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hi everybody i'm chris wook if you're in the market for a dual-sim phone your choices are fairly limited is the samsung galaxy grand duos the phone for you find out in our review while dual SIM phones aren't that popular in North America they're much more so in the rest of the world the problem is finding a dual SIM phone with some higher-end features can be pretty tough let's find out if the galaxy grand duos is up to the task starting with the specs the samsung galaxy grand duos packs in a 1.2 gigahertz dual-core processor 5-inch mobile WVGA display one gig of ram and 8 gigs of internal storage expandable via microSD its rear camera is 8 megapixels and capable of recording 1080p video while the front shooter is 2 megapixels and records 480p video powering it all is the 2100 milliamp hour battery the design of the galaxy grandiose is reminiscent of both samsung's galaxy s3 and galaxy note 2 while the design is unmistakably Samsung and build quality is solid it's just a little too large to use comfortably with one hand though that is to be expected in a phone this size the display is clearly the weakest point of the galaxy grand duos the low resolution of 480 by 800 pixels certainly doesn't help and I saw some backlight leakage at the top of the screen there is a benefit to the low resolution however in that it actually improves performance since the hardware doesn't have to push as many pixels we weren't expecting super impressive performance out of the galaxy grand duos so we were actually pleasantly surprised with how well it ran scrolling is very smooth apps launched quickly and the games we tested ran fairly well and to to benchmark scores varied quite a bit with the final average score ending up at about 7500 the galaxy grand duos runs Android 4.1.2 jelly bean and of course run Samsung's TouchWiz on top of it the usual suite of s apps are included and some features from higher-end Samsung devices have been included like split-screen which you'll either love or hate the rear facing camera on the galaxy grand duos is very usable but not quite up to par with Samsung's higher-end phones in good light it was fine but low light performance isn't great video capture was decent but it wasn't very sharp and looked noisy in some darker areas of the video while the low resolution screen and less than top-of-the-line hardware should and do help the battery life the 2100 milliamp hour battery still doesn't last as long as we'd like it to we got about six hours of moderately heavy use and if you're using two sims you can expect battery drain to be pretty steady in the end it's clear that unless you need dual Sims there are many better phones on the market that said if you do need dual Sims the galaxy grand duos is one of the best options currently available if you'd like more in-depth information on the galaxy grand duos we have a full written review on our website the link is available in the description of this video now we've got new videos going up all the time so if you want to stay in the loop make sure to subscribe to our Channel I'm Chris book for Android Authority and thank you for watching