The Samsung Galaxy Ace embraces a minimalists design while packing in loads of powerful features. It is simply stunning to look at and will feel quit special when you operate the large 3.5” HVGA touch screen. Access to the Android Market is certain to provide endless amounts of fun, especially considering 100000 plus apps are currently available. The Galaxy Ace also provides a powerful 800MHz processor, which helps to run the fully integrated Social Hub. This ingeniously collates all of your social networking, mail and instant messaging onto one screen. So, why not experience a new way of life with the Galaxy Ace, which is everything you want in modern communication.

Features

• Minimal Yet Sophisticated Design
  GALAXY Ace takes a minimal approach in its design, resulting in a sophisticated mobile that will allure. The smooth rounded edges and slim, compact size are a pleasure to wrap your fingers around, just as the large 3.5” HVGA screen is a delight to watch.
• A Market with Limitless Fun
  With approximately 100000 apps available on the Android Market, there’s no end to what your mobile can do. Enjoy countless games, utilities, news, health and finance applications with more being added each day. The scope of what GALAXY Ace can do is virtually unlimited!
• Perfect Social Hub
  GALAXY Ace offers a fully integrated one-page layout of your phone book, IM, email, and SNS. You can also organise and view your contacts according to four separate formats—Info, History, Activity and Media-so you can customise your layout just the way you want it.
• Great Hardware for Great Performance
  GALAXY Ace comes fully loaded with all I need for smooth web browsing, downloading and more. Equipped with a strong 800MHz processor and Wi-Fi, I can surf the web, download apps quickly, and share content with friends. Multitasking is a breeze, so we can have fun in all sorts of ways.
• Speedy Quicktype
  GALAXY Ace features Quicktype by SWYPE, an intelligent interface that connects the dots made by your finger to figure out what you are trying to write. By moving your finger across the keypad from letter to letter in one fluid motion, the mobile senses exactly what you want to say!

Full technical specifications are available on the Samsung web site - http://www.samsung.com/uk/consumer/mobile-devices/smartphones/android/GT...

Applications

The applications that come preinstalled on the Galaxy Ace are as follows:

• Phone
• Contacts
• Messaging
• Clock
• Calendar
• Memo
• Music
• Camera
• Gallery
• FM Radio
• ALlShare
• Internet
• Market
• Gmail
• Email
• Google Search
• Maps
• Social Hub
• Settings
• YouTube
• Talk
• Latitude
• Voice Search
• Navigation
• Places
• News & Weather
• My Files
• ThinkFree Office
• Calculator
• Samsung Apps
• Voice Recorder
• Task Manager
• Downloads
• Shazam

User Interface

The Galaxy Ace features 3 homescreens, accessed by swiping the left and right, each screen capable of hosting a number of application shortcuts, bookmarks, contacts, Internet-enabled widgets, social feeds, music, weather and more. Widgets can be added and rearranged quickly and easily, allowing you to customise your device to how you want.

Hardware controls can be accessed quickly and easily simply by accessing the notification area at the top of the screen

Email

The Galaxy Ace supports Exchange ActiveSync out of the box, allowing you to synchronise email, contacts and calendar with your Microsoft Exchange server, or hosted Exchange service.

Setting up an account is simply a matter of entering in your email address and password, should your Exchange server be set up to support autodiscovery, the remaining settings will be configured automatically. If not, you will need to supply your username, mail server address and domain, all of which can be obtained from your IT department.
As a rule of thumb your username and password and domain will be the same as that used to access your PC if you have one, and the server address is usually the same address as that used to access webmail via your Internet browser, in the form "mail.company.com"

Should your Exchange server has specific device usage policies applied, such as requiring the use of a lock password on devices, you will be prompted to accept these settings:

You can select which mailbox information you wish to sync (mail, contacts and calendar), can specify how often you want the device to synchronise, or whether you want updates pushed to you as they arrive, and how much information you want to synchronise:

You can optionally set up peak and off-peak synchronisation schedules, so your device can push updates to you during the working day, but only synchronise on a schedule, or manually, during the evening and weekends:

Multiple email accounts can be configured, and optionally displayed in a single, unified Inbox.

All mailbox folders can be accessed by swiping across the top of the screen:

Contacts can be searched for in the Exchange global address list when you compose a new email message:

Out of office settings and messages can also be set from the device:

Connectivity

The Galaxy Ace can be used as a portable wireless 3G hotspot, allowing you to connect your wifi-enabled device and share the Ace's high-speed connection to the Internet

Tethering is also possible via USB on Windows. You will need to download and install the Kies software from the www.samsungapps.com web site to obtain the necessary device drivers but once installed, connecting the Galaxy Ace and enabling tethering will install a new network adapter on your Windows PC automatically. Once the new hardware is installed your PC will automatically share the Ace's Internet link:

DLNA is also available, allowing you to stream music, photos and videos to and from other DLNA-certified equipment such as PCs and televisions

Productivity

The Galaxy Ace comes with the ThinkOffice software installed, which provides read, edit and create ability for Microsoft Office-compatible documents, spreadsheets and presentations:

Documents can be stored on the SD card, or can optionally be stored online if you sign up for an account with ThinkFree

Miscellaneous

The My Files application allows you to view and manage the contents of your device and microSD storage

The Samsung Apps feature provides an alternative to the Android Market, with special offers on apps and more

The Storage Manager allows you to keep control of your device's resources, by monitoring memory usage, available storage and running applications

This article was written using the following software version:

More information is available on the Samsung web site - http://www.samsung.com/uk/consumer/mobile-devices/smartphones/android/GT...

The user guide is available to download here.

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