Galaxy Ace Plus is More Powerful, But Still Packs a Weak Punch

From DailyTech: The iPhone 4/4S by Apple, Inc. (AAPL) may be trailing the barrage of high-end Android phones in cumulative sales, but it has earned high marks for its Retina display (960x640 pixel; 326 ppi). Nonetheless, HTC Corp.'s (TPE:2498) Rezound smartphone recently passed the iPhone 4S in pixel density and resolution with its WVGA (wide VGA) 720x1280 pixel 342 ppi display. In other words, if you're buying a smartphone purely on a hardware basis, there's no reason to buy an iPhone, unless, that is you're in the market for a petite phone.

However, if you want a more petite design, that’s where the Galaxy Ace by Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. (KS:005930) comes in. The original Galaxy Ace was Samsung's most direct shot at the iPhone yet. A slight 3.5-inch design, the phone was a Galaxy S shrunk to iPhone size. But the phone was hampered by a MSM 7227 800 MHz CPU from Qualcomm, Inc. (QCOM) and a mediocre 320x480 HVGA (half-VGA) screen.

Samsung has just pulled the wraps off its follow-up effort the Galaxy Ace Plus. And while it packs a bit more power, it's still pretty weak in terms of offering competition hardware-wise to the similar-sized iPhone.

It fails to improve on the HVGA screen resolution, although it increases the screen size slightly to 3.65-inches. It bumps internal storage from 2 GB to 3 GB. The camera logic is also slightly improved. While the resolution stays at 5 MP, the improved processor allows for 30 frames per second (fps) WVGA (480x800) video, where as the original model only allowed 15 fps QVGA (240x320).

The processor receives a slight bump to 1 GHz -- Samsung did not clarify whether it's a new Qualcomm design or a proprietary model. Memory remains unchanged at 512 MB and weight/size stay about the same, as well.

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