When I first saw this phone in the shop I thought "Wow, I have to have it!". It looks fantastic: sleek, shiny silver colour with no trace of plastic (an "adult phone" at last!) and a big colourful screen. And the camera has 3.2 megapixels! Wohoo!
After using it for a few months now, here is my review.
This mobile phone has seriously infuriated me in many occasions, cutting phone calls off, kicking me out of the tool I was using and sending me back to the main manu or, even worse, to the internet utility. All because of the "touch keys". It would have been so much simpler to use normal keys, but the look wouldn't be the same. These days, I find myself answering to phone calls with the phone perpendicular to my head, in an effort to avoid touching these keys.
The camera cannot compare to the Sony Ericsson ones. My old 2 megapixel W900i makes far better pictures than this Samsung. Indoors, the light is useless the pictures will be "moved" and dark. On the positive side, if you want to take a picture to, say for example, the page of a book, the zoom works miracles.
Also, I don't find it very user friendly. In order to use a simple apostrophe, I need to use a menu that is not even in the instructions booklet (thanks to my friends, for revealing these secrets to me!). And to turn the volume of your incoming call ringtone down, you have to edit the phone profiles... because the keys on the side of the phone will only alter the volume of your key tones...
As a positive, I like the slide system. I carry it in my handbag all the time and I haven't had any problem with it making unwanted phone calls. By now it has a couple of dents (my keys go in the handbag too) and fingermarks all over the screen, but other than that it looks like when I first bought it. Battery life is also very good.
In a nutshell, I don't ask much from a phone. All I want is to be able to talk and send messages and take the odd picture. From that point of view, this phone is disappointing. It looks good though!
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Advantages: slim phone, wide screen, 3G with 2 cameras: front (VGA) and back (3.2MP) Disadvantages: touch pad buttons, loop like button, low internal memory, low maximum external memory
abiel_paltao 30.12.2008 (30.12.2008)
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