Samsung Galaxy K Zoom

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Reviews for the Samsung Galaxy K Zoom

60% Samsung Galaxy K Zoom
Source: Gadgets Now Archive.org version
Samsung has largely improved on last year's Galaxy S4 Zoom with the Galaxy K Zoom, cranking up its camera skills and dropping its huge heft, but it's simply still a tank of a phone. Despite its top-notch camera, the rest of the specs don't match up to its £400 price-tag. Samsung has tried to deliver the best of both camera and phone, and unfortunately, it just doesn't match up.
Single Review, online available, Very Short, Date: 08/27/2014
Rating: Total score: 60%

82% Samsung Galaxy K zoom review: the point-and-shoot with a phone
Source: Pocketnow Archive.org version
That being said, we’re still not sure we’re able to answer our fundamental questions about this device, but we’ll try our best. Is it a phone? It definitely is a smartphone, and a rather capable one at that, being able to handle most of today’s tasks without a problem. Is it a camera? It surely is, and a good one at that. Who would buy it? The person who doesn’t care about added bulk, is not a spec-head (but rather a casual smartphone user), is relatively light on using the phone, and cares a lot about his or her on-the-go photography. Why? Well, you tell us why you’d buy (or skip) the Samsung Galaxy K zoom, in the comments below.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 08/11/2014
Rating: Total score: 82% performance: 70% features: 80% mobility: 50%

60% Samsung K Zoom
Source: Recombu Archive.org version
The Samsung Galaxy K Zoom is a good smartphone with mid-range internals that will make the average user happy. It is, however, only a good camera compared with a digital compact, making it hard to recommend wholeheartedly.
Single Review, online available, Very Short, Date: 08/08/2014
Rating: Total score: 60%

70% Samsung Galaxy K Zoom review
Source: Trusted Reviews Archive.org version
The Samsung Galaxy K Zoom is a strange middle-ground phone. It doesn’t have every latest feature under the sun, but makes sacrifices in design that mean people may assume it does. Really, this phone is all about the optical zoom, and we still think that the Galaxy S5 can actually produce somewhat superior photos when shooting at a wide angle. For most, this phone isn’t really a sensible compromise, but there are real benefits to having a 10x optical zoom in a phone.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 07/22/2014
Rating: Total score: 70% price: 70% performance: 70% display: 70% mobility: 50% workmanship: 60%

Foreign Reviews

82% Samsung Galaxy K Zoom
Source: Audio Video Foto Bild - Heft 11/2014
Single Review, , Length Unknown, Date: 10/01/2014
Rating: Total score: 82%

98% Samsung Galaxy K Zoom
Source: Chip Test & Kauf - Heft Nr. 6/2014
Single Review, , Length Unknown, Date: 10/01/2014
Rating: Total score: 98%

78% Samsung Galaxy K Zoom
Source: Connect - Heft 10/2014
Single Review, , Length Unknown, Date: 09/01/2014
Rating: Total score: 78%

80% Samsung Galaxy K Zoom
Source: Foto Magazin - Heft 10/2014
Single Review, , Length Unknown, Date: 09/01/2014
Rating: Total score: 80%

88% Samsung Galaxy K Zoom
Source: Stiftung Warentest - Heft 10/2014
Single Review, , Length Unknown, Date: 09/01/2014
Rating: Total score: 88%

96% Mehr Handy als Kamera
Source: Chip.de DE→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 07/18/2014
Rating: Total score: 96% price: 91% mobility: 99%

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The Samsung Galaxy K Zoom is an Android 4.4.2 KitKat smartphone that packs an optical zoom camera. Visually, the device has a similar look to other bar shaped Samsung smartphones with the addition of a physical camera shutter button. The back panel has the faux leather texture found on the Galaxy S5 and comes in 3 colours; white, blue and black.

There is a 4.8 inches Super AMOLED display panel protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 3. The internal hardware consists of an Exynos 5260 Cortex A7 1.3 GHz quad-core and Cortex A15 1.7 GHz dual-core combination, Mali-T624 GPU, 2 GB RAM, and 8 GB internal memory. Photography lovers would be glad with the option to an additional 64 GB using MicroSD.

The standout feature is the 20.7 megapixel auto/manual focus, 10X optical zoom camera. It has optical image stabilization with Xenon and LED flash capabilities. The secondary camera is a 2 megapixel front facing camera which will please the selfie lover.

Other features include A-GPS, Bluetooth 4.0, TV-out, photo/video editor, and 50 GB Dropbox cloud storage. Battery life on the Samsung Galaxy K Zoom is good with its 2430 mAh Li-ion cell that enables the device to have 14 hour talk time.

ARM Mali-T624: DirectX 11 (feature level 9_3) and OpenGL ES 3.0 capable integrated graphics card that can feature 1 to 4 clusters/cores (named MP1 - MP4).

These graphics cards are not suited for Windows 3D games. Office and Internet surfing however is possible.

» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.

5260 Hexa: Hexacore SoC that integrates two fast Cortex-A15 cores and four power saving Cortex-A7 cores. All six cores can work together to boost performance.» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.

4.80":

This display is tiny. You will probably see very little on the screen and be able to use mini-resolutions.

Samsung: Samsung Group is the largest South Korean conglomerate and was founded in 1938. Samsung Group employed 489,000 people in 2014 and is one of the world's largest companies in terms of revenue and market strength. The name Samsung means "Three Stars" in Korean and represents the three sons of the company's founder. The company was founded in 1938 as a grocery store. With its subsidiary Samsung Electronics, founded in 1969, Samsung took up the production of electrotechnical items, focusing on consumer electronics and household appliances at an early stage. Other branches in which the large corporation is active include mechanical engineering, automobiles (Hyundai), insurance, wholesale, real estate and leisure. Samsung manufactures a wide range of electronic products, including smartphones, televisions, home appliances and semiconductors. The company's Galaxy line of smartphones is one of the most popular in the world. Samsung is also a major player in the semiconductor industry, making memory chips and processors for many other electronics manufacturers.

79.4%: This rating is not earth-shattering. This rating must actually be seen as average, since there are about as many devices with worse ratings as better ones. A purchase recommendation can only be seen with a lot of goodwill, unless it is about websites that generally rate strictly.

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