Samsung PC suite Free Download

Sunday 29 September 2013

Samsung Galaxy Grand Duos I9082 PC Suite Free Download

Samsung Galaxy Grand Duos is a dual sim phablet. It is powered by 1.2GHz Dual core processor with 1GB of RAM. The Device sports 5 inch capacitive touch screen with WVGA screen resolution. The pixel density of the screen is 187ppi. The price of Samsung Galaxy Grand Duos is 19,669. However, Elegant white version of Galaxy Grand price is 17,590 in flipkart.
Samsung Galaxy Grand has 8MP primary camera with LED flash and a VGA front facing camera. The internal storage of the device is 8GB which can be further extended upto 64GB using microSD card. The connectivity features are 2G, 3G,WiFi, Bluetooth and WiFi. The battery of the device is Li-ion 2100 mAh which is rated to provide upto 10 hours of talk time and 440 hours of standby time.
Samsung Galaxy Grand Duos runs on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean with Touchwiz user interface.

Samsung Dual sim Android phones
Samsung Galaxy Grand Duos
However, Samsung has already providing Android 4.2 update to the device. You can update Samsung Galaxy Grand duos to Android 4.2 through two ways. One is through OTA or Over the Air and through Samsung Kies Desktop PC suite. The second method of updating device is most advisible.
Samsung Galaxy Grand PC suite free Download: As said above, it is highly advisable to have PC suite for your device. It helps you to update your device firware, sync contacts and many more. Samsung Galaxy Grand PC suite are Samsung Kies Desktop application and Samsung Kies Air mobile app. For downloading free mobile PC suite for Samsung Galaxy Grand duos, refer my previous post Samsung mobile PC suite free download.
Tethering of Samsung Galaxy Grand Duos: As it runs on Android  Jelly Bean OS, you can use Samsung Galaxy Grand Duos as modem to connect to internet from PC. The device provides two option. One is USB tethering and another one is by using Samsung Galaxy Grand as WiFi Hotspot.  For using USB tethering, first download and install Samsung PC suite and connect your device to PC through USB cable. Enable USB tethering from the setiings->more->Tethring and WiFi hotspot. To use Samsung Galaxy Grand Duos as WiFi hotspot, just enable WiFi Hotspot under  tethering and WiFi hotspot and configure the SSID or network id and password for your device.
Taking Screen shot or print screen on Galaxy Grand:  You can take screen shot on Samsung Galaxy Grand by holding volume down key+menu key at a time.
Disabling and enabling Multitasking menu in Galaxy Grand: Samsung Galaxy Grand does provide multitasking bar. You can enable or disable from the quick menu bar or from the settings.
Specifications of Samsung Galaxy Grand Duos:
  • 8 MP Primary Camera with LED flash and 2 MP Secondary front facing Camera
    1.2 GHz Dual Core Processor with 1GB RAM
    Android v4.1 (Jelly Bean) OS upgrdable to Android 4.2
    Multi Window for Multi-tasking
    5-inch Capacitive Touchscreen with WVGA screen resolution
    Dual SIM (GSM + GSM)
    2G, 3G, WiFi, Bluetooth and USB connectivity
    Li-ion 2100 mAh battery with talk time upto 10 hours
    8GB internal memory and upto 64GB expandable storage

Friday 13 September 2013

Samsung Galaxy Star S5282 PC suite Free Download

If you are in tight budget and you are looking for branded Android dual sim smartphone, then Samsung Galaxy Star S5280 is the one for you.  It provides a Android Jelly Bean experience with touch screen experience. The features of Android Jelly Bean such as tethering also available on the device.  The dual sim Samsung Galaxy Star helps you to save money by having two sim one for making out going call with minimum outgoing call tariff and one for receiving call. There is a single sim variant for this also with model number S5280. The price of Samsung Galaxy Star in India is Rs.4980.
Samsung Galaxy Star Duos
Samsung Galaxy Star Duos

Samsung Galaxy Star sports 2.9 inch capacitive touch screen with QVGA screen resolution of 320x240 pixels. This results in the pixel density of 133 ppi. The device is powered by 1GHz Cortex A5 single core processor with 512MB of RAM and 4GB internal memory. The GPU of the device is Mali-300.The memory can be further extended using the microSD card upto 32GB.
For taking photos and recording videos, Samsung has added 2MP rear snapper which records QVGA videos at 15 fps.  It take photos with the resolution of 1600x1200 pixels. For connectivity, this Samsung Galaxy Dual sim smartphone has 2G, WiFi, Bluetooth and USB. The Galaxy Star has Li-ion 1200 mAh battery which is rated to provide 14 hours of talk time max and 320 hours of standby time.
Samsung Galaxy Star PC suite Download
Samsung provides free mobile PC suite for the device. The PC suite for Samsung Galaxy Star is Samsung Kies desktop application. Using The Samsung Kies for Galaxy star, you can update your device firmware and backup your data and sync contacts. You can learn more on this on my previous post on Samsung Kies free mobile PC suite.
Using Samsung Galaxy Star as Modem to Connect to Internet
Samsung Galaxy Star supports tethering features. So you can use your Galaxy Star as modem to connect to internet from PC through WiFi or Using the USB cable or even through Bluetooth. Do remember this device has only 2G support and there is no support for 3G. Hence the internet speed will be slower.
Disadvantages of Samsung Galaxy Star
Battery Life: The battery life of Samsung Galaxy Star is very poor. On average usage, the device needs to be charged twice a day.
No 3G connectivity: For saving cost, Samsung has ommited 3G connectivity. Hence you will not be able to browse internet or download apps at higher speed using your cellular network provider internet.
Small screen with low resolution: The display screen of the device is small and the resolution of the screen is QVGA,
Only QVGA quality video recording:
Samsung Galaxy Star Specification
2.9 inch capacitive touch screen with QVGA screen resolution
58x104.95x11.9 mm in dimension and has 100.5 grams of weight
1GHz cortex A5 processor with 512MB RAM and Mali 300 GPU
4GB internal memory and expandable memory support upto 32GB.
1200 mAh batter with talk time upto 14 hours
2MP primary camera with QVGA video recording at 15fps.

Sync Contacts with Online Accounts Using Samsung Kies

Syncing the contacts with online accounts such as google, Yahoo or  Windows Contacts. These services will be very useful if you want to transfer contacts to new phone or even in the situations if you lose your phone, then you can get backup your contacts. All the Samsung Galaxy smartphones do support two types of contact syncing feature. One is through directly from the phone by adding the online account and enabling the sync option and the second one using the Samsung Kies free PC suite. The advantage  of using Samsung Kies Free mobile PC suite to sync contact is that, you need to have active data plan on your cell phone. Once synced, you can connect your phone to PC, the data will be in sync.
So let us start to learn how to use Contact sync on Galaxy smartphones using the Samsung Kies desktop application.
Steps to Sync Contacts with Online Accounts Using Samsung Kies Free Mobile PC Suite
1. Download and install the latest Samsung Mobile PC suite. You can refer my earlier post on How download free Samsung Kies PC suite to learn more
2.  Once the Samsung Kies applications is installed, run the application and connect your phone to PC using the USB cable.
3.  Click on the Sync Tab from the Top tabs.
4.  Click on the checkbox Sync Contact with  as shown in the image.  You can choose Google, Yahoo or Windows Contacts.
Syncing Contacts Using Samsung mobile PC suite

5. Click on Account preferences to enter your account details such as user name and password.
6. You can even choose other data such as Sync Music, Sync photos, Sync Videos and Sync Podcasts to enable sync with your online account.
7. Now you have two options. One is automatic sync when you connect your device to PC and another one is manual sync. To enable automatic sync, select the check box on the top or just click on sync button for manual sync.
8. Wait for a minute or more to complete the sync. You are done. Your data is saved in the cloud.
9. Now when ever you sign in to the account from any device, you can sync your contacts using the Kies PC suite.

Devices compatible with Samsung Kies Contact Sync: Almost all Galaxy smartphones running on Android operating system supports syncing of contacts through Samsung Kies Mobile PC suite. To name few I am giving the name of the popular Samsung galaxy Names.
Samsung Galaxy S4, Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini, Samsung Galaxy S3, Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini, Samsung Galaxy Core, Samsung Galaxy Quattro, Samsung Galaxy Grand etc.

 

Thursday 12 September 2013

Samsung Galaxy Core I8262 Dual sim Smartphone

Samsung Galaxy Core I8262 is a dual sim pocket friendly Android running smartphone. It has decent power with dual core processor and good amount RAM. In simple words, Samsung wanted to provide a balanced blend of power, performance and good looking smartphone at affordable price. As on writing this post, the price of Samsung Galaxy Core is Rs.13,158.
Samsung Galaxy Core I8262 Dual sim smartphone sports 4.3 inch capacitive touch screen with a screen resolution of WVGA 480x800 pixels.  The pixel density of this Samsung Dual sim phone comes around 216 ppi which is a decent for regular usage. The display screen has very good viewing angles as well the brightness is top notch compared similarly priced smartphones.
Samsung Galaxy Core I8262
SamsungGalaxy Core
 Samsung Galaxy Core is powered by 1.2GHz dual core cortex A5 processor with Snapdragon MSM8225 S4 Play chipset and adreno 203 GPU. The device has 1GB of RAM and 8GB of internal storage which can be further extended using microSD card upto 64GB.  The dual sim smartphone runs on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean OS along with Touchwiz user interface.  Some of the features we have seen in Galaxy S3 and Galaxy S4 such as Smart Stay and Smart Alert also available on this device. The Smart Stay will make the screen dim when you are not looking at the screen which intern will save the battery life. The Smart Alert that bundles all the notifications that you might have missed. Also, simple motion controls enable to make frequently used actions easier like turning the phone over puts it on mute.
Samsung Galaxy Core houses 5MP rear facing camera with LED flash. This camera can record videos at 480p resolution at 30fps.  There is also a VGA 0.3 MP front facing camera which will be useful during video calling with apps such as Skype or Google Hangout.The key features of Samsung Galaxy Core camera are Geo-tagging, touch focus, face and smile detection.
Coming to the battery of Galaxy Core, it has Li-ion 1800 mAh battery which provides max of 500 hours standby time on 2G and 300 hours of standby time on 3G, 14 hours of Talk time on 2G, 9 hours of 3G. The SAR value of the device is 0.29 W/kg (head) and 0.95 W/kg (body). The dimensions of the Samsung Galaxy Core are 129.3 x 67.6 x 9 mm and weighs 124 grams.
Disadvantages of Samsung Galaxy Core:
No phone is perfect. Samsung Galaxy core also not an exception for this. Though it offers a lot for the price, it still lacks in few of the areas. Though these negatives of Galaxy Core are not a big deal breakers, it is good to know the cons of the device before buying the device.
  • No HD video recording support: The Samsung Galaxy Core supports maximum of 480p video recording. It is bit of shortfall of the device considering there are device in the same price bracket which provides 720p HD video recording capabilities such as Sony Xperia M, Nokia Lumia 620, Nokia Lumia 520 etc.
  • No Ambient Light sensor: This limits phones ability to auto adjust screen brightness. Samsung provides a quick shortcut to adjust the screen brightness but it could have been better if they have bundled it.
  • Mediocre CPU and Chipset: The CPU on the device is based on the Cortex A5 architecture which is way older architecture. Though it is a dual core processor dont expect high performance. The Xperia M or Nokia Lumia 620, Lumia 520 etc comes with dual core Krait CPU which is much more powerful than this. Having said that, Samsung Galaxy Core does perform fairly on playing games or working on apps or watching videos. You will notice the lack of power only when you play high end games on this device.
Samsung Galaxy Core Tips:
If you have purchased the new Samsung Galaxy Core smartphone, then here is some of the basic tips which might be useful for you. These are not very complicated but comes handy on most of the time.
Download and Install free Samsung PC suite: Samsung Galaxy Core free PC suite is called as Samsung Kies. The Samsung Kies for Galaxy Core is useful for back your device data, updating your device firmware, transferring media files etc. It also installs Samsung Drivers required for configure your device on PC. To learn more more about Samsung PC suite you can refer my earlier post on Samsung Kies Free Download.
Using Samsung Galaxy Core As Modem: If you have enabled data connection, then you can use your Samsung Galaxy Core as modem or WiFi Hotspot. This can be achieved through the feature called WiFi tethering for WiFi Hotspot and USB tethering for cable connected data sharing.
Taking Screen shot on Samsung Galaxy Core: Like any other Galaxy smartphone, you can take screen shot of your device by pressing Volume key+Menu key at a time.
Samsung Galaxy Core Specification :
  • 1.2GHz Dual core processor with 1GB of RAM and Adreno 203 GPU
  • Size:67.56x129.3x8.95 mm and weight:124 g
  • 5MP primary camera and 0.3 front facing camera
  • 2G,3G, WiFi, Bluetooth and USB connectivity
  • Li-ion 1800 mAh battery
  • 4.3 inch capacitive touch screen with WVGA screen resolution
  • Android 4.1 Jelly Bean OS and Touchwiz User Interface