Prix Batterie Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime

TechRadar Verdict

In an increasingly competitive low-end smartphone field, the Samsung Galaxy Core Prime fails to stand up out or excel in whatsoever fashion. Information technology volition meet your day-to-day demands, but you can do better for the money.

Pros

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Solid build
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Low price
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Easy to use with ane paw

Cons

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Cheap faux-metallic rim
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Screen isn't sharp enough
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Camera is poor

Not and then long agone, Samsung made itself infamous by flooding the market place with cheap and only occasionally cheerful Android smartphones. In a mail service-Moto K world, nonetheless, Samsung has had to raise its low-stop game.

The Samsung Galaxy Cadre Prime might audio like a Transformer, simply it's actually the Korean manufacturer'southward latest entry-level smartphone champ, with a modest toll tag of £110 (US$170) and a competent if unspectacular spec canvas.

Just is that enough in a modern market where £250 (US$329) can buy yous an outright flagship killer?

I'm not so certain that it is, but there's no denying that the Galaxy Cadre Prime number is a perfectly competent entry signal for smartphone newbies and those on a strict upkeep.

Design

The Samsung Galaxy Core Prime is entirely made of plastic. While Samsung has completely overhauled the top and eye of its range with the sweeping employ of metal and glass – simply await at the Samsung Galaxy S6 and Samsung Galaxy A5 – such materials remain off limits for the budget brigade.

As Moto Thousand users will no doubtfulness attest, the heavy utilize of plastic needn't be a bad affair. Merely Samsung isn't as practiced as Motorola (or the late Nokia) at playing to the fabric's strengths. By mimicking the style of its high-terminate metallic phones using cheaper materials, Samsung ensures disappointing results.

The Galaxy Cadre Prime number uses a version of the design language set out by the Milky way Blastoff back in 2014. Rather than the cool, sculpted aluminium of that telephone's directly-edged frame, you go the smooth room-temperature touch on of plastic, lacquered with both shiny and matte metallic-upshot paint. Samsung reckons that it "feels like anodised metal." It doesn't.

From the front end and back, the telephone is unmistakably Samsung – and not just because of the logos emblazoned on both sides. The company has a well-established series of design cues that mark its handsets out, and all are on brandish here.

At that place's the signature lozenge-shaped physical habitation key, which is notwithstanding a relative rarity in the Android world, only a welcome focal point for your thumb. Equally always, this is flanked by capacitive multitasking and back keys.

Around the dorsum of the device you get that familiar centrally-placed and somewhat square camera unit, which bulges out from the body like a blister.

My model was a color Samsung calls "Charcoal Grayness," and information technology's a nice alternative to the usual black or white options. This colour is applied to both the area surrounding the screen (overlaid by the screen glass) and the subtly textured, matte-yet-shiny rear cover.

The latter can be peeled abroad to reveal a removable bombardment, also every bit the tightly stacked microSIM and microSD slots.

While it's not a looker, the Samsung Galaxy Core Prime feels solid in the manus. In that location'southward a little flex in that flimsy rear encompass, but the telephone every bit a whole is reassuringly crepitate and rattle-free. While that'south no longer unique at this low price point, it shouldn't be overlooked or underestimated.

Part of the comfortable hand-feel is downwards to the Milky way Core Prime number's dimensions. At 8.8mm thick it'south non skinny, exactly, but nor is it chunky. It also weighs a pleasing 130g, which is well-nigh the weight of an iPhone six.

Besides its proportions, the overall balance of the phone can largely exist attributed to its iv.5-inch display. Nowadays, that'due south viewed as a small screen size, simply this is a relatively recent view. Cast your mind back to 2011, and you'll notice that the Samsung Galaxy S2 (flagship ancestor to the Galaxy S6) came with a "huge" 4.3-inch screen.

The point is, iv.5-inches might be considered beneath boilerplate, but it's still large enough for the majority of tasks, which haven't essentially changed since the offset smartphones rolled into shops 8 years ago.

1 thing this neatly proportioned screen is not is sharp, however. At 800 x 480, we're talking the same resolution as that aforementioned 5-yr-old Milky way S2 – and an even lower pixel density of 207ppi at that. With today's HD-optimised spider web content, browsing the spider web on the Samsung Milky way Core Prime shows up some unsightly artifacts and leaves a generally drab impression.

The fifty-fifty cheaper Motorola Moto E comes with a slightly smaller and considerably sharper 4.3-inch 960 10 540 display, so the Milky way Core Prime'south visual failings are hard to overlook.

The Samsung Galaxy Core Prime number'south display isn't the brightest around, but creepo the appropriate setting correct up and information technology's perfectly usable even in broad daylight. Of course, it lacks Samsung's signature Super AMOLED panel applied science, merely the TFT display gives a reasonable business relationship of colours. Just don't expect your optics to practice whatever popping.