Samsung Galaxy Ace 3 Review

The Samsung Galaxy Ace 3 brings 4G speeds to the mid-range phone market. Its silver rim, single central home button and plain white backplate are essentially identical to numerous other Galaxy-branded handsets, but then it’s a proven formula from the best-selling smartphone maker on the planet.

Samsung Galaxy Ace 3 Display

The Galaxy Ace 3 has a 4in display with a 480x800 resolution screen. It's a little smaller, and has less detail, than even budget rivals such as the mighty Motorola Moto G. Nonetheless, its compact dimensions will certainly suit many the phone users who are resisting the move towards bigger devices. The screen itself is pretty good for a device of its class. While not boasting the best brightness of phones we’ve tested, we found its colour accuracy to be acceptable and it performed fairly well in brightly lit conditions.

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Strangely, there is no auto brightness setting on the Samsung Galaxy Ace 3. This means as you move from indoor to outdoor lighting conditions, you will have to adjust the screen brightness manually by pulling down the notification tray from the top of the screen. We tried third-party apps to add this to the phone, but to no avail as there simply isn't an ambient light sensor. It's an odd, and irritating, omission for a modern smartphone at this price.

Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3 Review

One Giant Smartphone for Mankind

Godzilla, Frankenstein's monster and Bigfoot are mythical creatures that don't exist (although you might dispute the latter). But now, an equally beastly smartphone -- one seemingly designed specifically for them -- is available to buy. The Samsung Galaxy Mega is a 6.3-inch woolly mammoth of a handset, and it reigns as the largest of its kind, even if only for a brief period of time; the title will soon be taken over by the Sony Xperia ZU once it hits the market. We were curious to see how a phone of its size would hold out during regular use, so our friends at Negri Electronics -- an online retailer which currently sells the Mega for $570 or $600 (8GB and 16GB, respectively) -- were kind enough to let us take one for a test drive for a few days. Is the phone's magnitude a benefit or hindrance to the user experience? Is it even worth considering if you don't need the largest possible screen? Find out as we dissect it after the break.

If this review taught us nothing else, we at least discovered that the Mega makes for an amazing icebreaker in elevators, parties and anywhere else. The odds of hearing "Wow, that thing's a phone?" were, expectedly, incredibly high. Of course, novelty isn't typically a factor we consider when reviewing a phone, nor should it be; perhaps a few folks may think of this as an opportunity to cure their shyness, but we believe it's far more important to judge a smartphone by its actual merits rather than perceived social implications.