Samsung I9003 Galaxy SL Review 2011

Samsung I9003 Galaxy SL

The Samsung I9003 Galaxy SL is a victim of timing. It couldn’t have been less fortunate to follow in the footsteps of the original Galaxy S – knowing it will never be able to catch up. At least Samsung should know perfectly well what to expect. The existence of Super Clear LCD in Galaxy S’ new variant – I9003, has now been confirmed. Thanks to listing on Samsung’s website, we now have an official confirmation that the GT-I9003 will be known as Galaxy SL and features a 4-inch Super Clear LCD (WVGA) and a higher capacity 1650mAh battery, like the Galaxy S 4G. A bigger battery has also made the Galaxy SL a bit thick, which is 10.59mm as compared to I9000’s 9.9mm and heavier than the Super AMOLED variant by 12g. 
General 
2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network HSDPA 900 / 1900 / 2100
Announced 2011, February
Status Coming soon. Exp. release 2011, Q1
Size
Dimensions 123.7 x 64.2 x 10.6 mm
Weight 131 g
Display
Type SC-LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size 480 x 800 pixels, 4.0 inches
- Gorilla Glass display
- TouchWiz 3.0 UI
- Multi-touch input method
- Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate
- Touch-sensitive controls
- Proximity sensor for auto turn-off
- Swype text input
Sound
Alert types Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
Speakerphone Yes
- 3.5 mm audio jack
Memory
Phonebook Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
Call records Practically unlimited
Internal 16GB storage, 478 MB RAM user available
Card slot microSD, up to 32GB
Data
GPRS Class 12 (4+1/3+2/2+3/1+4 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
EDGE Class 12
3G HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps
WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n; DLNA
Bluetooth Yes, v3.0 with A2DP
Infrared port No
USB Yes, v2.0 microUSB
Camera
Primary 5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus
Features Geo-tagging, touch focus, face and smile detection
Video Yes, 720p@30fps
Secondary Yes, VGA
Features
OS Android OS, v2.2 (Froyo)
CPU 1GHz Cortex A8 CPU, PowerVR SGX530 GPU, TI OMAP 3630 chipset
Messaging SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM, RSS
Browser HTML
Radio FM radio with RDS
Games Yes
Colors Black, white
GPS Yes, with A-GPS support
Java Via third party application
- Social networking integration
- Digital compass
- MP4/DivX/WMV/H.264/H.263 player
- MP3/WAV/eAAC+/AC3/FLAC player
- TV-out
- Organizer
- Image/video editor
- Document editor (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF)
- Google Search, Maps, Gmail,
YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Picasa integration
- Adobe Flash 10.1 support
- Voice memo/dial/commands
- Predictive text input
Battery
Standard battery, Li-Ion 1650 mAh
Stand-by Up to 610 h (2G) / Up to 550 h (3G)
Talk time Up to 15 h (2G) / Up to 7 h 30 min (3G)

Main disadvantages

* Super Clear LCD is somewhat inferior to SuperAMOLED
* Camera lacks flash
* No dedicated camera key
* The all-plastic body is a real fingerprint magnet
* Feeble loudspeaker
* Increased thickness (10.6mm), height (123.7mm) and weight (131 g) compared to the original Galaxy S (9.9mm, 122.4mm and 119 g)
* Less capable GPU compared to the original Galaxy S