Galaxy Ace review: A hugely popular entry Android that brought smartphones to the masses.
Android for the masses.
The Galaxy Ace was one of the phones that democratised Android — an affordable, iPhone-styled entry smartphone with a decent 5 MP camera that sold in huge numbers across emerging markets. It introduced millions of people to their first smartphone.
01Display
44/10044/100 — right at the average for budget phones of 2011.
02Camera
46/10046/100 — right at the average for budget phones of 2011.
03Performance
36/10036/100 — right at the average for budget phones of 2011.
04Battery
56/10056/100 — right at the average for budget phones of 2011.
05Build
50/10050/100 — right at the average for budget phones of 2011.
06Value
56/10056/100 — right at the average for budget phones of 2011.
- Affordable gateway to Android.
- 5 MP autofocus camera was good for entry.
- Removable battery + microSD.
- Sold enormously worldwide.
- 278 MB RAM was cramped even then.
- HVGA screen.
- 800 MHz single-core.
- Limited app storage.
How this review is built: every section score, spec row and comparison on this page comes from SpecEagle's tracked catalogue — scores weight measured specs against the 1-phone cohort of budget devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .