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Samsung i600 review

2008-02-14 22:29:01

This is the first Samsung 3G smartphone with high speed downlink packet access. The device is equipped with a QWERTY keyboard with unusual relation of width, height and thickness.

Samsung i600

It's a very compact device with 113mm of height, 59mm of width and 11.8mm of thickness. Besides the dimensions, i600 has great esthetics and looks. It has a mildly rounded edges and with the combination of sharp and rounded lines it looks conservative and classy at the same time.

Front side of the device is dominated by an excellent LCD screen with QVGA resolution (320x240) with excellent color reproduction and contrast, and a QWERTY keyboard.

The keys aren't symmetric or equal, the ones on the left side lean to the left and the right ones to the right, for easier typing. The software could be a problem for advanced typers - it sometimes leaves out letters during very fast typing.

On the side of the device there are keys for volume on the left and a wheel on the right. On the sides it also has two rubber lids under which are slots for charger, earphones and data transmission and microSD cards.

Samsung has decided to put on this model a number of extra, quite useful applications, like Podcast, RSS Reader, Picsel Viewer and an universal browser for Office documents and PDF.

Samsung i600It has also Voice Assist(an application for voice managing) and a number of other helpfull applications like Task Manager, alarm clock, D-day or Samsung's default themes.

It has WLAN with 802.11b and g standard support, Bluetooth 2.0 with support for A2DP profile, three band GSM with EDGE support, WCDMA with UMTS support and HSDPA speed up to 1,8Mbps.

Rest of the hardware: 128MB ROM, 64MB RAM, a slot for microSD cards and TI OMAP 1710 tact 204MHz processor.

Although it may seem that it is a weak configuration, while working on it, TI OMAP proves itself to be more than adequate.Besides the processor, the only mediocre characteristics of this attractive communicator are its camera and battery.

The  i600 comes with a 1.3 megapixel camera located on the back of the handset & a VGA camera located on the front.

The VGA camera can be used for 3G video calling which allows the user to have a face to face call with any 3G compatible mobile phone user.

The main camera provides the user with a 1.3 megapixel camera which can be used to take still photographs or to shoot video footage

The battery has the capacity of 900 mAh meaning it can last for about  2 hours of talk time and 192 hours in standby.

This is a smartphone with great applications, support and also, design.. The things that might be better on this phone are its camera and battery. The camera is mediocre, and the battery has low endurance.

ADVANTAGES: design, screen, keyboard, support
SHORTCOMINGS: camera, battery