GALAXY FME INSTALL
GALAXY FME ANDROID

Keep the brightness down and avoid doing anything too demanding and you shouldn't struggle too much to eke out a day of use. The battery quickly started to trickle away when streaming YouTube videos, but it held its charge fairly well on standby. In my own use, I found the Fame to be pretty much the same as most phones. Samsung quotes up to 6 hours of 3G talktime, which I'd say is about right. That's not very big, but the small, low-res screen and single-core processor don't demand much juice to run. Samsung has slapped a 1,300mAh battery into the Fame. If you're looking for a mobile gaming device, you'll have to splash more cash on a more powerful phone. It will just about manage basic mobile games like Angry Birds, Cut The Rope or Temple Run, but it struggled with the more graphically demanding Beach Buggy Blitz. It coped okay with Beach Buggy Blitz, but gameplay was far from smooth. Along the bottom are three customisable app icons to give quick access to essential tools. Anything that doesn't make the cut gets put into a grid in the app list. That's not very many, so you'll have to be quite selective about what you want to give pride of place on the front.

You'll have a total of three homescreens to fill up with apps and widgets. It's simple to get to grips with too - if you're nervous about taking your first steps into the smart phone world, the Fame's interface shouldn't be something to put you off.

GALAXY FME ANDROID

The layout and operation is much the same as any other Android device so existing 'droiders will be immediately at home. The Fame comes running Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean, which is the most recent version but one of Google's operating system for phones and tablets. It has rather a cold colour cast to it, but I've seen worse displays on similarly priced phones. It's at least fairly bright and the colours aren't too bad when you get them at the right angle. It's not a phone for people to crowd around, nor will it be good for casual video watching when you don't want to keep it - or your face - rigidly held in place. From square on, the screen isn't too bad, but viewing it from even a moderate off-centre angle and the colour distorts horribly. That's not helped either by the awful viewing angles. It shows off Facebook and Twitter well enough, but it's not going to do justice to your ebook library.

The extra pixels make the screen much sharper than the е…ѓ II's, but icons are still a little fuzzy and small text on Web pages isn't clear until you zoom in. There's really only room for the everyday essentials - glossy games such as N.O.V.A 3 are too big to fit on the phone.

GALAXY FME INSTALL

Even so, Android Jelly Bean doesn't let you install apps to SD cards, so you'll have to be very careful about what apps you install. If you plan on taking lots of photos and videos or saving music locally, you'll want to spring for at least a 16GB card. You'll really need to make use of the SD card slot as the Fame only has 2GB of usable storage space. Under the back casing is where you'll get access to the SIM-card slot and the microSD card slot to expand the internal storage. The screen doesn't use hardened Gorilla Glass, so I worry that it might be more susceptible to small scuffs from keys over time.ДЄround the edges is the power button, a 3.5mm headphone jack and the micro-USB port for charging and data transfer. It's far from premium, but nor will it fall apart at the first sign of trouble. The all-plastic construction and glossy back feel about as cheap as the S3's does.

It's 11.5mm thick which is pretty chubby, but about what you should expect on a low-end mobile.

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