a simple review on behalf on my friend who bought the Galaxy Ace from mikecmy just now at Sunway Pyramid. Me and him compared the Galaxy Ace with his previous phone, the HTC Wildfire.

1. The phone feels so smooth! unlike the Touchwiz 3.0 at Samsung Galaxy S this is nearing the smoothness of iphone 3GS on OS4.2.1!
2. The battery lasted quite awhile too. We downloaded countless apps, try to view several vids on Rockplayer, hearing some songs, watch youtube vids and yet after 3~4 hours only the battery goes to 5% from 20% i think, which is quite an improvement compared to his old HTC Wildfire.
3. The screen. Not much comment on it but it's quite comparable to Iphone 3GS to me; the size and vividness of the screen.
4. It's running on Android 2.2.1
5. Samsung's Task Manager is quite intelligent, we don't feel the need of Advanced Task Killer anymore. lol.
6. The sound is quite loud, but one thing that i don't fancy is the placement of the speaker which is at the back of the phone.
7. The video player doesn't play XVID format, hence we downloaded Rockplayer to counter this. Also, HD video can't be played, laggy at 0.5fps.
8. Build quality is quite solid, and the phone is heavier compared to Galaxy S, in which to me feels like it's worth paying for the phone's price.
8. The camera pic is better than HTC Wildfire too, though both are 5mpx shooter. Maybe Samsung processes the pictures differently than HTC or maybe the lens is better than HTC's.
9. About the memory, yeah, it's lower than an Optimus One, but with its intelligent task killer and faster proc @ 800mhz, we don't feel the downside of it.....yet.
10. Samsung's Touchwiz customization isn't much compared to HTC's Sense like widgets and menu shortcuts in which my friend initially complained, but he said it's nothing to be worry about.

Overall for a low-mid end Android, i'd recommend this Samsung Galaxy Ace to anyone who is interested buying it

That's all for now I guess. The seller (mikecmy) is quite good too, chatted with us although his gf is waiting for so long already at another place. lol. I recommend buying from him

This post has been edited by cloudstrife07: Feb 24 2011, 01:44 AM