The Samsung Galaxy Xcover (GT-S5690) is a water and dust proof

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manufactured by

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that runs the Android operating system. It was announced and released by

in August 2011. The Galaxy Xcover is succeeded by the Xcover 2. The Galaxy Xcover 3G smartphone, with

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GSM. It sports a display of a 3.65 inch LCD capacitive touchscreen with 16M colours (320x480) resolution. It has a 3.15-megapixel camera with

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flash. It comes with a 1500

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hotswappable Li-ion battery. The Galaxy Xcover comes with Android 2.3.6 Gingerbread.

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