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Samsung SPH M520
What differentiated Samsung SPH-M520 from other Samsung smartphones in the market? While some would argue that there is nothing new with it, being the same old thin smartphone that has been repetitively offered in the market, it actually offers something different, being the first slider Sprint Power Vision phone, and undoubtedly, the phone has a lot of refinements as compared to other Samsung smartphones. Aside from its slider design, Samsung SPH-M520′s design is reminiscent to older Samsung cell phones only that it is thinner and lighter (this has become the trend of Samsuing: thinner and lighter smartphones).
It has a dimension of 4.01 x 2.04 x 0.5 inches and a weight of 2.75 ounces. It can easily fit inside one’s pocket, making it a comfortable design. The 2.1″ TFT display is composed of 262k colors in a 176 x 220 pixels resolution, resulting to a crisp bright display of text, image and video. Its menu interface is easy to use with the inclusion of seven shortcut icons for main menu, Sprint TV, Sprint Music Store, e-mail, GPS, On Demand content and a Sprint account balance check. Although this appears to be a convenient menu, users can still choose to turn it off and use the traditional navigational buttons which are composed of two soft keys, speakerphone button, a back key and Talk and End/Power buttons.
Although it’s not a QWERTY phone, its keypads are also convenient to use. The microSD card slot, the camera shutter key are located on the right portion while the charger port, headset jock and volume control are on the left side. SPH-M520′s camera takes pictures in high, medium, low and 1.3 Megapixel resolutions. It also includes a 2x zoom, self timer, five fun frames, five color tones, brightness and white balance controls and a night mode. It can also record videos and allow the users to edit it.
Among the SPH-M520 features are its phone book that can store up to 500 contacts. The contact’s information that can be stored is phone numbers, e-mail address, website, nickname and notes. Other essential features include the voice recorder, alarm clock, memo pad, speakerphone, file manager, task list and the usual text and multimedia messaging. SPH-M520′s connectivity features are WAP, Bluetooth, GPS, USB, modem capability, PC synching and e-mail and instant messaging.
M520′s multimedia capabilities don’t disappointment as it has a good list of Sprint software as well as it is comprehensive. It is the first Samsung phone to run the SprintTV interface. It can support a number of music files including MP3, AAC and 3GPP files.
Basically, the M520 will end out as the average user’s phone and may not get appeal of business users. Nonetheless, this Samsung phone will definitely attract the stylish and the hip among mobile phone aficionados.