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Samsung SGH i600
Samsung has been popular for its thin and sleek phones and no mobile phone company has ever topped it yet. Continuing with this trend, Samsung came up with a smartphone that is the sleekest of its kind—the Samsung i600. This slim candy bar smartphone measures 113 x 59 x 11.8 mm and weighs only 105 g. It fits perfectly nice in the hand, allowing easy one-handed navigation.
However, for people who love big screens, they might find it disappointing that this was traded off for a more compact form. But still, the performance of its 2.3 in TFT LCD screen, with 65,536 colors and 240×320 pixels display, on web browsing is acceptable.
The matte-black Samsung i600 also sacrificed space with a somewhat cramped QWERTY keyboard, which takes a little time getting used to. But to compensate, the individual keys are stylishly organized with adequate backlighting for use in dim places.
Also, one-handed navigation is made easier with a right-sided jog dial and back key. What’s more, you can alternatively use the touch-sensitive five-way navigation pad, which includes call, home and back keys.
This sexy smartie is armed with the best connectivity options—operating on triband (900/1,800/1,900MHz) with HSDPA and 3G networks. And topping it all, this baby is also Wi-Fi enabled (802.11b/g) plus a PC wireless connection with Bluetooth 2.0 with support for A2DP. With these connectivity features, who needs an infrared port? So, I guess people would not miss it in this handheld.
Some may find it surprising that Samsung opted to use the old Windows Mobile 5.0 platform on the i600, which is powered by a 220MHz TI OMAP 1710 processor, instead of the full windows mobile platform common to almost all PDA’s. So, if you decide to own this unit, you have to settle with the preinstalled Piscel Viewer, which allows read only viewing of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF files.
The i600 also supports MS Direct Push Technology, providing ready access to email calendar, contacts and tasks on Outlook. For data transfer rate, Samsung claims a 1.8Mbps speed but mobile phone testers beg to disagree, saying it would still depend on the network and location. As for memory, there’s 128MB ROM and 64MB RAM.
Now for the multimedia features, the handheld supports MP3, AAC, AAC+, WMA and WAV formats for music and MPEG-4, WMV, H.263 AND H.264 formats for videos. It also included an RSS feed reader and podcast application, for your daily news and gossip fix.
The i600 sports two cameras, one for video calls, located on the front; and another, for photos with a low 1.3 megapixel shooter, which has no LED flash, located at the back with a mirror. So expectedly, captured images in this phone can be best described as poor.
Now, for the battery life. Samsung i600’s 1,200mAh Lithium-ion battery can last 2 days on normal phone use. However, if you’re planning to use Wi-Fi most of the day, be sure to carry your charger with you as the phone won’t last over 24 hours.