Phone comparison

Samsung I8530 Galaxy Beam

3.7/5

14 votes

GENERAL

Introduced

July 2012

Announced

February 2012

Network (2G)

GSM 900 / GSM 1800 / GSM 1900 / GSM 850

Network (3G)

HSDPA 850 / HSDPA 1900 / HSDPA 2100 / HSDPA 900

Form factor

Block

Antenna type

Internal

SAR Value

0.280 W/Kg

HARDWARE SPECS

Samsung I8530 Galaxy Beam

Shared memory

8GB

Extras

- 768 MB RAM
- microSD, up to 32 GB
- dual-core 1 GHz Cortex-A9 NovaThor U8500 CPU
- Mali-400 GPU

SIZE

Samsung I8530 Galaxy Beam

Weight

145.3 g (with battery)

Dimensions

124.0 x 64.2 x 12.5

DISPLAY

Samsung I8530 Galaxy Beam

Type

Graphical

Coloured

Yes, TFT capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors

Size

4.00 inch

Resolution

480 x 800 pixels

Extras

- Built-in nHD projector
- Touch-sensitive controls
- TouchWiz UI v4.0

RINGTONES

Samsung I8530 Galaxy Beam

Polyphonic ringtones

Yes

Ringtone profiles

Yes

Extras

- MP3, WAV ringtones

NETWORKING

Samsung I8530 Galaxy Beam

DATA

Yes, HSDPA 14.4 Mbps; HSUPA 5.76 Mbps

WLAN

Yes, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, DLNA, Wi-Fi hotspot

Bluetooth

Yes, 3.0 with A2DP, HS

WAP

Yes

Browser

Yes, HTML, Adobe Flash

Email client

Yes

Extras

- Android 2.3.6 Gingerbread
- GPS with A-GPS support
- Push Mail

CAMERA

Samsung I8530 Galaxy Beam

Type

Builtin

Extras

- 5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash, geo-tagging, touch focus, face and smile detection, video (720p@30fps), secondary 1.3 MP camera

FEATURES

Samsung I8530 Galaxy Beam

Vibration

Yes

SMS

Send / Receive

MMS

Send / Receive

Java

Games

Yes

Clock

Yes

Alarm

Yes

Calculator

Yes

Calendar

Yes

To-do list

Yes

Voice dialing

Yes

Voice memo

Yes

Multiple numbers / contact

Yes

Handsfree

Yes

Headset jack

Yes

Extras

- SNS integration
- MP4/DivX/WMV/H.264/H.263 player
- MP3/WAV/eAAC+/AC3/FLAC player
- Organizer
- Image/video editor
- Document editor
- Google Search, Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Picasa integration