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Samsung SGH i600v review

2008-02-04 10:06:15

This Samsung smartphone has a characteristic slim, black box, with great design. On the left, there is a volume key, and a slot for earphones, charger, and USB cable.

Samsung SGH i600v The connection is protected with a plastic lid, as well as microSD on the other side and the clickable jog dial and key for returning to the previous menu next to it.

It has a full QWERTY keyboard with small keys. Navigation is also good, and the keys are a bit separated from each other.

Under the small VGA camera for video calls, there is a smaller, but high quality screen.

The gap among the pixels is minimal, and the picture view is dynamic and it excellently shows bright colors. The horizontal angle of view is excellent. It has 320x240 pixel resolution and it shows 65 thousand colors simultaneously.

The difference between a bigger number of colors is almost invisible. It has a 1.3 megapixel camera, it is quite good and so is the quality of  taken photos. It has no flash, but there are options for camera adjustment. Video recording is also available (QVGA resolution).

INSIDE

It has Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system in 3.4.2 version, and Intel processor of 400MHz. There is also a Windows Media Player 10 that doesn't have much options and it doesn't support DivX files reproduction. It can support more SIM cards than just from one distributer.

It has 128MB ROM and 64MB RAM, and it can without any problems run several applications at the same time without delays, but transfering from one to another and deactivating them is only possible with the application that comes with an additional package of programs.

It has great integration with Microsoft products, contacts, great PIM and online possibilities. Set of applications contains alarms function, for adding several alarms in different times, D-Day, an advanced version of Tasks, Notepad, for short notes, World Clock for showing time in big citties.

Samsung SGH i600v camera Smart Search application searches the phone for different contents and Task Manager enables exiting and transfering through opened applications.

Some of the other applications are: Smart Converter, Stopwatch, Voice Assist, Podcast, RSS Reader and Picsel Viewer.

Connecting and communication are excellent. It has WiFi(IEEE 802.11 b/g), bluetooth (2.0 with A2DP profile), HSDPA (up to 1.8 Mbps), UMTS and EDGE and an integrated Wireless Manager application.

Battery lasts for two and a half days max with limited usage, and only one and a half with intense usage of Internet, camera and other possibilities.

ADVANTAGES: software, design     
SHORTCOMINGS: small keys