Posted by Mia in The Samsung S7350 Ultra s is a Samsung S7330 successor. The Samsung S7350 Ultras adds a larger and more vivid screen, improved video recording and GPS to sweeten the deal. The S7350 Ultra s has a higher-resolution, bigger 2.6″ WQVGA screen, a GPS receiver with Samsung Mobile Navigator (by Route66) and a more modern styling in tone with the latest Samsung lineup. There’s also the 5 megapixel auto focus camera.
The camera uses the usual non-smartphone interface and follows the current trend of displaying settings with icons in a toolbar at the top of the screen, while options appear as drop-down menus.
Face detection and geotagging are among the more interesting camera features of S7350 Ultra s. The rest, as usually, includes picture size, shooting mode – single, smile shot, continuous, panorama, mosaic and frame shot, color effects – black and white, negative, sepia, etc., white balance, and resolution setting.
The camcorder user interface is the same. The video recording is the key camera feature – the S7350 Ultra s captures at WVGA (720×480) resolution with 30fps.
The S7350 Ultra s produces good quality images with balanced color and mild sharpening. Noise reduction is very gentle, which favors image detail. In macro mode you can take very sharp and “clean” images.
The Samsung S7350 Ultra s is easily another Soul offshoot, though the real successor of the U900 Soul is the already announced S8300 UltraTOUCH.
Key features
• Quad-band GSM and dual-band (900/2100 MHz) UMTS with HSDPA (7.2 Mbps) support
• Large 2.6″ 16M-color TFT display of WQVGA(400×240) resolution
• 12.6mm thick
• 5 megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash, face and smile detection, Wide Dynamic Range and geotagging
• D1 video at 30 fps and slow-motion video recording
• Built-in GPS with A-GPS support
• Stereo FM radio with RDS
• Hot-swappable microSD card slot (up to 16GB)
• Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP
• microUSB v2.0, charging through USB
• Accelerometer sensor
• DivX and XviD support
• Basic Java multitasking
• Office document viewer
• Smart dialing
Main disadvantages
• No full-featured voice-guided navigation software
• Inadequate flash performance
• Video recording quality isn’t up to scratch (although the framerate is pretty good)
• Initial memory card initialization is quite slow
Back in February when we first previewed the Samsung S7350 Ultra s, the future looked bright for this stylish slider. We’re now about to embark on a full review to see how it all worked out. The Ultra s (also known as UltraSlide) has seen a number of changes. We guess we need to draw the line and look at the finished piece.
