Samsung Galaxy Mini S5570 Sim Free Mobile Phone - Grey

Pro's 1) Fast responsive capacitive touch screen (allows you to pinch shrink/enlarge screen like an iphone!) 2) Excellent loud speaker for such a small phone 3) small enough to fit in your pocket but large enough to view when playing games etc 4) Gingerbread OS is smooth and bug free (no crashes yet despite constant usage) 5) Easy to add apps to your desktop 6) Simple to use. idiot proof!! Cons's 1) The is no camera button allowing you to turn the camera on. You need to go into your apps screen or add the app to your desktop 2) Only plays MP3 audio. Does not play WMA or other audio formats. Samsung don't offer the option of downloading WMA codecs and media player apps will only play files for which you already own the codecs for. 3) No flash for the camera. 4) You cant change for your text message alert to a audio file of your own. You can only use the preset options on the phone. 5) You can only change your ringtone to an audio file of your own via a media player app. Ignore the comments about battery use. Yes it does disappear very quickly with constant app use however there are a number of options in the settings to allow you to extend your battery usage (turning off the 3G with save a bucket load). I use the apps a lot as well as made a lot of phone calls and only recharge every 48 hours (you can get over a weeks standby out of it with limited usage). Overall this is a fantastic phone. Brilliant if your on a budget and on PAYGO.

I don't even know why I should bother to write a review under the title as it really does say it all. Very slow and inefficient piece of equipment, it has only brought annoyance and disappointment every step of the way. Does not have a function of repeating a notification sound; when a text arrives it only sounds once and unless you have a habit of strapping your phone to your body 24/7, once you happen to have missed it, it is gone for you forever. I only check my phone when I hear a sound, I have neither a habit nor time to constantly look at the phone so sometimes it takes me hours, even until the next day, to discover that I've had a text or a missed phone call. Neither can I find who my missed callers actually were, the log is so confusing. I have obviously now had 3 missed calls - who and what they were is gone somewhere where I can never comfortably and quickly find them. I will not and will not give in to the madness on being on your phone all your waking time, checking and looking every minute but this phone insists on making this change in my life. I don’t want to adjust my life to a technical equipment’s needs, I want it to adjust to me and suit me. It also doesn't have a function of repeatedly sounding a missed call in intervals. Does not sound repeatedly an event reminder either, only gives out a half deaf and very brief sound which is good for nothing. Also, it doesn’t show the event on the screen, only a tiny little number 1 appears (or so I think that’s what it means) in the left upper corner, if you look closely, so for the first few times you have no clue what the hell the phone had just sounded for, if you were lucky enough to hear it. I like my event reminder sounding much like the alarm clock – until you dismiss it, only then it works and you can trust it. I have all my ringtone and other sounds to the highest setting but the sounds are just so brief and mumbled, it doesn’t help. They are also very technical and cannot be personalized. My previous very old Samsung phone with a key pad had it all – my alarm was a downloaded music, so were the ringtones. And the events when a notification of them came up, were clearly written on the screen, you didn’t have to look for them in the calendar. Tiny weeney blue dots marking your numerous events in the little calendar windows? What a joke! Can easily be missed or overlooked, especially with resolution of that quality. Also, a very, very irritating issue it is that once I changed my sim, the date and clock setting application just went grey and cannot be changed so I have a totally messed up date and time and can do nothing about it. Horrible to write a text, the keyboard is so very small, it renders it almost unusable. It takes me ages of effort, constant correction and irritation to type the simplest of texts. Pity you cannot easily dial a number from which you got a text (it is beyond me why Samsung calls text or SMS a notification!) right away, you have to leave the texts, go back to your contacts or dial pad and dial from there only. You can tap your way through to dialling number in the texts too but it is further than a tap away, by miles. Takes time. Would have been so easy to be able to just dial the text number displayed over the text. Old phone did all that. Fast dial function is a laugh - you have to tap several times on the number that comes up under your coding to confirm that you damn do want to dial this very number in the FAST dial. Ridiculous and does not serve the purpose. Slow, although I have nothing yet downloaded onto this phone, so it is empty and should therefore be at its best. The keys and icons are not very sensitive to touch. I like the presentation of the contacts list but it will be the one and only thing I will be missing when I pass on this worthless toy to someone else. I am now looking to return this piece of what it is and trying to find a good old keypad functional phone. Function above fancy.

it said sims free but had to pay £8 to unlock it and flash it to work with what ever network sims card I put in to work in there internet, but a good phone

I had my phone for such a short time that in truth I can't give a 'should I but?'altering review BUT my experience... This was my first smart phone and I instantly liked it and was won over by smartphones on the basis of this first experience. The phone looks great, it's a decent size and I was rather happy with the size of the screen. I read some reviews that offered that it was too small to be conducive to watching, videos, say but, it's a phone, smart- yes but a phone nonetheless so not my preference for watching long periods of media. I did like how webpages would adjust to make them more readable so that you don't need to keep scrolling from left to right to read. My biggest gripe was that some basic features are not very intuitive for example, the text messaging. The 'send' is located to the right corner side of the message box so with the touchscreen being as responsive as it was, I was always sending messages half way through composing them. Silly place for it. Also, finding out how to forward messages was hard, i never did find out how to do this. I returned the phone however as after 2 hours trying to configure the MMS with my phone network, they concluded that the fault was with the phone. I'll re-buy this model or maybe the S5670.

Bought this a couple of months ago as a Xmas present. Went for sim-free as a way of keeping the current PAYG tariff, which is no longer available. Has all the features wanted - quad band, 3G, wi-fi, USB connection, capacitive touchscreen, camera, music player, memory card slot (micro SD). It's also a sensible size to use as a phone (11x6x1.5cm), unlike some of the, almost tablet-sized, alternatives. Screen resolution is fairly low (240x320), but good enough for the screen size, except when surfing (some images appear pixelated). Samsung's Swype approach to texting is very good and is easy to learn. Most operations on the phone are very quick (helped no doubt by the lowish screen resolution), but it's unlikely to be fast enough for serious gamers. Phone calls are very clear and battery life is excellent. Camera resolution is low by today's standards (3.2mp), but easily enough for display on PC or standard size prints, and picture colours appear reasonably true to life. On the downside, there's no camera flash. Overall, whilst obviously not cutting edge, this phone is very good value for money as an entry level smart phone.

OK, I maybe a bit naive when it comes to the world of smart phones and a lot of people out there could most likely run circles around me when it comes to knowledge about such devices.. but I have to admit, this is one of the great purchases I've made in the last few years. It didn't take long for me to figure out that Android is a fantastic operating system. It doesn't limit or discriminate or alienate anyone or anything. It didn't take me long to track down 3rd party apps and figure out how to install them. Android is an easy but genius OS that lends itself openly to anyone who wants to use it. The phone, when compared to other Galaxy phones that cost much more does have it's limits. I was able to install an application that lets you play divx avi movies, but it's processor was a little two slow to play a movie full frame. Perhaps if I were to re-encode it to the size of the screen resolution, it would probably play just fine. so it has limits.. 600mhz processor is what I read. fair enough. I really don't plan on watching divx movies on my phone anyway. However, it can stream youtube videos without problem. perhaps there is a conversation process which facilitates this. I don't know for sure. Youtube works great, but avi films drop frames. For the price, it's really a great buy. I downloaded an app that will let me play any audio format. Flac, Wave, Mp3, etc. The sound quality is fantastic and I really like the fact that it will show you the album cover while you play your songs. A great feature thats most welcome is the fact that new media updates almost instantly. Ever own an mp3 player and you have 8 gigs of mp3 and you install a single new song or a new album and it has to update for 4 minutes before you can use it. This doesn't do that. The update is almost instant. That itself makes the phone worth every penny. It has bluetooth and you can get an app that will let you share your media files with your friends while they stand next to you. Here is that Frank Zappa album I was telling you about. Click.. send.. now your friend has the album on his/her phone. Genius. The screen quality is beautiful and it's a delight to use all these Star-Trek like features. The phone can even detect magnetic fields so I download and installed a compass. It's a bit of a novelty but it's totally cool and fun. I'm planning on doing some traveling and was able to download a free app for Europian train times that will give you detailed information on all train times throughout Europe. You don't have to go and switch on your laptop and connect to the internet and research a train from Amsterdam to Paris. It's just instant. Very handy. I like the fact that perhaps in the future, I will suddenly have a need for an app to do a particular thing.. like maybe convert currency.. and I know I can most likley find a free one or one on the google store for a couple of pounds. installation is super easy. just copy to your micro-sdhc card from your computer or install directly from the phones internet connection, wi-fi or 3G, makes no difference. It also has GPS. and not just an internet GoogleEarth 3G type of navigation (which you can still have if you want), but a real GPS receiver which will work even if you're out in the middle of no where with no cell phone signal.. My brother says he's uses his GPS when he goes golfing with a special golf app that tells him how far he is from the hole. He did say however that it really drains the battery quickly. I'd use it in a pinch in case I was lost or late for something important. It's lightweight, small and ergonomic. It's beautiful. don't forget that. So the phone for the price is a marvel and I highly recommend it.

Bought this phone via amazon as it was a great price and advertised as an unlocked sim free phone. It arrived very quickly, allnicely boxed up but unfortunately completely useless for me to use. I live in Jersey Channel Islands and the phone is still locked to 02 network. SO unless I pay another £35 pounds to have it unlocked or pay an airflight to England to have it unlocked by 02 themselves the phone is useless. Very disappointed as was bought as a present, lucky I checked it before I gave it....... NOT HAPPY

Came without an instruction book - why??? Luckily my nephew has the same phone and guided me through this. Not the best phone I have ever had but it will do for now. Battery life very poor - very poor.