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

touchscreen A touchscreen or touch screen is the assembly of both an input ('touch panel') and output ('display') device. The touch panel is normally layered on the top of an electronic visual display of an information processing system. The display is often ...

feature phone 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"

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with 262K Color WQVGA. 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

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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

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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

* GSM & EDGE 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" TFT LCD, 240 x 400

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WQVGA resolution 262K color * Resistive touchscreen * Full haptic touchscreen

Battery

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1000

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* Up to 10 hours talk time * Up to 800 hours standby time * Long lasting battery

Camera

* 3.2-megapixel * Digital zoom of 4x * Multiple shot modes; Continuous/Mosaic Shot/Frame shot/Panorama shot/Smile Shot * Multiple effects; black & white, sepia, 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; MP3,

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, AAC+, 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 *

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with RDS

Office

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: Yes * Mobile printing using PictBridge * Voice mail *

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mode

Messaging

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( POP3/ SMTP/

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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 phone book entries * 500

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(200 inbox, 200 sent, 50 outbox, 50 draft)

Call functions

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

Variants

*The

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ian,

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n, Italian, Belgian,

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n, Portuguese and

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n 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 near field communication (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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