Can ‘a top of the range two years ago a new life without changing aesthetically and become the best product or the best, in opening Price? Yes, especially if we talk about the Galaxy S3 Neo smartphone certainly not new, released earlier this year, but we feel this is the only rainy November with so many requests, and especially thanks to a price now ranked well below 200 €.
Hardware, Materials and Ergonomics:
With a price tag between 169 € and 199 €, Galaxy S3 Neo is part of a segment of the market that can boast a huge number of different devices, both new ones at lower prices after months of release in the market, which do not always provide a quality that can truly satisfy all points of view of the user. In general you have to make some sacrifices to: limited internal memory, low ram, display exceptional camera so well and other small details could discriminate between a good Android phasic medium-low and a bad Android apparently similar.
Well, S3 Neo smartphone is pretty much the best single SIM that you can buy today in this price range. If we want to better the hardware side, after our tests the scepter of bust but it can also be extended to the software.
S3 Neo is based on the Snapdragon processor 400 has 1.5GB of RAM (rare in this market), 16GB of internal memory expandable (practically impossible below 200 €), 8 megapixel camera and offers a nice display Super AMOLED HD 4.8 inches. On paper beats almost everyone and even the “best Moto G” does not compare.
- Size : 70.75 x 136.6 x 8.6 mm
- Weight : 132 g
- SoC : 400 MSM8228 Qualcomm Snapdragon
- Processor : ARM Cortex-A7, 1200 MHz, Number of cores : 4
- Graphics Processor : Qualcomm Adreno 305
- Memory : 1.5 GB
- Internal Memory : 16 GB
- Memory Cards : microSD
- Display : 4.8-inch Super AMOLED, 720 x 1280 pixels
- Battery : 2100 mA · h, Li-Ion (Lithium-Ion)
- Sitema operating : Android 4.3 Jelly Bean
- Camera : 3264 x 2448 pixels, 1920 x 1080 pixels, 30 fps
- SIM Card : Micro-SIM
- WiFi : a, b, g, n, n 5GHz dual band Wi-Fi Hotspot, Wi-Fi Direct
- USB : 2.0, Micro USB
- Bluetooth 4.0
- Web : GPS, A-GPS, GLONASS
In addition to that and say that you can read in the data sheet, S3 Neo is a Samsung Italy and then enjoys and support in our country compared to China very viable alternatives that might be considered by some users’ most experienced smartphone looking good at a price, however, is not excessive.
In his hand is a S3 in effect and if two years ago, its size might seem generous, today you can almost feel small or at least manageable. Curious because our hand is stretched but not the dimensional changes in this market now have plagiarized part of the perception of large and small that we have always had. Decent build quality, all plastic of course but considering the price is considerable a product with a good finish overall.
Side note, S3 Neo being in all respects identical to S3, can boast a number of accessories infinite and which now sees a fair evaluation of the prices as they are two years, almost 3, that this product is on the market in its various configurations.
The Super AMOLED is not lacking and it is extremely pleasing to find numbers so low. Of course, we do not have the panel notes 4 and although the technology is the same, resolution and overall quality are quite different. It remains a display of a few years ago that stands up well to resolution but less for color fidelity. The colors are in fact quite saturated, the whites tend to Heavenly most of the new Samsung’s latest and the maximum brightness is not really high.
Let’s talk, however, a screen can be viewed from any angle, with a touch almost perfect, excellent responsiveness and smoothness and a light sensor that works very well. Always referring to a segment of the market today is very different from what S3 was launched on the market, a display of this quality is hard to find and fair fight the excellent panel of Moto G is among the best in this range.
Battery, Audio and Reception:
Galaxy S3 has never been a champion of independence and even if the processor Neo is different and less energy-intensive, always remain some limitations, bypassed with a more powerful battery but still present. The normal day you do it, but when it calls for greater effort on the phone, a bit ‘too much heat on the bottom and a more odious display of energy independence to carry around 0 to 18. The Touch Wiz version but no new offers some means of control power, but nothing comparable to S5 and beyond.
Sound that is in the hands-free limits a little cash and powerful that do not allow calls sound good. In earpiece everything changes and the other party can hear us very well and we will not have problems in the conversation. Although the reception is good and considerable in the average of modern smartphones. GPS, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth on the other hand do not show weakness and take advantage of all the features found in the customization of the software manufacturer.
Galaxy S3 Neo KitKat is based on Android 4.4.2 with customized Touch Wiz 2013 or without the latest courses from S3 onwards. Thanks to hardware-based enhanced compared to S3 and to optimize really good, lag, delays, and lack of reactivity reloads are a distant memory. Taking Galaxy S3 normal with the last official update and comparing it with this Neo seems to have completely different front two products is much better this Neo.
Not only the wealth software is hard to find in this segment, but the fluidity of the phone has almost startling compared to the many Galaxy price “content” available on the market. S3 Neo is a smartphone really born under a lucky star and make it even more enjoyable interaction thinks plenty of RAM but especially the 16GB internal expandable memroia that allow you to install virtually any application and at the same time have thousands of files, songs, video and other external storage.
Also good internet browsing that a little flaw ‘to flow with the browser Samsung but becomes great if you install Chrome. In addition, the touch of quality to make movements and movements of the pages extremely pleasing.
For the rest in software are many apps that may seem “junk” for an advanced user but which become very handy for anyone who wants to approach the world with calmness and Android smartphones. When first turned on it will be present in virtually all major software, useful and potentially not require another user if the component is not social and instant messaging.
8 megapixels available that combine with information-rich, pleasant and well-structured. Nothing changes compared to S3 but the lowering of the current price allows to evaluate the room from another point of view. If we can consider it good for a mid-range, below 200 € is one of the best if we exclude the Lumia world and focus on Android. The focus is not fast but overall the results meet.
Although the videos are not bad and are in full HD:
As for the media, there is a good software bundle which allows you to open the most common video formats with the exception of 2K or higher. Not bad even the gaming that uses the Adreno 305 allowing the installation of some recent titles. Back to the fault of the rear speakers are not particularly high that it prevents you from listening to music or other satisfactory (here Moto G is much better).
Galaxy S3 Neo is a smartphone which will be difficult to be bad. It has everything that can serve to a user, no absurd limits of memory and is a potentially long-lived device. Although this is not the latest Touch Wiz responsiveness is really good and the ratio HW / price is really bilanciatissimo. His future at the level of official updates is uncertain whether Lollipop will come on his main opponent (Moto G 2013/2014 / LTE), Neo still nothing is defined and chances are few at the moment.
Rating 8.1
190 € . (update 06 November 2014, 18:36 hours)
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