The Samsung Galaxy S is an Android smartphone that was announced by Samsung in March 2010. It features a 1 GHz ARM"Hummingbird" processor, 8–16 GB internal flash memory, a 4 inches (10 centimetres) 480×800 pixel Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen display, Wi-Fi connectivity, a 5-megapixel camera with a maximum resolution of 2560x1920 and, on select models, a front-facing 0.3 MP VGA camera (640x480).[2][3] The base version of the phone, the GT-I9000, was quickly followed by variant models for the US carriers such as the Epic 4G, Vibrant, Captivate, Fascinate, and Mesmerize.
The Samsung Galaxy S features a PowerVR graphics processor, yielding 20 million triangles per second,[4] making it the fastest graphics processing unit in any smartphone at the time of release.[5] Also, upon release, the Galaxy S was both the first Android phone to be certified for DivX HD,[6] and at 9.9 mm was the thinnest smartphone available.[7]
As of January 2011, Samsung had sold 10 million Galaxy S phones globally.[8] The Galaxy S was named the European Smartphone of the Year at the European Imaging and Sound Association (EISA) Awards 2010–2011.[9] Samsung Galaxy S was succeeded bySamsung Galaxy S II. In October 2011, Samsung announced that it had sold 30 million Galaxy S and Galaxy S II phones globally.The phone was initially launched in Singapore on June 4, 2010.[11] Before the end of its first weekend on sale in Singapore, Samsungtweeted that Singtel, the exclusive carrier to sell the device in Singapore, were sold out of devices.[12] On Friday June 25, 2010, the phone was launched in Malaysia and South Korea.[13][14] Overall the launch schedule comprised launches on 110 carriers in 100 countries at the same time.[15] U.S. Variants named as Epic, Vibrant, Fascinate, Captivate, and Mesmerize were released from June through September 2010.CNET Asia gave the Galaxy S a favorable review with a score of 8.4/10. The Galaxy S was compared to current high-end Android-based phones such as the HTC Desire, Xperia X10, Nexus One, and smartphones using different operating systems like the iPhone 4, which runs iOS, and HTC HD2, which runs Windows Mobile in CNET Asia.[16]
GSMArena.com described the Galaxy S as having "perfect audio quality," claiming the phone's superior all-round performance made it a "new leader of the Android pack."[17]
TIME listed the Galaxy S as #2 device in "Top 10 Gadgets" of 2010, praising its Super AMOLED display.[18]
The phone was criticized by some reviewers for sub-par GPS performance. Anandtech, reviewing the Epic 4G variant, said "the phone will take an inordinate amount of time to determine your actual location, and/or it won’t pinpoint your location very accurately."[19]Engadget described the GPS in the Vibrant and Captivate variants as "utterly broken and non-functional... this is a problem for which there's no reasonable explanation why it made it all the way to retail devices."[20] Samsung released an application for the Captivate and Vibrant variants only that resets the phone's GPS settings to factory defaults.[21] TechRadar acknowledged GPS faults in the Galaxy S, and stated that these have been fixed in the Google Nexus S
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