Samsung Galaxy Core Is Up For Pre-Orders At 15,350

The much awaited budget Smartphone by Samsung, Galaxy Core, is up for pre-orders at 15,350 on company’s India website and it is to start shipping from July 1, reports NDTV Gadget.

Announced in May, the Galaxy Core found a spot on company’s website last week without price tag or shipping date, but now it’s all revealed.

The white body Galaxy Core has been listed online already, and the blue color device is listed as forthcoming. The third-party websites like Infibeam and Flipkart has listed the device for  15,199 and  15,200.

Galaxy Core sports a 4.3 inch capacitive touchscreen with 16M colors at 480x800 pixels resolution. It is powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core processor coupled with 1GB of RAM and runs on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean OS and has Samsung's TouchWiz.

It sports a 5-megapixel rear camera, with auto-focus feature and led flash, and has a VGA front facing camera. The device comes with 8GB of internal storage which can be expanded through a microSD card to up to 64 GB. The connectivity options include Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 3.0 and GPS. The phone comes with an 1800mAh battery that offers 9 hours of 3G talk time.

Core supports dual SIMs simultaneously, i,e. you can get a call or message on first SIM when you are talking on second. And like Samsung’s flagship S4, the device comes with Radio functionality.

Core also sports some smart functions like it can track if the user is looking at the phone or not and accordance to it the screen gets bright or dim to save the battery. It also comes with advanced facial recognition, Smart Alert that alerts the user to missed calls and messages when the device is picked up, Motion UI that activates common functions such as refresh or mute with simple motion commands and S Voice, Samsung's own voice assistant.