, e-AAC+, WMA, AMR,

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* 3D Sound Technology (DNSe) * Music library * Digital rights management (DRM): WMDRM (ILA) OMADRM1.0 OMADRM2.0 (operator dependent)

Fun and entertainment

* Embedded Java games * Embedded wallpaper * Pod casting *

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feeds * FM radio with RDS

Office

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: Yes * Mobile printing using PictBridge * Voice mail *

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mode

Messaging

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(

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) * T9 input * Full QWERTY keyboard when in landscape mode. * Full AZERTY keyboard when in landscape mode and the T9 language is set in French * Accelerometer

Memory

* 102 MB standard * Up to 16 GB with SD/MC (varies with specific model) * 2000

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entries * 500 messages (200

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, 200 sent, 50 outbox, 50 draft)

Call functions

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* Call time management * Multiparty (conference call) These specification were provided from Samsung Mobile website.

Variants

*The

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n, Mexican,

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ian,

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, Lithuanian,

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and Australian variant is known as Samsung Star. In

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it is known as Samsung Avila. In

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it is marketed by the name of Samsung GT-S5233A but it is widely known as Samsung Star. *The S5230G comes with an integrated GPS receiver. *The phone also comes in another variant known as Samsung S5230W which supports Wi-Fi. It is called Samsung Star Wifi. *There is also a version of this handset that supports

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(NFC), but it is only available on a limited basis for use in NFC trials.

Box content

Standard contents are: * Phone With Screen guard * Battery * Battery charger * Headphones

References

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