Samsung Galaxy S Advance review

The Galaxy S Advance comes with a sensible complement of apps, such as a photo editor, a mapping app, a media player and an office productivity suite, but you can easily add more using Google Play. You can also download apps from the Samsung App store should you prefer. We downloaded BBC iPlayer and MX player, and both worked perfectly.

The Galaxy S Advance has 1.86GB of system storage for your apps and a further 3.91GB of user storage. That’s a generous amount, but you can further expand the storage capacity with a microSD card, should you need more room for your media.

It fits nicely in the hand and we could use it without hitting the sleep and volume buttons, but its plasticky feel does make it feel a cheaper phone than it is. The Galaxy S Advance is a good phone, and we love its attractive design and big screen, but we were expecting more from it. The Galaxy Advance S suits someone who doesn’t want to buy the top-of-the-range Samsung Galaxy S3, but still desires a similar design.