Samsung Galaxy SL

The Samsung Galaxy S LCD or Samsung Galaxy SL (GT-I9003) is an Android smartphone designed and manufactured by Samsung Electronics that was released in February 2011. It features a 1 GHz ARM Cortex-A8 processor, 4 GB of internal flash memory, a 4-inch (10 centimeters) 480x800 pixel WVGA Super Clear LCD capacitive touchscreen display, Wi-Fi connectivity, a 5-megapixel camera with a resolution of 2560x1920, and a front-facing 0.3 MP (640x480) VGA camera.

Samsung Galaxy SL I9003
BrandSamsung
ManufacturerSamsung Electronics
SeriesGalaxy S
Compatible networksGSM/GPRS/EDGE Quad-band (850, 900, 1,800, and 1,900 MHz)
HSPA Tri-band (900, 1,700, and 2,100 MHz)
HSDPA 7.2 Mbit/s
HSUPA 5.76 Mbit/s
First releasedFebruary 2011
RelatedSamsung Galaxy S
TypeSmartphone
Form factorSlate
Dimensions123.7 mm (4.87 in) H
64.2 mm (2.53 in) W
10.6 mm (0.42 in) D
Mass129 g (4.6 oz)
Operating systemOriginal: Android 2.2.1 "Froyo" with TouchWiz UI 3.0/4.0
Current: Android 2.3.6 "Gingerbread" with TouchWiz UI 3.0/4.0
System on chipTexas Instruments OMAP 3630
CPUSingle core 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8 Processor
GPUPowerVR SGX530 @ 200MHz
Memory486 MB user-accessible RAM
Storage
  • 4 GB (1.87 GB Internal phone storage) + (1.52 Internal SD storage)
  • 16 GB (1.87 GB Internal phone storage) + (11.73 GB Internal SD storage)
Removable storagemicroSD (expandable up to 32 GB)
Battery1,650 mAh
Rechargeable Li-ion
User replaceable
Data inputsMulti-touch capacitive touchscreen
A-GPS
Accelerometer
Ambient light sensor Magnetometer
Proximity sensor
DisplaySuperClear LCD, 4.0 in (100 mm) diagonal
480�800 px WVGA (233 ppi), 16M colors
Rear camera5.0 MP with autofocus, (2,560 x 1,920 resolution)
Autofocus
720p HD video recording @ 30 fps
Front camera0.3 megapixels VGA (480 x 640)
Connectivity
Other

Hardware

Screen

The Samsung Galaxy SL has a 10.16-centimetre (4.00 in) SuperClear LCD touch screen, protected by Gorilla Glass. The SC-LCD is cheaper than the AMOLED display used in Samsung Galaxy S. Furthermore, the display consumes more power compared to SuperAMOLED displays, although the phone ships with a higher capacity battery than the original Galaxy S to compensate for it. An advantage of the SuperClear LCD display over the SuperAMOLED one is that the latter uses a PenTile Matrix layout that some users find less visually appealing, while the former is a true RGB display.

Audio

The phone uses a different DAC compared to the original Samsung Galaxy S. It uses the Texas Instruments' TWL5030 which is integrated into the OMAP 3630 chipset.

Processor

The Samsung Galaxy SL uses the Texas Instruments OMAP 3630 SoC, which includes a 45 nm 1 GHz ARM Cortex-A8 based CPU core with 65 nm Imagination Technologies' PowerVR SGX 530 GPU which supports OpenGL ES 1.1/2.0.[1]

Software

The phone was originally shipped with Android 2.2.1 Froyo, with Samsung's own proprietary TouchWiz 3.0 user interface. Samsung started to rolled out updates in July 2011 for upgrading to Android 2.3 Gingerbread. Users are required to use Kies PC Suite for upgrading to Gingerbread. Samsung also announced that the upcoming "value pack" update is expected to bring performance improvements to the phone, including TouchWiz 4.0, face unlock, etc. to all of their legacy Galaxy line smartphones. As of mid-June 2012, the value pack has been available in several regions.

Along with default Android apps, a few extra apps are included, like Voice Memo, Mini Diary, ThinkFree Document viewer, and Layar augmented reality browser. Like many other Samsung Galaxy devices, the playback of DivX/Xvid videos is supported. Adobe Flash 11 plugin for Android is also present.

Android 4.X Support

On April 2012, Samsung announced that an official update to Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) will not be provided, as they felt that all Galaxy S line did not have enough memory (RAM) to run their own proprietary TouchWiz user interface on top of Android 4.0. However, developers such as the CyanogenMod team, based on Android Open Source Project source code. Unofficial support for Android 4.4 KitKat has been made available since November 2013.

Media Support

The phone comes with support for many multimedia file formats, including audio codecs (FLAC, WAV, Vorbis, MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, MID, AC3, XMF), video codecs (MPEG4, H.264, H.263, Sorenson codec, DivX HD/ XviD, VC-1) and video formats (3GP, MPEG-4, WMV, ASF, AVI, DivX, MKV, FLV).

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See also

References
  1. PowerVR#Series 5
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