Samsung Galaxy Core Advance Announced, Comes With Enhanced Accessibility Features for Visually Impaired

Samsung has announced Galaxy Core Advance, a new mid-range smartphone in the Galaxy series and the successor of Galaxy Core that was launched earlier this year. The main highlight of this phone is that It has lots of usability functions and enhanced accessibility features for disabled and visually impaired users including, Optical Scan that automatically recognizes text from an image and reads it aloud to the user, Light Sensing technology that uses phone’s camera to sense light direction and brightness, Instant Voice Recorder with simplified access to make quick voice notes, Screen Curtain enables users to operate commands on a black screen to ensure privacy and saves battery life, High Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) functionalities and Voice Guided Camera functions to take pictures by reading out the number of faces detected and their standing location. And it comes with dedicated physical keys for Voice Recorder and Camera to launch these frequently used features and it also has Volume Control key, Power key, Menu and Home key as previous Galaxy phones.

Samsung Galaxy Core Advance Specifications:

• 4.7-inch (800 x 480 Pixels) LCD capacitive touch screen display
• 1.2 GHz dual-core processor
• Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean) OS
• 5MP Auto Focus Camera with LED Flash and a 0.3MP (VGA)front-facing camera
• 1GB RAM, 8 GB internal memory, expandable up to 64GB with microSD
• 3.5mm audio jack, FM Radio
• 3G (HSDPA 14.4Mbps; 5.76Mbps), Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth v 4.0, NFC, GPS ＋ GLONASS, NFC in-built
• 2000 mAh battery
• Size: 133.3 x 70.5 x 9.7 mm
• Weight: 145g
  Note: All the specifications may not be correct, may have slight difference. Please wait for the phone launch for full specifications.

Samsung Galaxy Core Advance comes in Deep Blue and Pearl White colors and expected to release in early 2014. Currently No word on pricing yet, Expected price between 13K and 15K. 
Source: FoneArena.

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