Samsung Galaxy Fame S6810

Zitat: There´s nothing wrong with a cheap, functional smartphone, and the Galaxy Fame is exactly that. The trouble is that even at this price the Fame is being squeezed out by much better phones that cost roughly the same amount. Windows-toting Lumia 520 is a much better performer at a similar size, and the Moto´s E and -G knock the Fame for six. It´s not a bad deal, but for just a tiny bit more there are better deals to be had.

Zitat: The Samsung Galaxy Fame is a cute and compact smartphone running Android Jelly Bean. A small battery and a sluggish processor are the only downsides.

Zitat: Pro: + Decent outdoor shots from snapper + Compact design + support for NFC. Con: - Laggy performance - Low-res small screen - Keyboard gripes. Samsung’s Galaxy Fame doesn’t really offer enough for the price. The small display is low-res, and performance is disappointing. Battery life is mediocre – and there are better handsets out there for the money.

Zitat: A budget phone with Samsung’s excellent build quality, but poor performance and a short battery life detract from it

Zitat: The good: + The Samsung Galaxy Fame’s build won’t blow you away: it’s a stubbier version of the same plastic pebble-shaped design the South Korean pioneered - or arguably underwhelmed us with - with the Samsung Galaxy S3. But modestly sized screens (think less than four inches) like this don’t come along that often these days, and if you know you prefer something petite, it’s something to seriously consider. Not everyone may like the slippery plastic, but even if you do drop it, you can tell the Galaxy Fame will survive plenty of rough and tumble, unlike metal and glass delicate works of art like the iPhone or HTC One. More impressive is the software: while there are bigger, faster Android phones available for around the same price, that’s on paper. Not all of them run version 4.1 “Jelly Bean”, which gives apps a serious speed boost, and of those that do, some are still far slower than they ought to be - like Huawei’s Ascend G510 . Though it’s chugging along on a mere single core 1GHz processor, the Galaxy Fame whizzes along nicely, even coping with recent games like Temple Run 2. Samsung’s not stuffed the Galaxy Fame with pointless extras either, as it has with the Galaxy S4: all you’ll find is Samsung’s own Apps download store, but you don’t have to use it. Just head straight to Google Play to stock up on everything - there are more than 700,000 apps and games available, so it’s hard to go wrong here! The bad: - While the performance and software of the Samsung Galaxy Fame are every bit as good, if not superior to all of Huawei and ZTE’s efforts at the same price point, the screen is a little bit wanting. At a mere 320x480, it’s low resolution even for such a small screen: just to give you some idea, this is the same resolution that the very first Android phone, the T-Mobile G1, launched with five years ago. It’s not so bad for watching videos, but it makes reading long articles and emails a bit of a strain - if you’re a fan of read-it-later apps like Pocket, you may not want to use them on this. And good luck judging whether your shots from the five megapixel camera have turned out any good or not on it either, for that matter (they’re pretty mediocre, in case you were wondering, though at this price we don’t expect much else). Given its low power specs, we were also a bit disappointed to find that the battery life wasn’t up to much: a paltry 1300mAh cell means that though it’s pushing fewer pixels and a slower processor, you still only get a day or so’s use out of it. If you want an Android phone with multiple-day battery life, the fact remains that your only real option is a gigantic Samsung Galaxy Note . If you’re fed up with the all the hype about super charged phones with even bigger screens, and you’re sure an iPhone isn’t for you, the Samsung Galaxy Fame might well be the best pick out there. Sure, it’s not as high spec as the Sony Xperia U , but it’s running powerful, more up to date Android 4.1, which is about as much as you can ask for right now, especially for around £110 on Pay As You Go. If it’s build quality you’re after though, rather than sheer number of apps, the Nokia Lumia 620 will still steal your heart.