1. Looks, style & interface:
Indeed appealing! It feels so good to hold this thing in your hands lolz. it’s really stylish n light weight n really slim. I got the chocolate colour n it looks cuter than a cadbury!The interface is very intelligently designed keeping in mind the needs of users. Hats off to Samsung. There are many minor things which will surprise u for good.The "Smart idle" home screen is probably a feature of high-end phones. You can keep shortcuts to anything on the home screen like media player, messages, social networking sites (it’s inbuilt), your buddies (if u want it to be displayed. This is a cool feature and it will notify u about any missed calls or messages from your friend list)The display is cool. On the box its written 65k colors, but still its above average.
2. Media player:
This certainly did blow my mind off!! i personally feel it’s better than the Walkman series too. The bass effect in earphones is simply awesome. Earphones are similar in looks to the walkman series of Sony. Some cool features are
- Preset equalizer (normal, pop, dance, jazz, wide, surround, etc) and u can actually feel the difference in sounds when u change it.
- Search option - you can search for music files easily .this is very useful.
- Album art, background play, u can give ratings to ur music, etc etc.
One thing I dint like is that u can’t change tracks with the volume buttons on the side of the phone as I did in my Sony Eriksson. But not a big problem as u can do that with navigation keys on the home screen itself.The loudspeaker is not very loud. Its average but not bad, but I listen to earphones n this phone is a banger. The loudness of earphones is sufficient even for the deaf!! lol
3. Camera:
Camera quality is good. No autofocus or smile shutter etc ..but certainly a useable camera. I’m satisfied with it. It’s at least at par if not better than my Sony Eriksson 2MP autofocus camera of k750i. Many of u here have reported that camera hangs but i did not face this prob. good for me :-)
4. Applications:
Inbuilt dictionary is really useful. Orkut ,facebook ,twitter, picasa, friendster, etc are inbuilt though not of much use to me as I use my pc for internet. Instant messenger palringo and google is pre-installed. Mobile prayer is a cool app for the religious ones.FM radio is awesome thanks to the banger earphones. Auto tuning was able to find all radio stations. we can record radio n the quality is good.Now about JAVA! ,, this is one thing Samsung should improve upon.. We can download n install java games and applications but files larger than 700kb show error "file too large" ...Also , not all types of formats are supported...many a times "format error" comes, but still I’m able to install a lot of games n apps after some search work on the internet. Java engine is good though, racing games like Apshalt n 3D games like Tomb raider are working smooth!
5. Call n network reception:
The basic feature of any mobile phone and i found no problems with this till now. calls are loud n clear n network reception is also good. Although i can’t comment much on this as I live in the heart of the city where i always get full network lolz
6. Battery backup:
This aspect has been slightly disappointing may be because I expected more. It takes too long to get fully charged...I think 2 hours atleast or even more..n with heavy usage battery would hardly last 1 day...for normal usage it can be 2 days..My sony ericsson battery was comparatively better whn it was new. But one thing is that battery in this phone is not poor atleast! it is not the best...n not the worst.Now as I’m having a hands-on experience I would like to share a few more things:
- The phone never hangs .at least it did not hang till now.:-)
- u cannot minimize while playing games. not even if u have received a msg. so I cannot chat n play game simultaneously :-(
- Receiving files on bluetooth works on the background like nokia :-) but while sending files we can’t use the phone like Sony Eriksson :-(
- Messaging is very smooth n fast. Keypad is soft :-) :-)
- The phone interface is fast which is a huge plus point :-)
- u can chat in sms conveniently using "conversations" option :-)
- delivery reports are received as a msg instead of a notification (unlike Sony) which is annoying really :-(
- java support could have been better..One good thing though is that u can easily quit Java apps just by clickin the red button even when the java file becomes unstable. This is why the phone doesn’t hang much. My SE phone used to hang much because of unstable java apps/games.
- u can create themes but dont expect too much creativity support, but i hardly play with themes etc.so i dont mind! Lolz
- Maximum 40 java apps/games can be installed together and only in phone memory.
- default sms capacity is 1000.
- u can lock messages, My files folder, contacts, call log, memo, calender, task with a password. REALLY cool!!
- I downloaded the PC software "samsung Kies" but not able to connect to pc using bluetooth.i guess only datacable is supported.
Nevertheless ,Overall I lovvve this phone!! n i would surely recommend it to all. My rating : 8.5/10Thats it! a long review! Hope it helps those who are really interested in buying it.Thank u!
