Samsung R720, a Midrange Gingerbread Smartphone

Competing in a midrange smartphone’s market, here is Samsung R720. Some of its features include Android Gingerbread OS, 800 MHz processor, 3.15 megapixels camera, WiFi, GPS, and many more. Closer look, here is the review and detail specification of the phone for your reference.

Samsung R720 design is similar to other typical Android smartphone with full touch screen and candy bar design. It feels compact and rather small on hand measuring 116 x 60 x 12 mm. It also feels slightly light weighing 117 grams, thanks to its plastic chassis. Mostly occupied the front side is a 3.5 inches capacitive touchscreen coming in 320 x 480 pixels resolution. Below the screen, there are four physical keys for Menu, Home, Back and Search function. Around the phone’s side, there are microSD card slot, volume rocker keys, 3.5mm headset jack, power key, camera shutter and microUSB port. On the back side, there are camera lens and speakerphone.

Under the hood, Samsung R720 is supported by 800 MHz processor that decent enough in handling basic needs of the smartphone. To be able to run all the application, R720 by Samsung is supported by Android OS, v2.3.3 (Gingerbread). On the interface, there are five Home screens that can be customized with shortcut icons, widgets and folders.

Samsung R720

Samsung R720 runs on CDMA network and manages to hit 1xEV-DO Rev. 0 up to 2.4 Mbps data network. There is a stock Android web browser with HTML supports that you can use to surf internet. Meanwhile, there is other connectivity such as WiFi, Bluetooth and microUSB connection. Not to mention its GPS navigation system with A-GPS supports.

In camera feature, Samsung R720 is equipped by 3.15 megapixels camera that can capture images in four resolutions up to 2048 x 1536 pixels resolution. Some of camera features include focus modes, scene settings, white-balance settings, color effects, digital zoom and quality modes. The camera can also record video in four settings. For storage, R720 provides external memory up to 32 GB via microSD card along with its 196 MB internal memory. Coming to multimedia feature, Samsung R720 is equipped by a stock Android media player for playing music and video. It manages to play music in MP4/H.264/H.263 formats and video in MP3/WAV/eAAC+ formats.

Messaging features coming with Samsung R720 include SMS (threaded view), MMS, IM, Email, and Push Email. For text input, Samsung R720 only provides virtual on-screen keyboard; alphanumerical keyboard on portrait view and full QWERTY keyboard on landscape view. The keyboard also comes with Swype as an option to ease text input.

Like other Android smartphone, R720 by Samsung also comes with pre-loaded Google service applications such as YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Picasa integration, Google Search, Maps, and Gmail. Other features include Organizer, Voice memo, Document viewer, Speakerphone Accelerometer and Java MIDP emulator. Supporting all the features, Samsung R720 is powered by standard battery Li-Ion 1600 mAh. The battery life is rated up to 3 hours of talk time or up to 200 hours (8.3 days) of standby time.