FM Radio reception is quite clear, and we sis not have any issue getting a signal while we were moving as well. The phone does not stutter while playing high bitrate videos, but anything above p will be unplayable with the native player. Pinch-to-Zoom and kinetic scrolling are smooth for most part after the website has loaded completely. But text and content reflow is a bit choppy and again text looks pixelated due to the low-res display. Samsung has covered stock Android 4. Samsung has customized the stock dialer, lockscreen, notification bar and everything in between.
The keyboard is good to type on as well, but the small size of the display can be an issue with us fat-fingered people. There is something called Motion, using which you can enable the phone to be muted when it is flipped over.
Then there is also an Easy Mode which makes the phone seem like a dumb-phone and is useful for people who have not used a smartphone before. Samsung has pre installed all the Google apps and a bunch of their own apps as well on the Galaxy Star Duos.
Apart from that you have a custom music player which has a good UI as well a video player that comes pre-installed.
The Gallery app too has been customized by Samsung. You also get notifications on the dock icons on the homescreen for unread messages and missed phone calls, quite like iOS. When you first switch on the device you'll be told that an OTA update is available, we would recommend that you not install it.
As soon as we installed it it started causing weird issues with the volume bar, it started appearing in its own separate activity which caused the background activity to stop. We'll notify you when the next update comes for the Galaxy Star Duos. Now talking about WhatsApp, it does not directly install from the play store, most probably due to the display resolution. Therefore, you can download the apk, and then sideload it, after which it works great. Flipboard too works on the device, it can be directly installed from the Play Store and before doing any reading I would recommend turning on the Increase Legibility option in Display Settings.
The Galaxy Star Duos performed quite well in all our benchmarks, and came above current entry-level smartphones. We played music both using the speakerphone and earphones during the stipulated time. Therefore the Galaxy Star Duos can last for about an entire day with moderate usage, however we did have only one SIM card on at the time, using two SIM cards will not drastically change this number.
The Samsung Galaxy Star Duos is a good entry-level handset with decent performance and great build quality but wrong price. If the price would have been a little lower or the display resolution atleast HVGA we would given it a two thumbs up. But there are better alternatives from other Indian manufacturers with far better displays and similar performance a the Galaxy Star Duos, available at the same price. But they don't offer the same build quality or accessories, but the Samsung branding.
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