Full Specification

Samsung Galaxy Prime New Display Review - Even as we already discussed, the Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime is the main size-over-resolution line of phones which have become quite well-liked recently. That means any 220ppi - not just a major deal breaker this past year and evidently not this holiday season either (even if 720p is now more common within the midrange).

The display itself is a 5" TFT connected with qHD resolution - that's 540 by 960px or precisely the quarter of the pixels of a FullHD 1080p display. In terms of functionality this is not an issue, we haven't run across apps that experience difficulties with this resolution. It's that you can't fully enjoy the 1080p videos from the Grand Prime's cameras for the device itself.

Text is softer when compared with on higher-ppi exhibits and readability sheds at lower zoom levels. This is more of a comfort issue however, text becomes too small to see before you zoom out enough for it to degrade as a result of resolution. If you paid a premium price for a phone that you do not want any fuzziness, but here you can be more lenient.

Any 21. 5" any 1, 920 by 1, 200px desktop monitor plus a 15. 6" 1, 366 by 768px laptop keep track of (both very common) include just over 100ppi pixel occurrence, so even accounting for that different viewing distance, we reckon your Galaxy Grand Prime screen remains to be good enough.

The TFT specs raised a reddish colored flag - it usually means that poor viewing sides, but it turned out this is not the case. Color and form a contrast do shift slightly at extreme sides though it's hard to see. If you've experienced bad experiences using low-quality TFTs before, you'll be glad to listen to this one is just not affected.

It's somewhat dim for our taste, we kept your brightness slider above the halfway point most likely. Since there's simply no ambient light sensor you cannot rely on the phone to adjust your screen automatically within brighter environments. This will have an effect on battery life in daily work with.

Also, when you force the slider close to 100%, the form a contrast suffers - your blacks noticeably reduce. Colors are any tad dull (the reduce contrast doesn't help), though perhaps we're somewhat spoiled by Samsung's Super AMOLED displays.

The glass over the screen is not Gorilla Glass as well as an off-brand tough glass, so again go easy onto it. It also reflects many light, which combined with the lower maximum purity hampers the natural light legibility.

The Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime is available in both single and also dual-SIM versions. Both are 3G-only (quad-band) while using the second SIM slot getting 2G connectivity only (again, quad-band). Observe that in China the phone does come using LTE - this kind of version has equally international and Chinese language LTE band help, but it's not available on other marketplaces.

Locally, there's single-band Wi-Fi b/g/n using Wi-Fi Direct help, but no DLNA. There exists built-in screen reflecting though, for works HDTVs. Bluetooth v4. 0 is usually on board.

Wired connectivity is handled by way of microUSB 2. 0 port, which lacks MHL, leaving wireless mirroring because only TV-out option. The Galaxy Grand Prime comes with a advanced support for global positioning on account of its Qualcomm chipset - A-GPS, GLONASS and Beidou are all supported (the latter is employed in China, one of several target markets for that Grand Prime).