My Telecommunications Review

Spy T918 Camera Vibrate Watch Phone

2009-10-14T22:33:00.002+08:00

Spy T918 Camera Vibrate Watch Phone

DID your heard before the phone in watch size? The New Technology in Communication now we can use watch as a phone to make phone call. This phone was design with the normal size of watch. Today you did not need take out your phone from the pocket when you want to see what the time is it.

The Spy T918 Vibrate Watch Phone Features are listed below:

Frequency: GSM 900/1800MHz
Watch Mobile Phone;
1.4 inch display screen, handwritten input;
3GP,MP4,3GP/MP4 player.
Camera: 1.3 Mega Pixel.
Memory: 1917K/512M TF, Support TF extend, Max 2G
64 channels polyphonic ringtone, support mp3, midi;?
Bluetooth function.

The Spy T918 Vibrate Watch Phone Specifications are listed below:

Display: 1.4" 260000 colors TFT, 128*160px
Ringtones:?64 chord, support Mp3,?Midi
Camera: 1.3 Mega Pixel
Multimedia: Support MP3,MP4,3GP/MP4
Memory: 1917K/512M TF, Support TF extend, Max 2G
Data transfer: USB/U disk
Image support: JPG, GIF, BMP
Address list: 500 pcs
Messaging: SMS, MMS support
Networking: WAP,GPRS
Talk time: 100-180 minutes
Idle time: 140-200 hours
Dimensions:?61 x?40 x 16 mm
Weight: 70g
Language: English, Chinese, some other languages according to the quantity (Russian, Spanish, Italian, Turkish, Vietnamese, Thai and Arabic)?
More information: MP3, MP4, Handsfree, SMS group sending, Voice recorder, WAP, Handwritten input, Bluetooth, GPRS download, MMS, E-book, IP dialing, calendar, health management, calculator, unit conversion, rates exchange, memorandum, world time, notepad.

Where To Buy?:

http://www.lelong.com.my/merchant/andios.htm

Samsung SGH-D880 DuoS The Dual Sim Card Phones

2009-10-01T12:37:00.004+08:00

Samsung D880 DuoS The Dual Sim Card Phones
by: yieMEGA

Did you tired when you need to bring more than one phone when you want using two different mobile operator? Or your think when you bring along two phones in your pocket make you feel uncomfortable? Now Samsung SGH-D880 DuoS can solve your problem because it's can use two sim card in one phone, and also both simcard are standby.

Both Sim Card Standby means the both sim card are on, and you will be able to receive call from the both sim card. Now you didn't need to bring than one phone when you using two mobile operator.

The phone not so expensive because it is a Economic Model. So go buy Samsung SGH-D880 now to Samsung nearest authorized dealer.

Samsung SGH-D880 Video Preview

CSL i-100 Phone The Cheapest Handphone In The World

2009-08-01T00:49:00.004+08:00

CSL i-100 Phone CSL i-100 Phone The Cheapest Handphone In The World by: yieMEGA
Manufacturer:
CSL Phone
Website:
http://www.cslcare.com
Price:
MYR 78.00
Made In:
Malaysia

CSL i-100 Phone is the cheapest Mobile Phone in the Wolrd compared to others mobile phones brand. The phone Market Prices was MYR78.00 and its suitable for all types users such as user from lower income user, also middle income user and suitable for every one.

This mobile phone quality when compared to others phone thas was made in China, this phone was more better than the china model such as Nokia Alike Mobile Phones. CSL give the new customer with warranty some place 12 months and some 15 months but usually the warranty given was 15 Months by CSL.

According to CSL, this mobile phones was produces while celebrating 100days of the new Malaysia Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak. Thinking about the economic situations today become uncertain, it' is the time for the economic Mobile Phones likes CSL i-100 mobile phones.

For the specifications of CSL i-100 Phones Please Visit Here

CSL M30

2009-06-30T18:23:00.003+08:00

CSL M30 MOBILE PHONES

Manufactured By: CSL Mobiles

Website: http://www.cslcare.com

General Phones Informations:

Network: Dual Band / GSM 900 / GSM 1800

Announce: Q1, 2009

Status: Available

Display:
Type: QVGA 262K TFT LCD
Size: 2.4 Inch.

Size:
Dimensions: 117.9 x 53.5 x 16.6 mm
Weight: 105 gram

Memory:
Phonebook: YES
Call Records: YES
Card Slots: YES, T-Flash Memory Cards

Data:
OS: MTK
GPRS: YES
HSCSD: NO
EDGE: NO
3G: NO
WLAN: NO
Bluetooth: YES
Infrared Port: NO
USB: NO

Features:
Messanging: SMS, MMS
Browser: Wap 2.0/xHTML, HTML
Games: YES
Color: Standard
Camera: YES

Others:
Analogue TV (Free Of Charges)
FM Radio
Camera
Bluetooth with A2DP
mp3 & mp4 Player
Video / Sound Recorder
T-Flash Card Expansion
Calendar, To Do List, Alarm, World Clock, Stop Watch, Memo Pad,
Multi Languanges: English, Malays, Chinese
Islamic Features: Solat Info, Azan, Qiblat, and Al-Quran.

Battery:
Standard Battery , 1000mAh Li-Ion Battery
Standby: Up to 120 hours
Talk times: Up to 3 hours.

For More Informations Please Visit HERE

Motorola MOTOSURF A3100

2009-06-07T22:57:00.003+08:00

Motorola MOTOSURF A3100 Review
by: yiemega

Motorola Inc. among the famous Handphone Manufacturer in the World. Based on World Best Selling Mobile Phones Years 2008, Motorola at no 4 in the world after Nokia, Samsung and LG.

To improve their world sales ranking, Motorola its new mobile phones models. The Mobile Phones models name is Motorola MOTOSURF A3100.

DesignThe last time Motorola tried its hand at a Windows Mobile smartphone it came up with theMotorola Q 9h, a very conservatively designed handset in the vein of Samsung's BlackJack.

The MOTOSURF lives up to its name in regards to design; its plumpness and strongly rounded corners throw caution to the wind in a market full of samey design and iPhones. Though the aesthetic direction keeps with the reckless charm of a professional surfer, the handset itself is admittedly a little daggy — it's probably the only handset we've reviewed in 2009 that wouldn't look out of place on the set of a vintage Shatner/Nimoy Star Trek episode.

The MOTOSURF is a full touchscreen, meaning no physical keys save for the start and end call buttons and a jogball for menu navigation, similar to that of a BlackBerry. To work in Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system Moto has employed a resistive touchscreen, which lacks the responsiveness of capacitive screens on the iPhone and Samsung F480. Be prepared to whip out the attached stylus before composing any message on the phone. The display is also of a remarkably low quality, it lacks the punch of colour and contrast we expect in screens these days, plus the viewing angle is atrocious — the screen is difficult to view on any angle other than directly straight-on.

This is disappointing because the experience of the MOTOSURF is seen entirely through this dismal display, including Motorola's mostly excellent interface shell. Most developers working with Windows Mobile, HTC and Samsung, for example, skin the Windows interface to provide an attractive home screen with one-touch access to common tasks. Motorola has done a fine job covering the ugly mug of Windows Mobile with a series of menus and shortcuts, which you change by swiping sideways on the menu panel.

The Moto home screen allows you to check messages and your calendar, the weather, RSS feeds and execute your favourite programs without using the dreaded Microsoft Start button.On the top of the handset is a 3.5mm headphone socket and on the back you find a 3-megapixel camera lens and LED photolight. You can expand the MOTOSURF's 256MB of storage with a microSD card, but you'll have to take out the battery to access the slot. Luckily, Moto has bundled a 1GB card with the phone, which should be sufficient for most people's needs.FeaturesTelstra has snapped up the MOTOSURF in Australia in an exclusive arrangement at launch, so you can expect the phone to feature a range of Telstra services. To make links to these services easier to find, Telstra has created what it calls "TelstraOne".

Activating this will replace the Motorola UI described earlier with quite a smart looking home screen complete with shortcuts to Foxtel TV News, Sport and Music, plus it also displays your personal notifications, like new emails and missed calls, clearly as well.This also means that the MOTOSURF runs on Telstra's super-fast Next G network and when you add the fact that Opera Mobile comes pre-installed you have a first-rate browsing experience. While we might like to fantasise that the reason this phone is called MOTOSURF has some romantic connection to the rebellious surfer Bodie in Point Break, the real reason is that it is, with the aforementioned combination of browser and network, one of best web browsers we've come across — in line with the iPhone and HTC Touch HD. Pages load fast and Opera is so easy to use — not only does it pan and scan without any stuttering or jagged movements, but it is the only web browser we know that is capable of displaying the Flash-based carousel on CNET Australia's homepage.

The MOTOSURF also features nifty new approaches to age-old mobile phone problems, like how to fit all the letters, numbers and punctuation of a keyboard on a tiny phone screen. Motorola achieves this by letting you change from letters to numbers by swiping your finger or stylus across the keyboard. Also, do you find it annoying when your phone's accelerometer changes from portrait to landscape when you don't want it to? The MOTOSURF uses a button press to change orientation so you're in complete control. These are small touches, but they go a long way to improving unnecessarily difficult usability.

PerformanceDuring our testing we've had the privilege of reviewing not one, but two MOTOSURF A3100s. Of course, if you read between the lines you'll realise that this circumstance arose not because we were greedy, but because our first review model died during testing — a first for this mobile phone reviewer. We were unable to accurately diagnose the problem, but it had something to do with the phone not wanting to turn itself on after a hard reset. Our contacts at Motorola have assured us that it was a problem they could fix, but it's still worth noting.While we're happy to call that experience a one-in-a-million and a bit of bad luck, the MOTOSURF had been struggling with simple tasks before it unceremoniously carked it and we saw this poor performance replicated in its replacement. Both Motorola and Telstra's custom interfaces are quite slick and work well, but overall the phone tends to be sluggish. We saw many instances of our workflow being interrupted by extended pauses, especially when opening applications.

This lag made the screen unusable while the spinning rainbow-colour loading wheel turns and turns and turns. Most phones struggle to run Microsoft's lag-a-riffic mobile platform, but compared to the latest handsets from HTC, the MOTOSURF is the tortoise and not the hare.As we said earlier, the web browsing is superb and the MOTOSURF is capable of the same level of media playback available to all Windows Mobile handsets, but both experiences are severely hampered by the crummy screen. Battery life is OK, we saw about two days between charges, while Motorola estimates the battery should last for about 6.5 hours of talking on the Next G network.OverallWe love a good underdog story and we wanted to love the MOTOSURF — the first Motorola phone we've seen in nearly 12 months.

We wanted to be part of the cheering as Motorola strode confidently back into the smartphone market, but we just don't see that happening based on this release. Its design is interesting, but it certainly won't be to everyone's taste, and if the lacklustre display doesn't drive you away, its sluggish performance should. Perhaps next time we can celebrate Motorola's return when we see its take on Google's Android OS, but until then we suggest you steer clear of the MOTOSURF.

Motorola MOTOSURF A3100 Video Review:

Apple iPhone 3G

2008-09-25T00:32:00.002+08:00

Apple iPhone 3G

Specifications:

Dimensions:
139.7 x 60.9 x 12.2 mm

Screen Size:
3.5 inch

Navigation:
Touch Screen, Home Button, Multi-touch Gesture Support.

Camera:
2.0 Megapixel, no Video Recording

Connectivity:
Quad Band GSM, Triband, UMTS/HSDPA, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth profile is supported, but no stereo Bluetooth, but no thetering.

Accelerometer:
YES

GPS:
YES

Maps:
Google's Maps with sattelite view and trafic. No streets view.

Memory:
8 GB or 16 GB, no expansion slot

Email:
POP3, IMAP, Exchange Support.

Syncing:
Desktop Syncronization with over-the-air sync for certain cloud base applications like webmail and online calendar.

Visual Voicemails:
YES

Music Stores:
iTunes Store

Applications Store:
iTunes Applications Store, Applications needs to be approve by Apple to appear in the store.

Multimedia Messaging:
NO

Copy and Paste:
NO

Voice Dial:
NO

3.5 mm Headset Jack:
YES

Removeable Battery:
NO

PRICE:
US$ 199.00 (two years services agreement for 8GB) US$299 (two years services agreement for 16GB)

T-Mobile G1

2008-09-25T00:06:00.002+08:00

T-Mobile G1

Dimensions:
116.8 X 54.9 X 15.7 mm

Screen Size:
3.2 Inch

Navigation:
Touch Screen, QWERTY Keyboard, trackball and navigation key, No Multi-Touch Gesture Support.

Camera:
3.2 Megapixel, No Video Recording

Connectivity:
Quad-Band GSM, dual band UMTS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth Head Set Profile is supported, but no stereo Bluetooth, no tethering.

Accelerometer:
YES

GPS:
YES

Maps:
Google Maps With Sattelite View, trafic and street views. Also has a compass mode that orients the screen as you move.

Memory:
MicroSD card slot expentable up to 8GB, with MicroSDHC Card Support. Comes with 1GB card pre-loaded.

Email:
Push Gmail, POP3, IMAP, no Exchange.

Syncing:
Over-the-air-syncronization

Visual Voicemail:
Don't know yet, presumably no.

Music Store:
Amazon MP3 Store

Application Store:
Android Market. The SDK is open source and applications do not need vetted for approval.

Multimedia Messaging:
YES

Copy and Paste:
YES

Voice Dial:
YES

3.5mm headset jack:
NO

Removeable Batteries:
YES

Price:
US$ 179.00 (MYR 572.00)

Nokia 7610 Supernova Review

2008-07-22T02:36:00.003+08:00

The Supernova series comprises four models which were featured in an earlier article spotlighting the world announce. The most interesting of the four is Nokia 7610, judging by the number of catalog page hits and search calls. Attaching incomprehensible suffixes to the product names is quite typical of Nokia – once again, the new 7610 handset seems to erroneously duplicate the suffix originally reserved for an earlier smartphone product. Nokia 7610 isn't a smartphone, yet for a conventional cell phone it displays a very high level of functionality. It's a slider equipped with a 3.2 megapixel camera, which serves as the next step in development of the 6500 Slide and 5610 models; another spin-off from the same platform, to say so.

The most characteristical feature of the handset is the Theme Colorise used to quickly swap interface colors in all imaginable ways. A detailed review of this feature is available in a later section of this article. Right now, a few more general words introducing the new product. The handset is based off the fifth revision of the S40 software platform, which is due to the limitations of the hardware platform. The lower-ranking 7510 model uses the sixth revision of the S40 software platform, for instance. Supernova series' signature Xpress-on models come in a variety of colors, letting you customize even the physical features of the handset.

Supported Networks: GSM 850/900/1800/1900 EDGE: + RAM size: 64 Mb Screen: 2.2”, 320x240, 16M Storage expansion: microSD slot, a 512 Mb card bundled Wireless connectivity: Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR, supports A2DP Camera: 3.2 Mp, auto-focusing FM radio: + (with RDS) Battery: 860 mAh Size: 98 x 48 x 15 mm Guiding price: 300 euros
Nokia are targeting Supernova at a largely female audience (still firmly counting on the male buyer, but to a lesser extent), trying to attack Samsung on a front where the Koreans hold especially strong positions. The Korean manufacturer is famed to favor the slider form factor, and Samsung female-tailored sliders enjoy an unmatched popularity on the market. However no known Samsung product can offer an analogous functionality in this segment. U600 is probably the closest alternative, yet incapable of posing direct competition to Nokia 7610.

Despite its distinct orientation towards the mass market, 7610 has no direct competitors, which is a very intriguing combination. Talking in advance let's note out that the solution is rather controversial; yet an active advertising campaign planned for Supernova handsets and a scarce number of highly functional fashion slider models from other manufacturers are the two factor that are going to overcome any possible criticism and further bring the product to the top of popularity. Nokia now have at their disposal a full set of variations of the same platform: 5610 stands for music, 6500 Slide stands for business, 7610 now stands for fashion. Marketing seen in action.

Design and Ergonomics

Nokia 7610 Supernova is a mid-sized, lightweight slider, entirely made of plastic. Two color versions are available – the dark and the bright ones, each coming with two changeable panels. The dark variant comes with blue and turquoise panels, the bright – with blue and red ones. These the Xpress-on panels, a standard element of design customization which has been used by Nokia in a number of earlier products. The moment is especially actual for a youth audience. Theme Colourizer is the company's next move catering to the youth tastes. It changes the splash screen and Navi backlight to match a specified color. This unique feature will be discussed a bit further in a special section of this article.
The style of Supernova's design is intentionally kept very neutral. It is likely to attract both female and male audiences. Unfortunately the compromises, simplifications and concessions introduced to reach this goal make the handset's exterior look a bit plain, at least too plain for a top-ranking fashion-oriented solution. The only original thing around is the mirrorlike pieces reminiscent of Sony Ericsson's emotive solutions. However even these elements look slightly out of place.

An Xpress-on panel feels like rubber when you touch it, to be more precise it sports an actual thin rubber coating, which will never let the handset slip out of the hand. It's held very tightly and won't ‘peel off' just by accident, which from another point can be considered a downside: hot memory card swapping becomes unavailable. Bright-colored star-shaped stickers are supplied along. The assembly and materials show us a very good example of what is the proper way and substance for making a durable and good-looking phone. Unlike 6500 Slide, there are no metal pieces, save for the back panel of the upper sliding part. All the parts fit each other tightly, the surface coating is resistant to physical damage.

Thanks to the compact size and low weight, 7610 feels as natural appendage of your hand, every aspect of shape, size and weight is very balanced. From the point of ergonomics, the handset is close to ideal yet not ideal. The keypad lacks any bump marks though the buttons are well-segmented, have a sufficient move, the backlight is of a white color, it's very even and neither too bright nor too dim. The main block of controls has coupled buttons for dial and application actions, which is not everyone's cup of tea. In practice though the navigation is pretty easy.

The side edges of the casing host a number of slots and buttons. The hardware platform of 6500 Slide and 5610 imposes a number of unfortunate limitations like a 2.5 non-standard headset jack, the storage expansion slot hidden under the battery cover and so on. None of these is critical though, especially in a fashion phone. On the upper edge, neighboring the headset jack, the power button and the charger jack are located. The right edge hosts a two-position camera button, the volume rocker and the player button (pressing this will de-pause and pause the current track. The left edge has a microUSB slot covered with a protective flap.

The speaker is sunk into the back surface, though sound distortions are minimal even if the phone rests on a surface. The sound volume is enough to hear from a distance, so no problems on this front. The upper part of the slider's bottom is the habitual residence of the camera lens. It is left unprotected, so careful handling is strongly advisable. Building the camera into the top part of the slider would have been a more reasonable decision, apparently.

Theme Colorise

This function was briefly mentioned above, but this section of the article dwells on the topic more thoroughly. The feature is simple yet very effective, especially as seen by the female half of the audience - now it's a matter of seconds to make your phone fit the color of your evening dress or handbag.
Here's how it works. The right virtual button on the main screen conjures up the primary menu of the application. For a couple of seconds, you see a splash screen which can be skipped by pressing OK when it appears but can't be totally gotten rid of in the options.
After that, you find yourself with a viewfinder window and a semi-circular palette displaying different shades of the currently selected color, a total of sixteen. This is done dynamically, so you don't have to press the shoot button each time you want to update this palette.
Once you have captured the required colors, a second push of the shoot button confirms the choice, after which you are prompted to select one of the three effects: Soundflora, Waves, Globetrotter. Keeping the chosen palette intact, each of this effect mixes the colors in a unique way.
In about 99% of cases the color recognition is done correctly, the application never lags during data processing. This application may have varying grades of importance to different people, but personally the male testers of Smape.com considered it a one-shot toy. This goes contrary to our girlfriends' opinion - they spent a lot of time toying around, trying to find color matches for their latest wardrobe additions. Not only the menus and the main screen are affected by Theme Colorise, but the backlight color of the navigation button as well. Unfortunately the keypad remains unaffected, which in a way breaks the perfection. Still a great fun for the fair sex. Memory

The new product comes with a 64 Mb of onboard memory, and a microSD card can always be used for expansion (no hot swapping is available though, as mentioned above) The selling package includes a 512 Mb card, however cards of a capacity up to 2 Gb are supported. Screen

Nokia 7610 Supernova is equipped with a QVGA TFT screen (320x240) which is typical for this product class, the diagonal is a bit shorter than one would want – 2.2''. The color palette is 16M. In the real life, the screen image looks very pleasing – with good contrast, bright and vivid-colored. The view angles are just perfect. Unfortunately, this excellence ends where the daylight begins, the screen heavily affected by glares in direct sunlight due to the sort of coating used applied to the front glass.
Connectivity

The new 7610 is a quad-band phone (GSM 850/900/1800/1900) and supports Class 10 EDGE. It has no WCDMA capabilities, which only proves the guess that this product was designed exclusively for the mass market. Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR is what Supernova offers in the wireless connectivity department. It functions quite well, we weren't able to detect any problems during the tests. The options include activation state (on/off), the list of accessible devices, the visibility state, device name and a variety of other standard parameters. All the associated services are also quite standard. The Bluetooth stereo headset (A2DP) also brought about no problems, the maximal sound volume is quite sufficient and can be adjusted manually. The following profiles are available:

? Dial Up Networking Profile
? File Transfer Profile
? Generic Access Profile
? Service Discovery Application Profile
? Headset Profile
? Handsfree (Car Kit) Profile
? Generic Object Exchange Profile (OBEX)
? Object Push Profile
? File Transfer Profile
? Basic Printing Profile
? Audio Video Remote Control Profile
? Advanced Audio Distribution Profile
? Enhanced Data Rate
? Dual Profile Bluetooth (Voice & Data)
? vNote USB 2.0 is the means for wire communication which the new handset has to offer. The data transfer rate isn't the highest around, though. There are four connectivity modes available: Modem, Mass Storage, Media Player, Printer. The required mode is selectable from the corresponding menu and can be set as default, or optionally left for prompting each time you plug the phone cable into your PC.

The radio unit has the same nice-looking interface. The headset provides a very decent quality of sound, to say the least. The theme is independent from the theme used by the mp3 player, so the both applications can be configured to sport different skins simultaneously. Up to 50 radio stations can be saved to memory in a specified storage folder. Auto-search and RDS capabilities are also in.

Software Platform

As it was noted earlier, the top-class Supernova is based off the firth revision of S40, so there aren't any platform-wise peculiarities that have not been discussed in the previous articles dealing with S40 E5 phones. Please refer to 6500 Slide and 5610 reviews on our site to find out more about S40 functionality.

The only thing worth mentioning in this article section is the Theme Colorise feature, which is a rich pack of themes – actually more of them than any Samsung product could ever offer.

Camera

For a fashion phone, the camera looks not bad – a 3.2 Mp auto-focusing unit with an integrated flash. In this aspect, the model is fully analogous with 6500 Slide and 5610; the Slide handset possesses Carl Zeiss optics though, which gives it a little boost putting it above the two other models in the sense of image acquisition quality… The flash is effective at distances not exceeding a meter and a half. The camera is deprived of a lens guard. The shoot button is a bit too tight . A 20x digital zoom is available. The volume controls serve as zoom controls while in the shooting mode.

The camera interface is fully analogous with Nokia 6500 Slide / 5610, here we see the very same options and possibilities. The interface utilizes a landscape orientation, though a portrait mode is also available as an option. In the viewfinder mode, the screen displays a number indicators telling of the current settings: the resolution, the storage folder, the zoom ration, the timer info, the remaining number of shots, the flash on/off state and so on. Everything's simple and clear.

Pressing Left, we pass on to the settings menu, consisting of the following items:

Shooting mode switch (photo / video) Portrait mode engage Brightness setting (ten-point scale) Nighttime mode Flash (on, off or auto) Auto timer (3, 5 or 10 second) Multi shot Effects (grayscale, sepia, negative) White balance (auto, daylight, glow lamp, fluorescent lamp, horizont) Show previous photo Proceed to Gallery

Only a few options are available, the number of effects is minimal, but that's still great for a music phone. The extra settings include:

Image quality (High, Normal, Low) Viewing delay for taken photos (no delay, 3, 5, 10 seconds) Camera sounds Default filename Storage folder selection Image resolution:

1536х2048 1600x1200(UXGA) 1280x960(SXGA) 640x480(VGA) 320x240(QVGA) 320x240(QVGA)

A really reassuring point here: besides just choosing between the onboard memory and the memory card as the storage location, the user can specify an exact folder to save files to.

A photo can be instantly sent over attached to a text message, via Bluetooth or sent for printing. The photo can also be set as a wallpaper, logo, call image for a specific person or a user group. There's also the scaling option, functions like Rotate and the contrast settings (a ten-notch scale).

The acquired image can be instantly transferred to the graphics editor (which has only the very basic set of functions)

insert Text Frame (selectable from the 7 preinstalled ones) Graphic clip (selectable from 7) insert Picture Trim (Portrait Size or Custom)

As a result, the phone's extras in the aspect of video editing are rather modest, being nothing beyond the basic required level.

Things are even simpler when it comes to the video, there are no editing options but there's a function that allows you to strip the sound away from a clip completely. The video record length is only limited by the remaining amount of free memory, three quality presets offer you a choice between High, Normal and Low, the supported resolutions are 640x480, 352x288, 176x144 and 128x96. The video quality among the best found with the today's camera phones, and within the music phone segment 5610 is the absolutely unquestionable leader, the only disappointment being the relatively low framerate of just 15 fps. On the whole, the video acquisition quality is on a level with Nokia 6233 and similar models.

Performance

Java implementation is done on a good level, no differences are observable if we compare it to the other members of the S40 5th Edition family. The processing rates are quite nice: Model Nokia 7610 Supernova Samsung U600 Jbenchmark 1.1.1 Score 1723 1244 Text 412 345 2D Shapes 413 333 3D Shapes 294 207 Fill Rate 182 103 Animation 422 256 Jbenchmark 2.0.1 Score 256 92 Image Manipulations 249 74 Text 293 102 Sprites 392 100 3D Transform 330 102 User Interface 115 83 Jbenchmark 3D HQ 128 72 Jbenchmark 3D LQ 251 84 Triangles ps 32681 9296 KTexels ps 1296 955 Battery life

The model is powered by a BL-4S 860 mAh battery. The capacity is plainly unimpressive, though in practice the battery life tests lead quite reassuring results: Model Nokia 7610 Supernova Samsung U600 Regular duty 2 days 1.5 days Multimedia cycle, video (3GP) 3:52 3:20 Multimedia cycle, audio (MP3) 13:21 11:59 Market outlook

Nokia 7610 Supernova produces a very ambiguous impression; on the one hand are the excellent stuffing, the interesting and audience-befitting feature of Theme Colorise and so on, but the other hand holds a deficiency in the image power, as long as the position of the series' flagship is concerned; even the changeable panels don't help the cause enough. Despite all the surrounding controversy, 7610 is bound for success; the price floats a bit above the reasonable assessment, yet we wouldn't say that the product is too overpriced. The large-scale promotional campaign and the famed brand loyalty of Nokia's fans will also improve the situation, given that a fashion slider is a rare occurrence in Nokia's portfolio. At the same time, the other companies offer a number of analogous solutions at lower prices (e.g. Samsung U600), though those aren't marketed as members of a dedicated fashion slider line. The very Supernova line itself is an interesting phenomenon. The mass-wise targeting tends to simplify the models, turning them cheaper than an average solution from the class. This comes at the price of a less pronounced image. How bad is that? Of course, part of the audience is lost but an even bigger part is added. Supernova is a serious blow delivered to Samsung, which is reputedly strong in this segment. 7610 should be viewed just as described above, it shares little with the top-ranking products of similar concept, for it is a purely mass product. Nokia cleverly used the design peculiarities to differentiate three products based off the same platform: the musical 5610, the businesslike 6500 slide, the fashion-powered 7610 Supernova. Each of the variations enjoys considerable demand, and the new product doesn't like an exception either. Over a few weeks, Supernova became one of the most talked about phones of the recent time. Nokia is promising to launch the two color versions of the handset into full production by the beginning of the third quarter. Editor's Opinion

Nokia 7610 Supernova is a solution targeted at the mass market, displaying a good balance between the stuffing and the design. The image impact is rather modest, regardless of the series' flagship title. The price, on the other hand, is quite inoffensive and the functionality keeps on a high level. That's a compromise bound for popularity.

+ Changeable panels
+ Theme Colorise
+ Attractive price
+ Decent camera
- Controversial design
- Screen gets too glared over in sunlight

Samsung SGH F330

2008-01-10T23:24:00.000+08:00

The new Samsung F330 can be spoken of as a musical variant of Samsung ?840, in many respects their specifications coincide. However there is also a number of differences concerning user interface, design, other features and we’ll dwell on them in the review. On the whole let’s begin the review with the remark that the device sold at its price becomes an interesting offer. With rare exception it has actually no direct rivals by other manufacturers on the market and that sort of expansion is rather advantageous to the company’s product range.

Design, ergonomics

Samsung F330 is implemented in a slider form factor, traditional for the company for the recent period of time. Its design solutions in many respects coincide with those of the above-mentioned Samsung E840: a mirror-plated front panel as well as touch-sensitive keys, however the device has its own face, it looks interesting and advantageous. Many consider the handset design as expressive, brilliant and stylish. It’s really so, the combination of white (a principal colour) glossy plastic and a mirror-plated surface produces a nice impression, it automatically relates the model mostly to a female audience.

Let’s compare this phone with some other music sliders available on the market, for example, with SonyEricsson W910i, Nokia N81. All the three products look well, have their own advantages, Samsung F330 differs in the most balanced dimensions. It is neither too wide, nor too thick. On the whole, the dimensions are typical for the current generation of mobile communication devices.

The material used for the exterior of F330 is the high-quality plastic standard for the company, its practicality raises no reprimands; it doesn’t tend to accumulate fingerprints. The side edges have thin inserts of a dark blue, almost black color where the control keys are located. The left edge hosts the sound volume rocker button, the button of switching between applications and the headset output covered with a plastic gag. The socket location on the side edge is not too convenient, however it causes no special problems. The power button and the camera launch / the shoot button are put on the right edge. The memory expansion slot (microSD) is found nearby.

The handset has a single speaker; it’s equally used for transmitting voice and sound. There’s no extra polyphonic speaker. Accordingly the sound is not of the highest quality, yields to the models equipped with stereo speakers. The front camera for video calls is put nearby.

On the front panel above the screen (as well as on the back panel) a logo of the Beatz series – a note is depicted. The navigation block is edged with a glossy insert transiting to the bottom edge. The back panel is not of much interest, the camera module is located at the top part of the slider, its back surface being black.

The build quality is traditionally above any ideal, the slider mechanism is absolutely smooth and the play between parts is minimal. It takes a single push of the finger for the sliding part to go the full way automatically. However there’s no separate finger rest for opening the slider, the finger rests just above the navigation button which is touch-sensitive, therefore stray keystrokes take place. On the whole the handset design is pleasant. The phone is compact, light, neat, sits in hand rather comfortably, the only objection is raised with an easily soiled surface, but there's nothing to be done here.

Display

The handset sports a display with a 2,1” diagonal (32?42 mm), the matrix is build based off the TFT-technology and is able of displaying up to 262 thousand colors. The resolution is quite traditional, namely being 240x320 pixels. This stands for approximately 12 lines of text simultaneously visible on the screen. There is no luminance sensor here, the screen and keypad backlighting being adjusted manually (there are four positions available).

The display has a mirror-plated substrate that resists the sunlight so the information remains easily legible, nevertheless due to a mirror-plated front panel the colors are erroneous and the screen glares. The screen quality is high; it is one of the best among the similar products, the colors are very natural and the brightness is up to standard. Comparing the screen of Samsung F330 with that of Nokia N81 and SonyEricsson W910i, let’s note just its small diagonal, as for the rest there are no serious distinctions.

The screen fonts are easily legible and optimized for the device’s display. The phone numbers are shown in large symbols, no problem arises here. The options include a setting that allows to choose the symbol type as well as font size, font color and background color.

Controls, keypad

The sound volume buttons have a few settings, for example while receiving an incoming call the button can be set to act either as Mute or Reject. The first function just mutes the ringtone while the second drops the call. Unlike Samsung G600, F330 has no text template sending option after the call is rejected but its availability was handy with that device.

Unlike with Samsung G800 which pioneered the use of the button switching between running applications, but at the same time launching the camera, with this device the button is utilized only for the former function, that’s it is used to call the quick access menu consisting of five shortcut icons:

Dial
Messages
Browser
Mp3 player
Shut all the running tasks

Thus, switching between applications is implemented in this device; by pressing this button you can switch to one of the offered modes from any item of the main menu. It is possible to keep a few applications running at once, however there is no full-fledged task manager here and the quick access menu cannot be customized. If Samsung G800 is the first step the company have taken towards multitasking, then F330 is the logical development of this idea, the button tasks are shared. Though everything is in its infancy here (there are only three processes available in a background), the advance in this direction is already evident.

The handset keypad is standard; it is made of a plastic plate, flat, however due to their big size, the keys are easy to tap at and nice to type with. The keypad use a bright white backlighting, it’s very even and well-visible in all kinds of environment. It is an interesting fact that the numerical keys are backlit when the slider is closed, which is not quite logical.

Let's dwell on the navigation block. It is made of white matte plastic; it is touch-sensitive and only the central key is ordinary. The solution is not the most ergonomic one, stray keystrokes are frequent. If the player mode is activated the keys are employed for track management, even if the player is in a background mode. Menu navigation is habitual, there are no surprises. The player launch button is put just below the navigation block.

Battery

The phone makes use of a Li-Ion battery with a standard capacity of 900 mAh. There’s no support for any enhanced battery types for this model. Similar to the latest Ultra Edition II phones, the trademark charge saving technology OPUS is implemented here, giving the battery a few extra percent of saved charge. This doesn’t make a big difference but still helps.

F330 is able to survive for about two days of moderately extensive usage (about an hour of talktime, two hours of listening to the music and another hour of application and menu interaction); the result is quite up to the modern standards. Few users are going to be dissatisfied with that. However the majority of modern music devices, especially by SonyEricsson, allow for a much longer battery life during the multimedia cycle.

A full recharge cycle takes two hours and a half. The charge indicator has a peculiarity: the first two points tend to fade away rather quickly, but the last point stands for about a day.

Samsung F330 battery life

	Samsung F330	Sony Ericsson W910i
Moderate usage	2 days	3 days
Multimedia cycle, video (3GP)	2:30	4:40
Multimedia cycle, audio (MP3)	9:20	19:30

Communications

Samsung F330 is a three-band device (GSM900 /1800/1900), has a full Class 10 EDGE support, it supports 3G networks (WCDMA2100) and HSDPA as well. In other words, as regards communications F330 quite meets all modern requirements.

Wireless communications support of Samsung F330 is represented by the Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR module. It gives raise to no reprimands, the data transfer rate comes up to 140 Kbps. Unfortunately, like with all 3G models based off the Qualcomm chipset there is no support for sending Java applications from outer sources to the phone itself. The .jar and .jad installation files placed in a separate folder in the phone memory cannot be installed. The Bluetooth options include the activation status (whether it is turned on or off), the list of visible Bluetooth devices, the Bluetooth visibility status of the phone itself, the device name and miscellaneous settings. The Bluetooth service includes a standard set of features. Unlike G600 and E950, Samsung F330 doesn’t sport an enhanced A2DP support allowing for two Bluetooth stereo headsets to be used simultaneously with the same phone. The lack of this feature isn’t quite logical for a music devise. However such functionality is a niche one, therefore one shouldn’t consider it as a disadvantage.

The stereo headset (A2DP) proved to be a reliable accessory, the only minor flaw being a negligible lack of volume. The following list of profiles is supported:

Dial Up Networking Profile
File Transfer Profile
Generic Access Profile
Service Discovery Application Profile
Headset Profile
Handsfree (Car Kit) Profile
Generic Object Exchange Profile (OBEX)
Object Push Profile
File Transfer Profile
Basic Printing Profile
Audio Vdieo Remote Control Profile
Advanced Audio Distribution Profile
Enhanced Data Rate
Dual Profile Bluetooth (Voice & Data)
vNote

The wire connection is achieved through USB 2.0, but the data transfer speed is not the highest. On the other hand the phone sports full and correct support of Mass Storage, Media Player, Samsung PC Studio modes. The corresponding menu lets the user to set one of those as the default connection type or ask for choice every time a phone-to-PC connection is established.

Performance

The performance of Samsung F330 is traditionally low, it’s easily felt after trying to rewind a long 3GP clip weighing about 60-70 Mb. Besides, the Java performance is not an exception to that rule, its functionality isn’t perfectly implemented. However F330 has made quite a bit of progress in comparison to 2,5G models.

	Samsung F330	Samsung E950	Sony Ericsson W910i
Jbenchmark 1.0.1 Score	1141	1568	7222
Text	278	499	1964
2D Shapes	271	383	1983
3D Shapes	198	199	873
Fill Rate	102	88	667
Animation	292	399	1735
Jbenchmark 2.0.1 Score	124	86	978
Image Manipulations	147	70	321
Text	130	94	657
Sprites	119	99	505
3D Transform	112	94	662
User Interface	112	76	12617
Jbenchmark 3D HQ	145	75	371
Jbenchmark 3D LQ	163	84	424
Triangles ps	15363	9186	30619
KTexels ps	1492	948	1517
Jbenchmark HD Gaming Score	98 (3,3 fps)	50 (1,7 fps)	151 (5,0 fps)
Smooth triangles	34096	18953	28641
Textured triangles	21941	13455	24299
Fill rate, KTexels	559	307	1972

The heap size equals to 4 Mb, the maximum Jar size - 1 Mb.

User interface

Samsung F330 is among the last generation of 3G devices, in many respects the software platform coincides with G800, that’s it is a maximally simplified version of what we see with Samsung G600. F330 has been developed at the R&D Suwon centre, but the differences from 2,5G models are great. It concerns practically every trifle with rare exception, for example, the impossibility of quick access menu customization, the list of applications is fixed; further, F330 has no text template sending option after the call is rejected, there is no user theme customization, the FM tuner, multimedia player, Bluetooth, sound profile and user interface features are reduced. However there are also some positive aspects, for example, the phonebook implementation, switching between applications. On the whole, as for the interface both F330 and G800 are intermediate solutions, the following models will provide more user customization features.

Let's dwell on the basic points of the F330 user interface features. Let's dwell on the camera phone user interface features. Following the wake of D900, the company again implements the Living World embedded interface plug-in. Once the phone identifies its geographical location, it displays a corresponding desktop wallpaper (Kremlin for Russia and so on, including the Sydney Opera House, the Golden Gate Bridge of San Francisco, the Big Ben of London and the Eiffel Tower of Paris) The wallpaper displays a set of symbolical animations indicating the time, quality of signal and incoming calls or messages - the wallpapers switches between the day and night versions, the sky gets overcast with clouds when the signal level gets low, fireworks can be seen once you get a unread message or miss a call. If you are out of the mobile network area, you see a green lawn among hills. This is not exclusive to F330, but still is a winning feature that looks interesting and has no direct analogues with other brands.

During the standby mode a screen-size clock can be set to be shown, that’s large enough for the numbers to be easily seen from a distance. Up to two clocks corresponding to two different timezones can be shown on the screen simultaneously or the clock indicating the time of your city of residence of a larger size.

The status line displays all the indicators of the running processes and the activated modules - Bluetooth, player, the profile selected, the web connection, the battery charge level, the network service indicator and so on. If you open a menu, the indicators go a line down so you can always see them.

Is goes without saying you can pick any picture for wallpaper instead of the Living World screen, almost anything like a photo taken with the camera. The calendar cannot be set to be used as the wallpaper, an option like that is excluded. But on the other hand there is rather an interesting feature that allows to create animated wallpaper, referred to as My Screen. The matter is that you choose from one up to nine pictures, photos, the effect to be applied and the shot change rate. During the standby mode the chosen pictures replace each other, besides one of following effects is applied:

Butterfly
Paper plane
Cherry blossom
Bamboo

Besides, several picture change modes are available: rolling-up, replacing, moving aside and so on. It looks attractive, slightly reminding of the multimedia menu background implementation with Nokia N95.

The information displayed during standby (the name of service provider, the currently playing song title, the event indications) can be customized to be shown in a number of ways according to the user-defined preferences: font color, style and alignment are customizable.

The font style in the dialing mode is also customizable as well as size, color and numerical symbol style, the former two parameters being active only for the standard font presentation. However the preset figure types are more attractive - as one of the available variants the symbols traced with a fountain pen on notebook pages are offered, an appropriate animation present. Besides the font customization, you can also set the background color for the phone number window; almost everything here can be adjusted to your own liking, since Samsung phones have long been known for their strong positions in the field of user customization features, which is evidently a customer attracting factor.

As we have already mentioned, the My Menu implementation with this device differs from that with Samsung G600. The quick access menu cannot be customized; it is called by pressing the special button on the left edge. It’s to advantage that the list is available from any item of the main menu, not only during the standby mode. One can bind different functions chosen from a rather extensive list to the navigation button strokes sidewise.

Another interesting and useful feature is the ability to filter the contents of phone book and call log by the three initial numbers while in the standby mode. In fact, if you know a phone number by heart you can trace it in your contacts book and the call log by merely typing the three initial letters... once you do so, you see the search results shown as a list of contacts’ names as well as surnames and phone type icons (home, mobile, etc). If the phone number is not saved in the phonebook, it’s only the number itself and the call status icon that are shown in the search results.

The absence of user themes turned out to be a disappointment. You remember how handy this feature was implemented in Samsung G600; the user was even able to create custom themes right from a basic menu, without having to resort to a specific application, the quality of themes implementation deserved admiration. Samsung F330 gives only an opportunity to choose between the two basic color schemes - white and lilac, though at that the menu presentation changes. If in the case of the white colour scheme the menu is displayed in the traditional way, in the case of the lilac one – the icon matrix shrinks and the selected element is located at the upper part of the screen.

The main menu can be either set to show as the traditional icons tab or as a list with each icon hosting a pop-up menu listing its sublevel functions (this option can be turned off if you get annoyed with the crowding pop-up windows).

The navigation features the recently introduced ‘user action memory’ function found in the newer Samsung models - the phone keeps track of user actions and opens every menu at the menu item that was last activated. Fast menu navigation is possible through numerical keys, everything is standard here. But as compared with G600, there is no animation - upon activating a menu item, the previous screen cannot be set to slide sideways or fade or open in halves, giving way to the new information. Among the few drawbacks of menu implementation is the lack of possibility to swap the menu item positions and the order of submenu items, there is no way to create new groups and icons either.

In general the user interface may be characterized as follows: the F330 software platform is much similar to that of G800. The phone lacks many pleasant trifles known by G600, and on the whole the simplified software platform is typical of the 3G devices of this brand. The market of such devices is insignificant for the company and of no first priority at present. One cannot speak about the great popularity of 3G models. GSM and UMTS devices are developed at different design offices; hence there come differences in the software aspect, even irrespective of the R&D center. Further we’ll also dwell on the basic distinctions from the already reviewed G600.

Sound profile

The support for sound profile is a pleasant feature of Samsung F300. The six profiles are present, but the user cannot add custom ones though the preinstalled list of six profiles is more than enough for the phone to be handy, the existing profiles can be modified. The profile creation mode is quite simple, but that doesn’t mean a lack of options. There are three main groups of settings - Call settings, SMS settings and Misc sounds settings.

The Call settings include the signal type (a lot of variants here - ringtone only, vibration only, ringone and vibration, vibration followed by the ringtone and vice versa, ringtone fade-in with or without vibration and so on), the ringtone itself is also set here as well as the volume of sound and the number of times the melody is replayed.

The SMS settings are much simpler, only three types of signal can be chosen: vibro only, sound only or vibro and sound. Unlike with G600 a custom .mp3 file can be used as the incoming message signal. Miscellaneous sound settings include the keypad button sound, the power on/off sound and some minor service sounds.

Switching between profiles is only possible via the main menu, there’s no separate button for switching profiles. The Mute mode is toggled by holding the # key; the activated profile icon is displayed in the status line.

Call service

The phonebook is called by pressing the right soft-button or via the main menu. The list contains phone numbers from the phone memory as well as from the SIM-card (a customizable item – it can be set to show only the phone memory or the SIM-card numbers). Every contact is given a small picture if the one is fixed or a preset icon. Filtering by the initial name letters is possible (up to 50 symbols). If several phone numbers are associated with a single contact, only the main one is displayed in the contact headline (mobile phone number by default).

A name, a surname and two phone numbers (a mobile phone number and a home number) can be associated with a newly created or edited account as well as an e-mail address, a short note, an individual ringtone and a call picture. Any picture, photo or preset icon can be used for that. The call picture is large, practically taking the whole screen. Seemingly, here we observe the next simplification in comparison with G600 - a reduced quantity of items, however in actual fact G800 acquired a new feature: the ability to add necessary items. One can set up to 35 items in all, 10 being initially preset. The list of items to be added contains the following ones:

Mobile number (personal, work)
Home number (personal, work)
Fax
Other
Videocall number
E-mail
WEB page address
Group (a contact can belong to several groups)
Message signal (individual)
Nickname
Birthday date
Company
Position
Address (personal, work)

When giving a contact more than one phone number, the user can specify which number is to be used as the default one for making calls and sending messages. It is just an advance towards any smartphone’s book of contacts, the account items cannot be renamed and moved here, a quantity limit is present.

When setting the birthday date, the phone automatically offers to mark the event in the calendar, give the event a name and set the alarm clock to warn you in advance of the upcoming birthday.

The phonebook memory can contain up to 1000 contacts, each containing all the associated phone numbers. The user groups are supported; three groups are preset – family, friends, and work. All of the three groups being customizable, i.e. you can rename them or create your own ones. A unique ringtone and picture can be associated with each group. A group can contain up to 20 contacts. All the contacts as well as the namecard can be sent via SMS, MMS, E-mail or Bluetooth to another person. The quick dial list can contain up to 8 numbers, everything is standard here. The list shows only the person’s name and surname which might be a bit inconvenient if that person has several numbers and only a picture if it is associated with the contact.

Other miscellaneous options include the possibility to choose the storage location for the newly saved contacts - the SIM card or the phone memory (or set it to be asked for each time the user saves a contact), sorting all the contacts by name (Display as), but there is no template choice (Name+Surname or vice versa) here.

The call log keeps track of all the recent received, dialed and missed calls. Up to 30 records of each call type are stored. The call log can be either displayed as a common list with each call type having an indication icon or three separate lists for each call type. Switching between the lists is done by pressing the navigation button left and right, this aspect sharing the same approach as we saw in Nokia and SonyEricsson phones. The number of times that the specified number has been dialed is shown in brackets next to it. The stats tab contains info about the cost and number of incoming and outgoing calls as well as the length and cost of the most recent call.

Samsung G600 has a blacklist which supports adding undesirable contacts both one by one or even by a whole group. The latter function is a unique Samsung feature (in the sense of a manufacturer-preset function); its usefulness can’t be underestimated. It was very nice of Samsung to include this function as a standard function embedded into the firmware.

Messaging

Samsung F330 traditionally employs a combined messaging system - the phone automatically defines the message type depending on its content. The phone memory can store up to 500 SMS messages + the SIM card memory. Up to 20 recipients can be defined for every outgoing message; up to 12 messages can be glued together in a single one. Sound, vibration and backlighting signals are available for warning the user of an incoming message. EMS is supported. The MMS memory is limited to 300 messages the multimedia content of which must not exceed the free user memory. The messaging interface supports a separate blacklist. The text message settings are minimal; they include only the text reply, the delivery notice and saving the copies of outgoing messages. Older messages cannot be automatically purged; there is also no feature to set the text style. There’s no SOS message option.

There’s a separate recent contacts list for text messages. Once you are about to send a text message, the phone displays this list of recently contacted people so you can instantly choose one of them as the recipient of the current message. The other option is to use the phonebook to select the recipient. A message can be dispatched either to a single person or to a whole contacts group. The number of recipients is indicated near the icon to the left from the contact name in the contact line.

Upon starting a new message the user is free to set the font size (large, medium and small), colour and style (bold, italic). The same settings can be applied exclusively to a selected piece of text within a message. Possible attachment types include an image, a video clip, a calendar note (up to four task types plus a phone card) and a sound. Once a multimedia attachment is detected, the text message is automatically converted into an MMS. The photo and video attachments can be quickly selected from the gallery or instantly taken right with the camera without having to quit the image editor.

The following e-mail protocols are specified: POP3, IMAP4, SMTP, SSL(3.0), TLS(1.0), OTA E-Mail Settings Configuration, Push E-mail EMN OMA 1.0.

The maximum size of an outgoing message can’t exceed 300 Kb. The maximum number of e-mail accounts is five. There are the interesting functions of auto e-mail checking at user-defined intervals, sending the reading notices and the e-mail downloading mode - headers only or whole messages. The mail download limit is 500 Kb; an automatic delete is also present here. deleted messages can be kept saved at the mail server if the user wishes so. All types of attachments readable by the phone itself or by the Document Viewer are supported. The viewer starts right here and when the file viewing is completed the application shuts, leaving the editor running. E-mail settings include a blocking option similar to the one used for messages and for the contacts book. The difference is that the user is allowed to blacklist specified e-mail addresses as well as header phrases to block spam.

The multimedia messaging system (OMA 1.2) limits the maximum size of a multimedia message to the usual 300 Kb. Up to 20 recipients can be specified per message; maximum text length is limited to 1000 symbols. The MMS setup includes the priority, the expiry date and the delivery time (from one hour up to one week and the time fixed by the user). An MMS message limit makes from 30 up to 300 Kb. The auto resize mode to the given limit can be switched on. According to the settings, the message type can be set either freely depending on the size of the created message or strictly limited - should the image exceed the limit, it’s automatically modified to fit. When inserting an object, its actual size is specified, and an already composed MMS message can be previewed prior to sending.

Besides the listed options the MMS messages can have their font size (large, medium and small), colour and style (bold, italic, etc) adjusted in the same manner as SMS messages, the same goes to background color and message viewing mode, the latter option is set to Fullscreen by default. The automatic deletion function is absent for the MMS messages. SMIL is supported - the maximum number of pages and objects inside a message equals to 15 and 35 respectively.

PIM

The Personal Information Manager includes a standard set of applications like calendar, alarm clocks and quick notes. Up to six alarm clocks can be set, the first one named Wake Up alarm. Each of the alarm clocks can be flexibly tuned, schedule is fully supported (the days of the week are chosen); the alarm signal can be replayed at a user-defined interval. The alarm turns on even if the phone is turned off. Each alarm clock can be given a unique title and adjusted to play a unique song, including .mp3 files or turning on the radio. Much like the sound profiles, the alarm clocks support a variety of signal types - ringtone only, vibration and ringtone, vibration followed by a ringtone, fade-in ringtone with or without vibration and so one. Once an alarm clock is adjusted and activated, a short info on that alarm’s settings is instantly shown on the screen, everything being more than evident.

The Calendar has a few viewing options: by month, by week or by day. The schedule can include up to 240 records (on the whole as well as for one day). Preliminary notices and recurring event signals are supported. Sorting events by type is well-implemented (meetings, anniversaries, tasks). A day that hosts a specified event is indicated by a colored corner, the color corresponding to the event type shown in the status line (meetings, anniversaries, tasks).

The default view mode is adjusted in the options, as well as the starting day of the week (Monday or Sunday). Memory manager is in its place, indicating the number of occupied and free event slots in the calendar memory. The expired events are deleted being picked out or after a period of time.

All the necessary event parameters are specified on adding a new event - date, beginning and end time, the alarm activation time in case an alarm signal is associated with an event and the interval at which an alarm signal is replayed. The total amount of events, as noted above, equals 240, that’s 100 is reserved for meetings, 50 for anniversaries and holidays each and 20 for personal and important events each.

As we have already mentioned in the phone book description, the Birthday line associated with every contact is automatically added to the calendar as an Anniversary-type event, the user is asked to set a reminder, specify the day and the time when the alarm must be activated. So you won’t miss your grandmother’s birthday, and the preliminary warning will remind you to buy a present beforehand. This calendar option is really handy.

Multimedia, MP3 player

The Samsung software platform isn’t the most powerful one when it comes to multimedia content processing. But as for music playback, the situation is incomparably better on this front though the music player interface has been simplified in comparison with G600 in spite of F330 being a music device in the company’s opinion. For example, there is no double sound output to two Bluetooth-headsets simultaneously, visualization is weaker. On the whole the controls are comfortable, no reprimands here. During the playback the screen displays info including song title and the name of performer, the album cover (thanks to the Album Arts function), the playbar (a progressive rewind mode is supported) and all sorts of indicators showing the on/off status of different player settings.

Background mode is supported, the settings include:

Playback settings (reshuffle, random song),
Sound output via a wireless stereo Bluetooth headset
Add to playlist (one, several or all created),
Ratings system (from 1 to 5 or unrated),
Setting a song as a ringtone or alarm signal.
Equalizer (sound effect) presets. The device sports 9 sound effects in total. Being activated, each changes the sound quite noticeably. The effects are not customizable. There is no support for custom equalizer presets either.

Any song can be sent via MMS, E-mail or Bluetooth. Flight Mode is supported, which helps to save battery charge however it’s inaccessible without a SIM card, which is a minor flaw. There are no additional visualization effects known by G600.

During background mode, the player window is automatically minimized to a small box corresponding to the user-defined color and style. The song name and the control indicators are shown in the box. The player is managed through sensor controls. Its options include sorting songs by performer, song title, genres, recently played tracks, most frequently played tracks and so on.

The following multimedia formats are supported by the Korean novelty: MP3, WMA, Polyphonic 64, AMR, AAC, AAC+, e-AAC+, i-Melody, Midi (SMF) and SP-Midi.

As we see, all the basic standards are supported save for RA. like the majority of the latest models by the Korean manufacturer, the novelty makes use of a dedicated sound amplifier based on the patent-protected technology by Bang&Olufsen. The sound chip was dubbed ICEpower Mobile and helps to increase the output sound volume but doesn’t affect the quality. So Samsung phones became almost the loudest phones on the market leaving behind all the rival handsets by other brands, which gives them an advantage on the mass market. Speaking of sound quality, it nearly matches the latest XpressMusic models manufactured by Nokia supplied with a dedicated DSP which in combination with a high-quality headset provides for a high sound quality; however Samsung easily beats them in volume (F300, Ultra Edition Series II, E740, F330 and some others). DSP (Digital Signal Processor) provides additional sound processing algorithms while ICEpower Mobile only amplifies the signal to increase the sound volume. While a standalone amplifier amplifies noise and signal distortion just as well as the wanted signal, the DSP allows for separation of wanted signal from the noise part so the amplifier is fed with a clearer signal.

In other words, DSP handles such signal parameters as dynamic range (the equally high capability for reproducing quiet and loud sounds without any distortion), frequency range, noise-emission level, gain compression, and with the Samsung models these parameters are determined by a circuit technique of the amplifier itself. Samsung did their best to improve the sound quality both by increasing maximum sound quality and implementing an improved circuit technique of the ICEpower amplifier itself, sporting better characteristics as compared to a regular DSP-embedded amplifier. How does a casual phone user benefit from it? Of course, first of all there comes the high-quality and at the same time very loud sound perfectly audible in most situations. It’s an evident advantage over the many competing models, but calling that line of Samsung devices ‘perfect’ is simply wrong.

So, let’s repeat the main idea of the narration: the Samsung F330 hardware is similar to that of a "non music" U700, but at the same time provides a high quality and volume of sound. However being a rather good music solution, owing to a simplified player interface in comparison with G600 and not the very handy controls, F330 cannot offer any fresher features than the rest of last-generation Samsung models do. F330 is exactly as musical, as U600 is (let’s repeat once again, it is on a level with the highest sound standards). As a matter of fact it’s positioning on the market, a good headset and a 3,5 mm adapter bundled, labels for managing compositions that make this phone a musical one. As for the sound quality in comparison with other rivals, let’s note a slight advantage of F330 over SonyEricsson W910i (not taking into consideration the very easy controls of the latter) while Nokia N81 and Samsung i450 provide a slightly higher quality of sound (as concerns N81 - a higher maximum volume as well). In general F330 is a good musical solution for the mass market but no more than that, it offers absolutely no fresh features.

Continuous music cycle wastes the battery charge over about ten hours, it’s quite a standard value for a modern mobile device, but some of the next-gen music phones will provide for more than twice as many hours of playback before the battery issues its last breath (we are hinting at the upcoming Nokia and present-day SonyEricsson Walkman phones).

The FM-radio implementation is typical of Samsung products, all the standard functions like search and autosearch are in their places as well as manual tuning and things like that. The specified frequency can be added to the channels list and associate a name with the station. The saved stations can be further deleted, renamed or set to be activated as an alarm clock signal.

Tuning is performed by finger-rotating a circle that is shown on the screen, everything is more than evident. The station memory can contain up to 99 stations, RDS is supported. Sound output can be configured both for the headset or the embedded speaker. The FM tuner as well as the MP3 player can stay fully functional during the standby mode. The reception quality is high and raises no objections. But Samsung G600 possessed the enhanced ability to record radio broadcasts. There is no such function here, everything is simple.

Preinstalled Software Package

Samsung F330 comes with a standard variety of preinstalled applications. We have already reviewed some part of it or are going to review (Image Editor and others). Now let’s dwell on some other features. Unlike with many Samsung models there is no Document Viewer for viewing office files. As before, the controls are very easy, the zoom icon in the viewing mode indicates the availability of easy zooming which is performed with pressing the sound volume button. The Document Viewer application, as it’s easily deduced from the title, has no document editing capability which is the only weak point of F330 as compared to smartphones. A TV-output isn’t available either.

The voice recorder application found in the F330 has a nice and easy to use interface; it’s functionally simple yet highly effective. Maximum voice record length can be limited to fit the maximum MMS length or to one hour, the recorded file can be saved either to phone memory to a memory expansion card. The record volume and the record name are set by the user. Unfortunately the voice recorder is unable to record phone talks, but the exterior sound source records turn out fine, no reprimands.

The world clock function is quite standard and allows for displaying two timezones and corresponding cities on the world map.

The integrated calculator displays a good functionality; it can handle both basic operations as well as complicated mathematical functions like sinus and cosines. The basic math functions are implemented by pressing the designated buttons. The calculation result can be immediately transferred to the measures converted should such necessity arise. The measures converter can handle and convert all kinds of currencies, measures of length, weight, area, volume and temperature.

The countdown timer and the stopwatch are quite typical of most phones, nothing to talk about.

It’s important to note that the phone lacks the Smart Search function, a very useful search application. It remains a mystery why it wasn’t included.

Google Search

The Google Search function found among other menu items, quite accordingly with its name offering a Google search capability as well as used for opening the browser application (Access NetFront v3.4, the same browser used in most Samsung devices) and accessing the mail server. Everything is quite clear. The browser sports a good variety of functions and settings including:

Page Format (small, medium, large)
Page Pilot (a mini-map helping navigating through large web pages)
Page Address Copy
Saving images from the page or saving the whole page
Cache and cookies settings (cache size is 2 ??)

Miscellaneous settings include options to allow Java scripts launching, play sounds and viewing images, as well as fast view mode - the Smart-Fit technology forces the text and images to fit the screen in a fashion that allows for more comfortable browsing. It’s possible to browse web pages using both portrait and landscape orientation, the latter variant retains the same options.

The browser supports a vast majority of data types and languages: WML Ver. 1.3, WML Script Ver. 2.0, ECMA Script, xHTML, cHTML, and HTML Ver. 4.0.1.

Camera

The camera of this device is not marked out with anything special; its quality coincides with that of E840 - 2 Mpix without autofocusing. Image quality is appropriate. More or less comprehensible photos can be achieved only with an ideal light setting. On the other hand, if one takes into consideration other offers available on the market of music phones, things fall into place. F330 quite represents the market reality.

The camera button is located on the right edge of the casing. There's no separate button for switching between shooting modes (like in E590) but a quick action menu can be easily called upon pressing the right soft button. The menu has following items:

Camera
Camcoder
Gallery
Settings
Exit

Video recording modes are the following:

Single shot
Multi shot
Mosaic shot
Panorama shot

It deserves mentioning that in the serial shooting mode the maximum resolution drops from 2560x1920 to mere 320x240. The same goes with the Mosaic shot. An overall number of 15 different kinds of Mosaic are available which is more than enough. Each series may consist from 6, 9 or 15 pictures of Normal or High quality. F330 has a timer; it can be set to 3, 5 or 10 seconds. A time bar is displayed during the countdown backed by a value shown in numbers which is nice. The effects are few, only Black and white, Sepia, Negative.

likewise a majority of other Samsung phones, F330 offers you to choose from 21 different kinds of frames to decorate your photos. That's quite interesting considering the MMS functionality. Your girlfriend can get an MMS with her photo inside a heart-shaped frame after the date is over, the very same photo that you took in the street an hour ago.

A set of standard White balance settings is available (Auto / Daylight / Incandescent / Fluorescent / Cloudy /). You can also tune the way the viewfinders works (Regular / Indicator / Guidelines) and tweak the camera application icons. A photo just taken with the camera can be rotated at once by pressing the central OK/select key.

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Design, ergonomics
Samsung F330 is implemented in a slider form factor, traditional for the company for the recent period of time. Its design solutions in many respects coincide with those of the above-mentioned Samsung E840: a mirror-plated front panel as well as touch-sensitive keys, however the device has its own face, it looks interesting and advantageous. Many consider the handset design as expressive, brilliant and stylish. It’s really so, the combination of white (a principal colour) glossy plastic and a mirror-plated surface produces a nice impression, it automatically relates the model mostly to a female audience.

Display
The handset sports a display with a 2,1” diagonal (32?42 mm), the matrix is build based off the TFT-technology and is able of displaying up to 262 thousand colors. The resolution is quite traditional, namely being 240x320 pixels. This stands for approximately 12 lines of text simultaneously visible on the screen. There is no luminance sensor here, the screen and keypad backlighting being adjusted manually (there are four positions available).

Controls, keypad
The sound volume buttons have a few settings, for example while receiving an incoming call the button can be set to act either as Mute or Reject. The first function just mutes the ringtone while the second drops the call. Unlike Samsung G600, F330 has no text template sending option after the call is rejected but its availability was handy with that device.

Dial
Messages
Browser
Mp3 player
Shut all the running tasks

Battery
The phone makes use of a Li-Ion battery with a standard capacity of 900 mAh. There’s no support for any enhanced battery types for this model. Similar to the latest Ultra Edition II phones, the trademark charge saving technology OPUS is implemented here, giving the battery a few extra percent of saved charge. This doesn’t make a big difference but still helps.

A full recharge cycle takes two hours and a half. The charge indicator has a peculiarity: the first two points tend to fade away rather quickly, but the last point stands for about a day.

Samsung F330 battery life

	Samsung F330	Sony Ericsson W910i
Moderate usage	2 days	3 days
Multimedia cycle, video (3GP)	2:30	4:40
Multimedia cycle, audio (MP3)	9:20	19:30

Communications
Samsung F330 is a three-band device (GSM900 /1800/1900), has a full Class 10 EDGE support, it supports 3G networks (WCDMA2100) and HSDPA as well. In other words, as regards communications F330 quite meets all modern requirements.

The stereo headset (A2DP) proved to be a reliable accessory, the only minor flaw being a negligible lack of volume. The following list of profiles is supported:

Dial Up Networking Profile
File Transfer Profile
Generic Access Profile
Service Discovery Application Profile
Headset Profile
Handsfree (Car Kit) Profile
Generic Object Exchange Profile (OBEX)
Object Push Profile
File Transfer Profile
Basic Printing Profile
Audio Vdieo Remote Control Profile
Advanced Audio Distribution Profile
Enhanced Data Rate
Dual Profile Bluetooth (Voice & Data)
vNote

Performance
The performance of Samsung F330 is traditionally low, it’s easily felt after trying to rewind a long 3GP clip weighing about 60-70 Mb. Besides, the Java performance is not an exception to that rule, its functionality isn’t perfectly implemented. However F330 has made quite a bit of progress in comparison to 2,5G models.

	Samsung F330	Samsung E950	Sony Ericsson W910i
Jbenchmark 1.0.1 Score	1141	1568	7222
Text	278	499	1964
2D Shapes	271	383	1983
3D Shapes	198	199	873
Fill Rate	102	88	667
Animation	292	399	1735
Jbenchmark 2.0.1 Score	124	86	978
Image Manipulations	147	70	321
Text	130	94	657
Sprites	119	99	505
3D Transform	112	94	662
User Interface	112	76	12617
Jbenchmark 3D HQ	145	75	371
Jbenchmark 3D LQ	163	84	424
Triangles ps	15363	9186	30619
KTexels ps	1492	948	1517
Jbenchmark HD Gaming Score	98 (3,3 fps)	50 (1,7 fps)	151 (5,0 fps)
Smooth triangles	34096	18953	28641
Textured triangles	21941	13455	24299
Fill rate, KTexels	559	307	1972

The heap size equals to 4 Mb, the maximum Jar size - 1 Mb.

User interface
Samsung F330 is among the last generation of 3G devices, in many respects the software platform coincides with G800, that’s it is a maximally simplified version of what we see with Samsung G600. F330 has been developed at the R&D Suwon centre, but the differences from 2,5G models are great. It concerns practically every trifle with rare exception, for example, the impossibility of quick access menu customization, the list of applications is fixed; further, F330 has no text template sending option after the call is rejected, there is no user theme customization, the FM tuner, multimedia player, Bluetooth, sound profile and user interface features are reduced. However there are also some positive aspects, for example, the phonebook implementation, switching between applications. On the whole, as for the interface both F330 and G800 are intermediate solutions, the following models will provide more user customization features.

Butterfly
Paper plane
Cherry blossom
Bamboo

Sound profile
The support for sound profile is a pleasant feature of Samsung F300. The six profiles are present, but the user cannot add custom ones though the preinstalled list of six profiles is more than enough for the phone to be handy, the existing profiles can be modified. The profile creation mode is quite simple, but that doesn’t mean a lack of options. There are three main groups of settings - Call settings, SMS settings and Misc sounds settings.

Call service
The phonebook is called by pressing the right soft-button or via the main menu. The list contains phone numbers from the phone memory as well as from the SIM-card (a customizable item – it can be set to show only the phone memory or the SIM-card numbers). Every contact is given a small picture if the one is fixed or a preset icon. Filtering by the initial name letters is possible (up to 50 symbols). If several phone numbers are associated with a single contact, only the main one is displayed in the contact headline (mobile phone number by default).

Mobile number (personal, work)
Home number (personal, work)
Fax
Other
Videocall number
E-mail
WEB page address
Group (a contact can belong to several groups)
Message signal (individual)
Nickname
Birthday date
Company
Position
Address (personal, work)

When setting the birthday date, the phone automatically offers to mark the event in the calendar, give the event a name and set the alarm clock to warn you in advance of the upcoming birthday.

Messaging
Samsung F330 traditionally employs a combined messaging system - the phone automatically defines the message type depending on its content. The phone memory can store up to 500 SMS messages + the SIM card memory. Up to 20 recipients can be defined for every outgoing message; up to 12 messages can be glued together in a single one. Sound, vibration and backlighting signals are available for warning the user of an incoming message. EMS is supported. The MMS memory is limited to 300 messages the multimedia content of which must not exceed the free user memory. The messaging interface supports a separate blacklist. The text message settings are minimal; they include only the text reply, the delivery notice and saving the copies of outgoing messages. Older messages cannot be automatically purged; there is also no feature to set the text style. There’s no SOS message option.

The following e-mail protocols are specified: POP3, IMAP4, SMTP, SSL(3.0), TLS(1.0), OTA E-Mail Settings Configuration, Push E-mail EMN OMA 1.0.

PIM
The Personal Information Manager includes a standard set of applications like calendar, alarm clocks and quick notes. Up to six alarm clocks can be set, the first one named Wake Up alarm. Each of the alarm clocks can be flexibly tuned, schedule is fully supported (the days of the week are chosen); the alarm signal can be replayed at a user-defined interval. The alarm turns on even if the phone is turned off. Each alarm clock can be given a unique title and adjusted to play a unique song, including .mp3 files or turning on the radio. Much like the sound profiles, the alarm clocks support a variety of signal types - ringtone only, vibration and ringtone, vibration followed by a ringtone, fade-in ringtone with or without vibration and so one. Once an alarm clock is adjusted and activated, a short info on that alarm’s settings is instantly shown on the screen, everything being more than evident.

Multimedia, MP3 player
The Samsung software platform isn’t the most powerful one when it comes to multimedia content processing. But as for music playback, the situation is incomparably better on this front though the music player interface has been simplified in comparison with G600 in spite of F330 being a music device in the company’s opinion. For example, there is no double sound output to two Bluetooth-headsets simultaneously, visualization is weaker. On the whole the controls are comfortable, no reprimands here. During the playback the screen displays info including song title and the name of performer, the album cover (thanks to the Album Arts function), the playbar (a progressive rewind mode is supported) and all sorts of indicators showing the on/off status of different player settings.

Background mode is supported, the settings include:

Playback settings (reshuffle, random song),
Sound output via a wireless stereo Bluetooth headset
Add to playlist (one, several or all created),
Ratings system (from 1 to 5 or unrated),
Setting a song as a ringtone or alarm signal.
Equalizer (sound effect) presets. The device sports 9 sound effects in total. Being activated, each changes the sound quite noticeably. The effects are not customizable. There is no support for custom equalizer presets either.

The following multimedia formats are supported by the Korean novelty: MP3, WMA, Polyphonic 64, AMR, AAC, AAC+, e-AAC+, i-Melody, Midi (SMF) and SP-Midi.

Preinstalled Software Package
Samsung F330 comes with a standard variety of preinstalled applications. We have already reviewed some part of it or are going to review (Image Editor and others). Now let’s dwell on some other features. Unlike with many Samsung models there is no Document Viewer for viewing office files. As before, the controls are very easy, the zoom icon in the viewing mode indicates the availability of easy zooming which is performed with pressing the sound volume button. The Document Viewer application, as it’s easily deduced from the title, has no document editing capability which is the only weak point of F330 as compared to smartphones. A TV-output isn’t available either.

The world clock function is quite standard and allows for displaying two timezones and corresponding cities on the world map.

The countdown timer and the stopwatch are quite typical of most phones, nothing to talk about.

It’s important to note that the phone lacks the Smart Search function, a very useful search application. It remains a mystery why it wasn’t included.

Google Search
The Google Search function found among other menu items, quite accordingly with its name offering a Google search capability as well as used for opening the browser application (Access NetFront v3.4, the same browser used in most Samsung devices) and accessing the mail server. Everything is quite clear. The browser sports a good variety of functions and settings including:

Page Format (small, medium, large)
Page Pilot (a mini-map helping navigating through large web pages)
Page Address Copy
Saving images from the page or saving the whole page
Cache and cookies settings (cache size is 2 ??)

The browser supports a vast majority of data types and languages: WML Ver. 1.3, WML Script Ver. 2.0, ECMA Script, xHTML, cHTML, and HTML Ver. 4.0.1.

Camera
The camera of this device is not marked out with anything special; its quality coincides with that of E840 - 2 Mpix without autofocusing. Image quality is appropriate. More or less comprehensible photos can be achieved only with an ideal light setting. On the other hand, if one takes into consideration other offers available on the market of music phones, things fall into place. F330 quite represents the market reality.

Camera
Camcoder
Gallery
Settings
Exit

Video recording modes are the following:

Single shot
Multi shot
Mosaic shot
Panorama shot

Extra settings include typical:

Quality (Super Fine, Fine, Normal, Economy),
Scenery presets (usual or night landscape),
Exposure metering (Matrix, Spot),
Shutter sounds (preset sounds, off),
Digital zoom sound (on, off),
Brightness adjustment sound (on, off),
Storage (phone memory or flash card, no storage folder customization),
Default Filename.

The following photo resolutions are available:

1600x1200(UXGA)
1280x960(SXGA)
800x600(SVGA)
640x480(VGA)
320x240(QVGA)

For video shooting:

320 x 240(QVGA)
176 x 144(QCIF, MMS)

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Dial
Messages
Browser
Mp3 player
Shut all the running tasks

A full recharge cycle takes two hours and a half. The charge indicator has a peculiarity: the first two points tend to fade away rather quickly, but the last point stands for about a day.

Samsung F330 battery life

	Samsung F330	Sony Ericsson W910i
Moderate usage	2 days	3 days
Multimedia cycle, video (3GP)	2:30	4:40
Multimedia cycle, audio (MP3)	9:20	19:30

The stereo headset (A2DP) proved to be a reliable accessory, the only minor flaw being a negligible lack of volume. The following list of profiles is supported:

Dial Up Networking Profile
File Transfer Profile
Generic Access Profile
Service Discovery Application Profile
Headset Profile
Handsfree (Car Kit) Profile
Generic Object Exchange Profile (OBEX)
Object Push Profile
File Transfer Profile
Basic Printing Profile
Audio Vdieo Remote Control Profile
Advanced Audio Distribution Profile
Enhanced Data Rate
Dual Profile Bluetooth (Voice & Data)
vNote

	Samsung F330	Samsung E950	Sony Ericsson W910i
Jbenchmark 1.0.1 Score	1141	1568	7222
Text	278	499	1964
2D Shapes	271	383	1983
3D Shapes	198	199	873
Fill Rate	102	88	667
Animation	292	399	1735
Jbenchmark 2.0.1 Score	124	86	978
Image Manipulations	147	70	321
Text	130	94	657
Sprites	119	99	505
3D Transform	112	94	662
User Interface	112	76	12617
Jbenchmark 3D HQ	145	75	371
Jbenchmark 3D LQ	163	84	424
Triangles ps	15363	9186	30619
KTexels ps	1492	948	1517
Jbenchmark HD Gaming Score	98 (3,3 fps)	50 (1,7 fps)	151 (5,0 fps)
Smooth triangles	34096	18953	28641
Textured triangles	21941	13455	24299
Fill rate, KTexels	559	307	1972

The heap size equals to 4 Mb, the maximum Jar size - 1 Mb.

Butterfly
Paper plane
Cherry blossom
Bamboo

Mobile number (personal, work)
Home number (personal, work)
Fax
Other
Videocall number
E-mail
WEB page address
Group (a contact can belong to several groups)
Message signal (individual)
Nickname
Birthday date
Company
Position
Address (personal, work)

When setting the birthday date, the phone automatically offers to mark the event in the calendar, give the event a name and set the alarm clock to warn you in advance of the upcoming birthday.

The following e-mail protocols are specified: POP3, IMAP4, SMTP, SSL(3.0), TLS(1.0), OTA E-Mail Settings Configuration, Push E-mail EMN OMA 1.0.

Background mode is supported, the settings include:

Playback settings (reshuffle, random song),
Sound output via a wireless stereo Bluetooth headset
Add to playlist (one, several or all created),
Ratings system (from 1 to 5 or unrated),
Setting a song as a ringtone or alarm signal.
Equalizer (sound effect) presets. The device sports 9 sound effects in total. Being activated, each changes the sound quite noticeably. The effects are not customizable. There is no support for custom equalizer presets either.

The following multimedia formats are supported by the Korean novelty: MP3, WMA, Polyphonic 64, AMR, AAC, AAC+, e-AAC+, i-Melody, Midi (SMF) and SP-Midi.

The world clock function is quite standard and allows for displaying two timezones and corresponding cities on the world map.

The countdown timer and the stopwatch are quite typical of most phones, nothing to talk about.

It’s important to note that the phone lacks the Smart Search function, a very useful search application. It remains a mystery why it wasn’t included.

Page Format (small, medium, large)
Page Pilot (a mini-map helping navigating through large web pages)
Page Address Copy
Saving images from the page or saving the whole page
Cache and cookies settings (cache size is 2 ??)

The browser supports a vast majority of data types and languages: WML Ver. 1.3, WML Script Ver. 2.0, ECMA Script, xHTML, cHTML, and HTML Ver. 4.0.1.

Camera
Camcoder
Gallery
Settings
Exit

Video recording modes are the following:

Single shot
Multi shot
Mosaic shot
Panorama shot

Extra settings include typical:

Quality (Super Fine, Fine, Normal, Economy),
Scenery presets (usual or night landscape),
Exposure metering (Matrix, Spot),
Shutter sounds (preset sounds, off),
Digital zoom sound (on, off),
Brightness adjustment sound (on, off),
Storage (phone memory or flash card, no storage folder customization),
Default Filename.

The following photo resolutions are available:

1600x1200(UXGA)
1280x960(SXGA)
800x600(SVGA)
640x480(VGA)
320x240(QVGA)

For video shooting:

320 x 240(QVGA)
176 x 144(QCIF, MMS) The F330 gallery implementation is very simple. It only possesses a few basic functions such as sorting - by date, type, name, size. The slide show isn’t customizable at all. It's impossible to customize even the time interval. The only supported video formats are 3GP and MPEG4. The functions include View, send via MMS, send via Mail, send via Bluetooth, set as a personal icon, set as a background; copy and move; delete and rename. You can instantly share a file through Bluetooth or send it for printing both via Bluetooth or USB connections. The last thing you can do is just view the file properties.

F330 supports following graphical formats. All the basic formats are supported, but there is no support for BMP:

WBMP
PNG
GIF
A-GIF
JPEG

Impressions
Samsung F330 offers a good communication quality; our testing didn’t expose any major drawbacks. The speaker volume is sufficient for most situations. The polyphonic speaker isn’t too good; it’s not always audible. The battery life is standard for most of the company’s phones, which makes up about two days of moderately extensive usage; active users will have to recharge the handset daily.

As we have already mentioned, the device leaves a pleasant impression on the whole due to its interesting design, moderate dimensions and well-balanced ergonomics. But there are some drawbacks as well, for example, not the most powerful software platform as well as touch-sensitive controls, which certainly won’t please everybody. Especially in frosty weather when it is rather problematic to manage the device outside, sensor controls don’t respond to touching them when you are gloved, for example. But in general, considering the price reasonable for its segment, we get a good musical solution, however there is nothing extraordinary in it. The devices from the company’s portfolio like E840, U600 are main competitors to this product. Among other competing offers let’s note SonyEricsson S500i/W580i, offering in many respects comparable functionality, similar dimensions, but worse materials of implementation, build quality. The audiences of these solutions won’t cross. Belonging to the higher price segment Nokia N81, SonyEricsson W910i cannot be considered as an alternative to the reviewed device, the difference in prices, functionalities and positioning being considerable. The two above-mentioned solutions belong to top-class music devices in the companies’ portfolio.

Samsung F330 is an image solution, rather than a musical one; all of the latest generation models of the company that we have mentioned more than once possess exactly the same musical capabilities. The novelty has no advantages over them, except for a sales package. The model will hit the shelf at the turn of November - at the beginning of December, 2007 at a price of about 260 euros. That is F330 automatically gets in a niche between U600 and ?840, and if U600 is a more balanced solution as a whole (a high-quality camera, better ergonomics at a minor difference in price), then ?840 is a less interesting alternative in such comparison. It is the author's subjective opinion that first of all the successful design is sure to provide a stable but moderate demand for the device. In the company’s product range F330 just enlarges an assortment. At that it is not a key model in any segment; this part is rather assigned to some other devices.

SMAPE’s opinion
Samsung F330 is a rather affordable music slider offering a high quality of sound, a very interesting design, however the software platform is far from being perfect, and the model isn’t remarkable for anything special against the background of other modern devices by Samsung.

Motorola W230 and W270

2008-01-08T13:48:00.000+08:00

Motorola W270

Motorola today showcased dependable communication and great music at the excellent value with the introduction of two new W series GSM Handphones at the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show. The new W230 and W270 handsets offer easy-to-use music capabilities, expandable memory with optional MicroSD Memory Card. Clear audio in noisy environments and a simplified interface for text messaging services.

“These new devices offer design elements, music features and outstanding battery life that consumers don’t expect to find at this price point,” said Stu Reed, president, Motorola Mobile Devices. “Whether buying your first phone or trying out a music phone for the first time, these new models from Motorola are the perfect choice.”

Motorola W230 and W270

The W230 and W270 include features that go beyond mobile phone basics with multiple ways to enjoy music and stay connected. A dedicated music key activates an integrated digital audio player which supports MP3 and other popular formats. Favourite songs can be stored using optional microSD removable MicroSD Memory Card and support up to 2GB in size.

In addition, users have access to free music and news through an FM radio with integrated Radio Data System (RDS) which displays artist, title and type of song playing on the radio. Users can also record FM radio clips to use for the phone’s alarm, share favourite stations with friends through text messaging¹ and listen via headphones or speaker.

Both devices offer great phone capabilities in addition to music features, including Motorola CrystalTalk technology that helps reduce background noise. Up to nine hours of talk time², the capacity to store up to 500 Text Messages. and phone contacts, one click access to create text messages and the ability to access the Web, create a well-rounded feature set at a great value.

The W230 harmonises value and style with an eye-catching, slim candybar design. The device is available in two interchangeable faceplate colour palettes: liquorice/silver, and titanium grey/mandarin. The no-nonsense keypad and large colour display are easy to use, while a slim design makes it extremely pocket-portable. The W270 provides another design option for consumers by incorporating the same features of the W230 in a sleek and affordable clam-shell design.

The W230 and W270 handsets are expected to become available in Quarter 1 2008.

Motorola W230

Nokia N76

2007-10-25T09:04:00.000+08:00

LOCAL DISTRIBUTOR:
Nokia (M) Sdn Bhd / Avaxx

Contact Number:
1-300-88-1600

Build quality: 7/10
Applications: 9/10
Interface: 8/10
Value-for-money: 7/10
Overall rating: 8/10

Protected Micro SD Slot
3G Capable
2.0 MP Camera
Rigid Folder
Paint jobs problem

In the Box

Handset

Charger

Micro-USB data cable

Nokia PC Suite CD

User Guide

The N76 is a sleek, clam-shelled multimedia phone with 3G

and great connectivity and music options.

Design

The Nokia N76 starts off with a plate glass cover for its secondary screen. The glass smudges and soils easily and if you want to show off to your friends, you might have to pass it around as quickly as possible. What¡¦s worst it is also highly reflective, and you can barely read the screen¡¦s content under direct sunlight.

Nokia has placed emphasis on the N76¡¦s multimedia function ¡V as right beneath the secondary screen is the radio, media player and play list quick key.

The clam-shell design is rigid, and folder spring is wound tight, which makes it quite difficult to open the clam with one hand- most users have ended up using both hands, which might be a hassle when I¡¦m chewing on a burger while trying to receive my calls. Additionally, the N76 share some genetic traits with Motorola¡¦s RAZR series.

The phone we have on hand is a two-tone black and sliver finish. Much of the phone is covered in plastics which increase durability, instead of the fancy paint jobs. However, we couldn¡¦t grasp the design concept of the sliver band snaking across the back of the phone.

However, there seem to some problems in the paint job details of the N76, the slivery insides have been torn off and forums are loaded with discussions about the N76¡¦s problems with their peeling paints. Apparently, the N76 paint job problems have affected most of their stock.

Let¡¦s move on the ports and button of the N76, on the top lies the headphones jack, the micro-USB port and on/off button. Located on the right spine of the N76 is the camera and video button. On the left, we have the charger port and the micro-SD port, which has a snugly fit pop-flap. On the rear sits the camera and the LED flash, an odd design concept given the placement of the camera lens which usually lies on the front flip.

Despite all the talk about the sunken keypad

being unreliable, the N76 has much larger buttons for texting. The keypad is fully etched metal and the backlighting for the keypad works well under dark conditions.

The back cover slides off for the battery and SIM slot. What caught our attention was the placement of the SIM card which is sandwiched between the components, making it hard to remove the SIM once it¡s slotted-in.

The dedicated camera button sits on the right, as well as gallery shortcut key, similar to those found on preceding Nseries models. The volume rocker switch, doubling as zoom in/out button while shooting, goes together with the above controls on the right side.

Features
The N76 features the S60 Symbian OS. Its office software has a PDF reader, a recorder, notes, converter and wireless keyboard. However, it curiously doesn¡¦t have word processing software. The N76 also has a stereo FM radio, PIM devices, such as a calendar, to-do list and printing. Additionally, there is a world clock and alarm clock.

The main 2.4 inch display is great. It's a 16M colour TFT one with a QVGA resolution (240 x 320 pixels). The brightness of the display image can be adjusted from the menu. The secondary screen has 256K colors display (160 x 128 pixels).

The internal memory is a tiny 16MB, which is quite surprising for modern phones. Luckily, it comes with a 512MB micro-SD card, and this can be easily upgraded to larger storage space. The N76¡s music player allows filtering tracks by author, album, genre or you can choose to play either the tracks you've recently listened to, or the ones that you've played the most. If that¡s not enough, you can even create your own custom playlist.

The speakers are crisp and clear, at maximum volume the speakers have performed quite well, and even though it was as loud as some competing phones, the speakers did not suffer from blaring and was more subtle. We however did not get why the media player was constantly running in the background.

When managing music files, users have to access the file manager, where the phone¡¦s memory and the MicroSD memory is retain in similar menus. The phone by default retains new data in the memory card, and the music player will refresh your playlist whenever new music comes in.

Camera
The N76 has a 2.0 mega-pixel VGA camera. You can take pictures with the phone both open and closed, but always in a landscape mode - this is also the specific reason for the placement of the camera lens.

Furthermore, the fingers of your right hand will lie perfectly on the side release button. The display will offer an extensive camera menu with numerous setup options including exposure compensation, self-timer, white balance, colour effects, 6 light modes, and even ISO sensitivity setup.

Meanwhile, image size, release sound and other details are set up from deeper menu levels. The digital zoom reaches up to 20x. However, the more you zoom in the individual object, the worse the picture quality is.

One qualm about the camera however, is the misty effect on picture when shooting in light conditions under default settings. The camera seems to absorb all light from the environment then dumps it onto the picture.

The video recording is somewhat decent and so far there is only slight choppiness when viewing recorded videos.

Additionally, there is a secondary CIF camera up-front for self-portraits and video calls.

Connectivity
The N76 has 3G which provide high-speed connectivity, Class 32 EDGE and GPRS and also Bluetooth, HSCSD and mini-USB data cable transfer.

Games
There is only one game in the phone - 3D snake, which is self-explanatory at this point. There is also a mini-game section with five Java Games in the applications section- Nicomon, which gives player control of a bug-eating monster.

Additionally there are Hakotsumi Plus- Tetris played horizontally, ColorCrois- pattern matching with coloured balls The last two are Le Car Jenne 2- which has players do a parking stunt by judging the car¡¦s speed and Nuripa- which is a memory challenge puzzle.

These five games aren¡¦t exactly for button-mashing but are a great distraction and is surprisingly addictive as you try to constantly beat your previous high score.

LG KG271

2007-07-27T12:41:00.000+08:00

Manufacturer
LG Phones

Website:
http://us.lge.com

Model:

Specifications:

Date Announced : 2007, 3Q
Network Technology : GSM 900/ 1800
Dimensions : 98 x 45 x 12.9 mm
Weight (g) : 59
Display :
Screen Size: 1.52 inch, 128 x 128
Screen Color: CSTN 65k colors
Design :
Type: Candybar
Antena: Fixed Internal
Memory :
Phone book: 300
Internal: 300 mb
Battery :
Type: Li - Ion 750 mAh
Stand-by (hours): 200
Talk Time: 120 minutes

Entertainment:

Ring tones:
Polyphonic: 16 chords polyphonic
Customize : AMR, MIDI
FM Radio
Speaker phone

Messaging:

SMS
Total SMS: 100

Connectivity:
USB Port

Software:

OS/ Platform : Proprietary
Predictive Text Entry : T9
PIM Software : Alarm clock, Calendar, Memo, Calculator, Stopwatch, World Time
Java (J2ME) : no
Wap : Not Support

Samsung SGH E840

2007-07-23T15:01:00.001+08:00

Manufacturer:
Samsung Mobile

Website:
www.samsung.com

MODEL:
Samsung SGH E840

SPECIFICATIONS:

Date Announced:
2007, 1Q

Network Technology:
GSM 850 / 900/ 1800 / 1900

Dimensions (mm):
101.5 x 52.5 x 10.6

Available Colors:
Ice Silver, Candy Pink, Topaz Gold and Noble Blue

Display:

Screen Size:

2.22 inch, 240 x 320

Screen Color:
TFT 262K colors

Design:
Type:
Slider

Antena:
Fixed Internal

Memory:
Internal (MB):
70

Expansion:
MicroSD (T-Flash), up to 2GB

Battery:
Type:
Li-Ion 690 mAh

Stand-by (hours):
270

TalkTime(min):
210

Entertainment:

Ring tones:

Polyphonic:
64-chord polyphonic

Customization:
MIDI, AAC, mp3 (Download)

MP3:
YES

A2DP:
Yes

FM Radio
Video Record
Video Support:
MPEG4 / H.263

Direct TV Output

Audio Support:
MP3, AAC, AAC+, e-AAC+, WMA

Voice Support:
Recording, Speaker

Messaging:

Connectivity:
EDGE
Bluetooth Version 2.0
GPRS Class 10 (Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots)
USB Port

Software:
Java (J2ME)
WAP Version 2.0
Platform/OS:
Proprietary

Browser:
XHTML/ HTML (Netfront 3.4)

Predictive Text Entry:
T9

PIM Applications:
Organizer - To-Do-List, Calendar, vCard, vCalendar, Calculator, Currency Converter

Other Applications:
Black GUI, uPlus GUI (nMenu, uGo)

Personals:
Themes
Photo Caller ID
Profile ID

Camera:

Lens Type:
CMOS, 2.0 Megapixel
Digital Zoom 4X
Max Resolutions:
1600 x 1200
Nightmode
Video

Motorola A1010

2007-07-20T01:55:00.000+08:00

Manufacturer:
Motorola Inc.

Website:
www.motorola.com

Date Announced 2005, 1Q
Network Technology UMTS / GSM 900 / GSM 1800 / GSM 1900
Dimensions (mm) 117x59x18.7
Weight (g) 160
Available colours Silver Gray
Display
Screen Size : 208 x 320
Screen Color : TFT 256K colors (Touchscreen)
Design
Type : Blok
Navigation Key : 5 way Navigation Key
Other Keys : Virtual Keypad, Handwriting recognition
Antenna : Fixed Internal
Memory
Internal(MB) : 48
Expansion : TransFlash memory card slot
Battery
Battery Type : Li-Ion 1600mAh
Stand-by (hrs) : 250
TalkTime(min) : 180
Entertainment
Ringtones
Polyphonic : 20 chords polyphonics
Customization : AMR, AU, iMelody, MIDI, RMF, WAV, MP3, WMA, AAC.
MP3 Yes
FM Radio No
Video Record Yes, QCIF (176x144)
Video Support MPEG-4 , WMV
Audio Support WMA, MP3, AMR, AAC
Voice Support Dialling, Speaker
Messaging
SMS Yes
MMS Yes
EMS Yes
Email IMAP / POP3
Connectivity
Bluetooth Yes
3G Yes
GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots)
Infrared (IrDA) No
USB Port Yes
Data Cable USB
Software
Java (J2ME) Yes ,MIDP 2.0
WAP Yes Ver 2.0
Platform / OS Symbian OS v7.0 - UIQ 2.1
Browser HTML and xHTML browser
Predictive Text Entry iTAP
Other Application A-GPS built-in, VPN, Picsel Document Viewer (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, PDF and Unzip)
Personals
Themes No Info.
Caller ID Picture
ProfileID Yes
Camera
Lens Type CMOS, 2.0 Megapixel
Digital zoom 4x
Max. Resolution 1600x1200 (Internal : VGA)
Flash No
Night Mode No
Extra Features Secondary VGA camera for video calling
Photo Format
Video Yes, QCIF (176x144)
Video Format MPEG-4

Sony-Ericsson S500i

2007-07-18T03:55:00.001+08:00

Manufacturer:
Sony-Ericsson

Website:
http://www.sonyericsson.com

Model:
Sony-Ericsson S500i

Specifications:

Sizes:

99 x 47 x 14 mm
3.9 x 1.8 x 0.5 inches

Weight:

94 g
3.3 oz

Available Colors:
Mysterious Green
Spring Yellow

Screen:

262,144-colour TFT
240x320 pixel

Memory:

12 MB* memory
Memory Stick Micro™ (M2™) support

*Actual free memory may vary due to phone pre-configuration

Networks:

EDGE
GSM 850
GSM 900
GSM 1800
GSM 1900

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Nokia N77

2007-07-17T02:08:00.000+08:00

Manufacturer:

Nokia

Website:
http://www.nokia.com

Model:

Nokia N77

Key Features:

One-touch access to your favourite programs (Live TV)
2.4" QVGA display with up to 16 million colors
Digital music player with high quality stereo speakers
2 megapixel camera with up to 16x digital zoom
Nokia Web Browser with Mini Map
Send and receive emails with attachments

Full Specifications:

Operating Frequency:

Dual-mode: WCDMA2100/EGSM900/1800/1900 MHz or EDGE only: EGSM900/1800/1900 MHz
DVB-H*** 470-750 MHz

Dimensions:

Volume: 92 cc
Weight: 114 g
Length: 111 mm
Width: 50 mm
Thickness (max): 18.8 mm

Display:

Up to 16.7 million colors, Large 2.4" Active TFT QVGA 320 x 240 pixels display with wide viewing angle

User Interface:

S60 user interface 3rd Edition
Dedicated media keys
Ambient light detector - used to optimize display brightness and power consumption
Active standby screen
Five -way navikey, two soft keys, application key, clear key, send and end keys, operator service keys, ITU-T keypad
Dedicated key for mobile tv
Dedicated key for camera
Volume/zoom key
Active toolbar interface in camera and gallery
Multimedia key provides direct access to predefined applications

Live Mobile TV:

DVB-H*** based mobile TV with internal antenna (470-750 MHz)
Dedicated TV application for selection, purchase, and consumption of TV programs
Replay of TV program (up to 30 seconds) and a reminder setting via Program Guide
Mobile TV interactive services for example voting
Channel and content protection: OMA DRM2.0, Ipsec
Integrated DVB-H***. Video/audio codecs: H.264 AVC 384kbps@QVGA 15fps/QCIF 30fps and AAC up to 128kbps)
Automatic channel discovery
Organize channels in your favorite order
Up to 50 channels (a mix of TV and radio channels)* and 5 hours watchtime
Multiple subscription and payment methods (pay TV including previews, free-to-air, pay per view)

* Changes to product details are possible without prior notice. Application offering may vary. Dynamic memory means that the available memory is shared between dynamic memory functions. When any of these functions is used, there is less available memory for other functions which are also dependent on dynamic memory.

Imaging:

ntegrated 2.0 megapixel camera (1600 x 1200 pixels); with up to 16x digital zoom
CIF camera (352 x 288) with up to 2x digital zoom
Two way video call (WCDMA service)
Integrated flash LED
Rotating gallery
Easy management, organization and transfer of images and video clips
New improved gallery with direct editing, printing and sharing
Online album/blog: photo/video uploading from gallery
Nokia Lifeblog support
Video and still image editors
Slideshow from gallery with music
Print digital photos directly from the device to compatible printers
Transfer photos directly to compatible printer or kiosk via Bluetooth wireless technology, memory card or directly to PictBridge-compliant printer via USB cable
Sharing via e-mail or Bluetooth with full image quality or via MMS, with automatic resizing of images to fit MMS.
Two-way video call capability

Multimedia:

Visual Radio: Listen to music and interact with your favorite radio stations
- Find out what song is playing, who sings it, and other artist information
- Enter contests and answer surveys, vote for your favorite songs
- Download the songs you buy direct to your phone
Full-screen video playback on the device to view downloaded, streamed or recorded video clips in larger size
Supported video formats: H. 263, MPEG-4, H.264 AVC, RealVideo 8/9/10
Digital music player optimized for music listening with enhanced on the go playlist management: edit playlists, add new music
Stereo FM radio (87.5-108MHz)* with Visual Radio support
RealPlayer Media Player
- Download and play multimedia files (video and music)
- Stream media files from compatible media portals
- Full-screen video playback on the phone to view downloaded, streamed, or recorded video clips in larger size
- Played formats (decoding): .3gp and .mp4 file formats, MPEG-4 video, H.263 video and AMR audio, RealMedia (Real Video and Real Audio), MP3, and AAC
Rip your CDS, and convert and transfer music to your device using Nokia Audio Manager
Share playlists with your friends over Bluetooth wireless technology, MMS, or e-mail
High quality stereo speakers

* Stereo sound can only be heard with a compatible stereo headset.

Memory Functions:

20 MB built-in memory
Options to expand up to 2GB with [microSD/MiniSD] card

Messaging:

Multimedia messaging: MMS for creating, receiving, editing, and sending videos and pictures with AMR voice clips
Automatic resizing of your megapixel images to fit MMS (max 300 KB size depending on the network)
Email: Supports SMTP, POP3 and IMAP4 protocols. Support for images, videos, music and documents
Text messaging: Supports concatenated SMS, picture messaging, SMS distribution list
Instant Messaging
Predictive Text Input: Support for all major languages in Europe and Asia Pacific including Indian dialect variants

Java Applications:

Java™ MIDP 2.0, CLDC 1.1 (Connected Limited Device Configuration (J2ME))
Over-the-air (OTA) download of Java™-based applications and games

Ringing Tones:

Ringing tones with 3D sound effect

Connectivity:

Bluetooth 1.2
Remote over-the-air (OTA) synchronization with SyncML
Local synchronization with PC using PC Suite
Local synchronization of contacts and calendar to a compatible PC using compatible connection
USB 2.0 via Mini USB interface and mass storage class support to support drag and drop functionality

Browsing:

WAP/OMA and W3C standards support: WAP 2.0, XHTML, XHTML MP, HTML 4.01, CSS, ECMAScript and JavaScript
Full Web compatibility with support for popular markup languages, scripting languages, and style sheets
Support for forms, tables, frames, and image maps
File upload over HTTP using standard HTML forms
Page layout and in-page navigation optimised for content type
Search and find capabilities
Adaptive history list
Integration with telephony (dial via a link on the page) and image galleries (view/save images)
Bookmarks database
Web Feeds (RSS)
OMA Digital DRM 1.0 - including forward lock for content protection, combined delivery, separate delivery and superdistribution
Nokia Web Browser with Mini map
OMA DRM 2.0 support for music

Data Transfer:

EGPRS class B, multi slot class 32, max speed DL/UL= 296 / 177.6 kbits/s
WCDMA 2100 MHz with simultaneous voice and packet data (PS max speed DL/UL= 384/384kbps, CS max speed 64kbps)
Speech codecs supported: AMR/EFR/FR/HR
Dual transfer mode (DTM) support for simultaneous voice and packet data connection in GSM/EDGE networks. Simple class A, multi slot class 11, max speed DL/UL: 236.8/177.6 kbits/s

*Actual achieved speeds may vary depending on network support.

Call management:

Advanced contacts database
Support for multiple phone and email details per contact
Support thumbnail pictures and groups
Speed dialing
Logs: Keeps lists of your dialed, received, and missed calls
Automatic redial
Automatic answer (works with compatible headset or car kit only)
Fixed Dialing Number, allows calls only to predefined numbers
Conference call

Push to talk over cellular:

Push to talk over cellular network via dedicated key

Digital Services:

Java™ and Symbian applications available from Nokia Software Market
Download tones, graphics, themes, applications and videos

Voices Features:

Voice dialing
Voice commands
Integrated handsfree speaker
SIND (Speaker Independent Number Dialing)

Personal Information Managements:

Advanced Series S60 PIM features including calendar, contacts, to-do list, and PIM printing
Settings Wizard for easy configuration of email, push to talk and video sharing
Data transfer application for transfer of PIM information from other Nokia devices

Other features:

QuickOffice: Powerpoint, Word and Excel and XP file formats (.ppt .doc .xls)
Quickoffice receive and view attachments. View attachments you have received in email using the Quickoffice viewers. Quickpoint, Quickword & Quicksheet enable you to view Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, and Excel documents.
Adobe PDF reader

Sales packages contains:

Nokia N77 phone
Nokia Battery BP-6M
Nokia Travel Charger AC-4
Nokia Stereo Headset with media remote control (HS-28 + AD-41)
Nokia Connectivity Cable CA-53
CD-ROM containing Nokia Nseries PC suite & Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition
User Guide
Get Started Guide
Warranty Card

* Sales package content may vary by region.

** Please note different MultiMediaCard (MMC) configurations may be available depending on country or operator configuration

Power Mangement:

Battery: BP-6M

Talk time:
GSM: Up to 4.5 hours
WCDMA: 3.5 hours

Standby time:
GSM: Up to 7.5 days
WCDMA: Up to 7.5 days

MP3 Playback Time:
Up to 11 hrs with the inbox Stereo Headset with media remote controls

Mobile TV Watch time:
Up to 5.0 hours

MP3 playback time: Up to 11 hrs with the inbox Stereo Headset with media remote controls
Mobile TV watch time Up to 5.0 hrs

* Operation times vary depending on the network and usage.

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Motorola RAZR Maxx Ve

2007-07-13T16:50:00.000+08:00

Manufacturer:
Motorola Inc.

Website:
http://www.motorola.com

Model:
Motorola RAZR Maxx Ve

Full Specifications:

Personalization / Fun Features:

Audio Player:

AAC, AAC+, AAC+ Enhanced, AMR NB, AMR WB, MP3, RA v9, WAV, WMA v9, XMF

Video Capture and Playback sound:

H.263, MPEG4, 3GPP

Razr-Lineage 3G Device, Mix of Metal and Glass

Two-way Video Calling

Elegant Lighting

Calculator, Alarm Clock, Dynamic Idle, Wallpaper, Ringtone, Screensaver, Pre-loaded Games
Primary Camera Resolution
Available User Memory
Secondary Camera Resolution
Integrated MP3 Player
Ultra-slim form factor
Internal RAM Size: 64MB
Up to 2GB of removable storage with an optional MicroSD memory card

Messaging Features:

MMS, SMS, EMS (operator dependent)
Integrated Stereo Bluetooth wireless technology connectivity for hands-free convenience

Lifestyle Features:

Capture/Playback/Streaming
Bluetooth/EDR, HSDPA Capability
Video Capture Rate:

15-20 fps

Video Codes:

MPEG4, WMV v9 ,RV v9, H.263

Camera:

2 MP, VGA P2P Video

Video Playback Rate:

15-20 fps

Performances Features:

Bands:

WCDMA 2100, GSM 900/1800/1900, HSDPA 3.6 Mbps
(Category 5/6), EDGE Class 10, GPRS Class 10

Video Talk Time:

(up to)120 minutes

WCDMA TT/SB Time:

180 mins / 350 hours

GSM TT/SB Time (up to):

300 mins / 375 hours

Data Features:

Over the Air Sync (OTA)

Connectivity:

Bluetooth wireless technology

Mobile Phone Tools (available)

Browser:

Opera (HTML)

EDGE Class 10, GPRS Class 10

MOTOSYNC™

Technical Specifications:

Battery:

940.00 mAh

Volume:

~75.0 cc

Weight:

~105g

External Display:

12 x 16mm

Dimensions:

53 x 104.5 x 15.5 mm

Internal Display:

24 x 32mm

Form Factor:

Clam

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LG Prada KE850

2007-07-12T17:51:00.000+08:00

Manufacturer:

LG Mobile

Website:
http://my.lge.com

Model:

LG Prada KE850

The Prada phone is a unique, sophisticated and elegant mobile phone with the first complete advanced touch interface.

Features:
Capacitive Touch Screen
Music Player (MP3, ACC, ACC+, WMA, RA)
Music Multitasking (Messaging)
Video Player (MPEG4, H.263, H.264)
Macromedia Flash UI
Document Viewer (ppt, doc, xls, pdf, txt )

Specifications:

Basic Specifications:
Type: Card
RF Band:
900/1800/1900

Dimension(mm):
98.8 x 54 x 12

Standard Battery (mAh):
800mAh, Li-ion (Inner Pack)

Stand-by time(hours):
300 hour

Talk Time(hours):
3 Hours

Display External LCD(pixel):
WQVGA 240 x 400 (3")

#of color External:
262k,TFT

GPRS:
10

Messaging:
SMS/EMS/MMS

Internet:
WAP: 2.0

Download/Save as Support:
Yes

Data Connectivity:
USB
PC Sync

PIM:
Scheduler
Alarm
Phone Book (# of names): 1,000

Personalization:
Wallpaper
Picture Downloading
Ring Tone Downloading

Advance Features:
JAVA: MIDP 2.0
MIDI: 40
Key Tone Effect: yes
Built in Game: 4
Camera Support: 2MP CMOS/LED Flash
Camera Zoom: Digital X2
MP3: yes
Bluetooth: (V1.2, A2DP)
External Memory(MB):(Micro SD max. 2GB)

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Motorola RIZR Z3

2007-07-11T01:04:00.000+08:00

Manufacturer:
Motorola Inc.

Website:
http://www.motorola.com

Model:
Motorola RIZR Z3

Specifications:

Personalization / Fun Features:

Audio:
support AAC, AAC+, AAC+ Enhanced, AMR NB, MP3

Video Download an streaming:

Video capture and playback with sound (H.263), (MPEG4),(3GPP):
capture / playback rate of 15-20 fps / supports MPEG4 and H.263

Slim Profile:
Thin, narrow slider with a multi-modal design

Intergrated MP3 Player

2 Mega-pixel camera

USB Connections port:
version 1.1 / full speed of 12 Mbps max

Call Management Features:
Phonebook:
Multi-letter phone book search

Messaging Features:
EMS & MMS Messaging
SMS
E-Mail:
POP3/IMAP embedded
Instant Messaging

Lifestyle Features:
Calculator
Alarm
Bluetooth Technology:
Integrated Bluetooth® wireless technology for hands-free connectivity with compatible Bluetooth®-enabled devices

Perfomances Features:
Bands:
GSM 850/900/1800/1900
Standby time:
350 Hours
Talk time:
400 Minutes

Data Features:
Bluetooth Compatible:
Integrated Bluetooth® wireless technology connectivity for hands-free convenience
GPRS:
Class 12
Connectivity:
Bluetooth® wireless technology
WAP:
2.0 for internet access (network dependent feature)
PC Synchronization

Technical Specifications:
Weight:
approx. 115 g
Removable Memory:
up to 2GB of removable storage with an optional MicroSD memory card
Internal Memory:
up to 20 MB
Dimensions:
45.50 x 105.47 x 15.99 mm
Internal Display:
176 x 220 mm, 1.9” 262K colors TFT
Volume:
69cc

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Sony Ericsson W960i

2007-07-10T01:16:00.000+08:00

Manufacturer:

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications

Website:
http://www.sonyericsson.com

MODEL:
Sony Ericsson W960i

SPECIFICATIONS:

Sizes:

109 x 55 x 16 mm
4.3 x 2.1 x 0.6 inches

Weight:

119 g
4.2 oz

Available Colors:

Vinyl Black

Screen:

262,144 color touchscreen
240x320 pixel

Memory:

Phone memory 8 GB

*Actual free memory may vary due to phone pre-configurations

Networks:

GSM 900
GSM 1800
GSM 1900
UMTS 2100

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HTC Touch

2007-07-08T23:35:00.000+08:00

Manufacturer:

HTC Corp.

Website:
http://www.htc.com

Model:
HTC Touch

Reference Price:
MYR 2030 - MYR 2110 (Malaysia

Specification:

Processor:
TI's OMAP™ 850, 201 MHz

Operating System:
Windows Mobile® 6 Professional

Memory:

ROM: 128 MB

SDRAM: 64 MB DDR

Dimension:
99.9mm (L) X 58mm (W) X 13.9mm (T)

Weight:
112g with battery

Display:

2.8" LCD touch screen with backlight

240 X 320 dots resolution with 65,536 colors

Network:
GSM/GPRS/EDGE Tri-band: 900, 1800, 1900 (The device will operate on frequencies available from the cellular network.)

Device control:

HTC TouchFLO™

5-Way navigation control

Connectivity:

Bluetooth® 2.0

Wi-Fi® IEEE 802.11 b/g

HTC ExtUSB™ (11-pin mini-USB and audio jack in one)

Camera:
2.0 megapixel CMOS color camera

Audio:

Built-in microphone and 3-in-1 speaker

Windows Media Player supported formats: AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, MP3, WMA, WAV, QCELP, MPEG4, AMR-NB, AMR-WB

Battery:

Rechargeable Li-lon battery

Capacity: 1100 mAh

Standby time: Up to 200 hours

Talk time: Up to 5 hours

Expansion:

microSD™ memory card (SD 2.0 compatible)

AC Adapter:

Voltage range/frequency: 100 ~ 240V AC, 50/60Hz

DC output: 5V and 1A

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