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Dual SIM Samsung Galaxy Y Duos and Pro Duos announced

Categories: Android, Samsung
By: , IntoMobile
Thursday, December 22nd, 2011 at 7:44 AM
Samsung-duos

After a brief glimpse last week, Samsung has officially announced the Galaxy Y Duos and Galaxy Y Duos Pro. The Android 2.3 Gingerbread handsets look pretty much identical to some devices Samsung had announced over the summer, except these ones have a second SIM card slot in them. Otherwise, the devices are still fairly entry-level; the all-touch Duos has a 3.14-inch 240 x 320 touchscreen, 832 MHz processor, and 3 megapixel camera, while the QWERTY keyboard-bearing Pro Duos has a smaller 2.6-inch screen.

I’m a fan of Samsung’s new naming strategy. Their Galaxy Y devices will all be the most basic, affordable handsets they offer, and knowing that means you already have a good idea of what to expect from the name alone. Climbing the ladder, are M, W, R, and finally the S-class phones we all know and love.

Russia will be picking up these two handsets first, with rollouts to Europe, Latin America, Southwest Asia, Middle East and Africa fortchcoming. Of course, the dual-SIM thing isn’t really viable here in North America, what with CDMA still being alive and well in the U.S., but I could see it working in Canada if you regularly switched between WIND and Mobilicity, depending on who had the better offer on any given month.

You can find more details on the Samsung Galaxy Y Duos here, or the Galaxy Y Pro Duos here.

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Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.

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    This is really good dual Sim android phones from Samsung. Galaxy Y duos is good choice to buy the resolution of the phone is really bad.

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    I have been using the Galaxy Y pro for five days and have been pretty much satisfied with it’s speed and build quality.

    To my experience, its the best QWERTY android device you can get at a budget price and be satisfied with its performance. There are many expensive android devices out there which can do half what the galaxy y pro can do.

    Oh! I cant stop texting on my galaxy y pro! am writing this comment right from my phone :)