The Galaxy Mini is a 3.5G smartphone that offers quad-band GSM and was announced with two-band HSDPA (900/2100 MHz) at 7.2 Mbit/s. The display is a 3.14 in (80 mm)-diagonal TFT LCD with a 240×320 pixels QVGA resolution supporting up to 262,000 colors.The Galaxy Mini originally ran on Android 2.2 Froyo, but in May 2011, Samsung announced that the Galaxy Mini will get an official upgrade to Android 2.3 Gingerbread. An official upgrade to Android 2.3.6 (Gingerbread) was released via Samsung Kies on December 9, 2011 for some mobile operators. Galaxy Mini can also be flashed with custom ROMs such as CyanogenMod releases (although not officially supported by Samsung) where it is codenamed tass. Officially supported version by CyanogenMod on Galaxy Mini as of August 2012 is CyanogenMod 7.2, although unofficial nightly versions of CM 9.x and 10.x can also be installed.
Key features
- Dual-touch (two fingers).
- Quad-Band GSM and dual-band 3G support.
- 7.2 Mbit/s HSDPA.
- WiFi 802.11 (b/g/n).
- Bluetooth technology v 2.1.
- USB 2.0 (High Speed).
- 3.14 in (80 mm) 256K-color QVGA TFT touchscreen.
- ARMv6 600 MHz processor, 384 MB RAM (only 279 MB RAM available).
- Adreno 200 GPU.
- Android OS v2.2 (Froyo) with TouchWiz v3.0 UI, upgrade to v2.3.6 (Gingerbread) available in some places.
- 160 MB internal storage, hot-swappable MicroSD slot, 2 GB card included.
- 3.15 Megapixel fixed-focus camera with geo-tagging.
- GPS receiver with A-GPS.
- FM radio with RDS and Radio Text (Not available in "Dart" version.)
- 3.5 mm audio jack.
- Document editor.
- Accelerometer and proximity sensor.
- Swype virtual keyboard.
- MicroUSB port (charging and data transfer) and stereo Bluetooth 2.1.
- SNS (Social networking service) integration.
- Image/Video editor.