Galaxy Young review: A tiny, ultra-cheap Android aimed at first-time and younger users.
A first phone for younger users.
The Galaxy Young was Samsung's ultra-budget entry — a compact, cheap Jelly Bean phone aimed squarely at first-time and younger users in cost-sensitive markets. Spartan by any measure, it was the kind of device that put a Samsung Android phone within almost anyone's reach.
01Display
36/10036/100 — right at the average for budget phones of 2013.
02Camera
36/10036/100 — right at the average for budget phones of 2013.
03Performance
32/10032/100 — right at the average for budget phones of 2013.
04Battery
56/10056/100 — right at the average for budget phones of 2013.
05Build
48/10048/100 — right at the average for budget phones of 2013.
06Value
54/10054/100 — right at the average for budget phones of 2013.
- Very cheap entry to Android 4.1.
- Compact and light.
- Removable battery + microSD.
- Good for first phones.
- 3 MP fixed-focus camera.
- HVGA screen.
- Single-core, 512 MB RAM.
- No updates.
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? .