Samsung Galaxy Ace S5830

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63 of 63 Ciao users found the following review helpful

rosebud2001

Member since 04/05/2009

Reviews written: 424

This Phone is Ace!
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04/10/2011

User recommends the product

Advantages Versatile phone offering a responsive screen, excellent sound quality, good internet browsing
Disadvantages Battery life, clunky Kies software

A few months ago I decided to buy my daughter a new mobile phone. She had been using the Samsung Jet but her love of Twitter revealed the Jet to be lacking somewhat when it came to surfing the internet. My daughter rarely uses her phone to make calls, preferring to text or surf the web with it. It therefore made sense to get her a 3G phone so internet surfing was easier. There were other issues with the Jet, including a touchscreen which was notoriously non-responsive and a memory card slot which wasn't particularly reliable, constantly knocking the card out of place. Last year I got a Samsung ... more
32 of 32 Ciao users found the following review helpful

linzee_loulabelle

Member since 26/11/2004

Reviews written: 598

Yes, it is ACE!! 17/05/2012

User recommends the product

Advantages Easy to use, does lots
Disadvantages Headphones

When it came to changing my contract and phone last year, I had no idea what I wanted. This was going to be the first time I would have an android phone so I knew that I wanted something easy to use and as silly as this may sound, I had acrylic nails at the time so I needed something easy to text with. After a sales woman let me play with quite a few different phones, I went with the Samsung Galaxy Ace, which seemed to do everything that I wanted. As I am on a contract, I didn’t buy the phone outright but it does cost me £35 a month which includes 600 minutes, unlimited texts and unlimited ... more
45 of 45 Ciao users found the following review helpful

gothic_moon

Member since 23/09/2005

Reviews written: 425

A Smartphone Smooth Like Galaxy Caramel 18/01/2012

User recommends the product

Advantages User friendly, responsive & good size touch screen, lots of features, smooth to run
Disadvantages Poor battery life when using apps

I wanted to upgrade my phone last month and I was shocked, though I don't really know why, at how quickly phones seem to go outdated and are replaced by their 'newer version'. There are so many to choose from, and numerous tariffs you get hassled in to signing up to, that it's hard to decide unless you have a good idea of what it is you want. I knew a few improvements I wanted to see to my old phone, the Orange / ZTE San Fran, and the Samsung Galaxy Ace far exceeded my expectations, so I'm really happy with it. Samsung as a whole is a well-renowned company and one which I tend to admire and ... more
21 of 21 Ciao users found the following review helpful

Coolchris330

Member since 14/09/2010

Reviews written: 91

The best phone for the price, let down only by hardware restrictions 13/05/2012

User recommends the product

Advantages Yet to drop connection, runs Android, pretty cheap, nice screen
Disadvantages Built in 'Touchwiz' theme causes phone to be slow, only 256mb RAM

The Galaxy Ace is a smartphone by Samsung, it features an 800MHz processor and the price without contract clocks in around the £220 region. The Performance of the Phone The Samsung Galaxy Ace has an 800MHz single core processor, which is a little bit tame considering a lot of the higher end phones actually have dual and quad cores as of recent. The phone also has 256MB of RAM, which again may be considered tame by the hierarchy of extortionately expensive communication devices, but you never really see any disadvantges of this when using the phone. Using the default 'launcher' (basically ... more
37 of 37 Ciao users found the following review helpful

harveydog52

Member since 10/05/2006

Reviews written: 177

Good Cheaper End Smartphone 05/02/2012

User recommends the product

Advantages Does what it is supposed to do, easy to get used to
Disadvantages Battery runs out quicker when on the internet

My youngest daughter and my Other Half both had new phones over Christmas and they both got Samsung Galaxy Aces. I am always using their phones for one thing or another so I reckon I am able to give a good review of what they are like. The phones are really nice looking, a bit like my Galaxy Y but a bit bigger all round. The phone comes with an extra back so you can change the appearance of the phone. My daughter changed her back to the white colour with black on the front where as my Other Half kept his black all over. The screen on this phone is 3.5 inches and looks really nice. It is very ... more
9 of 9 Ciao users found the following review helpful

dobieg

Member since 31/01/2003

Reviews written: 196

Smartphone at a smart price 30/03/2012

User recommends the product

Advantages Full Android implementation
Disadvantages No iPlayer, fairly basic specification device

Hard as it may be to believe, having worked in IT for very nearly 30 years I’ve finally gone and bought my first mobile phone – that isn’t to say I’ve managed to avoid mobile telephony for most of my adult life, but my previous employers supplied me with a (very) basic handset and I was happy enough to do the odd bit of unpaid overtime to cover the cost of my personal calls. Having decided to ‘move on’ an pick up a ‘package’ I needed to get myself a basic phone, and was looking for something which was cheap, reliable, but reasonably functional without going overboard. I saw a deal which ... more
10 of 10 Ciao users found the following review helpful

willeaston

Member since 28/11/2011

Reviews written: 5

Samsung Galaxy Ace: Smart Phone, Smart Price 17/02/2012

User recommends the product

Advantages Great price, easy to use, good looking phone
Disadvantages Doesn't run smoothly all the time, Battery life leaves a lot to be desired.

When I was looking for a new smartphone, I browsed the internet as you would, and found most of the top end phones to be around £400. I was astounded to find the Galaxy Ace for only £200, half the price of most others. And it really packs a punch considering it is classed as a mid range smartphone. In terms of hardware, the phone is more than capable of performing most tasks, and multi tasking only effects the performance of the phone slightly. The phone looks great, very similar to a certain Apple phone, with only one main button. The two capacitive buttons on either side of the button are ... more
0 of 0 Ciao users found the following review helpful

Nielli

Member since 29/04/2012

Reviews written: 1

Good budgetphone for normal smartphone users
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30/04/2012

User recommends the product

Advantages look, price, camera, gingerbread
Disadvantages sometimes slow, no flash support, amount of ram

This smartphone is a successor of the "high end" Samsung Galaxy meant for people with a smaller budget and a less intensive use. The ace works well with 2d games. if you want to play 3D games you need a better smartphone. In my opinion the ace slows down at certain times, then it is not usable for 1-5 minutes, sometimes you will have to do a reboot. I think the appearance of the ace is very good. The price-quality ratio is now reasonable, I bought it when it was still 230 pounds and that was too much for what it does. The ace can easily play movies (YouTube, ...). The built-in browser works a ... more
7 of 7 Ciao users found the following review helpful

RetoxTime

Member since 02/08/2007

Reviews written: 10

Samsung Galaxy is Ace 12/12/2011

User recommends the product

Advantages Price, design, screen size, many of androids most popular features, decent camera
Disadvantages no flash player, battery life a bit dodgy

The Samsung Galaxy Ace has innumerable positive features - not least amongst these (and the one I want to mention first) is the price. I've owned more expensive phones in the past but decided to purchase a cheaper one this time around as the features included in this generation of entry level smartphone's more than cover my needs. This has proven to be a good decision as the Galaxy Ace really does have everything I need AND, somewhat unusually, I have found that most of the applications pre-installed in the device come in very handy and aren't simply taking up memory! To talk about every ... more
5 of 7 Ciao users found the following review helpful

matt1905cfc

Member since 12/06/2011

Reviews written: 1

Samsung Galaxy Ace - a quality, relatively cheap Android. 12/06/2011

User recommends the product

Advantages Good looking, social network integration, Android Marketplace, very stylish, good camera
Disadvantages Nothing as of yet

I don't have the money for the big budget Android phones, so at £200 the Samsung Galaxy Ace seemed to be a good compromise between features and price. The phone looks nice, with a smooth front and a grippy black back that makes it easy and comfortable to hold. The touch screen responds well to input, and the touch sensitive buttons on the front of the phone are just as responsive. The Android operating system is very stable, and the phone can run applications downloaded form the Android Marketplace, meaning that the possibilities are unlimited as long as there's an app for what you want to do ... more