In one of my older posts I
compared two budget Android handsets for you: Galaxy Y and Galaxy Pocket. Today, I am going to compare two budget Android handsets again, this time it is
Samsung Galaxy Y versus Samsung Galaxy Y Duos. Both of them are well below the
five digit mark and both of them are doing quite well in the market. But as
they say a thing is as good as your need and liking in it lies. So let us
divulge into a head to head comparison.
The
Price Tag
As said earlier, both the
handsets are well below the 10K mark; the Galaxy Y comes for 7.5K INR and the Y
Duos costs the users 8.5K. The Galaxy Y comes for thousand rupees less but we
will find out in the later half of the article is it worth spending the
additional 1000 bucks for the Samsung Y Duos or not.
Hardware
Head to Head
The Galaxy Y and the Y Duos, both the handsets sport a 830 MHz processor, which is well complimented by a
290MB RAM. So, there is nothing much to choose as far as the CPU and RAM are
concerned. Moving to the storage capacity of the handsets, the Y has an
internal storage capacity of 180MB whereas the other handset in the comparison,
the Y Duos has a 160MB capacity. Both of them have the same expansion capacity
– 32GB. Y holds a slight edge here.
In the camera segment the
Galaxy Y has a 2MP camera on the back side of the body in reply, the Y Duos
sports a 3MP cam on the posterior. None of the handsets have a secondary camera on
the front side of the body. You might think (you have all the valid reasons to
think that way) that the Duos has an advantage in this segment, but I would like
to tell you, folks, that both of the cameras are not strong enough and both of
them take somewhat similar pics.
In the battery segment the Y
has a Li-Ion 1200 mAh battery, the Duos comes packed with Li-Ion 1300 mAh
battery; but again the end result, which, in this case is the talk time and the
standby time and music & video functioning time is somewhat similar. Due to
smaller size and single SIM Y stands a little taller here.
The display of the Y is just 3
inches and in reply the Y Duos come with a 3.14 inch screen. Both the handsets
have the similar pixel resolution of 320x 240. Duos, with a bigger screen size,
wins this section hands down.
As far as the connectivity is
concerned both of the handsets have GPRS, EDGE, 3G, Bluetooth, USB, and Wi-Fi
connectivity.
Software
Segment
In the operating system segment
both of the handsets are Android Gingerbread driven devices. Hence, they have
the full version of Google Play to visit and download software and apps.
Friends, the two of the
handsets possess Google Talk, YouTube, Email, Push Mail, IM, WAP support, Java,
image viewer/editor, and Document viewer/editor.
The
Verdict
10-12 hundred rupees are not
that big a deal but no one does-and should not- throw away his hard earned
money. Unless and until you have an utmost need of two numbers you should go
for the Samsung Galaxy Y. Plus it is better looking than the Duos. I give my
full and final recommendation to the Galaxy Y. I own it myself!
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