Play and Share Faster and Smarter with the GALAXY Ace Plus

New addition to Android-powered GALAXY portfolio delivers style, power and versatility

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, a global leader in digital media and digital convergence technologies, announced the introduction of the Samsung GALAXY Ace Plus. As an enhanced version of the widely popular GALAXY Ace, the GALAXY Ace Plus is the smartphone for trendy and sociable young professionals. The GALAXY Ace Plus will be available in Russia starting from January 2012, and will be gradually rolled out to Europe, CIS, Latin America, Southeast and Southwest Asia, the Middle East, Africa and China.

“Samsung Mobile is opening 2012 with the introduction of the Samsung GALAXY Ace Plus, which will help enhance the GALAXY brand following the huge success of the GALAXY S, GALAXY SII, GALAXY Ace and GALAXY mini. The GALAXY Ace Plus benefits from the Android™ Gingerbread platform and Samsung services, which provide a better mobile experience for more consumers,” said JK Shin, President of IT & Mobile Communications Division at Samsung Electronics. “In 2012, we will continue to make every effort to create an easy and fun mobile experience by expanding our incredibly popular GALAXY smartphone range, which is now one of the most recognized and successful mobile brands in the world.”

Style and power with expanded features

Building on the previous GALAXY Ace style heritage, the GALAXY Ace Plus is a stylishly designed smartphone contained in a modern and minimalist casing with rounded edges, featuring an affordably-sized 3.65’’ HVGA display. The phone has been designed to be simple yet elegant.

The GALAXY Ace Plus is backed by an impressive 1GHz processor and HSDPA 7.2 Mbps connectivity, providing all the versatility and browsing performance that today’s busy and sociable young professionals need. WiFi 802.11 functionality offers lightning-fast speeds for browsing, downloading and video streaming. Application startups are faster with virtually no lag time, even while multitasking. Additionally, an impressive 2GB of shared storage capacity for multimedia content and up to 1GB of direct storage for applications—more than any smartphone in its category—allow users greater content freedom and usability.

Running on Android Gingerbread and featuring Samsung’s TouchWiz user interface, the GALAXY Ace Plus allows users to handle mobile tasks faster and more efficiently. New music playback functionality features a play progress bar and the ability to view music tracks in folders. Call features allow users to reject calls with text messages or add unwanted callers to a black list log. For added productivity, users also have the option of using ThinkFree, a tool that enables viewing and editing of Office documents, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDFs, while on the move.

The GALAXY Ace Plus enables users to stay connected through Samsung’s Social Hub, Music Hub and ChatON services. ChatON, connecting all phone users—across any phone platform—into a single community using phone numbers instead of usernames and passwords, provides an easy instant messaging, group chatting and sharing of content in multiple formats—images, video, voice, contacts, calendar—to make messaging simpler and more intuitive than ever.


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Samsung GALAXY Ace Plus Product Specifications

Network
HSDPA  7.2Mbps  900/2100
EDGE/GPRS  850/900/1800/1900
Process
1 GHz Processor
Display
3.65” HVGA(320x480) TFT
OS
Android 2.3(Gingerbread)
Camera
Main(Rear) : 5 Megapixel Auto Focus Camera with LED Flash
Video
Video : MPEG4, H.263, H.264
Recording/ Playback : WVGA@30fps
Audio
Codec : MP3, AAC, AAC＋, eAAC＋
Music Player with SoundAlive
3.5mm Ear Jack, Stereo FM Radio with RDS
Value-added Features
Samsung TouchWiz/ Samsung L!ve Panel UX
Samsung Apps
Samsung Kies 2.0/ Samsung Kies air
Samsung ChatON mobile communication service
Social Hub
- Integrated Messaging(Email, SNS), Contacts/ Calendar Sync
- Basic: POP3/IMAP Email
Music Hub (Downloadable)
GoogleTM Mobile Services
- Android Market™, Gmail™, YouTube™, Google Maps™,
 Syncing with Google Calendar™
ThinkFree
A-GPS
Connectivity
Bluetooth® technology v 3.0
USB 2.0
Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n
Sensor
Accelerometer, Digital compass, Proximity
Memory
3GB User memory ＋ 512MB(RAM)
microSD (up to 32GB))
Size
114.7 x 62.5 x 11.2 mm, 115 g
Battery
Standard battery, Li-ion 1,300 mAh

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About Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies with 2010 consolidated sales of US$135.8 billion. Employing approximately 190,500 people in 206 offices across 68 countries, the company consists of nine independently operated business units: Visual Display, Mobile Communications, Telecommunication Systems, Digital Appliances, IT Solutions, Digital Imaging, Memory, System LSI and LCD. Recognized as one of the fastest growing global brands, Samsung Electronics is a leading producer of digital TVs, semiconductor chips, mobile phones and TFT-LCDs. For more information, please visit www.samsung.com.