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Scoop/Just Announced: Samsung Galaxy Y Duos


The Philippines is a multi-SIM phone-crazy country. Thanks to the three networks' Unlimited Call and Text services, Filipinos prefer to keep at least two SIM Cards so that their contacts will be able to text them when these are on unlimited promos. Thus, the multi-SIM phone industry is booming in the country. In fact, it is because of these conditions that the Philippines' local mobile phone brands were able to build their businesses around.

So speaking of multi-SIM phones, how about we add one thing more to your 2012 wishlist?

How about the dual-SIM version of the Samsung Galaxy Y?

Announced just yesterday, the Samsung Galaxy Y will have its Dual-SIM twin brother, the Samsung Galaxy Y Duos. This entry-level Samsung will boast of better specs:

  • 384MB RAM
  • 3.15MP Camera

The ROM is at 512MB, though it does not state how much of that is user-available Internal Storage.

What is exciting about this new Sammy is that there is a possibility that this may be able to host the data connection of the two separate SIM cards. As to the veracity of that, we will have to confirm.

Are you excited? I am.

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Photo Credits: GSM Arena
Thank You: IntoMobile
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Bargain Hunter: Samsung Galaxy Y


Two things about the Samsung Galaxy Y for you Android Fanatics today: A bargain and the Samsung Galaxy Y Netphone Edition.

The Samsung Galaxy Y, or Samsung Galaxy Young, is an entry-level Samsung phone designed to serve the basic needs of Android users, with a price that’s also at the baseline. These are the specs of the Samsung Galaxy Y: 

  • Android OS v.2.3.5 (Gingerbread)
  • 256MB RAM
  • 832MHz CPU
  • 160MB Internal Memory

If you’re about to turn your nose up at these specs, wait till you read the price of the Samsung Galaxy Y that we saw in Robinsons Pioneer.

Five-thousand, eight-hundred eighty pesos. That’s right, the openline Samsung Galaxy Y we saw at MultiCom is less than Php 6,000. 

However, for nothing  more than Php 110 extra, you get to tether your Samsung Galaxy Y to the SmartNet system. 

Yup, you read right. Smart Communications is selling the Samsung Galaxy Y at only Php 5,990 on Prepaid, and you get to use the SmartNet network for free until December 31, 2011. Remember that though SmartNet may be made available for other users to use on non-Netphone Androids, so far, only Smart Communications Consultant Jayvee Fernandez has been able to get his hands on the SmartNet app. Not only that, there are rumors that Smart will only give access to SmartNet for free on its Netphone models, and may charge non-Netphone users certain fees for the use of the system. Thus, if you want to get the most out of a Samsung Galaxy Y as a Netphone, it’s no biggie to spring an extra Php 110 for SmartNet access, right?

But if you prefer to save the Php 110, and Robinsons Pioneer is accessible to you, head on over to MultiCom for the cheapest Samsung Galaxy Y we’ve seen so far. If you find something cheaper, do let us know!

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