Samsung Galaxy Ace 3 Review

Samsung Galaxy Ace 3 Review

You can pick up the Galaxy Ace 3 in two colors. Id tell you to guess what they are, but black and white are too obvious to make the game fun. Everyone would be disappointed if it was just black, though.

The power button is on the right side, volume is on the left and the charging port is below. Like most Samsungs, the Ace 3 has a clicky centre Home button with capacitive ones either side for Menu and Back.

Submitted by Gordon Johnson Houghton on Tue, 2015-10-27 13:09. I got this phone because its cheap - BIG mistake. Reception on it is woeful, I get better reception on my 3 yr old HTC8S with the same SIM card. The screen is very unresponsive. It takes several seconds for a letter to appear after typing and it takes about 20 minutes to send a text. The battery life is measurable in minutes. I sent it back to Samsung because its so bad and they sent it back to me after updating software and claiming nothing wrong. Even worse now - I cant turn off the click noise on the keyboard and my contacts are all missing the initial 0 so it cant dial out by name or recognise incoming calls. DO NOT BUY THIS PHONE!

It seems a little odd that the screen matches that of the HTC Desire 500, yet somehow seems brighter and crisper. Then again, Samsung is famed for putting truly spectacular screens onto some of its devices.

The Samsung Galaxy Ace 3 is an affordable little smartphone that provides an adequate user experience for its price. It’s compact, fairly lightweight and doesn’t lag too badly for a budget phone. Its best feature is its 4G connectivity, but its greatest flaw is lag, which can end up cancelling out the benefits that 4G usually supplies.

Do not touch with a long chain of smart phones on a stick. Worst phone since the sister phone to my Motorola startac. Love Samsung as a company, have working portable TV that served as my C64 monitor. Phone awful, no choice in tones without going online, but its raison dêtre to be a phone fails abysmally. Will swap settings whilst speaking, you can hear the menu going through the motion. Managed to switch phone into Swedish whilst speaking to family. Regret giving up HTc.

The Ace 3 weighs 120g so it’s lighter than the Moto G (143g), but heavier than the Galaxy S4 Mini (107g). At 9mm thick, it’s slimmer than the Moto handset and matches the S4 Mini in the slenderness department. Despite the slippery feel of the removable plastic back cover, the Ace 3 is comfortable to hold in one hand and slips easily into a jeans pocket.

The Galaxy Ace 3 is powered by a dual-core 1.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor backed up by 1GB of memory. Its performance is very impressive, beating most of the other smartphones in its price range. It achieved 1,261ms in the SunSpider Javascript benchmark, which is faster than the Motorola Moto G, and was able to produce 17fps in the challenging 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited benchmarking test. In real terms, this means the Galaxy Ace 3 is more than capable of running fairly advanced 3D games and loads web pages with relative ease. Browsing the web wasn’t quite as smooth as on the Alcatel One Touch Idol S, but it wasn’t far off.

The launch of the Motorola Moto G has made shopping for budget mobiles considerably easier. Its 4.5-inch screen is sharper and looks better than the Ace 3s, its quad-core processor provides a smoother operation and at £135 SIM-free, its two-thirds the price of the Ace, too. The Moto G outperforms every other budget phone available right now.

We won’t hold this against the Ace 3. Stellar camera performance is not something that is expected from the lower ends of the market, but we won’t give it any points for what is essentially a mediocre shooter. Its fine for instagram, but if you want nice family or nature shots then this isnt a camera that will deliver.

The Samsung Galaxy Ace 3 is a terrible phone, one of the worst i have ever owned. Phone is incredibly slow and laggy. Touch screen sensitivity is so poor 9/10 times it will launch the wrong app instead one touched. With apps taking a painful eternity to launch and run. The poor sensitivity of the screen makes texting and emailing almost impossible. Bluetooth is poor and wifi connectivity is crappy at best and often gets dropped by the and then gets marked as not stable to use. Battery life is poor these phones get incredibly hot when used for GPS / Calls or Data and battery life just dissapears befoore your eyes. Slow I have never seen a phone so slow as this one. Its factory 4GB micro SD card is too small to be on any real use. Phone crashes or freezes almost daily forcing a restart, or having to take the back off pull the battery out in order to reboot the phone. After three years of this phone constantly annoying me, I finally decided to fix it permanently by taking to it with a heavy metal mallet. My Samsung Galaxy Ace 3 no longer gives me any problems. I would advise people to steer well clear of this phone its simply not up to the of modern smartphone use.

Say “hi phone” Unlike most mobile voice capabilities, S Voice allows you to actually unlock your phone with a simple command that you customize. Once it’s unlocked, tell it to play a song, do a web search, or even take photos.

Easy-to-use camera modes let you make your photos more creative, more you, and more share-wo rthy. There’s even a mode that instantly pings friends when you’ve taken pictures of them.

Personally, wed go with the Moto G. The 4G on the Ace 3 was nice, but the lack of hardware power and slow browser ended up bringing the speed down in other ways that at times almost made the 4G unnoticeable.