Galaxy Trend review: A budget entry-level Galaxy popular in carrier and prepaid markets.
A prepaid-shelf Galaxy staple.
Galaxy Trend was Samsung's entry-tier "Galaxy" for prepaid and carrier shelves — modest specs at a low price, sold under multiple regional names. It introduced millions to the brand at the bottom of the lineup.
01Display
44/10044/100 is one of the weaker display results among budget phones of 2013 — 14 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
02Camera
38/10038/100 is one of the weaker camera results among budget phones of 2013 — 16 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
03Performance
36/10036/100 is one of the weaker performance results among budget phones of 2013 — 14 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
04Battery
50/10050/100 is one of the weaker battery results among budget phones of 2013 — 15 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
05Build
48/10048/100 trails the 52-point cohort average for budget phones of 2013.
06Value
54/10054/100 is one of the weaker value results among budget phones of 2013 — 7 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
- Affordable carrier Galaxy.
- Removable battery + microSD.
- Compact 4" body.
- Familiar TouchWiz feel.
- HVGA screen.
- 3.15 MP fixed-focus camera.
- 768 MB RAM.
- Slow Broadcom chip.
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 29-phone cohort of budget devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .