he Samsung Champion is, by all definitions, compact. It features a 2.4-inch touchscreen, with a 3×3 grid layout that makes navigation and application selection a lot simpler. Some of those applications include a calculator, clock, My Buddies, and calendar. You can also use the onscreen keyboard to message everyone you know, along with play Java-based games. It will rock Bluetooth, and it has a MicroSD card slot that can take up to 8GB of stroage.

The Champion is set to start its launch process in June, and it will make its way to developing regions such as Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and Asia. It will then reach the European countries later in the month. While there’s no word on pricing quite yet, Samsung reiterates plenty of times that the device is going to be affordable, and considering the feature set and device itself, we can’t imagine this going for very much at all. Even if there is a 1.3MP camera on the back.

Press Release:

Launch of “Samsung Champ”

Compact and stylish, full touch
Champ offers rich feature set and intuitive interface at a reasonable price

SEOUL, Korea, May 19, 2010 – Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., a leading mobile phone provider, today announced the Samsung Champ (model: GT-C3300K) designed for mobile users in developing regions who want an immersive touch screen phone with value-added features at an affordable price. The device will be launched globally in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, Asia and Europe starting in June.

Stylish Design

The Samsung Champ is designed for young individuals who seek innovative and productive ways of using their mobile phones. With a stylish and ultra compact design, the Samsung Champ is a portable solution for users who will no longer need to sacrifice design for rich features. The device also has a curved form factor and comfortable grip and consumers can choose from a variety of colors: deep black, espresso brown, sweet pink or chic white.

Touch Screen Experience

Users can enjoy the Samsung Champ’s 2.4” full touch display and the integrative and intuitive experience that it enables. The Champ’s simple and intuitive menu format is designed to fit its compact size and is optimized for a small screen. The main screen features an extended 3×3 widget menu format with options for clock, calendar, shortcuts, and my buddies. The touch screen is also ideal for SMS with friends, downloading apps from Samsung Apps, or playing Java-based video games.

Rich Feature Set

Users will be pleased to learn that despite its affordable price point, the Samsung Champ offers a rich feature set. The Samsung Champ enables an immersive music experience with a built-in radio, 3D sound effects and a dual speaker. With its long battery life, consumers won’t have to sacrifice portability and can enjoy hours of multimedia use. Users can download java applications from Samsung Apps and enjoy embedded java apps. The Samsung Champ also offers Bluetooth, a micro SD card with up to 8GB of memory and comes with a headset and travel adapter.

“With the launch of the Samsung Champ, we will strengthen our leadership within the overall touch screen handset category. The Champ is a perfect option for mobile users who want to snap up a full touch phone for the first time. We expect that the Samsung Champ will follow the success of the Star (model: GT-S5230) which achieved high sales volume at an affordable price point over the past year,” said Younghee Lee, Vice President of Mobile Marketing, Samsung Electronics.

Product Specifications

Network
GSM, EDGE Rx(850/900/1800/1900)

Display
2.4” QVGA 262K TFT LCD (240×320)

Camera
1.3 Megapixel

Video
H.263, MPEG4, QCIF@ 15fps

Audio
MP3 Player, Stereo FM Intenna Radio
3.5mm Ear-jack

Value-added Features
TouchWiz Lite, Embedded Stylus Pen
SNS Link, Image Editor
Fake Call, Mobile Tracker, SOS Message
Connectivity
Bluetooth 2.1, USB v2.0 (Full speed)
Memory
Internal memory: 30MB / External memory: MicroSD (up to 8GB)
Size
96.3 x 53.8 x 12.97mm, 80g
Battery
1000 mAh
Talk time: up to 722 mins
Standby time: up to 666 hrs
* Product specifications are subject to change without notice.

About Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies with 2009 consolidated sales of US$116.8 billion. Employing approximately 188,000 people in 185 offices across 65 countries, the company consists of eight independently operated business units: Visual Display, Mobile Communications, Telecommunication Systems, Digital Appliances, IT Solutions, Digital Imaging, Semiconductor and LCD. Recognized as one of the fastest growing global brands, Samsung Electronics is a leading producer of digital TVs, memory chips, mobile phones and TFT-LCDs. For more information, please visit www.samsung.com.

At first glance, we face the next reincarnation of the immortal clamshell from Samsung. Compared with the previous variations of the past years this is the company’s hardest commitment to retain the classical form, and for this reason we do not see another attempt to cross the impossible and elegantly elongated body with a minimum of sharp color shots. To fans of accurate data it can be proposed to estimate by eye the size of Samsung S5510, constituting 93,8 x 46,7 x17, 7 mm, that does not speak at all about anything, because of the lower shell width decreases to 4 cm smooth, thick and loses in size about another couple millimeters. It weighs 94 grams.

The interface and customization
Why do you need to know technological details, if S5510 attracts just with its design? That’s it that this was unnecessary, and therefore it’s better take a look at the standby mode of the most recent version of the software of the company for phones without touch screen. Yes, the developers have not forgotten about this, and novelty is all the joy of life that appeared in February in some phones and cost much higher.
Thus, the screen has all sorts of icons and indicators above, as well as the notes to the context keys on top. You can choose any wallpaper or just beautiful watches from LivingWorld.
From the main menu, decorations are already less, and in sections they are not altogether. Of course, there is a fallback position to choose one of three themes, as well as a scattering of other interesting details, but that’s no way impressive.

Calls and correspondence

Calls to Samsung implemented simplest way: dial a phone number, or look for it in convenient call list. The latter method is the most trivial, since reduced to see a list of contacts where there is a search by first letters of the name / surname, or an opportunity to review the whole range of groups. If you need to write a new contact, the owner gave access to a functional editor, which initially disclosed only a quarter of the possible fields in physical files for each of the 1000 possible entries.
Since all messages are somewhat simpler, although there is not only the usual SMS, but also advanced MMS, which is to provide an alternative to email, supports opening / adding attachments.

Connection

Modern mobile phone should not have limited communication abilities, and therefore S5510 is equipped with Bluetooth 2.1 with support for all kinds of profiles, from which we are interested in working with wireless headphones, as well as the possibility of transferring files at speed up to 130 Kbps.
If you connect your phone to PC, data transfer will take place at speed of 2-3 Mbps, which is very bad for a relatively unpretentious model.

Entertainment

Usually we are talking about alarm clocks and little-needed reminders in calendar. Yes, of course, in the case of a business machine strict exterior organizer and office content are extremely relevant, but at S5510 on the alarm for five independent detectors should not go.
But the entertainment portion of the device is failed, and not only by the availability of the full range of GoogleMobile services, but thanks to such fine amenities as RSS news for ease of absorption on your way to work / school, as well as editor of pictures and FM-radio. On top of the list are a few demo versions of games, and also affects the very easy to install Java on your phone.

Music

Here you have a player with all sorts of sorting and convenient playback window, where you can not just change the type of visualization, but also to quickly adjust the equalizer. Configure not to edit, so do not be surprised that you can not adjust manually a good sound in the headphones, because you have to use a ready-made presets.

Camera

For high quality photo Samsung is equipped with a brutal camera phone Pixon12, but for those who want to catch an interesting moment, a 3-megapixel camera hero of this review will be enough. Moreover, there are all the attributes of senior models in the face of full-screen viewfinder and a dozen parameters to set, but also a nimble shutter.

Other trifles

If a good quality signal reception is granted, then nice and loud speaker will be to the point quite, as noisy polyphonic speaker sound is well heard in the room, but on the whole volume on the street disappears somewhere. Well, it does not matter, because there is a disruptive vibro-engine of average power.

Conclusion

In the case of Samsung S5510, we see the triumph of simplicity and consistency of external design of the struggle for the heart of the consumer. Of course, the phone was created by a competitor, but there are so many of those nice details from Samsung, that any price for it is not a pity to give.

The central control buttons are traditionally located under the display and are made from a metal pleasant to the touch. The buttons are balanced with a little aggressive design and are responsible not only for the reception or the abolition of call, but even for charging and job-specific functions of the new operating system – call (or cancel) the Quick Launch toolbar utilities and applications.

It has all in all five buttons – first, the smallest, breaks the symmetry and extends slightly between the two buttons in the right side of the device.

This block of the cursor is surrounded by a thin chrome ring. In the center there is a confirmation button “Ok”. If this button is made convex, then the ring itself controls for greater convenience concave inward. Indeed, the buttons at the Samsung I7500 can be clicked blindly, random errors are eliminated. In addition, each time you feel very clear and confident, which is usually characteristic only with expensive machines.

Filling and Communications

The novelty is built on a Qualcomm MSM 7200A CPU platform at a frequency of 528 MHz. Nowadays this is one of the most powerful processors, which is convenient to work with absolutely any application. RAM on board is only 128 MB, but the device has a built-in flash 8 GB drive, in which you can install programs, store cards to work with navigation, etc.

Unfortunately, we can only subjectively evaluate the performance of Samsung I7500 – at the speed of those or other programs, because test packages for Android are extremely difficult to find. But dealing with Windows Mobile – communicators on Qualcomm MSM 7200A platform – we can say that such a powerful device will be quite suitable for small mobile activities, as well as for games and multimedia tasks – such as watching movies with high quality.

Developers paid particular attention to the fact that the Android OS is designed for those users who spend a significant part of their time in the network. Here they can (according to the developers) communicate, store personal data, work and relax.

Samsung I7500 supports module GSM / GPRS / EDGE (850/900/1800/1900 MHz) as well as new networks of third-generation UMTS / HSDPA / HSUPA (900/1700/2100 MHz. The presence of Bluetooth 2.0 and Wi-Fi is very important, because in the big cities there is Wi-Fi in many locations.

Display

The novelty is equipped with 3.2-inch display with HVGA resolution (320 x 480 pixels), established in AMOLED-technology. This is a very bright display with live (literally) images and natural color. Granularity is not visible on the display, and viewing angles can be described as the highest. Unfortunately the display fades in the sun so that reading at least some information is not possible. In general we can say that this is one of the most suitable displays for viewing mobile video and photo.

Camera

Samsung I7500 is equipped with a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and LED flash. Photos from this camera are obtained with a resolution of 2592 x 1944 pixels.

But despite the large number of megapixels and a solid value of the smartphone, the quality of the images does not withstand serious criticism. Even when shooting in bright sunny weather in the photos it is easy to see a number of significant shortcomings, which should include low for such high-resolution detail and a strong distortion of colors.

Battery power and software

Samsung I7500 boasts with a fairly capacious battery (1500 mA ∙ h). With an average daily load (20 minutes of calls a day, work with address book and the Internet) without recharging the device works almost three days. Therefore, in order not to remain without communication in the morning on the third day of operation, it is better to charge the device in the evening.

Conclusions

If we talk about hardware of Samsung I7500, then we can say that this is a classic business-genre: high-quality and expensive shell, productive filling, the full range of communications, a convenient multitouch-control. There is practically nothing to fault – the device is placed on a high level. If it disappoints someone, it is only the most ardent opponents of the fashionable gloss and glitter, which after five minutes of work without gloves can easily turn the apparatus into the “criminal’s dream”.

Samsung E790 is designed by two factors: a traditional for Samsung desire to create more flat, easy to carry and use phones, and shell and mirror elementsborrowed from other devices. It should be noted that the hybrid rather blends into the overall concept shell of Samsung.
This phone will surely be in high demand, primarily because of its universality: the middle class and outright unisex appeal will attract buyers from several adjacent segments of the market.

Shell
So, in front of us is a brilliant “shell” of Samsung E790, which hides a black pearl. This phone is available in two colors – neutral silver, which is decorated with bezel top panel and a removable back cover, and black, which accounted for the lower half of the chassis, all interior trim phone, as well as external mirror lining.
The mirror is almost opaque, resulting in use for external display monochrome OLED-matrix without background illumination. To enhance the mirror effect for the panel is used shiny plastic, which, moreover, is not only sufficiently resistant to mechanical damage (let’s say, if you use the phone only for its intended purpose, the scratches and worn spots on the lid will not appear soon), but also easily clean the inevitable fingerprints.
For the lower half of the shell is used dense, gritty, as though slightly rubberized. Thanks to it, holding this phone is not only convenient but also pleasant. From the same material are made, both plugs (headphone / charger and a removable memory card).

Control
First you may think that Samsung E790 is equipped with a sensory keyboard, but it turns out that all the symbols are located on a single plane (there is no separate buttons) that allows the manufacturer to save a minimum thickness of the shell. For ease of use the keyboard is supplied with four horizontal serifs – under each of row of buttons. In addition, the boundary between the alphanumeric and navigation of the keyboard (they are made from different kinds of plastic, which is very pleasant to touch and has a calm color) is clearly distinguished. Yes, and four-position navigation button is made of a bare metal disk without any switches or at least hints at the sectors.
At the ends of the shell there are volume control and voice recorder buttons. Although the keys are sufficiently tight, the probability of accidental clicks is not excluded.

Displays
External display of E790 has already been mentioned – it is made based on OLED-matrix with resolution 80×64 pixels and 16 gradations of brightness. In standby mode, it is turned off; it shows the number of an incoming call. You can change the settings so that you can have on it standard information on the status of the phone.
Internal display uses familiar TFT-matrix with resolution of 220×176 pixels (262 000 colors). Like previous models, E790 demonstrates low grain and good sharpness, both in static mode, and when displaying dynamic graphics, including videos. To be able to personalize the graphical user interface provides the possibility of using interchangeable skins, but in the firmware of the phone are included only two – contrasting black and white.

Camera
E790 is equipped with a 2 MP camera, which allows it to take pictures with a resolution up to 1600×1200 pixels. The most successful are objects shot at a short distance. But for landscape photographs there is often a noticeable grain.
All camera control rendered on the navigation keys – first finger instinctively tries to incorporate its side button, but there lies a small trick – the key should be kept for three seconds. With the lid closed self-portrait you do not succeed. At least in our test sample, the camera in this mode, showed them on an external display, but could not make a shot. Most likely, the commercial version of the phone will have this opportunity.
But the camera control interface is very convenient, especially the 11-step zoom, allowing very smoothly zoom in / remove objects, but let us not forget that quality lowers when zooming.
Video is recorded in a single resolution – 176×144 pixels about 128 kb / s (15 frames per second).
The memory of the phone can be expanded with the help of microSD cards.

Menu
To the standard for Samsung graphical menu “3×3″ stands out only recently emerged icon “Google”. Yes, instead of the normal section of the browser now the user can be connected directly to the services of the online service provider – search the web, personal mailbox, personal page, etc. As shown by tests, Samsung deals with Google servers fast and stable. In order to use the mobile Internet you can choose the menu “browser”, hidden somewhere deep in the section “Applications”.
Otherwise, there is nothing new in the organization of the menu of E790. As before, Samsung does not allow us to create sound profiles to switch circuits warning in different conditions – just a quick transition to the “silent” mode using the key “#”.

Software
Phonebook can store up to thousands contacts with five phone numbers. You can assign a photo and ringtones. Calendar supports the minimal functionality of the organizer.

E790 is rich in entertainment programs. First, the phone has MP3-player, which is rather good, but, the fact that E790 supports connectivity via Bluetooth wireless stereo headphones, the phone turns into a full-fledged portable player.
80 MB internal memory plus support for removable memory cards (microSD) allows you to carry a virtually unlimited amount of music. The only problem is the battery, which is in active mode, lasts only a day.
In addition to the player in the phone memory are loaded about a dozen games, but, alas, most of them are demo versions, which require payment for a short time.

Conclusion
Of course, Samsung made a good product. Sleek, stylish, and inexpensive device will surely attract the attention though it won’t become a bestseller, it is a very successful one.
This model can be recommended to all those who need a reasonably good functional mobile phone at a reasonable price. This phone is a nice gift for girls, because its exterior very attractive.

Introduced in 2005, Sony Ericsson W800i was greeted by critics and consumers. Key factors for success were few, but all of them were verified to the last detail. It was the first phone with a legacy of the famous players Sony from no less famous Walkman brand with all the ensuing consequences. In fact, the phone W800 was really a serious music player. It shows today’s situation in the market, new F300 from Samsung, Nokia 3250 or 5700 XpressMusic. To grow on megapixels 2 million cell phone makers have taken a time out. Secondly, W800i has serious functional content.

Design

Certainly, now thin phones are fashionable, important and sometimes even very practical. However, the overwhelming number of slim-devices is extremely inconvenient to use. In pursuit of millimeters manufacturer forgets about ergonomics, forcing the user to break the nails on the keyboard and when working with menus to twist his/her fingers in the untold patterns.
Fortunately, this fate to a greater extent bypasses Sony Ericsson W880i. Its dimensions are 103×47x9, 4 mm and weight is 71 grams. Thus, the device is long enough, but due to its rectangular shape it has stunning design.

Thickness, or rather its absence, and light weight make it possible to carry the phone anywhere. Whether it is a breast pocket of your shirt or the pocket of tight jeans, W880i looks good from everywhere, more precisely, in jeans, it is imperceptible.

The front part of Sony Ericsson W880i is made of stainless steel, and can be in silver (Steel Silver), and black (Flame Black) colors. In the first version the rear face of rubberized plastic is matte black, while the second one is orange. Both the colors and the presence of metal among the components add to an already excellent design of W800i a fraction of sophistication. Moreover, it is worth noting the excellent build quality of this phone.

Keyboard

When dealing with the keyboard of Sony Ericsson W880i it is possible not to feel discomfort.

But there is an unambiguous claim to the navigation key. It is too small.

And if girls with nails of medium length speak positively about the numeric keypad, than they will scold the navigation. So if you prefer long nails, you should think about shortening them.

On the right side there is a key to access the camera (horizontal mode).

At the top there is a small multi-purpose “rocker” (or even a slider).

With its help you can get into the menu of the phone, adjust the sound volume, or play around with the scale of the photographs. Access key to the player Walkman 2.0 is located on the left end.

By tradition, the Sony Ericsson phones are not usual green and red phones, and their functions are performed by two context keys. Beneath them there is a button fast access to the Internet browser and “My Menu”. Below that are key “return” and “C”.

So we glad to note that the keyboard of W880i is somewhat unusual, but it is viable.

Display and menus

Screen of W880i is rather narrow, but it has dimensions of 1.8 inches, supports QVGA-resolution (240×320 pixels) and displays up to 262 thousand colors. The display, of course, belongs to the premium class – high brightness, excellent clarity, rich colors. Due to its elongated shape, the upper line with the level of reception, battery indication, hours and other information icons are always active when you move the menu (if you have the theme Walkman), unconditional and very significant advantage.

Simple and intuitive menu of W880i consists of 12 icons, and subsections in a tree form.

However, changing the theme to the standard Walkman on “Bits of the City” you can get a stylish black and red menu with icons, arrayed in a row. These moves through the main menu will be accompanied by a mild vibration.

To master the organs and functions of control of W880i can even unprepared person. Anyone who has ever spoken on Sony Ericsson phones over the past three years, the process of learning and adapting to the new product will take a couple of minutes.

Multimedia

Traditionally, the older phones of the Walkman series inherit a full set of features and capabilities of their business counterparts. So the user of W880i gets 16 MB of internal memory, support for memory Memory Stick Micro (1 GB card included) card, Bluetooth with support for A2DP protocol (wireless stereo headphones), convenient and functional web browser Net-Front, Java , support for USB and much more.
Well if living without ICQ to you means not to exist, then go to the menu “Applications” and run powerful client which is able to function (like other Java-based applications) in the background.

The phone works in three GSM and UMTS 2100. This means support for video streaming and video calls. For the latter there is a small camera on the front panel.
In general W880i is a modern phone with classically-considered trifles. Does it have tuned Bluetooth? Does it easily work with uploaded files? Does it have functional organizer? Can it work in Flight Mode? All these questions can affirmatively be answered with the abbreviation of five characters – W880i.

Walkman 2.0 is stuffing, let’s consider hardware. Headset connector (HPM-75 included) is located at the left bottom.

This is quite inconvenient, since the plug is not small, so it still goes on thick wire, which is not particularly flexible. The most reasonable accommodation would be a 3,5 mm input on the top of the phone. Headset HPM-75 has decent quality and should satisfy most of the audience. We have to test headphones Sennheiser CX 300, in order to feel all inside the player. Fortunately HPM-75 is a structure of the adapter and headphones, so that the 3,5 mm input is available, albeit not at the phone.

To start the music application you can use the little orange button or through the menu.

At the start screen “My Music” can sort tracks by artists, albums, play-list or simply the list of tracks.

Play-lists can and should (because 1 GB is about 250 songs in good quality, very easy to get confused) be created directly on the phone.

In addition, the player has a standard set of visualization (animation, or album cover), play mode “in a random order”, repetition, and changing colors of the application.

There is also an equalizer. Unfortunately, it was a simpleton, from the available preset modes you can choose – Bass, Mega Bass, voice, lifting high frequencies.

In addition to these four settings, it is a possible and a manual calibration. Player responded only to the most understated or overstated frequency. And the description on the website Mega Bass Sony Ericsson says “improve bass, let music become more volume, in practice, the sound remains flat. But what pleases me is that only player can be scold in W880i.

The volume is enough comfortably to listen to music not only on a busy street, but in the subway or any other public transport.

Out of interest, just as noteworthy feature, is TrackID. A

gain we turn to the description on the official site – “Just record a song a few seconds and all the information about the track, artist or album will be available within a few seconds”.

Funny opportunity for Walkman with FM-radio on board, but in the case of W880i it is a useless icon on the desktop, because the music that pours from the player to know there is no possibility, as composition should be recognized only through a microphone. Another function of downloading content PlayNow seems much more interesting in this case.

The player supports popular formats such as: MP3, AAC, AAC +, E-AAC +, WAV, WMA, M4A, however, it is difficult to imagine that many users listen to music in the format E-AAC +.

As a conclusion of the player it should be noted that it has many useful features. As for the level of the music, Walkman in this sense is ahead of other phones. However, if you are a music fan beginner, features of Walkman 2.0 will be sufficient.

Camera

In case of W880i camera is more a design element than a serious application. In fact, a small lens with a penny coin and the matrix of 2-megapixels is not as bad as it might seem at first glance.

Using the camera in landscape mode is very practical. The camera settings are standard – resolution, quality, effects, 2.5-fold digital zoom.

Conclusion

A small step for Sony Ericsson is a big leap for the market. Player phones go to the next level, slowly biting more and more of the market. Union of a phone and a music player looks more organic than a phone and a camera. In case of W880i nirvana is aggravated with battery with a capacity of 950 mAh. At 30 minutes of calls a day, using all sorts of functions and player for 2 hours a day, the phone worked for five days. It is an excellent result.

Having examined W880i brick by brick on the components, we have a stylish phone, rich functionalities and a decent player. Definitely a successful model, I recommend to buy it.

Samsung continues to delight fans of thin tubes who are concerned about every free millimeter in the pocket of their jacket or jeans. For them Koreans have launched a logical continuation of a monoblock X820, which was supposed to be named X840, but marketers know it as U100, and now it has entered into a new line of ultra thin phones.

Design
So, a very thin model of the last year has become thinner by 1 mm, which is certainly a pleasant trifle.
When you take this phone in hand for the first time, it seems that an awkward movement and something may happen to the device. But, in reality, Samsung U100 a couple of times was overthrown on the floor, once U100 found itself on the ground, and in general – this was over with a hardly noticeable scratch.
The phone is strong due to ferrule on the phone. It is painted the same color as the shell. I do not know if it will protect in a really critical moment, but it certainly looks nice.
Striving for minimum thickness, the developers have removed all “unnecessary” things from the ends. By reducing they got a slot for microSD cards. Here is left only a volume rocker, camera button and a connector for the charger or USB-cable.
If anyone thinks that the phone has a touch keyboard, he/she will be wrong.
There is no problem with dialing, but the navigation button requires skill and addiction.
The reason is simple – in accordance with the ideas of “thin “, it is not raised above the surface and its direction palpated with difficulty.

Appliances
In essence, Samsung U100 is the continuation of X820 not only in terms of design, but also in terms of functionality. I do not want to play “find 10 differences”. U100 – is a revised X820.
In Samsung U100 there is a horizontal TFT-LCD with a resolution of 220×176. Judging from the test images, the screen can be described as a pretty decent one, though small viewing angles are sometimes forced to keep the tube straight.
Behavior of the screen under the sun is also adequate, since the menu icons and text can be seen well; the colors fade a little bit.
Menu is well-known from other devices of Samsung. I personally like more concise design, which is in the tubes, based on the platform D500.

As U100 is a thin assistant of business people, there is a notebook for 1000 contacts with the ability to record five numbers, e-mail addresses, notes, and the choice of individual melodies and ringtones. It seems nothing extraordinary, but the convenience of using is worth noting.
Voice recorder limits the recording time by one hour, that is more than enough, and memory for 100 events in the organizer will not be filled in one day.
Data transfer speed via BlueTooth from PC to Samsung is about 50 Kbps.
In that case, if you are fond of talking regularly, climb on the menu, often use calendar, from time to time take photos, the battery will last for two days.

Functions for entertainment
Samsung U100 is equipped with a 3 MP camera – a legitimate question arises – whether it is better than a 2-megapixel brother X820? As for the size of the picture, it is more accurate, but the quality is slightly higher comparing the shots. It seems that they are a little sharper, and the remaining is the same.
MP3-player is also known as peeling, as its interface and capabilities are already well known. From the innovations we can only recall the work in the background and support for Bluetooth-A2DP profile to work with stereo headset. The sound quality of the player (of the phone, in general) is good; the volume is enough for most cases, except a very noisy street and subway.
To some extent there is no FM-radio, as the built-in memory can not keep many songs, but fans of music would like to listen to a fresh hit from beloved singers.

Conclusion
As a worthy successor of the model X820, Samsung U100, to some extent repeats its fate, becoming famous, but it remained a niche product, which will not be found in every pocket. In general, the device is quite successful, mainly because of the minimum thickness and business design. U100 can not boast with functionality but it wasn’t the aim of the manufacturer. Samsung focused only on the dimensions of the shell.

Release of a mobile phone, like any other mass product, is a very fascinating process. At the beginning of induction the manufacturer defines the framework of engineers and designers who will work on the novelty. A number of factors play a significant role in its final appearance like a platform, price category, design and much more.
At each stage of development we must try to cope with the flight of fantasies and eventually land on the desired results.
In the industrial design people are servants of the convention. There are rare cases of cooperation of companies with well-known designers, as a rule, they create interesting, but uncomfortable phones.
Nevertheless, there is an interesting question – what would happen if you take the gurus of design and place it in a golden cage, entitled “Express Yourself”. The answer to this question in the literal sense of the word “lies” on the surface. Moreover, it has a name – Samsung E590.

In creation Samsung E590 was actively involved by an English designer Jasper Morrison. Morrison design is called an “honest simplicity,” and his work in the media is defined as “no-design”.
That’s why he is so loved in Asia: for those people he is a kind of an English Zen. He has a philosophy of silence, modesty and diligence. The “Jasper Morrison Ltd.” company is engaged in the development of furniture, appliances and everything that surrounds a human in everyday and working life.
Now you know who has worked on innovation from Samsung under the number E590, and nothing prevents us to start our review with the traditional section, which, due to circumstances, acquires a deeper meaning.

Design
If nobody knew who has participated in the development of Samsung E590, the novelty would be considered as a regular, albeit high-quality creation of designers from Seoul. It should be noted that when testing we had black version of E590, but in its white incarnation phone looks rather interesting. Moreover, there is information that Morrison has created just the white version, and the black analog is already a conditional mass product.
Nevertheless, Samsung E590 is a monoblock with medium by today’s standards size (94×42x14 mm) and fairly solid weight – 95 grams.
There are no interesting discoveries and solutions in the form E590 seemingly unable to grasp – minimalism is everywhere. Another amusing fact is that the designer worked on the characteristics, positioning, as well as telephone. We are used to design devices of thousands of dollars and above. Now we obviously have to get used to the idea that there are phones from the world of avant-garde design and they cost four times less than usual.

Display
The screen is the face of each phone. In the case of Samsung E590 there is no need to worry – excellent TFT-LCD with decent for modern phone features – 260 thousand colors with 220×220 pixels resolution.
Static and dynamic image is flooded with paint.
It has many drawbacks. First, it has almost catastrophic vertical viewing angles. The slightest deviation from the straight line fades the whole picture.
Secondly, under the sun it’s impossible to identify the image. It is not comfortable to work with the phone on the street.

Keyboard
All the buttons on the phone are made in one style – in oval shape. System and digital buttons have the same size, thus they are perceived as a single array.
There are two soft control buttons, “the tube” and “C” key. All symbols of white (pale gray) color, however, we have already met in the phones of Samsung. Bright lights and milky-white fine finishes E590.
With regard to navigation and work, the first is implemented by using a small joystick, and the second is quite nice and comfortable.
Additional buttons are extensively represented at the right end of the phone and all are designed to work with the camera. “Mode” button will quickly adjust the camera, two-position button starts the camera in a small size, but the usability is not affected. For the “Zoom” function there is also a separate button.
On the left side there is a rocker-volume control as well as headphone input, battery and memory card slot. It’s simple, familiar and comfortable.

Menu and Functions
Samsung E590 is built on the platform of Suwon and it can be considered the ancestor of D900. The main menu consists of nine icons and moving between them is pleasantly animated.
The user is allowed to choose from two color schemes – white and black.

Using the menu is intuitive, logically laid out all the possibile sections. The effect of “memory” (if the “Organizer” you came to the position of “Calculator”, you will go ibid.) should come to taste of many users. It has a navigation with the support of a digital keyboard, pop-ups and cross-cutting scrolling easier access to desired functions.

Functions and features are not presented absolutely without surprises. Everything is done in the style of Samsung. If you have ever worked with the devices of this brand, you will find familiar and very comfortable for daily use the organizer, alarm clock function (3 pieces), a decent MP3-player, voice recorder, photo editor, FM-radio, Bluetooth 2.0 and Java-based applications.
Samsung continues the practice of trial applications, so all the most interesting games are available in trial mode, but for a fee. As for the execution of all the above and many unmentioned ones, believe me on the floor during the test there was only one trouble. We had to quickly write down the address and the arm came across the field “e-mail” editor contacts. It’s bad when the mobile phone considers itself smarter than the owner. Fortunately, such things are extremely rare.

Camera
In many respects the uniqueness of E590 is not only a secondary phone price level, in the work on which are engaged world famous designers, but also in the fact that it is an affordable camera phone.
The matrix has 3-megapixel resolution and autofocus. Again, we can not say one hundred percent (adjusted for a test instance), but the iron is clearly not coping with the appetite of three megapixels. The quality of the pictures is sometimes higher than the Chinese machines’.
Camera settings are enough to really affect the results. ISO settings are from 100 to 400 (auto is available), white balance, effects, frames, macro, timer, multi-shooting and panoramic shots.
With regard to the quality of the images, they are of about the same level with D900, which means that the quality is at a decent level, but not excellent. Was Samsung, positioning the model as a camera phone? Perhaps they know this better.
Photos and video files can be saved in 85 MB of phone memory and on a standard microSD card.

Outcome

Model E590 turned out to be well enough, though there are also controversies. The main advantages, which Samsung emphasizes, are decent design and camera.
I was pleasantly surprised by the battery life. On Li-Ion Battery with capacity of 800 mAh, telephone worked 5 days (up to 20 minutes of conversation and an hour of other functions). Rather high results for such a phone.
We started with an honest expression, it would be logical to finish in the same way. Model E590 is a great phone with a couple of reservations.

Last year Samsung released E900 model of a slider phone. The success of the model depends totally on the price, design and functionality of this mobile phone. These three features are the main characteristics that attract buyers when choosing the phone.
Today we’ll talk about the successor of E900 – J600E primarily designed for women. Modern eye-catching design must come to taste of a every fashionable woman. If we talk about the inner content, it has a solid intermediate level.

Design
Considering Samsung J600E as a whole, while stressing the major pluses, it turns out that the strongest side, of course, is its design. The exterior is certainly designed for women, although to some extent for men too. The four available colors (blue, pink, silver, gray) consider it to be a unisex direction of mobile phones.
Today, ergonomic device can not be expressed in one thing. The dimensions of this mobile phone are quite fashionable: 91×45x18 mm and 99 grams.
As you can see, Samsung J600E is a little bit elongated and narrowed (in the form of rectangle).
In the hand the phone is excellent. The navigation buttons are located above the thumb, so the process of opening this phone should not cause any difficulties.
Returning to the design of Samsung J600E, we’d like to mention the successful combination of slightly shiny metallic colors.
Top, bottom and back of the phone are deprived of any kind of controls, connectors and other things. But on the left side there are slots for charging the battery and headset, shortcut key for the quick access of the camera.
Both slots are closed with plastic plugs which give the impression of a long-playing mechanism. The right side turned on to be “poorer” and can boast only about volume buttons and a memory card slot.

Display
At first sight, the characteristics of the screen J600E look quite decent. Indeed who would have thought that the TFT-matrix with the support of 65 thousand colors and a resolution of 128×160 pixels will disappoint.
The problem lies in the ratio of the diagonal of the display and the resolution. As we can see in J600E, a 1.9-inch screen with 128×160 pixels resolution is very small. Hence there is grainy and generally unpleasant sensation of viewing images.
Many claims about the screen arise when typing and surfing on the menu – the quality of display animations, pictures and photos leave much to be desired. As for the brightness and contrast, there is virtually no claim, moreover taking into account its characteristics they are even good.

Keyboard
Tactile keyboard today does not surprise anybody. However, this feature is still a tasty morsel. In the case of J600E it seems that touch buttons are the only available solutions to the problem of visual excellence.
When the buttons are inactive, they are totally invisible, when the phone is opened or activated by the keyboard, all four sensory start flashing in a pleasant blue color.
Is it convenient to use the touch keypad, or it is just an extravagant whim of the manufacturer? This becomes clear very quickly. The sensitivity of the buttons is high. A light touch is enough. However, during navigation, or when writing messages you can easily press on them, in consequence of which there happens an abolition of the selected operation.
The navigation button has a nice ribbed structure and the relatively slow speed, combined with a strength of character.
Against the background of the touch keypad, the numeric keypad looks a little boring. Standard eleven separate keys are arranged in a nice and clear way.

Other Features
Menu is standard for the latest generation of Samsung phones. It is convenient, comfortable, but without any novelties. First submenus seem somewhat irritating, but soon, the user can really find freedom in controling it.
One of the interesting features is the communication capabilities. USB and Bluetooth 1.2 provide connectivity (up to about 50 KB / s). For the Internet there is WAP, GPRS and EDGE, this is also rather poor. Wired Headset in collaboration with MP3 player and FM-radio will open the doors to the world of music.

In the literal sense there is nothing outstanding (compared with everything we have met before), but the sound quality is very decent. There are five games preinstalled on the device, three of which have already been well introduced in Samsung phones, they are “Miner”, “Tetris” and “Sudoku”.
The phone has about 20 MB of memory available to user. But you can add megabytes with the help of microSD cards (not included in the set, but they are not expensive).
The device without recharging will operate three days, and in the mode of an active use you have to charge it in a day.

Camera
The general concept of J600E is expressed in the camera. Instead of the almost standard 2-megapixel camera, we have only 1,3 megapixels. In reality the phone is not bad, but, remembering the same E900, ot is somehow offensive.
Maximum image resolution is 1280×1024 pixels. As always, there is a certain minimum set of options with which you can influence the final result of the image. In addition, there are modes: multi-shooting, matrix and night mode. I can not get away from the simple effects such as: black and white, negative, sepia, relief, sketch, orange and others. The display in the viewfinder does not even think slowly, and the resulting images are recorded as fast as the phone memory and on the card.

As for the quality of the photos, they are somewhere between good and excellent, of course, in relation to the cameras pf this class.
Video recording formats are MPEG4/H.263 (AMR, 352×288, 15 fps), which is quite enough.

Conclusion
This is a beautiful, high-quality phone and a cheap phone from Samsung, if I may say so.
So, if you want a stylish and prominent model without unnecessary features, then J600E is definitely what you need. The only thing which I’d like to notice once again is the display. It is not bad, but is rather peculiar, so be sure to pay close attention to the screen. Otherwise, the phone is not bad and is worth money.

One year after successfully launching the X830 swivel handset, Samsung upgrades the line of the handsets that mix MP3 player functions with those of a standard GSM mobile phone. The new addition to the lineup has been branded as Samsung SGH-F210. Despite the fact that it kept the same design as its X830 predecessor, F210 has been improved in many ways that have been thought almost impossible for that time. Samsung also managed to keep the device small enough, so it can be used as a dedicated MP3 player with ease. The successful blend between 2 different devices (MP3 and mobile phone) will always be in high demand on the market, so either you like it or not, Samsung’s innovative ideas will still have lots of fans.

Design
Samsung SGH-F210 looks exactly like a chocolate bar. All shiny and very well polished, the device attracts looks only in a minute. If you keep it closed, others can easily take it as a good looking MP3 player, but they’re in for a big surprise. The moment you swivel the small device and put it to your ear, it will suddenly change into a small stylish mobile phone. One handed handling is much easier for right-handers, as the phone swivels to the left. It’s a little bit troubling for left-handers, but I’m sure they’ll get used to it pretty fast. When closed, the candy-bar form factor of the handset stirs one’s imagination. The small screen on the front part of the phone only displays the MP3 plater interface, which can be controlled very easily with the big wheel that you see in the pictures.

Commands like forward, back, stop or pause are only a touch away, as the wheel can be pressed. The Hold button placed on the right side of the phone will help users avoid starting the MP3 player when they aren’t aware. The left side of the phone features only a dual volume key. The bottom of the phone is detachable, so that the headset that comes in the sales package can be attached. The same port can also be used to synchronize the phone with any PC or simply to charge it. There’s no need to detach the whole bottom part of the phone in case you need to charge the phone, you will only need to open the plastic plug-in that covers the port. Obviously, on the back of the phone you’ll find the 2 Megapixel camera, which doesn’t feature any flash capabilities. There’s no external speaker, the music can only be heard through the in-call speaker.

When the MP3/phone is swiveled, it reveals a standard keypad with big enough keys. The difference between the older X830 and F210 model is that the latter has the keypad divided onto 3 rows. The X830 had a 2-row keypad, which was a little bit weird to use. This has been corrected, so you can dial numbers as with any other standard handset. Besides the usual keys, there are 2 more contextual keys, the C key used like a Delete key and a Camera key, which suggests that you cannot use the phone’s camera unless the handset is swiveled. At the base of the keys you’ll notice a small gap where the microphone has been placed. There are definitely big improvements compared with Samsung’s X830 model, but there are also some things that remained the same or worse.
The screen embedded on both devices is the same small display that doesn’t enable users to read the entire menu, not to mention that anyone interested in browsing the Internet will have big issues when trying to read any page displayed. Even if the phone may look a little bit flimsy at a first glance, I have used the phone for almost 3 weeks and the swiveling mechanism didn’t showed any sign of ‘weakness’. Perhaps in time it will ‘collapse’, but I don’t intend to use it more, so I can’t really say for sure. Anyway, its size (87.8 x 31 x 20.5 mm) and weight (72 grams including battery) recommends Samsung F210 both as an MP3 player and a mobile phone.

Display and Camera
Samsung F210 features a TFT display (128 x 220 pixels resolution) supporting 262k colors. The screen is great in terms of quality, but in truth it fails to help the user as it is way too small. Just like its X830 predecessor, Samsung’s F210 display measures around 1.5 inch, which is not enough to display the whole menu, so you’ll be forced to wait for any writing displayed to scroll from left to right to really understand what’s written. The problem is even bigger when you want to play a game, navigate on the Internet or even write a SMS message. If these don’t bother you, then you’ll sure like F210’s display.

The small camera module integrated on the back of the phone is a little bit low on performance. Don’t expect too much from it, and don’t try to use it with the phone closed because you can’t. It will also be difficult to preview anything you’ll want to shoot, because of the small screen. Either you won’t be able to see everything displayed or the preview will simply be too small for you to understand what’s really there. There are some settings that can be used to increase the quality of the snapshots: Effects (Black and White, Negative, Sepia, Emboss, Sketch and Moonlight), White balance (Incandescent, Fluorescent, Cloudy and Daylight), Timer and Frames.

There are also some modes (Single shot, Multi-shot and Mosaic shot) that can be used. The maximum size of the pictures is the usual 1600 x 1200 pixels resolution, while clips can be recorded using 352 x 288 pixels resolutions CIF.

Communications

Samsung F210 is GPRS (Class 10, 32 – 48 kbps) and EDGE (Class 10, 236.8 kbps) compatible, which is more than enough to satisfy any user needs. It is also compatible with Bluetooth 2.0 A2DP and USB 2.0 features for high speed data transfer.
I have to say that everything related to data transfer, Internet surfing is working ‘mildly’, as in ‘mediocre’. It also fully supports SMS, EMS, Email, MMS, but small screen will probably make owners use its messaging capabilities less than normal.
The triband (GSM 900 / GSM 1800 / GSM 1900) network compatible handset has a mediocre GSM signal reception. Instead, the sound is very clear, but medium in terms of loudness (only level 7 volume). I have experienced terrible sound only when the signal reception was weak, but overall it has good GSM capabilities.

MP3 player

Samsung’s swivel has been especially designed as an MP3 player, so we should expect many multimedia ‘goodies’. Unfortunately, I couldn’t understand why Samsung hadn’t put in an external speakerphone, especially since it is said to feature 3D sound.
All the vibes that you hear are coming through the in-call speaker, but even so, the sound is clear and superior to many other music dedicated mobile phones. The headset that comes with the phone aren’t the best, but the sound it delivers is surely above average. Interesting vision from Samsung, it’s like you have two different devices stuck together. When closed, you can use the MP3 player (MP3, WMA, AAC, AAC+ and eAAC+) or the FM radio, when swiveled, you can take advantage of the GSM capabilities.
No functions of either one work at the same time, so you should be aware that you won’t be able to run music in the background and access other application related to the phone. Music player and FM radio are both offering sound above average.

Conclusion
Samsung F210 doesn’t look like any other phone, because it looks like an MP3 player. The moment you swivel the handset, it really reveals its ‘WOW factor’. Anyway, youngsters are the only target that will buy the phone, as you cannot do any business related stuff with it. Looking more like a toy, Samsung F210 offers the innovation much needed when one tries to attract young people.
The best thing I have noticed with F210 is definitely related to its look. More than appealing, the phone doesn’t feel when you put it into your pocket, or carry it with you, just like an MP3 player. It has everything that a young person would want: music, big storage space, radio and camera. Combine all these with an easy to use interface and you have the optimal phone for youngsters.
Even for someone who is not interested too much in using the GSM capabilities of the phone, the small screen could be a big issue. Probably the battery is also a negative point, as it lasts only half of the time offered by these days dedicated music phones. The inability to install any 3rd party applications is also a big downside.

There are phones that are difficult to be classified or described. This device is more than just a “business-phone”. This is a phone that combines the best features of representatives of different categories in the harsh realities of the mobile market and is almost something unique. A new model Samsung F250 is bright, memorable, comfortable, functional and of course available. It seems to be a culinary masterpiece. So let’s start baking the cake.

Design

Samsung F250 is associated not only with the cake. Plump shape, color palette resemble éclair.
Despite the impressive size of Samsung F250 (94 x 46 x 18 mm) and 85 g of weight, it seems almost airy.
In the users hand it does not cause any discomfort, just on the contrary.
It’s not a secret that Samsung produces a huge number of models, which have a very short lifetime in the market. In one word it is a perishable product. Nevertheless, in such volumes all devices from Samsung have some insanely attractive effect. With regard to Samsung F250 this is the slider mechanism.
When we see prefix Le Fleur in the name of the phone from Samsung, we understand the pastel colors and floral body. The first rule in this case worked. However F250 is also available in white and silver colors.
Thus, the phone in the silver version is not feminine and quite suitable for progressive young people.
Summing up arguments concerning the design of F250, I’d like to note once again the magical properties of this device. Others should pay special attention to this fact.

Display

Screen is located on the front panel, made in a mirrored version. It has 262 thousand colors, TFT, the physical size is 32 x 40 mm, but the resolution is only 128 x 160 pixels. In order to navigate it easily, such authorization is typical for mid-level phones about two-three years ago. In practice, it is quite noticeable, but could be better.
The rest of the screen corresponds to modern requirements and it is quite suitable for viewing pictures, videos, Internet and text. In addition, the display has good viewing angles. In sunny weather to it is not very comfortable to work with F250 because of the dark design of theme menu.

Keyboard

Functional buttons are located on the outside, harmoniously with the general set up of the phone.
Navigational pad, flanked by a silver frame, harmoniously blends into the image, creating a complete picture of F250. Two soft buttons of transparent plastic are miniature in size, but easy to use. And that is important – do not spoil the general picture.
Navigation buttons support music features. However, starting the music by pressing Play does not work; it opens the default web-browser.
The numeric keypad is made in the RAZR format. At first sight you think that it is made of metal, but, unfortunately, it is not. Only the texture is “under metal”, although it is hidden inside transparent plastic buttons, which are smooth to the touch.

Menu, functions, capabilities

Test results of any phone is the subjective opinion of the author, and not more. So I want to tell about those things that can not be seen within five minutes. Usually first you notice such things as calendar, organizer and other standard features of modern phones from small to large. The standard features, migrating from the phone to phone, are quite comfortable and not worth a special attention.
This slight digression may be considered complete, let’s go back to the functions, which I would really like to mention.
First one, of course, is a music player. Getting to the player can be done in two ways – from the main menu and by pressing a special key. The player interface is made in the same purple color as the entire phone menu.
For music applications, you can see the artist name and song title of the assessment file to be played on a 5-point scale, the current time and the length of the entire track, as well as the active configuration at the moment – continuous playback, equalizer, etc.

The main space is occupied by the album cover.
Music can be divided into the following categories: All, Recently, recently reproduced, often reproduced. However, it is possible to sort songs by author, genre, albums, composers, pod casts.
The most convenient option is creating your play lists, and adding and removing songs from the sheet can be done directly from the phone.

The last thing what I want to say in relation to the music player is that it can work in the background, so that the user is free to listen to music and at the same time do another useful action.
There is a Bluetooth 2.0 (profiles Headset, Handsfree, Stereo headset, Basic printing, Serial port, Dial-up networking, File transfer, Object push), so that you can listen to music and wireless headphones.

Camera

Installed panel lets you take pictures with a resolution of 1.3 MP that in these times is the minimum.
Work with the camera will have a horizontal position, not because it’s more convenient, but because of the fact that it is the only way get to control the camera.
Maximum resolution of photos, as we expected, is 1280 x 1024 pixels, and you can choose the quality from three options.
F-250 model also supports a number of functions: serial shooting, manual and automatic white balance settings, ISO and choice frames-vignettes.
Videos are recorded in 3GP format with a maximum resolution of 176 x 144 pixels. Rollers are obtained quite tolerable, without hesitation, you can send to your friends via MMS.
In order to store the images you can use 20 MB internal memory of the device or microSD card up to 2 GB. Card slot is located under the battery.

Conclusion

So we have have baked the cake. I can not say that F-250 is an ideal low-cost phone, but it gives more than others. Choosing F-250, the user gets a nice design and good functional set at a level that is typically offered by slightly higher class of phones. For example, Li-Ion battery (800 mAh) without problems allows the device to work 4 days (up to 20 minutes of calls per day, up to 30 minutes of using other functions).
Throughout the rest, F-250 has showed small defects (such as the possibility of an answer only when you open the phone) which doesn’t play any role to such an extent that is not reflected in the survey.