Samsung's new handset Galaxy Pop i559 is now launched in India as a CDMA edition which was earlier made available few days back as a regular GSM version of the phone. Accordingly, this mobile phone too comes within an affordable mid-range price and has features built into it which can make it one of the preferred CDMA mobile phone in less than Rs.10,000 range. The actual price of Samsung Galaxy Pop CDMA in India is tagged at Rs. 9,800/- approximately and is now available throughout the country in some of the leading mobile stores and retailers.

It is a phone belonging to Touch Bar type form factor and measures a dimension of 110.4 x 60.6 x 12.1mm and has a weight of 105g. It is a full touchscreen phone having 3.14-inch capacitive touch display that has a screen resolution of around 240 x 320 pixels. The user interface makes use of TouchWiz v3.0 UI whereas the text input is accepted via Swype method.


Samsung Galaxy Pop i559 also sports a 3.15 megapixels Auto-Focus camera having a resolution of 2048 x 1536 pixels which comes along with digital zoom, geo-tagging and video recording at 15fps and 320 x 240 pixels resolution. It is an Android mobile having the Froyo (v2.2) version of the operating system installed and thereby provides support for a wide range of apps and games available for use within the handset. It also has a good multimedia support having 5.1 channel compatible 3D sound technology and wide number of popular music and video formats supported. There is also an FM radio player with RDS available for use.

The connectivity features may include the support for wireless technologies like WiFi 802.11 b/g/n and Bluetooth, A-GPS, microUSB 2.0 and 3.5mm audio jack. It has an internal memory capacity of 512MB and external memory support of up to 32GB using microSD memory card.

The operating frequency of Samsung Galaxy Pop i559 is CDMA 800/2000 1xEV-DO Mhz. It derives its power from a 1200 mAH Li-ion battery that can survive up to 320 hours of standby time and also provide nearly 5 hours of talk time. It uses a 800MHz processor and has 384MB of RAM built-in within the phone handset and is available in Black color only as of now.